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BBC News - Call centre menu options catalogued by frustrated man - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news...
rehavet, MarcoScud, Jennifer Dittrich and 9 other people liked this
"Retired IT manager Nigel Clarke, from Kent in the UK, has launched a website listing the call centre menu sequences for accessing thousands of services. He started the project after growing frustrated about the number of options and amount of recorded information on call centre menus. Mr Clarke discovered that some automated menus have nearly 80 options. It can take over four minutes to get to the service required if the caller listens to each stage in full, he said. As an example, speaking to an adviser at HM Revenue and Customs only required pressing four buttons but it could take six minutes to get through each menu level, Mr Clarke said. HMRC said it was working on improvements to the service. "HMRC is looking at ways to improve its interactive voice responses and is getting ready for the introduction of new speech recognition technology," said a spokesman. "This technology will react to what the caller says instead of asking them to select an option by pushing a button on their phone. HMRC plan to introduce these improvements later this year.""
- Son of Groucho
from Bookmarklet
80 options??!
- Headless Gnad Kicker
I just keep pressing 0 or # until I get a person. I've found that even if it says "I don't understand that option." after the 3rd time I usually get sent to an operator. And without fail, every time I use the menu, I wind up speaking to a person who says I pressed the wrong button, then they transfer me to the same department.
- Anika
I do the same thing, Anika.
- Lisa | #TeamMonique
Ah the simple pleasures of modern life...
- Son of Groucho
Does this mean when all the police stations are closed, we will face the same situation, 80 options? "Are you sure you want to report a crime? If you pressed option #x you may be speaking to the wrong person, please confirm you want to proceed with the call" By which time, you're probably dead! :-(
- Halil
The menu for my local station is ridiculous. I've found it much easier to just drive over there.
- Anika
I made an imp-powered tiny printer! http://youtu.be/5q95HSfw-CQ
Anne Bouey, Stephan Planken, Meg V. Meg and 25 other people liked this
You can print to it by going here: http://fury.com/imp/print.php
- Kevin Fox
It's pretty nifty - I wonder what messages Kevin's had so far?
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
I wonder if someone could get a job by sending their resume?
- Jimminy IS Everybody
That's pretty cool.
- Heather
:) Yay!
- Anne Bouey
I wonder if Kevin can guess which of the many lines printed is the one I submitted.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
That's cool.
- Rodfather
Sent: 4 8 15 16 23 42
- Rodfather
Sent: For the kittehs!
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
Received!!
- Kevin Fox
Stephen, was it "I just typed this / And this is crazy / But here's my input / So print me maybe?"
- Kevin Fox
That's amazing Kevin!
- AJ Batac
Kevin, great job guessing correctly. :)
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I can't wait to see the printout(s).
- Julian
Now you need to guess the senders and match each with the correct message. :)
- Anne Bouey
Printed!
- Laura Norvig
Pretty sure that's one of the coolest things I have seen all day. And I saw some pretty cool things today.
- Josh Haley
Sweet.
- Micah
Tiny printer is at Maker Faire! Send us messages!! http://fury.com/imp...
- Rachel Lea Fox
from iPhone
Yay! :)
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
dude. O_o | Freak Ice Tsunami Crunches Homes In Canada http://io9.com/freak-i...
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Kelli H., ᏓᏰ #team Monique, Russian Space Lizard and 16 other people liked this
This seems like it could be a horror movie. The Creeping Ice that Eats You, or something.
- Victor Ganata
o_O
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
yikes
- Imabug
The world calls it freak ice tsunami, Winnipeg just calls it winter.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
It's a decorative glacier, you pay extra for that.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Just now happening in Minnesota on Lake Millacs..
- WarLord
this is close to us :(
- AJ Batac
Realization just set in: Holy crap, I'm 46 years old. DO NOT WANT.
Starmama, Steve and 4 other people, Sima and 43 other people liked this
Oh, please
- Anne Graham
Beats the alternative!
- Spidra Webster
Hah! You're both right. Just came from my physical -- clean bill of health other than a bit of cholesterol and vision starting to go. So I have a lot to be grateful for. But 50 is only four years off, how did this happen?
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
maybe you'll start aging backwards once you reach 50?
- Sir Shuping is just sir
Babe in the woods, you are.
- Friar Ticket to Ride
50 is pretty badass. I hope I make it there!
- joey
It is! And me too. But I'd rather be perma-35.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
35 was AWESOME! I'd go back there in a heartbeat.
- Lisa | #TeamMonique
I have a sudden urge to get a sports car for some reason. Blondes seem attractive. What does this mean???
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
Yeah, I'm definitely more scared being this close to 50 but that has a lot more to do with where I personally am in my life than the age of 50 itself. I'm sure other people do really well with it. (I'm permanently about 22 in my head...except slightly wiser and more world weary. You can be permanently 35 in your head!)
- Spidra Webster
I am this many *holds up 5 fingers* on the inside.
- Lisa | #TeamMonique
12. Or 666.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
The four year count down until the welcome to 50 colonoscopy!
- Janet:#TeamMonique
from FFHound!
Hush now, young'un.
- Jim #TeamMonique
Yes, sir. *shamefaced*
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
In all seriousness, there's a certain feeling of triumph that comes with getting a clean bill of health after a CPE. I had mine today too.
- Jim #TeamMonique
I remember 46...I think.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Craig Ferguson is 51.
- Hieronymous Boob
As am I
- Friar Ticket to Ride
You could be my Dad...
- Mo Kargas
You youngun. Ya know - we have a grownups' table you can join here at 50. Remember, m9m? Also, I didn't even start learning proper HTML/CSS until I was 47, nearly six years ago.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
Get back to me in about 15... ;) #olderthandirtwellatleastsomedirst
- WarLord
Damn. We should really all be asleep (except Johnny and Mo).
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
Stephan is old enough to be my friend. ;)
- Janet:#TeamMonique
LOL Mary, these are the true hours of aged wisdom, right?
- Janet:#TeamMonique
Does this mean I'm not old enough to be your friend Janet?
- Headless Gnad Kicker
Apparently. Also, the pills are in the kitchen. ;-) And I've been going to stand up and go there for an hour.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
I worked a 13 hour shift and came home to become very angry with other half. Anger does not bode well for sleep. Going to see if I can grab two more hours before I am back at work. Hope you have good pills.
- Janet:#TeamMonique
I have GREAT pills. But I respect them, too. They're like big dogs - gotta keep a certain perspective.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
Melly, you're old and young enough to be my friend.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
Sleep fast, Janet!
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
Didn't you get the memo? 46 is the new 25 :)
- imabonehead
That's pretty old!
- Eivind
Youngster.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
Boy please. You're only as old as you feel!
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
I *feel* 32 today. But somehow that doesn't add up properly when I subtract my birth year from the calendar year. Odd, that.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
For the record. Melly is also old enough to be my friend......and niece!
- Janet:#TeamMonique
from FFHound!
And Brad Pitt is 50 and C U T.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
And Methuselah made it to 969 :)
- Eivind
And he was D E V O U T.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
There should be a Devo, UT.
- Spidra Webster
Adding injury to insult: I just had my first eye exam in 5 years. I need reading glasses. :-\
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
I've been putting off my eye exam since I'm pretty sure I'll need them, too. :-/
- Yvonne
Steven Perez, AJ Batac, Eithne Herd and 6 other people liked this
:-)
- John (bird whisperer)
Ghost town comes up for air after 25 years under water - PhotoBlog - http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news...
