I'm not sure if I'll be able to make it on the 29th, but I'm definitely going to try!
posted to MetaTalk by mikel at 5:18 AM on February 9, 2008

Damn - I don't think I'm going to be able to make it. I'm still going to try, but we have some last-minute unanticipated houseguests that have arrived in town...
posted to MetaTalk by mikel at 1:30 PM on February 29, 2008

Thanks to mkultra for doing a wrapup and setting the league up in the first place. I was running away with the whole thing, well over 100 pts for weeks...

...until the all star break, when a steady decline of my squad set in, mixed with improved results for several others including the eventual champion.
posted to MetaTalk by mikel at 4:06 AM on October 4, 2007

Can anyone confirm that the password works? I get an "incorrect password" error.
posted to MetaTalk by mikel at 8:06 AM on March 12, 2007

OK - it worked this time.
posted to MetaTalk by mikel at 8:40 AM on March 12, 2007

I was 24-35 when I joined, but, alas, am no longer.
posted to MetaTalk by mikel at 12:21 PM on January 4, 2007

Where's the rabbit though? I want a rabbit with a pancake on his head!
posted to MetaTalk by mikel at 8:02 AM on December 7, 2006

This is a BS callout to MetaTalk. There is nothing in the post or in the poster's history to indicate that he's anything but an upstanding citizen. And as another poster indicated, there are good reasons for wanting to find someone even someone who doesn't necessarily want to be found. That desire to not be found might very well be a manifestation of the person's problem and the reason to want to find them.
posted to MetaTalk by mikel at 9:41 AM on July 11, 2006

bim said: "It's absurd to think that mefites should answer any and every question value free regardless of what it might be."

Apparently it's even MORE absurd to hope that mefites should be able to avoid moralizing instead of simply declining to answer the freaking question.
posted to MetaTalk by mikel at 8:26 PM on July 11, 2006

Can you post more details, in particular which site and format you're using? I am a longtime fantasy player who could take over and commit to sticking with the team.
posted to MetaTalk by mikel at 8:36 AM on May 2, 2006

Sorry - I see in an earlier post that it's at Yahoo and it's a roto league. I'll take over a team if there's one available. I'd prefer #2 then #1 then #3.
posted to MetaTalk by mikel at 8:49 AM on May 2, 2006

I suppose someone will email the people selected? I'm in if there's space - I already keep track of things pretty closely for the points league I'm in and another roto league I'm in as well.
posted to MetaTalk by mikel at 12:22 PM on May 2, 2006

mcwetboy, I'm surprised that that many people here joined before 9/11.

There's also some vagueness with the word "victim". My wife was a victim of 9/11 who lived and was physically unhurt but I can't say that we have been unaffected by it.
posted to MetaTalk by mikel at 7:41 AM on February 27, 2006

The irony of his response to my post - and I am honest enough to admit that mine was pretty direct, perhaps too much so - is that I am NOT very good at office small talk. I'm polite and if I do ask about my (former) boss' kids it's cause I am genuinely curious, but most of the time I don't remember to ask in the first place.

I can recognize when someone posts a question in such a way that they attempt to demonstrate their superiority at the same time as asking how to... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mikel at 4:33 AM on February 24, 2006

For my part I want to note that I tried to give a reasonable answer in my response but also to address the fact that the question itself was a set-up.

His question is genuine, but the way he chose to post it was really no different than asking someone if they've stopped beating their dog yet. There's no good answer to it, and asking the question in that manner is usually a deliberately aggressive way of preventatively defending your self-esteem.
posted to MetaTalk by mikel at 10:56 AM on February 24, 2006

Anyone figure out how to join group chats in iChat? I'm logged in OK but can't see anything comparable to the Adium screenshot posted above.
posted to MetaTalk by mikel at 9:48 PM on January 21, 2006

Duh. Thanks Keijo. I was trying to make it too complicated.
posted to MetaTalk by mikel at 9:52 PM on January 21, 2006

There's another level of copyright here that Matt has never really addressed, as far as I know. In anthologies, better known as works made up of other copyrighted works, there is a separate ownership of the collection. This refers to all the posts in a row. Matt presumably owns that, whether or not he has explicitly claimed it or not.

Why this is important? Let's say I edit a book with articles by X, Y, and Z. They each agree to being included in the book, but retain... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mikel at 2:08 PM on November 6, 2001

I think you're thinking about different things, raaka - you and sylloge.

I think he's referring to immigrants from other countries. I think you're thinking of recent migrants from other parts of town (i.e., gentrification).

I agree with sylloge that having a good mix of people is important. It helps if they are new to the area but are trying to put down some roots as well - a sort of middle ground.

As a general principle... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mikel at 8:35 AM on October 31, 2001

I loved the SubHonker Filter (the popup version, now Blogtracker). I'd just keep it open all day and refresh it from time to time, then when I had five minutes I'd pop over to a site I like.

To set it up can be time consuming, but it's not bad. The key is to just set all new to "Hidden" and then go and pick the individual sites you want to unhide.

I hope it's useful again once Blogger and others integrate the new system for flagging updates.
posted to MetaTalk by mikel at 12:05 PM on October 24, 2001

I think the articles themselves are all that need to be included in MetaFocus or whatever it ends up being named. If readers want to comment or start a thread, there is already a good space for that - back on MeFi itself. I think that's one of the more interesting things about the idea - that the MeFi community starts to seed itself. To structure that commentary too much, or to abstract it from the core community space, seems to be less than ideal, since a certain amount of focus could be lost... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mikel at 9:05 AM on May 6, 2001