Lots of folks are confused about metaballs because you can't see the effect in wireframe, you can't see the effect all that well in the preview pic, and have to render with at least 2 metaballs in close proximity before you can really see what they can do.

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy