is the MeTa page grey or am I on crack?

June 29, 2005 11:06 PM

is the MeTa page grey or am I on crack?
posted by delmoi to MetaFilter-Related at 11:06 PM (45 comments total)

Are these exclusive states?
posted by achmorrison at 11:27 PM on June 29, 2005

Is the MeTa page crack, or am I on grey?
posted by interrobang at 11:37 PM on June 29, 2005

Technically, it's #666. Make of that what you will. *raises eyebrows*
posted by Galvatron at 11:45 PM on June 29, 2005

Because before it was...?
posted by cali at 11:45 PM on June 29, 2005

MetaTalk grey: threat or menace?
posted by mathowie (staff) at 11:52 PM on June 29, 2005

I'm so confused.
posted by dazed_one at 12:04 AM on June 30, 2005

If there were little fluffy clouds in it, it wouldn't threaten me so with its menacing.

Unless you're saving them for the blue..
posted by Jack Karaoke at 12:16 AM on June 30, 2005

Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. Over?
posted by loquacious at 12:48 AM on June 30, 2005

Brilliant.
posted by jenovus at 2:31 AM on June 30, 2005

Well, either you are on crack or all the rest of us are.

Careful, mathowie, or people will start thinking it's OK to have fun on MeTa. That's twice this week.
posted by dg at 3:16 AM on June 30, 2005

grey? I always see brown. I say grey, but I'm always lying.
posted by peacay at 4:34 AM on June 30, 2005

I know most people know this, but to the poster: it looks grey on some screens, and brown on others. It looked completely brown on my last computer (desktop mac), and looks sort of greyish brown on this one (mac laptop), but on the PC at school it looked completely grey, so the range is pretty significant.
posted by mdn at 4:53 AM on June 30, 2005

Yes, fun must be stopped at all costs, otherwise people might not think MeFi is full of humorless prigs, after all!
posted by absalom at 5:53 AM on June 30, 2005

I have a pair of pants with this same problem.
posted by jacquilynne at 5:53 AM on June 30, 2005

mdn: You forgot to point out that if you squint really hard, MeTa looks black. And if you look away from your monitor, it'll look a lot like the room you're sitting in.
posted by Plutor at 6:11 AM on June 30, 2005

yes absalom, I'm afraid I'm on contract. send me a little something & I might look the other way next time.
posted by mdn at 6:16 AM on June 30, 2005

Hahaha, we were so drunk :]
posted by moift at 7:25 AM on June 30, 2005

MetaTalk = Grey-Brownish
posted by Steve_at_Linnwood at 7:29 AM on June 30, 2005

I think it faded a little when Matt washed it.
posted by Pollomacho at 7:40 AM on June 30, 2005

I like to think of it as squant. And yes, yes you are on crack.
posted by LeeJay at 7:43 AM on June 30, 2005

"Brilliant."

I second that.
posted by cheerleaders_to_your_funeral at 7:50 AM on June 30, 2005

If you read MeTa backwards, it'll say "Ringo is dead"
posted by unreason at 7:56 AM on June 30, 2005

...but you'll get your pickup truck and dog back.
posted by quonsar at 8:14 AM on June 30, 2005

I've seen some strange MeTa posts in my time, but I think this is the strangest.
posted by languagehat at 8:31 AM on June 30, 2005

9+7=16 1+6=7 7+4=11 1+1=2 2+1=3
9+6=15 1+5=6 6+2=8 8+2=10 1+0=1
PARITY ERROR
posted by loquacious at 8:46 AM on June 30, 2005

And if the party says that it is not grey but pink -- then what color is it?
posted by killdevil at 9:13 AM on June 30, 2005

How do you view MeTa filtered by best answers?
posted by If I Had An Anus at 9:29 AM on June 30, 2005

The only winning move is not to play.
posted by Jart at 9:41 AM on June 30, 2005

Jart just lost The Game.

