MetaTalk posts tagged with followup

"The Most Insane News Story You'll See Today"

stbalbach — Thu, 16 May 2013 19:11:37 -0800

We met homeless, hatchet-wielding hitchhiker Caleb “Kai’ Lawrence McGillivary in February. He became a meme. Earlier this week Kai was arrested for murdering a lawyer. "I believe that everyone is a little safer with this person off the streets," the prosecutor said. (This is a follow-up)

Super Secret Mini Mefi Meetup

maggieb — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 19:08:54 -0800

Appalachian Trail hiker, Zak (aka wearyaswater) took me up on my mefi offer. She made it to Virginia!! Yay, that is a benchmark for thru-hikers. She landed in Damascus, Virginia (a major trail town) in the middle of the week so I did not post a flash meetup because (1) remote location (2) middle of the week. So we had maybe the tiniest mefi meetup ever (= 2 members.) BUT we made a sign (link to her blog post... scroll down for the photos.) I am a romantic where this trail is concerned. I am not going to tell you that wearyaswater is not having a struggle. She is and is doing very well! What I want to say to you is that the struggle is an inextricable part of it and the struggle for each is as different as we are as individuals. This has been true from the very beginning. Even as I consider and witness the changes in technology and gear there are aspects of the trail that do not change and thwart many advancements. Even though my first mefi meetup was just the two of us I was SO EXCITED! I didn't think I would ever have a chance to meet a Mefite IRL. If Zak comes back for a reunion here I will propose a meetup even though everyone will have to declare a roadtrip (but it's worth it!!) pertinent blog entry (scroll down for mefi art) previous initial

A short update to an old Star Trek: Nemesis AskMe

blueberry — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:36:27 -0800

In regard to the following two-year-old AskMe...

Is there any connection between the Nemesis movie script described in the movie Trekkies and the last ST:TNG movie, Star Trek: Nemesis?

...So, Tooty McTootsalot plopped down $1 to put an e-mail in Gabriel's inbox on Facebook. Here's the conversation: McTootsalot: "Hi Gabriel, Sorry to bother you, but I was hoping you could help me answer a burning question I've had. I haven't found anything online that answers this, so I thought I'd ask the source, you. In Trekkies, you show off some amazing graphics you created for your local club's submission for a script for a Star Trek movie. You showed a Romulan armada, a space station, and a logo for "Star Station: Nemesis". Five years later, a movie comes out called Star Trek: Nemesis, and is the only Star Trek film to feature Romulans as the main enemy. Is there any connection? It seems like a big coincidence, but then again, I have no idea if the stories are similar." Gabriel: "That question was on my mind for years and I did finally get to meet John Logan, the screen writer, and he did confirm to me that yeah, he saw Trekkies and thought Nemesis would make a cracking title for a Trek film. I agreed. Too bad it was kind of a shitty movie. Other than sharing the Romulans, the stories were not similar at all though." ---- That’s all.

Relationship Hacks 2012? (i.e. Okay to make a sequel?)

softlord — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 15:20:02 -0800

The question located at http://ask.metafilter.com/137148/What-clever-relationship-hacks-have-you-come-up-with is one of the most favorited posts of all time, created in 2009. I've found some of the advice in there immensely useful in my own relationships and have referred back to it often. Since then the community has grown and diversified, and I was thinking about making a post on the green looking for new hacks, but I thought I'd ask here first.

What is the community's stance overall on open-ended posts that were answered a while back getting new posts about them?

Interesting or redundant?

Different since its now 4 years old?

End-of-year AskMe Followup Reminder

Deathalicious — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 21:23:09 -0800

It's the 31st of December, so now is a good reminder to look through all the AskMe's you posted in 2012 and add any followups, as they will start to close over the next year.

AskMe comes through yet again!

davey_darling — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 09:49:13 -0800

Thanks AskMe! Over a year ago I asked for some help with some technology to help my students use their cameras. The advice I received in the thread led me to purchase some gear (Manfrotto Variable Friction Arm and Super Clamp) that has worked well - so well, in fact, that it caught the notice of a local news writer who put together this article describing the system. So thanks, AskMe! Not only did you help out my students but you also got some positive press for our school! (MeFi was described only as an "internet forum", I name-dropped but it must not have made the final edit.)

Hooray for Issa Rae

bq — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 09:51:56 -0800

Awkward Black Girl got a TV deal Is this OK? I didn't think it was enough for a FPP. But she is awesome and this is good news.

You only have to realise the truth. There is no pan.

fearnothing — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:24:47 -0800

Following up my questions about a vanishing pan and a very odd modelling contract... Hi folks, thought I'd just follow up two of my questions. Firstly Dude, Where's My Pan? I've now moved out. It did not turn up when I cleaned out all of my spaces, the pan is genuinely gone. :( And secondly How on Earth is this legal? A strange twist to the tale: after being specifically asked to scrutinise the traveller's checks, the bank verified them as legitimate. The company apparently intend to rent a studio for half a day in the town centre to do the shoot, but have been a bit flaky about sorting it out. My housemate will probably go, but only accompanied by a friend, and only if they give her reasonable notice.

