For me, it's back to books and the '22.
Metafilter's down again. What is it this time? Hell, now they don't even give you time to get re-addicted again!
(Posted in the hope, following a legendary Commish post, that a thread here will bring about immediate resumption of service.)
Posted by Miguel at February 19, 2004 08:39 AMYou didn't hear? Matt has given MetaFilter new hours of operation.
M-F 10 am to 6 pm
Saturday noon to 5 pm
closed on Sundays.
Oh, and the title of this thread has just given me the most awe-inspiring image of Miguel half-drunk in a karaoke bar doing a very timid version of "Fuck Tha Police".
Posted by: ufez on February 19, 2004 11:19 AM*thinks of, then discards a tasteless Stevie Wonder joke*
Posted by: Vidiot on February 19, 2004 12:42 PMFrom status.metafilter.com:
Well, after the week of downtime I thought there would be a period of relative calm where I could work on the code and do more hardware and software upgrades, but last night the site up and disappeared and I can't ping it at this point. I hope it's not another fan burnout, as that would probably point out a problem with the motherboard and/or heat being generated by the server.Posted by: Vidiot on February 19, 2004 12:44 PMI'm looking at colocation facilities right now and considering puting mefi on a couple leased boxes, so I could have round-the-clock service. I'll post an update when I hear what's went wrong this time.
Yes, the cat is blind. So? He also has Spreadeagle disease in his hind paws. Would you have him put down just for that? Just because he's Japanese and over 131 in cat years? And doesn't give a toss about Martin Luther King's birthday? Have you seen Stevie Wonder's latest album cover? No, neither has he. Leave the guy alone, will you?
What did Braille ever do to you? Have you no tact, man? Sheesh.
Posted by: Miguel on February 19, 2004 03:30 PMMiguel Cardoso, ladies and gentlemen.
Why he's a cult figure and you're not.
Look in his eyes, what do you see?
Cult of Personality
He knows your anger, He knows your dreams
He blogs only in Portuguese
He's the Cult of Personality
Like Hugh Hefner, and Kottke
He's the Cult of Personality
Cult of Personality
Cult of Personality
Candle lights, A Pulitzer Price
The monkey squeaks, the flung poo flies
You don't have to follow he
Only you can set him free
He writes the things you need to be
He's the one who flirts with our Tizzie
He's the Cult of Personality
He exploits you still you love he
He'll tell you which port goes with Brie
He's the Cult of Personality
Like Dylan Thomas and Mathowie
He's the Cult of Personality
Cult of Personality
Cult of Personality
Candle lights a Pulitzer Prize
A monkey speaks, blind kittens die
You don't have to follow he
Only you can set you free
You gave him fortune
You gave him fame
You him links in your blog's name
He's every person you need to be
Oh, He's the Cult of Personality
Am I going to have to link back to my blog for its lesson on the proper use of the word "fuck"?
Maybe I might get some traffic with the subdomain "status.metaLiFter.com"...
Which remains me of my latest cool domain name idea... it's just a shame that the owners of "ever.com" are letting such a valuable resource go fallow... think about it...
worst.episode.ever.com
best.movie.ever.com
I know:
worst.domainname.idea.ever.com
Beauty, ufez.
The flung poo flies.
This is a koan and a tongue twister rolled into one.
Posted by: dana on February 19, 2004 05:06 PMMiguel Cardoso, ladies and gentlemen.
Why he's a cult figure and you're not.
But is he, in Momus terms, Professor Shaftenberg, or merely Born To Be Adored?
Ufez, is it wrong that when I read that that I read it to the tune "She Bangs"?
Posted by: b*nn*f*re on February 19, 2004 07:53 PMUfez, is it wrong that when I read that that I read it to the tune "She Bangs"?
Posted by: b*nn*f*re on February 19, 2004 07:53 PMWhere's da motherfuckin' weapons all up in this thread?
Posted by: stavrosthewonderchicken on February 20, 2004 06:19 AMI just went to metafilter for the first time in months, and there are still all sorts of people talking in there. And it's got green bits too. Very scary. My doctor told me never to think about *that place* again. I think I need a lie down.
Posted by: flying walrus on February 20, 2004 07:58 AMThere's this lame-ass Hillbilly Mardi Gras in my neighborhood this weekend. The showing of the boobs is not the part I object to. It's the NASCAR style racing down my dead-end street at about 3 a.m. that leaves me grouchy like grandma.
Posted by: tizzie on February 20, 2004 01:21 PMI would be remiss not to add that Mr Miggs' monkey suit was "acquired in part through a grant from City Slickers®— Formal Wear for Big, Tall or Oddly-shaped Men."
the NASCAR style racing down my dead-end street at about 3 a.m. that leaves me grouchy like grandma.
