I'm in. Bowling would be cool, as would karaoke.
posted to MetaTalk by adrianhon at 4:24 PM on October 3, 2008

Well, IAH will be shut down from noon on Friday to the end of Saturday, so that's my decision made for me. I'm weighing up whether this is worth the hassle... I figure that it will be very difficult to get in on Sunday since I still haven't been able to get through to Continental's line.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adrianhon at 2:10 PM on September 11, 2008

Yeah... what do you guys think? It sounds like I would be lucky to get in on Monday morning.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adrianhon at 2:17 PM on September 11, 2008

My flight ended up being rescheduled to arrive on Monday afternoon, so I'm still going. However, I cancelled my hotel booking yesterday (partly to free up a space for people fleeing Houston) so I need to find a place to crash on Monday/Tuesday nights now... :(
posted to Ask Metafilter by adrianhon at 4:54 AM on September 12, 2008

A friend tried installing Spore on a black Macbook under Bootcamp - it worked, but then the machine overheated and she wasn't able to play for more than a few minutes. It doesn't sound like a good idea.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adrianhon at 1:14 AM on September 12, 2008

Very nice.

Clearly hexapodia is the key insight here...
posted to MetaFilter by adrianhon at 2:25 AM on August 4, 2008

16th is better for me and kirjava.
posted to MetaTalk by adrianhon at 4:29 PM on July 30, 2008

Seconding The Cyberiad - it's without doubt a masterpiece.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adrianhon at 4:20 PM on July 19, 2008

If you visit their animation page at http://www.hybridmedicalanimation.com/animation_p1.html then you can find extended clips and explanations of a lot of stuff in the demo reel. Very nice.
posted to MetaFilter by adrianhon at 3:16 PM on July 9, 2008

Thanks for the tips everyone - I was worried that I might have a problem checking luggage at hotels, but it sounds like that would be fine. Barring that, the SFMOMA sounds like an excellent option as well.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adrianhon at 3:27 PM on July 8, 2008

With all respect to Dan Hill (City of Sound), the web-based content of Lost is even more incoherent than the TV show. I like watching Lost, even though it makes little sense; it's 42 minutes of thriller/drama/mystery with occasional single-episode gems. For all that it's incoherent, at least it's quick.

However, I would never enjoy playing the Lost Experience ARG. It's just too long, too distributed, and ultimately, too inconsequential when put... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by adrianhon at 2:20 PM on June 2, 2008

Can't make it alas, but hope you guys all have fun!
posted to MetaTalk by adrianhon at 9:52 AM on May 1, 2008

As an avowed non-FPSer before TF2, I'd highly recommend the game, and the Mefi clan in particular. It's rotato-licious!
posted to MetaTalk by adrianhon at 11:26 AM on April 17, 2008

Not ultra-useful, but there's a nice exhibit at the Science Museum in one of the areas that's about 20 years old, with some planimeters in it: I took a photo last time I was there: http://www.flickr.com/photos/adrianhon/373899083/
posted to Ask Metafilter by adrianhon at 9:00 AM on April 8, 2008

Glad you (mostly) like it, guys. It's definitely an experiment, and we (Six to Start, the designers) know there are ways we can improve on both the interface design and the story parts, but it's nice to know that we're going in the right direction.

There are five more stories coming over over the next few weeks, and their stories and designs will be all completely different. Like any good album, we're going to start strong and end strong (the last story is by Mohsin... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by adrianhon at 5:31 AM on March 21, 2008

I generally don't like plugging my own stuff on Mefi, but this is an exception. In Perplex City, we held two 'live action' text adventures where we had a team of three writers 'be' the computer. While we obviously plotted the direction of the story in advance and pre-wrote things like scene descriptions, most of it was all done on the spot (including some fairly enormous plot changes). For each game, we had several hundred people watching, and people could take the 'controls' one at a time.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by adrianhon at 8:17 AM on March 8, 2008

I be in. And I'm south London.
posted to MetaTalk by adrianhon at 3:27 PM on February 3, 2008

Connect360 works astonishingly well. I'm connecting to my Xbox 360 over a wireless G network, and there is zero lag is playing MP3s or movies. The setup was very easy, only took a couple of minutes on both sides.

It pulls songs from iTunes, movies from iTunes and your standard Movie folder (and subfolders), and your iPhoto library. While it sorts iTunes songs pretty well (by artist, song name, album, genre and playlist) it only sorts movies alphabetically and not by... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by adrianhon at 7:35 AM on January 11, 2008

In response to Sue: Masque is completely sold out until March (because it's really great).
posted to Ask Metafilter by adrianhon at 8:54 AM on December 28, 2007

My iPhoto doesn't automatically start when I plug my iPhone in, but if I have it loaded when I plug it in, it'll ask me whether I want to import them - click the button, and there you go.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adrianhon at 7:55 PM on December 11, 2007 marked best answer

Great game once again, guys! I really appreciate having the later game (1am for me) because I'm usually out at 7pm on Saturdays.

It would be nice to try a CTF game - I don't think I've ever played one at all on the Mefi server!

BTW, does anyone have any suggestions for good headset/mics? Bonus points if they play well with iMacs running Windows via Bootcamp.
posted to MetaTalk by adrianhon at 6:22 AM on December 9, 2007

This sounds cool - I'm going to be in Toronto for holiday and I think I'll have to drop in! (with girlfriend)
posted to MetaTalk by adrianhon at 5:29 PM on December 2, 2007

Alas, I'll be in Toronto, but have fun folks!
posted to MetaTalk by adrianhon at 6:54 AM on December 2, 2007

The Mortal Engines Quartet by Philip Reeve (aka Hungry City Chronicles in the US) is brilliant. Here's the opening line from the first book:

It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.

