15th Anniversary June 25, 2014 9:59 AM Subscribe
So, it was brought to my attention by eamondaly that the 15th anniversary of Metafilter is coming up in a few weeks. Here's some suggestions as how to celebrate:
MONTH OF MEETUPS (either MoM15, or MoMu15)! The Chicago Metafilter Cabal (there is no cabal) is getting together as often as we can in July to celebrate our friendships, and the site.
Checkout out our plans here.
Remind yourself about the 10th anniversary here.
Set up your own Month of Meetups get together here.
What are you going to do to celebrate 15 years of the blue?
MONTH OF MEETUPS (either MoM15, or MoMu15)! The Chicago Metafilter Cabal (there is no cabal) is getting together as often as we can in July to celebrate our friendships, and the site.
Checkout out our plans here.
Remind yourself about the 10th anniversary here.
Set up your own Month of Meetups get together here.
What are you going to do to celebrate 15 years of the blue?
I think I'll cook up a plate of beans and really stare hard at it.
posted by bearwife at 10:40 AM on June 25, 2014 [7 favorites]
posted by bearwife at 10:40 AM on June 25, 2014 [7 favorites]
Crispy Black Bean Cakes with Sour Cream and Avocado
Red Bean Rice Cake
Secret Ingredient Healthy Chocolate Cake (the secret ingredient is beans)
White Bean Bundt Cake
posted by the man of twists and turns at 10:40 AM on June 25, 2014 [9 favorites]
Red Bean Rice Cake
Secret Ingredient Healthy Chocolate Cake (the secret ingredient is beans)
White Bean Bundt Cake
posted by the man of twists and turns at 10:40 AM on June 25, 2014 [9 favorites]
Do we have a list of places we haven't had meetups yet? I think this would be a good opportunity to fill in the map a bit more... I can do Wyoming if that one's still open on the bingo card.
posted by mochapickle at 10:46 AM on June 25, 2014
posted by mochapickle at 10:46 AM on June 25, 2014
Maybe time for the Staten Island tiki bar meetup then.
posted by SpaceWarp13 at 10:49 AM on June 25, 2014
posted by SpaceWarp13 at 10:49 AM on June 25, 2014
There are MUCH more exciting backgrounds you could have used, cjorgensen.
posted by maryr at 10:52 AM on June 25, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by maryr at 10:52 AM on June 25, 2014 [2 favorites]
We were gonna go to New Orleans after organizing an EPIC anniversary meetup but then I got lazy/forgetful/whatever. But! I know that the mostlybeans are headed there and so how can it fail to be epic? It can't!
posted by rtha at 10:52 AM on June 25, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by rtha at 10:52 AM on June 25, 2014 [2 favorites]
Metafilter is getting straight As in school and works with the elderly on weekends (when not helping out on the community garden)
posted by The Whelk at 10:54 AM on June 25, 2014 [9 favorites]
posted by The Whelk at 10:54 AM on June 25, 2014 [9 favorites]
Metafilter Quinceanera party, then? I will attend in fluffiest dress I own.
posted by maryr at 10:55 AM on June 25, 2014 [22 favorites]
posted by maryr at 10:55 AM on June 25, 2014 [22 favorites]
Metafilter will be the prettiest of princesses
posted by The Whelk at 10:55 AM on June 25, 2014 [8 favorites]
posted by The Whelk at 10:55 AM on June 25, 2014 [8 favorites]
fifteen beans on a mefites plate
yo ho ho and a litter of cats
posted by Namlit at 11:05 AM on June 25, 2014 [12 favorites]
yo ho ho and a litter of cats
posted by Namlit at 11:05 AM on June 25, 2014 [12 favorites]
I know that there's no requirement that I attend all or even most of these meetups, but just simply looking at my "upcoming events near you" side bar the last couple days has sent my introvert alarm all atwitter.
posted by phunniemee at 11:12 AM on June 25, 2014 [3 favorites]
posted by phunniemee at 11:12 AM on June 25, 2014 [3 favorites]
Can't decide if Mefi's princess should be more this or this.
posted by maryr at 11:15 AM on June 25, 2014 [3 favorites]
posted by maryr at 11:15 AM on June 25, 2014 [3 favorites]
(My co-worker just walked by, looked over my shoulder at a page full of fluffy princess dresses, and admonished me "maryr, you're much older than 15!" Thank you, Jess. Thanks a lot.)
posted by maryr at 11:16 AM on June 25, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by maryr at 11:16 AM on June 25, 2014 [1 favorite]
There are MUCH more exciting backgrounds you could have used, cjorgensen.
