I think I might be my own grandpaw, or six degrees of Brandon Blatcher April 29, 2013 12:58 PM Subscribe
I was wondering, has anyone has ever charted the tangled web of linked to/by relationships, or if that was even feasible with datamuckery? It's approaching four years since the great enspousening, and I was wondering how we are all interconnected.
If it hasn't been done and it is possible, I will now take this moment to kindly ask smarter folks to do so. MetaFilter relationships are not private, so I figure this wouldn't be crossing into "forbidden knowledge" territory.
If it hasn't been done and it is possible, I will now take this moment to kindly ask smarter folks to do so. MetaFilter relationships are not private, so I figure this wouldn't be crossing into "forbidden knowledge" territory.
Charting it is entirely doable; anybody who wants to have a go at it can use the Contact Data file in the Infodump.
Making a readable chart is the harder part, because it tends to be a very densely tangled mess depending on your method of visualization. Here's a very small example of a related graph I made years ago (this using faves data). Other folks have done similar things at least once or twice more recently as well.
posted by cortex (staff) at 1:06 PM on April 29, 2013 [2 favorites]
Making a readable chart is the harder part, because it tends to be a very densely tangled mess depending on your method of visualization. Here's a very small example of a related graph I made years ago (this using faves data). Other folks have done similar things at least once or twice more recently as well.
posted by cortex (staff) at 1:06 PM on April 29, 2013 [2 favorites]
My god, it's full of spouses!
posted by arcticseal at 1:24 PM on April 29, 2013 [8 favorites]
posted by arcticseal at 1:24 PM on April 29, 2013 [8 favorites]
Making a readable chart is the harder part
Indeed. I tried to do this some time back. I got some graphics that were beautiful, but none that I would call readable.
posted by FishBike at 1:29 PM on April 29, 2013
Indeed. I tried to do this some time back. I got some graphics that were beautiful, but none that I would call readable.
posted by FishBike at 1:29 PM on April 29, 2013
we are brother-wives.
posted by boo_radley at 1:32 PM on April 29, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by boo_radley at 1:32 PM on April 29, 2013 [2 favorites]
I thought the plural was spice.
posted by zamboni at 1:34 PM on April 29, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by zamboni at 1:34 PM on April 29, 2013 [2 favorites]
I am an island.
posted by cjorgensen at 1:38 PM on April 29, 2013
posted by cjorgensen at 1:38 PM on April 29, 2013
Speaking of how relationships change, 4 years ago, I thought the great enspousening, was some weird thing to be avoided, and now I'm sad to have missed it.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 1:39 PM on April 29, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by MCMikeNamara at 1:39 PM on April 29, 2013 [2 favorites]
Even after four years, this comment is still hilarious. :D
posted by zarq at 1:46 PM on April 29, 2013 [3 favorites]
posted by zarq at 1:46 PM on April 29, 2013 [3 favorites]
i was espoused to a number of mefites - but then i got engaged and suddenly only wanted to be espoused to my spouse and had to write a few "you're really lovely, it's not you it's me..." memails.
posted by nadawi at 1:52 PM on April 29, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by nadawi at 1:52 PM on April 29, 2013 [1 favorite]
I believe spousen is the only appropriate form.
posted by Dr Dracator at 2:17 PM on April 29, 2013
posted by Dr Dracator at 2:17 PM on April 29, 2013
Making a readable chart is the harder part, because it tends to be a very densely tangled mess depending on your method of visualization.
Perhaps someone could make a fancy dynamic "zoom in to see more" web thingy. And now I feel like an ungrateful cur, or an asker of outlandish requests.
Even after four years, this comment is still hilarious. :D
She's come to own the espousening, as every anniversary MeTa has been by Alia herself.
posted by filthy light thief at 2:21 PM on April 29, 2013
Perhaps someone could make a fancy dynamic "zoom in to see more" web thingy. And now I feel like an ungrateful cur, or an asker of outlandish requests.
Even after four years, this comment is still hilarious. :D
She's come to own the espousening, as every anniversary MeTa has been by Alia herself.
posted by filthy light thief at 2:21 PM on April 29, 2013
So, we can use the Ralph tag from now on?
posted by St. Alia of the Bunnies at 2:25 PM on April 29, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by St. Alia of the Bunnies at 2:25 PM on April 29, 2013 [1 favorite]
(And Six Degrees of Brandon Blatcher would make a fine band name or for that matter, sock puppet.)
posted by St. Alia of the Bunnies at 2:27 PM on April 29, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by St. Alia of the Bunnies at 2:27 PM on April 29, 2013 [2 favorites]
Now I miss hermitosis again. hermitosis, come back!
posted by small_ruminant at 2:27 PM on April 29, 2013
posted by small_ruminant at 2:27 PM on April 29, 2013
filthy light thief: " She's come to own the espousening, as every anniversary MeTa has been by Alia herself."
