quis custodiet custodes

August 25, 2007 12:11 PM

lol
posted by matteo to Bugs at 12:11 PM (63 comments total)

This thread is closed to new comments.
posted by puke & cry at 12:14 PM on August 25, 2007

Do not poke the bear.
posted by Big_B at 12:21 PM on August 25, 2007

I'm watching the watchers right now.

Put some pants on, guys. I mean, jeez.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 12:22 PM on August 25, 2007 [1 favorite]

<nelson>
Haw Haw!
</nelson>
posted by mathowie (staff) at 12:47 PM on August 25, 2007

IS SHE ON DRUGS?
posted by klangklangston at 12:49 PM on August 25, 2007

Has mathowie ever posted a double?
posted by grouse at 12:51 PM on August 25, 2007

this is good for new people to see, and people scared to post--even the moderators doublepost. : >
posted by amberglow at 12:52 PM on August 25, 2007 [2 favorites]

Clearly, this demonstrates that the watchers watch the watchers, who in turn, watch themselves watching themselves and so on.
posted by [expletive deleted] at 1:05 PM on August 25, 2007

quis custodiet matris
posted by cortex (staff) at 1:05 PM on August 25, 2007

Has mathowie ever posted a double?

yes, if I remember correctly.
posted by puke & cry at 1:08 PM on August 25, 2007

Ah, here it is.
posted by puke & cry at 1:10 PM on August 25, 2007

I wasn't gonna say nuthin'.
posted by carsonb at 1:12 PM on August 25, 2007

LOLadmins
posted by slimepuppy at 1:20 PM on August 25, 2007

I've double posted about a dozen times in the last few years.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 1:21 PM on August 25, 2007

To Err Is Human, To Forgive Divine.
posted by ericb at 1:24 PM on August 25, 2007

epcot
pirate baby cabana street fight 2006
Mimes for God
Matt Sibers
Rocky
Johnny Carson obit
Limecat
Iraqi gas
windows music
beatboxing
sweaters

There are more, but I'm too lazy to keep looking and linking. Happens to the best of us.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 1:27 PM on August 25, 2007 [2 favorites]

... does it even happen to that damn jonson guy?
posted by madamjujujive at 1:34 PM on August 25, 2007 [3 favorites]

It would have been awesome if Cortex has started a metatalk thread, complaining about it and jessamyn's itchy delete finger.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 1:35 PM on August 25, 2007 [3 favorites]

You're a braver man than I am, Gunga tommasz (and you, too, matteo).

But if I ever do make an FPP, Jessamyn, this charming episode will make me feel a little less nervous about it. I think I'd rather not know whether you'd consider that a positive development.
posted by jamjam at 1:47 PM on August 25, 2007 [3 favorites]

With eleven hundred posts only a dozen or so in the last few years is pretty darn good. I know I have had my share.
posted by caddis at 1:57 PM on August 25, 2007

IS SHE ON DRUGS?

no. she's been playing bass for ten years after.
posted by quonsar at 2:54 PM on August 25, 2007 [2 favorites]

Animadvertistine, ubicumque stes, fumum recta in faciem ferri?
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 2:58 PM on August 25, 2007

Now laughing friends deride
Tears I cannot hide
So I smile and say,
When a lovely flame dies.
Smoke gets in your eyes.
posted by Cranberry at 3:09 PM on August 25, 2007

Now we wait... patiently... for cortex's first double. It WILL happen. Then, we REALLY laugh.
posted by wendell at 3:21 PM on August 25, 2007

That made my day. It's kind of depressing that metafilter makes my day so often. My days must suck.

Off to fold laundry now.
posted by serazin at 3:26 PM on August 25, 2007 [3 favorites]

Round about the year 2027, when I finally make my 20th FPP.
posted by cortex (staff) at 3:27 PM on August 25, 2007 [1 favorite]

We'll be watching and watching and sipping a mocha latte.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 3:35 PM on August 25, 2007

Whatever, I still love jessamyn in an internet-non-stalking-gay-platonic sort of way.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 3:36 PM on August 25, 2007 [1 favorite]

"IS SHE ON DRUGS?"

I heard she got pretty strung out on synth coke.
posted by vronsky at 3:45 PM on August 25, 2007 [1 favorite]

Round about the year 2027, when I finally make my 20th FPP.
posted by cortex at 6:27 PM on August 25

Yeah, what's up with that. Share with us, please. I bet you see tons of cool stuff.
posted by caddis at 3:51 PM on August 25, 2007 [1 favorite]

Metafilter is my main source for good links, honestly. I don't read any other linkblogs regularly; mostly my pleasure reading is a few topical blogs I like for various reasons (language log, freakonomics, talkingpointsmemo, etc) and lighter stuff like Comics Curmudgeon, all of which is great reading but not something I'd really post about since someone else has gotten there first.

