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klangklangston: "What about "Town and Country," you know, class the place up a bit."

Not with those shorts.
posted to MetaTalk by boo_radley at 12:47 PM on June 4, 2014

If you log out and back in, you'll kill the "hide Deck Ads" cookie and they should re-appear.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 3:46 PM on June 3, 2014

I didn't take pictures of mine before mailing it out. Whoops. If anyone else wants a copy, MeMail me and I can provide a dropbox link.

My Mix was titled "Modern Roots: Foreign and Domestic" and was generally a blend of Americana and Reggae.

Track Listing:
Bird Song - The Wailin' Jennys
Smile Jamaica - Chronixx
Gracefully Facedown - The Devil Makes Three
Maybeline - Della... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Arbac at 2:13 AM on June 3, 2014

I've received one, and already made myself sick playing one song I'd never heard of on repeat every morning the whole way to work. (Which is exactly what I was hoping for)
posted to MetaTalk by ctmf at 5:58 PM on June 2, 2014

CDs are being sent tomorrow morning! Here are my covers; the track list is the picture caption (sorry, google+ link).
posted to MetaTalk by ChuraChura at 9:10 PM on May 29, 2014

After last week's n-word in a MetaTalk post, I'm looking forward to this, because man is managing those kinds of threads a total shitshow for several days on end.

I know some will fear we're silencing dissent or fear we're only going to approve pro-MeFi posts, but I know I will gladly approve the most critical posts of the site, the community, or our behaviors, because it will lead to improving MeFi. To silence any viewpoints via moderation of the MetaTalk queue would be... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 11:39 AM on May 30, 2014

Did it already. Let me know if there's any straggling stuff you notice.

Only the gaping hole in my heart.
posted to MetaTalk by Pogo_Fuzzybutt at 3:19 PM on May 29, 2014

I'll always have greasemonkey!


posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 12:03 PM on May 29, 2014

JESSAMYN IS
STILL A MOD

[watch very closely for the deletion of this comment]
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 11:02 AM on May 29, 2014

Well, it's been nine days since my mixes were mailed, so here's a handy link ... to all of my MeFi mixes since 2009!

Recommended for folks with a taste for indie-dance, nu-disco, space disco, electro, house, and related musical genres, with an assortment of anomalies mixed in.
posted to MetaTalk by mykescipark at 8:14 PM on May 28, 2014

*hoists aquavit*

*throws fishy fishy*

*bork bork bork*
posted to MetaTalk by mudpuppie at 6:25 PM on May 27, 2014

Since my mix has arrived at places hither and yon, here's my cover & listing:

Eat Me. A Vaguely Culinary Mix. (Crud! I just noticed the typo/misspelling/error. Gah!)

I've been listening to Pulposus' Australian Music mix all day, and it's been awesome. Seriously, these mix swaps are the best things ever.
posted to MetaTalk by julen at 11:31 AM on May 27, 2014

I got mine sent out a while ago, with liner notes by the quidnunc kid. I think this is my favorite mix I've done yet for a Mefi Swap! Thanks for organizing, carsonb!
posted to MetaTalk by ocherdraco at 6:33 PM on May 24, 2014

> Please forgive all of the emotionality and straightforwardness here. Just this one time in this one post, OK? I'm not normally like this.

It seems like a might fine way to be. Admittedly, we can't all be this way with everybody all the time, but there's really nothing to forgive. I'm glad you survived, glad you're doing better, and hope you keep moving onward and upward. And I honestly think that making a post like this, being that open, is pretty brave.
posted to MetaTalk by benito.strauss at 7:18 PM on May 20, 2014

Do whatever the fuck you want to do. Have the best fifty years ever.
posted to MetaTalk by phaedon at 1:10 PM on May 12, 2014

It always comes back to Space Ghost in the end.
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten at 7:57 PM on May 9, 2014

Uh, y'all know that esprit is a regular in the Bizarro Anti-Feminist Logic Olympics, right? You're never going to convince him that his particular framing is a bower bird nest of weird assumptions, flawed syllogisms, incoherent projections and hyper-individualistic rationalizations because he built it himself out of shiny things and he hopes one day to lure a mate to live in it with him.
posted to MetaTalk by klangklangston at 3:08 PM on April 29, 2014

This whole "is Metafilter liberal?" thing is a complete derail that isn't helpful, frankly.

