Any ideas?

I can recommend some songs for a mix tape.
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 7:29 AM on April 11, 2007

Perhaps he has some history with other posters here and projects his characterizations of those on to the rest of the population?

Well, Skot and I did date briefly back in the 80s.
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 7:47 AM on April 11, 2007

I have nothing particular to contribute here, other than my belief that any suggestion made in obvious good faith by a longtime member of the community should be duly and deliberately considered.

That said, I would love to have Known Friend of Matt Haughey on a t-shirt.
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 4:32 PM on March 5, 2007

I'll be out of town that weekend. Besides, no one wants to hear the drunken "in my day" rantings of a sub-500 member.
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 11:13 AM on February 27, 2007

the links above are all single-link news items

By what metric are most of those "news" items? They seem, to me, to be unique things on the web that folks here find interesting. Which is why we're here, n'est pas?
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 5:07 PM on June 13, 2006

I love you, monocles Mo Nickels. Will you be mine?
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 8:36 PM on January 23, 2006

SWSX Baby! has tracked who's going in the past, but it doesn't look like it's being updated.


We're tweaking the site in preparation for its relaunch later this month.

And yeah, I'm going.
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 1:34 PM on December 6, 2005

our old librarian overlord

Watch it there, bub.
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 9:58 AM on March 6, 2005

;-)
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 9:59 AM on March 6, 2005

/me takes growth potion



/me challenges Jessamyn to a dance-off
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 4:05 PM on February 25, 2005

Matthew, will we be able to mark "best" answers even after the thread is closed to comments or must we do so within the 30 day window?
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 10:20 PM on February 10, 2005

pre-empted by my wife
schlepped a grill

I have the feeling these are both euphemisms for things I'd rather not know about.
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 5:35 PM on January 26, 2004

A comment posting delay would pretty much kill "[more inside]".
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 1:18 PM on December 11, 2003

Is Matt as tall in person as he looks on the internet?

At what resolution? When I first met him, at 800x600, he stood about 267px, I recall.
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 10:20 AM on November 10, 2003

My first impression of MetaFilter, with apologies to my friend Matt, was profound disinterest. It was one of the first "weblogging" environments with integrated commenting I'd seen, but that was about all that really distinguished it for me.

Why should I post links to interesting things I found on the web here, I wondered, when I have my own website? I still feel that way most often, which is one of the reasons I rarely post here.

Only... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 8:49 AM on April 17, 2003

Are you guys asking me to renew a domain that was funny for one day?

Hey, c'mon. Fark.com is like, what, six years now? ;-)
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 8:31 AM on April 1, 2003

no one would catch the gay from a post on MetaFilter.

Always a worry. ~It happened to me.~
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 7:46 PM on February 11, 2003

I fixed all the old problems in one swell foop

OT: I miss Wendell! Come back, Wendell!
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 2:14 PM on December 18, 2002

Sorry about the downtime. I was dicking around with the server a little.

There's just so much potential with all those ports!
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 8:39 PM on November 24, 2002

[I prefer £, I have enough sense already!]

/me £'s dash_slot
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 1:49 PM on October 8, 2002

Is that why everyone points at my chest and laughs when I wear it??

No. That's not why. ;-)
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 7:08 PM on September 24, 2002

not a lot of activity in the flyover states, eh?

Plenty of activity here, just not a lot of MetaFilter members. "Flyover states"? Let's not make with the coastal chauvinism, eh?
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 7:21 PM on September 20, 2002

The category list may be infallible, but I'm we're not. It took me a good five minutes or so to find the server-swap bug reports thread, until I realized it was in the "Uptime" category rather than the "Bugs" category. ;-)
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 4:57 PM on July 17, 2002

Ghost posts! Yesterday's fifth and sixth posts -- double posts about Google, by the way, and geez, Matt, can't you link to something everyone hasn't already seen?! -- still show up on the front page, but clicking through passes to "Nothing to see here...".
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 11:10 AM on July 16, 2002

oh brad, I think you're hitting index.cfm instead of the proper index.mefi page (which I used to redirect to, I'll do that now).

My bookmark points to just www.metafilter.com without any document specified. I'm still seeing the ghost posts. S'OK, as long as they're friendly ghosts, I suppose. ;-)
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 6:48 PM on July 16, 2002

It's true, though. When I specifically ask for index.mefi, the ghosts have been exorcised. Thanks, Father Matt!!
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 6:53 PM on July 16, 2002

Does anyone else feel slightly disappointed when they check in on MeTa and there haven't been any new posts for what seems like ages?

