Someone told me yesterday that the internet is expected to run out of bandwidth in a couple of years. If this is in any way true, I hold Metatalk responsible.

But I still love you, Metatalk. It just means we have to take out those other pesky sites. And then we will rule the internet together.
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 11:27 AM on July 24, 2008

No worries. Bush just signed an executive order to begin offshore drilling for bandwidth.

Yeah, but he secured the Iraqi bandwidth first.
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 12:04 PM on July 24, 2008

People didn't have basements where I grew up. There was no retreat from the parentals except outside. It was nice outside.
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 7:36 PM on July 24, 2008

It is! I was outside earlier and can verify that as fact.
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 7:21 AM on July 25, 2008

Or you could read the bottom of jessamyn's profile. It's actually helpful.
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 11:00 AM on July 18, 2008

Pandora is your friend for finding similar music.

It only it were truueee.... *sobs politely in the corner*

Yeah, communicating with Pandora is an art form unto itself.

Bunnies, bunnies, it must be BUNNIES!

I have a new evil mastermind now.
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 1:21 PM on July 18, 2008

"I grew up in Northern Ireland. [It] was a place where the word 'cunt' expressed the worst form of contempt one person could feel for another. If you loathed or despised a person, 'cunt' said it all.

It was scrawled on the walls of rubbish-strewn back alleyways or in public toilets reeking of urine and feces. Nothing was worse than being treated like a 'cunt' or nothing so stupid as a 'stupid cunt.'"

-- Jack Holland, Misogyny:... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 4:27 PM on July 9, 2008

Does this mean the magic 8-ball is an unoffical Mefi admin tool?
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 12:12 PM on July 9, 2008

I dropped the 8-ball and now I have blue fluid leaking onto my desk, but no white or yellow digits or letters. Did I just break my MetaFilter, or some other site? It tastes like burning.

Whatever you do, don't drop the grey one.
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 3:07 PM on July 9, 2008

You don't want to meet me. I'd be extremely tempted to steal that awesome awesome car. Luckily for you, I am not on your route. Have fun!
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 1:51 PM on July 8, 2008

If you do nothing else, read Astro Zombie's awesome Pixar story.

Seconded. The milk jug thread last week seemed strangely epic at the time. Not sure that it really is. Other than that, there were some minor dramas here and there but nothing major that I can recall. If you listen to the podcasts, the last one about happy Mefi moments was pretty cool.

Also we all decided we don't like Obama any more after the thing that... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 4:23 PM on July 7, 2008

nax: learn2grow.

I would like to also extend my personal invitation to Bruce Campbell and agree that ND¢ is doing something wrong. I think jamaro is too though.

Has anyone ever invited Alton Brown?
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 4:39 PM on July 3, 2008

Can't, jamaro. No yard, and everything I try to grow in containers on the sidewalk outside my apartment (except the hardy spearmint and lovely lavender) dies a terrible death. Trust me though, I am the only person in my family who is not very very fond of the tomato, but that never exempted me from helping in their obsessive growing of them. Much watering takes place at home, and those tomatoes get rave reviews from people other than me.

That said, I just re-read your... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 4:54 PM on July 3, 2008

Equality Now might be an appropriate group to send donations to, for those interested.
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 7:00 AM on July 3, 2008

Also, my landlady actually took away the Laundryroom Swapmeet table and sent a letter to everyone saying "cut it out", so, yeah.

Your landlady is not a fan of the redistribution of wealth and/or miscellaneous goods?
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 2:22 PM on July 2, 2008

My landlady is not a fan of a bunch of abandoned crap living on that table until she threw it away.

Oh, that makes sense. An ongoing swap-less swapmeet is problematic.
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 5:14 PM on July 2, 2008

I listen to the podcasts when I'm out for my postprandial constitutional.

*learns a new word*
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 4:12 PM on June 27, 2008

You have 364 unMefidays every year. 365 in a leap year, and other numbers if you aren't using a Gregorian calendar.

But there's only one white rabbit, and he's tricksy.
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 1:33 PM on June 20, 2008

I just typed out several lines of an old Whitney Houston pop song that I reworked with Viking lyrics then I suddenly had a bit of an existential crisis and quickly deleted it.

Look, we all know you saved it to a text file on your desktop. Post it already.
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 2:03 PM on June 22, 2008

dawson, what languagehat is trying to break to you gently is that June 29 is kind of like leap year for the internet. It only happens every 4 years. We didn't want to tell you, but I think languagehat is right-- it's better that you know.
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 5:53 PM on June 22, 2008

I'm invisible.
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 2:54 PM on June 27, 2008

I think it should say "Click to don your wizard hat and exit with a flourish of robes."
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 10:40 AM on June 25, 2008

Don't let the window hit you as you climb out, man.
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 11:32 AM on June 25, 2008

Except that they instead asked us to assist with stomping off, manually.

When I flame out, please slam the door behind me forcefully for maximum dramatic effect. Also someone should put out that fire I started in Meta. Careful though-- there's a lot of gasoline on it, and it's a doozy. Best call the fire department. Ta!
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 2:54 PM on June 25, 2008

Clearly someone needs to volunteer to press the button and test this hypothesis.
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 7:27 PM on June 25, 2008

*pours one out for et al*
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 8:08 PM on June 25, 2008

I want examples of you guys losing it for no reason and being jerks. Otherwise, it's all too much to bear!

It is really huggy in here lately... waaaait a minute. What's that mist? Is that Oxytocin?

Oh well I'm sure it's ok.
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 8:05 AM on June 26, 2008

turgid dahlia, it is my very favorite word, so no. Wait, I take that back-- it's my second favorite word. No is still #1.
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 6:12 PM on June 24, 2008

You can't just invoke the powers of the textualtuque like that. If you're going to argue definitions, you're going to need to pull some text in here.
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 6:52 PM on June 24, 2008

I'm goofing off here now and then to relieve my brain of editing. You all are not helping.
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 7:29 PM on June 24, 2008

This is one of the dumbest internet IQ tests I've seen. And that's an accomplishment, so awesome for them I guess?
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 1:47 PM on June 20, 2008

Know who else is a member of Mensa?
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 2:26 PM on June 20, 2008

Wait, wait. People are cheating on the crappy online "IQ" test?
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 2:10 PM on June 22, 2008

I would like to see a bean overthinking test. Would all the questions be simple but easily overthought if the instructions were suggestive? Or would some be more easily overthought than others?
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 11:15 AM on June 23, 2008

But there's all sorts of fun illegality which has nothing to do with the diminished capacity. You could use the canoes to trespass, for example, or engage in indecent exposure.

This brings to mind an incident involving a grad student canoe outing, a pirate flag someone happened to bring along, and a foreign vessel paddled by two half-drunk frat guys carrying illegal beer cargo.
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 2:57 PM on June 22, 2008

What all does the relatedness depend on, again? For an unanswered question it would seem to rely heavily on tags supplied by the user, which seems likely to mostly help those who already have a nifty built-in tool for finding related questions.

In conclusion, I cannot find the Metatalk thread that explained how the feature in question actually works, even though I know it's there, so possibly I'm entirely wrong and we need related threads everywhere.
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 10:37 AM on June 16, 2008

It's all a conspiracy to get us to use Google more so that we become stupid faster.
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 9:11 AM on June 16, 2008

Canadians who call in anonymously to play a little guitar are one of the things I like about this place.
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 4:40 PM on June 13, 2008

If it makes you feel any better, about every other podcast I post a comment in the same window where I'm still listening to the audio.
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 4:33 PM on June 15, 2008

When my thinking cap is on, I just open the podcast in another window. Is that like the pop-out option in Music? I just looked around over there and it seems similar to me.
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 6:43 AM on June 16, 2008

Metafilter: measures high in both snark and community, represented by the invisible 3rd and 4th dimensional axes not pictured. Once you factor in that 4th axis, we come out damn close to the lolcats.

Vanity Fair: pretending to be relevant by commenting on the relevancy of others.
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 1:04 PM on June 12, 2008

I must have watched Ernest Goes to Camp a thousand times when I was a kid which is terrible, yes, but I was a horny pubescent girl and there were boys in it.

I watched it over and over because I thought it was hilarious. Also when he sings to the turtle, I am sad.
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 1:59 PM on June 12, 2008

The Importance of Being Ernest Goes to Camp.
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 7:45 AM on June 13, 2008

I'd go with Ernest Lee Scurrilous, myself.
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 12:41 PM on June 13, 2008

Thanks for the nice answers! I wish people would just always be nice.

To be fair, confirmation bias isn't a character flaw. Just a flaw in analyzing information. People pointing it out to you were just trying to help.
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 3:31 PM on June 10, 2008

I could extend this list indefinitely, and most of you know it.

When Obama is elected, not only will all of the problems listed and unlisted be magically solved, but everyone will get 2 chatfilter questions a week. Moderated by an angry robot.
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 6:47 PM on June 10, 2008

As someone who loved dinosaurs as a very small child, the porn stuff hurts. Our love was a pure love, you bastards.
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 7:21 AM on June 11, 2008

[ ] on the bayou
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 7:36 AM on June 9, 2008

So when are we getting Born [insert song lyric here]? Dates are so limiting.
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 8:16 AM on June 9, 2008

Thanks for that link, DaShiv. Between your comments here, The Green Papers, and DemConWatch I feel like I've been learning more about how the primaries work this election cycle than I ever did from tv coverage.
posted to MetaTalk by Tehanu at 5:49 PM on June 8, 2008