Comments on: Getting it from the horse's mouth.

Getting it from the horse's mouth.

timeistight — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:38:12 -0800

This is why I still read MetaFilter.

By: Artw

Artw — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:46:25 -0800

two in the same day!

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:53:37 -0800

Quick, someone make a post about Alan Moore or Bob Dylan!!!

Who am I kidding? Damn my internet-averse heroes!

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:55:17 -0800

They crazy thing is, I though Amanda Palmer DIED on Twin Peaks.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:08:07 -0800

Rex has also made an appearance today, although, true to the subject of the thread, it wasn't to add any new information but instead to be breezy.

By: WolfDaddy

WolfDaddy — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:08:36 -0800

Yeah, artw, but effugas is a 10K'er. That's old skool.

By: rtha

rtha — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:12:41 -0800

God, I don't even understand the linked comment. But I favorited it anyway, because I know that I'll keep reading about this via askme or the front page, and eventually, understanding will come.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:26:34 -0800

When I occasionally gets linked on the front page, nobody acts all excited when I show up in the thread.

But I blame myself for that.

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:33:29 -0800

Horses mouthness is always cool. Didn't effugas chime in when the DNS thing first came up earlier in the year?

Someone should post about Stephen Fry - I bet he'd join in a nanosecond, resulting in a massive fanspasm, and, after his fifth toodle-pip of a MetaTalk post, the sudden, terrifying realisation that, on the web at least, he's the British Miguel Cardoso.

By: Phire

Phire — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:34:14 -0800

God, Metafilter is cool.

By: ODiV

ODiV — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:36:49 -0800

I get excited, Astro.

Why haven't you called?

By: Artw

Artw — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:40:50 -0800

We actually sneak into your bedroom and watch you sleep at night.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:45:53 -0800

If you're a vampire with a lot of hair gel, that's pretty hot. If not, is there any way you could become a vampire with a lot of hair gel?

By: ODiV

ODiV — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:48:27 -0800

No, sorry.

Artw, do you want to swap your Friday night for my Sunday mid-afternoon? I have a softball game.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:02:59 -0800

Oh, I forgot to tell you guys that I might be out late on Friday, but you know where the keys are.

By: Artw

Artw — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:06:19 -0800

I'll get the glitter!

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:13:25 -0800

This is why I still read MetaFilter.

What about the monthly delivery of brownies to all A+ members?

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:25:20 -0800

What about the monthly delivery of brownies to all A+ members?

Is that what was in that flaming paper bag on my doorstep?

By: Rhaomi

Rhaomi — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:25:46 -0800

I already said most of this in the comically effusive MeMail I sent Kaminsky a few days ago, but I really consider him to be the internet version of Stanislav Petrov, the Soviet officer that saved the world from nuclear war.

I mean, if I understand the issue correctly (and I probably don't) he had total control of the internet. He could have sold the technique to The Red Chinese, allowing them to intercept valuable intelligence on rival nations. Or hell, he could have allowed the Bush administration even more untraceable wiretap powers. He could have transferred billions to the cause of his choice, good or evil. Or he could have scrambled the web beyond repair in a fit of anarchic glee.

So hats off again to Mefi's Own effugas for not allowing absolute power to corrupt absolutely.

And maybe, if I'm hyperbolic enough in my praise, he will send me ten movies streaming across that internet, or maybe my own personal internet.

By: Potomac Avenue

Potomac Avenue — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:33:54 -0800

Errr, I don't think those were brownies Brandon. Or maybe that's just what us B- members get?

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:36:05 -0800

I regret eating the burning front door step brown paper bag brownies.

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:42:40 -0800

Huh. I've been getting a giant basket of chocolate truffles with MF stamped on the side delivered every week. Is that because of the cabal membership?

By: Artw

Artw — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:46:02 -0800

Selling secrets to the red Chinese DOES sound rather cool and bond vilainesque. Needs more satelites though, and some of those cool see-through suits.

(Also someone will probably kick you into your own nuclear reactor)

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:46:19 -0800

what drives me crazy is when the vampire is all like hey man i can only use vegan hair product and it's like okay what the fuck you do NOT have the moral high ground here you photosensitive plasma junkie motherfucker

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:07:02 -0800

Oh shit, honestly? We've been through this in how many vegan vampire threads? It's just one of the things MetaFilter does not do well.

By: Marisa Stole the Precious Thing

Marisa Stole the Precious Thing — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:12:42 -0800

My doorstep brownies arrived in a policeman's helmet. And then someone stole it.

By: SpiffyRob

SpiffyRob — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:18:38 -0800

Is whether or not a restaurant will provide celery blood to a vegan vampire, even if it's off the menu, a good metric for the level of service it provides?

