Comments on: July 14, 2009

July 14, 2009

bigmusic — Mon, 07 May 2007 15:59:59 -0800

It's probably about time to start planning the 10th anniversary for metafilter. It goes without saying that there should be a meet-up involved somehow. But where should it be?

By: bigmusic

bigmusic — Mon, 07 May 2007 16:01:59 -0800

damn - what happened to my spell check button

By: mendel

mendel — Mon, 07 May 2007 16:13:56 -0800

Just calculate the average of everyone's provided latitude and longitude.

By: carmen

carmen — Mon, 07 May 2007 16:19:53 -0800

May I suggest either simultaneous meet ups in many locals, or cascading meetups in different timezones with the goal of having an entire day where someone, somewhere is meeting up.

By: IndigoRain

IndigoRain — Mon, 07 May 2007 16:20:39 -0800

Matt's house, of course.

By: vacapinta

vacapinta — Mon, 07 May 2007 16:25:24 -0800

...or cascading meetups in different timezones with the goal of having an entire day where someone, somewhere is meeting up.

Neat idea.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Mon, 07 May 2007 16:26:13 -0800

For the 8th one (this July), I was trying to plan something big in Portland.

Bar, stage, drunken cortex playing his hits, etc.

By: bardic

bardic — Mon, 07 May 2007 16:27:15 -0800

July 14th is Bastille Day.

I say we bum-rush a county jail.

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 07 May 2007 16:33:24 -0800

Yeah, we got to talk details on that, Haughey.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Mon, 07 May 2007 16:35:14 -0800

"It's probably about time to start planning the 10th anniversary for metafilter"

Let's see if the world survives through 1/20/09 first.

Otherwise we'd have wasted all that planning time when we could have been drinking instead.

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Mon, 07 May 2007 16:36:33 -0800

Could we rent Rhode Island?
Small. Affordable. Near the water.

By: togdon

togdon — Mon, 07 May 2007 16:37:03 -0800

Portland (Oregon) BBQ! You know, for kids.

By: psmith

psmith — Mon, 07 May 2007 16:44:46 -0800

Let's keep Rhode Island out of this, please.

By: CrazyLemonade

CrazyLemonade — Mon, 07 May 2007 16:48:21 -0800

Just calculate the average of everyone's provided latitude and longitude.

Wouldn't that end up in a point somewhere near the US coast but over the Atlantic?

wait

A cruise party!

By: necessitas

necessitas — Mon, 07 May 2007 16:51:33 -0800

Wow, kinda early dontcha think? Anything over 2 years is just overkill.

By: kosem

kosem — Mon, 07 May 2007 16:53:13 -0800

We could do it online! People could post links to interesting websites, seek answers to vexing questions, upload their musical performances and submit job openings. And everyone could get good and sauced.

By: Deathalicious

Deathalicious — Mon, 07 May 2007 16:55:53 -0800

Yeah, I was going to mention:

Um, is anyone else in Cairo?

Hello, city of some 20 million? I can't be the only MeFite, no matter what my profile says.

So, yeah. Cairo.

By: Mitheral

Mitheral — Mon, 07 May 2007 17:01:01 -0800

carmen writes "cascading meetups in different timezones with the goal of having an entire day where someone, somewhere is meeting up."

This was going to my suggestion.

And it's not too early, we need at least one nominally dry run to work out the bugs. And to give time for all of us in remote areas to get at least one local member signed up.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Mon, 07 May 2007 17:02:19 -0800

MeFi's anniversary is the same day as pips' birthday. Coincidence? I think not.

By: furtive

furtive — Mon, 07 May 2007 17:03:25 -0800

Metafilter goes out with Web 3.0 but comes back with a vengeance when Gopher 2.0 becomes a l33t breeding ground for warez.

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Mon, 07 May 2007 17:08:03 -0800

Could we get Bjork to compose and sing a special MeFi anniversary song?
She could wear the Giant Foot thing.
Small. Affordable. Near the water.

