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If you had searched Amazon for the book you would have found that it is indeed Metafilter's Own Adam Greenfield.
posted by iconomy at 9:06 AM on July 23, 2007
posted by iconomy at 9:06 AM on July 23, 2007
Metafilter: Destroying your desire for privacy, one outing at a time.
posted by blue_beetle at 9:23 AM on July 23, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by blue_beetle at 9:23 AM on July 23, 2007 [1 favorite]
Metafilter: Destroying your desire for privacy, one outing at a time.
Publishing a book and being on NPR are key elements in my bid for privacy. Having a MeFi username that's my name—second tier.
posted by carsonb at 9:28 AM on July 23, 2007 [3 favorites]
Publishing a book and being on NPR are key elements in my bid for privacy. Having a MeFi username that's my name—second tier.
posted by carsonb at 9:28 AM on July 23, 2007 [3 favorites]
Carsonb--you could be sneaky like me, and have a username that is someone else's name.
posted by adamrice at 9:40 AM on July 23, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by adamrice at 9:40 AM on July 23, 2007 [1 favorite]
That's too spooky for me, adamrice.
I've always figured I should be as accountable as possible, as directly as possible, for all my utterances here. Sometimes this policy results in me cringing and attempting to hide under the kitchen sink until my shame blows away, but on balance it's a good thing.
That was indeed me on NPR: thanks for noticing. I kind of wish they had asked me about something I actually think and write and (uh, care much) about, but oh well, right? I'm just happy that I managed not to materially misrepresent the state of play, without resorting to technical jargon. I hope.
posted by adamgreenfield at 9:49 AM on July 23, 2007
I've always figured I should be as accountable as possible, as directly as possible, for all my utterances here. Sometimes this policy results in me cringing and attempting to hide under the kitchen sink until my shame blows away, but on balance it's a good thing.
That was indeed me on NPR: thanks for noticing. I kind of wish they had asked me about something I actually think and write and (uh, care much) about, but oh well, right? I'm just happy that I managed not to materially misrepresent the state of play, without resorting to technical jargon. I hope.
posted by adamgreenfield at 9:49 AM on July 23, 2007
Uh o. Are we supposed to be trying for anonymity? One click from my profile and my life is laid bare. Not me, just my life.
posted by The Deej at 10:17 AM on July 23, 2007
posted by The Deej at 10:17 AM on July 23, 2007
Hey, is the NPR mentioned in the blog linked from adamgreenfield's profile this NPR?
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 10:31 AM on July 23, 2007
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 10:31 AM on July 23, 2007
adamrice: that trips me up every time, since I know sudama and don't know you.
fourpanels, did you have any other questions?
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 10:31 AM on July 23, 2007
fourpanels, did you have any other questions?
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 10:31 AM on July 23, 2007
Well, I was wondering if Adam ever did a complete review on the A-Bike. I guess I could look if I wasn't so damn lazy.
posted by The Deej at 10:34 AM on July 23, 2007
posted by The Deej at 10:34 AM on July 23, 2007
adamrice: that trips me up every time, since I know sudama and don't know you
Ditto, although Sudama's more of a friend of friends.
posted by LionIndex at 12:15 PM on July 23, 2007
Ditto, although Sudama's more of a friend of friends.
posted by LionIndex at 12:15 PM on July 23, 2007
Nice underwear, Deej.
posted by hermitosis at 1:07 PM on July 23, 2007
posted by hermitosis at 1:07 PM on July 23, 2007
All part of The Plan, q. : . )
posted by adamgreenfield at 1:42 PM on July 23, 2007
posted by adamgreenfield at 1:42 PM on July 23, 2007
Hey you!
posted by adamgreenfield at 2:39 PM on July 23, 2007
posted by adamgreenfield at 2:39 PM on July 23, 2007
Carsonb--you could be sneaky like me, and have a username that is someone else's name.
You're not the only one. Or rather, someone else has my name. Stinker. (No, my name isn't Stinker.)
posted by The corpse in the library at 2:46 PM on July 23, 2007
You're not the only one. Or rather, someone else has my name. Stinker. (No, my name isn't Stinker.)
posted by The corpse in the library at 2:46 PM on July 23, 2007
Nice underwear, Deej.
posted by hermitosis
Duh! I'm not wearing underwear!
Oh wait...
posted by The Deej at 2:59 PM on July 23, 2007
posted by hermitosis
Duh! I'm not wearing underwear!
