Man, wish I was at your house;) I have... trail mix.
- Lis Miller
My holiday cards look like your centerpiece: silver and blue decorations in a white bowl. And I would totally eat everything you served there,
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
It looks wonderful - and the food....! NOM NOM NOM!!! Lucky you! :)
- WorldofHiglet
"Something almost magical happens whenever actress Penélope Cruz and filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar work together, and so it is with "Broken Embraces," a deliciously twisted tale of love, death and a badly edited film. The writer-director is up to his old tricks, creating an onion of an experience -- a movie within a movie within a movie, irony in each layer, poignancy that stings and whimsy that bites. Cruz has turned in a performance that is just as complex -- a character within a character and so on, all residing within the mysterious and beautiful Lena. Central to the setup is an impoverished young beauty trying to escape the world's oldest profession and the powerful man who wants to possess her. Initially, fate comes down on his side. Lena has gotten an office job, but a bad turn of financial affairs makes a trick or two seem the only answer."
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
"Cruz steals more than a little herself -- primarily just about every scene she is in, with echoes of Audrey Hepburn -- think the bangs and a pony-tailed innocent in "Sabrina" -- Shirley MacLaine and any number of characters who populated American noir. The range of characters given to Cruz and the way she slips in and out of them so seamlessly reminds you of just how versatile an...
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- RAPatton
And so the debate begins. Meanwhile, we diehards aren't about to fly the coop anytime soon. ;)
- Dennis Jernberg
I believe compete.com measures only US traffic and Alexa looks at global internet users. So FriendFeed may be growing outside of US but declining for US traffic
- Atul Arora
Well, if you look at the Compete traffic it is somewhat reflective of this - this just includes December's data, which seems to shoot up again. It seems November was just a slow month, probably partly due to Scoble leaving
- Jesse Stay
I think the crux of the problem is that there is a perception on some people's part that a service is only worth using if it is gaining popularity. The message these people are really sending, is that they intend to capitalize on a service, and when it no longer looks profitable to them, they abandon it for something potentially more lucrative.
- Cristo
Atul, you have a great point though - global will always trump US with FriendFeed, at least at this point.
- Jesse Stay
These people's posts should end with a disclaimer that their post is for commercial purposes, and not in a genuine interest in communication for its own sake. Of course, this would prevent much left over for a pitch in 140 characters. ;)
- Cristo
I am sure Google Real time search will help FriendFeed since it is one of the data sources for the realtime search.
- Atul Arora
It's just that for something that doesn't cost any of us anything, FF is top shelf for creating/building communities within existing and overlapping communities in a pretty unobtrusive and extremely accessible way.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
Jesse, great retort to Louis' repose :)
- Micah Wittman
Micah, I love Louis, but I hate FUD and I avoid it especially on services I love and want to see grow.
- Jesse Stay
And Cristo, excellent point on those with intent to capitalize. Filthy lucre is filthy :)
- Micah Wittman
Jesse, I've never see Louis as alarmist, but it seems that in Sil Valley-centric technology/business blogging there's a tendency to telegraph some posts to defend one's objectivity as a reporter.
- Micah Wittman
Louis, of all people, doesn't need to do that; then again, for me, it's because of the trust built up vis-à-vi coming to know him on Friendfeed :)
- Micah Wittman
Micah, I agree. I don't think it's necessary in this case.
- Jesse Stay
Alexa's ranking system still has doubt around it's accuracy, and confusing graph representation; McAffee classifies it as spyware(or adware whichever) even, though it's supposed to have improved lately, whereas Compete's via Louis Gray -> http://ff.im/cKqx3 is fairly cut and dry clear
- sofarsoShawn
sofarsoshawn be sure to compare it to Quantcast then - Alexa matches Quantcast much more than Compete does - that's 2 vs. 1, and the 1 only shows November, not December, and the 1 is only US - the 2 are international
- Jesse Stay
Atul said "I believe compete.com measures only US traffic and Alexa looks at global internet users. So FriendFeed may be growing outside of US but declining for US traffic" ... that's certainly consistent with the shift in the Most Active user lists at ffholic (http://friendfeed.com/kshep...), and Bret's comments about growth outside the US (http://friendfeed.com/bret...)
