I didn't read the post because I knew it wouldn't interest me. However, I did watch BBC America's My Big Breasts and Me last night. Fascinating, actually: It debunks some of the mystique of big boobies.
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 4:17 PM on July 10, 2008

I lost mine.

I was going to put something in it on the theme of "cast your bread upon the waters." Looks like instead of having it "return to you after many days" it got soggy and fell apart.

I'm sorry. :-/
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 3:56 PM on July 4, 2008

If there was a "garden" subsite, I would look at it and occasionally comment. However, when I need gardening wisdom I usually turn here first.
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 4:53 PM on July 3, 2008

This has no bearing on whether or not you'll ever get to ride your pony, but I will be sad if hermitosis disables his account.
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 3:11 PM on February 19, 2008

I only saw the comment through the sidebar, and it didn't impress me that much -- a bit overwrought, to say the least. What I did like was the Dorothy Thompson piece in the FPP. That's the gold I bookmarked, and the rest was dross.
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 6:41 PM on January 29, 2008

My nightmare last night: The "twins" are mimes. The "perfectly symmetric room" is an empty space with an imaginary invisible wall between them. Their "conversation" is the two of them making symmetrical mime movements on the imaginary invisible wall. Arrrrrgh, will I never wake up from this?

Oh wait, I'm awake and on MeTa...
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 5:00 AM on December 3, 2007

Outing myself in a yet another way, I run a small online store for gay leather-fetish accessories and goodies. I don't make any of this studd myself, but I give excellent, uh, customer service. Site is definitely NSFW.
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 8:59 AM on November 27, 2007

studd stuff. Freudian slip?
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 9:00 AM on November 27, 2007

I don't quite get this point from breezeway:
Comparing sexuality to race is troublesome. I can easily find out how anti-gay oppression feels by modifying my behavior. I can't do that with race.

Assuming that breezeway is straight, how can he know how a gay person in the face of anti-gay oppression? He can pretend to be gay, but he always knows he is straight and can stop the behavior and end the oppression.

For... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 3:50 PM on October 10, 2007

Some high points:

I claimed him as a dependent on my tax return, and also filed for revised returns for the previous two years. I never bought the shutters and sold the house this year. My friend quit using Movable Type for his porn blog. We found a better doctor who is a prince among men. Her leukemia flared up again, and she has been hospitalized several times. He did all his prearrangements, including cremation, but I haven't gotten around to it yet for myself.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 3:04 PM on October 8, 2007

This whole thing just confuses me. Mexico is properly the Estados Unidos Mexicanos. Yet we say "Mexicans." And if we said "EUians" then someone might think we were talking about people from the EU. And if we translated the Estados Unidos part into English, then...

I have to stop before my brain explodes.
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 8:04 AM on September 29, 2007

I didn't want it deleted, I wanted the opposite: to call attention to it.

Wasn't it Dr. Phil-In-The-Blank who said that jerk-like behavior and language is actually a "plea for attention"?
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 9:56 AM on September 14, 2007

If you're willing to check in with a stunning African-American woman whose hair changed radically ever week. Think of it had gotten serious, yeah, I dropped those beads, honey, and everybody knew.

One more thought: Take a survery of the classic leather/levi and Castro Clone 'stache and 501s....

How scarily lifelike
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 2:54 PM on September 11, 2007

But by eliminating the last vowel, you're making the term Google-able.

"bacn" takes me to "battlefield airborne communications node" and "bay area crisis nursery" and my favorite, the "British Association of Cognitive Neuroscience". The Web 2.0 johnny-come-lately "bacn" is rising fast in the search results, but I expect it will fall again once the current flurry of blogginess about it subsides.
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 7:52 PM on September 2, 2007

First Google link: : <MARQUEE ...> is often regarded as one of the "evil" tags...

No wonder nobody uses it.
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 6:13 PM on August 8, 2007

Thank you for sharing this. I'm filing it away to think about as part of my estate planning.

