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Okay, I missed out on this. Please again please.

Yeah, me too. I'm not crazy-crazy about DB, because it doesn't really cover the exercises I like to do (or at least didn't the last time I checked), but hopefully this will be a good motivator.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 1:03 PM on March 24, 2010

I'm in Sherbrooke, Quebec, which is not quite Montreal but might be en route. If there's a Montreal meetup I can try to make it, but it's tricky (has to be on a weekend, with plenty of advance warning, etc. etc.).
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 11:43 AM on March 11, 2010

I'd love to participate.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 12:25 PM on March 9, 2010

Okay, so what was the MetaFilter Parody? The hosting site now seems to be a click collector harvesting people looking for collectible spoons.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 12:34 PM on March 5, 2010

...now we must battle?
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 2:08 PM on March 3, 2010

Fantastic! Congratulations!
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 10:11 AM on March 2, 2010

Not beer, but I do small-batch weird wines like ginger, lemon, coffee, etc. Got a few bottles left of the Blueberry Smash! that is pretty popular with the kids around here.

I'm in Canada, though.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 1:26 PM on February 18, 2010

please join the Blood Bowl league over at Mefight Club

wait holyshit what?!?!?
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 6:03 AM on February 18, 2010

Before I left for vacation, I spent a full hour trying to synch up a looped bit of whale song to the intro drum riff of Primus' "John the Fisherman" because I took our swapset name, "The Sea Shanties," wayyyyyy too seriously. Mine's here if anyone outside our swapset (burned! mailed!) wants to listen to it.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 3:01 PM on January 17, 2010

At least I'm aware of my own tendencies for groupthink. Are you?

Yes.

I'm also aware of my own tendencies to be contrarian and disruptive just to prove to myself that I'm a dangerous thinker that isn't just one of the sheeple. I'm aware of my own tendencies to post mutton-fisted attempts at tone-deaf "satire" to show that my unchained brilliance just can't be controlled.… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 5:45 AM on January 8, 2010

I'm going to New York that week -- my wife has an immigration interview with the Canadian Consulate on the 12th -- but we're leaving the morning of the 16th, dammit.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 5:42 AM on January 4, 2010

I'm in if in is still possible! I really enjoyed making my last MeFi Mix Exchange disc (Welcome to Dangerbird), and have some ideas for this new'un.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 6:28 AM on December 4, 2009

Am I the only person that makes the mix kinda based on the swapset name?
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 3:34 AM on December 24, 2009

I am only getting around to sending cookies today so, to date, shothotbot has brought me nothing but procrastination and guilt. DAMN HIS EYES.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 10:44 AM on December 22, 2009

I'm in -- if people are still working this angle. I live in Canada, so, er, legal cookies only please.

I like the "more people in cluster, fewer cookies per person" angle proposed above, but I'm pretty easy-going. (Honestly, it's my wife that loves the idea, so it's more her bag than mine, but I'm the one with a MeFi account).
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 5:47 PM on December 8, 2009

Best wishes for a speedy, Matt!
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 1:37 PM on November 13, 2009

I'm beginning to rethink my question about how best to win a knife fight against a cop armed with a Zebra F-301.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 12:36 PM on October 28, 2009

Thanks, The Light Fantastic. I was composing a tedious explanation of what "safe space" means in the context of conversations involving minority or marginalized groups in another window, but work kept getting in the way, and now you've put it better than I could have.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 1:05 PM on October 9, 2009

Incidentally, Blogger Ferdinand Bardamu now has a top post loudly proclaiming that he is not MeFi denizen ferdinand.bardamu and complaining that jessamyn isn't inventive enough when referring to him as totally creepy.

