Comments on: 88 Lines About 44 Mefites

88 Lines About 44 Mefites

cortex — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:47:30 -0800

An ode to some of the more vibrant personas and memorable events in Metafilter history -- and an homage to the classic tune by The Nails. Lyrics with tremendous amounts of annotation inside.

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:48:11 -0800

The lyrics:

MiHail liked the portobellos
Became a legend, rest in peace
jonmc's the Everyman [2, 3, 4]
He talked a lot, to say the least

Ethereal Bligh's a feminist [2, 3]
Who spoke in lengthy paragraphs [2, 3]
loquacious was some other guy
Who liked to play the site for laughs [2, 3, 4]

Stan Chin got a golden star
But lost it after folks complained [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
Effigy2000 posted
well [cf: A, B] and got it back again [2, 3, 4]

mathowie's the man in charge [2, 3, 4]
Quit [2, 3, 4, 5] his day job, had a kid [2, 3]
jessamyn's library science [2]
Kept the green unasshatted [2, 3, 4, 5]

asavage was mefi's own [2, 3, 4, 5]
He spent his workweek busting myths [2, ^]
It's Raining Florence Henderson
Adapted Arlo [2], always riffed [2, 3]

y2karl was fond of small tags [2, 3, 4, 5]
Favored blues and politics
jonson's posts were often faved [2, 3]
He gave the blue its daily fix [2]

matteo churned out stunning posts [2, 3, 4]
But spoke of fascists [2, 3, 4, 5, 6], liked to mock [2, 3, 4]
quonsar [~2] was a fishpants expert [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
Freed [2, 3, 4], he chanted "smock smock smock" [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]

languagehat's a language hag [2, 3]
Prayed for flameouts [2, 3, 4, 5], argued words
amberglow showed lots of passion [2, 3]
Liked the fellas [2, 3] -- tough luck, birds

wendell's name was often dropped
when threads detoured from bad to worse [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
konolia declared herself
to be anus-expose-averse [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

MiguelCardoso liked to chat [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
They love him out in Portugal [2, 3, 4]
madamjujujive's output [2, 3, 4, 5]
Would make our cup to overflow

delmoi was a model mefite
Consistent, clearly spoken [2, 3] man
dhoyt [2, 3, 4] was four different people
All of them extremely banned [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]

Stavros was a wonderchicken
Korea's [2, 3, 4] where he spent his time
ikkyu2's the AskMe doctor [2, 3, 4, 5]
Never charged a single dime

crunchland turned into Dave Faris [1]
Either way the method's good [2, 3, 4, 5]
kindall ran the old self-link list [2, 3, 4]
Projects stands where it once stood [1]

ParisParamus was sassy [2, 3]
Liked to praise the GOP [2, 3]
dame did not take shit from no one [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
Lived it up in NYC [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

un owen Trebeked [2, 3] and scammed [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14]
Once said "hurf durf butter eater" [2, 3, 4, 5]
jenleigh was a made-up redhead [1]
Lonely Scots had hoped to meet her

son_of_minya went out flaming [2, 3]
Threatened to cut off his hand [2, 3]
Meatbomb earned himself a timeout
for Westphalia Treaty spam [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]

Pot was shrill and unforgiving
Always calling Kettle black [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
Kettle wasn't any better
couldn't shrug off Pot's attack [2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6]

hama7 split the middle
Heated [2, 3] comments, lovely posts
grumblebee was full of questions [2, 3]
More inquisitive [2, 3, 4] than most

jkottke was an old-school member [2, 3]
Ran his own blog, popped some corn [2, 3, 4]
Seth contended up through 04 [2, 3]
Then took off, his welcome worn [2, 3, 4]

AlexReynolds got the boot [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
For acting like a drama queen
Pretty_Generic [2] got banhammered [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
He was screwing with the green [2]

Keyzer Soze got in trouble [2, 3]
Asked the site to help him out [2, 3, 4]
dios was our Charybdis [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16]
This song's about him, have no doubt [2, 3]

Astro Zombie [2, 3] had some sequels
Fractured clones named 2 and 3 [2, 3, 4, 5]
cortex camped out in the grey [2, 3, 4, 5]
and sang [2, 3, 4] about the things he'd see

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:54:23 -0800

I'd thought about doing this a couple times over the years, but it sort of gelled earlier this week when it came up again (see here).