- Ken Sheppardson
No, it's actually the opposite. Quantcast almost mimics Compete's results exactly http://www.quantcast.com/friendf... showing a visit numbers today equitable to last years; but to be honest I'm not familary with Alexa's new changes, it could very well indicate something beyond me
- sofarsoShawn
I know some people don't like the "signal-to-noise" concept, but I'd submit to you that if people using a service are speaking a language I don't, it's fair for me to call that "noise" from my perspective. Obviously that's not true for everyone, like the people who *do* speak the language. But just as the fact that Orkut might be huge in Brazil doesn't do me much good, nor does the fact FriendFeed might be taking off in Turkey.
- Ken Sheppardson
Maybe, but with Micah's Transloratize script, it's all some form of your native language. And lots of people here on ff do use it.
- April Russo (app103)
Wow. Just saw "The Hangover" (the slideshow from Vegas at the end is epic!). Be careful out there;) .. man, I´m thirsty.. I need a Jäger..
- Thomas Bøhm
*dials ASPCA again...tells them never mind, false alarm*
- vicster
Nope. These are from our trip last January. We've been photoblogging the experience from January through July, and are just getting back to finish it up. You can see the posts at http://antarctic.fury.com
- Kevin Fox
Ah yes, I've read all of that - I was curious if this was a new trip. This has been fun to follow! It is definitely on my bucket list to do some time!
- Jesse Stay
Ahh, cool. Yeah, we still have 3 or 4 more chapters to post. We're on it though! Gotta finish!!
- Kevin Fox
I would happily go back someday though!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
I know it's very time consuming but in the end you'll be VERY happy you finish.. I just finished the final touches for our 5.5+ sailing trip GE maps (w 33,000 miles of GPS tracks). I had so much fun revisiting all the places we've been.. enjoy the memories!!
- Chris Myles
Of course, once we finish I plan on reworking the web site to make it more browsable and easier to just jump in to and navigate by interest in addition to time. And then there's the book... Oh hey, the link to the actual page isn't in this thread, so here it is: http://antarctic.fury.com/38-dece...
- Kevin Fox
Kevin, do you have an example of a site that does both time-indexed and topic-indexed navigation particularly well? I'd be interested in your UX thoughts on that subject.
- Bruce Lewis
Now you are just coming up with excuses to play.. have fun, I'm looking forward to the results!! Let me know if you want some help with the maps!!
- Chris Myles
Thanks, Chris! Are any of your maps public? I'd love to peek.
- Kevin Fox
Sparky (aka Brian Johns), Yes. We are still on Day 10 if 12 plus travel home. We just got busy and had stopped putting them up for a few months, but we are going again, we really want to finish the whole story.
- Rachel Lea Fox
I have learned my lesson. My staff love the ADS Holiday Cards I had made. I am now buying another 40 so they can each have one. I will remember to do this next year.
"He was an Asian-American basketball player, an oddity and a curiosity in the cruel world of high school, where nothing is safer than being like everyone else. "It was definitely a lot tougher for me growing up," he said. "There was just an overall lack of respect. People didn't think I could play." ... Converting people outside Northern California was more difficult. By his senior season, Lin was the runaway choice for player of the year by virtually every California publication. Yet he didn't receive a single Division I scholarship offer. Lin doesn't know why, but believes his ethnicity played a part. Asian-Americans make up just 0.4 percent of Division I basketball rosters, according to the latest NCAA numbers. That equates to 20 players out of 5,051."
- Dan Hsiao
from Bookmarklet
"runaway choice for player of the year by virtually every California publication".... and no scholarships? what other reason could there be?
- Christopher Chung
"Every time he did something good, they'd play it over and over again," [Justin's father] Gie-Ming said from his home in Palo Alto, Calif. "I kept watching, and they kept showing him."