I'm not really a primary-research kind of guy, as web content goes—I like having more motivated, knack-having people do the footwork so I can just sit back and dig into their treasure. I've said before that I cheat on the rare occasions that I do post—either pulling things from Projects when they really catch my fancy, or posting (with maybe a little bit of extra background research when it makes sense) entertaining links that people drop in IRC, if someone else hasn't beaten me to the punch.
posted by cortex (staff) at 4:08 PM on August 25, 2007

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
posted by Joeforking at 4:18 PM on August 25, 2007

Ban her!

Oh, wait... nevermind.
posted by Poolio at 4:35 PM on August 25, 2007

"... does it even happen to that damn jonson guy?"

Oh, hell yeah.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 4:47 PM on August 25, 2007 [4 favorites]

jeez. -- jessamyn

< reallyfuckinghuge> J'ACCUSE < /reallyfuckinghuge>
posted by Avenger at 4:53 PM on August 25, 2007 [1 favorite]

I don't know why people are afraid of double posts. You make them, they disappear, most people never notice. Sheesh. It's not like they make you pay a fine or something.

(Not that I am trying to give anyone ideas.)
posted by konolia at 5:02 PM on August 25, 2007

no. she's been playing bass for ten years after.

And now she's goin' home...

*9-minute speedy guitar solo*
posted by jonmc at 5:09 PM on August 25, 2007

OUR GODS ARE FLAWED
posted by brain_drain at 5:11 PM on August 25, 2007 [2 favorites]

Oh, hell yeah.

Thanks for that—it made my day.
posted by languagehat at 5:17 PM on August 25, 2007 [1 favorite]

It's not like they make you pay a fine or something.

I like that idea... maybe you could get a red X in your profile for every deleted post. It would be a badge of courage.
posted by smackfu at 5:32 PM on August 25, 2007

Someone call me when Jessamyn puts up a self-link.

BANHAMMER!!!
posted by matty at 5:35 PM on August 25, 2007

Who washes the washers?
posted by wendell at 5:58 PM on August 25, 2007

Wouldn't a simple < via metafilter> do?
posted by Devils Rancher at 6:03 PM on August 25, 2007

mr_crash_davis, that's too funny - thanks!
posted by madamjujujive at 6:19 PM on August 25, 2007

The bestest deletion reason evah!

That's ok, my last FPP was double. And yet... it remains! (Don't tell JessMatTex!)
posted by The Deej at 7:28 PM on August 25, 2007

Don't tell JessMatTex

I've been thinking of them as 'MaJessTex', actually ...
posted by woodblock100 at 7:53 PM on August 25, 2007

Coramyn Howie.
posted by smackfu at 8:01 PM on August 25, 2007 [2 favorites]

I could back to referring to them as The Jabbas, but it never caught on.
posted by The Deej at 8:02 PM on August 25, 2007

I call cortex 'Tex,' but he's not from Texas, he's from Louisiana. But he dosen't like being called 'Louise.'
posted by jonmc at 8:12 PM on August 25, 2007

most people never notice.

And then sometimes they do. Jeez.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 8:24 PM on August 25, 2007

Jeez, Louise.
posted by jonmc at 8:37 PM on August 25, 2007

jessamyn: it's ok. at the time the first Grace Paley post went live you were distracted. nthdegx was giving you the 3rd degree. i noticed the jessamyn-double go live last night and lost money on itchy for the scratch. double-jeez.
posted by de at 9:01 PM on August 25, 2007

That jonson double is still awesome. Well played Sir.
posted by Samuel Farrow at 9:03 PM on August 25, 2007

See the jonson double is why we need more deleted navel gazing. With out this post many of us would never have seen it.
posted by Mitheral at 9:18 PM on August 25, 2007

jam jets shat my son
posted by quonsar at 9:30 PM on August 25, 2007

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

hmm...
posted by juv3nal at 10:06 PM on August 25, 2007 [1 favorite]

Admins: You should link your own doubles (also, jonson's) from the FAQ or something.
posted by blasdelf at 10:31 PM on August 25, 2007

Sounds like a punchline, but how 'bout:

The MaJessTex!

P.S. If we use the advanced function in Burhanistan's anagram solver:

Jotters Examine Schmo Way
posted by rob511 at 10:54 PM on August 25, 2007

Someone call me when Jessamyn puts up a self-link.

Dude, every time she posts a comment, it's a self link: jessamyn.com

What is mesolothemia jessamyn?
posted by philomathoholic at 1:48 AM on August 26, 2007

Reasonably unrelated, but I just noticed a comment from one of matt's doubles there, a thread from 2003:

2) video streaming via flash works surprisingly well.

How far we've come.
posted by Arturus at 7:34 AM on August 26, 2007

I almost hesitated mentioning it was a double, but in the end I just couldn't resist.
posted by tommasz at 2:33 PM on August 26, 2007

Kudos, jessamyn.
posted by davy at 11:07 AM on August 27, 2007

Clearly, this demonstrates that the watchers watch the watchers, who in turn, watch themselves watching themselves and so on.

I would like take a moment to insert a Modest Mouse lyric into this Internet conversation:

Everyone's a voyeurist, they're watching me watch them watch me right right now.

Thank you.
posted by !Jim at 12:56 PM on August 27, 2007