I most wrote it top-of-mind, brainstorming for notable mefites with a few people initially and then writing up couplets from there. Then I went back for links—I did not, mind you, check all these, so at least one or two are likely broken. I tried to stick key links on the words and supporting/ancillary stuff in the additional notes.

There are some arguably famous events that were left out because it was hard not to be kind of nasty; and some things or folks I just didn't know enough about because they were active at a time or in areas where I wasn't paying attention.

Lots of folks were necessarily not mentioned—to cover everyone of note would make for an extremely, tediously long song. As it is, it tops 5 minutes at 149 bpm (which is what The Nails did it at as well).

If anybody has the hots to remix, I'm happy to provide source tracks, etc. I did a pretty quick-and-dirty job on the actual recording—several hours of annotation kind of took it out of me.

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:02:11 -0800

Jesus. Wow. Damn you.

Thanks!

By: fandango_matt

fandango_matt — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:05:15 -0800

*standing ovation*

By: mathowie

mathowie — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:12:32 -0800

Brilliant!

About the only thing I could possibly suggest is somehow working in the dios vs. rothko contest.

By: cgc373

cgc373 — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:23:18 -0800

Stupendously badass, to paraphrase Neal Stephenson (I think). Kudos, cortex!

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:24:56 -0800

yay!

By: mathowie

mathowie — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:27:49 -0800

anus-expose-averse is totally going to be my new band name.

By: amyms

amyms — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:28:53 -0800

This is amazing!... I'm a newbie, but this helps all of the MetaFilter history come to life.

By: Cranberry

Cranberry — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:15:38 -0800

cortex = Portland's claim to fame

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:27:53 -0800

Yay!

By: Effigy2000

Effigy2000 — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:53:32 -0800

Holy crap! I've been mentioned in a song written and sung by one of my favorite and most talented MeFi contributors!

Cortex, I won a Wii but it wasn't until now that I truly won.

This song, like pretty much every song you have ever written and posted here in the black, is excellent. No, it is above excellent. Beyond it. It transcends it. It is something that cannot be described with mere words.

Thank you. Thank you not only for mentioning me in one of your songs, but for being a model MeFite and for giving so much of yourself to a community that you clearly love. Kudos!

By: TwoWordReview

TwoWordReview — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:14:12 -0800

Holy flurking schnit! I don't know if I'm more impressed by the song or by the annotation!

By: litlnemo

litlnemo — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:12:31 -0800

7 years on MeFi and I don't warrant a lyric?!

Just kidding -- this is freaking genius.

By: safetyfork

safetyfork — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:52:13 -0800

*stands, throws roses, claps*

By: dios

dios — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:11:00 -0800

This song's about him

Why does everything have to be about me?

cortex, this is awesome. i totally have the hawts for you.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:24:18 -0800

cortex, have I ever told you you're my hero?

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:29:10 -0800

it's got a good beat;I'd dance to it; I give it a 98, Dick.

By: micayetoca

micayetoca — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:30:19 -0800

Brilliant! If you keep refreshing the main page of Music instead of coming inside here, you can see the comments and the favorites of this song go like one of those real time statistic thingies.

Are you going to put this into your RPM list? Don't tell me you are going to manage the whole album in a month thing and then spend free time writing/recording/annotating this song. What have you got in your veins? Red Bull?

By: sparkletone

sparkletone — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:32:23 -0800

Both the post, and the song are epic.

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:56:29 -0800

Are you going to put this into your RPM list?

Only as an act of desperation if Feb 28 is ticking away and I'm a song or five minutes short of the quota. It's not really a cover, but it's unabashed parody, and that feels a bit like cheating.

Thanks, everybody. It's an honor being part of a site with so much good source material. The slashdot version would have gone something like this, I reckon:

Taco is a doubleposter
Zonk approves things no one should
Portman, stoned, hot grits down pants?
They'd mod you down more if they could

God, I hope CmdrTaco doesn't read that.

So, yeah. Go mefi.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 06:28:40 -0800

when cortex moves to michigan we shall take the music world by storm.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 07:17:54 -0800

*salaams deeply*

I hardly need to say that [c'est si bon]. I think this is my favorite couplet:

dhoyt was four different people
All of them extremely banned

And I love, love, love the fact that pot and kettle get a whole stanza to themselves. This is truly the Best of MeFi. Give that man a gold star!

/not actually a hag

By: croutonsupafreak

croutonsupafreak — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 07:33:51 -0800

RaWK! Way awesome.