Does the street dead end or have a culdesac? You may want to film them racing and catch a crash from the sound of it. Also, if your driveway is the dead end, suggest sleeping away from your garage, never know what can happen if their brakes go out...
Hey. How y'all doin'?
Do you think you'll survive without MetaFilter?
I've seen this kind of thing before.
Mass hysteria. It's pretty ugly.
Posted by: Valerie on February 21, 2004 06:47 PMMass hysteria. It's pretty ugly.
Mass ANYTHING is pretty ugly.
(especially Mass Media...)
(and also that thing some Catholics do on Sunday...)
Posted by: wendell on February 21, 2004 07:43 PMWeren't there a couple of meetups last night?
Pictures for the province-dwellers, please!!
Posted by: tizzie on February 21, 2004 09:00 PMMass hysteria. It's pretty ugly.
Well, not so much ugly, as "The one time I actually remember to bring steak sauce, nobody wants to resort to cannibalism."
Posted by: arto on February 21, 2004 10:15 PMYes, there was a meetup in NYC last night. Vidiot took a lotta pictures including some hot man-on-man action. We'll just have to wait for him to post.
Posted by: jonmc on February 21, 2004 11:24 PMHa! I say again, ha! Here I am posting pictures of the Boston meet-up that took place just a few hours ago, mind you, while the sluggards in New York are still trying to figure out how their fancy cameras work. Clearly, Boston is better than New York, in every conceivable and even every in-conceivable way!
Here's mr_crash_davis futzing with his camera. That's his daughter on the left, and his wife on the right. Well, she would be on the right, if she were in the picture. As would his two sons, who were further off to the right.
And here's me, attackthetaxi and JanetLand. Kudos to taxi for coming to two meetups in two days, and also for having the cojones to wear the Yankees cap in Cambridge.
And here's -
well, actually, that's all the pictures I got. In fact, that's all the people that were there.
Okay, New York does have more people. That still doesn't mean they're better, dang it!
Posted by: yhbc on February 22, 2004 12:24 AMIt's definitely a she, seL.LuL, I'd say. Not a tomcat at all.
She's reading her owner's diary. She's funny that way. Just wants to keep up, you know, with what's going, to keep her majesty awake, I'd say.
Posted by: Miguel on February 22, 2004 08:41 PMAwwww, look! It's Jonas, Fes's new lil monkey. Sweet!
Posted by: tizzie on February 22, 2004 08:53 PM
Sorry folks, I'm under strict orders to stick to a one cannibalism joke per thread limit.
So yeah, the lil' guy looks terrific, and not appetising in the least.
Posted by: arto on February 23, 2004 01:10 AMBit young to be allowed to get so obviously hammered though, eh mom & dad?
Posted by: dong resin on February 23, 2004 03:38 AMNow dong, why you gotta be all judgmental like that?
WC Fields & Foster Brooks, to name two, never went off the all-ethyl diet they whole lives & they turned out alright.
Maybe Li'l Fes'll even grow up to be the next Dean Martin. (If'n we don't eat him first.) How cool would that be, eh?
Posted by: Chico on February 23, 2004 10:07 AMMaybe Li'l Fes'll even grow up to be the next Dean Martin. (If'n we don't eat him first.) How cool would that be, eh?
Does that make Readymade's kid the next Sinatra, or the next Jerry Lewis?
Posted by: arto on February 24, 2004 05:49 AMSammy, arto. We can only hope.
The world needs a new Sammy.
Now. More than ever.
Posted by: Chico on February 24, 2004 03:44 PMNo, no, no, no, no. What the world needs now is another folksinger, like I need a -
* blam *
Posted by: yhbc on February 24, 2004 10:17 PMcommish?
commish?
are you OK, commish?
does this mean the position of Commissioner is open?
Oh, sure. NOW we see what you're all really made of. You'd all just leave me lying there, bleeding, turning blue, for a WHOLE DAY, while wendell goes through my pockets and takes the whistle and secret decoder ring and does his silly "look at me, I'm the commissioner now" dance. Some bunch of ersatz quasi-real on-line-only friends YOU bunch turned out to be!!! That's it you're all OUT OF THE WILL!!!
Give it BACK, wendell!!!!
Posted by: yhbc on February 25, 2004 10:29 PMSorry Commish. I was hoping to get dibs on your Hawaiian shirt collection.
Posted by: ColdChef on February 26, 2004 07:02 PMSay... are those gold fillings in your mouth, Commish?
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We encourage users to post images, especially those hilarous pics of monkeys
wearing dresses or programming for Linux. But posting images that reside on someone
else's server is considered by many to be bandwidth theft. Our thoughts
on the matter, along with some solutions to the problem, can be found
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