Oh wait...
posted by The Deej at 2:59 PM on July 23, 2007
Could somebody write a book called "Ubiquitards, or Stupidity Everywhere" about how emergent technologies are helping us all to discover what stupid people think about stuff? Like, for example, youtube.com, which not only brings us videos but lets us know what a vast array of self-selecting dumb people think of them. I'd write it myself but I'm lazy and a thicko.
posted by George_Spiggott at 3:21 PM on July 23, 2007
posted by George_Spiggott at 3:21 PM on July 23, 2007
Could somebody write a book called "Ubiquitards, or Stupidity Everywhere" about how emergent technologies are helping us all to discover what stupid people think about stuff?
And I will be the first one to offer my opinion.
posted by The Deej at 5:00 PM on July 23, 2007
And I will be the first one to offer my opinion.
posted by The Deej at 5:00 PM on July 23, 2007
Chapter One: The Seven Habits of Highly Deffective People
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 5:00 PM on July 23, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 5:00 PM on July 23, 2007 [1 favorite]
Chapter Two: Who Cut the Cheese?
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 5:02 PM on July 23, 2007
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 5:02 PM on July 23, 2007
Chapter Three: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: This Means You
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 5:04 PM on July 23, 2007
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 5:04 PM on July 23, 2007
Other Chapter Titles:
Getting Things Dumb
The World Is Flatulent
Ignorance for Dummies
The Law of Distraction (aka The Secretion)
Tuna Fishing: The Porpoise Driven Life
He's Just Not Into You Without A Condom
If you're erection lasts longer than your workweek, see your doctor.
posted by wendell at 6:23 PM on July 23, 2007 [1 favorite]
Getting Things Dumb
The World Is Flatulent
Ignorance for Dummies
The Law of Distraction (aka The Secretion)
Tuna Fishing: The Porpoise Driven Life
He's Just Not Into You Without A Condom
If you're erection lasts longer than your workweek, see your doctor.
posted by wendell at 6:23 PM on July 23, 2007 [1 favorite]
I've met adamgreenfield. He enjoys portobello cheesesteaks.
posted by jonmc at 6:45 PM on July 23, 2007
posted by jonmc at 6:45 PM on July 23, 2007
maybe you should create a sock puppet, adam. then you can get away with anything ... and it only costs you $5.
posted by lester's sock puppet at 6:54 PM on July 23, 2007
posted by lester's sock puppet at 6:54 PM on July 23, 2007
Hmm. I would be compelled to call it adamgreenfield's sock puppet, though - 'twould seem to rather defeat the purpose.
jonmc will be pleased to know that I have graduated to actual cheesesteaks. Portobello...ecch.
posted by adamgreenfield at 8:01 PM on July 23, 2007
jonmc will be pleased to know that I have graduated to actual cheesesteaks. Portobello...ecch.
posted by adamgreenfield at 8:01 PM on July 23, 2007
I've met adamgreenfield.
I served with adamgreenfield. I knew adamgreenfield. adamgreenfield was a friend of mine. You, jonmc, are no adamgreenfield.
posted by The Deej at 8:08 PM on July 23, 2007
I served with adamgreenfield. I knew adamgreenfield. adamgreenfield was a friend of mine. You, jonmc, are no adamgreenfield.
posted by The Deej at 8:08 PM on July 23, 2007
You, jonmc, are no adamgreenfield.
Indeed I am not. I'm skinnier and have more hair. But he's smarter.
posted by jonmc at 8:11 PM on July 23, 2007
Indeed I am not. I'm skinnier and have more hair. But he's smarter.
posted by jonmc at 8:11 PM on July 23, 2007
I served with adamgreenfield.
I'm sorry, I very much doubt that.
posted by adamgreenfield at 8:18 PM on July 23, 2007
I'm sorry, I very much doubt that.
posted by adamgreenfield at 8:18 PM on July 23, 2007
I served with adamgreenfield.
I'm sorry, I very much doubt that.
posted by adamgreenfield
OK then
I servedwith adamgreenfield.
posted by The Deej at 8:41 PM on July 23, 2007
I'm sorry, I very much doubt that.
posted by adamgreenfield
OK then
I served
posted by The Deej at 8:41 PM on July 23, 2007
The Deej: Looks to me like you're the one who got served!
