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Name: Carson B.
Joined: May 3, 2001
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MeFi: 178 posts , 3020 comments
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Ask MeFi:55 questions , 2373 answers
Music:2 posts , 28 comments , 20 playlists
Music Talk:0 posts , 2 comments
Projects:0 posts , 77 comments , 355 votes
Jobs:0 posts
IRL:2 posts , 123 comments
FanFare:39 posts , 290 comments
FanFare Talk:1 post , 53 comments
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About
What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.
"Your tongue is strangely changed; but the name sounds not unfitting so. Carson! No report that I have heard does justice to the truth."
I used about 1000 hours' worth of free Internet discs before my mother taught me how to telnet into the university library.
My email handle, tediseasy, is from a time when the AOL username char limit was 9 and all those CD-ROMs said 'Getting started is easy' on them. My gender and my picture are attributed to and courtesy of klangklangston (who makes fantastic photographs and sells them to lucky people).
I came for the freaks.
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Oriented Occidentally
Literal as a butterfly
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Hi how are you?
I hope you're the best you've ever been, and getting better!
Oh hey, I've been on MeFi for 14 years now.
(Here's my cat-scan.)
I've lived on this profile page longer than I've lived in any one physical abode.
I like it here.
I like you. Let's be friends and share cool stuff online.
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I Am A US Passport Application Acceptance Agent, but I Am Not Your US Passport Application Acceptance Agent.
I can probably point you in the right direction though, when it comes to obtaining a US Passport and/or Passport Card. Send me a MeMail or email me at my email address.
Usually that direction is travel.state.gov, start there.
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1 mix, 5 copies, 6 MeFites and your local post—MeFiSwap is awesome!
MeFiSwap is on hiatus while physical media downswings.
Who even has an optical drive anymore?
I mean, I do.
But do you?
Anyway, you can email me at my email address
(please do not memail me regarding this matter)
If you would like to be notified when sign-ups start for another swap. Someday?
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The subject of my first post—The Mayday Mystery—remains unresolved ten (forty?) years on.
I am most proud of this comment.
My first deleted post. =(
#2 Don't believe everything that you* read on the internet.
No. 3 was my first double.
I pretty much stopped updating anything below this point several years ago, but can't bring myself to delete it. *shrug*
lalex made a comment of mine into a tagline!
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Frequently Meta'd Posts
The Decline of Metafilter
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Jeez, can we please have a moratorium on moratoria?
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...a work in progress.
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Sometimes I don't get a comment into a post in time before it's deleted. This one time I was actually proud of my comment and worked hard on it, so I'm preserving it in the interests of my whims and whatevers:
The Higgs boson coming back in time to prevent its own creation
One of the properties of the boson is that it's temporally shaped like an N-loop:
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Here's a really cool link I can't post to the front page because it requires a password:
Possible Lessnesses
In 1969, the Irish-born writer Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) published the piece of short prose Sans in French. One year later, in 1970, it was followed by a translation (by Beckett himself) into English titled Lessness. An interesting characteristic of this work is its combination of dense aural and structural patterning and apparent randomess. Both versions consist of 24 paragraphs containing a total of 120 sentences. Each sentence occurs twice: once in the first half of the work and once in the last. Beckett later indicated to critics that the order in which the sentences in Lessness appear had been determined randomly by drawing little slips of paper out of a container.
Possible Lessnesses lets you generate alternate versions of Lessness according to the same rules that Beckett originally used.
You can easily and instantly get the password by emailing the address at the link.
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Future Sock Puppets:
Antisthenes at the SkyMall
True Love
x¡♥¡x Twuo Ruvv x¡♥¡x
newslang!
weed and mettle
Future Sock Puppet
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bang!
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* breathe, you'll get a parking violation and a maggot on your sleeve. So shave your face with some mace in the dark, savin' all your food stamps and burnin' down the trailer park. Yo, cut it. Soy un perdedor.... I do this in real life, too. Some little sentence fragment will send me off into paroxysms of song, usually some really awesome late-80's, early-90's radio jam. It's Loser a lot too, though, because people find that rap impressive and it has a natural segue into Eminem's My Name Is... in Spanish! ¡Hola mi nombre es ¿quién?! ¡Mi nombre es ¿lo que?!
I used about 1000 hours' worth of free Internet discs before my mother taught me how to telnet into the university library.
My email handle, tediseasy, is from a time when the AOL username char limit was 9 and all those CD-ROMs said 'Getting started is easy' on them. My gender and my picture are attributed to and courtesy of klangklangston (who makes fantastic photographs and sells them to lucky people).
I came for the freaks.
--- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
Oriented Occidentally
Literal as a butterfly
--- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
Hi how are you?
I hope you're the best you've ever been, and getting better!
Oh hey, I've been on MeFi for 14 years now.
(Here's my cat-scan.)
I've lived on this profile page longer than I've lived in any one physical abode.
I like it here.
I like you. Let's be friends and share cool stuff online.
--- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
I Am A US Passport Application Acceptance Agent, but I Am Not Your US Passport Application Acceptance Agent.
I can probably point you in the right direction though, when it comes to obtaining a US Passport and/or Passport Card. Send me a MeMail or email me at my email address.
Usually that direction is travel.state.gov, start there.
--- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
1 mix, 5 copies, 6 MeFites and your local post—MeFiSwap is awesome!
MeFiSwap is on hiatus while physical media downswings.
Who even has an optical drive anymore?
I mean, I do.
But do you?
Anyway, you can email me at my email address
(please do not memail me regarding this matter)
If you would like to be notified when sign-ups start for another swap. Someday?
--- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
The subject of my first post—The Mayday Mystery—remains unresolved ten (forty?) years on.
I am most proud of this comment.
My first deleted post. =(
#2 Don't believe everything that you* read on the internet.
No. 3 was my first double.
I pretty much stopped updating anything below this point several years ago, but can't bring myself to delete it. *shrug*
lalex made a comment of mine into a tagline!
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Frequently Meta'd Posts
The Decline of Metafilter
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Jeez, can we please have a moratorium on moratoria?
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
...a work in progress.
--- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
Sometimes I don't get a comment into a post in time before it's deleted. This one time I was actually proud of my comment and worked hard on it, so I'm preserving it in the interests of my whims and whatevers:
The Higgs boson coming back in time to prevent its own creation
One of the properties of the boson is that it's temporally shaped like an N-loop:
B|\↓ ↓/|D
| \ / |
| \/ |
| /\ |
| / \ |
A↑/ \↑C
|
|
↑
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Here's a really cool link I can't post to the front page because it requires a password:
Possible Lessnesses
In 1969, the Irish-born writer Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) published the piece of short prose Sans in French. One year later, in 1970, it was followed by a translation (by Beckett himself) into English titled Lessness. An interesting characteristic of this work is its combination of dense aural and structural patterning and apparent randomess. Both versions consist of 24 paragraphs containing a total of 120 sentences. Each sentence occurs twice: once in the first half of the work and once in the last. Beckett later indicated to critics that the order in which the sentences in Lessness appear had been determined randomly by drawing little slips of paper out of a container.
Possible Lessnesses lets you generate alternate versions of Lessness according to the same rules that Beckett originally used.
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Future Sock Puppets:
Antisthenes at the SkyMall
True Love
x¡♥¡x Twuo Ruvv x¡♥¡x
newslang!
weed and mettle
Future Sock Puppet
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bang!
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