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MoTO #TeamMonique, Brent Schaus, Yo Joe. No, go slow. and 10 other people liked this
"EPECUEN, Argentina — A strange ghost town that spent a quarter century under water is coming up for air again in the Argentine farmlands southwest of Buenos Aires."
- SteVe C
from Bookmarklet
Interesting!
- Son of Groucho
Atlantis.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Balasundaram Balasanmugan, AJ Batac, Halil and 9 other people liked this
Akiva, LB: #TeamMonique, imabonehead and 15 other people liked this
happy bday!
- holly #ravingfangirl
Happy birthday youngun
- SteVe C
Happy bday!
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
Thank you!
- Nathan Chase
Happy Birthday!
- Jimminy IS Everybody
Happy Birthday!
- AJ Batac
Happy Birthday!
- Hieronymous Boob
happy bday!
- imabonehead
Drywall wall!
Lois Loves LB and Mr. B, imabonehead, Kelli H. and 15 other people liked this
Oofah. My back hurts just thinking of drywall again.
- Steven Perez
This is happening in my kitchen today too! Never thought I'd be so happy to need to paint.
- Jaclyn aka spamgirl
Ohhh I love me some mudding, my specialty.
- SteVe C
Group Petitions White House to Ban Google Glass | TechnoBuffalo - http://www.technobuffalo.com/2013...
Kol Tregaskes, AJ Batac, ᏓᏰ #team Monique and 5 other people liked this
"Should Google Glass be banned? There’s certainly an argument to be made, especially if you’re concerned that anyone can be walking around snapping photos of you or recording your every move. In fact, we talked a bit about this during our latest Tech on the Range podcast. There’s enough concern that some people have recently created a petition with the White House to ban the technology until “clear limitations are placed to prevent indecent public surveillance.” It’s not so much a worry of government surveillance, but a worry of surveillance from our peers who are lucky or, perhaps, wealthy enough to afford the new tech. “Google Glass is a new twist on technology which hasn’t had clearly stated limits on the locations in US communities where it can and cannot be used,” the petition argues. “In order to protect our communities we need limitations to prevent indecent public surveillance of our friends, children, and families. It is hard to prevent it because the hardware gives no...
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- Me
from Bookmarklet
so are they gonna ban surveillance drones as well?
- Hieronymous Boob
LOL, this is about the dumbest thing I've heard in a while. The tech isn't going to sit still, will have a lot of future uses and eventually will become so small that you won't be able to tell a normal pair of glasses from one with this tech. This is a perfect example of people wanting a law that just isn't workable with the way technology works.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
BAN ELECTRICITY!
- Hieronymous Boob
I'm going to go the other way and say that that I'm happy they put up the petition. Not because I agree with it or think it will succeed, but because it's one small piece of a large conversation that needs to keep happening. I think society will have to struggle with how existing concepts of privacy and photography exist in a hyper-connected, hyper-recorded world (to say nothing of the...
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- Brian Johns
Well said, Brian.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Cristo, what is photography? Is it only the rarefied stratum of pictures deemed by someone as art? Do Robert Scoble or Thomas Hawk do photography? What about photography simply as a means of recording and preserving sights or moments?
- Tinfoil 2.0
From the perspective of someone who feels like I just took their picture without their permission, crappy images are photography. As in: "That stranger just took a photo of my kid!"
- Brian Johns
When Glass are outlawed only outlaws wil have Glass... I wonder why people such a visceral reaction to Glass? I suspect it's a conversation we should have had long ago about our "always ON" technology,
- WarLord
yeah this conversation will need to happen. Theres a much bigger issue at hand. Seems that only 20 people have signed the petetion
- Peter Dawson
Banning is too drastic, how about backround checks before purchase? Level 3 Sex Offenders would be prohibited of course. Obviously if you want to wear Glass there is added scrutiny because...look at that picture Really!?! So I think there's a middle ground here.. Maybe a permit allowing you to use Glass if you take a class and pass a proficency test and pay a fee...
- WarLord
Having a conversation and putting up a petition to ban these devices are two separate things. The petition is absolutely unnecessary to create the conversation and undercuts any serious conversation because of how ridiculous it is as a notion.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Wouldn't it be more true to the premise if they tried to ban tiny cameras? Problem is, the camera tech small enough to fit in Google Glass is also small enough to fit in a cell phone.
- Andrew C (✓)
It's not a "ridiculous" notion, but it is a negotiating position. Better conversation now, or would you rather walk up to your favorite bar, coffee shop, gym, or restaurant and find a sign on door banning Glass right along with smoking.... #secondhandglassiswhenitspostedoninstagram
- WarLord
So we like photons. Photons should be free. How about audio waves? Can we ban the ubiquitous interception and rebroadcasting of audio waves?
- Todd Hoff
It's negotiating like saying all public schools should be closed to stop government competition with private schools is a negotiating position.
- Andrew C (✓)
No It's negotiating position like saying this device is a luxury and intrusive, lets decide if its worth the pain to allow it in the wild. I'm guessing backround checks and wearing licenses might appease the Glass Banners
- WarLord
Many states already have two-party consent on audio recording. Plus, it's a whole lot more plausible to sue someone for stalking or harassment if you catch them secretly spying on you with a pen-cam or something. But the insidious thing with Glass is that it's an arrogant push (just like Facebook constantly pushing the privacy envelope) to assert new norms that it's "OK" for private citizens to opaquely and frictionlessly surveille each other any time they're not in the protection of their own homes.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Why would we have consent for audio waves and not photons?
- Todd Hoff
maybe the "banning pettion" is a tiny indication that people are tired of living in a world where one fuck up gets a viral you tube video not of your own making... #whyiwontdrinkinabarthatallowsglass
- WarLord
Todd, you're asking me to explain why our legal system isn't rational. I can't do that.
- Tinfoil 2.0
I've delayed entry into the fray for as long as possible. Time to make the commute. Good morning, criminals.
AJ Batac, Stephen Mack #TeamMomo, Jim #TeamMonique and 14 other people liked this
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
- LB: #TeamMonique
from Android
*nods* Barry
- Pete #TeamMonique
Hei :)
- Eivind
Barry! :-)
- Steven Perez
from Android
Hope it was an uneventful one, B.
- Kirsten
Yo.
- Uli - Sent to Coventry
Morning, B!
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
from iPhone
ELL BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Squire. Bre'er Eivind, bunneh! It was Kiki, thanks. Doooood. Hey Mary!
- MoTO #TeamMonique
Good morning, B. I don't blame you.
- Kelli H.
this thread makes me happy
- t-ra: not givin up
Hey, Miss BadAss. I'm glad, t-ra
- MoTO #TeamMonique
Fight the good fight, brother Barry.
- SAM
We do what we can, Scott. Happy Trails.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
Hugs B!!!!
- Janet:#TeamMonique
from FFHound!
Thanks, Janet!
- MoTO #TeamMonique
'sup.
- Bubba was a rollin stone
The cost of living, O.G. Bubbah. You good?
- MoTO #TeamMonique
Yeah, life is good. Just knockin' it out. :)
- Bubba was a rollin stone
Amanda Berry rescuer Charles Ramsey is no typical hero, but hero nonetheless. - http://www.al.com/opinion...
