So if I'm reading this correctly, I'm an only child who acquired a passel of smart, good looking children via parthenogenesis. Alrighty.

But on the other hand, stavrosthewonderchicken is either my Grandpa or my Dad, and I have a serious mother *zeoslap* sister *zeoslap* mother *zeoslap* sister *zeoslap* dilemma.
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 1:23 PM on July 23, 2008

My user number is referred to repeatedly in one of my favourite Eno songs, recorded 26 years before I even signed up here. Certain Streets Have Certain Corners;
Sooner Or Later We'll Turn Yours.
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 10:25 PM on July 19, 2008

Remember Kenny Everett? Well, those of you who said Kenny would rock, it turns out that -- oh well, he tried.

(Seriously, that's great news for Kevin Everett. I hope things get even better for him: I was sad to read that he still deals with a lot of pain. Thanks for posting it.)
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 8:56 AM on July 1, 2008

my partner watched my bells descend again

Well, there's your problem. Carillons and sex just don't mix.
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 10:01 AM on June 28, 2008

Yeah, whenever I phone up Toronto Hydro on my semi-regular Sunday afternoon power outages, it still calls my neighbourhood part of the old city of York. Quaint, whot?

throws rainbow glitter at the dief
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 12:36 PM on June 17, 2008

Oh, this sounds good -- a meetup without blizzards, deep-freezing or slush! I can make June 6, although the next two weeks aren't terrific. So any time the weekend of June 6, or the weekend before, or the weekend of June 27, are all good for me.
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 6:09 PM on April 26, 2008

Well, it's been a few years since we've seen a tornado around here, dief. See what you can do.
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 6:17 AM on April 27, 2008

tehloki has the power to summon me, even without roti. Awesome!

The handy listy thingy will show up tonight or tomorrow after I get past these deadlines.

/waves goodbye to GuyZero
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 10:56 AM on May 22, 2008

First running list. Let me know if I made any mistakes, but otherwise, the first update's some time next week as needed.

Friday June 6, EASTISH
Possibilities:
1. Allen's: 143 Danforth Ave. DNAB:"relatively Eastish (as we have been somewhat [DEFINITELY EASTIST] with meetups. Easy TTC access. Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabulous patio. Great selection of beer (and Scotch!), decent food."
2. El Sol: 1448 Danforth Ave.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 3:50 PM on May 23, 2008

Second update: hey, maybe we should settle on a final place and time.

Allen's seems to be well-received, so should we say 9 PM there on Friday? I can call ahead for a reservation once we commit. (Sorry, tehloki: you're going to have to browbeat and/or seduce people about Gandhi's.)

Friday June 6, EASTISH
1. Allen's: 143 Danforth Ave. DNAB:"relatively Eastish (as we have been somewhat [DEFINITELY EASTIST] with meetups. Easy TTC... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 5:59 PM on June 2, 2008

Third update, now with MORE thisjax!!

Allen's going once; Allens going twice ...

... so should we say 9 PM there on Friday? I can call ahead for a reservation once we commit.

Friday June 6, EASTISH
1. Allen's: 143 Danforth Ave. DNAB:"relatively Eastish (as we have been somewhat [DEFINITELY EASTIST] with meetups. Easy TTC access. Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabulous patio. Great selection of beer (and... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 3:53 AM on June 3, 2008

Mini update: impactorange to DEFINITEs and Don Valley Girl to MAYBEs. Or maybe DEFINITES.

I'll call for reservations Thursday night based on those numbers. (Or should I try Wednesday? Allen's is a pretty popular place and we're a large party.)
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 11:16 AM on June 3, 2008

BOOKING ISSUES

OK, I just phoned Allen's. They don't take patio reservations at all, and the inside is completely booked from 6 PM all evening. She said we could just show up, but if we're looking at close to 20 people, this could be iffy.

I've checked with El Sol and they're trying to see if they can fit about 20 people (we have 16 definites and 6 maybes, so that's my best guess). I'll wait to hear from them.

Any other... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 1:29 PM on June 3, 2008

We could try for the Allen's patio at 8 instead of 9, but I don't know if that would noticeably improve our chances of getting 20 or so seats. And if they don't take reservations, and only a few people show up at 8 while the rest trickle in later, I don't think we could hold on to that many seats in such a popular spot.