By: Marisa Stole the Precious Thing

Marisa Stole the Precious Thing — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:21:52 -0800

Is whether or not a restaurant will provide celery blood to a vegan vampire, even if it's off the menu, a good metric for the level of service it provides?

When you're a vampire, everything's off-menu.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:36:48 -0800

Vampires and movie stars share the habit of showing up at restaurants and ordering whatever the hell they please and just expecting the chef to make it for them. They also share a tendency to leave corpses in the alley.

By: Marisa Stole the Precious Thing

Marisa Stole the Precious Thing — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:38:24 -0800

Vampires do usually go over 15% though, which is more than I can say for Tom Hanks, the cheap bastard.

By: Potomac Avenue

Potomac Avenue — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:39:46 -0800

They also share a tendency to leave corpses in the alley.

Only when the bartender doesn't know how to mix a real Bloody Mary.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:40:47 -0800

That's what vampires, movie stars, and Astro Zombies have in common.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:16:57 -0800

Amanda Palmer? Where would I find a magician at such short notice?

By: quin

quin — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:30:32 -0800

What about the monthly delivery of brownies to all A+ members?

Wait, we're getting graded now? Fuck. I'll just take the "E" for "effort" they give to the special needs students and be on my way... just like always.

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:44:39 -0800

I show up here every day. Sometimes I put in long hours snarking, lurking, and generally posting garbage. Do I get any recognition? Prizes? Offers of marriage? No. Nothing.

* sniff *

By: BeerFilter

BeerFilter — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:10:26 -0800

I got a rock.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:17:46 -0800

"Metafilter is cool."

...by association.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:22:30 -0800

* sniff *

Yeah, the brownies do smell pretty crappy.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:08:36 -0800

Today, before work, I was walking over to a local diner to get some coffee. I had my iPod earbuds in, blaring "Disposable Heroes" at peak volume. Some homeless dude made smoking gestures at me. Since I believe in smoker's karma, I gave him one. He looked like he'd slept in a dumpster, except for his meticulously red-painted fingernails. He looked me dead in the face and said in avery earnest voice, "I saw your sister. She's not dead, she's alive, you know." Okay.

Then after work, I wandered into a superdupermegamondomart and saw this on the shelf, and bought myself a present.

By: teraflop

teraflop — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:13:38 -0800

I'm starting to notice a bit of a pattern here.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:22:52 -0800

I'm a one-man welcome wagon.

Really, I love it when the show-up-in-the-thread thing happens, is all. But I didn't realize I was quite so consistent and exclusive in that use. I use it as a greeting in friendly admin emails too.

By: Potomac Avenue

Potomac Avenue — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:12:51 -0800

Switch it up...how about: Ahoyhoyzone?

By: yhbc

yhbc — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:05:45 -0800

I got a rock.

Every goddamn Halloween I had to be driven over to my grandparents house so my grandfather could pretend not to recognize me and put a rock in my bag.

Damn, I miss that guy.

By: NoMich

NoMich — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:42:47 -0800

Didn't Dan Kaminsky also do a song on the "O Brother Where Out Thar?" soundtrack?

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:15:18 -0800

I'll just take the "E" for "effort" they give to the special needs students and be on my way... just like always.

*Thinks about the acres of purple 'Participant' ribbons from Piste et Pelouse¹, cries into comic book*

¹It's like Track and Field Day! But in French, so I could suck twice as hard!

By: Lynsey

Lynsey — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:42:15 -0800

...Swoons at effugas's feet....

By: caddis

caddis — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:01:07 -0800

By: Glibpaxman

Glibpaxman — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:05:16 -0800

so when i posted the fpp i had no clue kaminsky was even a mefi member. in fact i didn't understand anything in the wired article at all. but i knew it was important and i knew someone here would explain it.

heres one for luck.

By: SpiffyRob

SpiffyRob — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:51:02 -0800

We don't have grades here. A member either learns and gets an "L," or they fluctuate in their learning.

What do we get for that?

An "F."

Mis-tah F!

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:27:31 -0800

Clearly, cortex is Munch.

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:34:42 -0800

*waves excitedly*

By: ZakDaddy

ZakDaddy — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:36:50 -0800

Didn't Dan Kaminsky also do a song on the "O Brother Where Out Thar?" soundtrack?
posted by NoMich at 10:42 PM on December 2 [+] [!]

Two minor corrections:

1 - O Brother, Where Art Thou? is the correct title spelling, and

2 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Tyminski

Also, I'd love for someone to do an Alison Krauss FPP.

By: damn dirty ape

damn dirty ape — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:07:22 -0800

Can this be put in the sidebar? I almost missed it.