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MetaTalk post: *end theme from Incredible Hulk plays*
Thank you, blessed father of the permalink! You made something wonderful.
posted to MetaTalk by anildash at 9:36 AM on April 26, 2016
OH NO. I've been staring at my screen for five minutes but all I can think of is OH NO. We'll miss you immensely, pb. (my feelings rn)
posted to MetaTalk by Phire at 9:35 AM on April 26, 2016
but but but.... pb, did we do something to upset you? I'll clean off my screen and keyboard more if that'll make you stay!
posted to MetaTalk by easily confused at 9:35 AM on April 26, 2016
Thanks for keeping Metafilter running, pb! Good luck with whatever you get up to next.
posted to MetaTalk by frenetic at 9:35 AM on April 26, 2016
pb! Your quiet patience in the face of a lot of weird shit (both technical and social) has been a great lesson in "how to be a good kind of dev" and I thank you for the years you put into this place and wish you the absolute best in whatever comes next for you.
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 9:32 AM on April 26, 2016
pb, you are the very best and it's been a total pleasure and privilege to work with you.

The rest of you know that pb's amazing and fast and responsive and ridiculously hardworking and thoughtful and kind. But he's also hilarious, and getting to enjoy his low-key joking behind the scenes has been the highlight of working here for me.
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten at 9:31 AM on April 26, 2016
Riding a pony off into the sunset.
posted to MetaTalk by charred husk at 9:31 AM on April 26, 2016
MeFi post: Nothing Compares
Hey, cortex, can we get the FanFare style sheet in this thread pls thx.

Altering colors across all the stylesheets is kind of a pain, so I hope this will suffice:

prince symbol
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 7:12 PM on April 21, 2016
MetaTalk post: Balancing IRL and Askme
There was a frood who didn't want to reveal his username at the 10th Anniversary Meetup in Portland. But pb knew. He always knows.

He sees through cyberspace.
posted to MetaTalk by Kattullus at 9:01 AM on April 21, 2016
MetaTalk post: It's about time
Looks like Microsoft only added TimeZone handling for timestamps to SQL Server 2016, but I did find this project on github to add IANA TimeZone support to older versions.
posted to MetaTalk by pharm at 3:25 AM on March 18, 2016
FanFare post: Movie: Zootopia
So many kids 6 and under fleeing the theatre in terror during the film. My own two were huddled in the entryway for the back haLG of the film....
posted to FanFare by Nanukthedog at 9:53 AM on March 5, 2016
MetaTalk post: Direct your gopher client to gopher://gopher.metafilter.com
Once again, my deepest thanks goes out to pb for once again making Metafilter one of the best sites to use with Lynx. This thread loaded in maybe 100ms. It looks great too. Using it via ssh and screen means I never worry about losing my place.

Because of work, I'm more Windows based than *nix these days, but I really appreciated it when my absurd problem was taken seriously.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by [expletive deleted] at 10:17 AM on March 2, 2016
MeFi post: How microdosing helped me kick my internet habit
"Can very small doses of LSD make you a better worker?"

And with this question, the spirit of the 1960s is finally, inexorably dead.
posted to MetaFilter by crazylegs at 9:42 AM on March 2, 2016
MetaTalk post: More color for Classic ponies
For IRL, could I suggest something in the cerise region? It'd round out the hue distribution, which (sampling the OTS backgrounds) currently looks like this.
posted to MetaTalk by lucidium at 5:21 PM on February 26, 2016
MetaTalk post: Direct your gopher client to gopher://gopher.metafilter.com
Works in Gopher VR!

AND PB WEPT, FOR THERE WERE NO MORE WORLDS TO CONQUER.
posted to MetaTalk by Going To Maine at 5:01 PM on February 24, 2016
omg this is glorious.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 11:32 AM on February 24, 2016
Nothing at all could make today better for me.
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 11:31 AM on February 24, 2016
Yesssssss.
posted to MetaTalk by waxpancake at 11:34 AM on February 24, 2016
MeFi post: The Secret Lives of Tumblr Teens
“Increasingly, the lingua franca is absurdist dada,” explained Strle, usually rendered in the uncapitalized and unpunctuated casualness of instant messages.

I can't believe this lady stole this comment and didn't 01) link back to it and 02) didn't even use the whole post comparing nightblogging to shitposting, im so mad
posted to MetaFilter by poffin boffin at 9:39 AM on February 17, 2016
MeFi post: How are you gentlemen !!
FOR GREAT JUSTICE
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 2:36 PM on February 15, 2016
MeFi post: It’s just not worth it.
"But I don't get how you're like Levin in Anna Karenina thinking, "oh how grand, a woman to listen to my thoughts on farming technology... !" without considering that maybe she dgaf and actually cares about things of her own"

I mean, honestly, I think a lot of them just ... don't. Children are self-centered creatures and they're (ideally) raised by people who DO spend a lot of time helping them regulate their emotional life. Like,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Eyebrows McGee at 9:25 PM on February 14, 2016
MeFi post: Oregon Under Attack: And then there were four
I was a little tongue in cheek but honestly, I learned a great deal from this thread, including being introduced to SovCit mentality and understanding more about law enforcement operations and nuances that aren't obvious from, er, YouTube comments. I appreciated having our own little campfire here; it enhanced my understanding.
posted to MetaFilter by Miko at 11:13 AM on February 11, 2016
MetaTalk post: Jessamyn on moderation
behind the scenes github will translate the web edit into a pull request.