If anyone wants to volunteer to practice their sweet-talking skills on the very nice colleen/maitre d', go for it and let us know how you do. 416-463-3086.
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 1:55 PM on June 3, 2008

RESERVATIONS UPDATE

Oh, well. El Sol just called: we can't get a reservation for any large group at any time this Friday night.

I think we're a victim of our own success. If this was a small group, we could go almost anywhere. But we're looking at about 20 people, which means reservations (which are hard to get in popular spots on a Friday night) or hoping to get everyone into one place, even at scattered seats.

We... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 4:34 PM on June 3, 2008

Well, it's Thursday night and people seem OK with what we have, so let's make it official.

FINAL TIME AND DATE: Friday, June 6, 9 PM to whenever.
FINAL LOCATION: The Willow, 193 Danforth Ave. (at Broadview).

We have a reservation for 20 on the patio, so there should be room.

Latest DEFINITEs (17)
dirtynumbangelboy
Schlimmbesserung
orange... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 6:47 PM on June 5, 2008

OK: 16 definites, 6 maybes.
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 8:54 PM on June 5, 2008

Some people refuse to believe that Dijon mustard tastes damn good. Sure, there's nothing like ballpark mustard on your hotdog, but Dijon plus dill makes ham very, very happy. And I'm sure the famous Vancouver otters would agree with me if they just stopped hanging on to each other and would step up to the keyboard already.
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 9:07 AM on June 2, 2008

BraggFilter. I win!
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 7:48 AM on May 23, 2008

GOP prefers to face Obama rather than Hillary?

I'm sorry, but I can't finish reading that article unitl I've developed my immunity to iocaine powder.
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 3:38 PM on May 17, 2008

10 miles = 16.09 km and 10 km = 6.21 miles. So if you lovely, sweet, generous Americans want to cycle a minimum of 10 miles a day, while the rest of us only have to cycle the equivalent of a little more than 6 miles a day, go for it!

(Chuckles, will the David Niven Memorial Challenge standings be listed in kilometers instead of the usual miles, then?)

I think May is the month when I finally get all my bottles and cans out to the local recycler.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 7:37 PM on May 11, 2008

*walks quietly into thread, leaves jug of strong black coffee and cups, walks out quietly again*
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 5:23 AM on May 5, 2008

Oh. Now I get it. The whole point of contacts is to keep OmieWise in a state of sheer terror.

Pony request: can we get a little colour-coded slider indicating the level of gibbering, pants-wetting fear to be inflicted on OmieWise every time we add a contact? I'm sure nobody's worked on a design like that before, but I'm sure it can be done.
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 5:24 PM on April 20, 2008

*cough* Pie is all well and nice, but nothing compares to blueberry and apple clafouti. Puffy, crusty, fruity custard with cinnamon and nutmeg and vanilla? Oh, my.
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 10:10 AM on April 16, 2008

I'm a heathen who was permanently traumatized in my first attempt at pastry making in grade 8 Home Ec (apple pie with a lattice crust that could have been used as decorative ironwork).

There is no "pastry" in clafouti, yet still it crusts. Put me to the rack if you will, but I will not recant.
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 10:17 AM on April 16, 2008

If you look at his AskMe posting history, it sounds as if he's not doing as well as a lot of the surface trappings of his life would suggest. Add in some cultural differences (where do you draw the line between a clear description of your life and boasting?) and I see how this mess could have started.

Like cortex says, he can try again next week. Maybe it will go better then and he'll get some useful answers to a more well-thought out question.
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 1:33 PM on April 9, 2008

Archived? It's still there on the front page and there's no indication it was ever deleted.
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 12:00 PM on April 9, 2008

I'm OK with people listing their birthdays as long as things are set up so I get their birthday dumplings and they get a card from ColdChef.

Because it's all about me. And dumplings.
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 2:57 PM on April 7, 2008

A gross of dumplings, every day? I could totally handle that. Let's do it!

Warm up your writing hand, ColdChef.
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 3:04 PM on April 7, 2008

Hey, you can still run Veronica searches.

