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posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 8:55 AM on March 23, 2024

Cool! Congratulations and have a blast!
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 4:55 PM on February 9, 2024

Interestingly, this post led me to go take a look at Jobs, which led me to notice this post for my area, which led me to share it with a number of Indigenous people I know...

https://jobs.metafilter.com/2021/Indigenous-Justice-Lead-Providence-Centre

...so I think I'm lightly in favour of this? I know this organization and know they're quality, it's a fascinating gig, and I would have been happy to help them get the word out however I could (and… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 12:55 PM on January 25, 2024

Excellent news! Congratulations BB (and all of us, really)
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 11:44 AM on February 15, 2023

Kitteh and I just attended the business plan creation Event and it was so good, folks! Exceptionally useful content, but delivered in a way that felt warm and friendly and supportive. No spoilers in case some here will be reviewing the recording. Top notch.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 5:21 PM on November 22, 2022

Yes, I was too intimidated to volunteer things this time around, but I feel a little more comfortable now that I'm seeing what's on offer. I think I can contribute some services.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 3:24 AM on November 8, 2022

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posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 3:04 PM on August 15, 2022

Hm...

Book - Don Quixote
Book series - the Rabbi mysteries by Harry Kemelman? That's kind of a dart throw, but I find them comforting.
Film - The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension!, which is kind of 12 movies in one.
TV series - OG Twilight Zone, partly because there's so many of 'em
Album - Faith No More, Angel Dust
Game - Probably MTG Arena,… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 2:32 AM on August 13, 2022

This song *&^% haunts me. I can sing the whole thing, I have it all so locked into my head; it's well produced and professional and a total mystery despite some game attempts to solve the mystery.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 4:02 PM on May 19, 2022

So sorry for your loss, Brandon. Thank you for sharing this, it's beautiful.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 3:11 AM on April 1, 2022

Had a great mini-vacation with my wife, celebrating both my birthday (I bought a skateboard, and my dentist is very excited) and our anniversary, and reconnected with an old friend I haven't seen in 25-ish years. He's a New York Times bestselling writer, and I'm somebody who once had aspirations of writing, and this didn't even precipitate the emotional coulda-woulda-shoulda crisis I was kind of worried it would cause. It was just good to see him.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 4:32 AM on March 20, 2022

Got my final thesis paper back to complete my LLM from my supervisor, with considerable work required but not nearly what I was fearing. Also finishing up my last course in the program, and actually really, really enjoying the course's major paper (turns out trademark law is... fun?!?)
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 3:20 PM on March 23, 2022

As a member of long standing, and from what I understand of the mod team size and strictures, I'm satisfied with what's currently being undertaken and the general pace of change. These seem like incremental but important and actionable steps that focus on some key site goals.

If the marketing deck is publicly available I'd love to see it; not to weigh in or offer "improvements", but just because it seems like it'd be an interesting read.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 9:21 AM on March 16, 2022

More of a translation issue, but.

I used to work as the sole English person in an ad agency where everyone else was first-language French -- some quite competent in English, but I was the sole Anglo. One of our clients handled a licensed property which featured characters owned by Warner Bros., and like you do, our work involved making material (often point-of-sale store materials, like shelf talkers or special packaging) that put these licensed characters in situations… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 5:51 PM on March 5, 2022

I'm making it work right now not with MeFites but with a group of high school friends where our DM is in Hong Kong and running a game at 9 pm our time / 9 am his time. D&D 5th Ed. It's a good time -- basically saying that it's possible and y'all can do it! I would love to run a Mutants and Masterminds campaign at some point, but I won't practically have the time until I finish my Master's.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 1:00 PM on February 5, 2022

Selfishly calling attention to my AskMe for D&D 5e knowing-persons that might have this in Recent Activity but not be following Ask regularly.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 4:48 AM on February 27, 2022

WELL DONE GRITHER! Enjoy your many 2s!
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 9:50 AM on February 23, 2022

Signed up! Thank you!
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 3:17 AM on November 3, 2021

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posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 3:26 AM on October 30, 2021

I asked an anonymous question once because I was contemplating something that I thought might make colleagues -- some of who I think are MeFites -- look askance at me, and quickly got an answer that from an angle I hadn't thought of, explaining that what I was thinking about was from this angle actually wildly illegal, and I was very grateful for the anonymity that day.