*Sassy snaps*
[The preceding comment was just an excuse to post this link to WMFU's awesome post featuring MP3s from John Fahey's The Mill Pond .]
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 9:17 PM on July 23, 2007
*Sassy snaps*
[The preceding comment was just an excuse to post this link to WMFU's awesome post featuring MP3s from John Fahey's The Mill Pond .]
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 9:17 PM on July 23, 2007
Wait a minute, this thread has nothing to do with A.D.A.M, the Green , or Field!
brought to you by the random Canadian website coalition (RCWC)
posted by blue_beetle at 9:20 PM on July 23, 2007
brought to you by the random Canadian website coalition (RCWC)
posted by blue_beetle at 9:20 PM on July 23, 2007
The Deej: Looks to me like you're the one who got served!
*Sassy snaps*
Oooo! I give that joke *snap *snap* TWO SNAPS UP!
posted by The Deej at 9:28 PM on July 23, 2007
*Sassy snaps*
Oooo! I give that joke *snap *snap* TWO SNAPS UP!
posted by The Deej at 9:28 PM on July 23, 2007
adamgreenfield fed my baby to a dingo.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 10:50 PM on July 23, 2007
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 10:50 PM on July 23, 2007
Jeezus H. . . liquorice, I ought to have looked up the Australian joke long since, but I had essentially no idea. Meryl Streep? Nicole Wallace, a post-Wonder Years d'Abo as D'Onofio's nemesis? How deep does this thing go?
posted by cgc373 at 4:10 AM on July 24, 2007
posted by cgc373 at 4:10 AM on July 24, 2007
Do I gain or lose hepcat daddy-o points by saying I've never seen Buffy?
Actually, I guess I've probably lost already by using the phrase 'hepcat daddy-o'
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:22 AM on July 24, 2007
Actually, I guess I've probably lost already by using the phrase 'hepcat daddy-o'
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:22 AM on July 24, 2007
“‘I served with adamgreenfield.’
I'm sorry, I very much doubt that.”
Adam has the absurd notion that he's unique on MetaFilter in that no other mefites served in the Army's PSYOP—even though I've told him that I personally know one who did. Considering this is the only mefite I knew personally before I joined, I feel certain there are at least one or two others out there among the 30K or so real members. But Adam has a need to be a special snowflake and thus his service with PSYOPS is one those things he makes sure everyone knows. The guy I know hardly mentions it, ever. But then he's not cultivating a public persona.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 5:49 AM on July 24, 2007
I'm sorry, I very much doubt that.”
Adam has the absurd notion that he's unique on MetaFilter in that no other mefites served in the Army's PSYOP—even though I've told him that I personally know one who did. Considering this is the only mefite I knew personally before I joined, I feel certain there are at least one or two others out there among the 30K or so real members. But Adam has a need to be a special snowflake and thus his service with PSYOPS is one those things he makes sure everyone knows. The guy I know hardly mentions it, ever. But then he's not cultivating a public persona.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 5:49 AM on July 24, 2007
Adam has a need to be a special snowflake
Where did that come from? My read of that line was "Um, I think I would have known if you were in my group" The only person who brought up PSYOPS here is you.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 7:18 AM on July 24, 2007
Where did that come from? My read of that line was "Um, I think I would have known if you were in my group" The only person who brought up PSYOPS here is you.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 7:18 AM on July 24, 2007
Adam has a need to be a special snowflake
Whoah there, pumpkin! jessamyn's read is, of course, correct, and you are way, way out of line.
I could speculate as to the reasons why you felt it necessary to leave such a titanic turd in a purely harmless thread, but it wouldn't really get any of us anywhere.
It's true that I'm inordinately proud of one or two things I've done in my life, mostly because I still can't believe I've had the good fortune to have experienced them. You might want to spend some time thinking about why that bothers you so.
And FWIW, for the record, I've never seen Buffy either. : . )
posted by adamgreenfield at 8:13 AM on July 24, 2007 [1 favorite]
Whoah there, pumpkin! jessamyn's read is, of course, correct, and you are way, way out of line.
I could speculate as to the reasons why you felt it necessary to leave such a titanic turd in a purely harmless thread, but it wouldn't really get any of us anywhere.
It's true that I'm inordinately proud of one or two things I've done in my life, mostly because I still can't believe I've had the good fortune to have experienced them. You might want to spend some time thinking about why that bothers you so.