FWIW, my father passed away last month, and although he was not online many of his distant family really appreciated being able to read his obit online, as well as a newspaper story the local paper published about him. I was the "coordinator" for the family, including making sure all the primary contacts got the online info, and then several of them passed it along to... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 4:07 PM on August 5, 2007

It's an interesting idea, but there would still have to be some way to notify us that the death had occurred. And, I suppose, provisions stating that if someone died as a result of...oh, I don't know...public auto-erotic asphyxiation, that maybe the online communities don't need all the details.

Sounds like another opportunity for legacy.com, since in many cases they do know
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 4:11 PM on August 5, 2007

Well, really. If it's anything like that bucket of chicken from KFC, most people usually consume their bucket of cocks, sequentially, one by one. Slow down and enjoy those cocks, before you choke on them!
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 10:54 AM on July 17, 2007

I'm interested in social advice

Clearly needed.
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 9:31 AM on July 5, 2007

Not to be snarky, but if you have to customize it, maybe you're spending too much time looking at it.
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 7:05 PM on June 16, 2007

...AnonyMe...

Of course, I'm skimming the page too quickly and read this as "AnnoyMe."
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 7:21 PM on June 3, 2007

Food for thought, although this may not be right thread for it but I'll give it a go nevertheless: it's true that the US has the fattest fat people.

Here I thought it was Samoa. Or is that "Samoas" Girl Scout Cookies?
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 9:26 AM on May 23, 2007

So now wondering: Do we all get the same survey? I just tried it and got a survey about "cause-related" marketing and instant messaging. If we all talk about this, we will skew the survey results? :-)
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 3:42 PM on May 21, 2007

Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 1:48 PM on April 23, 2007

>>Why are people being so judgmental in this AskMe question?

>"Because it's MetaFilter" is the most likely answer. If you want hand-holding and backrubs, you'd be better off elsewhere.

I think we expect a little more restraint on the snarkiness in AskMe, and yes, we see a lot of handholding and group hugs there, too. Now that this question is in MeTa, though, I can visiualize it getting ugly.
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 4:58 AM on April 23, 2007

This is a perfect example of a bug report we don't need a MeTa thread about.

FWIW, the first category in the list-box when you make a new MeTa post is "metafilter >> bugs"
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 9:57 AM on April 19, 2007

Assuming that people do post bug reports here, there's a nifty way to keep track of them :
http://metatalk.metafilter.com/thread.cfm?category_id=1

Now, if the fixed or "dealt with" ones were closed threads, I suppose the open ones might be the to-do list. Imagine that. :-)
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 4:07 PM on April 19, 2007

I was going to flag the Fair Trade Coffee question, but then I thought, "oh, what the hell..." Then someone rephrased it in their answer.
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 6:35 AM on April 11, 2007

Metafilter: Torture and Ridicule.
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 5:52 PM on April 4, 2007

Well, it is fixed: http://ask.metafilter.com/59956/In-Here-Out-Over-There but it works the other way, too.

My next nickname is going to be bigbox-bigbox
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 7:38 PM on April 4, 2007

It also works as http://ask.metafilter.com/59956/Blah-Blah-Blah
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 7:39 PM on April 4, 2007

The serial questions read like an epistolary novel. Not saying that he's writing one, but someone could...
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 6:28 AM on April 2, 2007

Hmm.. I dunno. I think if the genders had been switched, the responses probably would have been very similar. Hell, I think they'd be similar if it had been a same-sex couple

As someone in a same-sex couple, I stayed out of the AskMe 'cause I didn't have much perspective to respond. But seeing this, well, many gay men have over 200 partners in the first year they're out of the closet. After all, 52 weeks in a year -- you do the math.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 4:36 PM on March 30, 2007

Agreeing with loquacious -- changing the colors would dliute the brand identity of the site. This is not just another bland black-on-white site.

From anil: "... I find people who are unfamiliar with the site questioning the legitimacy of AskMe, and of the answers therein, because the default green/yellow color scheme doesn't look 'professional'"

I'm waiting to hear who these people are and on what basis I can... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 6:04 PM on March 5, 2007

My background is working for small companies (or myself!) with limited time, budget, worker-hours, and resources. I picture Matt being in a similar position. The issues of redesign and what the sites I worked on looked like -- in these circumstances -- almost always had to take a back seat to the "crisis of the day":

--The server crashes
--Something is broken
--Something is hacked
--Some user(s) have incredibly complex... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 6:31 AM on March 6, 2007

However, it's almost exactly how a great deal of AskMe questions are phrased.