I love the way she's handled the whole thing.
posted by zarq at 2:39 PM on April 29, 2013
I love the way she's handled the whole thing.
posted by zarq at 2:39 PM on April 29, 2013
Brandon Blatcher has me listed as a "neighbor, spouse" for some reason. IDK.
posted by hellojed at 2:47 PM on April 29, 2013
posted by hellojed at 2:47 PM on April 29, 2013
I was lead to belive I am you and we are me and we are all together.
posted by The Whelk at 2:49 PM on April 29, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by The Whelk at 2:49 PM on April 29, 2013 [1 favorite]
hellojed, see his contacts page. Nearly everyone there is currently listed as "(acquaintance neighbor spouse)."
posted by zarq at 2:53 PM on April 29, 2013
posted by zarq at 2:53 PM on April 29, 2013
Oh, I was going to do a map of interconnected mefites for a data visualization project that never ever materialized. I think Bungie was hiring a data-visualization person and I just wanted to work there, and I needed a project, I guess.
I asked Cortex about it in an email. Location data is not public and is a no-go. And user nodes would have to be anonymous dots so people couldn't be outed. (if you wanted to use location data) and if not, just over an arbitrary plane with usernames would be fine.
posted by hellojed at 2:53 PM on April 29, 2013
I asked Cortex about it in an email. Location data is not public and is a no-go. And user nodes would have to be anonymous dots so people couldn't be outed. (if you wanted to use location data) and if not, just over an arbitrary plane with usernames would be fine.
posted by hellojed at 2:53 PM on April 29, 2013
I am Brandon's for real neighbor, we live about 4 short blocks apart. He has a lovely wife. What I've sometimes wondered is whether there are mefites that I've known well in other times/places, so many of us move around.
posted by mareli at 3:08 PM on April 29, 2013
posted by mareli at 3:08 PM on April 29, 2013
"I am Brandon's for real neighbor, we live about 4 short blocks apart. He has a lovely wife. What I've sometimes wondered is whether there are mefites that I've known well in other times/places, so many of us move around."
The core of people that I hang out with, like, multiple times a week, they're all MeFites. Which I wonder a little bit if that's been why we've been slack with IRL — like, we looked around on Saturday, and it was already an informal meetup.
posted by klangklangston at 3:15 PM on April 29, 2013
The core of people that I hang out with, like, multiple times a week, they're all MeFites. Which I wonder a little bit if that's been why we've been slack with IRL — like, we looked around on Saturday, and it was already an informal meetup.
posted by klangklangston at 3:15 PM on April 29, 2013
Whenever more than one of us is in the room then it is a meetup in our hearts.
posted by The Whelk at 3:17 PM on April 29, 2013 [7 favorites]
posted by The Whelk at 3:17 PM on April 29, 2013 [7 favorites]
I love the way she's handled the whole thing.
Agreed. I don't think that event was MetaFilter at its finest, but she responded exceptionally well and deserves a lot of credit.
posted by cribcage at 3:31 PM on April 29, 2013 [2 favorites]
Agreed. I don't think that event was MetaFilter at its finest, but she responded exceptionally well and deserves a lot of credit.
posted by cribcage at 3:31 PM on April 29, 2013 [2 favorites]
Speaking of how relationships change, 4 years ago, I thought the great enspousening, was some weird thing to be avoided, and now I'm sad to have missed it.
Spoused!
posted by misha at 3:37 PM on April 29, 2013
Spoused!
posted by misha at 3:37 PM on April 29, 2013
I was lead to believe I am you and we are me and we are all together.
Whelk is the walrus?
posted by St. Alia of the Bunnies at 3:44 PM on April 29, 2013 [1 favorite]
Whelk is the walrus?
posted by St. Alia of the Bunnies at 3:44 PM on April 29, 2013 [1 favorite]
i was espoused to a number of mefites - but then i got engaged and suddenly only wanted to be espoused to my spouse and had to write a few "you're really lovely, it's not you it's me..." memails.
It could be the Great Entspousening!
Does that joke work in English?
posted by hoyland at 4:06 PM on April 29, 2013
It could be the Great Entspousening!
Does that joke work in English?
posted by hoyland at 4:06 PM on April 29, 2013
I've always been sorry I was merely lurking back during the Great Enspousening.
posted by easily confused at 4:14 PM on April 29, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by easily confused at 4:14 PM on April 29, 2013 [1 favorite]
It could be the Great Entspousening!
Does that joke work in English?
Does that joke work in English?
