Metafilter's topics - tribe.net

WTFIW?

2005-01-25T16:13:59Z

Who the fuck is who?

"Whom?" Screw it. They gave me a degree in this language. If I don't know by now, I don't need to know. Languagehat, I know you're a descriptivist at heart and won't fight to your last arrow over "whom."

Wulfgar!! taz! amberglow! I'm feeling you all, but there is a serious name-mapping issue with the bulk of this tribe. J? Tom? Bill? While those are certainly memorable handles, I've missed you fine folk in the Blue, to the best of my knowledge.

Or have I?

For all we know we've exchanged numerous plo/karate chops in the Blue. Do I love you? Do I hate you? I'm dazzled by the possibilities of a viable off-site gathering spot, but WTFIW???

While it's obviously important for some of us to maintain a bit of a veil, perhaps a brief mention of your MeFi name & Tribe handle here in this thread would represent a minimal exposure.

Come on. Who are you people?

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Favorite threads?

2004-12-12T06:50:44Z

Yay! I'm in the MeFi tribe! Now I can start a thread on this site about cool threads on that other site.. MeMeFi :)

This cute and quirky thread made me smile:
http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/10390

How about you? What recent threads brought a smile to your face or a tear to your eye?

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Day After Tomorrow

2004-05-04T21:31:09Z

So, there's this movie (which looks kinda cheezy) called Day After Tomorrow coming out at the end of the month. The premise is that global warming triggers sudden climate change, bringing down a whole can of climatic whoop-ass on the helpless peoples of the world.

Now, normally one would let this pass without comment, but given that there's next to no discussion of climate change and its implications in American politics these days, it seems a shame to let the opportunity to stir some debate pass by. The fundamentalists put the Passion on the top of the box-office charts: why can't we do the same thing with the Day after Tomorrow? Why should the fundies have all the fun?

Here's my take on it:
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/000657.html

If you agree this sounds worthwhile and fun, please go ahead email/post letting others know.

If someone wanted to post something on MeFi, that'd be sweet, too.

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It's meetup season; here's a calendar ...

2004-03-24T19:37:04Z

With proposals for MeFi gatherings popping up left and right on MetaTalk, I should take the opportunity to plug the calendar of MetaFilter events that I've been maintaining for the past year or so. It covers every meeting I can keep track of, plus important events like International Plep Day.

It's in iCal format, so happy Mac users can subscribe to it through iCal, but the rest of youse can view it on the web.

Web: http://www.mcwetboy.net/mefi_meetings/

Subscribe: webcal://ical.mac.com/mcwetboy/MetaFilter32Meetings.ics

-- mcwetboy

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Help!

2004-03-09T03:56:40Z

I'm sick of lurking. Who wants to post to ask.mefi on my behalf?

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MeFi @ Mediachest?

2004-02-26T18:31:04Z

At MeFi, zpousman posted a thread on Mediachest.com, a community swap site one pinger described as "Orkut + Netflix." Post your DVD, book, and other media libraries, link yourself to your friends, and swap away.

As Mediachest.com has a "groups" function, I started one for MeFi users. Anyone wanna play? It's like MeFi Swap, only different!

http://www.mediachest.com/groups/mefi/

Apologies for the social-software crossposting...

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Faithful Mefi Lurkers.

2004-02-22T01:02:19Z

I've received a number of JOIN requests from folks who read Metafilter regularly, but aren't Mefites due to enrollment restrictions... should I let them in?

I think they'd make a wonderful connection... and this tribe might be a wonderful way to let them sit at the table.

Comments?

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site downage?

2004-02-19T16:43:55Z

So what's going on? Mefi's been down since yesterday. Where are y'all surfing to instead? Me, kottke, boingboing, and gothamist. So hard to waste quality time without Mefi.

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11/7 - anyone here going to the tribe open house

2003-10-24T20:16:44Z

There's a tribe.net open house on the 7th in SF. Anyone here planning on going?

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boing boing tribe open for business

2003-10-09T00:22:40Z

Hey all, if you are boing boing lovers too, they now have a tribe on here. Just sayin, is all.

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Need help - site related (kinda)

2003-10-02T14:49:24Z

I am planning to publish (on the web) a book about the life of my Grandfather that was finished but never published and is not likely to be published as this kind of life story no longer sells well enough for a publishing company to take it on.

Anyway, the problem I have is that I want to be able to format the document/s for various applications, so that it can be read on-line or downloaded as maybe a Word document or pdf (probably one per chapter). I don't want to have to re-format the document for different applications, as it is bad enough that the book only exists in manuscript form and will have to be typed (or OCRd) in the first place. It is around 800 A4 typewritten pages.

Any suggestions as to how I can make this work would be appreciated.

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plo chops

2003-09-07T22:07:13Z

Okay, i've had a few days to let the hilarity diffuse, but i still think the term "plo chops" by dhartung is one of the funniest thing i've heard on mefi. If you missed it, it was a FFP about Arnold Schwarzenegger's questionable corrupt past. You can find it as the third FFP on August 11, 2003:href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/27605#536315.html"

Here is the link, which actually brings me to the question: What is the funniest thing you've ever heard on Mefi?

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Re: A Tale of THREE Miggies.