- Christopher Chung
Pretty crazy all-aroundness: He boasts an all-around repertoire rarely on display. Last season Lin was the only player in the nation to rank among the top 10 players in his conference in points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks, field-goal percentage, free-throw percentage and 3-point percentage.
- Christopher Chung
wow can't believe I never heard of this guy, this is pretty amazing
- Cliff
oh, race card fer sure. Go Jeremy!!!
- Felicia Yue
Rob, no idea. It could be him. Maybe it was Milan who called me. Either way, I'm fine. Robert and I get along great. I just find it funny.
- Louis Gray
"But, it turns out, a small group of researchers has studied the question of exercise performance and time of day, even doing studies of heart rates. And not only are performances better in the late afternoon and early evening, but, contrary to what exercise physiologists would predict, heart rates are also higher for the same effort."
- Ana
from Bookmarklet
I know that when I go to late yoga, I feel so energized and alive after.
- amelia arapoff
I prefer working out later -- but the probability of me actually getting in a workout is *much* higher at the beginning of the day, so that's what I plan for!
- Ho John Lee
When I was an active runner and bicyclist, I really enjoyed getting up early and biking into work because the commute by car (northern Chicago area) was incredibly stressful. Instead, I would ride about 8 miles over to Lake Michigan and then another 18 or so along the lakeshore, feeling exhilarated when I got there. Then I would do a quick weight workout and a 5 mile run at lunch. If I...
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- Mark Jepsen
"Can a Barcelona truck driver be expected to speak like a Buenos Aires banker? Can rules be imposed on a language spoken by 400 million people stretching from Madrid to Manila? The academic overseers of the language of Cervantes have taken an ambitious stab at it, unveiling their first Spanish grammar guidelines in nearly 80 years. The fruit of their toil is a nearly 4,000-page tome in two volumes presented Thursday, with yet another to come out next year. It was produced by the Spanish Royal Academy and 21 sister organizations in Latin America and other countries where Spanish is spoken, such as the United States and the Philippines, and has taken them 11 years to compile."
- Shannon Jiménez
from Bookmarklet
One need only look at the Commonwealth and its break-away colonies to see just how possible it is :D
- Victor Ganata
The article makes it sound more like they're documenting the language and making recommendations about best grammar practices. Which sounds cool. Now when is someone going to do a major spelling reform in English so that we can spell it like we pronounce it and make it easier for children and foreigners to learn? nite > night lite > light etc.
- Spidra Webster
"Okay everybody, start preparing now because we're going to undergo another Great Vowel Shift on March 21st, 2011. Those who use old vowel pronunciations after that date will not be understood."
- Kevin Fox
This reminds me of that 'résumés in plain language' site that was around during the dotcom crash. It presented this kind of language in actual, real language (but in a snarky way, of course). It was hilarious. This probably would be translated into 'I can have conversations with people. Even people not on my own team!'
- Akiva Moskovitz
I understand, Joe =) But seriously, if anyone knows of a job where I can get paid for talking like a longshoreman, lemme know!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
The verbiage around my shop is salty enough that sometimes I wince.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
I soooo wish I could 'effectively interface across all levels of the hierarchy'
- Holly Rae, FFer
ha. can i adapt a version of that for my own resume? :)
- edythe
The famous "geek-non geek translation" ^_^
- Roberto
from iPhone
<pedant>"to effectively interface" is a split infinitive.</pedant><Elmore Leonard>Using adverbs is bad.</Elmore> "I am fluent in Geek and Muppet"
- sjjh
Tina, I sooo meant that in a serious way. If I ever need interfacing skills, I'm coming your way. :)
- Holly Rae, FFer
Tina, have you found any particular websites with good resume/cover letter advice? I think I need to think again about mine and since you've done so much research recently....
- WorldofHiglet
...and I am totally amazed at how much work you have put into finding work. If you ever get the chance it would be really interesting and inspiring if you get chance to document your journey back into employment (because it can only be a matter of time before you land a job).
- WorldofHiglet