Comments on: IRL alerts still buggy?

IRL alerts still buggy?

scody — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:06:45 -0800

IRL alerts still buggy? I proposed a Los Angeles meetup earlier today, and just received a MeMail from a fellow L.A. Mefite to tell me that he didn't receive the usual IRL notification.

I'm not following up in this thread because it seems like there may be a separate issue from what we discussed there as the possible culprit (i.e., accidentally setting the location at first for Hollywood, FL, rather than Hollywood, CA). Is there a ghost in the (meetup) machine? Or is it (bizarrely enough) just L.A.? FWIW, I did receive the auto-confirmation after I posted it.

By: pb

pb — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:07:52 -0800

IRL alerts go out at midnight Pacific time on the day they're posted. So the alert will go out tonight.

The lag time gives the OP time to edit things if necessary.

By: carsonb

carsonb — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:08:30 -0800

Feature!

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:11:00 -0800

California meetuppers still buggy!

Jumbo's 4eva!

By: scody

scody — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:28:22 -0800

AHA! I am going to shake my finger fondly in the general direction of the Mefite who had me confused!

By: scody

scody — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:29:28 -0800

(Also, I am now hollering at this thread, in my best Gordon Ramsey voice, "SHUT IT DOWN, YOU DONKEY!")

By: The World Famous

The World Famous — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:42:26 -0800

AHA! I am going to shake my finger fondly in the general direction of the Mefite who had me confused!

*shakes finger back*

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:45:52 -0800

*wanders in confused, excited*

*shakes finger at no one in particular, giggling*

By: carsonb

carsonb — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:46:27 -0800

*shakes giggling at cortex*

By: pb

pb — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:48:23 -0800

heh, no problem, no need to shut it down or shake fingers. We're talking about ways to make the IRL alert system more clear.

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:49:09 -0800

PAUL, IF YOU'RE NOT SHAKING FINGERS, YOU'RE THE PRODUCT BEING SOLD

By: pb

pb — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:50:15 -0800

That's ok. I'm used to being product all my life. SAIT.

By: The World Famous

The World Famous — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:51:54 -0800

How am I supposed to know you're the product in town if I don't get the notification until midnight? It's no fair.

By: ODiV

ODiV — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:39:32 -0800

We're talking about ways to make the IRL alert system more clear.

Have you tried adjusting the opacity slider?

By: scody

scody — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:44:41 -0800

*shakes my groove thang*

By: arcticseal

arcticseal — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:03:35 -0800

It all depends which timeline you set as your home location. Let me tell you, Rasputin throws a hell of a party.

By: deborah

deborah — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:33:07 -0800

scody: "*shakes my groove thang*"

Ya ya!

By: dobbs

dobbs — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:03:17 -0800

So nice to be mentioned in the meetup proposal. :)

By: The World Famous

The World Famous — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:09:56 -0800

Your well-known association with a celebrity makes you a hot commodity.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:15:00 -0800

Well I did take a picture of him at the urinal and have had it turned into a cardboard standee. I'll bring it with.

Not really. I merely laminated the photo and carry it in my wallet. Urinating Warren is my laminated boyfriend.

By: Ivan Fyodorovich

Ivan Fyodorovich — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 22:15:24 -0800

"It all depends which timeline you set as your home location. Let me tell you, Rasputin throws a hell of a party."

Okay, now I'm thinking about the many multiverse versions of MetaFilter. The one where Miguel became an admin is pretty weird. (But then, so is the one where cortex became an admin.)

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 23:32:21 -0800

"Jumbo's 4eva!"

Wait, did I miss a meetup with Jessamyn at Jumbo's?

By: The World Famous

The World Famous — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 23:35:52 -0800

We all did, man. We all did.

By: scody

scody — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:38:34 -0800

Not all of us!

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:48:42 -0800

Wait, did I miss a meetup with Jessamyn at Jumbo's?

Yeah it was like a zillion years ago, when HighTechUnderpants was in town.

By: special-k

special-k — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:43:20 -0800

It is true that all of us gets IRL email notifications at midnight but scody gets to hear it in person from Paul Weller?

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:57:57 -0800

The guy from Robocop?

By: The World Famous

The World Famous — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:03:52 -0800

All Mod Cons, indeed.

By: scody

scody — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:42:03 -0800

It's true! pb has set it up so that once a Los Angeles meetup is confirmed, a messenger in a jaunty cap is dispatched to Weller's home to inform him in person (His Modness, like Her Highness, Does Not Do email). He then calls me up to give me the news, sings a few bars of a random choon, and recites a few lines from Robocop. Oh, how we laugh!

By: dobbs

dobbs — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:09:07 -0800

Hmm. Wasn't Scody the name of Paul Weller's partner in the first flick?!

No? Well, it should have been.

By: aramaic

aramaic — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 13:14:12 -0800

in my best Gordon Ramsey voice

See, that's where you've gone tragically awry. You may never be able to regain what has been lost by this one terrible error.

Should have been Gordon Pinsent.