By: dame

dame — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 07:49:07 -0800

Yay! You combined a song I love and me. It's like everything that makes my life worth living. Except you made me ungrammatical. And it seems I say "fuck" a lot.

All the lines about other people are okay too. Good work.

By: Songdog

Songdog — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 07:56:14 -0800

This just made my morning. Great job, as always!

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 07:58:34 -0800

All the lines about other people are okay too.

Heh. That captures the "am I on this list" aspect perfectly, dame. And it's nice to be exempt from scanning for my nick in this case. (Not that I would ever scan a discussion of metafilter for my nick. No sir.)

By: dame

dame — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:05:12 -0800

I don't know what you are talking about. What sort of sick narcissist would care about being mentioned. I didn't even type that comment. It was the cat. And the elves. The cat-elves.

By: ludwig_van

ludwig_van — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:13:30 -0800

Geez, man. That was mighty impressive.

And besides the writing, I thought the verse delivery was very pleasant to listen to. You should record books on tape or something.

By: French Fry

French Fry — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:16:13 -0800

This may be the most fabulous exercise in name dropping music has ever seen. Take that lame Maria Carrie hip-hop.

This is quite great. Liked the whistling.

By: staggernation

staggernation — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:17:45 -0800

Aside from your failure to rhyme "language hag" with "<img> tag," this is perfect.

By: sleepy pete

sleepy pete — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:46:39 -0800

Wow, you actually did it. Great job. So, I've never heard The Nails song, but it sounds a lot like "A Summer Song" by Chad and Jeremy, which sounds a little like "Words of Love" by Buddy Holly. There's probably also a classical piece that I'm missing right now. Oh, and our cat said it was no "We Didn't Start the Fire." He was a little upset this morning. It's great, cortex.

By: sleepy pete

sleepy pete — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:59:03 -0800

Dammit, the cat's other owner already made the Billy Joel joke. Whoops.

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:00:59 -0800

That reminds me: for reference, here's the original song. Snagged it from newsome.org—I'm half inclined to do a post some time about "88 Lines About 44 foo" parodies.

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:23:33 -0800

Sweet!

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:36:07 -0800

Fucking wicked hot.

By: jonson

jonson — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:47:44 -0800

Is this the greatest thing ever? Quite possibly...

By: Lynsey

Lynsey — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:22:26 -0800

F'in' awesome!

By: ikkyu2

ikkyu2 — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:28:42 -0800

Haha, how delightful! I am so pleased to be included.

By: GrammarMoses

GrammarMoses — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:02:24 -0800

*not mentioned, idolizing cortex from afar nevertheless*

By: loquacious

loquacious — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:33:09 -0800

I can die happy now. Seriously. This is lovely madness.

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:26:41 -0800

Further notes:

- I had considered tagging each couplet with an anchor, so that really dedicated people could refer back to portions of the annotated lyrics relevent to a specific user or incident, but decided that (a) that was too much extra work, and (b) that might just be a plain old bad idea regardless.

- While many of the annotations related to specific incidents are close to what could be considered a canonical summary of said incident, others are more vague. For delmoi, for example, it's hard to put a fine point on "just being a good citizen"; likewise with Seth's apparently unannounced departure, or matteo's famed snarkiness.

- Similarly, there are many cases where more citations could have been supplied?y2karl's posting history, for example, or hama7's. Research became a bit of a bear after a while, and as a visit to those folks' profiles yields the excellent goods anyway, I left off at that point.

- The use of the word "personas" rather than "people" in the posting text at the top of the page is deliberate: while many of these citations refer to specific, inarguable events, others refer to events that are more contended (un owen, for example), and still other refer more to the existing perception of a user than to anything concrete and easily summarized in a few links to that user's output on the site. In the case of exteremely bad behavior, that may be because of deleted content, but I suspect it's more to do with the way momentum and public perception concretizes things that aren't necessarily all that concrete otherwise.

- I'm a bit wary of the negative side of cult-of-personality around here, so I want to stress that my intention here is part archeology, part caricature. None of these 88 lines should be considered portraiture so much as gesture, a stab at capturing some of the existing metafilter mythology in rhyme and annotating the zeitgeist. And it's overwhelmingly driven by my personal perceptions of that zeitgeist?I don't presume that what I see as being what people think on mefi is necessarily what other people would take away from their perspectives. Plus it's a fairly silly venture, top to bottom.

