Nice work, deezil. October 30, 2010 12:38 PM Subscribe
deezil has an excellent spyware removal/virus removal guide in his profile. Are there other members with similarly useful content?
Afroblanco has a new blog with a post about why one shouldn't write for MetaFilter in his profile.
posted by gman at 12:46 PM on October 30, 2010
posted by gman at 12:46 PM on October 30, 2010
Agh, I did search to see if there were previous, similar posts but didn't turn that up. Awful recent, too. Thanks for noting the previous question, atrazine.
If this annoys the Mods that Be, delete plz.
posted by fake at 12:52 PM on October 30, 2010
If this annoys the Mods that Be, delete plz.
posted by fake at 12:52 PM on October 30, 2010
fake, it would have been hard to search for I think. I only found it because I was using search to get a link to Mutant's profile and that was the first link that came up.
posted by atrazine at 12:56 PM on October 30, 2010
posted by atrazine at 12:56 PM on October 30, 2010
I read through deezil's profile, too.
Left me wishing we could favorite profiles.
posted by jamjam at 1:17 PM on October 30, 2010 [1 favorite]
Left me wishing we could favorite profiles.
posted by jamjam at 1:17 PM on October 30, 2010 [1 favorite]
If this annoys the Mods that Be, delete plz.
It's not complaining about anything, so I think it's okay to leave it. It eases my eye pain.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 1:36 PM on October 30, 2010 [5 favorites]
It's not complaining about anything, so I think it's okay to leave it. It eases my eye pain.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 1:36 PM on October 30, 2010 [5 favorites]
Afroblanco's post fascinates me. I would never call it wrong (It sounds like a good decision for him), but it's alien to me. I feel ownership of everything (good and bad) I've written on Metafilter. I also feel like I'm contributing (sometimes tarnishing) a group project. For me, one doesn't preclude the other.
Maybe it's because I feel that way about anything I write, whether it's published in book form, as a magazine article, asvsomething here or asnsomething on my blog. It's all words from me going "out there" and mixing with other words written by other people.
I mean, I can fool myself into thinking that my story about robots is on its own special island, but it's probably mixing in readers' heads with "Star Wars" and -- who knows? -- "Oklahoma!" (maybe one of my robots is named Aunt Eller.).
I've also used Metafilter posts as springboards to blog posts and vice versa. I can imagine gathering a lot of my posts together, fleshing them out, editing them and turning them into some kind of book. As George Harrison said, "It's all part of the mix."
posted by grumblebee at 1:47 PM on October 30, 2010 [4 favorites]
Maybe it's because I feel that way about anything I write, whether it's published in book form, as a magazine article, asvsomething here or asnsomething on my blog. It's all words from me going "out there" and mixing with other words written by other people.
I mean, I can fool myself into thinking that my story about robots is on its own special island, but it's probably mixing in readers' heads with "Star Wars" and -- who knows? -- "Oklahoma!" (maybe one of my robots is named Aunt Eller.).
I've also used Metafilter posts as springboards to blog posts and vice versa. I can imagine gathering a lot of my posts together, fleshing them out, editing them and turning them into some kind of book. As George Harrison said, "It's all part of the mix."
posted by grumblebee at 1:47 PM on October 30, 2010 [4 favorites]
You need to take the spoon out of your mug before you drink the coffee.
posted by Astro Zombie at 1:48 PM on October 30, 2010
posted by Astro Zombie at 1:48 PM on October 30, 2010
Oops. That wasn't to Jessamyn. That's the helpful advice in my profile.
posted by Astro Zombie at 1:49 PM on October 30, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by Astro Zombie at 1:49 PM on October 30, 2010 [1 favorite]
love i write when person wells
booked marked for future reference. I like the instructions with it, which I greatly value, IME.
posted by clavdivs at 2:59 PM on October 30, 2010
booked marked for future reference. I like the instructions with it, which I greatly value, IME.
posted by clavdivs at 2:59 PM on October 30, 2010
Agh, I did search to see if there were previous, similar posts but didn't turn that up. Awful recent, too. Thanks for noting the previous question, atrazine.