You can't actually find much, but you can run the search.
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 8:40 PM on April 4, 2008

Awefuckingsome. Thank you!

One note: most people seem to use informative titles for their questions, but the few that don't really stick out when I scan the MyAsk sidebar. I wonder if this will lead to a slow change to almost universal informative titles as those of us using this feature get a little exasperated with mystery meat titles.

So who's going to confess that "relationship" and "pet suckage" were in their list of... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 11:21 AM on April 2, 2008

There's a search bar in the top right? Huh?

Oh. Template. Right.
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 3:29 PM on March 30, 2008

All my comments, including this one, are written on scented, hand-made paper, kissed once, folded twice over, sealed with wax, then wafted on the breeze until they finally show up on all your computers via the magic of paper-to-packets.
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 3:53 PM on March 30, 2008

How many members have posted to AskMe 52 times in the past year, or even 26 times in the past year? My suspicion is that this is a pretty small number. Don't we have the data available to check this? I'm OK with being proven wrong, but I'm pretty sure I won't be. :-)

If the flood of AskMe questions is due to some 60k people asking an average of, say, 6 questions each a year, reducing the number of times any member can ask a question isn't going to do much at all to... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 7:10 AM on March 30, 2008

cortex is making my brain hurt. Make him stop.

Crap. That's recursive. I'm doomed.
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 12:00 PM on March 30, 2008

I'll have whatever space orgy she's having.
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 10:34 PM on March 24, 2008

Why does USA keep all the fuck for itself? I'm writing a letter to my MP.
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 3:31 PM on March 21, 2008

It's "matt-how-ee" and, while we're at it, "Mee-Fie". Don't cross me, folks.

Fred and Sharon are lovely. They can pronounce anything any way they like. Until they sign up for their own accounts here, of course, when they become part of the mass of folks who shouldn't cross me.
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 9:21 AM on March 19, 2008

*gives adamrice a cookie*

See? I'm really easy to get along with. If you don't cross me.
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 10:18 AM on March 19, 2008

unnecessarily sarcastic

I keep reading that phrase over and over, but I just can't make those two words work together. Help?
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 5:34 PM on March 17, 2008

Now if someone could just teach that cat to play a tuba at the same time, that would be nirvana.
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 7:52 PM on March 17, 2008

Are you sure?
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 8:03 PM on March 17, 2008

Oh my God. That really was the perfect MeTa post.

The discovery.

The celebration.

Can we all go get lives now?
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 8:06 PM on March 16, 2008

Wow. I loved your work in the 80s, Mister_A. (Oh, wait -- sorry, got confused.)
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 7:54 AM on March 10, 2008

*sigh* I got scolded recently for using the plain template instead of the classic. I just love colour TOO MUCH to be distracted from THE WORDS by all the luscious COLOUR.

Was I shouting? I was, wasn't I? I'm so sorry.
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 2:56 PM on March 5, 2008

Oh, it was playful scolding. Not a big deal. It wasn't as if I'd been caught using IE.
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 3:19 PM on March 5, 2008

I love this! For some reason, whenever I refresh Firefox 2.0 in a long, active thread (here or at other blogs), the page never autoscrolls to show the first new comment, but scrolls down to some point well below the first new comment. IE 6, in contrast, always scrolled to the first new comment.

But at least here, I can look for the lovely little pointer -- thanks!
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 5:25 PM on February 27, 2008

Hey, has anyone else who has installed this script (which I still love) noticed that the "x new" link below a FPP now opens in a new tab, while the "x comments" link opens in the same tab, as usual? I have my profile set to open links in a new window, which up until now meant that all external links opened in a new FF tab and a few MeFi links opened in a new tab under some circumstances. This is new behaviour for this link.

I don't know if I'm the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 7:08 AM on March 5, 2008

You kick serious ass, Plutor. The fix works. Thanks!

Although the news that I'm not hallucinating means this is going to be a much more boring week than I had expected. I hate Wednesdays.
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 8:10 AM on March 5, 2008

Wait wait wait! I made hummus on Friday. Can I eat what's left, or should I just throw it over the fence and onto the train tracks? I always wanted to be a saboteur.
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 5:57 PM on February 26, 2008