- Yes, yes, it's not strictly 44 mefites; if you count usernames, it's more; and if you count meatspace individuals behind the usernames, it's fewer. Let's just pretend that makes it all balance out.

- The matteo/quonsar stanza was really, really hard to pronounce and I still didn't really spit it out right. It almost sounds like I say "poets" for "posts". I had the foresight to rearrange some of the other stanzas for pronouncability, but I just left this one as is and banged my head against it until I got a take that didn't completely suck.

- The backing track is all just Reason goofery.

By: Ynoxas

Ynoxas — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:54:40 -0800

I've only just read the lyrics, not listened to the song yet, and this is still the coolest thing I've seen all week by several orders of magnitude.

And there should be a word for that feeling of scanning down the list going "oh my god am I on there?"

It would be a word that means "consciously aware anticipatory vanity". Languagehat, a little help?

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:59:26 -0800

scanity

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:40:15 -0800

I'm not sure what the word for the skimming should be.

But the feeling you have, of simultaneous disappointment and quiet shame for being disappointed, when you get to the end and don't see your name?

"A-listlessness".

By: kindall

kindall — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:42:27 -0800

I have been immortalized in song. Now my life is complete.

By: timsteil

timsteil — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:51:01 -0800

excellent job......

havent heard this song since I was spinning it on a college radio station round 1984.....what a trip

By: rokusan

rokusan — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:07:53 -0800

Absolutely amazing. You are a god among insects, cortex.

(And "unasshated" gets a special award for technical metrics.)

By: croutonsupafreak

croutonsupafreak — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:19:49 -0800

"A-listlessness".

Which was the subject of my first-ever metatalk post, though the word had not been coined yet.

By: infini

infini — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:27:07 -0800

OMG has anyone said this yet, in order to honour the perfect internet moment, yes, mefi, my tongues is so firmly in my cheek its licking my own ear.

so let me say it,

OMG! WTF!! LOL!!!

and roflmao to boot.

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:29:15 -0800

crouton: nice catch. Also, it turns out that googling for "A-listlessness" is non-trivial, as google treats that quoted string as equivilant to "a listlessness". Dammit.

By: deborah

deborah — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:43:16 -0800

Gold star, gold star, gold star, gold star, gold star!

By: sacre_bleu

sacre_bleu — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:46:28 -0800

Stuff like this is why I love me some Mefi. Ausgezeichnet, cortex.

By: snsranch

snsranch — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:57:46 -0800

Just brilliant and what a great gift to MeFi! Thanks cortex!

By: snsranch

snsranch — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:03:13 -0800

It just occured to me that mathowie might have commisioned this work, but only cuz it's worth paying for. Good show man.

By: Durhey

Durhey — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:23:53 -0800

Holy crap! These are the most well-cited song lyrics I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot.

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:31:50 -0800

snsranch: as much as I'd love to say I'm a paid musical obsessive, this was not Matt's doing. I first told him about it in IM yesterday evening, when I was trying to pin down a cite for his "i'm mefi fulltime" transition (the link on quit in his stanza, btw).

To which he replied, and I quote:

"oh jeez
that's a lot of HTML"

Durhey: thanks. In deference to you, however, I should point out that I still haven't found a new way to cook chicken.

By: tkchrist

tkchrist — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:33:34 -0800

Now that song is stuck in my head.

Excellent.

By: snsranch

snsranch — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:43:41 -0800

"oh jeez
that's a lot of HTML" THAT is friggin funny.

Thanks for bringing so much attention to MuFi/MeMu. This song is a stroke of genius. My hat is off to you!

By: peewinkle

peewinkle — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:44:44 -0800

Mind blowing.

By: dhruva

dhruva — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:47:37 -0800

jaw dropping! Cortex, that was spectacular! I can't wait to include it in a mix cd just to get non metafilter people's expressions.

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:27:13 -0800

lyrics to the original, for those who don't know it.

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:41:25 -0800

oh, and utterly great, btw!

By: trip and a half

trip and a half — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:25:51 -0800

Isn't there some MeFi history thing? This has to go wherever that thing is. Thanks!

By: Effigy2000

Effigy2000 — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 01:37:59 -0800

This went on my iPod today and got a 5 star rating, joining only about 10 other songs with a 5 star rating in my 'ultimate' play list with just under 1000 songs.

It's that good.

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 02:49:36 -0800

you're awesome.

By: Tlogmer

Tlogmer — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 05:44:06 -0800

I for some reason didn't expect that to be good, but it was fucking great.