Background? What do you mean background? That was filmed in the jungle!
posted by cjorgensen at 11:19 AM on June 25, 2014
Background? What do you mean background? That was filmed in the jungle!
posted by cjorgensen at 11:19 AM on June 25, 2014
It was kind of the Elves to let you film in their forests.
posted by maryr at 11:21 AM on June 25, 2014
posted by maryr at 11:21 AM on June 25, 2014
phunniemee: you will put in an appearance at every single meet up, and you will wash your face and put on lip gloss, and you will not wear sneakers, and you will let great aunt sissy kiss you on the mouth and you won't make that face or you will get no dessert for a month. do you hear me, young lady?
posted by crush-onastick at 11:22 AM on June 25, 2014 [8 favorites]
posted by crush-onastick at 11:22 AM on June 25, 2014 [8 favorites]
or you will get no dessert for a month
Seriously the best thing about being a grown up is that I have an entire freezer full of ben and jerry's and NO ONE CAN STOP ME.
posted by phunniemee at 11:25 AM on June 25, 2014 [11 favorites]
Seriously the best thing about being a grown up is that I have an entire freezer full of ben and jerry's and NO ONE CAN STOP ME.
posted by phunniemee at 11:25 AM on June 25, 2014 [11 favorites]
Also it should go without saying that if I'm not at a meetup this month I'm almost certainly at home on my couch in my underpants eating americone dream straight from the pint while watching south park. And now you know.
posted by phunniemee at 11:27 AM on June 25, 2014 [5 favorites]
posted by phunniemee at 11:27 AM on June 25, 2014 [5 favorites]
I will also wear my Flag it and Move On T-shirt, because it fits the day better than my Special Snowflake one.
posted by bearwife at 11:27 AM on June 25, 2014
posted by bearwife at 11:27 AM on June 25, 2014
Back to Guy Fieri's, then?
posted by boo_radley at 11:27 AM on June 25, 2014
posted by boo_radley at 11:27 AM on June 25, 2014
I was going to set fire to a longboat.
posted by drezdn at 11:28 AM on June 25, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by drezdn at 11:28 AM on June 25, 2014 [1 favorite]
phunniemee: I don't see why you can't host a meetup on your couch.
posted by eamondaly at 11:29 AM on June 25, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by eamondaly at 11:29 AM on June 25, 2014 [2 favorites]
And I'm still waiting for a meetup in A FAIRLY LARGE DOORWAY.
posted by eamondaly at 11:31 AM on June 25, 2014 [3 favorites]
posted by eamondaly at 11:31 AM on June 25, 2014 [3 favorites]
Does anyone read the comments down here?
posted by Melismata at 11:33 AM on June 25, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by Melismata at 11:33 AM on June 25, 2014 [1 favorite]
phunniemee: I don't see why you can't host a meetup on your couch.
Ask and ye shall receive.
posted by phunniemee at 11:39 AM on June 25, 2014 [5 favorites]
Ask and ye shall receive.
posted by phunniemee at 11:39 AM on June 25, 2014 [5 favorites]
I'm hunting for the fabled ZippityBop. And I'm passing out #2 pencils.
posted by octobersurprise at 11:47 AM on June 25, 2014
posted by octobersurprise at 11:47 AM on June 25, 2014
Remind yourself about the 10th anniversary here.
Any information I gain about things I did on the night of the Tenth will be things I'm learning, not reminding myself of.
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 11:49 AM on June 25, 2014 [3 favorites]
Any information I gain about things I did on the night of the Tenth will be things I'm learning, not reminding myself of.
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 11:49 AM on June 25, 2014 [3 favorites]
And I'm still waiting for a meetup in A FAIRLY LARGE DOORWAY.
I'm moving next week! We will kiss that doorway GOODBYE
not literally it is pretty grody
posted by shakespeherian at 11:53 AM on June 25, 2014 [2 favorites]
I'm moving next week! We will kiss that doorway GOODBYE
not literally it is pretty grody
posted by shakespeherian at 11:53 AM on June 25, 2014 [2 favorites]
Any information I gain about things I did on the night of the Tenth will be things I'm learning, not reminding myself of.
