MetaChat - I'd post this to MeFi, but, uh, I'm still banned.

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05 June 2006

I'd post this to MeFi, but, uh, I'm still banned. Cory Doctorow visits a Radio Shack.

post by: keswick at: 10:35 | 22 comments

CORY DOCTOROW: There’s no one else here.

EMPLOYEE: Oh, I thought maybe there was.

(AWKWARD SILENCE)

CORY DOCTOROW: Google maps 37Signals with Flickr iPod.

EMPLOYEE: What?

CORY DOCTOROW: I didn’t say anything. Now, about this cell phone…

I lol'ed.

posted by Capn 05 June | 11:03

That part got me too. Posted to MeFi.

posted by loquacious 05 June | 11:15

thanks for the credit, loq :x

posted by keswick 05 June | 11:23

How could I not? How long you banned for anyway? WTF? I missed that.

posted by loquacious 05 June | 11:42

keswick,

telling someone on ask metafilter grappling with their polyamorous
lifestyle that they should tell people "I'm a slut" is totally messed
up. Jokes don't answer the question and bad jokes mocking people
asking the question are just about the worst things that can happen
the community.

I've pulled your posting rights.

Matt

I didn't even get a MeTa thread out of it. Weak.

posted by keswick 05 June | 11:46

Awww! You can flame out here if you want.

posted by sveskemus 05 June | 11:50

CORY DOCTOROW: I also have a community flash mob created hip-hopera version of the Dr. Who theme and M.I.A.’s “Galang” released under the Creative Commons license.

I like that...I think I'd like to see that. But I don't know why everyone's got to pick on Cory Doctorow, just because he's the nerd king.

And one day I shall be his queen.

posted by SassHat 05 June | 11:54

They get to pick on him because he's the nerd king.

posted by Capn 05 June | 11:59

Yeah, you don't want to know what they do to the nerd queen.

keswick: Oh, that. I remember that.

posted by loquacious 05 June | 12:08

Have you asked to get your posting rights back? My understanding is that is usually a requirement.

posted by danostuporstar 05 June | 12:16

No, I'm usually not that good at the whole hat-in-the-hand thing. I'm thinking about paying someone to do it for me.

posted by keswick 05 June | 12:17

Nah, suck it up. It'll be good for you.

posted by loquacious 05 June | 12:28

oh, i'm good at it in r/l; but i don't want to water down the brand of my caustic online persona.

posted by keswick 05 June | 12:29

How much more watered down can you get besides being banned?

posted by loquacious 05 June | 13:01

god damn it, i hate it when you're right.

posted by keswick 05 June | 14:17

posted by loquacious 05 June | 14:35

"totally messed up"

Sheesh, Matt has a kid and he goes all Moral Majority on us.

posted by mischief 05 June | 15:51

I think the kid must have been teething that day or something. *shrugs*

posted by keswick 05 June | 15:56

These activist ~~judges~~ site owners HAVE to be stopped!

posted by danf 05 June | 16:18

It's clocked over 100 comments.

posted by Capn 05 June | 16:32

Including one from Doctorow himself. But I had to goad him into it via email.

posted by loquacious 05 June | 19:08

Ooh my future husband was in the thread...damn, I should have gone in there all like "DON'T YOU PICK ON CORY HE'S TEH SEXY!" And then I would be sooo embarassed right now!

But also secretly pleased that I had staked my claim as the future Queen.

posted by SassHat 05 June | 19:32

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