Y approaching zero December 24, 2008 11:21 AM Subscribe
Giga-meetup at 3.171 nano-Herz?
Could someone remind us all what may be in the works for the Fin de Cycle at that frequency?
(f = 1 decade)
Could someone remind us all what may be in the works for the Fin de Cycle at that frequency?
(f = 1 decade)
Are you trying ask what the plans are for the 10th Anniversary party?
posted by cortex (staff) at 11:26 AM on December 24, 2008
posted by cortex (staff) at 11:26 AM on December 24, 2008
Metafilter: You're not as clever or as smart as you think you are.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 11:46 AM on December 24, 2008
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 11:46 AM on December 24, 2008
Are you trying ask what the plans are for the 10th Anniversary party?
I you're going to put it like that, then yeah.
posted by StickyCarpet at 11:51 AM on December 24, 2008
I you're going to put it like that, then yeah.
posted by StickyCarpet at 11:51 AM on December 24, 2008
Are you trying ask what the plans are for the 10th Anniversary party?
Well, it's a little late, if so. How about the 001010th Anniversary plans?
posted by DU at 11:55 AM on December 24, 2008
Well, it's a little late, if so. How about the 001010th Anniversary plans?
posted by DU at 11:55 AM on December 24, 2008
Metafilter: You're not as clever or as smart as you think you are.
I'm exactly as clever as I think I am. Sadly, I'm exactly as smart as I think I am, too.
posted by StickyCarpet at 11:58 AM on December 24, 2008 [1 favorite]
I'm exactly as clever as I think I am. Sadly, I'm exactly as smart as I think I am, too.
posted by StickyCarpet at 11:58 AM on December 24, 2008 [1 favorite]
A little birdie told me it might be in New Orleans.
posted by brujita at 12:27 PM on December 24, 2008
posted by brujita at 12:27 PM on December 24, 2008
Pretty sure there will be a NOLA 10th aniversary meetup, sometime in July. We're talking dates and locations but likely not going to make anything fixed until post-holidaytime. That okay?
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 12:31 PM on December 24, 2008
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 12:31 PM on December 24, 2008
w00t! Hopefully all of us from the NOLA 9th Anniversary satellite meetup will be there to talk about how this isn't as cool as the last one was, and how you all really should have been there.
posted by Navelgazer at 12:40 PM on December 24, 2008
posted by Navelgazer at 12:40 PM on December 24, 2008
A little birdie told me it might be in New Orleans.
YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT THE BIRD?!
posted by inigo2 at 12:47 PM on December 24, 2008
YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT THE BIRD?!
posted by inigo2 at 12:47 PM on December 24, 2008
inigo, everybody knows that the bird is the word.
posted by Navelgazer at 1:10 PM on December 24, 2008 [2 favorites]
posted by Navelgazer at 1:10 PM on December 24, 2008 [2 favorites]
*checks possible plans for celebration of the 10th Anniversary of Metafilter*
1.) Milwaukee meetup.
or
2.) Retire to a fortified bunker, watch a few hours of Simon & Simon reruns before drinking a glass of Bulleit, and activating the doomsday device* I've been working on in my spare time.
Either one sounds like a pretty good plan.
*: doomsday device may contain some radioactive materials, high-powered optics, and an advanced lithium power-source. It may destroy the known universe, or put a small red dot on my wall. I think it depends on whether or not I was reading the Laser-pointer or the Super-Singularity schematic when I was building it. I honestly don't remember.
posted by quin at 3:14 PM on December 24, 2008
1.) Milwaukee meetup.
or
2.) Retire to a fortified bunker, watch a few hours of Simon & Simon reruns before drinking a glass of Bulleit, and activating the doomsday device* I've been working on in my spare time.
Either one sounds like a pretty good plan.
*: doomsday device may contain some radioactive materials, high-powered optics, and an advanced lithium power-source. It may destroy the known universe, or put a small red dot on my wall. I think it depends on whether or not I was reading the Laser-pointer or the Super-Singularity schematic when I was building it. I honestly don't remember.
posted by quin at 3:14 PM on December 24, 2008
Well, it's a little late, if so. How about the 001010th Anniversary plans?
Cabal members are reminded to use human-readable date formats when posting on MetaFilter1.
There is no Cabal.
posted by Rock Steady at 4:26 PM on December 24, 2008
Cabal members are reminded to use human-readable date formats when posting on MetaFilter1.
There is no Cabal.
posted by Rock Steady at 4:26 PM on December 24, 2008
Wouldn't a multi-city electronically patched together 10th anniversary celebration make more sense, with like live webcams and webcasts and chicks and guns and fire engines (Ok maybe sccratch the last two), but think about it.
posted by jonmc at 5:10 PM on December 24, 2008
posted by jonmc at 5:10 PM on December 24, 2008
quin, we meant to tell you, that "Doomsday Device Kit" we gave you? It was just an Erector Set. We felt you needed something to keep you busy.
posted by jonmc at 6:01 PM on December 24, 2008
posted by jonmc at 6:01 PM on December 24, 2008
What is a NOLA?
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 6:04 PM on December 24, 2008
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 6:04 PM on December 24, 2008
Pretty sure there will be a NOLA 10th aniversary meetup, sometime in July.
