You're here all day anyway, right?
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 12:06 PM on August 8, 2008
fixedgear, you've obviously never gotten email from this guy.
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 2:13 PM on August 6, 2008
Isn't this how the My Ask feeds work? Not authenticated, but hashed.
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 1:38 PM on August 2, 2008
Gosh, next time I get an account I'll have to use a famous person's name.
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 6:41 PM on July 21, 2008
I suspect if you made a post called "posts totally win" it would be deleted. The same is not true for comments.
I do not know how to interpret this fact.
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 6:44 PM on July 16, 2008
... yet
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 6:09 PM on July 16, 2008
Or "more after the jump"?
Or "more WHY DID YOU PUNCH MY FACE OW OW ouch" ?
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 3:05 PM on July 15, 2008
I think that I shall never see
a comment lovely as a tree
In my bonnet there's a bee
WHITELIST MOTHERFUCKER DO YOU SPEAK IT
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 2:59 PM on July 15, 2008
"Riley" is a pretty common (Irish? Scotch-Irish?) surname. "Riely" looks like a tpyo or a typpo.
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 2:15 PM on July 13, 2008
I tried to join when the new member signups were closed, which was maybe just before the $5 started. Look how that turned out.
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 8:19 AM on July 2, 2008
re-railing, a compromise might be anchors at the top of every 100th comment or so, likecomments: first -- 100 -- 200 -- 300This wouldn't show up on short threads and would be helpful on long ones.
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 8:34 AM on July 2, 2008
@556736: I think that happens more on forums where posters are anonymous: people here respond to posters by username, mostly, rather than by the time of the post (the other such convention I've run across).
Rather than letting each post have a comment #1, you could show enough digits from the end of the existing comment_id that each reply in a thread is unique and increasing. So the comments in this thread would be numbered 6, 7, 8, 9, 91, 93, etc. up to your 6736.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 9:13 AM on July 7, 2008
I'll post something in five minutes after I kill ten thousand people
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 8:08 AM on July 3, 2008
the ten thousand people who commented after marxchivist because I forgot to preview, that is
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 8:09 AM on July 3, 2008
damn
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 8:10 AM on July 3, 2008
Hmmm ... dunno about that one.
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 4:30 PM on July 1, 2008
I'd prefer more low-quality posts, because the stale muffin poundings are so entertaining.
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 7:04 AM on June 30, 2008
or of misalphabetization
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 10:16 AM on June 28, 2008
Hmmm, the lofi shows (at least one) deleted thread.
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 12:13 PM on June 26, 2008
These typewritten pronunciation discussions make everyone so meffy.
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 7:27 PM on June 27, 2008
Wikipedia claims that Weekly World News is still published as an insert in the Sun.
Wikipedia also claims that the current editor is HILLARY CLINTON'S ALIEN BABY BAT BOY SECOND GREAT DEPRESSION COMING!!
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 6:46 PM on June 24, 2008
Localfilter: has anyone seen my keys?
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 1:05 PM on June 19, 2008
Hot damn, Dave! That's totally where my keys were! Thanks!
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 7:29 PM on June 19, 2008
Ads with typos, even! HOW IS FABBLED DRAGONSTONE FORMED
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 3:41 PM on June 19, 2008
I find myself attracted to the idea of tag clouds because the text does double duty. But the idea doesn't work for a dataset as rich as the Metafilter tag database because the text does only double duty. If you compare the tag clouds for Metafilter and AskMe, you get the sense that Metafilter posts tend to fall more commonly into a couple dozen topics, while AskMes are distributed more evenly. But since the tag clouds seem to represent statistics on the entire history of... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 5:41 PM on June 17, 2008
I also think a teeny recent comments page would be interesting
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 6:04 PM on June 17, 2008
20,000 Ask Metafilter posts using the 150 most common tags [quick-n-dirty self link, 2.5MB]
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 12:20 AM on June 18, 2008
cortex, I added popular comments to my RSS reader 100 times and not once did insects swarm from my CD-ROM drive. I am prepared to say with 90% confidence that your estimated probability is not correct!
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 5:51 PM on June 17, 2008
loquacious, I tried to follow your advice and fell from the ceiling. Expect a mean letter from someone who is not my lawyer.
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 2:33 PM on June 16, 2008
Metafilter: random people blogging about anything they want, except themselves or their friends.
How anyone shows such restraint may be the Web's greatest mystery.
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 1:24 PM on June 12, 2008
Since I can't specify it in my profile, I'd like to you know that my birthday is on the 22d of something.
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 9:14 PM on June 8, 2008
I want to list my birthday as "the 22d" for the same reason I want to list my location as latitude +90. Do I understand this reason? No. Is it silly and juvenile? Perhaps. Maybe an occasional bit of obvious misinformation makes the world more interesting.
NSA national security agency code PGP GPG satellite cia yemen toxin botulinum mi5 mi6 mit kgb .mil mil base64 us defence intelligence agency admiral diplomat alert! BATF
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 10:33 AM on June 9, 2008
HATE IS THE ONLY ENEMY + kentucky
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 2:39 PM on June 3, 2008
WE ARE THE MOOSE TURD PEEP HOLE
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 9:55 AM on June 2, 2008
OH MY GOD! MY MIDDLE NAME IS STEPHEN! I MUST ALSO BE A TROLL! (eats billy goat gruff)
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 9:17 AM on May 29, 2008
> You can make another MetaFilter post tomorrow.
1 days, sheesh.
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 7:05 PM on May 22, 2008
Do the pocket protectors come with matching slide rule belt clips? Mine wore out.
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 3:52 PM on May 13, 2008
I'll get you those licenses for free, if you also buy the Golden Gate bridge from me for $20.
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 4:34 AM on May 15, 2008
I'd just like to seize this lull in the conversation to point out how ugly you are.
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 7:08 PM on May 15, 2008
(_______________all_aboard!_________________)
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 7:12 PM on May 16, 2008
Wolfdog is an underage shmoo (not that I know the minimum age for shmoos)
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 7:05 AM on May 9, 2008
Astro Zombie: I did that for a while, but I have run out of screens. Can you send me some extras? Or do you use dry-erase markers?
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 10:37 AM on May 9, 2008
I thought about a shrug booth, but just couldn't get up the oomph for it.
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 6:41 AM on May 12, 2008
þuns?
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 6:58 PM on May 10, 2008
Knowing nothing about how the validator works, this seems like a legitimate complaint. If the output is <ul>
<li>foo
<li>bar
</li></li>
</ul>rather than<ul>
<li>foo
<li>bar
</ul>
</li></li> then there is already some logic about what elements may contain which others. <li>s may not contain <li>s.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 7:00 AM on May 9, 2008
moift and stubby phillips, if the tag closer does enough pattern matching to not emit </img> or </br>, it does enough pattern matching to not emit </li>. I guess that's also stateless.
Thank you for your attention to this devastatingly important issue.
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 8:25 PM on May 9, 2008
Memo, use file:// links for people who aren't running local web servers.
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 4:48 AM on May 6, 2008
You're not very important.
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 11:02 AM on May 2, 2008
Noobs. Sheesh.
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 5:58 PM on April 13, 2008
languagehat: not I! I made it start again.
posted to MetaTalk by fantabulous timewaster at 5:08 PM on April 12, 2008