By: ericb

ericb — Mon, 07 May 2007 17:18:29 -0800

Could we rent Rhode Island?
Small. Affordable. Near the water.

Let's keep Rhode Island out of this, please.

And Vermont. Both states are virgin territory and must be preserved as such.

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Mon, 07 May 2007 17:21:35 -0800

Yikes.
What is GWB's username?

By: ericb

ericb — Mon, 07 May 2007 17:33:19 -0800

Wow, kinda early dontcha think? Anything over 2 years is just overkill.

No. Not at all. After all, 22-years in advance ("Hello") Newman booked his millennium party.

"Cancel! (jumps to feet) Think again, longshanks! I started planning this in 1978. I put a deposit down on that revolving restaurant that overlooks Times Square, and I booked Christopher Cross....starting in the year 2000. For me, the next millennium must be, Jerry-free!"

By: drezdn

drezdn — Mon, 07 May 2007 18:14:32 -0800

The Island from Lost.

By: davey_darling

davey_darling — Mon, 07 May 2007 18:24:48 -0800

Dryden, ON - It's very central.

By: jonson

jonson — Mon, 07 May 2007 18:28:39 -0800

Two years & two months in advance? Seriously?

By: aubilenon

aubilenon — Mon, 07 May 2007 18:30:07 -0800

davey_darling: you're right! It was right smack in the middle of that map!

By: aubilenon

aubilenon — Mon, 07 May 2007 18:30:32 -0800

pfft, the 10 year party's going to be nothing compared to the 100 year party!

By: Abiezer

Abiezer — Mon, 07 May 2007 18:32:37 -0800

Shouldn't it be in the smoking and billiards lounge of the cabal's hollow mountain high in the fabled Kunlun range?

By: myopicman

myopicman — Mon, 07 May 2007 18:42:08 -0800

Dryden: home of Max the Moose and many neighbours' relatives. Only hours away from happenin' Thunder Bay!

By: caddis

caddis — Mon, 07 May 2007 18:44:56 -0800

Cortex playing for Mefites might even get this shy mefite out.

By: rbs

rbs — Mon, 07 May 2007 18:49:11 -0800

I added it to the calendar.

By: smallerdemon

smallerdemon — Mon, 07 May 2007 18:53:17 -0800

I am 100% up for a SanFran mefi 10th anniversary meetup. Plus, my birthday is like a day or two before that. W00t for Friday the 13th! Please, no pre-martial teenage sex or I have to put the machete through you. Now where's my hockey mask...

By: Kwantsar

Kwantsar — Mon, 07 May 2007 19:11:19 -0800

Dryden, ON - It's very central. [NORTH-AMERICANIST]

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Mon, 07 May 2007 19:28:23 -0800

I'm totally up for having it in Cairo if we can just move Cairo 7,500 miles closer to San Francisco! Yeah, I'm SO THERE! Kusharī for everybody! Woo hoo!

By: The Deej

The Deej — Mon, 07 May 2007 19:40:24 -0800

Duh! Billings, Montana.

By: ORthey

ORthey — Mon, 07 May 2007 19:45:32 -0800

My house.

HOUSE PARTY!

By: wendell

wendell — Mon, 07 May 2007 19:47:35 -0800

Based on the current listing on the MeFi sidebar, I suspect that somebody wishes us to redirect ourorganization efforts to July 14th of THIS YEAR, and I enthusiastically concur. The round-numbered anniversaries often turn out in real life to NOT be the best times for celebrating. From my own real life experience, they have more often been the worst.

So let's put together something multi-site and fully-networked for this July 14th, which will be a Saturday, the day of the 7th leg of the Tour de France and the Alice Springs Camel Cup, so only professional bicycle and camel racers will be excused from attending.

And if you absolutely must, we can always call it METAFILTER'S 10 ANNIVERSARY: BASE 8.
Let's Get Octal!