Yeah, the night after the Tenth was one of the three worst hangovers of my life. It was the first time I had cartoon-style hangover symptoms like photosensitivity and stuff (I woke up, stumbled around until I found something to use as a blindfold, then went back to bed. Then I prayed for death.).
Bring on the fifteenth!
posted by Mrs. Pterodactyl at 11:58 AM on June 25, 2014 [5 favorites]
Yeah, the night after the Tenth was one of the three worst hangovers of my life. It was the first time I had cartoon-style hangover symptoms like photosensitivity and stuff (I woke up, stumbled around until I found something to use as a blindfold, then went back to bed. Then I prayed for death.).
Bring on the fifteenth!
posted by Mrs. Pterodactyl at 11:58 AM on June 25, 2014 [5 favorites]
Yes, let's have a lot of DC meetups! I was too timid 5 years ago, got to make up for lost time.
posted by troika at 12:54 PM on June 25, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by troika at 12:54 PM on June 25, 2014 [2 favorites]
Thank you, Jess. Thanks a lot.
Me? I'd love to have people over for board games down on the South Coast. I'll see if I can swing it.
posted by jessamyn (retired) at 1:10 PM on June 25, 2014 [4 favorites]
Me? I'd love to have people over for board games down on the South Coast. I'll see if I can swing it.
posted by jessamyn (retired) at 1:10 PM on June 25, 2014 [4 favorites]
How about a dramatic stage reading of a fighty MeTa?
posted by DirtyOldTown at 1:25 PM on June 25, 2014 [21 favorites]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 1:25 PM on June 25, 2014 [21 favorites]
LET'S MAKE THIS THE FIGHTY META!!!
/And... scene!
posted by Your friend sounds kind of lame. at 2:23 PM on June 25, 2014 [1 favorite]
/And... scene!
posted by Your friend sounds kind of lame. at 2:23 PM on June 25, 2014 [1 favorite]
Quiero una Quinceañera!
posted by Meta Filter at 2:33 PM on June 25, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by Meta Filter at 2:33 PM on June 25, 2014 [1 favorite]
I think I'll cook up a plate of beans and really stare hard at it.
I'm just not sure what to think about this.
posted by Devils Rancher at 2:48 PM on June 25, 2014
I'm just not sure what to think about this.
posted by Devils Rancher at 2:48 PM on June 25, 2014
How about making a movie of the epic parts of the Alphabet tread?
[for those interested: longest thread in metafilter history. I still have attacks of random sleep disorder.]
posted by Namlit at 2:49 PM on June 25, 2014 [1 favorite]
[for those interested: longest thread in metafilter history. I still have attacks of random sleep disorder.]
posted by Namlit at 2:49 PM on June 25, 2014 [1 favorite]
How about a dramatic stage reading of a fighty MeTa?
Wouldn't we need a few people whose accounts are disabled?
posted by Melismata at 2:53 PM on June 25, 2014 [2 favorites]
Wouldn't we need a few people whose accounts are disabled?
posted by Melismata at 2:53 PM on June 25, 2014 [2 favorites]
Oral history of a fighty MeTa would be better, since those are all the rage now.
posted by sweetkid at 2:55 PM on June 25, 2014 [4 favorites]
posted by sweetkid at 2:55 PM on June 25, 2014 [4 favorites]
The dramatic reading should be of all the Lobster/Lederhosen-related comments, compiled from the beginning.
posted by Devils Rancher at 2:57 PM on June 25, 2014 [3 favorites]
posted by Devils Rancher at 2:57 PM on June 25, 2014 [3 favorites]
Here's what I am going to do: I am going to make a puppet video and mathowie's gonna be the punchline! I needed a nice guy for the bit, and was going to use Mr. Rogers (who doesn't like Mr. Rogers?), but in honor of #mefi15 I'm going to change it to Matt!
I need someone to do the music. Memail me if you want in.
posted by cjorgensen at 3:49 PM on June 25, 2014
I need someone to do the music. Memail me if you want in.
posted by cjorgensen at 3:49 PM on June 25, 2014
How about making a movie of the epic parts of the Alphabet thread?