That's right. Psoas, I don't think you're asking a complicated question. Look at the comments you linked ("the oh-so-brave right-wing media," "the bigots' line of attack"). This doesn't really have anything to do with right versus left; that's just scenery. Those comments are about moral superiority. It feels good to be... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by cribcage at 12:53 PM on April 30, 2013

Okay, my mixes are ready. Now just to make it to the post office. Thanks for all your work Carsonb!
posted to MetaTalk by Margalo Epps at 10:13 AM on April 26, 2014

I'm really sorry to hear that. Thank you for being very brave and please know that the love of many people is with you, including many who read this but don't know what to say.
posted to MetaTalk by Mrs. Pterodactyl at 5:51 PM on April 23, 2014

I got the email (thanks!) but had forgotten about the "songbird" theme so I was like, why am I being called Blue Tits? Who else knows about my condition
posted to MetaTalk by Monster_Zero at 9:26 PM on April 15, 2014

In case anyone wants some helpful hacks to optimize their MeFiSwap workflow, here’s a checklist I put together during a previous swap:

[ ] Realise it's been several months since the last swap
[ ] Select theme for mix
[ ] Attempt to compile mix around theme
[ ] Abandon theme
[ ] Select second theme for mix
[ ] Attempt to compile mix around second theme
[ ] Abandon themes in general
[... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by misteraitch at 2:50 AM on April 1, 2014

Done!
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 7:29 PM on March 31, 2014

That is a very elegant upgrade to the old system, carsonb. Well done. (And, of course, I'm in.)
posted to MetaTalk by mykescipark at 3:10 PM on March 31, 2014

THE BEST. If I can help at all please let me know.
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 12:34 PM on March 31, 2014

I'm in! Thanks, carsonb!
posted to MetaTalk by brokeaspoke at 12:04 PM on March 31, 2014

Wisconsin, I dislike you now more than ever.
posted to MetaTalk by Area Man at 8:20 PM on March 29, 2014

If it comes down to Duke losing in the first round or my bracket getting fucked, I'll choose Duke losing EVERY TIME.
posted to MetaTalk by MCMikeNamara at 11:48 AM on March 21, 2014

As a 40-something straight white cis guy, I realize it's a cliché to have really known just one member of an oppressed social group and act like that's meaningful experience, but sometimes perhaps it ought to be.

When I was in high school in the mid 80s, my dad had a trans friend who would come over occasionally, before and after publicly transitioning, just to shoot the breeze with us. We'd blab about science fiction, and she once gave me a big box of used SF books,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Monsieur Caution at 7:49 PM on March 20, 2014

shivohum, the issue is not just that someone made an unpopular argument here. Others should feel free to chime in here if I am not touching on something important, but some of the main issues as I see them even without considering the (heinous) actual content of MBS's arguments for the time being are:

MBS engaged in the thread in bad faith by lobbing inflammatory bombs while refusing to engage at all even with the most measured replies (note, for example, that they did... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by en forme de poire at 1:09 PM on March 20, 2014

...and one thing that I would say is definitely helpful is in metas about site policy and norms on trans issues, I would not want anyone to feel unable to contribute. Maybe you don't feel that you have a lot to say in trans threads on the blue (and that's kind of a shame) but on the grey, adding another voice to the chorus calling for a sensible attitude really does help a lot of the time - if it were just up to the dwindling group of trans mefites to oppose the proposals and norms argued for by... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Dysk at 4:15 AM on March 20, 2014

"I know, I'll just try that web game grouse posted the other day"
*attempts to load thread*
"Dammit!"
posted to MetaTalk by ceribus peribus at 5:54 PM on March 13, 2014

We'll give it some thought. Sometimes having a little friction to a process isn't necessarily a bad thing. An extra fraction of a second can give someone a chance to glance over the live preview on their way to the Post button and catch something they might not have otherwise. Not a big deal with editing in place, but catching an error before post saves that editing time.
posted to MetaTalk by pb at 7:59 AM on March 8, 2014

Sara C.: "Just for total clarification, is there a hard guideline about how much participation is too much?"

No, of course not. There are very few "hard" guidelines on Metafilter.

The general guideline is, you're not supposed to threadsit.

I haven't read every comment in the thread yet. But I don't think you were particularly out of line. I do think you made a lot more comments... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by zarq at 3:04 PM on March 5, 2014

OK, OK. A man can only take so much beseeching. (and good to see some oldtime names in this thread).

As far as my user number, back in '99 I was living in Kendall FL and unemployed. I had found out about Memepool from a magazine and followed a link here. After a few days reading I made a post. Since most of the early users were early bloggers and such, I figured they all looked on saying "Who the hell is this guy?" The post went uncommented so I lurked until... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jonmc at 11:17 AM on February 10, 2014

Ah, it's been a long time since we had a creation story thread. I love it when the oldest of the old timers surface - here are two other threads that had a high percentage of the ancients.