By: delmoi

delmoi — Mon, 07 May 2007 19:56:31 -0800

Amsterdam

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Mon, 07 May 2007 19:57:27 -0800

Speaking of things octal, could we get Bucky Fuller's office to design a Special MeFi Anniversary Pavillion?
Small. Affordable. Near the water.

By: rbs

rbs — Mon, 07 May 2007 20:09:38 -0800

The sidebar doesn't show year. It's on there for '09.

By: contraption

contraption — Mon, 07 May 2007 20:10:43 -0800

Wow, you guys think we'll still be stuck in meatspace that far out?

By: signal

signal — Mon, 07 May 2007 20:17:27 -0800

Wow, you guys think we'll still be stuck in meatspace that far out?

In meatspace? Dude, they're made out of meat!

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Mon, 07 May 2007 20:22:38 -0800

Moonbase Alpha. I'll bring the BBQ.

By: ikkyu2

ikkyu2 — Mon, 07 May 2007 20:28:27 -0800

Please, no pre-martial teenage sex

If we're sending them to fight, we ought to at least let them have a big send-off.

By: solid-one-love

solid-one-love — Mon, 07 May 2007 20:40:48 -0800

Portland. I was there for the first time last weekend, and it's an incredible, awesome place.

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Mon, 07 May 2007 20:45:11 -0800

SCREW YOU, DRYDEN!!!

I don't drive.

By: web-goddess

web-goddess — Mon, 07 May 2007 20:48:48 -0800

"cascading meetups in different timezones with the goal of having an entire day where someone, somewhere is meeting up."

Sweet. That means Sydney gets to kick it off! (Unless there are some bloody Kiwis around here...)

By: IronLizard

IronLizard — Mon, 07 May 2007 21:06:20 -0800

"cascading meetups in different timezones with the goal of having an entire day where someone, somewhere is meeting up."

Like Luis Wu's birthday, right?

By: IronLizard

IronLizard — Mon, 07 May 2007 21:06:38 -0800

Err, Louis

By: eriko

eriko — Mon, 07 May 2007 21:22:42 -0800

Otherwise we'd have wasted all that planning time when we could have been drinking instead.

Wait, you spend your planning time sober?

By: IndigoRain

IndigoRain — Mon, 07 May 2007 21:38:08 -0800

Deathalicious - party in the pyramids?

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Mon, 07 May 2007 21:42:20 -0800

I'll look into renting Rhode Island. I know some guys who know some guys...

By: Phire

Phire — Mon, 07 May 2007 21:44:27 -0800

I like Dryden. :D Dryden's reasonably close to Ottawa.
Although Ottawa's an awesome locale, too. The capital of one of the most underrated countries, ever. Fits, donnit?

By: Asherah

Asherah — Mon, 07 May 2007 21:47:10 -0800

"cascading meetups in different timezones with the goal of having an entire day where someone, somewhere is meeting up."

Didn't someone already attempt to do the simultaneous thing, but with orgasms involved?

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Mon, 07 May 2007 22:00:21 -0800

My orgasms.
Small. Affordable. Near the water.

By: voltairemodern

voltairemodern — Mon, 07 May 2007 22:01:38 -0800

meatspace

By: Mr. President Dr. Steve Elvis America

Mr. President Dr. Steve Elvis America — Mon, 07 May 2007 22:24:32 -0800

I'd love to help, but I'm already busy planning Metafilter's 100th anniversary blowout.

By: magikker

magikker — Tue, 08 May 2007 00:03:38 -0800

Well instead of picking a place close to a lot of people (which would show favoritism), you could pick a place no one is from so everyone has to drive or fly.

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Tue, 08 May 2007 01:13:54 -0800

delmoi writes 'Amsterdam'

I'd be there.

By: carsonb

carsonb — Tue, 08 May 2007 01:46:49 -0800

Let's just meet at the poles. Whichever is closer, I'm not hemispheric.

By: liquorice

liquorice — Tue, 08 May 2007 01:49:16 -0800

I'll bring the dip.

