Comments on: Why is Plastic down?

Why is Plastic down?

MAYORBOB — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 15:52:56 -0800

I realize this topic has nothing to do with Metafilter but, does anyone have any idea what has happened over at plastic.com? The site went dead on Tuesday night and I have been unable to get any information? Apologize about this, but would appreciate any information. Thanks in advance.

By: Hackworth

Hackworth — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 15:55:06 -0800

no-longer-automatic media.

By: keswick

keswick — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 16:02:58 -0800

all the editors' fevered egos collapsed into a black hole and the site imploded?

(carl's still cool though.)

By: XQUZYPHYR

XQUZYPHYR — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 16:12:54 -0800

I realize this topic has nothing to do with Metafilter, but has anyone seen my car keys?

By: Stan Chin

Stan Chin — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 16:25:51 -0800

You left them at my house. In your pants.

By: Space Coyote

Space Coyote — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 16:46:42 -0800

The MeFi logo with the slogan "it's the plastic.com it's OK to like" made them all so upset they went home and cried.

By: stonerose

stonerose — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 17:37:18 -0800

prastic.com?

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By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 17:43:54 -0800

Stan's house is in XQUZYPHYR's pants?

By: Stynxno

Stynxno — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 17:46:02 -0800

Stan's house is in XQUZYPHYR's pants?

i heard there is plenty of room in their.

on preview: wait, that's my pants.

By: XQUZYPHYR

XQUZYPHYR — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 18:00:33 -0800

You left them at my house. In your pants.

Stan, when I said "you go down there so often you might as well buy a house there," I was joking.

By: Stan Chin

Stan Chin — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 18:20:50 -0800

Aaaa! So solly, in China we do not have house, but in hut made out of soya bean! Sometimes if you rook real hald, you can see from spaaaaaaace!

By: dg

dg — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 18:50:09 -0800

does anyone have any idea what has happened over at plastic.com?
*hands MAYORBOB 50c so he can call and ask someone who cares*

By: Guy Smiley

Guy Smiley — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 18:56:05 -0800

Don't hate the player, dg. Hate the game.

Have you tried emailing carl@freedonia.com, MAYORBOB?

By: jasonspaceman

jasonspaceman — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 19:53:07 -0800

Mayor Bob has an obsession with Plastic I would say.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:13:15 -0800

I think someone spiked the punch tonight here on Metafilter.

By: MAYORBOB

MAYORBOB — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:33:08 -0800

Guy -- I tried that yesterday and got a notice saying the email was not deliverable.

jason -- Yeah, I just keep burning up the lines here at Mefi over Plastic, don't I? A total of two posts on the subject in over two years.

By: skallas

skallas — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:47:23 -0800

>Mayor Bob has an obsession with Plastic I would say.

We have the technology to cure him.

It usually leads to this, though.

But we can treat that with this.

But there are ways around that too.

Some doctors recommend this for that condition.

Of course there's the cheap home remedy.

And of course there's always the Ludovicovision treatment. Just leave the tv on some soft core.

Lastly, and this is not very highly recommended - there's Jebus.

By: bshort

bshort — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 21:20:27 -0800

http://chat.plastic.com/ is up.

"The topic for #plastic is: We don't know why, or when it will be back."

But ask anyway. They'll appreciate it.

By: wendell

wendell — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 00:25:58 -0800

I call dibs on the tagline...
MetaFilter: The plastic.com that still exists.

By: chaz

chaz — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 00:38:42 -0800

What's wild is that if you go back to Sept 11th, 2001, Mayorbob's post on MeFi says "Plastic is down! Could this have something to do with today's events in New York?" or something like that. Is that not bizarre, or what!

By: mischief

mischief — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 03:08:25 -0800

BOB, has Plastic finally succumbed? I don't know; I spent the last week laid up from a heart attack.

I will note however the most obvious difference between Plastic and MetaFilter: Matt doesn't fuck with the infrastructure. If Plastic truly has expired, Carl has no one to blame but himself.

By: t r a c y

t r a c y — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 03:39:42 -0800

I spent the last week laid up from a heart attack.

not seriously...?? if so, i'm extremely glad to see you!

By: wendell

wendell — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 03:58:56 -0800

Welcome back, mischief, glad you're still ticking.
From personal experience (CHF, not an attack), the worst thing about being laid up in a coronary ward is they didin't let me have anything high-tech enough to interfere with the monitors... no cel phone, no laptop (ceratingly no internet connection, therefore, no MeFi), they wouldn't even let me hook up my TiVo (or I would've brought home some cool shows from the Baby Channel)...