So I guess there's something about that fictional character I can now use as a red flag for assholism, like I can generally assume that anyone who requests "Sweet Home Alabama" at a dance in Ontario is probably high on the avoid list.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 1:52 PM on October 8, 2009

Me -- I write Dead Eyes Open (SLG, now wrapped and being blogged with a "director's commentary"); Captain Blood (SLG, ongoing); RPM (Ape Entertainment, online/print, ongoing); Man-Man (Internet, wrapped, massive (about 1300 daily strips)); and have a couple of things in development like Danger Chefs (alluded to in an Ask post here), Rise, Kraken! (now in art limbo) and Fear the Flesh of Ghandeinstein (development hell).
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 6:02 AM on October 7, 2009

In a backwards-ass way this sort of thing really encourages me to get the fuck off the Internet and work on a novel or re-roof my house or something.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 8:34 AM on September 25, 2009

Y'know, I would have had some sympathy if you popped up and said "I had a question deleted after only a couple of minutes, and I admit I phrased it poorly, but it'd be nice if I could have a do-over instead of being locked out for a week."

That could lead to a discussion about why the policy is there, and how it applies to you or fringe cases that just toe over the acceptable line. Which would be, on the whole, probably good for the site at least as a… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 9:55 AM on September 16, 2009

"B-b-but Moore!" seems to have become the right-wing film-lover's "B-b-but Clinton!".

I've commented on this before: there's a natural human instinct towards fairness and equivalence that allows false associations to be generated and upheld in this context. Back then, I was talking about the false "Olbermann is the left's O'Reilly!" meme; in this case, it's the "B-b-but Moore!… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 10:48 AM on September 4, 2009

To be fair, Moore IS pretty bad. He's entertaining, but he's very slanted, and uses innuendo to 'prove' his points, sort of wink-wink-nudge-nudge encouraging his viewers to fall into fallacies that he's drawn very carefully without quite saying. And his questions-without-answers technique just drives me bats... "Could G.W. Bush have slept with the Saudi Prince?"

I don't feel like I'm getting truly solid information from him... too much spin, not… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 7:01 PM on September 4, 2009

Interestingly, when white people commit crimes, nobody ever discusses a culture of crime shared by white people

I agree in principle, AZ, but I think the punks, chavs, Juggalos, trailer trash, skids and junkies would like to have a word with you about how equitably that's applied across different sociocultural strata.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 10:36 AM on September 3, 2009

there's a difference between reading the Weekly World News for fun and starting to worry about the alliance between Bigfoot and the chupacabras

Well Bigfoots are all thieves and chupacabras are all shiftless layabouts so I mean duh.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 1:02 PM on September 3, 2009

Yes, but the cultural stereotype they did portray as fact wasn't restricted to class, race, ancestry or geography. At the time, editorials and popular opinion certainly embraced the so-called "Greedy Businessmen Meme," stereotyping all corporations and the people who work for them as greedy, evil bastards out to cheat the general public. Last year, the same meme was raised during the financial meltdown, and as supporting evidence, comparisons were once again made to Enron,… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 11:24 AM on September 4, 2009

I ain't crazy, or at least I don't think so... if I click on "Meta" in "MetaTalk" above and to the left, I see a box form around the word "Meta" before the link activates and the page loads. If I click on "Talk," the same thing happens. Both seem to be separate clickable elements leading to metatalk.metafilter.com. This happens on every page of the site; on "Ask MetaFilter" the Ask, Meta and Filter all seem to be individually clickable.… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 8:42 AM on September 3, 2009

So this happens only in the plain theme, and the poster didn't think that was relevant to mention? Wacky.

I actually noticed it, and thought I'd ask about it, but didn't test it in the other theme first. I also didn't test it on Opera, IE, Chrome or Safari. Nor did I call all my friends and have them try it on PCs, Linux boxes, and an archaic C64.

I'm crazy like that.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 9:56 AM on September 3, 2009

Holy shit, I got mentioned on a MeFi podcast. That's so cool.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 9:11 AM on August 27, 2009

Awesome! On my Wish List! Will order soon!
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 1:46 PM on August 12, 2009

I understand the reactions, to an extent -- marketers are e-e-eeeevil, amirite?!?, and she seems like a fairly typical gladhander/BS-spouter as these things go.