(P.S. We should to a Melbourne meet soon)

By: pracowity

pracowity — Tue, 08 May 2007 02:15:44 -0800

At least one party in each time zone, with some sort of electronic baton passed from zone to zone at the same local time for each zone. When your zone has the invisible magic electronic baton, the people in that zone... uh... hmm... post something funny that the other zones can try to top when it's their turn? And one really giant thread. With pictures.

By: drezdn

drezdn — Tue, 08 May 2007 06:02:55 -0800

We already celebrated Mefi's 10th anniversary in the 7th dimension. You should have been there, it was awesome.

By: and hosted from Uranus

and hosted from Uranus — Tue, 08 May 2007 06:14:15 -0800

I asked my mom. She said the basement is available.

By: caddis

caddis — Tue, 08 May 2007 06:15:42 -0800

The obvious location would be Manhattan as it is the center of the universe.

By: necessitas

necessitas — Tue, 08 May 2007 06:58:09 -0800

doesn't everyone want to party in the basement in uranus?

By: veggieboy

veggieboy — Tue, 08 May 2007 07:07:20 -0800

I'll bring the dip.

I can come on my own, thank you.

By: dame

dame — Tue, 08 May 2007 07:08:35 -0800

Yeah, what caddis said. We already have the best meetups (as long as I am not too drunk to get there). We may have the most. Now we shall have theis one too! Mwa ha ha ha.

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Tue, 08 May 2007 07:17:52 -0800

If it's one continuous party around the globe, doesn't that work out to (almost) everybody starting a party at the same hour? So, let's say 8 PM, where ever you may be. Be there or be square.

By: Miko

Miko — Tue, 08 May 2007 07:42:06 -0800

If it's one continuous party around the globe, doesn't that work out to (almost) everybody starting a party at the same hour?

Yes -- the model for this already exists, and it's known as New Year's Eve.

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Tue, 08 May 2007 07:50:20 -0800

Don't get testy with me.

By: wendell

wendell — Tue, 08 May 2007 08:06:44 -0800

If we want to go by the New Year's Eve model, then we should be doing it either right at Midnight, local time, or Matt should tell us what time he first fired up the MetaServer...

By: dw

dw — Tue, 08 May 2007 08:15:17 -0800

The obvious location would be Manhattan as it is the center of the universe.

You sure about that?

By: drezdn

drezdn — Tue, 08 May 2007 08:47:32 -0800

Can we wait until at least a week before the 10th anniversary to put out a sign up list for items? I don't want to sign up for dip this week, and then sometime in the next two years the people who signed up for chips all flame out, and I end up being responsible for the chipless dip at the party.

Or I'll just bring blow pops.

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Tue, 08 May 2007 08:50:51 -0800

Can I freeze all this cake?

By: and hosted from Uranus

and hosted from Uranus — Tue, 08 May 2007 08:56:05 -0800

But, drezdn, won't you have the same problem with blow pops? What will you do with all that blow if the people who signed up for hookers all flame out?

By: hydatius

hydatius — Tue, 08 May 2007 09:09:26 -0800

I'll look into renting Rhode Island. I know some guys who know some guys...

Doing things the Buddy Cianci way!

By: Lynsey

Lynsey — Tue, 08 May 2007 09:29:04 -0800

If mathowie plans the big blowout for July 7, I may make my travel plans to be in PDX at that time. Please keep us posted, Matt!

By: mds35

mds35 — Tue, 08 May 2007 09:48:19 -0800

I think we should piggyback on the Sturgis rally. Just think how great those meetup photos will be! DaShiv's lens will fog over from all the bare biker-babe bosoms. Matt can ride in on a recumbent Harley.

I've always wanted to go to the Black Hills, anyway.

We can get a big mobile kitchen and have a MeFi chili cookoff while we're there. We can eat fried mountain oysters and do body shots of tequila under the blue blue sky.

Plus we're bound to recruit some tougher dudes for Metafilter. Trust me, as the MeFi demographic ages, and when we're all buying our mid-life crisis Harleys, we'll be glad we've got a few Hell's Angels reading AskMe.