I knew the risks going in of being unable to easily follow up and clarify as I… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 4:09 PM on July 7, 2021

My wife and I attend the local university's student gallery fundraiser every year -- a lot of artists contribute art, everyone buys a ticket, and then the tickets are used for a draw. When your number is called, you pick a piece to take home with you! It's awesome.

This year, we were so in love with the piece we got -- a painting of the Mothman having a smoke under a tree -- that I secretly reached out to the artist and asked if I could commission her to paint two more… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 3:50 PM on May 8, 2021

Hugs and love to you both.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 3:50 AM on November 10, 2018

I refurbished the outdoor sign of a local institution -- a fish and chips shop that was around since the '50s, (the sign's not that old, but it's been there since the '80s) and closed last year -- over the last month. Got some friends coming over to mount it tomorrow night from the roof of our lounge.

I thought I'd just be pulling out the fluorescents and putting in some rope light, but decades of rust damage, old wasps nests, and the fact that all the blue... paint?… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 12:50 PM on July 9, 2018

I have a long tradition of immediately thinking "oh, come on" when somebody points out that a phrase I use that I've never used with ill intent and don't make the same associations about may not be super great. And then 48 hours later realizing I'm wrong.

I've never mentally constructed "garbage person" in a way that relates to "white trash", and I don't parse "garbage person" as anything other than "this… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 3:52 AM on March 3, 2018

My stealth resolution seems to have been "schedule all the things." It wasn't an overt idea going into the year, but after looking at the loads o' stuff I'm busy with, actually blocking my pre- and post-workday into half-hour chunks and allocating that time (with plenty of blocks for "goofing off", it's not all work-work-work) seems to be something I get a lot of satisfaction from.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 12:56 PM on January 3, 2018

Blast! Chrome's chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy does not seem to defeat the video on this page:

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-uninstall-default-apps-in-windows-10/

Anyone got anything for this?
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 11:29 AM on November 28, 2017

I guess I can de-anonymize myself at this point and say that AskMe prevented me from making possibly the worst mistake I would have ever made in my life, in terms of steering me away from a disastrous career decision due to being burnt out and shellshocked and not realizing it at the time. I can't say "not a day goes by," but I think of that thread about once a month or ever six weeks or so, and thank Saint Mathowie and all his moderatin' angels for having pulled me off that track.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 5:17 PM on August 8, 2017

In 1993, I was in my second year of university in Toronto, living in the Ryerson residence on the 10th floor; one of those apartment-style spaces where five bedrooms shared a kitchenette, two bathrooms, and a living space. There was a federal election going on at the time, and one day there's a knock at the door and I answer it and it's a kid -- well, somebody around my age, so a "kid" from my perspective now -- asking how I'm going to vote.

So I tell him I… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 11:58 AM on April 13, 2017

I like the megathreads, both as a reader and as a way of "clumping" a lot of political angst in one place instead of having "crap President is crap" posts several times a day.

And maybe they suck the air out of the site, but POTUS45 has sucked the air out of me. I have to admit I'm spending more time thinking "maybe if I, and people like me, spent more time being vocal and active in politics, and less time marveling at… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 1:36 PM on March 27, 2017

Reader, I married her.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 12:53 PM on March 15, 2017

Greetings from Canada!

I spent an hour tonight writing letters to the Chambers of Commerce and/or tourism boards of every state that I have vacationed in during the last 10 years: New York, Vermont, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and more. I included specific details about what I loved about each state, and why I would love to return.