By: dmd

dmd — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:00:05 -0800

Wow.

By: Menomena

Menomena — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:02:36 -0800

i <3 cortex.

By: matildaben

matildaben — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:21:23 -0800

Brilliant. I like the way you pronounced "liBRARY science".

By: peewinkle

peewinkle — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:41:25 -0800

I can't believe no one has made a video yet.

By: Smedleyman

Smedleyman — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:04:43 -0800

Nifty!

By: psmealey

psmealey — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:37:20 -0800

Awesome... Next time someone asks who the members of the cabal are that rules MeFi, I will point him or her to these lyrics.

/jealous and bitter

By: Frasermoo

Frasermoo — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:18:37 -0800

that is class. gutted my brush with media didn't help me make the cut, but didn't see Dong Resin in there, so I know the bar was high.

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:58:45 -0800

gutted my brush with media didn't help me make the cut, but didn't see Dong Resin in there, so I know the bar was high.

Impossibly high. Most of the people who made the cut are not merely recognizable but infamous, for one reason or another: flameout, cult thread, admin, super-high contribution index, contentious politics, etc. At least a dozen of them have been timed out, banned, or to some degree or another shunned into leaving.

Not making the list is, in one sense, a testament to one's well-balanced nature.

By: Alterscape

Alterscape — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:06:54 -0800

I don't have broadband, so the next hour of my internet existance will be dedicated to downloading this thing on the strength of its lyrics alone. My hat's off to you, Cortex. Not that I was wearing one in the first place, but you know, if I were . . . .

By: cgc373

cgc373 — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:07:43 -0800

It's a testament to balance in many more senses than one, mister.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:30:52 -0800

Not making the list is, in one sense, a testament to one's well-balanced nature

Hey, wait a minute!

By: octothorpe

octothorpe — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:41:17 -0800

The sad thing is that I understood all of the references in this song. I think that I spend too much time on this site.

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:55:27 -0800

(Which is not to say that they aren't lovely people whose presence on the site I appreciate deeply. And, hey, I'm on the list, and, even more damningly, constructed it.)

By: amberglow

amberglow — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:20:29 -0800

totally fab! thanks! (we're so famous now--immortalized even!) : >

By: darsh

darsh — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 01:36:30 -0800

this is absolutely amazing! Kudos

By: spiderwire

spiderwire — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 22:59:20 -0800

*applause*

i wanna be in a song

The sad thing is that I understood all of the references in this song. I think that I spend too much time on this site.

yeah, same here. although the footntoes are a nice touch. pretty impressive that you cited all that. did you just do it as you went along? or do you keep those bookmarked? :)

By: cortex

cortex — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 23:26:52 -0800

More the former than the latter, spiderwire. I wrote the whole thing first and then annotated after; for most of the annotation, I used google searches along the lines of "site:metafilter.com username keywords" to find relevant citations and than narrowed in via user posting history, favorites pages, etc. Most of the searching was done based off of recall of specific incidents or key phrases—it's with both pride and embarrassment that I tell you that very little of what I linked was unfamiliar when I found it.

The copy of (or access to) the raw database that I have fantasized and once or twice asked about would have made the searching faster and more thorough, but the lyrics as presented show that a lot can be accomplished with just some focused googling and a little bit of follow-up legwork.

By: spiderwire

spiderwire — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 16:46:05 -0800

hey, i have the code for a general purpose latent semantic indexing engine i wrote laying around -- we could feed all the mefi data into it and see if, in an n-dimensional user/keyword space, dios really is the center of metafilter.

really, we could do that. why, i don't know. but we could.

By: django_z

django_z — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 01:45:52 -0800

I am continually amazed and greatly heartened by the love and care you give back to each other in this community.

Cortex, thank you for another wonderful example.

By: LuckySeven~

LuckySeven~ — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:21:27 -0800

That was freakin' awesome! I tip my hat to you, sir. Well done!

I literally busted out laughing at "hurf durf butter eater" ... didn't think you'd be able to stick that in there.

By: chairface

chairface — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:28:25 -0800

Close your eyes, cortex, and listen closely. You can here me applauding from far, far away. This was great!

By: nthdegx

nthdegx — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 05:12:44 -0800

cortex does it again!

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 17 May 2007 13:07:07 -0800

This Day In History update: Stan Chin's star gone again.

By: ErWenn

ErWenn — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:44:15 -0800

Wow. Just...wow. This just made my day.