April Russo, Anne Bouey, Stephen Mack #TeamMomo and 4 other people liked this
A Cleveland police official giving an early-morning interview today said Amanda Berry's the real hero. Granted, Amanda Berry is a survivor, and it was heroic for her to take the opportunity to cry out for help. But if Charles Ramsey had choosen to keep walking – as so many of us do when we see trouble – then those women might still be in captivity today. He might not look the part, but at least three women and a 6-year-old girl are thankful he played the part. He's not Denzel or Snipes or The Rock. Charles Ramsey is a real hero.
- Eric
from Bookmarklet
Charles Ramsey is a HERO. Period.
- AJ Batac
That guy is hilarious. Him saying that you know something is wrong when a young white girl runs into the arms of a black man is pretty much 4,000 pages of commentary of America distilled into a single sentence.
- Akiva
Thank God he had the courage and opportunity to help. It's a crazy story and he absolutely is a Hero.
- Eric
Akiva will be playing the role of Barry Wynn today. *dead*
- MoTO #TeamMonique
I'M BLACK EVERYBODY!!! FINALY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Akiva
What do you mean, "finally?"
- MoTO #TeamMonique
ᏓᏰ #team Monique, AJ Batac, Kelli H. and 7 other people liked this
Cute baby alert!
- Yvonne
7.5 months (time is seriously flying)! :-)
- Stephan Planken
My creepy neighbor just walked in front of his house with an ax.
AJ Batac, Kelli H., SteVe C and 9 other people liked this
o.O
- DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
This could be bad.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
this may be bad form but order another pizza. if delivery guy survives then you're safe. #PigOnAStick
- Hieronymous Boob
It works Tim
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A Harpoon!
- Guy
Add "Jeff is checking for quality" to this meme.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
in the good old days somebody would've come out with some phallic symbol reference about that photo
- Guy
You can now get a daily or weekly email digest for anybody's feed on FriendFeed. You'll get a daily or weekly email with the most popular posts from that person's feed. To get the email, click the "Email/IM" link at the top of anyone's feed, and select the "Best of day" or "Best of week" email option.
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You can see all of your email settings at http://friendfeed.com/setting...
- Bret Taylor
Thanks Bret! :)
- Matt Ruiz
Thanks to Kevin for doing a great design for what turned out to be a more complex set of UI options than we had originally anticipated, and thanks to Tudor for implementing the email backend.
- Bret Taylor
Great! Thanks! Love FF!
- Scott Monaco
I now get the FriendFeed Feedback posts as a Best of Day email so it doesn't fill up my feed, but I don't miss feedback. I also set up a "Best of Day" email for my "Technology people" friend list so I get a pretty good overview of tech news every day via email.
- Bret Taylor
This is a really cool idea Bret, I wish you can make that an RSS feed option as well. I'd be much more likely to read summaries in RSS than in email.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Lovely. Thanks guys.
- Mitchell Tsai
Casey: Thanks for the tip. What's the 7 before the "?" mean in the URL? The number of likes or replies needed to be included?
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
this is killer, the random influx of email during the day was kinda getting fail-ish. I love the daily digest.
- Drew Lucas
Very cool! Any way to get archives of previous months? (especially helpful for those of us who leave the internet for weeks at a time...)
- Mitchell Tsai
WOW. that's really helpful！
- K.D.
Looks like a great addition for those who are not embedded on the site. Nice intro.
- Louis Gray
Cool!
- Josh Haley
Ahsan: it is somewhat random right now when the emails are sent, but we built in the backend capability to control what time they are sent, and we plan on exposing that control to users in the future. Right now, it is kind of random - sorry!
- Bret Taylor
This will be incredibly useful. Thanks to all involved in the design and execution.
- Kathy Fitch
Nice addition!
- Michael Fidler
But what exactly is "Best"? Is it anything that has a certain number of likes/comments?
- Laura Norvig
@Bret LOL THAT WAS MY PROJECT! I will release it tomorrow. But you've also did it and killed my friendfeed application **sigh** But mine has multi-reporting weekly-daily-monthly at the same time and adjustable entry count!
- Alp
@Bret please consolidate me or I won't code new apps with you api! :-)
- Alp
Alp: we were not trying to withhold data. Later today the documentation will be updated to reflect the ability to obtain "Best of" for users. The feed id will be USERNAME/summary/N (similar to "Best of" for lists)
- Benjamin Golub
Hi Ben, that is pretty funny, I tried that URL earlier today to see if it has been secretly released :)
- Paul Kinlan
Bret: While Twitter struggle to keep their fail whale under control, you guys are developing stuff like this. Amazing - Thanks!
- Jim Connolly
awesome feature, this will be highly useful for my corporate group ideas / content sharing; projects, etc.... THANK YOU :)
- Susan Beebe
Great work. I especially like that it works on lists too.
- Meryn Stol
my inbox might say different, but I like that :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Wow, this is really neat! And it links into the idea I expressed earlier, re: reducing signup friction / enabling limited guest privileges. Imagine if I could embed one of my FF rooms on my personal web site, and enable people to subscribe to that feed by e-mail with just a couple of clicks... rather than saying "you can get e-mail notifications but you have to sign up for Friendfeed first." "sign up" -- though admirably lightweight on FF -- is still a huge barrier.
- Adam Lasnik
is there a love button cause I dont like this option I LOVE this option..great work guys
- (jeff)isageek
Three options I would like (1) Can I select "top 100" instead of "top 30"? (2) Could I select both "best of day" and "best of week"? (3) How about older timeperiods? I'd love to get an e-mail with stuff from last week or Mar 2009? Start & end dates? Anything to help me read FriendFeed off-line would be great since I spend long periods off-line at festivals (especially during summer time) or overseas. - Awesome job guys!
- Mitchell Tsai
So this works on groups too, cool! But we still cannot see Best of for groups on the site on friends lists. :-( I have several friends lists that include just groups and when I select to view the best of the page it's empty (even though if I got to the individual best of for those groups there are entries there).
- Kol Tregaskes
does anyone know of a web service that can do this? (I'm thinking weekly email updates of my favorite feeds/people) I don't think there's anything like friendfeed ..
- Franc, a rememberer
That's a cool feature
- Xitong Liu
Emails no longer get sent except for Subscriptions. The last non-sub email I recieved was July 15th, 2011.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
I still get them.
- AJ Batac
I get these every day.
- Me
i get it
- solncee
I still get it
- AJ Batac
*jealous* I no longer get anything but subscription emails.
- Bruce Lewis
"Someday, we will all have a gotdamned "appreciate" button on our whatever-comes-next-after-websites-and-social-media-profiles, and micropayments will flow like milk and honey." - Marianne http://friendfeed.com/lsw...
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A friend of mine once said something similar...then he took his dream, wrote a forum mod, and made that dream a reality: http://www.donationcoder.com/Article...
- April Russo
And now I have an "appreciate" link at the bottom of my profile, here: http://www.donationcoder.com/forum...
- April Russo
And so does Micah, here: http://www.donationcoder.com/forum...
- April Russo
And each and every post we make on that forum has a little gold coin underneath our avatars that links directly to our own personal donate page, where you can donate amounts as small as a penny. So now, if we want to give someone on the forum a penny for their thoughts, or butt in with our two cents, we can...literally. Or we can be much more generous, if we want.
- April Russo
I guess what I am trying to say is that we don't really have to wait for "someday" for some entrepreneur with access to a ton of VC cash to make our dreams come true, and exploit us for profit at the same time. Where there is a will, there is a way for us to build it ourselves...today! And we can keep it pure, no exploitation for profit, automatically taking only a small amount from each user's deposits and placing it into a fund, just enough to keep the site going and pay its bills.
