What did you first see on Metafilter that is now a permanant part of your life?

April 29, 2003 6:52 PM

I was listening to Ode To Billy Joe today on a mix in my car and this afternoon I wrote a journal entry in my moleskin notebook. What's the point? These are two things I learned about on Metafilter and that are now part of my life. What did you first see on Metafilter that is now a permanant part of your life?
posted by adrober to MetaFilter-Related at 6:52 PM (43 comments total)

Fuckwits
posted by matteo at 6:56 PM on April 29, 2003

A lotta people who I now consider freinds.

Hi. You know who you are.
posted by jonmc at 7:20 PM on April 29, 2003

Achewood.
posted by soyjoy at 7:21 PM on April 29, 2003

...er... it's usually not in German...
posted by soyjoy at 7:24 PM on April 29, 2003

Yugop, but most especially the industrious clock.
posted by WolfDaddy at 7:43 PM on April 29, 2003

Questionnaires.
posted by Opus Dark at 7:49 PM on April 29, 2003

What jon said but also ultramegachomps of bookmarks; basic HTML; a leftwing streak; the art of snarking, a scar or two and a greater familiarity with colloquial American English. Otherwise, zilch. ;)
posted by MiguelCardoso at 7:57 PM on April 29, 2003

Moleskines for me as well. And then I got a friend and both parents hooked on them shortly thereafter.
posted by Ufez Jones at 7:57 PM on April 29, 2003

Boobs. Oh wait, that's Fark.
posted by squirrel at 8:05 PM on April 29, 2003

Metafilter itself.
Blogging.
Sportsfilter.
Robot Wisdom.
Get Your War On.

And since I started reading here, I have become a better writer.
posted by vito90 at 8:18 PM on April 29, 2003

More bookmarks than I can possibly visit in my lifetime, a wary appreciation of deep-fried Mars bars, some cool music, some friends, the deep desire to get a blog of my own, way too many in-jokes, and of course the crisp new $100 bill that Quonsar sends me weekly.
posted by Vidiot at 8:28 PM on April 29, 2003

Godawful thick-ass fucking calluses all over my face, lips and fingers.

And yes, like vito90, being a better writer. I'm much better able to hone my "strengths" now. Especially as an author of fiction, it is much easier to impute real personality traits onto the tell-tale textual dialogue, as these are the presuppositions of fiction itself anyhow.

At least for me.
posted by crasspastor at 8:30 PM on April 29, 2003

Tons of friends, and at least a friend or two for life. #mefi definitely helped shrink MeFi down more.
posted by riffola at 9:15 PM on April 29, 2003

The Simpsons.

No, really. I watched an episode or two during its first year, was unimpressed, and never dipped a toe into it again. Then I hit MeFi, and it's all Simpsons references. I mean, all Simpsons references, the whole damn vocabulary of the place. Except for the vibrating stuff. And the pancakes.

So, I started watching reruns. Damn, this show's pretty good!

You may now all point at me and laugh.
posted by Slithy_Tove at 9:27 PM on April 29, 2003

Ha-Ha!

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posted by Stauf at 9:42 PM on April 29, 2003

Miguel Cardoso?

And more things than I can remember. Thankfully I have them all saved in a database. Searchable by keyword, domain, or title. Seriously. All 1176 of them. MetaFilter rocks.

Though this MeTa topic sucks.

"I like air. Does anyone else like air? What sort of air do folks here like? How does air impact your enjoyment of MetaFilrer?"

[insert long-ass snark]

[sigh]

I've been doing this too long huh?
posted by y6y6y6 at 9:52 PM on April 29, 2003

Ha-Ha!

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posted by Stauf at 9:42 PM PST on April 29

Best. First Comment to MeTa. Ever.
posted by Ufez Jones at 10:24 PM on April 29, 2003

my future husband.

:)
posted by sugarfish at 11:53 PM on April 29, 2003

yeah,
my future husband too.
posted by sgt.serenity at 2:59 AM on April 30, 2003

I came to Mefi to ask for Courage!

Courage! What makes a king out of a slave? Courage!
What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage!
What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk?
What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage!
What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage!
What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage!
What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the "ape" in apricot?

COURAGE!

And I got it!
posted by Shane at 5:40 AM on April 30, 2003

I've been doing this too long huh?

Not really. I just wish you'd actually post more of the things you'd like to see (of which there seem to be innumerable examples like techie posts or fabulous software upgrades or changes in the biz, which seem to be your forte), thereby setting an example of excellent posts rather than booing from the bleachers.

The hatred and "loathing" is a complete waste of time, my good man.
posted by hama7 at 6:16 AM on April 30, 2003

...rather than booing from the bleachers.

Ehh, the constantly cynical, condescending snarky Mefite routine is a tried and true, if overused, overabused, musty and old, schtick. But I guess someone has to do it ("someone" being any number of proudly jaded "old-timers.")
posted by Shane at 6:30 AM on April 30, 2003

Pancakes.