Not me though.
posted by gramschmidt at 9:48 AM on June 30, 2005

I have a pair of pants with this same problem.
posted by jacquilynne

They make you wonder if you're on crack?

For the Suck.com fans: is Katz on crack? Take the quiz.
posted by Termite at 9:48 AM on June 30, 2005

And if the party says that it is not grey but pink -- then what color is it?

Maybe it's a Caravan album?
posted by kenko at 9:52 AM on June 30, 2005

I have partitioned off a portion of my brane and keep it in ignorance of the Game. Thus, while I can never wholly win, neither can I lose.
posted by kenko at 9:53 AM on June 30, 2005

grey? I always see brown. I say grey, but I'm always lying.

Son, you got a panty on your head!
posted by gigawhat? at 10:57 AM on June 30, 2005

I haven't seen the two side-by-side, but MeTa is the same color as my car.
posted by bendy at 11:10 AM on June 30, 2005

MeTa stands between the shadow and the light
posted by cortex at 12:30 PM on June 30, 2005

"I know most people know this, but to the poster: it looks grey on some screens, and brown on others. It looked completely brown on my last computer (desktop mac), and looks sort of greyish brown on this one (mac laptop), but on the PC at school it looked completely grey, so the range is pretty significant."

It shouldn't look brown on anyone's screen. You don't have to live with incorrect color or incorrect color calibration. For those who don't know anything about it: the color of the lighting environment you're in, the color temperature your monitor is set to, the intrinsic characteristics of your monitor and video card, the user-controllable settings of both, and any color-correction profiling software you're using all will work together to determine the color of your display.

But a lot of people don't care. My friend uses two monitors, an LCD and a CRT side-by-side. I don't even think they're set at the same color temperature. I've asked him: are those set at the same color temperature? "I don't know". It would drive me crazy to have a dual-display system, next to each other, with the colors wildly (to my eye) different. But lots of folks don't care.

However, if you don't care, then you shouldn't be concerned that MeTa looks brown instead of gray.

Hmm. Here's a hint to XP users using the default theme: if you can't see that the background color behind the "File / Edit" and contiguous areas of your window shade subtly, left to right, from a very light off-white to a somewhat darker off-white, then your system isn't correctly calibrated.

And don't get me started on NTSC TV display calibration. Just get the DVD Video Essentials, which is like the coolest thing, evar. Really, it is. If you're a geek.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 1:32 PM on June 30, 2005

And don't get me started...
PLEASE don't get him started!
It is an infraction punishable by 7 days banishment in the 9622v2 thread to get him started!!!
posted by wendell at 2:51 PM on June 30, 2005

I think it faded a little when Matt washed it.
It got washed? What's that smell then?
posted by dg at 3:16 PM on June 30, 2005

I thought there were mostly USians on this site, and yet not one person has mentioned that the preferred spelling here is "gray", not "grey". Instead, you're all just horsing around like a bunch of toddlers on a sugar rush.
posted by greasepig at 3:46 PM on June 30, 2005

Greasepig, I wanted to write it as gray so desperately -- but I was cowed by the Anglophilic cabal.
posted by killdevil at 3:59 PM on June 30, 2005

MetaTalk is available in:
Carmel Mocha
Heather Cream
Cocoa Shell
Burnt Flaxseed
Dusty Dream
French River

In sizes:
P, XS, S, and M.

Please indicate size and color. Sorry, no Dusty Dream in size XS at this time.
posted by Secret Life of Gravy at 4:47 PM on June 30, 2005

I thought the official color of MeTa was Joel Grey.
posted by wendell at 10:37 PM on June 30, 2005

I'll take MetaTalk in Carmel Mocha S & M, please.
posted by kamikazegopher at 7:38 AM on July 1, 2005

What, there's no muumuu MeTa for us husky types?

posted by If I Had An Anus at 8:25 AM on July 1, 2005

Actualy by "on crack" I mean "looking at a miscalibrated monitor". Is it supposed to be brown or gray.
posted by delmoi at 10:39 PM on July 1, 2005