"When the world was young, and the woods were wide and wild, the Ents and the Entwives – and there were Entmaidens then: ah! the loveliness of Fimbrethil, of Wandlimb the lightfooted, in the days of our youth! – they walked together and they housed together. But our hearts did not go on growing in the same way: the Ents gave their love to things that they met in the world, and the Entwives gave their thought to other things, for the Ents loved the great trees, and the wild woods, and the slopes of the high hills; and they drank of the mountain-streams, and ate only such fruit as the trees let fall in their path; and they learned of the Elves and spoke with the Trees.posted by zamboni at 4:18 PM on April 29, 2013 [1 favorite]
Oh you enspouseners, making a mockery of my real MetaFilter marriage!
posted by onlyconnect at 7:26 PM on April 29, 2013
posted by onlyconnect at 7:26 PM on April 29, 2013
I spoused Zambrano (that did not wendell), but didn't comment in any of the anniversary threads. Also I un-spoused a lot of you because your usernames weren't funny enough.
posted by brina at 8:28 PM on April 29, 2013
posted by brina at 8:28 PM on April 29, 2013
easily confused: "I've always been sorry I was merely lurking back during the Great Enspousening."
Me also. Not just on MeFi, but I always seem to not be around when all the fun stuff starts going down. It's a conspiracy, I tells ya and, one day, I'll get the proof I need.
posted by dg at 8:55 PM on April 29, 2013 [2 favorites]
Me also. Not just on MeFi, but I always seem to not be around when all the fun stuff starts going down. It's a conspiracy, I tells ya and, one day, I'll get the proof I need.
posted by dg at 8:55 PM on April 29, 2013 [2 favorites]
yeah well i never got a camera
posted by klangklangston at 9:20 PM on April 29, 2013 [7 favorites]
posted by klangklangston at 9:20 PM on April 29, 2013 [7 favorites]
I honest to god dont know anything about this spousening biz.
WTF is this high school again?
posted by timsteil at 9:23 PM on April 29, 2013
WTF is this high school again?
posted by timsteil at 9:23 PM on April 29, 2013
If you have to ask then you'll never know
pushes sunglasses up nose*
posted by The Whelk at 9:25 PM on April 29, 2013
pushes sunglasses up nose*
posted by The Whelk at 9:25 PM on April 29, 2013
klangklangston: "yeah well i never got a camera"
Yeah, well I never got a camera or a spouse, so there!
posted by dg at 9:30 PM on April 29, 2013
Yeah, well I never got a camera or a spouse, so there!
posted by dg at 9:30 PM on April 29, 2013
Oh my god has it really been almost four years? I have been lurking for too long.
posted by third word on a random page at 1:41 AM on April 30, 2013
posted by third word on a random page at 1:41 AM on April 30, 2013
I was going to whine that nobody wants to marry me and that I don't blame them, but when I actually went to check I see that I have four spouses. Something is wrong. I'm not getting nearly enough sex given that I have four spouses. I think we need Mefi marriage counselling. How do I get that?
posted by Decani at 2:56 AM on April 30, 2013
posted by Decani at 2:56 AM on April 30, 2013
I tried a graph of favorites, didn't work so well. That morphed into a list of who favorited each user's comments the most, and the most I got out of that was who was married to whom in the real world.
posted by rakish_yet_centered at 3:48 AM on April 30, 2013
posted by rakish_yet_centered at 3:48 AM on April 30, 2013
My spouse has a camera.
Does your spouse like photography?
posted by arcticseal at 6:21 AM on April 30, 2013
Does your spouse like photography?
posted by arcticseal at 6:21 AM on April 30, 2013
Legalise indiscriminate MeFi marriage!
posted by flabdablet at 7:36 AM on April 30, 2013
posted by flabdablet at 7:36 AM on April 30, 2013
I was just thinking about the Great Enspousening a few days ago, but forbade myself from searching for it because I already spend too much time on the grey reading about the current issues. Loophole!
posted by Brody's chum at 8:02 AM on April 30, 2013
posted by Brody's chum at 8:02 AM on April 30, 2013
If we legalize indiscriminate mefi Marriage then it's slippery slope to someone marrying a redditor.
posted by The Whelk at 8:13 AM on April 30, 2013 [5 favorites]
posted by The Whelk at 8:13 AM on April 30, 2013 [5 favorites]
I think it's a shame that we still don't have categories like 'nemesis', 'arch-rival', and 'on my list and not in a good way'.
posted by Brody's chum at 8:18 AM on April 30, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by Brody's chum at 8:18 AM on April 30, 2013 [1 favorite]
Something is wrong. I'm not getting nearly enough sex given that I have four spouses.
Late-night comedians have been implying that that's how marriage works. Is that not how marriage works?
posted by maryr at 9:00 AM on April 30, 2013
Late-night comedians have been implying that that's how marriage works. Is that not how marriage works?
posted by maryr at 9:00 AM on April 30, 2013
Is that not how marriage works?
