Can I link to my flickr page?

June 23, 2006 9:55 AM

Self-linker?
posted by WolfDaddy to Etiquette/Policy at 9:55 AM (54 comments total)

Are you asking if FPPing a link to your own flickr account counts as a self-link? Yes, I think it does.

What were you thinking, WD?
posted by dobbs at 9:57 AM on June 23, 2006

And a self-callout! What next -- will WolfDaddy self-ban?
posted by Astro Zombie at 9:57 AM on June 23, 2006

Performance art is hard.
posted by boo_radley at 9:58 AM on June 23, 2006

I've found that invoking your mother in a post may very well be one of the harbingers of Metafilter doom. Or at the very least one of the four horsemen of Metafilter doom.
posted by redsparkler at 9:59 AM on June 23, 2006

My mother? I'll tell you about my mother.

*shoots redsparkler through a wall*
posted by longbaugh at 10:01 AM on June 23, 2006

'I've found that invoking your mother in a post may very well be one of the harbingers of Metafilter doom"

Invoque tu madre
posted by mr_crash_davis at 10:01 AM on June 23, 2006

I think the post could be salvaged if it was rewritten. Something like how fractal generators are online (link to them, link to standard galleries of fractal images) and how fractals are seen in nature such as in the sea (links to the stuff your mom mentioned).

It could have been done without the backstory and without the self-link. The post has links to stuff I've never seen before, but it reads like a personal blog post that would be exhausting to read if it became the norm around here.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:02 AM on June 23, 2006

Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about... your mother.
posted by Astro Zombie at 10:02 AM on June 23, 2006

'kay mathowie, will you allow me to re-compose it then?
posted by WolfDaddy at 10:02 AM on June 23, 2006

Sure, post it here, I'll wipe what you have and repost.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:03 AM on June 23, 2006

And : This post was deleted for the following reason: It coulda been salvaged I tells ya

Ha ha ha ha ha.
posted by Astro Zombie at 10:03 AM on June 23, 2006

Time enough to ... die
posted by edgeways at 10:06 AM on June 23, 2006

WolfDaddy, just mention the whole mom thing and link to your flickr acct as the first comment in the thread. It's actually a fascinating post except for the whole GYOBFW aspect. And I'm loving the music in the You Tube linked in Spanish Dancer. If anyone knows who that is I'd like to hear more.
posted by iconomy at 10:06 AM on June 23, 2006

Metafilter: just mention the whole mom thing
posted by mr_crash_davis at 10:08 AM on June 23, 2006 [1 favorite]

Or don't.
posted by iconomy at 10:09 AM on June 23, 2006

I need ya, Deck. This is a bad one, the worst yet. I need the old blade runner, I need your magic.
posted by Astro Zombie at 10:10 AM on June 23, 2006

I've seen such things with your eyes... I've seen attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion...
posted by jonson at 10:10 AM on June 23, 2006

I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life, anybody's life, my life. All he'd wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where did I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I could do was sit there and watch him die.
posted by Astro Zombie at 10:16 AM on June 23, 2006

Playing with fractal generators can result in images that remind some of creatures in the natural world. Did you know that the nudibranch^ can be evocative of certain Julia-set fractals? Especially when you see them in motion. Be sure to check out the "scubadiving" and related YouTube tags for other deep-sea creatures. I especially liked this one.

and my apologies, I'm posting under the influence ... of Benadryl. Sigh.
posted by WolfDaddy at 10:18 AM on June 23, 2006

They're my friends. I make them.
posted by boo_radley at 10:18 AM on June 23, 2006

I want more life, fucker!
posted by Astro Zombie at 10:19 AM on June 23, 2006

This thread has done...questionable things.