- April Russo
Maybe it's time to wake this group up and pick up the discussion, where we left off. http://friendfeed.com/openff
- April Russo
Considering that now, all these years later, we could start with basically a BuddyPress site and add features. Doesn't takes near the chops it did back in the day.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
And if its for us, to keep the community going, that's a much lower bar than to be an actual startup that looking to make folks rich.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
Steven Perez, AJ Batac, Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart and 4 other people liked this
:D
- Jennifer Dittrich
:-)
- John (bird whisperer)
I taught myself how to do cartwheels and handstands when I was five. I can still do 'em, forty years later (but not nearly as well). #saturdayff
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This is a picture from the early '90s (or possibly late '80s) in Santa Cruz taken by my friend Kyrie.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Senior year of high school for the talent show, I walked across the stage on my hands. It was the second night of the show. I was dating another senior, Sara S., who was the director of the show. Everyone had horrible senioritis and was completely unmotivated. The talent show was pretty much terrible start to finish. During one lengthy sketch that wasn't getting any laughs (and hadn't had any the night before), she pushed me out of the wings and told me to walk across the stage on my hands.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I guess it was her equivalent of using one of those hooked poles that you see in old vaudeville talkies to yank the performers off the stage when they're bombing.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
--30--
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
<3
- Kelli H.
Good job! I never managed to master walking on my hands. I could do handstands, and eventually even managed to push myself up from a headstand to a handstand, but somehow I couldn't sustain walking on my hands for more than a few feeble 'steps.'
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
I tried this once, took out a small orphanage
- Mo Kargas
I've had so many dreams of walking my hands! I've never tried it though. I'm not strong enough.
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
Zu, if you have never tried it, how do you know you're not strong enough? Try it!
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
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:))
- AJ Batac
ajbatac:
angwomon:
FUCK YOU BRIAN
THIS IS GOLD. - http://silas216.tumblr.com/post...
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What is your FF Comments/Likes Ratio? (Comments divided by Likes to 2nd decimal place - as of now) - http://flickr.com/photos...
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1.05 (670/633)
- Micah
from Bookmarklet
Can you remind me again where to find those stats?
- Brian Johns
Brian, go to "Me" link (http://friendfeed.com/brianjo...) which defaults to the Feed tab. Look at the sidebar on the right, below Discussion.
- Micah
0.75 (926/1226) - still relatively new here
- mikepk
I only see my stats for the last week (17/14 = 1.21) Please tell me your 670 number is for more than just a week!
- Brian Johns
1.44 (566/391) for brianjohns (after week tally you should see a comma then 'all time' count - I can see it on your page)
- Micah
OK, sorry. I'm a total dumbass. I stopped reading after the weekly totals...
- Brian Johns
3.74, which seems way off of everybody else's. I wonder what that says. I comment a lot more than I like.
- Cyrus Lendvay
0.79
- Brian Roy
0.77
- Eric - seven eleven
0.67
- Nine Ferdinand
0.77
- Shey
0.76
- FFing Enigma
1.39.
- Rochelle
1.80
- Brian Sullivan
1.61 - I only 'like' when I want to throw my support behind a topic but don't have anything constructive to add.
- Bjorn Stromberg
1.12
- Tinfoil 2.0
1.41
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
5.08 (3181/626) !
- ◄ani625Ξ ಠ_ಠ
0.66 - I tend to 'like' things without needing to comment further, I guess, and I notice I usually like the things upon which I comment. Well, frequently.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
.39 (2457/6242) I guess I don't comment much. I do 'like' a lot of things, it would seem.
- Bren
0.62 then again i have over 11,000 comments
- Cee Bee
1.23 (5287/4229) - I am put to shame by Cee Bee's participation, good grief!
- Lindsay
@Cee Bee I think you meant 0.62
- ◄ani625Ξ ಠ_ಠ
1.27 (902/705)
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
yes, thanks for the correction. lindsay, you're making me feel bad. lol
- Cee Bee
0.8576, I only like mostly when I'm going to comment
- Molly Song ;)
1.55 endlessly repeating. This Like/Comment included.
- Dana D
before this comment: .69 I kid you not.
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
So far: Average: 1.27 | Median: 0.81 ... (if you average 1 comment per like, you'd be 1.0 ... if you're 0.xx you might herd content more than discuss ... if you're whole numbers above 1 you may not 'like' much or discuss plenty or both)
- Micah
CSV_A: 1.05,0.75,1.44,0.81,3.74,0.79,0.77,0.67,0.77,0.76,1.39,1.8,1.61,1.12,0.141,5.08,2.41,0.66,.39,0.62,.62,1.27,0.8576,1.551,0.69
- Micah
1.83
- Grant Bierman
I tend to like allot of photos which really don't need comments.
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
InPerpetualMotion(Gina k), I really liked this 'Like' of yours (in a series of pics, so I flickr fav'd it): http://friendfeed.com/e... and commented. Thanks!
- Micah
.37 1002/2708
- Michael Fidler
this is what scobes walls would like if he didnt have FF
- sean percival
I haven't seen Marc Canter's fabled fence (just heard about it), but I imagine this but on wood pickets :)
- Micah
This week: 2.48 (1162:467) but this is not the norm, my likes usually match or are higher than comments, overall: 0.95 (14228:14846).
- Kol Tregaskes
Thanks Michael, Kol! I'll recalculate average/median when we build up some more data points here.
- Micah
1.03 748/723
- Keith - @tsudo
.68 6986/10194 Someone wrote a great article on the comment-like ratio a few months ago. Search on FriendFeed is crashing on me... I'll try to get the link.
- Mitchell Tsai
Thanks Mitchell (btw, search crashing on me too - lots)
- Micah
1316 comments/20221 likes (0.06), according to Windows Calculator, although I probably screwed up.
- Tyson Key
*bump*
- Micah
Thanks, Mark!
- Micah
Thanks Spidra!
- Micah
0.95 (1520/1604) - it's 2+ months later, and my ratio flipped (more Likes by .05)
- Micah
.7 (1204/1724) - before this comment at least.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Thanks, Rachel!
- Micah
3.46 (3665/1057) before this comment and like.
- Kevin Fox
Thanks, Kevin. 3+ is quite the comment on your commenting activities :)
- Micah
I've got stuff to say.
- Kevin Fox
3.98 (900/226)
- Richard Lawler
1.02 (3538/3484) for sofarsofarshaun
- Micah
.34 (600/1747, not counting this comment)
- Michael Hocter
Thank you, Siavash and Michael
- Micah
.52 overall, but .68 this week.
- Rebecca Lasley
Nice, thanks Rebecca.
- Micah
1.31
- Rahsheen?
0.56
- imabonehead
Rah and imabonehead - rock on! (Richard too!)
- Micah
0.16
- Anne Bouey
4.62 (287/62) -- Yikes! I'm chatty.
- Ted Roden
Thank you kindly, Anne, jcunwired and Ted.
- Micah
2.63
- Bryce Roney
Thanks for joining in, Bryce.
- Micah
.15 all time, .13 this week.
- Pixie
.52
- David HC Soul
Thank you, Alix and David! (and Alix, you're tied with Siavash for the Highest Like ratio. Wow).
- Micah
2.94
- j1m
Thank you, j1m. Ok, I'm gonna roll this up into a csv and call it a night.