Then wrote that I would not return while Donald Trump is President. And that many of my friends are… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 5:28 PM on February 1, 2017

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posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 8:51 AM on January 12, 2017

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posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 10:22 AM on January 10, 2017

Hooray! I am Pants Masterson.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 8:36 AM on January 4, 2017

Kingston, Ontario, if anyone from northern NY State wants to come up.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 4:25 PM on November 9, 2016

Me, from a thread about (among other things) butter substitutes masquerading as butter:

this is just to say

i have eaten
that spread
that was in
the icebox

and which
you probably
thought
was butter

Forgive me
it was not butter
it gave me intestinal parasites
i'm so cold
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 6:42 AM on October 28, 2016

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posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 4:44 PM on September 29, 2016

Uh


As of 2016 February 25, the hosted Fanscribed service has been suspended.

As time permits, a read-only version of the site's partial and completed transcripts may be brought online.

The source code for running Fanscribed 2, upon which this site was based, is available at https://github.com/fanscribed/fanscribed.

The source code for running Fanscribed 1, upon which Read No Agenda… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 10:12 AM on July 14, 2016

my introduction to classic pop and rock hits being mediated by prior exposure from Weird Al parodies and polka medleys, hearing the originals only years later as I moved from childhood into adulthood and carrying around a quiet gut insistence that e.g. Smoke On The Water is about 200 bpm and involves an accordion

That is exactly my experience as well; being (I suspect) slightly older there's also a lot of gut feelings that many hit songs of the '80s… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 9:50 AM on June 27, 2016

Thank you, pb!
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 9:47 AM on April 26, 2016

Underwear beneath pajamas y/n
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 9:19 AM on April 4, 2016

Yay! I was in the podcast! It's me!

(I did build the site myself, by the way, but by modifying a freely downloadable HTML shell).
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 6:30 PM on March 5, 2016

Hooray!
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 4:40 AM on December 24, 2015

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posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 12:32 PM on October 13, 2015

Tonight I toast the B-list, those who don't have the time to engage as often as they'd like, don't quite boast the rapier wit of our highest-profile members, and who never, ever appear on these sorts of lists, or the "best of" threads, or any other celebration-of-members posts.

Steadfast readers, steadfast commenters, who don't shine as bright or as often, but who crack wise, contribute tidbits of information, and fade out for weeks to months at a time.… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 2:37 PM on September 29, 2015

I am just going to roll with "So easy Immortan Joe could do it!" from now on, unless it is a question relating to running a slave-based post-apocalypse economy, driving some sort of bolted-together hell car, or just being generally horrible, as he raises that bar fairly high in those areas.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 10:59 AM on September 10, 2015

Suggestion: instead of posting comments such as "I can't see this!", "don't you know this is paywalls!" and "I've made a Meta about how dumb you are!"

The latter seems a little unnecessarily uncharitable, Artw. I think most posters make posts in good faith, and there's no way for a "normal" Level One Internet user to know how their viewing experience will translate across borders and various countries'… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 10:12 AM on September 9, 2015

I assume this was prompted by the copious Comedy Central links in the Key & Peele post. I'd considered finding some workaround, but there's just no real good option there.

Actually, it was spurred by a post entirely structured around a particular piece of music used for hip-hop breaks, but confusion about which main-page post is behind it is kind of illustrative that this isn't a one-off unicorn of a problem.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 5:00 AM on September 10, 2015

Yeah, I was bored in a line 45 minutes ago and searched "jade helm metafilter" to see if there were any threads around this particular right-wing trainwreck that might help me understand it, and got these results:

http://imgur.com/Mjelt4R

basically one legit result from MeFi and then pages and pages and pages of this spam, with "jade helm" and "nick cave" (I guess he's a popular search term since his son passed away?)… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 10:00 AM on July 24, 2015

I was kind of in the "yeah, but..." camp, but LobsterMitten's response off the top, and a lot of the discussion here, has brought me roundly around to the "good deletion" camp.

I'm a doofy cis white guy and I can indulge in chin-scratching doofy cis-white "but I don't get it" conversations with the best of them, but I guess my key takeaway here is that my curiosity about these issues doesn't need to be satisfied this very minute.… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 11:32 AM on June 15, 2015