AskMe changed my life

MrMoonPie — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 07:14:02 -0800

Two years ago today, I posted an AskMetafilter that changed my life. I've done a few more weddings since I last updated that post, but the bigger news is that my wife quit her office job last September, and is now performing weddings as her full-time job. She has a website and an awesome office/wedding space and cards and promotional mint tins and all that, and it all started right here. I had no way of knowing what a huge, life-changing chain of events that one post would set into motion; thanks to all for their support and assistance.

Doctor, eventually.

ocherdraco — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:53:27 -0800

Thanks, Metafilter. For the past day or so, Google has been sending out emails about its change in privacy policies to every Gmail address. This means, of course, that I've gotten one for each throwaway email I've created for anonymous AskMe questions over the years (because those throwaway addresses forward to my real one). It's given me occasion to go back through those anonymous questions, and the answers I was given. Now, I'm not going to out myself for all of them (they're anonymous for a reason!), but one in particular comes as a very timely reminder. In March of 2010 I asked this question: "I'm potentially interested in becoming a primary care (family) physician.... Can you help me find resources I can use to decide if this is something I really want to pursue, or just a fantasy?" Y'all responded with lots of food for thought, many aspects of the profession that I hadn't considered, and advice on how to go about discerning my path that over the past two years has been extremely helpful. On Monday, I'm starting post-bacc classes, and in about two years, I'll be applying to med school (or, maybe not, if organic chemistry kicks my butt). In a certain way, this new start stems directly from the answers I got in that post, and the thoughts and actions they inspired. So, thanks again, MeFi. Someday within the next decade and change, I'll probably be able to say "I am a doctor, but I am not your doctor," and mean it. I appreciate it.

Strad Your Stuff

spiderskull — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:13:00 -0800

As a follow-up to the recent violin study claiming that professional violinists couldn't tell the difference between a modern and a Stradivarius, one of the participants gives her side of the story.

Followup tab pony?

notsnot — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:40:00 -0800

Could we maybe have a "followup" tab in AskMe? This may be coding hell, in which case never mind, but: In my recent question, we had a Very Low Frequency conversation where the answerers, bless them, came back and answered my followup information. But the answerers had to bother to come back and see that I'd provided more info. Is there a way to automate this? In other words, have a tab that lists questions that I've recently answered, that the original asker has come back with more information? Any number of times, I've thought to myself, I wonder what happened on that one question, if there was any more (required) infomation provided, or if it was resolved. Having this automated would be a cool feature.

No foot puns, just a .

Halloween Jack — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:56:19 -0800

Follow-up to post about mystery shoe-clad feet washing up on shore in the Pacific Northwest: The majority have been identified as belonging to aquatic suicides (e.g. bridge jumpers). (via)

Halloween comment illustrated

mattbucher — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:57:59 -0800

This popular comment about reverse trick-or-treating was illustrated here (but not attributed to np312 or MetaFilter {that I could see}).

Yes she does, but she's working on it

Joe in Australia — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 20:37:23 -0800

The painfully brilliant and beautiful blog/autobiography/comic strip I Do Not Have An Eating Disorder featured here previously stopped publication for a while (the reason is disclosed in the blog) but has now resumed. I cannot possibly recommend it highly enough. Here's a bookmark for the first page; a bookmark for the blog as it stood at the time of the FPP; and the most recent strip.

The Wheel, now on sale!

chowflap — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 08:43:51 -0800

Remember robocop is bleeding's masterful (and fictional) story about The Wheel? Ladies, gentlemen, children: Meet the real-life Consequence Spinner. (The product doesn't seem at all mean-spirited, but I thought the echoes to r.i.b.'s story pretty striking.)

Anonymous followups to anonymous questions

EatTheWeak — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 14:36:20 -0800

Would you ride this anonymous AskMe pony? Hey everyone! I was curious what the mods' and the community's thoughts would be on allowing anonymous AskMe questioners to post anonymously in their question thread? Anonymous posts often concern rather sensitive matters and sometimes call for some clarifying information from the OP. I've recently seen a couple askers out themselves in anonymous threads to post additional info that answerers were asking for, defeating the whole purpose of posting anonymously. (Normally, I would post examples, but in this case I'll refrain in the interests of not further spreading what may or may not have been an accidental breach of anonymity.) The mods, of course, are able to post followups which they are emailed into the threads, but that sounds like kind of a pain in the ass for them (maybe not; I don't know) and is rather slower for the asker and the answerers than the ability to post straight into the thread. I can see how the incentive of only being able to post followups only publicly would be a check against the rising number of anonymous questions. Could we correct for this and retain the utility of anonymous followups by limiting the number allowed per question? Would that also correct for the other potential blowback, the possibility of flamewars w/ one user in anonymous stealth mode when a question goes sour? What do you think? Is this a pony we should ride round the pasture, or does she buck and bite in ways I ain't thought of?