Yep, I get it. But if you don't want to edit the document or just make comments, you do what exactly? (not asking you or anyone, just posting a rhetorical question; I am actually good at computers) My point is there are multiple layers of messaging in a simple "We want your feedback!" request

A. "We really want input from all sectors and... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 10:32 AM on January 22, 2016
MeFi post: "Everyone puts them inside their ears, but no one should."
Warning against Q-Tip ear canal insertion is most likely to fall on deaf ears.
posted to MetaFilter by Cold Lurkey at 7:53 AM on January 21, 2016
MetaTalk post: Remove voting from MeFi Projects
(And for a bit of earlier history, Projects itself grew out of a really nice unofficial volunteer effort by rad long-timer Jerry "kindall" Kindall wherein he organized and distributed for a while a monthly-ish email digest of projects mefites had told him they were working on. At some point, that led to folks basically saying, hey, Matt, what if this were like a thing thing, et voila.)
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 8:30 AM on January 13, 2016
MeFi post: The Fall of Ziggy Stardust
I woke up to this. Ugh.

In 1978, I moved into an apartment in Kreuzberg with a Brit pal from work named Mickey. Our neighbors-down-the-hall were Iggy Pop & David Bowie. At that time in my life, I wasn't following much rock music, being deeply into classical and opera at the time, and so I wasn't too star-struck in that sense. They were just people I saw from time to time, as in any neighborhood. Really, just almost ordinary neighbors. Except, you knew after a minute... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by pjern at 6:29 AM on January 11, 2016
Ask MeFi post: Why the dearth of female philosophers?
I am a woman and a philosophy teacher. There are a number of issues you are asking about all at once. Let's separate them.

1. Who are the great women philosophers?

Here are several lists.
Medieval era, 500-1600
Modern era, 1600-1900
Geocities page that covers 600 BCE - 1500 CE
Wikipedia has a mixed list of historical and contemporary women philosophers
A page with photos and portraits... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by LobsterMitten at 1:03 AM on August 12, 2006 marked best answer
MeFi post: No word on Unobtanium
It seems odd to say that something has been "discovered" that was made in a lab.

I think that's so only if you choose one very narrow meaning for discovery, a concept which in practice is very broad. Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto, but Pluto was already there and at the same time only recently have we managed to get a decent look at it; liquid helium was produced and studied in the late 19th or early 20th C., but helium was capable of taking... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 11:22 AM on January 4, 2016
MeFi post: How to build an aeroplane in your backyard (or speak Vietnamese or...)
According to several studies, telling people goals actually makes them less likely to happen.
posted to MetaFilter by clockwork at 7:26 AM on December 28, 2015
Wow. I could not disagree with this plan more, especially 1 and 2. Here's my suggestion:

1. Do not tell anyone your plan. Know in your heart that the reason we create anything is to first and foremost satisfy our own needs, curiosity, and self. Keep your plan private and surprise everyone with your finished product.

2. There is no such thing as a lucky pen or notebook. Thinking there is is just a way for you to delude yourself that you're... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by You Should See the Other Guy at 5:39 AM on December 28, 2015
MeFi post: The new preschool is crushing kids
I've been teaching for a long time. There is a world of difference between preschool kids today and those 10 years ago. The article discusses that amazing preschool class where the kids are debating whether snakes have bones. It's a rich, lively conversation and you can even happily imagine them jumping up and down explaining their reasoning.

But there are fewer and fewer kids who are capable of that free-form thinking, that ability to connect veins in hands and veins... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kinetic at 4:20 AM on December 20, 2015
MetaTalk post: Must the memory of the dream of Ur fade from the minds of mefites?
I think you meant "glorious".
posted to MetaTalk by ericost at 8:26 AM on December 19, 2015
MeFi post: “real” programming languages
A lot of it is that building new stuff in new environments is a hell of a lot easier and fun than maintaining old stuff in old environments, so it's very tempting to look at that cruft old PHP codevase and say "screw that, I want nothing to do with that, I want to go off and be a node developer instead".

And then your nose codebase grows and rots and you end up facing the same situation all over again.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 11:08 AM on December 18, 2015
MeFi post: Nethack 3.6.0 released
I want to make a level patch where master liches get stocked into little rooms just so I can write the comment /* NICHES GET LICHES */
posted to MetaFilter by nom de poop at 9:12 PM on December 7, 2015
MetaTalk post: Hiring a part-time MetaFilter moderator
“For the last century, almost all top political appointments [on the planet Earth] had been made by random computer selection from the pool of individuals who had the necessary qualifications. It had taken the human race several thousand years to realize that there were some jobs that should never be given to the people who volunteered for them, especially if they showed too much enthusiasm. As one shrewed political commentator had remarked: “We want a President who has to be carried screaming... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by zarq at 11:20 AM on December 8, 2015
MetaTalk post: Well, now we know what Matt's doing with his time.
I really, really do think you are better than this.

