Microsoft Live Labs director in MeFi

July 29, 2006 5:29 PM

Kinda cool; lilbrudder (who is me, in case anyone cares/didn't know - I'm reserving the "jonson" ID strictly for double posts these days) posts about a new technology from Live Labs, the prototyping skunkworks division of Microsoft, and in the middle of the discussion, the director of the lab chimes in - turns out he's been a mefite for years.
posted by jonson to MetaFilter-Related at 5:29 PM (26 comments total)

Now that I wrote this, I notice that it's linked in the sidebar, making this post redundant. Oh well.
posted by jonson at 5:36 PM on July 29, 2006

Already sidebarred.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:37 PM on July 29, 2006

Oops.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:37 PM on July 29, 2006

Interrobang emailed me to let me know and I sidebarred it. It's cool, I agree.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 5:38 PM on July 29, 2006

I think it got sidebarred while I was busy catching up on the 300+ comments in the two threads beneath this one. Damn antisemitic members & their "." posting counterparts! Distracted me.
posted by jonson at 5:44 PM on July 29, 2006

THEY WALK AMONG US...
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 6:37 PM on July 29, 2006

lilbrudder (who is me, in case anyone cares/didn't know - I'm reserving the "jonson" ID strictly for double posts these days)

Wait, what?
posted by keswick at 6:39 PM on July 29, 2006

I think he meant that sarcastically, since he's posted a few doubles (accidentally) lately. Bad boy!

dr. flakenstein is really cute - thank you for bringing that to my attention, lilbrudder.

*gives lilbrudder noogies*
posted by iconomy at 6:45 PM on July 29, 2006

"Already sidebarred."


posted by mr_crash_davis at 7:14 PM on July 29, 2006

curse you crash davis & your doubleposttauntingpug!!!!!!!!!!!
posted by jonson at 7:42 PM on July 29, 2006

And yeah, I've posted WAY too many doubles lately. Each time I feel like a complete tool. I'm searching the crap out of things from now on. This kind of shit never happens to crunchland :-(
posted by jonson at 7:43 PM on July 29, 2006

Hey, FYI, it's been sidebarred.
posted by blue_beetle at 7:48 PM on July 29, 2006

eh bill, what do you need your johnson for?
posted by growabrain at 8:45 PM on July 29, 2006

As they say in France, C'est cool. I read MeTa far more often than a wimpy sidebar.
posted by yeti at 12:23 AM on July 30, 2006

Yeah, it happens to me, too, jonson. I just IM Matt or Jess and have the evidence removed before anyone notices.
posted by crunchland at 1:42 AM on July 30, 2006

This thread is very meta.
posted by absalom at 1:52 AM on July 30, 2006

So what's the scoop on people using their sock puppets to beat posting restrictions? Is that okay?
posted by nthdegx at 2:13 AM on July 30, 2006

So what's the scoop on people using their sock puppets to beat posting restrictions? Is that okay?

Baby needs a new recumbent plasma bigwheel.

As long as the links are quality - as jonson and lilbrudder's are - and they aren't spam or self-linking whoremeistering, what's the problem?
posted by loquacious at 2:47 AM on July 30, 2006

In a general sense if you have an "out" sock puppet and you consistently post twice per day, eventually people will get fed up with it. If it's a once in a while thing, it's not a huge deal. jonson, do you not know the crunchland double-post checker tip set, or are you just having a run of bad luck? If you think the search is behaving in some counterintuitive way, let me or mathowie know.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 5:19 AM on July 30, 2006

It's my fault that jonson's been double posting lately. I shouldn't have joked about getting free cake for posting links as quickly as possible.
posted by Smart Dalek at 6:48 AM on July 30, 2006

The double posting has been entirely my fault, jess - I think I keep finding stuff obsure/recent enough to be immune to a thorough search, and I keep being wrong. As for the lilbrudder account, I've posted from it four times in two months - it's certainly not a scam to increase my total number of posts per day.
posted by jonson at 9:54 AM on July 30, 2006

"As long as the links are quality - as jonson and lilbrudder's are - and they aren't spam or self-linking whoremeistering, what's the problem?"

Whoa there. It wasn't a call out. I don't keep up with which sock-puppet account belongs to who, and as such it wasn't an issue that occurred to me, but as it did, and we had a relevant discussion going I thought I'd find out the craic.
posted by nthdegx at 11:01 AM on July 30, 2006

...the director of the lab chimes in - turns out he's been a mefite for years.

Cool. I never looked at boids in the same way after reading his lovely "Computational Beauty of Nature."
posted by fold_and_mutilate at 11:49 AM on July 30, 2006

Yeah, but can he play the theme to Star Wars on the banjo?
posted by crunchland at 2:51 PM on July 30, 2006

I make my double posts under jonson's name too.
posted by languagehat at 4:11 PM on July 30, 2006

for what it's worth, he joined the same day as me (latvia's national day - easy to remember!), which was pretty much when membership was re-opened after a freeze of an eternity-and-a-half.

just saying...coz it might imply a longer period of lurking prior to signing up.
posted by UbuRoivas at 3:32 AM on July 31, 2006