- Micah
CSV_B: 0.95,0.7,3.46,3.98,1.02,0.15,0.34,0.52,1.31,0.56,0.16,1.39,4.62,2.63,0.15,0.52,2.94
- Micah
this week = 0.45%, alltime = 6.43%
- chaz2b
CSV_B Mean: 1.49 (previous mean for CVS_A: 1.27)
- Micah
Of course the numbers can easily lie, but I'm gonna say it anyway: "We're getting more conversational, people!"
- Micah
0.49 (493/988)
- Bluesun 2600
816 / 2502 = 0.326139089 overall | 50 / 233 = 0.214592275 this week I like much more than I comment. (maths via google)
- Chris Loft
3026/5013 = 0.6036
- Roger Chen
chaz2b, Bluesun 2600, Roger, Nicholas — thank you!
- Micah
5.25 but I don't know what this *means, yet. maybe I'm just stingy with my "likes" compared to others?
- Marg Uerite
Thanks jamar78 and Marg!
- Micah
A recent change in FF: now the comment count shows total number of comments (previously multiple comments in one thread only counted as one) http://friendfeed.com/e... so all the numbers above are from the old methodology....
- David HC Soul
My new ratio: 0.76 all time (old methodology .52).... this week 1.39
- David HC Soul
*bump*
- Micah
1.26 (2965/2346)
- Micah
Thanks, Glen and pea!
- Micah
Looks like my ratio as flipped again (comments back to dominating again). Seems to match my own awareness I've lately been commenting without Liking (commenting is my inherent recognition of value to me and the additional Like is when it merits an extra bump to help discovery by others).
- Micah
.38
- Ryan Dadey
Ryan, I have to say, that's one high caliber ratio ;)
- Micah
An update it's .44 which is an improvement from .36
- Michael Fidler
2.00
- Anthony Citrano
0.97
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
2.94 1040/354 I have likes set to post to twitter automatically, so I'm careful with them. :)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
0.85
- Steven Perez
0.73 up from 0.66 on Jan 08
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
0.37 for the week past, 0.45 on the whole.
- Parth Awasthi
Michael, Anthony, Ahsan, guruvan Steven, sıɹɥɔ and Parth - thanks for dropping in your stats!
- Micah
5.81 i'm not using it as does everyone else here. that is fer sure.
- Marg Uerite
Ahsan, huh, I'd never considered that.
- Micah
17942/30571=.59
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Alex, thank you, sir.
- Micah
ALmost 2:1 exactly.
- Amani
Much obliged, Amani.
- Micah
3062/5777 you do the maths.
- Will Higgins™
Thank you, amin/gnu
- Micah
7.16
- Ken Sheppardson
*bump* (SEE ALSO http://friendfeed.com/jungleg... )
- Micah
1.45 (4374/3026)
- Micah
1.73
- Aron Michalski
0.92 now. I think the movie reviews have been getting me closer to a 1 to 1 ratio.
- Steven Perez
0.77
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Steven, yep, you were a 0.85 in April.
- Micah
2.10 now ...
- Amani
0.97 now.
- Eric Johnson
Amani, so your comments have climbed a bit.
- Micah
Thanks, Eric.
- Micah
Probably, just chattier then :)
- Micah
I'm down from 7.16 to 6.94 :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken, the FCC may be interested to explore how your "I'm down" may be offensively self-deprecating ;)
- Micah
.56 eeep, must try harder
- Threepwood
4.52. I don't bother to like things I've commented on, since commenting already flags it as interesting.
- Andy Bakun
0.46 (1698/3638)
- Glenn Slaven
Threepwood, Andy, Glenn - thanks (Andy, that's my mo too; then I'll Like if it warrants a "double vote").
- Micah
1.31 (4,471/3,401)
- Karoli
Thanks, Karoli. And the both of us have a _very_ similar ratio and absolute numbers. wow.
- Micah
Thanks, Ryo!
- Micah
Andy, scroll upward and you'll see a couple calculations from before (January: Average: 1.27 | Median: 0.81)
- Micah
In March the Mean was: 1.49
- Micah
1.021276595744680851063829787234042553191489361702127659... via Wolfram Alpha
- tom murphy
Thanks, tom. And though a bit verbose, your friend Wolfram is resourceful :D
- Micah
0.55 (254/444)
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
Thank you, Willem.
- Micah
In April you were 0.97, so you're liking more / commenting less.
- Micah
1.88 (779/414)
- Ton Zijp
Thanks, Ton.
- Micah
0.43 (3597/8305).
- Parth Awasthi
0.74 (1970/2667)
- In Search of Gender
And thank you Parth, Scott.
- Micah
Parth, compared to your April numbers, you've been consistent.
- Micah
2.12 is my ratio.
- Rick Cogley
Thanks, Rick!
- Micah
Np Micah. What is that photo?
- Rick Cogley
.54 (4148/7674) Updated!
- Michael Fidler
Rick, you mean that face with glasses I photoshopped tint into with an apparently disembodied arm which is actually very much attached to my eldest son? It's mostly just me :)
- Micah
Thanks, Michael. Yes, you have a rising tide of comment percentage (oh, wow, you were one of the originals from January - cool!)
- Micah
1.82 from 798 comments / 438 likes
- David Damore
Thanks, nivé and David!
- Micah
2027/1594 = 1.27
- Brome
0.58
- Marc Dong
2.9 (3,242/1,116) mhhh.. time to straighten my use of FF a bit.. thanks for this entry
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Brome, Marc and Thierry - thank you!
- Micah
Thierry - yeah, 2.9 is fairly high - got to pick the pace on like side :) [but hey, whatever works for you is fine]
- Micah
1.91
- MiniMage
Thank you Nicholas and MiniMage!
- Micah
Yeah, that's a decent upward rise in comments, Nicholas.
- Micah
.6 (6,000/10,000) 3rd update - Now it's time to flip this on its head. My goal is to have (16,000/16,000) next time I post here. Regardless of what happens, I'm just looking forward to the next 10,000 comments, likes, posts, and new relationships I make here. It's all good!
- Michael Fidler
1.76 (7539/4290) My commenting habits haven't chanced much, but it felt like I clicked Like a lot less, and this ratio confirms that for me.
- Micah
It's that time again.
- Micah
.50
- LB: #TeamMonique
Thanks, Laura! (you're a 50-caliber gal!)
- Micah
0.64
- Imabug
Thank you, Imabug.
- Micah
4.67 (I'm greedy :p)
- directeur
0.99
- Steven Perez
1.06
- Jim #TeamMonique
.81
- Brent - Yes I am
.63
- metalerik
Thanks Imabug, directeur, Steven, RAPatton, Jim, Brent and metalerik!
- Micah
.83
- Jimminy IS Everybody
0.78
- Pete D
.82 as of right now. edit: on January 8th it was 0.39 -- when I saw that, I decided to make more of an effort to comment. When I hit 10k "likes" I decided I wouldn't "like" anything else until I also had 10k comments.
- Bren
.11
- Lola Bean (Penguin)
And thank you Jimminy, Pete, Bren and Penguin!
- Micah
2.47 as of right now.
- Jonas, Leper of FF
Micah, are you doing something with these numbers? If so sounds interesting.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
0.58
- Absentee
Jimminy, I'm copyrighting every single number. It's kind of a honeypot ;) Actually, it was curiosity mostly, but I also hope to build a sampling (small and self-selecting as it may be) for anyone who might want to analyze it.
- Micah
Jonas, James and Kurt - thanks you!
- Micah
You're welcome. I hope the results do some good. :-)
- Absentee
.31. I have almost 4 times as many likes as comments.
- edythe
Thank you edythe and Eric!