Some of you think I am joking. You, sirs, are sadly mistaken.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Tue, 08 May 2007 11:14:51 -0800

Didn't someone already attempt to do the simultaneous thing, but with orgasms involved?

A Mefite, no less.

By: jouke

jouke — Tue, 08 May 2007 11:18:00 -0800

Overlapping meetups; yep.
How difficult would it be to have some audio-visual interaction? Either one webcam channel that alternates between sites globally or a limited number of parallel channels... Metafilter tv eurovision style.
("that's all from Amsterdam, over to you Seoul")

And Amsterdam? I'll be there.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 08 May 2007 11:41:53 -0800

An official party webcam portal would be great. Every participating venue would need a decent net connection, and we could just add the cam feeds to one canonical page, updating as necessary.

By: Mitheral

Mitheral — Tue, 08 May 2007 13:44:03 -0800

caddis writes "The obvious location would be Manhattan as it is the center of the universe."

When did Toronto annex NYC?

By: Samuel Farrow

Samuel Farrow — Tue, 08 May 2007 13:50:12 -0800

"cascading meetups in different timezones with the goal of having an entire day where someone, somewhere is meeting up."

Sweet. That means Sydney gets to kick it off! (Unless there are some bloody Kiwis around here...)

That is quite enough out of you: West Island.

By: twistedonion

twistedonion — Tue, 08 May 2007 15:07:15 -0800

Another one for Amsterdam (any excuse will do me).

By: hyperlith

hyperlith — Tue, 08 May 2007 16:17:34 -0800

RSVP +1 for the 8th anniversary blow-out.

will there be punch and pie?

By: Ironmouth

Ironmouth — Tue, 08 May 2007 19:31:43 -0800

Vegas, of course.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Tue, 08 May 2007 20:18:56 -0800

Come to think of it, it should be Vegas, Amsterdam, Bangkok, and hookers, hookers, hookers.

Blow optional.

By: Floydd

Floydd — Wed, 09 May 2007 06:24:43 -0800

Tuesday's my bowling night....

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Thu, 10 May 2007 07:29:34 -0800

How about a ski resort near Taos?

We could put up a mysterious countdown timer on the front page. That should draw this crowd's curiosity.

By: Afroblanco

Afroblanco — Sun, 13 May 2007 14:13:56 -0800

So hey, umm, I saw this on the sidebar.... So does that mean this is officially a meetup? For this year, or 2 years from now? Cuz if it's this year, I'd like to buy my ticket relatively soon....

By: seawallrunner

seawallrunner — Sun, 13 May 2007 18:30:07 -0800

As long as it's on the West Coast, I'm in. And 2 years and 2 months from now, I should be back in the pacific northwest. So yeshhh, count me in!

By: ugf

ugf — Sun, 13 May 2007 18:57:15 -0800

I'm in for this year! I'll post the same in the next post that has more details on where it will end up being held.

By: dg

dg — Sun, 13 May 2007 20:15:26 -0800

Just to spoil the whole 10th-year meetup idea completely - if you make it, I will come wherever it is. Not for 8 years though, anybody can make 8.

By: dg

dg — Sun, 13 May 2007 20:36:43 -0800

Also, if anyone is serious, think not about distance from everyone, but about how significant a transport hub the area is. Anywhere in the world is going to be a long way from most people, so it's better to find somewhere that is easy to fly in and out of.

By: Mitheral

Mitheral — Sun, 13 May 2007 23:11:50 -0800

You know, if you hold it in Canada 19&20 year olds (and sometimes 18s) will be able to drink too.

By: dg

dg — Tue, 15 May 2007 18:20:33 -0800

If we hold it in Australia, all 18 year-olds will be able to drink themselves stupid. Given the state of today's 18 year-olds, that shouldn't take much ;-)

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Tue, 15 May 2007 20:23:22 -0800

If we hold it in Holland, all 16-year olds will be able to drink themselves wise.