Showing posts with label personal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label personal. Show all posts

Monday, November 28, 2011

Nufkin - Mark and his liver

Nufkin (User #96163) is a self-proclaimed happy gay man who is also ill with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis. He's been keeping a blog about that and other things. Reading through all the stuff that is required to be considered for a liver transplant [a necessary procedure for most people with PSC eventually] is fascinating.

Saturday, November 5, 2011

dng - spiders, computers and throttles

dng (User #76581) has a fun website with a lot of projects he's worked on including a children's book about spiders, an old scanned book about computers in the 70s and a website full of comic book throttles.

Friday, December 17, 2010

moochoo - Adapting to Going Blind

moochoo (User #15955) has been writing a blog since 2005 called Adapting to Going Blind. The latest posts mostly concern jogging and parenting.

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

The Whelk

The Whelk (User #80649) is a cartoonist and has a personal site as well as a blog with more regular updates. Recent fun bloggy additions include 26 scarlet letters and the all-too-identifiable 11 outfits of the urban freelancer. In real life, besides being a real working cartoonist/illustrator, he is the co-host for Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School

Monday, June 1, 2009

glider -- zentastic

glider (User #20964) has a small set of websites including his personal site zentastic. However, he has many other sites that are fun for a quick or a long look. For example, he is building a submarine. He's created a webzine for people who are living with and through chronic pain. He maintains a site for things that looks like ducks. And there is the tantalizing BodModSex claimed to be "coming soon."

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

63968 - pageslap

User #63968 has a fun well-curated blog pointing to fun stuff on the web. Not totally different from other blogs but it seemed to point directly to my sensibilities and I enjoyed every post I read on the main page, except maybe the one about leotards.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

emjaybee -- grabapple and smalltruethings

emjaybee (User #18778) has a hopscotch of websites past and present. Her profile links to Grabapple with six years of posts and another few years of blogging before that. Then it takes a turn and becomes, briefly Grabapple on Wordpress with a few more posts and another redirect. Finally we touchdown at SmallTrueThings, longer posts same strong reflective voice and hey a Flickr sidebar. A nice meander through the personal blog of a longtime MeFite.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Allen Salkin -- AllenSalkin

AllenSalkin (User #60254) has been a MeFite since 2007 and made his first comment today! His eponymous website has a cute photo of him, his mom's blog, some Salkin geneaology and links to all the stuff he's written for the New York Times.

Monday, July 21, 2008

Logan Ingalls—Plutor.org

Plutor (user #17646) is MetaFilter's Greasemonkey Script Guru. Plutor.org's front page has a very MeFi-ish feel, chock full of links to interesting stuff, sprinkled with flickrs and twitters, sorted by date. Clicking on the "Photos" tab leads to... whaaaaat?! 404'd?! Oh Plutor... oh my... **shaking head sadly** Anyway, moving right along, there's a tiny fiction section that leads you to community-type fiction sites, a section on the history of Logan's web-presence, a place where he lists his computer hardware (circa 2006), his resumé, and finally, a brash statement on the contact page that Plutor does not fear spam!!

Mmmmm, steak.

Friday, November 23, 2007

Joshua McFadden - Mindsound

mindsound (User #63168) is pretty new. Actually he's been a member since... Monday of this week. But I just peeked at his eponymous blog which seems to have posts from April and November of this year and saw that he and his wife are pregnant. Congrats mindsound and welcome to MetaFilter!

Friday, October 5, 2007

mimi—Dynagirl 5.0

mimi (User #1174) has a great blog called Dynagirl 5.0. Her archives are a lot of fun, I particularly like her entries about cooking Julia Child recipes (and her cassoulet has me salivating), but all the cooking stuff is great. The little essay she wrote to get Henry Rollins tickets is fun. I really wish the pictures were still working in the Squirrel Car project. Oh, and this entry is AWESOME.

Sunday, September 30, 2007

Greg Nog -- gregnog.com

Greg Nog (User #36852) draw comics. I heard about his site during the podcast where the thread about his comics about him being a host at Olive Garden were discussed. If you like the powersuit comic, you'll love this page where you can dress Greg Nog. He does other comics too.

Friday, September 28, 2007

jurczyk—joe jurczyk

jurczyk (User #51113) has a simple website where he posts brief links and descriptions to things which interest him. Most of the items are tech items. I came across his user name randomly, and was excited because I recognized his name from running stuff. He's the RD for a race I almost did in August, and which several of my friends did. There's one other MeFi ultrarunner that I know of, seawallrunner. That makes at least three.

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

ewagoner—Kestrel's Nest

ewagoner's (User #1387) blog Kestrel's Nest is infrequently updated these days, but it's worth spending at least the three minutes there that it would take to watch his delicious video on making North Georgia Beef Stroganoff. The video is a demo for The Next Food Network Star, and I really hope he gets onto the show. He manages to be both engaging about local food, and informative enough that I could imagine making the recipe.

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

stavrosthewonderchicken -- wonderchicken.com

stavrosthewonderchicken (User #2238) seems like he'd be a hardass, but he's mostly an expat softie with a keen design sense and a tendency towards good writing. His profile URL is wonderchicken.com but that's just a portal page to his main blog at EmptyBottle.org his Korea clearinghouse at OutsideInKorea and this site which is a great URL but with very little content at the moment and this which is mysterious but great. Those of us who were around the site in 2002 remember his site acutely for his reporting on the Bali bombing that killed his friend Rick and his poignant remembrance of that event a year later.

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

obedo—XTEZE

obedo (User #11588) has a link blog called XTEZE that he updates fairly frequently with interesting stuff mostly centered around the sciences. There are also some decent programming resources. It's all pretty transparent. And check out his cool, texture-centric, Flickr stream.

gregorg—greg.org

gregorg's (User #18194) greg.org is a great site about (mostly) modern art and film and video. His reviews and observations are well-presented and interesting, and he's got some real gems (like an interview with Errol Morris). I like that today when I came across the site the lead article was about the Richard Serra show at MOMA, as I've been sending out a series of postcards commemorating Tilted Arc lately. This is a website worth spending some time reading, but it isn't light or quickly digested.

christine—maganda.org

christine (User #639) has a sweet little website called maganda. I like the design, which isn't a surprise, as she also runs Darling design & illustration. The nicest parts of her website are her link to her Flickr stream, and her intermittent and brief blog.

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

AccordionGuy -- the Adventures of AccordionGuy

Joey deVilla (User #15623) got a little famous this week for his Craiglist wedding post and follow-ups (here) but he's been around and blogging since November 2001, practically the blogging stone ages. You can browse by categories such as accordion instrument of the gods or possibly just the accordion category which has one post with this excellent photo. With 5,000 posts, you might need the Best Of page to help you find some more good stuff.

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

coldmarble—ColdMarblePhoto

coldmarble (User #8458) is a photographer who lives in Baltimore. Precisely the kind of serendipitous find that I was hoping for. His website is predominantly pictures of the cemeteries of Charm City, which is just fine with me. I've run a lot through the Baltimore Cemetery, and I love the William Tell statue there. In the nature of these things, his IR photos of the Druid Ridge cemetery (which, unfortunately, does not seem to be the cemetery I run past in Druid Hill Park), are pretty goth. The blog hasn't been updated in a while, but scrolling down produces a nice list of Baltimore bloggers.