I find that this does not apply to my marriage, but when I was (much) younger, a man that I respected said there were three kinds of sex after marriage:
1. Kitchen sex, where you get so hot for each other that you have sex in any room of the house, even the kitchen.
2. Bedroom sex, where you've cooled down a bit, and your sex is not mostly in the bed.
3. Hallway sex, which is where you say 'fuck you' at each other as you pass in the hallway.
posted by Mooski at 9:41 AM on April 30, 2013 [3 favorites]
I find that this does not apply to my marriage, but when I was (much) younger, a man that I respected said there were three kinds of sex after marriage:
1. Kitchen sex, where you get so hot for each other that you have sex in any room of the house, even the kitchen.
2. Bedroom sex, where you've cooled down a bit, and your sex is not mostly in the bed.
3. Hallway sex, which is where you say 'fuck you' at each other as you pass in the hallway.
posted by Mooski at 9:41 AM on April 30, 2013 [3 favorites]
Or perhaps speese.
Spooses.
Seriously. Say that out loud and it'll make your day better. You can rate how good a day is by the number of times you didn't have to say "spooses."
posted by eriko at 11:36 AM on April 30, 2013 [2 favorites]
Spooses.
Seriously. Say that out loud and it'll make your day better. You can rate how good a day is by the number of times you didn't have to say "spooses."
posted by eriko at 11:36 AM on April 30, 2013 [2 favorites]
Indeed, we should have "spooses" as a contact category.
posted by eriko at 11:37 AM on April 30, 2013
posted by eriko at 11:37 AM on April 30, 2013
I think it's a shame that we still don't have categories like 'nemesis', 'arch-rival', and 'on my list and not in a good way'.
Not to worry, if you skip down a few threads, I think you'll see that a number of Mefites apparently have lists of their own with those categories amply supplied.
posted by misha at 4:26 PM on April 30, 2013 [1 favorite]
Not to worry, if you skip down a few threads, I think you'll see that a number of Mefites apparently have lists of their own with those categories amply supplied.
posted by misha at 4:26 PM on April 30, 2013 [1 favorite]
There are spouses? (Speese? Spooses? Spice?)
Where was I when all this was happening?
I've only got one spouse. I feel so uncool now.
posted by jeanmari at 7:17 PM on April 30, 2013
Where was I when all this was happening?
I've only got one spouse. I feel so uncool now.
posted by jeanmari at 7:17 PM on April 30, 2013
mouse:mice
louse:lice
spouse:spice
posted by the man of twists and turns at 11:56 AM on May 1, 2013 [1 favorite]
louse:lice
spouse:spice
posted by the man of twists and turns at 11:56 AM on May 1, 2013 [1 favorite]
You know, after a killer of a day, to come home and find out that I am now thrice-spiced? That made it all better.
posted by jeanmari at 8:15 PM on May 1, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by jeanmari at 8:15 PM on May 1, 2013 [2 favorites]
Yeah, I've picked up a spouse as well :-) I choose to believe that it was a careful selection, based on my obvious charm, rapier wit and stunning good looks.
posted by dg at 9:00 PM on May 1, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by dg at 9:00 PM on May 1, 2013 [1 favorite]
It dawns on me that "Rapier Wit" would be a great name for a ... nevermind.
Could someone spring $5 or summon an existing Oprah sockpuppet to do the whole "you get a spouse, you get a spouse, YOU get a spouse!" thing?
TIA
XOXO
posted by lordaych at 9:33 PM on May 1, 2013
Could someone spring $5 or summon an existing Oprah sockpuppet to do the whole "you get a spouse, you get a spouse, YOU get a spouse!" thing?
TIA
XOXO
posted by lordaych at 9:33 PM on May 1, 2013
Damnit, who started the anniversary celebration early? I haven't made Brandon his SpouseCake yet!
posted by subbes at 12:37 PM on May 2, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by subbes at 12:37 PM on May 2, 2013 [1 favorite]
I'm definitely in need of some new spouses this year. Current spouses, you have not stepped up to the plate since the baby's birth. Not a single diaper change or late night feeding by the lot of you. It takes an internet village to raise a child, folks. Spouses who will rise to the challenge and pay child support, step right up.
posted by medusa at 5:59 PM on May 3, 2013
posted by medusa at 5:59 PM on May 3, 2013
I would be happy to spouse you but I can't afford child support.
Oops.
posted by Michele in California at 2:36 PM on May 4, 2013
Oops.
posted by Michele in California at 2:36 PM on May 4, 2013
House:hice
Blouse:blice
Grouse:grice
Spouse:spice
Strauss:strice
posted by maryr at 5:35 PM on May 5, 2013
Blouse:blice
Grouse:grice
Spouse:spice
Strauss:strice
posted by maryr at 5:35 PM on May 5, 2013
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