It is fantasy, I suppose, but not in the magic/dragons sense, more in the post-apocalyptic sense. It's certainly in the right age range, it has... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by adrianhon at 8:13 AM on December 1, 2007

Fun as usual fellas, and I even managed to claw my way up from the bottom of the table!
posted to MetaTalk by adrianhon at 2:26 PM on November 10, 2007

Is there interest among Euro-folk for a regular weekday game in the evening, say Wednesday at 8pm or something?
posted to MetaTalk by adrianhon at 4:43 AM on November 26, 2007

Unless you want to store stuff other than backups on it (I have a separate partition for videos, etc - although of course that partition isn't backed up!). But yes, Majick is right - you can store multiple computers' backups on the same partition.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adrianhon at 2:09 AM on November 6, 2007

It would be tricky for me to declare a place, not knowing NY whatsoever. A time - any time in the evening.

Failing a meetup, I'd be interesting to hear good places to go on Halloween night.
posted to MetaTalk by adrianhon at 2:28 PM on October 24, 2007

Excellent game, guys! I had a lot of fun despite being slaughtered like the newbie I was. I had a ping of about 120-180, which was generally fine.
posted to MetaTalk by adrianhon at 4:16 PM on October 20, 2007

BTW Cortex, I agree that we should have some email list or way to announce game times to people.
posted to MetaTalk by adrianhon at 4:50 AM on October 21, 2007

It's OK, but I have to boot into Windows especially for TF2, so I generally don't have Steam running. Not sure whether this is common, but a more old-fashioned announcement system would be cool as well.
posted to MetaTalk by adrianhon at 8:19 AM on October 21, 2007

Not to take away anything from what was a good post, but the text of that FPP comes directly from The Right Stuff, which I was slightly surprised not to see referenced but it's not a big deal.
posted to MetaTalk by adrianhon at 2:59 PM on October 14, 2007

Ah, you're right, the final YouTube link was from the movie.
posted to MetaTalk by adrianhon at 3:02 PM on October 14, 2007

Hey, I'm not saying it didn't work, I'm saying that it's worth knowing where the actual text came from. If it's so poetic - and it is - why not mention the source?
posted to MetaTalk by adrianhon at 3:03 PM on October 14, 2007

The quote is hardly as well-known as the Gettysburg address, and no-one was suggesting that attribution be placed directly into the middle of the post. When I saw it, I thought, hey, that's a cool post about something I'm interested in. You will note that I did not jump into the thread and say 'WTF this is stolen!'.

The only reason why I thought to mention it now is because you wrote this post praising it as the best FPP ever, mostly on the strength of its wording,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by adrianhon at 3:22 PM on October 14, 2007

This is wonderful - looking forward to taking part!
posted to MetaTalk by adrianhon at 8:49 AM on October 13, 2007

Despite the esteemed leader's hotel being in the Docklands, I still think it'd be better to do it somewhere more central. As triv says, people will be travelling some distance to get here so we might as well make life a little easier (and let them get later trains home!). I like the sound of i_cola's 'Other' locations.

Friday 5th is good for me too.
posted to MetaTalk by adrianhon at 9:40 AM on September 17, 2007

Agreed with dash. And we need to have a curry. It must be done.
posted to MetaTalk by adrianhon at 3:25 AM on September 18, 2007

Jouke: I think we can be confident in saying that it'll be somewhere in central London (Zone 1) on Friday 5th Oct, starting late afternoon and going on to very, very late. So book away!
posted to MetaTalk by adrianhon at 3:33 AM on September 19, 2007

Optamystic said he could book a function room for us in a pub in the City.
posted to MetaTalk by adrianhon at 8:21 AM on September 21, 2007

I'm in.
posted to MetaTalk by adrianhon at 11:50 AM on September 26, 2007

Mathowie's hotel room?
posted to MetaTalk by adrianhon at 5:59 AM on October 5, 2007

It's definitely not a patch on his better M novels, or classics such as The Bridge. I found it mildly diverting for a while, but it didn't live up to its promise. At least wait for the paperback.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adrianhon at 4:13 AM on September 19, 2007

Great stuff, thanks for all the advice! I opted for dowcrag's Blacks Cygnus tent (half price) in the end.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adrianhon at 9:42 AM on September 14, 2007

Seconding russilwvong here. I have not seen a single long-lasting and interesting forum that has survived without some degree of moderation - moderation that some members of those communities inevitably disagreed with, often strongly. This is not a case of 'well, maybe that's because no-one's tried it.' They have tried it, and it just doesn't work.

No-one should pretend that this is a democracy around here. Matt owns this website. He created it. He... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by adrianhon at 12:53 PM on September 13, 2007

Any Argos store will have a number of all-in-one printers that you can get. Remember to buy a USB cable as well, many printers don't come with one.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adrianhon at 9:51 AM on September 11, 2007

Thanks guys - it was mostly the voltage issue. I know I can get a voltage adaptor, I'd just rather not bother.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adrianhon at 9:56 AM on September 6, 2007

Happy birthday!
posted to MetaTalk by adrianhon at 2:59 PM on September 5, 2007

Image uploads - possibly, I'm slightly worried about file sizes (I don't have a lot of webspace) and security issues though. Any thoughts on this?
posted to MetaTalk by adrianhon at 7:02 AM on September 4, 2007

Terrapin: Already done :) I just hadn't figured out how to do make the images appear. Turns out that all you have to do is enter the image URL in the text, and the image will appear inline. No brackets, nothing, e.g.

http://path.to/image.jpg

Check out http://mssv.net/wiki/index.php/Matt_Haughey and indeed, your own page http://mssv.net/wiki/index.php/User:Terrapin for the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by adrianhon at 1:13 PM on September 4, 2007