And a level of discourse hard to come by where I work.
posted by tr33hggr at 6:48 AM on April 30, 2003

a thicker skin.
posted by whatnot at 7:04 AM on April 30, 2003

"The hatred and "loathing" is a complete waste of time"

Well, that's a fair point. Not sure I agree in this context, but it does seriously put my credibility in question.
posted by y6y6y6 at 7:08 AM on April 30, 2003

This'll make you laugh, adrober: I've just called a cab to go buy myself a sizeable chunk of the Moleskine range, after having resisted till now. But then I made the mistake of re-reading that damn thread.

Hey, if MetaFilter opened an advertising agency, we'd all be rich within months. Months! ;)
posted by MiguelCardoso at 7:12 AM on April 30, 2003

my future husband.
posted by sugarfish at 11:53 PM PST on April 29

yeah, my future husband too.
posted by sgt.serenity at 2:59 AM PST on April 30

The tiny evil part of me, of course, secretly hopes these future husbands are the same guy. Can you imagine the MeTa thread on that one?

Meanwhile, I'm off to bid on a bread box, for the storage of toast with which to serve my pancakes, of course.
posted by padraigin at 8:31 AM on April 30, 2003

through metafilter, waxy, through a waxpancake post, easynews, through easynews, more music than you can shake a goddamn stick at and instant street cred.

"oh that band? yeah, i've heard of them. they're ok. what? no, i had their album like two months ago"

ok, so I had giganews for at least a couple months or so beforehand, but easynews made things, uh, easier.
posted by fishfucker at 10:45 AM on April 30, 2003

how could you all forget spirit foam!?!

(and you're breaking my heart, sgt! Who is he?)
posted by amberglow at 11:32 AM on April 30, 2003

"WTF", in public when I see these three letters, think, hey do they know Meta-Filter, WhatTheFuck?
posted by thomcatspike at 11:36 AM on April 30, 2003

Missed both those Jan posts....
That's the sorta stuff that gets me in.
posted by johnny7 at 11:41 AM on April 30, 2003

What did you first see on Metafilter that is now a permanant part of your life?


bukkake.
posted by jpoulos at 12:04 PM on April 30, 2003

bukkake.

Some Ajax and a scouring pad will take care of that.
posted by Ufez Jones at 12:12 PM on April 30, 2003

Get your own #$&! blog!

I heard it first here, and now today I saw an ad (for Tripod) over at TVGuide Online that said Get your own Blog! (Um, I was just checking if Scrubs is on tomorrow.)

Tripod ad people been reading Mefi, or was it a catchphrase before that?
posted by Shane at 12:12 PM on April 30, 2003

(FYI:
9:45 PM `Scrubs' Funniest Moments 15 min. Memorable series scenes are interwoven with outtakes, featuring guest-star appearances and a barrage of flubs. John C. McGinley hosts.)
posted by Shane at 12:18 PM on April 30, 2003

#mefi.
the people are waaaaay nicer, a whole lot smarter, and the damndest thing is, it's the same people that are here. go figger!
posted by quonsar at 12:37 PM on April 30, 2003

im marrying postroad, isn't everyone ?
posted by sgt.serenity at 3:34 PM on April 30, 2003

#mefi.
the people are waaaaay nicer, a whole lot smarter

Awww, thanks q! #mefi (if I may speak for #mefi) feels the same way about you. This is such a sweet thread, I'm so diggin' the love thing. Group hug, everyone!
posted by boomchicka at 9:04 PM on April 30, 2003

if I may speak for #mefi
Sheesh, I call her a friend for life, and she appoints herself the PR person for #mefi. Although she is absolutely correct, we all love quonsar, well most of us do, er... well um I do.
posted by riffola at 9:15 PM on April 30, 2003

I love quonsar because he's the only one unreconstructed, literate, disobedient, suitably anarchistic and deliciously uncontrollable teenager in the whole of this whino's paradise!
posted by MiguelCardoso at 9:57 PM on April 30, 2003

I agree that #mefi is one of the best things to come out of MeFi, as it has enabled a bunch of us to get to know one another better and realise that we are more alike than apart in many areas, which was nice in a scary sort of way. Apart from that, a desire to create my own half-arsed web site, a sensation of "coming home" every time I visit MeFi and a focus for my up-to-now random wanderings on the intarweb. Now I understand what it is for.
posted by dg at 11:52 PM on April 30, 2003

toss me the car keys, dad.
posted by quonsar at 4:36 AM on May 1, 2003

Metafilter gave me the desire to create my own blog.

It took from me the desire to surf the web. I rarely stray more than one or two links away from Metafilter. I suppose it's the same for many people.
posted by Hildago at 7:23 PM on May 1, 2003