Remembering our friend Brad, a sad one about the passing of longertm member bradlands (#371).

Solistrato's (#850) thread of birthday thoughts from an old timer.

I am #15971, here about 11.5 years. I am going to adopt octobersurprise's... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by madamjujujive at 3:37 PM on February 9, 2014

Interesting fact: in French, the word for potato is pomme de terre, the translation of which means "box of the earth" or, less literally, "casket."

The potato has been long associated with death in French culture, and in many Renaissance-era funerary paintings, you can spot an enormous potato in a black cloak (akin to the traditional garb of the Grim Reaper.) "Richard Cœur de Lion et L'pomme de Terre" is a well-known... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 12:59 PM on January 27, 2014

Questions about suicide are expressly banned, yes. Questions about drugs are not, necessarily. Questions about illegal things are dealt with on a case-by-case basis depending on how much trouble for the site they're likely to cause.

The OP of that question has professional support, and seems to be actively using it. I don't personally have a problem with people wanting to get a general sense of the social consensus on a situation when they're so deep into it they've lost... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by restless_nomad at 5:17 PM on January 23, 2014

This thread reminds me of a pony request I had a while back, but held back from mentioning because I was told pb was under the weather. I had forgot about it until a meetup a few weeks back, and now this thread reminded me again. So ...

I would like to choose which categories of contacts I see on the sidebar. I too link to everyone I meet IRL, but that doesn't mean I want to see all of their activity on the site. The ideal for me would be to display the activity from... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by terrapin at 2:50 PM on January 23, 2014

The handful of times I've been deleted, I was able to tamp down my initial flush of WTF by remembering MeTas like this one, reassessing the comment in question and realizing that maybe the problem was just me being an asshole. Many basically decent people are assholes occasionally.

We'll probably have "why is moderation out of control?!?!?1?!?" MeTas forever, but really, the answer is almost always, "It's not. You were kinda being an asshole." It... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by DirtyOldTown at 8:31 AM on January 10, 2014

A page of recent wikipedia links from comments would be fun...

Sure, let's see if it is: Recent Wikipedia Links.
posted to MetaTalk by pb at 6:10 PM on January 7, 2014

Conrad got his answer, but the post is still open because… it's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday.
posted to MetaTalk by klangklangston at 9:56 PM on January 3, 2014

May the best of 2013 be the worst of 2014, and may you either receive your heart's desire or realize you didn't want it as much as you thought.
posted to MetaTalk by Mooski at 7:28 AM on December 31, 2013

It's a little tetchy, the relationship between MeFi and Kickstarter.

I know I'm reading too much Yudetide fic cause my first thought was "ooh hate pairing! Maybe they have to pretend to be married!"
posted to MetaTalk by The Whelk at 2:06 AM on December 29, 2013

the elephant in the room.

I must say I don't understand why you had an impulse to post that KS here - when anyone sufficiently interested could have checked out the mefi kickstarter page themselves.

One of the things that really bothers me about this community, and MeTa in particular, is the impulse to turn threads into general grievances against users, and in particular referendums on particular mefites. It's gross, unkind,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by smoke at 6:59 PM on December 28, 2013

I bought a car. I love my car!
posted to MetaTalk by oceanjesse at 8:11 PM on December 15, 2013

YouTube does this. Here's their MetaFilter Channel. This list is auto-generated by YouTube somehow. Maybe using referrers? I'm not sure how it works, but it pulls YouTube videos linked from MetaFilter.
posted to MetaTalk by pb at 3:16 PM on December 14, 2013

If I were a bad person I'd post 'In the name of the most holy and individual Trinity: Be it known to all, etcetera blah blah blah' and it would get deleted!

It would be deleted due to the nefarious anti-Westphalian agenda of this benighted site.
posted to MetaTalk by winna at 2:45 PM on December 4, 2013

Actually some LA friends recently talked me into eating Taco Bell for the first time in like 15+ years.

... AND I ENJOYED IT

Like not in an actual quality food sense, but just in a "this tastes like puberty" kind of way.

They also brought me Mountain Dew, which I spiked with gin and it was a very strange night
posted to MetaTalk by Sara C. at 2:17 PM on December 3, 2013

"We ... have all those things? Only our Indian food is really, really good, especially if you go to the local Hindu Temple for their annadothas and dosadothas on the weekends! We might not have Salvadoreño food (our Spanish-speaking immigrants locally are mostly Mexican and Honduran), but we are absolutely drowning in Lebanese food and Ethiopian is supposed to be very up-and-coming in the region."

Yeah, see, I grew up in the midwest (Michigan)... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by klangklangston at 1:31 PM on December 3, 2013