And FWIW, for the record, I've never seen Buffy either. : . )
posted by adamgreenfield at 8:13 AM on July 24, 2007 [1 favorite]
I have never seen Buffy.
I don't want to be a special snowflake.
And yet, I am a special snowflake.
posted by The Deej at 1:13 PM on July 24, 2007
I don't want to be a special snowflake.
And yet, I am a special snowflake.
posted by The Deej at 1:13 PM on July 24, 2007
I have never seen Buffy.
I've seen Buffy a few times. Enough to get the hots for Alyson Hannigan. I used to be a special snowflake. Then someone peed....
posted by jonmc at 1:23 PM on July 24, 2007
I've seen Buffy a few times. Enough to get the hots for Alyson Hannigan. I used to be a special snowflake. Then someone peed....
posted by jonmc at 1:23 PM on July 24, 2007
I used to be a special snowflake. Then someone peed....
Wow, weird! Someone peed, and that's what made me a special snowflake.
posted by The Deej at 1:36 PM on July 24, 2007
Wow, weird! Someone peed, and that's what made me a special snowflake.
posted by The Deej at 1:36 PM on July 24, 2007
I have never seen Buffy except for one time to figure out what all the fuss was about over the HAWT LIBRARIAN. It was just that, fuss.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 1:36 PM on July 24, 2007
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 1:36 PM on July 24, 2007
And fussing over hawt librarians is wrong why?
posted by adamgreenfield at 2:16 PM on July 24, 2007
posted by adamgreenfield at 2:16 PM on July 24, 2007
Ah, roger that.
posted by adamgreenfield at 2:25 PM on July 24, 2007
posted by adamgreenfield at 2:25 PM on July 24, 2007
Ah, roger that.
Doesn't sound like she wants to.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 2:29 PM on July 24, 2007 [1 favorite]
Doesn't sound like she wants to.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 2:29 PM on July 24, 2007 [1 favorite]
It's the rake's progress. Something like the Course of Empire, but with (more) alcohol.
posted by adamgreenfield at 3:14 PM on July 24, 2007
posted by adamgreenfield at 3:14 PM on July 24, 2007
Never seen Buffy, definitely eat cheesesteaks, never been in PSYOPS. I think that pretty much covers it.
posted by oneirodynia at 3:26 PM on July 24, 2007
posted by oneirodynia at 3:26 PM on July 24, 2007
He's positively rakish, dammit.
actually, I'm more like one of those fence-post-digger contraptions, but whatever...
(adam, we gotta hit Wogie's again and get one ofthe real thing..)
posted by jonmc at 3:29 PM on July 24, 2007
actually, I'm more like one of those fence-post-digger contraptions, but whatever...
(adam, we gotta hit Wogie's again and get one ofthe real thing..)
posted by jonmc at 3:29 PM on July 24, 2007
I think you may be approaching a Myers-Briggs-type personality inventory, there. You may need a vital *fourth* axis to distinguish the otherwise indiscernible NCNMs (non-Buffy-fan, cheesesteak-eatin' non-PSYOPer muscle car enthusiasts) from NCNFs (non-Buffy-fan, cheesesteak-eatin' non-PSYOPer fixie converts).
posted by adamgreenfield at 3:34 PM on July 24, 2007
posted by adamgreenfield at 3:34 PM on July 24, 2007
Wogie's. Outstanding. I bet Vidiot would want to be there, too. Friday?
posted by adamgreenfield at 3:35 PM on July 24, 2007
posted by adamgreenfield at 3:35 PM on July 24, 2007
NCMI
Ironically uses the term "Hepcat Daddy-O"/ Earnestly uses the term "Hepcat Daddy-O"
posted by oneirodynia at 4:27 PM on July 24, 2007
Ironically uses the term "Hepcat Daddy-O"/ Earnestly uses the term "Hepcat Daddy-O"
posted by oneirodynia at 4:27 PM on July 24, 2007
Wogie's. Outstanding. I bet Vidiot would want to be there, too. Friday?
Maybe. Send me and vidiot and email.
O'm drunk and effusive and I've been listening to Cheap trick again.. mommy's all right, daddy's allright
posted by jonmc at 5:52 PM on July 24, 2007
Maybe. Send me and vidiot and email.
O'm drunk and effusive and I've been listening to Cheap trick again.. mommy's all right, daddy's allright
posted by jonmc at 5:52 PM on July 24, 2007
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