Amidst all of the doom-saying from on high about metafilter, I have only these things to say:

1. Yes, emphatically yes. I have noticed this dichotomy in my own home. When my husband types anything of length into the magic box, it is a long furious flurry of fingerstrokes followed immediately by a decisive pounding on the keyboard or the mouse. When I do so, it is a deliberate tapping out of a few words, a pause, a few more words, a longer pause, a flurry of keyboard shortcuts as I cut and paste something into a very slightly more logical structure, &c. Except more often than not the pauses, for thought, are interpreted as harbingers of imminent boredom, which any considerate person would attempt to alleviated by providing conversation. And now I fear I have gone too far in my support of kindall’s thesis and revealed my secret shame: yes, my very own husband is Not A Geek. Anyway.
2. Has anyone else noticed, and been alarmed by the realization, that the thread mentioned above contains all the five stages of grief, with perhaps a preponderance of bargaining?
3. Yesterday’s MeFi was the best, overall, that I have seen since immediately after the fortnight of our discontent. Or maybe before. More effort? On whose part?