- Micah
195/245 makes 0.8 rounded not including this one which would be 196/245 making 0.8 unrounded,
- tom murphy
Thanks, Tom.
- Micah
1.98 (588/297)
- Bryan Zirkel
1.67 (19,550/11,684)
- Mitchell Tsai
1:2
- Jeff P. Henderson
Bryan, Mitchell and Jeff P. - thanks, guys!
- Micah
1.18 - it's always been close to 1, since day one, for some reason.
- Laura Norvig
Wow, Penguin is a prolific liker!
- Laura Norvig
2.67 (875/328)
- Nathalie
Thank you, Nathalie!
- Micah
2.18
- Spidra Webster
Thanks, Spidra and Mark!
- Micah
0.49
- Jammy Lee
0.825
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Jammy and Mathew, thank you very much.
- Micah
2.16
- Sue - Friendfeed is best
I don't know I just like that picture
- Brian Hendrickson
.40
- Ben Hanten
Mine was exactly 2:1 about a week ago. Did a screenshot when I had 2,000 comments and 1,000 likes.
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
from iPod
SuezanneC, Brian, B E N and Joe - thank you all very much!
- Micah
Joe, it's like see the odometer click through a nice round number - it's just inexplicably engaging. :)
- Micah
1.40, nearly the square root of two.
- Vezquex
Thanks, Raphael and Andy!
- Micah
1.15 (6777/5873)
- JA Castillo
12.23 (844 / 69 ) I guess I take my likes seriously ;)
- Chris Myles
Wow I didn't realize I was so out of whack!! 12.23 that's got to be a record (and I don't even import my feeds with the summary as a comment)!!
- Chris Myles
.87
- Nine Ferdinand
Thanks JA, Chris (wow, 12+ is unusual :), Serkan and Nine!
- Micah
Micah.. I told you I take my likes seriously; ). You *might* want to ask (in a separate post) what percentage of likes were used to "bookmark" a post or save it for later VS actually "liking it". I NEVER used like for that.. but I did use a private group that if filled with my own topics (and comments)..
- Chris Myles
1.78 (8529/4782)
- Micah
Likes are down relative to comments, which matches my much lower frequency of liking. I'm a more selective liker than ever.
- Micah
I don't think I could argue that any particular kind of ratio is "best", because if Lurkers like to Lurk and cultivate (via Likes) and the Chatty-ites love to chat, to pump out much many more comments than Likes, each can be happy and make for a great social experience.
- Micah
383/372
- Ashish
'Just clicking "Like" seems too easy' — Jason, that's because you're from the Chatty-ite tribe :)
- Micah
Thanks, ashish.
- Micah
wow, what a difference time makes, when i 1st posted on this thread, 6.43%, now = 1.25%, for a 5.18% difference, :o (and this is the earliest post to date i've recovered of my activity on ff)
- chaz2b
chaz, I think there's been a big fluctuation for most people (maybe not that much). This is the oldest post on which you commented that you've recovered?
- Micah
When I first saw this: 1.91 Sept 28: 1.94
- MiniMage
536 comments in the last month has me at .8736...still creeping toward 1.00
- Bren
.64
- Shannon Jiménez
Thanks, MiniMage (2x participant!), Bren (3x!) and Shannon (your inaugural visit!)
- Micah
Thank you, SustainedEuphoria.
- Micah
Thanks, Mark.
- Micah
1.45
- Brett Kelly
Thanks, Brett :)
- Micah
5.67 all time. Second highest ratio on here. Woot! I love to talk.
- Kevin L
Thank you both, Kevin and mridul (the two of you balance it each well :)
- Micah
1.80 (10,189 / 5,666) [compared to Likes, my Comments still continue to rise]
- Micah
1.02 (10323/10161)
- Bren
.5666 currently (30,084/53,093)
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Thanks, Bren.
- Micah
Thank you, Alex :)
- Micah
that was my third post... It's interesting to see how the number has changed. of course, I manipulated the number to a degree, because I stopped "liking" things for a while...
- Bren
Bren, the other thing that can seriously throw off someone's stats is a feed that upon each item it imports adds a comment automatically.
- Micah
true. that can seriously inflate comment stats, of course. Then you have someone like RAPatton, who posts a gazillion comments, in part because of his playlist posts where he will list each song in a separate comment. I found, after this post in fact, that I tended to "like" things much more frequently than comment on them, that I was lurking instead of participating. I have changed the way I use ff rather considerably, and I think for the better.
- Bren
4.26?
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Thanks, Sarah, Tutivillus.
- Micah
1.19
- Joe Bonner
Micah this is like 11 months ago, I see you have almost doubled your rate. lets make a graph for everybody now, :)
- ۳۰ مرغ Loves Y'ALLLLL
Quick, someone write a greasemonkey script to inline some google charts! (tap-tap-tap...wut? don't look at me ;)
- Micah
Thanks, Joe. And you thank you, Mahmood :)
- Micah
Thanks, Glen! Your comments in the ratio have gone up too.
- Micah
1.70 (it was 1.41 on Jan 8)
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
WorldofHiglet, thank you :) The comments are strong in this one.
- Micah
0.64 (2,589/4,051)
- Chieze Okoye
0.58
- Thomas Page
Chieze and Thomas - thank you!
- Micah
*bumpage*
- Micah
So, Micah, we never did find out what you were doing with this info....
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
0.27 (5637/20234) - I only see a couple people lower than me.
- John (bird whisperer)
4.06 (747/184)
- Jan Ole Peek
WoH, World Domination.
- Micah
Rene, John and Jan - thank you, all three! :)
- Micah
0.97 (6,694/6,929)
- Jimminy IS Everybody
Thank you J., Jimminy and آقای تلخک :)
- Micah
2.23
- Paola Bonomo
0.71 (8,200/11,551) updated
- Michael Fidler
0.03 (284 / 10378)!
- Daniel Rowley
Thanks Paola, Michael, Artemko, J. and Daniel!
- Micah
*thanks Christopher thoroughly*
- Micah
14.86 (1442/97) I'm going the wrong way!!
- Chris Myles
1.77 (11831/6622)
- Micah
0.56 (2059/3703)
- Joel Webber
0.89 (1,766/1,986)
- chrisofspades
Thanks, Joel and Chris!
- Micah
In 4 days it will be 1 year since my first recorded stat here. My comments/like were almost a 1:1 ratio then. Now comments are almost double likes for me.
- Micah
Easy
- Kevin J Hatton
jamar78, same trend for you, it looks. :)
- Micah
1.00 a year later. {edit -- screwed it up the first time. not telling what I did.}
- Jim #TeamMonique
Thanks, Jim!
- Micah
.52 this year.
- LB: #TeamMonique
Thank you, Laura =)
- Micah
75,415 comments/1,286 likes = 58.64 - i wish the auto inserted comments didn't get counted... the true number is probably much much close ot my number of likes
- Chris Heath
1.09 (11910/10953)
- Bren
1.97%. thanks again micah, this has been a great metric to measure my first year here on ff. As the year went (this being the first record of me being here that i've found): , 6.43%:1.25%:1.97%
- chaz2b
Chris, Bren, thank you. And chaz2b, thank you too - glad it's a special marker for you. :)
- Micah
0.91
- Bruce Lewis
0.13
- Morton Fox
1.69 now (1.70 on Nov 10th and 1.41 on Jan 8, 2009) -
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
0.23
- Mark H
How is this thread doing in the longest-lived-ff-comment-thresds-ever contest?