It wasn't the only one, either.
posted by kisch mokusch at 3:10 PM on October 30, 2010
It wasn't the only one, either.
posted by kisch mokusch at 3:10 PM on October 30, 2010
I'm another person who was really impressed by Deezil's profile.
posted by Joe in Australia at 5:17 PM on October 30, 2010
posted by Joe in Australia at 5:17 PM on October 30, 2010
Yeah, can we just link to deezil's profile for virus questions? That's easily the most comprehensive guide I've seen in years. Wow.
posted by Ghidorah at 6:39 PM on October 30, 2010
posted by Ghidorah at 6:39 PM on October 30, 2010
fake: "Are there other members with similarly useful content?"
Just for you, I'm going to come up with something to put in mind. It will probably be Nintendo related, for reasons that will become obvious if you see what's in my profile right now. But hey, content is better than no content, right?
posted by theichibun at 6:51 PM on October 30, 2010
Just for you, I'm going to come up with something to put in mind. It will probably be Nintendo related, for reasons that will become obvious if you see what's in my profile right now. But hey, content is better than no content, right?
posted by theichibun at 6:51 PM on October 30, 2010
my profile contains some very important information re: knobbed whelks.
posted by The Whelk at 8:10 PM on October 30, 2010
posted by The Whelk at 8:10 PM on October 30, 2010
fake: "Are there other members with similarly useful content?"
My profile has a very useful reference for telephonic phonetic spelling. I mean, it does now.
posted by StickyCarpet at 8:46 PM on October 30, 2010
My profile has a very useful reference for telephonic phonetic spelling. I mean, it does now.
posted by StickyCarpet at 8:46 PM on October 30, 2010
Afroblanco: Wow. 5080 comments ... I think a sensible estimate would be about 1000 pages of text : the length of a couple novels.
That's not writing, that's typing.
posted by StickyCarpet at 8:51 PM on October 30, 2010 [1 favorite]
That's not writing, that's typing.
posted by StickyCarpet at 8:51 PM on October 30, 2010 [1 favorite]
I have used deezil's instructions a couple of times and never thanked him.
Thanks deezil.
posted by chairish at 8:53 PM on October 30, 2010
Thanks deezil.
posted by chairish at 8:53 PM on October 30, 2010
I have some anicent Vidal-sourced Jack Kerouac gossip if anyone is interested.
posted by The Whelk at 8:53 PM on October 30, 2010
posted by The Whelk at 8:53 PM on October 30, 2010
I don't necessarily agree with all of it, but there is a well-written and detailed guide to creating FPPs in crunchland's profile.
posted by anifinder at 7:44 AM on October 31, 2010
posted by anifinder at 7:44 AM on October 31, 2010
Hey, for the people reading this, I've updated my instructions with some new stuff and getting rid of some of the older stuff. Take a read if it suits you. And again thanks for the awesome callout.
posted by deezil at 12:20 PM on October 31, 2010
posted by deezil at 12:20 PM on October 31, 2010
My profile contains a function that returns true if the parameter is a power of two. I learned it in an interview.
posted by !Jim at 12:55 AM on November 1, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by !Jim at 12:55 AM on November 1, 2010 [1 favorite]
I'm going to take a leaf out of Afroblanco's book and start writing "This is my thing" on the bottom of my comments. Unless, of course, I'm linking to a thing that somebody else has created, in which case I will use the phrase "This is not my thing".
This is my thing
posted by Life at Boulton Wynfevers at 7:10 AM on November 1, 2010
This is my thing
posted by Life at Boulton Wynfevers at 7:10 AM on November 1, 2010
I really think I'm on to something here.
This is my thing
posted by Life at Boulton Wynfevers at 7:11 AM on November 1, 2010
This is my thing
posted by Life at Boulton Wynfevers at 7:11 AM on November 1, 2010
My profile only has my recent Flickr photos, three of which are of my dog, dressed as Buffy the Vampire Slayer for Halloween. This essentially sums up my life and everything that I have to offer the world.
posted by mewithoutyou at 11:55 AM on November 1, 2010
posted by mewithoutyou at 11:55 AM on November 1, 2010
grumblebee: "Afroblanco's post fascinates me. I would never call it wrong (It sounds like a good decision for him), but it's alien to me."
I would. I think he's not correctly understanding the nature of Metafilter. If he's happier with a blog, that's super, but he's no longer contributing to a community.
posted by Chrysostom at 12:28 PM on November 2, 2010
I would. I think he's not correctly understanding the nature of Metafilter. If he's happier with a blog, that's super, but he's no longer contributing to a community.
posted by Chrysostom at 12:28 PM on November 2, 2010
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posted by atrazine at 12:41 PM on October 30, 2010