But nothing the god of cybernetics wouldn't let us into heaven for.
posted by waxbanks at 10:27 AM on June 23, 2006

Wake up! Time to die!
posted by brundlefly at 10:28 AM on June 23, 2006

I mean, did you do, or- or were you asked to do anything lewd or unsavory or otherwise, uh, repulsive to your person, huh?
posted by Snyder at 10:33 AM on June 23, 2006

You ever buy snakes from the Egyptian, Taffey?
posted by Astro Zombie at 10:34 AM on June 23, 2006

You're a dedicated man, Snyder.
posted by adamgreenfield at 10:35 AM on June 23, 2006

Buzz off, pal. I was talking to Snyder!
posted by adamgreenfield at 10:35 AM on June 23, 2006

the four horsemen of metafilter doom: mom, george w bush, kirk cameron and quonsar
posted by pyramid termite at 10:36 AM on June 23, 2006

Remember when you were six? You and your brother snuck into an empty building through a basement window. You were going to play doctor. He showed you his but when it got to be your turn you chickened and ran, you remember that? You ever tell anybody that? Your mother, Tyrell, anybody? Remember the spider that lived outside your window? Orange body, green legs. Watched her build a web all summer then one day there's a big egg in it. The egg hatched...
posted by Astro Zombie at 10:36 AM on June 23, 2006

Home again, home again, jiggidy-jig!
posted by brundlefly at 10:36 AM on June 23, 2006

You could learn from this guy Gaff. He's a God damned one-man slaughterhouse, that's what he is. Four more to go!
posted by Astro Zombie at 10:40 AM on June 23, 2006

You've done a man's job, sir!
posted by Snyder at 10:41 AM on June 23, 2006

All these moments will be lost in time.
posted by dazed_one at 10:41 AM on June 23, 2006

Damnit, now I want to see that picture:

Oops!
spacer image

The photo you were looking for has been deleted.

You might like to ask WolfDaddy about it!
posted by delmoi at 10:42 AM on June 23, 2006

WD: How old are you?
posted by delmoi at 10:46 AM on June 23, 2006

It's back from the dead now.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:46 AM on June 23, 2006

reposted. Perhaps we could close this thread now, as the situation seems to have been resolved.
posted by delmoi at 10:47 AM on June 23, 2006

And I've run out of Blade Runner quotes.
posted by Astro Zombie at 10:48 AM on June 23, 2006

Is this to be an empathy test? Capillary dilation of the so-called blush response? Fluctuation of the pupil? Involuntary dilation of the iris?
posted by Snyder at 10:48 AM on June 23, 2006

It's too bad this thread won't live! But then again, who does?
posted by brundlefly at 10:50 AM on June 23, 2006

I've run out of Blade Runner quotes.

Then dial 3.
posted by Gator at 10:50 AM on June 23, 2006

Batty: C'mon, Deckard. I'm right here, but you've gotta shoot straight.
[Deckard shoots and misses]
Batty: Straight doesn't seem to be good enough!

there's always room for Blade Runner Quotes
posted by blue_beetle at 10:52 AM on June 23, 2006

brundlefly beat me to my bladerunner quote.
posted by shmegegge at 10:53 AM on June 23, 2006

God damn that movie has some great dialogue.
posted by Astro Zombie at 10:56 AM on June 23, 2006

*litters thread with tiny origami unicorns*
posted by cortex at 11:00 AM on June 23, 2006

Thanks, mathowie.
posted by WolfDaddy at 11:02 AM on June 23, 2006

...I'm very confused about postmodernism right now.
posted by moss at 11:02 AM on June 23, 2006

I don't remeber that line. Was it from Roy Batty?
posted by Astro Zombie at 11:05 AM on June 23, 2006

brundlefly: "Home again, home again, jiggidy-jig!"

This might be my favorite quote from any movie ever.
posted by Plutor at 11:07 AM on June 23, 2006

aaaaaooooooooooooooo!!!
posted by edgeways at 11:17 AM on June 23, 2006

MetaFilter: I'll wipe what you have and repost.
posted by If I Had An Anus at 11:23 AM on June 23, 2006

WolfDaddy is the new Doohickie.

(nice recursion, btw)
posted by Eideteker at 11:24 AM on June 23, 2006

I'll wipe what you have
posted by If I Had An Anus
posted by iconomy at 11:38 AM on June 23, 2006

I've seen attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion

At first I read that last word as "Onion."

And yes, Blade Runner has superlative dialogue.
posted by languagehat at 12:16 PM on June 23, 2006