What are the plans for the Euro people? Having just one gig, deep in the fucking United States, just doesn't seem right.
posted by Meatbomb at 6:11 PM on December 24, 2008
What are the plans for the Euro people? Having just one gig, deep in the fucking United States, just doesn't seem right.
posted by Meatbomb at 6:11 PM on December 24, 2008
For deep-seated historical reasons, the NOLA-Korea ties are not as strong as they should be.
posted by lukemeister at 7:18 PM on December 24, 2008
posted by lukemeister at 7:18 PM on December 24, 2008
I would move heaven and earth (or at the very least, my physical body) to be there. Looking forward to it!
posted by hermitosis at 9:29 PM on December 24, 2008
posted by hermitosis at 9:29 PM on December 24, 2008
New Orleans? Lovely place and lovely people, but I think I speak for many of us by saying "Huh?"
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 10:09 PM on December 24, 2008
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 10:09 PM on December 24, 2008
1.21 Gigawatts!?!
posted by ActingTheGoat at 11:00 PM on December 24, 2008
posted by ActingTheGoat at 11:00 PM on December 24, 2008
And a secondary pan-European meetup please.
posted by jouke at 1:29 AM on December 25 [+] [!]
I agree. Except for the 'secondary' part!
Maybe Amsterdam?
posted by vacapinta at 2:56 AM on December 25, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by jouke at 1:29 AM on December 25 [+] [!]
I agree. Except for the 'secondary' part!
Maybe Amsterdam?
posted by vacapinta at 2:56 AM on December 25, 2008 [1 favorite]
Wouldn't a multi-city electronically patched together 10th anniversary celebration make more sense, with like live webcams and webcasts and chicks and guns and fire engines (Ok maybe sccratch the last two), but think about it.
Oh yes, please, this! Except unscratch the fire engines. Please, sirs and madam, don't make me buy a ticket to NOLA. I am poor. And there's a recession.
posted by youarenothere at 8:29 AM on December 25, 2008
Oh yes, please, this! Except unscratch the fire engines. Please, sirs and madam, don't make me buy a ticket to NOLA. I am poor. And there's a recession.
posted by youarenothere at 8:29 AM on December 25, 2008
How about this - we have a big meetup in NOLA. Everyone who can come will come. Anyone who cannot come can take part in simultaneous meetups elsewhere. Webcams should be involved.
I'm pretty sure that's the plan. I had a good time on US election day getting to chitchat with the folks in London (I think?) as stuff unfolded.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 2:58 PM on December 25, 2008
I'm pretty sure that's the plan. I had a good time on US election day getting to chitchat with the folks in London (I think?) as stuff unfolded.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 2:58 PM on December 25, 2008
How about this - we have big meetups in NOLA and Amsterdam?
posted by Meatbomb at 10:22 PM on December 25, 2008
posted by Meatbomb at 10:22 PM on December 25, 2008
You think it was London? Damn straight it was London - the Mefi London TV and chat channel! We used Ustream.tv and it worked reasonably well, other than for the lack of sound; by next summer it'll be even better.
posted by adrianhon at 1:21 PM on December 26, 2008
posted by adrianhon at 1:21 PM on December 26, 2008
I fourth the NOLA & Amsterdam meetups!
Yay for those of us in Europe :)
posted by zia at 1:53 PM on December 26, 2008
Yay for those of us in Europe :)
posted by zia at 1:53 PM on December 26, 2008
Christ I hate the wording of this post in a visceral way.
posted by bonaldi at 4:14 PM on December 27, 2008
posted by bonaldi at 4:14 PM on December 27, 2008
NOLA + Amsterdam satellite looks like a good plan. I will be the cruise director and will be happy to hurl myself into planning this slightly later and we'll announce it and promote it in all the pseudo-official ways.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 1:03 PM on December 28, 2008
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 1:03 PM on December 28, 2008
once the meetup is officially announced, we can start a new thread
That's the point of the weak wording. Leave room to build, for a more dramatic climax.
posted by StickyCarpet at 7:54 AM on December 29, 2008
That's the point of the weak wording. Leave room to build, for a more dramatic climax.
posted by StickyCarpet at 7:54 AM on December 29, 2008
If, like stav, you're wondering where NOLA is, it's here. Contrary to this comment's framing, it is not an isolated and sovereign nation floating in the air somewhere. It's in LA, Americia.
posted by timeistight at 10:44 AM on January 2, 2009
posted by timeistight at 10:44 AM on January 2, 2009
Oooh, I missed this thread because of its cryptic opening post, and only found it because I thought it was time we started planning our tenth anniversary and wanted to see if there'd been any recent mention of it.
I'm going to make every effort to go to the main 10th anniversary meetup, wherever it is. New Orleans in July isn't my dream getaway, but at least it's some place new I've never been.
posted by orange swan at 12:05 PM on January 7, 2009
I'm going to make every effort to go to the main 10th anniversary meetup, wherever it is. New Orleans in July isn't my dream getaway, but at least it's some place new I've never been.
posted by orange swan at 12:05 PM on January 7, 2009
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posted by ardgedee at 11:25 AM on December 24, 2008