I seriously feel absolute zero shame over doing this, full stop. Politicians barring laws from making things safer for Americans (because the NRA pays them off) is much more shameful to me than making some silly photoshop jokes out of it. So I hear your concerns but it is not going to stop me in the slightest.

I'll shut down the blog the moment we have... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 6:08 PM on December 7, 2015
MeFi post: The New, Ugly Surge in Violence and Threats Against Abortion Providers
The idea that there is a religious component to this attack that can be traced back to Biblical principles as described in the Bible and as interpreted by Christian institutional practice over the millennia is more or less wrong. The doctrine among American Protestants that abortion is murder is only slightly older than I am — as always, Slacktivist is an excellent source for documentation of this forgotten shift in Protestant practice. As Slacktivist argues (and I believe, even though I... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by You Can't Tip a Buick at 12:48 PM on November 28, 2015
MeFi post: English is not normal
> Usually this sort of essay is some just-so story nonsense, but in this case the author is a bona-fide linguistics professor.

I got excited when I read this, but my excitement deflated when I clicked through and saw that the bona-fide linguistics professor was John McWhorter. (Note to posters: please, credit the author. I hate to keep banging on about this, but, well, it's important. Credit the damn author!) Yes, McWhorter is a bona-fide... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by languagehat at 1:06 PM on November 15, 2015
MetaTalk post: Do You Like Good Music?
My Tech Support tells me that you can subscribe to this in your podcast player using this link.

I can't guarantee it will work though, as I only pay him in chocolate.

Ps. thanks for the props, and especially to the mods who helped me not make a total hash of posting this :)
posted to MetaTalk by greenish at 7:59 AM on November 13, 2015
Ask MeFi post: How do I relearn how to play?
Wow, ostro had a potentially useful comment in one of the previouslies you linked: why not sit down with the Pleasant Events Schedule (.pdf) and a highlighter, and see if any patterns suggest themselves?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by MonkeyToes at 5:05 PM on November 3, 2015
MetaTalk post: The age of Books is upon us
The Dune Saga Podcast

(In the likely vain hope of keeping cortex from starting a new side project)
posted to MetaTalk by nubs at 8:44 AM on November 3, 2015
MeFi post: Google‘s ongoing war on productivity (Episode 6,625)
Yikes. Could really use a mute button.

chrome://flags/#enable-tab-audio-muting is extremely useful if you happen to be 'all in' on the google doodle / browser pepsi train.
posted to MetaFilter by samworm at 9:08 AM on October 30, 2015
FanFare post: Book: Dune
TRIED AND DIED
posted to FanFare by poffin boffin at 11:48 AM on October 23, 2015
I have tried to read the other dune books.

Tried and failed?
posted to FanFare by cortex at 11:45 AM on October 23, 2015
MetaTalk post: Passing of Danf
Crap, this was surprising and sad news to me. I've always recognized his username around these parts and on many other sites as a generally all-around nice dude. A couple years ago during a Hodgman comedy night in Eugene, I finally got to meet him and his wife and he was just as nice as I imagined.

Funny story, that night I met Danf, I talked to Hodgman before the show and John said something like "oh, if there's some dead time, I might call you up on stage to do a... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 11:50 AM on October 12, 2015
MeFi post: Attention K-Mart Shoppers
Choice muzak version of Doobie Brothers' "What A Fool Believes" at the 21 minute mark on the October 1990 cassette.
posted to MetaFilter by porn in the woods at 11:52 AM on October 2, 2015
In my younger days, my friends and I fetishized K Mart's Kresge Background Music LPs as a sonic totem for the vanished idealized retail landscapes of the late '50s and early '60s. I never gave a thought to the music that was, just then, still playing in K Marts across the land, probably because I was a teenager working in retail myself, and the in-store music of the '80s and '90s felt bloodless and contemporary, like listening to smooth jazz on the Weather Channel. But nostalgia rolls around to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mykescipark at 12:08 PM on October 2, 2015
MeFi post: The Columbine effect
"Identifying the shooter by name is part of unraveling a story and helping place it in the larger context of many shootings. Does this one fit a pattern? Is it an aberration? Did authorities overlook something that could have stopped the attack? And perhaps most importantly, what can be done to help prevent yet another mass killing?"

This NPR thing is self-serving rationalization. As muddgirl says, all this mythos stuff is exactly what you... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by LobsterMitten at 8:22 AM on October 6, 2015
These seem like good guidelines and it baffles me that they're not being more widely followed.
posted to MetaFilter by LobsterMitten at 7:49 AM on October 6, 2015
MetaTalk post: A kind word doesn't cost a thing.
Thanks to the mods. All of them, current and former. Your patience is an example I try (and fail) to constantly follow.

Thanks to PB for keeping this place running. You're like all those kids in the Kenny Rogers' movie Six Pack all combined into one mega-fix-it-dude. One time I nervously posted a Metatalk thread with a silly suggestion and less than 24 hours later it was implemented and now you can see how many people share your birthday by clicking... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by bondcliff at 7:03 AM on September 28, 2015
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