New Frapper Group

October 13, 2005 12:29 PM

Has anyone at MeFi participated in a Frapper group? If you know what I mean. If not, I've created one here.
posted by hall of robots to MetaFilter-Related at 12:29 PM (54 comments total)

WTF is a frapper? Know flapper & crapper.
posted by thomcatspike at 12:58 PM on October 13, 2005

Stalkr?
posted by tpl1212 at 1:03 PM on October 13, 2005

quonsar invited me to a fapper group...
WELL SOMEBODY HAD TO SAY IT
posted by wendell at 1:11 PM on October 13, 2005

frap frap frap frap...
posted by kindall at 1:19 PM on October 13, 2005

you keep doing that, you'll go blind, kindall
posted by jonmc at 1:26 PM on October 13, 2005

hehe - quite cool map scrolling when you go somewhere else in the world.
posted by nkyad at 1:29 PM on October 13, 2005

kindall and cortex, west side repr'zentin. F'shizzle, metafizzle.
posted by cortex at 1:31 PM on October 13, 2005

Scrapple.
posted by If I Had An Anus at 1:43 PM on October 13, 2005

Neat. Thanks.
posted by mds35 at 2:04 PM on October 13, 2005

Frappe, frappe, frappe...
posted by Pollomacho at 2:07 PM on October 13, 2005

I realize this is unrelated to my original post, but I just saw this page for the first time just now -- eerily, it brings all the frapping jokes full circle. What gives with the links?
posted by hall of robots at 2:16 PM on October 13, 2005

It was wiki spam, now cleaned.
posted by gleuschk at 2:20 PM on October 13, 2005

you keep doing that, you'll go blind, kindall

Have you seen my glasses? I'm already halfway there.
posted by kindall at 2:40 PM on October 13, 2005

There is no one even remotely close to me. I'm going to start having SOLO MEETUPS all by myself. Because I am the party.
posted by Eideteker at 2:43 PM on October 13, 2005

It says that Cardiff doesn't exist. It may be in Wales, but it still counts, damnit!
posted by Lotto at 2:48 PM on October 13, 2005

It changed its mind.
posted by Lotto at 2:49 PM on October 13, 2005

Not many Europeans out there... :'(
posted by sveskemus at 3:01 PM on October 13, 2005

Very cool. I can't be the only London based Mefite though.
posted by MrMustard at 3:13 PM on October 13, 2005

I'm trying to add myself but it won't recognise The Hague (or any other names it goes by).
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 3:17 PM on October 13, 2005

(It does recognise *lots* of smaller towns nearby, however.)
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 3:21 PM on October 13, 2005

Ah screw it, I settled on nearby Delft.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 3:23 PM on October 13, 2005

I came, I saw, I frapped all the place.

Neat!
posted by fenriq at 3:24 PM on October 13, 2005

MrMustard: I am London-based, just not during term time. And I know of at least one other MeFite who is in the same situation.
posted by Lotto at 3:29 PM on October 13, 2005

Wow, I feel like I belong.
posted by tommasz at 3:38 PM on October 13, 2005

Is there any way to make this default to a world map, instead of a US one?
posted by signal at 3:45 PM on October 13, 2005

goodnewsfortheinsane, that's really weird that it would take Delft and not the Hague! (I went to high school in the Hague -- fond memories!)
posted by trip and a half at 3:56 PM on October 13, 2005

So, seriously, what is this useful for? I'm amused, but the feeling is transitory and I'm not sure why I'd go back a week from now. Can someone defend this?
posted by cortex at 4:01 PM on October 13, 2005

signal: try now.
posted by hall of robots at 4:03 PM on October 13, 2005

I can't wait for someone from Chino, CA to sign up so I can call them "Frapperchino"
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 4:06 PM on October 13, 2005

posted by The Jesse Helms at 4:14 PM on October 13, 2005

So lonely in South Carolina. Anybody else? Bueller?
posted by chiababe at 4:19 PM on October 13, 2005

hall of robots writes 'signal: try now.'

Nice, global is the way to go!
posted by signal at 5:10 PM on October 13, 2005

BTW, I frapped your wife.
posted by TimeFactor at 5:12 PM on October 13, 2005

OK, I'm in. Suck it, haters Northeast Asia!
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:21 PM on October 13, 2005

I frap enough by myself thank you.
posted by snsranch at 5:24 PM on October 13, 2005

Rumple in Victoria: what in the hell are you holding in that photograph?!
posted by five fresh fish at 5:29 PM on October 13, 2005

Hey, signal, we could have a Mefi Meetup middle way between Santiago and São Paulo say, in Asuncion. But then again, Meetupwise Buenos Aires would be far, far better.
posted by nkyad at 5:48 PM on October 13, 2005

No longer anonymous... and apparently not as shy as I used to be. If you see me at the Greenbelt Metro Station, say hey.
posted by Corky at 6:01 PM on October 13, 2005

Interrobang in Lawerence? I'm only 30 minutes away! There was a Lawerence meetup without me? What the hell? I've been here forever and I thought meetups were only for cooler, politically connected cities. I'm up for an impromptu meetup tomorrow here in KC or Lawerence.
posted by geoff. at 7:01 PM on October 13, 2005

E-mail me or leave a message here and we can swap cell phone numbers if you're down.
posted by geoff. at 7:05 PM on October 13, 2005

Excellent. Surprised not to see more NYCers in yet.

(The picture upload is a nice bonus, by the way.)
posted by BT at 7:14 PM on October 13, 2005

AH... via wiki ...
FRAP:Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) is a technique used in cellular imaging where a fluorochrome attached to a molecule is destroyed on purpose with an intense flash of light (by a laser).
posted by R. Mutt at 8:59 PM on October 13, 2005

heh, it put me in Sydney, Canada
posted by dhruva at 9:25 PM on October 13, 2005

The map seems to have a real problem with zipcode locations.
I mean, it put my marker in the entirely wrong neighborhood, probably about a mile and a half from my actual zipcode.
posted by Jon-o at 9:38 PM on October 13, 2005

The last one has to eat the biscuit, I hear.
posted by squirrel at 9:39 PM on October 13, 2005

they put me in the wrong place too-- i should be directly north of mullacc.
posted by amberglow at 9:43 PM on October 13, 2005

It put dobbs right on top of me!
posted by loquax at 9:47 PM on October 13, 2005

nkyad writes 'Hey, signal, we could have a Mefi Meetup middle way between Santiago and São Paulo say, in Asuncion. But then again, Meetupwise Buenos Aires would be far, far better.'


I'm probably heading east this summer, actually thinking of doing northern Brasil. I'll drop you a line if I'm anywhere near you.
posted by signal at 10:05 PM on October 13, 2005

FFF-- its a 14,000 year old grizzly bear mandible we dug out of a cave upcoast from here...
posted by Rumple at 10:24 PM on October 13, 2005

When I looked this morning, there were only 3 names to be frappé; now "The connection was refused when trying to contact Rising Concepts."
MetaFilter has done it again.
posted by Cranberry at 11:22 PM on October 13, 2005

Very cool. I can't be the only London based Mefite though

I'm in Kent, but it London was the nearest place I could link to.
posted by TheDonF at 1:07 AM on October 14, 2005

milkshake, cabinet, frappe.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 3:52 AM on October 14, 2005

Rumple: Thank goodness. I thought it was a lobster claw at first. Figured only a very, very strange fellow would go spelunking with lobsters...
posted by five fresh fish at 9:47 AM on October 14, 2005

fff, I guess you missed this.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 5:17 PM on October 14, 2005