2003-09-03T08:40:10Z

As someone mentioned before, there seem to be two Miguels here. One, a mild-mannered Portugese writer, presumably Mr. Cardoso himself, and two, a Miguel into piracy and casual sex and life in the fast lane.. blowin' and burnin', blinded by thirst.

I'm wondering if they are the same, or if one is an imposter, or if there are simply two Miguels. Or is it a joke?

Also: How can I go about creating a half-man, half-monkey type creature?

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Re: And a few more

2003-08-27T05:37:23Z

In the recent thread about fractals thread, dg made wallpaper out of an image I'd done awhile back, which made me feel extremely complimented.

The thread itself inspired me to go out and buy UltraFractal and I've just now had time to sit down and play with it, and already come up with some more pretty things. So, for you dg, and anyone else who'd care to have it:

Peaches'n'Cream "Stationery"

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A plea for photos!

2003-08-25T00:51:32Z

Hey, folks, we're growing at a good clip... and we've already got two Miguels. I'm pretty sure it's only going to get more confusing as more people join.

Could everyone try and get a photo into their profiles? GIF and JPEG work... and the width is 150 x 180 pixels (width x height). If you need help, just ask.

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Houston

2003-08-12T23:05:07Z

Many of us travel. Many of us are social. Put two tastes that taste great together and we've got the MeFi Hospitality Index!

If you'd like to host a MeFite during their travels, add your name and location (and the limits of your hosting ability--from "just call me and let me know you're in town so I can go outside with my megaphone and tell you to go home" to "come live with me in sumptuous splendor for the rest of your days"--to this topic. Over at Everything2, we've got a similar index, and I've met a bunch of cool people visiting my hometown.

So, to get started, if any MeFites are visiting the Santa Barbara, California area, drop me a message and let me know. Would love to meet ya! I'd love to show off Paradise to you. One night's lodging on a hide-a-bed optional.

See, that was easy!

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TRIBE.net as FPP?

2003-08-12T08:41:49Z

Hey everyone... I'm really enjoying the TRIBE.net community, and think it would make a killer FPP... not just our tribe, but the entire project...

But I don't want to do it myself, as, well... my FPP are cursed. Anyone with some gravitas wanna post it? I searched and didn't see it already listed.

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Making our mark.

2003-08-11T17:13:37Z

Hey everyone!

Looks like there's going to be some real interest in this group, which makes me really happy... maybe this could be the solution to all the MeTa threads about needed a place outside of Mefi to be a community.

Anyway, we're a smart and web-savvy group... and I hope that we can really make our mark on TRIBE.net.

I said it elsewhere, but I'll repeat myself here: if you really want to shape how this baby grows, get involved... and a good starting point is joinging the TRIBEIDEAS group (also in CULTURES & COMMUNITY).

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What's a LISTING?

2003-08-08T18:09:23Z

If you're wondering (as I did until someone explained it to me like I was four) what the difference is between a DISCUSSION BOARD entry and a LISTING is, here's the skinny:

The DISCUSSION BOARD is the place for threaded posts, not unlike back at Metafilter, except that threads here can spawn children (ew).

LISTINGS, on the other hand, are for when you want to make an announcement to the entire group (a la Craigslist).

Have a new project you'd like us to know about? Make a LISTING... want us to comment on it? Make a DISCUSSION BOARD post. The LISTINGS are also great if you've got something for sale, or are looking for a roommate.

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Need Help! Site-related.

2003-08-08T15:20:10Z

(Okay, then, Silus; here I go, shaking all willy-nilly.) Well. I have a site that gives away background tiles, and on the download pages for the backgrounds, I have a javascript that automatically tiles the background when you click on it. Like here. This function evidently does not work in Mozilla, and presumably not in Netscape. I've downloaded Mozilla and tried out all the scripts I can find that do the tiling gig, and so far have found nothing that works with Mozilla. So, is this just entirely an IE-only thing, and thus I will never find anything that will work with Mozilla, et al, because they simply don't have the tiling gene? Or is there some other way of doing this that will work in Moz?

It wouldn't really be a big deal at all, because it's only a little convenience, but I also have tiles that I call "OverAlls", which are semi-transparent so that you can use them over different background colors and get different effects. On those download pages I also have a mouse-over color changer color chart, so you can view the tiled backgrounds over different colors, and pick the one you want to use. Metafilter - 9 replies

Eating Worms

2003-08-08T07:33:26Z

Okay, the burning questions here are who gets immunity? Who gets voted out? Who wants to eat live grubworms? Go, tribe Mefi! Eh, just kidding - but really, what are we doing here? I think that the tribe can be useful for asking advice and getting help, but the problem is that there might be some questions that are better asked anonymously. This could be anything from "looking for a new job" to quandries that involve very personal details. I have a couple of ideas about how we could address this, if we decide that this space is going in the help/advice direction.

Other than that? We can always swap Mefi gossip that really shouldn't be on Metatalk, and we can be very silly, which we do on Metatalk and then feel guilty over. We could link to sites that we think wouldn't make really good Mefi posts, but we still want to share. (I don't know. What do people normally do in these sorts of venues? I feel like the bride that went directly from her father's house to her husband's house - I've never been involved in any other community than Mefi-straightup.) Of course, we could do all these things, and more, but without the option to create categories, it's all going to be very higgledy-piggledy, no?

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