- j1m
5.76 right now
- Kevin L
0.53
- Rodfather
1.49 (2,222/1488)
- DB, Just DB #TeamMonique
"I must not ask Micah questions" written out a bajillion times.... :)
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
LOL @Higlet - Correct. (but Brent, you can also ask the Mathematics Dept of West Bohemian University in Pilsen, Czech http://www.fav.zcu.cz/en... [via http://maisonbisson.com/blog... ])
- Micah
0.32 (2011/6291) Looks like I need to comment more. =)
- Beau Liening
Thank you, Beau. And, by stating you want to comment more you're already helping the cause :)
- Micah
2.09329564 (10366:4952) I don't think that I'm the norm here
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
*bump* - It's that time again, folks.
- Micah
1.71 (16,017/9,357)
- Micah
0.91 (13,933/15,222)
- Jimminy IS Everybody
2.66
- Marissa
1.48 (2,469/1,669)
- DB, Just DB #TeamMonique
Thanks, Jimminy, Marissa and Daryl. :)
- Micah
1.21
- Jenny H
Thanks, Jenny!
- Micah
1.10 (4874/4448)
- DGentry
2.13(7957/3734)
- Melanie Reed
Thank you, Denton, Glen and Melanie!
- Micah
63.58 (97,534/1,534) -- interesting that my last three digits are the same there, eh? (note, i already posted a month or two ago when i first saw this thread)
- Chris Heath
Thanks, Chris!
- Micah
0.87 (3770/4312), so I'm either getting more commenty or less likey. [0.74 (1970/2667) was what I previously reported back in June]
- In Search of Gender
Thanks Scott, pea and T. Brent.
- Micah
Brent, interesting. Look forward to more commentary. :)
- Micah
1433/1161 = 1.23
- cdogzilla | downgraded
1.19 (5132/4316)
- Ruchira S. Datta
Thank you, cdogzilla and Ruchira!
- Micah
0.94(15045/15978) 0.83, (28.August.2009); 0.97, (11.Nov.2009); 0.91, (17.April.2010); 0.94, (11.May.2010).
- Jimminy IS Everybody
1.65 (18,070 / 10,970)
- Micah
*bump* It's that time again, folks.
- Micah
1.05 (1710/1625)
- cdogzilla | downgraded
1.66 here. Chattyites 4ever!
- Lo
Thanks cdogzilla and Lo!
- Micah
Last year my comments were around 7000 and likes around 2500, for a ratio of 2.80. I consciously chose to do more liking over the last year. As of today my comments number 10,782 and likes number 7,666, for a ratio of 1.41.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Jason, Stephen - cool. Thanks for keeping updated here. :)
- Micah
Thanks, RG
- Micah
1.03. Micah you've made over 18000 comments since you first posted this.
- chrisofspades
0.76 (3,624/4,766) Egad that's only .1 improvement since 2009-01-08 :-P but at least it's moving in the right direction.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
3.25 No wonder I always had to stand in the hall in school for talking ;-)
- Shannon - GlassMistress
Still right at 1:1. W00t.
- Jim #TeamMonique
1.15 (14662/12739)
- Bren
chrisofspades, crazy isn't it. :)
- Micah
kima, tortoise wins and all that ;) Thanks, Shannon. Jim, you have maintained balanced in the force you have. Thanks, Bren.
- Micah
2.33 :( my new yr's resolution was to "like" more, imma not doing sucha good job, :(
- chaz2b
Thanks, Mark, and chaz, you'll get there. :)
- Micah
1.61 (20,661 / 12,818)
- Micah
*BUMP* - It's that time again. THANKS!
- Micah
1.76 (15,652/8,886)
- Jenny H
Thanks, Jenny and hollyrai!
- Micah
Thank you, Glen.
- Micah
0.77
- Steven Perez
0.31 (14566/47299)
- John (bird whisperer)
John, you're a 'liking' fool! :D
- Jenny H
Apparently I'm the human version of FALOB
- John (bird whisperer)
Ha! (and thanks, John)
- Micah
Double ha!
- Jenny H
Thank you Steven.
- Micah
1.04
- Scott. Cat Herder.
2.28
- Jesse Stay
1.66 (updated)
- Eric - seven eleven
1.25
- holly #ravingfangirl
Thanks Scott, Jesse, Eric and holly!
- Micah
58,144/3,749=15.509, basically due to multiple feed imports.
- Daniel Mietchen
*BUMP*
- Micah
1.60 (22,066/13,819)
- Micah
:) @Jason.
- Micah
0.69
- Absentee
0.76
- Steven Perez
slightly off of my usual this time: 1.01
- Jim #TeamMonique
Thanks James, Steven and Jim "STAY-ON-TAR-GET" Jannotti. :)
- Micah
.98(20,405/20,834)
- Jimminy IS Everybody
Thank you, Jimminy, Greg and Bren!
- Micah
1.88 (21954/11691) Chatty Cathy, apparently.
- Jenny H
11289/9010 = 1.25 (wonder if some comments are from imported feeds)
- Mike Chelen
Thanks Jenny and Mike. :)
- Micah
Sorry - Micah .... but the math is just too complicated :)
- Charlie Anzman
Charlie, I'm make it simple. I'll do the talking, you drive the get-away car—we'll split it even: 80/20.
- Micah
Damn, More Homework.
- Brent - Yes I am
including this comment (119,119C/1677L) ... 71.03
- Chris Heath
1.21
- Joe Bonner
1.56 (24,076/15,472)
- Micah
*BUMP* - it's that time again. Also, I passed 24K comments recently.
- Micah
0.74
- Michael R. Bernstein
Thanks, Micahel.
- Micah
113,457 comments / 166,887 likes = .68
- RAPatton
2.02 (31627/15675) I need to start liking more and shut the hell up.
- Jenny H
1:1.618, of course.
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
2.60
- Jack&Cleo
I was waiting for that from you, Mr. Haley.
- Lisa | #TeamMonique
from Android
Those are some heavy hitter numbers there, RAPatton. Thanks. :)
- Micah
I've been on FF for a long time, Michah, because I am really, really old.
- RAPatton
LOL Josh. These aren't the maths you looking for. [lateral hand wave]
- Micah
Jenny, do not take your own advice; not advisable.
- Micah
Thanks, Jack & Cleo.
- Micah
RAPatton, you're not old—you triple-comment-excerpt every bookmarklet post :))
- Micah
Cristo, this post is an ancient relic. Handle with care.
- Micah
0.13
- Morton Fox
Okay, Micah. <----I had to resist the urge not to post that because I know it's going to up my comment count. ;)
- Jenny H
But how many of those primordial, high interest posts are still active. Uh huh. :)
- Micah
Thanks, Morton. BTW, when you posted in February, it was exactly 0.13 also.
- Micah
Jenny, resistance is futile; embrace the rising tide of comments.
- Micah
Comments are more difficult and time consuming than Likes. I'd be happy about a high comment:likes ratio except that many are surely imported from feeds, while every Like is manual.
- Mike Chelen
it has changed to 2.2256 now as Sep, 6 2010.Labor Day. :) I added the date for future references.
- ۳۰ مرغ Loves Y'ALLLLL
IN HONOUR OF DERRICK'S 100,000th LIKE: http://friendfeed.com/micahwi...
- Micah
1.54 (25,102/16,257)
- Micah
.82
- Alex Scrivener
Thanks, Alex.
- Micah
2.29.... 26 HR, 89 RBI
- .LAG liked that
.15 on March 21, 2009. Now .19.