But I have to say I took some value from the "hire a boss" approach; it's nice to see somebody with the confidence (warranted or not) to actually value themselves as a commodity and ask not who she should work for, but who she wants to let hire her. I thought… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 10:46 AM on August 11, 2009

If I ever engage in pattern behaviour that pisses y'all off could you just e-mail me for a frank discussion please
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 12:31 PM on August 7, 2009

I'm still chuffed about this username being available when I signed up for MeFi.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 3:22 PM on July 27, 2009

Isn't this covered in the still-open Edmund Andrew thread?
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 7:34 AM on May 22, 2009

I think it's a bit of a stretch to call that a "discussion."

Next time I start thinking the AV Club comments blow chunks, this will be my first port of call to remind me that it's actually pretty rockin'.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 1:32 PM on April 30, 2009

Metafilter sometimes seems to strive on its nature of exclusion. It's a club with very, very steep entrance requirements to 'fit in'.

I came here from Barbelith and trust me, you ain't seen nothin'.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 1:49 PM on April 22, 2009

Momus you bastards Momus
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 10:58 AM on April 16, 2009

Question about Jeffrey: why can't I just hit him with the damn axe? "Cutting him up would achieve little." Except maybe PREVENTING HIM FROM KILLING ME.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 8:00 AM on April 10, 2009

Wait, what command are you using?

Entering cage, locking it, waiting, letting Jeffrey come in, opening the cage, then "Chop Jeffrey" with the axe:

You lie down for a moment and catch a few winks. As you wake up, you see that Jeffrey is also sleeping. As soon as you sit up, his eyes pop open and he sits up. Clearly he was only pretending to sleep.

>wait
Time passes.… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 1:19 PM on April 10, 2009

I'd also like to get in on the ground floor for the next. And if the price is reading it as an audiobook, I could get that done -- I have a bit of experience and all the gear.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 7:59 AM on April 6, 2009

Ämën, kïdcksn. Mï frênch kêyböàrd hàs bëén wäîtïng fôr à chàncè to shïnè äs wéll.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 8:38 AM on April 1, 2009

I started the "Say, what's this JavaScript fooferaw?" Great Server Hackening thread about three hours before the site flew into the mountain, but nobody remembers and the thread seems to have died in the Great Crash.

As a Relatively New Minor MetaFilter Contributor that is my only claim to fame here. And it has been lost.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 1:54 PM on March 2, 2009

Yay! For one brief shining moment I had the unmitigated thrill ride of seeing comments posted to a thread I started at the rate of about one every ten seconds. MY SPIRITS SOARED WHILE YOUR SITE BURNED.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 2:33 PM on March 2, 2009

Bah! I will be in Atlanta on the 12th for an upcoming wedding. MINE.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 10:09 AM on February 27, 2009

In a pathetic bid to increase my reader base, I invite all MeFites to browse seven years worth of a comic strip I wrote, and recently concluded, to try to find pinched lines.

This is also a bit in Illiad's defense: honestly, I've probably written over 2000 Man-Man strips, in mental states ranging from raging drunk to suicidally depressed, on fire with enthusiasm to just wanting to never see the damn thing again, inspired with teh comediez to feeling like I'm the… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 1:05 PM on February 23, 2009

Human-man was a bit from an early Tom the Dancing Bug published in 1992. It was part of the first TtDB compilation/comic published in 1995. He too was bit by a radioactive human.

I hate you.

In my defense (1), the updated 2002-onward version of the strip has him bitten by a genetically modified human, in deference to Raimi's update of the Spider-Man legend; and (2), the core idea was first used by MAD magazine sometime in the… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 4:32 PM on February 23, 2009

Here we have proof positive that absolutely any web comic that runs long enough will find readers to provide it with irrational loyalty, no matter how abysmal the work.

Oh good Lord no. See my link above.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 4:48 PM on February 24, 2009

Huzzah!
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 8:15 AM on February 12, 2009

I keed.
posted to MetaTalk by Shepherd at 9:22 AM on February 3, 2009