By: MAYORBOB

MAYORBOB — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 06:27:11 -0800

bshort -- Thanks for the info. If Plastic chat is still up then there's still hope, I guess. BTW, whenever I have tried to log onto Plastic chat using java, the dialog box compresses so that I can't communicate.

Tim -- Sorry to hear about your latest health difficulties. Hope you're back on your feet soonest.

By: thomcatspike

thomcatspike — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 06:40:25 -0800

mischief, hope all is well ;)

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 07:07:06 -0800

Lift up your heart, dear mischief! Sursum corda, as the bishop said to the tart. Just don't go all mellow on us now, hear?

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 07:46:15 -0800

does this mean Holgates coming back?

By: byort

byort — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 08:12:35 -0800

Aaaa! So solly, in China we do not have house, but in hut made out of soya bean! Sometimes if you rook real hald, you can see from spaaaaaaace!

I haven't laughed this hard over something on the Internet in months! Thanks, Stan...you should get a gold star for that (d'oh!).

By: mischief

mischief — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 08:29:01 -0800

migs: As you are not a plastic regular (that I know of), you may not know that my heart disease has often been the impetus for some of my more audacious antics. Being laid out gets really, really boring, and provides plenty of time to develop some real off-the-wall zingers.

Your sentiment however is much appreciated.

re: holgate, the last I knew he was cornered away in a private corner of plastic chat with nephie.

wendell: Same here. The worst (for me) is the day before the attack I had just bought a new laptop with all the fancy wireless you can stuff into one of those things. But nowadays, cardiac monitoring is also wireless (telemetry), so of course, my new toy had to sit at home. ;-(

From Plastic IRC:

Carl is making some major hardware/software adjustments. Since Carl is not a technical person, he finds a complete outage the easiest way to manage.

By: MAYORBOB

MAYORBOB — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 08:36:32 -0800

Tim,

Thanks for the copy and paste from Plastic IRC.

By: mischief

mischief — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:31:25 -0800

No prob, BOB!

Off on a tangent: The MeFi purists can scoff at Plastic, but BOB, you and I both are aware of how extensive the cross-population is between these two sites. ;-P

By: Shoeburyness

Shoeburyness — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:37:20 -0800

I think the concern of the #plastic regulars was not so much that Plastic had expired, but that Carl had. Of course, if he had taken two seconds to write one line to one person (Such as "I'm busy working on it"), no one would have worried. Rather irritating, really.

By: mischief

mischief — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 11:39:31 -0800

As one Plastitute astutely put it, "It's not Carl I'm worried about, it's Plastic!"

By: Shoeburyness

Shoeburyness — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 11:50:57 -0800

Heh... I'd miss Plastic more than Carl, for sure-- but without Carl, there is no Plastic.

By: konolia

konolia — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:00:00 -0800

I was banished to Plastic once-and now I have a horror of it.

By: spartacusroosevelt

spartacusroosevelt — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 16:27:32 -0800

It is back.

By: keswick

keswick — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 16:39:47 -0800

...and there was much rejoicing. (yay.)

By: mischief

mischief — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 19:18:58 -0800

Oh, well, so much for my doomsaying (again). ;-P

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 19:42:06 -0800

I'd just like to mention that Carl is a very nice man, who changed my long-dormant Plastic username to StavTheWonderChicken (as the 'ros' wouldn't fit) a while back, when I asked.

After which I made one comment, then sank back into the Meta-morass again.

We can't always choose our drugs of choice.

By: MAYORBOB

MAYORBOB — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 19:54:00 -0800

Well, thanks to those of you who offered me information. And thanks to the rest for participating. All's well that ends well.

By: Hildago

Hildago — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 23:59:59 -0800

[sounds of flatulence]

By: insomnyuk

insomnyuk — Sat, 27 Sep 2003 21:41:53 -0800

what's plastic.com?

By: Guy Smiley

Guy Smiley — Sun, 28 Sep 2003 14:00:58 -0800

the Metafilter it's not OK to like, they tell me.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Sun, 28 Sep 2003 14:50:38 -0800

But... what happened to XQUZYPHYR's car keys??

By: XQUZYPHYR

XQUZYPHYR — Sun, 28 Sep 2003 16:40:45 -0800

I found them. Stan didn't actually leave them in his pants, but dropped them... somewhere... after a failed attempt to revive me when I lost concsiousness at a rave the other evening. I feel like an idiot taking this long to investigate why it felt so goddamn cold down there.

By: adamrice

adamrice — Mon, 29 Sep 2003 10:35:53 -0800

Seems to be down again.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:49:03 -0800

For chrissake, don't tell MAYORBOB—we've just put this puppy to bed!