Oh, good heavens, no. Given that the bulk of what winds up here tends to be coarse language and rude names thrown about without regard for anyone's feelings or without respect for the participants' differing viewpoints, I'm -- somewhat disingenuously -- thrilled to see there are no great dust-ups hereabouts.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 1:35 PM on July 1, 2002

off topic: I think frykitty deserves some serious props for her good humour, politeness, and cool attitude

I don't think that's off-topic at all. If I take Su's question correctly, he's asking or proposing we discuss what constitutes the progress of polite, rational discourse hereabouts. Frykitty's (and, I think, cCranium's) posts are a good example of providing information while trying to move the conversation beyond a point on which it has gotten... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 2:43 PM on June 19, 2002

It's not. It's much, much better.
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 11:55 AM on April 30, 2002

Is that a real true quote?

Confidential to Dan: Maybe he should have gotten an Instant Message instead? I don't know. Comedy is hard.
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 7:34 PM on April 23, 2002

[Lileks is] one of the only journalists I can think of who could pull off a daily newspaper column.

Well, actually, it's thrice-weekly, but I imagine he could pull off a daily if he wasn't always rushing off to Target. ;-)
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 7:55 AM on April 2, 2002

"...some people use [their weblog] like a dating service..."

Oh, I do this. On the other hand, after four years, I gotta say the service sucks.
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 3:16 PM on April 2, 2002

Hang in there Brad!

Thanks. *sniff*
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 4:49 PM on April 2, 2002

*giggles*
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 12:11 AM on April 3, 2002

You know who you are.

Yes, and the restraining order is still in force.
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 1:21 PM on February 25, 2002

I've got a sneaking suspicion that a few MeFi'ers actually are celebrities

I, for example, am Tom Cruise. Wanna buy a duck?

(Seriously, I know of at least one well-known motion picture actor who reads MetaFilter fairly regularly and who has posted occasionally. And leave us not forget TV'S WIL WHEATON.)
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 10:00 AM on February 25, 2002

it was going to be a part of deepleap if any old crusty folk remember that

*feebly raises hand*
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 4:51 PM on January 28, 2002

Oh, I'll be there, especially since I just discovered my husband is nominated for one of the web awards. I'm just beaming with pride. Beaming!
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 6:48 PM on January 21, 2002

a blogger or two should be perfectly harmless

Famous last words. (Advice: Lock the liquor cabinet, send virtuous daughters away for the weekend, and double your homeowner's insurance.)

Anyone who gawks and points at me without coming up to say hi and introduce themselves will be, themselves, summarily ridiculed and forced to buy everyone a round of drinks. It's the SXSW way.
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 11:26 AM on January 22, 2002

Devil's Advocate: But for the addition of a voting process (utterly non-scientific and meaningless), how does this practice of Dave Winer selecting a few of his favorite and/or considered notable weblogs differ significantly from, say, Blogger's Blogs of Note (which are all powered by Blogger) or the Movable Type Spotlight (which are, presumably, all powered by Movable Type)?

As means of aggrandizement of their respective tools or as a way to spotlight clever uses... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 9:39 PM on December 17, 2001

(You may recall, of course, that I care naught for awards or accolades, secure in the knowledge that I am and ever shall be The Most Popular Weblogger Alive™.)
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 9:40 PM on December 17, 2001

Actually, since they're the Scripting News Awards, I suggested calling 'em The Screwies. ;-)
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 8:39 AM on December 18, 2001

Being self-referential also contributes to being self-referential (q.v. self-referential).
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 12:41 PM on December 17, 2001

As I was walking by the lake this evening, a little girl was riding her Danza in the middle of the water. She still had her water wings on as she wobbled and struggled to paddle. It reminded me of when I was little and how badly I wanted a Danza but couldn't they hadn't yet been invented. My parents wouldn't let me have a dinghy until I was 12; my mom was too afraid I'd drown myself. I'd pass the boating section in the store and just look, having given up asking my parents about it long ago. I... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 1:31 PM on December 6, 2001

Do we need the holy Matt picture in MeTa twice in one day?



Twice is never enough.
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 11:21 PM on December 4, 2001

...which leaves him, what, homeless?
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 1:07 PM on December 3, 2001

And we wouldn't have him any other way. ;-)
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 2:21 PM on December 3, 2001

(James Bond will return in Plastic Is Forever.)
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 8:40 PM on December 3, 2001

"That's not what I do, I have no experience in doing it, and I wouldn't ever want to spend my time selling anything." -- mathowie

"I've thought about this quite a bit, sir, and I would have to say considering what's waiting out there for me, I don't want to sell anything, buy anything or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed or buy anything sold or processed or repair anything sold, bought or processed as a career.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 8:10 PM on November 19, 2001

Descriptionless posts are a peeve of mine, not because I want to piddle on anyone's creativity but because six months from now, when I'm searching the archives, I'm much more likely remember a keyword from the description than I am to recall whether it was posted with just the linktext "Wow!" or "Holy cow!" or "A feel good story".

A good description or amplification of a link is not just for now, it's for posterity.
posted to MetaTalk by bradlands at 1:27 PM on November 16, 2001