MeFi's own

mkultra — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 05:11:36 -0800

The Daily Beast has a great piece out on the saga of two Russian immigrants caught up in the sex trade and the work of a handful of brave MeFites who saved them. Cheers!

The drama's done.

synecdoche — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:01:57 -0800

Follow-up: Matt Kish's One Drawing for Every Page of Moby-Dick (discussed here) is now complete. If you're a fan of the art, a book is on its way, or you can buy some pieces on Matt's Etsy shop.

36 hours of dodgeball later

avocet — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:31:18 -0800

Congratulations to MeFi's newest world record holder, ImBitman! AskMe prep question: What do ridiculous marathon athletes eat?

THEN WHO WAS PHONE? Literally.

punchdrunkhistory — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:45:10 -0800

Was there ever an explanation/solution to the cell phone stalking mystery? Google only reveals news reports from 2007, and no followup information.

Andrew Shirvell Fired

BigLankyBastard — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:59:45 -0800

MeFi Followup: Remember Andrew Shirvell? He got fired yesterday. Via.

Chrontendo directory

JHarris — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 13:36:48 -0800

I worked for a couple of days on a post on Chrontendo, the project of a guy to play every Famicom and NES game, and in chronological order to boot. (It reminds me a bit of Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged, but no matter.) When I finished it and tried to post it I found out that it had already been posted. (In fact, I myself had commented on it, which was odd.) However, the work I had done in constructing the post, which links to every video's description page and notes which ones contain particularly interesting games, shouldn't go to waste I think. The original thread is long closed, so I'm going to paste my links in the More Inside of this post for people to peruse and enjoy. Crontendo highlights: Episode 1: Donkey Kong, Mario Bros. Episode 2: Xevious, Lode Runner, Excitebike Episode 3: Galaga, Kung Fu Episode 4: Star Force, Tower of Druaga Episode 5: Super Mario Bros., Battle City, Pac-Land Episode 6: Lunar Pool, Karateka, Portopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken Episode 7: The Legend of Zelda, The Goonies, Twinbee, Bomberman Episode 8: Super Mario Bros. 2, Dragon Quest, Spy vs. Spy, Gradius, Mighty Bomb Jack Episode 9: Metroid, Solomon's Key, Star Soldier Episode 10: Sky Kid, Takahashi Meijin no Bouken Jima (Hudson's Adventure Island) Episode 11: Castlevania, Pro Wrestling, Super Star Force Episode 12: Zanac, Moero Twinbee Episode 13: RBI Baseball, King Kong 2: Ikari no Megaton Punch, Deadly Towers, Takeshi no Chousenjou Episode 14: Kid Icarus, Zelda 2 Episode 15: Dragon Quest II, Eggerland Episode 16: Rush'n Attack, Otocky, Goonies II Episode 17: Rygar, Ai Senshi Nicol, Renegade Episode 18: Section Z, Pro Golfer Saru - Kage no Tournament, Meikyuu Jiin Dababa, Athena Episode 19: Getsufuu Maden, Woody Poco Episode 20: Doki Doki Panic (Super Mario Bros 2), Double Dribble, Legacy of the Wizard Episode 21: Castlevania II, Maze of Galious, Robowarrior, Air Fortress Episode 22: Magic of Scheherazade, Life Force, Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei Episode 23: Ultima III, Falsion, Kid Niki Episode 24: Punch-Out!!, Faxanadu, Bubble Bobble, Romancia Episode 25: Dragon Scroll: Yomigaerishi Maryuu, Star Wars (Namco version), Top Gun Episode 26: Mega Man, Final Fantasy, Karnov, Wizardry I Episode 27: Metal Gear, Ice Hockey, Konami Wai Wai World, Ripple Island, Wizards & Warriors Episode 28: Dragon Quest III, Contra, The Guardian Legend, Gun.Smoke, Donald Land (as in, Ronald McDonald) Episode 29: Nobunaga's Ambition, R.C. Pro-Am, Golgo 13 Episode 30: Double Dragon, Battle of Olympus, Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa Episode 31: Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom, Jackal Episode 32: Blaster Master, Cosmo Police Galivan Episode 33: Bionic Commando, Blades of Steel, Rainbow Islands, Quest of Ki

We have bicycles

MrMoonPie — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 06:53:45 -0800

Followup: We got our bike station. I can now pick up a bike a few blocks from home and drop it off a few blocks from work. Membership is still at the $50 discounted annual rate. Nifty.

Previously On Metafilter... cut to montage

maryr — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:04:13 -0800

Is there an appropriate way to note follow-up on a closed MeFi post? I noticed in today's NYT that there have been several arrests made of members of the Bell, CA city council. There was a post this summer (For Whom The Bell Tolls...) about the outrageous salaries some city officials were making in this small incorporated area of LA. Of note, the arresting district attorney clarifying that ''Being paid excessive salaries is not a crime, illegally obtaining those salaries is a crime.'' Can we add a "follow up" link or such? Does anyone else care? I'm still new and not sure what the policy on this sort of thing is.