Dear AskMe: I told all of my friends that they should change they way they dress so that they would be more popular. Now some of them are shouting and screming at me, and I don't understand why they are offended. I was asking a question, right? Just making a suggestion, right? I didn't just bluntly tell them, "You should... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 5:05 PM on March 8, 2007

Half my user name is half my real name.
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 3:14 PM on January 24, 2007

No opinion on his legitimacy, but I honestly could hardly read his question because of the enormous blocks of text with no white (green?) space. Oh, for the ability to write in paragraphs...
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 7:47 AM on January 18, 2007

I hate to say it, but my most recent AskMe was really prompted by curiosity and the thought that it would be interesting/entertaining to some -- not because I had a desperate problem worrying about my buttered broccoli.
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 11:23 AM on January 10, 2007

To my mind, I see fewer questions now. I use the RSS feed showing the questions from the last 24 hours. Some days there have only been one or two dozen at most. If these questions don't interest me and I can't provide an answer, then I move on. So, I always skimmed through all the questions, but now that there are fewer of them, the site is less interesting to me and I spend less time here.
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 7:23 AM on January 3, 2007

I exchanged some emails with FF after he answered one of my AskMe questions. I never had any question about his being "legit". Glad to see that he/they are being recognized. As for me, it's another link in my Six Degrees of Separation.
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 3:13 PM on January 1, 2007

FWIW, I find now that I spend less time reading AskMe and it is less interesting. I use the RSS feed to review all the questions every day, so I'm not relying on how fast or slow questions "fall off" the front page. There's simply less -- in this case, less of a good thing, since I ignored the questions I classified as "bad things".

I am getting more work done in the day, or else watching more TV in the evenings. :-)
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 9:42 AM on December 20, 2006

If it's a bookmark feature, then it's badly named.

Just like in Internet Explorer.
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 8:03 AM on December 3, 2006

You ask do other mefites think the situation/question in this thread is clear?

The question was how do I have ready made answers for their personal questions.

Most of the posters made assumptions about the situation and did not answer the question.

On the side issue, I am a gay man who defines "coming out" as being myself, speaking and acting honestly and... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 6:44 AM on November 21, 2006

...white guys in flannel shirts...

Ooooh, I'm old enough to remember when the flannel shirts were worn by the Castro Clones. And I could have been one of them. I wore a flannel shirt to work at my early-1980s data entry job once. The straight blond receptionist, the one who moonlighted as a pro-hockey cheerleader, said to me, "Ooooh, I love flannel!" I smiled coyly. True story.
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 5:17 PM on November 21, 2006

dash_slot: As it happens, another assumption - maybe I shoulda corrected it earlier - is that I'm partnered.

So you're available? :-)
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 5:18 PM on November 21, 2006

One more note, hearkening back to the "what does coming out" mean part of this thread: I spent most of the day up in Houston taking my partner for some medical tests. Came back home this evening to see this thread had exploded.

At one point I was waiting for him to come back from his procedure to the recovery room. A nurse came to get me and led me to his bed, saying in a loud voice to the others in the area, "I'm bringing his partner..." Part of... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 5:41 PM on November 21, 2006

Me: I had the first-year National Coming Out Day coffee mug (nobody in my office noticed or cared),

jonmc: Isn't that kind of a good sign?

Understand, it was 18 years ago. At the time I was both disappointed and relieved. If it was now, I would agree with you -- but I also wouldn't feel the desire to have the coffee mug, either.
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 7:36 PM on November 21, 2006

Not 1500_ comments. I'm in that thread, and the My Comments page works fine for me.
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 7:49 PM on November 11, 2006

Conclusion: Some users have the problem. Some users don't.

Question: What's different about these two sets of users?
posted to MetaTalk by Robert Angelo at 9:42 AM on November 12, 2006