I'll be available to play myself.
posted by oneswellfoop at 4:24 PM on June 25, 2014
I'll be available to play myself.
posted by oneswellfoop at 4:24 PM on June 25, 2014
...which I'm sure will be preferable to playing with myself.
posted by oneswellfoop at 4:26 PM on June 25, 2014
posted by oneswellfoop at 4:26 PM on June 25, 2014
Like anyone will click that link.
posted by cjorgensen at 4:39 PM on June 25, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by cjorgensen at 4:39 PM on June 25, 2014 [2 favorites]
Wow... its been 5 years already? How time flies...
(and didn't I just attend a meetup in that remote smoky island?)
posted by infini at 4:55 PM on June 25, 2014
(and didn't I just attend a meetup in that remote smoky island?)
posted by infini at 4:55 PM on June 25, 2014
I'll be available to play myself.
That will Wendell.
posted by Marie Mon Dieu at 5:55 PM on June 25, 2014 [3 favorites]
That will Wendell.
posted by Marie Mon Dieu at 5:55 PM on June 25, 2014 [3 favorites]
Metafilter Meme Party!
A fedora wearing waiter serving portobello mushrooms to your rescue cat while you eat bacon marmalade!
posted by taff at 6:46 PM on June 25, 2014 [2 favorites]
A fedora wearing waiter serving portobello mushrooms to your rescue cat while you eat bacon marmalade!
posted by taff at 6:46 PM on June 25, 2014 [2 favorites]
… as somebody plays a banjo.
posted by Lexica at 6:56 PM on June 25, 2014 [4 favorites]
posted by Lexica at 6:56 PM on June 25, 2014 [4 favorites]
Manchester, UK meetup 19th July. Korean food and American craft ales currently predicted. Be there, or be somewhere else!
posted by asok at 4:16 AM on June 26, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by asok at 4:16 AM on June 26, 2014 [1 favorite]
I've never been to a meetup before, but as there's one happening in the North, and it's MeFi's birthday I'm really tempted, cool!
posted by Ned G at 5:51 AM on June 26, 2014
posted by Ned G at 5:51 AM on June 26, 2014
Milwaukee is practically a MetaFilter dead zone but I'd totally be up for something. I've finally recharged my introvert batteries since that Chicago meetup in April.
posted by desjardins at 6:57 AM on June 26, 2014
posted by desjardins at 6:57 AM on June 26, 2014
item -- be the change you want to see.
The colllected Chicago Cabal (there is no chicago cabal) meetup wisdom is to pick your thing and your date based on when you want to do it, and get people to join you. Don't wait for others to plan meetups for you. Don't post a tentative meetup without an iron hand guiding it to a decision point. Don't worry about low attendence, you picked a thing you wanted to do anyway, right?
posted by garlic at 7:31 AM on June 26, 2014 [1 favorite]
The colllected Chicago Cabal (there is no chicago cabal) meetup wisdom is to pick your thing and your date based on when you want to do it, and get people to join you. Don't wait for others to plan meetups for you. Don't post a tentative meetup without an iron hand guiding it to a decision point. Don't worry about low attendence, you picked a thing you wanted to do anyway, right?
posted by garlic at 7:31 AM on June 26, 2014 [1 favorite]
Build it and they will come!
posted by desjardins at 7:32 AM on June 26, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by desjardins at 7:32 AM on June 26, 2014 [1 favorite]
Yesterday I was inspired to create a Pizza That Ate Chicago II 5-year anniversary meetup, but that won't be until next year so I don't know why I'm spoiling the surprise now.
posted by shakespeherian at 7:55 AM on June 26, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by shakespeherian at 7:55 AM on June 26, 2014 [2 favorites]
Is it just because DFW is really spread out geographically that makes the meetups so tough to wrangle?
posted by shakespeherian at 8:30 AM on June 26, 2014
posted by shakespeherian at 8:30 AM on June 26, 2014
item, please see here for instructions on how to make a meetup.
Specifically:
Persistence, consistency, and determination. That's how meetups happen.
posted by phunniemee at 8:34 AM on June 26, 2014 [2 favorites]
Specifically:
Back in the day, the Chicago Cabal* would hem and haw for days about when and where to meet, trying to accommodate everyone. Half the time the thread would just fizzle out and we wouldn't meet, and the other half we'd get together only to discover the people most insistent about the food or the locale or the time bailed. So now we just go to the worst place on the worst day and we all whine for four hours. And really, isn't that what MeFi is all about?
* TINCC
Persistence, consistency, and determination. That's how meetups happen.
posted by phunniemee at 8:34 AM on June 26, 2014 [2 favorites]
ABQ, representing! Thanks for the reminder, eamondaly and garlic!
posted by filthy light thief at 8:51 AM on June 26, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by filthy light thief at 8:51 AM on June 26, 2014 [2 favorites]
Persistence, consistency, and determination. That's how meetups happen.
And sometimes a lot of MeMails sent directly to folks who identify as being local.
posted by filthy light thief at 8:52 AM on June 26, 2014 [1 favorite]
And sometimes a lot of MeMails sent directly to folks who identify as being local.
posted by filthy light thief at 8:52 AM on June 26, 2014 [1 favorite]
Er, local to your locale.
posted by filthy light thief at 9:12 AM on June 26, 2014
posted by filthy light thief at 9:12 AM on June 26, 2014
She doesn't even go here.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 9:51 AM on June 26, 2014 [3 favorites]
posted by MCMikeNamara at 9:51 AM on June 26, 2014 [3 favorites]
Ironically, the last Dallas meetup was created by me, an adjunct member of the Chicago cabal (TINCC). It ended up being a 2-person meetup and ridiculously late due to a very delayed flight, but it still happened, and was still a fun time. I don't think there's anything wrong with micro-meetups.
Sorry for your troubles, item.
posted by Fig at 10:21 AM on June 26, 2014 [1 favorite]
Sorry for your troubles, item.
posted by Fig at 10:21 AM on June 26, 2014 [1 favorite]
MCMikeNamara: She doesn't even go here.
I just have a lot of feelings.
posted by filthy light thief at 10:44 AM on June 26, 2014 [2 favorites]
I just have a lot of feelings.
posted by filthy light thief at 10:44 AM on June 26, 2014 [2 favorites]
I was going to make it to the epic NOLA party because I've never been to NOLA and also I adore komara and ColdChef and the mostlybeanses and stuff but then I moved and bought furniture and now my credit card hates me. I'll definitely try to call a Toronto meetup though.
posted by Phire at 1:48 PM on June 26, 2014
posted by Phire at 1:48 PM on June 26, 2014
Hee hee
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 3:55 PM on June 26, 2014
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 3:55 PM on June 26, 2014
> Is it just because DFW is really spread out geographically that makes the meetups so tough to wrangle?
The Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area is also pretty spread out but we've been managing meetups roughly every two-three months now, usually with at least a dozen people in attendance. It takes a combination of having a variety of interesting things to meet at, some kind of core group to sustain momentum, and a willingness to call two people drinking beers a meetup if that's what it takes.
Having meetups kind of regularly -- not necessarily often or on a schedule, but more than once a year -- also helps. I think it's easier to look forward to resuming conversations with people you're familiar with in person, harder to get enthusiastic about meeting a bunch of people you can't remember whether you felt the same way about in person as you did online.
posted by ardgedee at 4:34 PM on June 26, 2014 [1 favorite]
The Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area is also pretty spread out but we've been managing meetups roughly every two-three months now, usually with at least a dozen people in attendance. It takes a combination of having a variety of interesting things to meet at, some kind of core group to sustain momentum, and a willingness to call two people drinking beers a meetup if that's what it takes.
Having meetups kind of regularly -- not necessarily often or on a schedule, but more than once a year -- also helps. I think it's easier to look forward to resuming conversations with people you're familiar with in person, harder to get enthusiastic about meeting a bunch of people you can't remember whether you felt the same way about in person as you did online.
posted by ardgedee at 4:34 PM on June 26, 2014 [1 favorite]
OK: game day at my (summer) place in Southern MA. IRL Is here.
posted by jessamyn (retired) at 12:38 PM on June 28, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by jessamyn (retired) at 12:38 PM on June 28, 2014 [2 favorites]
DC also has a 15th meetup now, too. Any DC people who are unsure about meetups should come. We mostly don't bite.
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 9:35 AM on July 3, 2014
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 9:35 AM on July 3, 2014
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posted by shakespeherian at 10:25 AM on June 25, 2014 [11 favorites]