- Pixie
Thanks, MarkJ, .LAG and Alix! :)
- Micah
Thank you, Deepak!
- Micah
1.47 (24757/16749)
- Bren
I make a lot of comments but no one like me, so I guess the ratio is infinite or undefined.
- Sue - Friendfeed is best
1.45 (29653/20444) *BUMP*
- Micah
1.22 (31900/26233)
- holly #ravingfangirl
.59 (58,923/99,251)
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
6.61 (2825/427 )... I'm a wee bit chatty
- Shannon - GlassMistress
I had exactly a 2:1 ratio as previously reported [Aug 30, '09], now I am at: 1.7241:1 ratio. 6,067 comments to 3,519 likes.
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
0.79 as of 6 Jan 2011.
- John E. Bredehoft
my brain hurts
- Morgan
Two years later and my ratio has climbed from 3.4 to 4.675. I've got a lot to say, apparently.
- Kevin Fox
Funnily, I didn't notice until after leaving that comment that when I reported my stat in 2009 I also followed it up with "I've got stuff to say." I didn't say it was *new* stuff...
- Kevin Fox
1.000 (27093/27080)
- Jimminy IS Everybody
I've had an improvement since the last few times this has come up. I was .49 or close to it, now I'm running a .57 ratio
- Bluesun 2600
1.68 (55826/33281)
- Jenny H
81.1 - rising consistently
- Chris Heath
I think this is the oldest thread I see that still gets new comments added.
- Sue - Friendfeed is best
*BUMP*
- Micah
1.40 (32175/22968)
- Micah
I dunno, I'm not good with math
- sofarsoShawn
0.35 ... Apparently I'm not very talkative.
- John (bird whisperer)
Thanks, John and Shawn.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
looks familiar...
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
2.6 (wow, this thread is like my yearly checkup; thanks micah and friendfeed, 3+years and going strong [6.4%, 2.33%])
- chaz2b
1.02 (38,615, 37,927) 9/27/11
- Jimminy IS Everybody
1.29 (36,959 / 28,580)
- Micah
Thanks, Jimminy, Bren, WoH, and chaz2b. :)
- Micah
.46 now. :)
- LB: #TeamMonique
Thank you, LB.
- Micah
0.33 (34741/105115)
- John (bird whisperer)
0.93
- c.a.j.
Thanks John. Gracias, caj.
- Micah
1.57 (24,460/15,624). It was 1.12 the day after the OP.
- Tinfoil 2.0
The likes dim and comms brim.
- Micah
2.91; 6.43% (@ 2yrs ago) 2.33% (@ 1yr ago). for history's sake, this thread was started shortly after i found friendfeed, or friendfeed found me, so it holds a special place in my heart. thanks for keeping it around mr micah
- chaz2b
You're certainly welcome, chaz2b. In some way it feels like a living heirloom to me. :)
- Micah
*BUMP*
- Micah
1.25 (40,008/31,895)
- Micah
1.15
- Kristin
0.33
- John (bird whisperer)
1.41
- Headless Gnad Kicker
5.12
- Julian
3 (2.991) (and now the list has become too lengthy for me to track my progress, ;) [dumb me, i have a post not 10 lines ago in history, from 090711 2.91; 6.43% (@ 2yrs ago) 2.33% (@ 1yr ago) ;) ]
- chaz2b
.79
- Shevonne
24 072 / 35 095 = 0.685909674
- AJ Batac
0,77 (before and after this comment)
- loi
2.65 (69,814 comments/26,281 likes)
- Spidra Webster
1.51 = 28,196/18,717. Was 1.57 in Sept 2011 and 1.12 in Jan 2009.
- Tinfoil 2.0
*BUMP*
- Micah
0.174 (6966/40022) - Not much of a talker.
- Kevin Johnson
1.18
- Soup in a TARDIS
1.23 (41,476 / 33,845)
- Micah
1.43
- Tamara J.
.15 on March 21, 2009, .19. on September 18, 2010, and .22 today (March 8, 2012).
- Pixie
*BUMP* for Ross
- Micah
2.83
- Ross Miller
1.97 on 2012-04-24
- ؛ patrick
0.99 (44,752, 45,200) 4/24/11 || 0.83, (?, ?), (28.August.2009); 0.97, (6,694, 6,929), (11.Nov.2009); 0.91, (13,933, 15,222), (17.April.2010); 0.94, (15,045, 15,978), (11.May.2010); .98, (20,405, 20,834), (03.August.2010); 1.00, (27,093, 27,080), (06.January.2011); 1.02, (38,615, 37,927), (27.September.2011); 0.99 (44,752, 45,200), (24.April.2012);
- Jimminy IS Everybody
0.90
- Uli - Sent to Coventry
1.6
- AJ Batac
1.03
- Ryan Kaisoglus
1.34 Did you finish all your profiling yet, Micah?
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
1.22 (42,526 / 34,975)
- Micah
Glad to see you here, Ross. Thanks for the updates everyone. WoH, the master plan is coming together nicely.
- Micah
Excellent *steeples fingers*
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
*staples fingers*
- John (bird whisperer)
Hmm, can you order finger-steeples on Amazon?
- Micah
*readies the Band-Aids*
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
Micah: I can sell you some, cheap. Just fax your credit card, SIN and maiden name to the usual number.
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
My facsimile machine is in dry dock at the moment, but I'll pigeon over a small scroll with all the requisite datums.
- Micah
Done and done.
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
2.95
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
0.45
- Ahmet Yükseltürk
0.31 <-- about the same as usual
- John (bird whisperer)
After the last 19+ hours, it's high time to log-in your stats again.
- Micah
1.20 (45878 / 38084)
- Micah
1.54 (32,913 comments / 21,412 likes)
- Tinfoil 2.0
Thanks, Tinfoil.
- Micah
Try dividing by zero and find out (http://friendfeed.com/micahwi... )
- Micah
1.04 (10778 / 10303)
- DB, Just DB #TeamMonique
Thanks, DB.
- Micah
Currently 0.3.
- John (bird whisperer)
Thanks, John.
- Micah
1.01 (47,240, 46,956) 9/13/12 || 0.83, (?, ?), (28.August.2009); 0.97, (6,694, 6,929), (11.Nov.2009); 0.91, (13,933, 15,222), (17.April.2010); 0.94, (15,045, 15,978), (11.May.2010); .98, (20,405, 20,834), (03.August.2010); 1.00, (27,093, 27,080), (06.January.2011); 1.02, (38,615, 37,927), (27.September.2011); 0.99 (44,752, 45,200), (24.April.2012); 1.01, (47,240, 46,956), (14.September.2012);
- Jimminy IS Everybody
0.62
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
Thanks, Jimminy and Zulema.
- Micah
BUMP - in honor of Kevin's 8K comment threshold.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
.38 - March 15, 2013
- Jennifer Dittrich
0.279 (58096/208087)
- John (bird whisperer)
0.172283 (8005/46464)
- Kevin Johnson
0.75 (38,250 comments / 50,175 likes) (My entry above from 2 years ago said I had 10,782 comments and 7,666 likes for a ratio of 1.41. I've been busy, and my pattern seems to have changed.)
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Thanks, Jennifer, John, Kevin and Stephen. :)
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
0.51 (6,883/13,438)
- Stephan Planken
from iPhone
5.72, though I deleted my first account, like, 3 years ago
- Meg V. Meg
1.03 (51,436, 50,018) 3/15/13 || 0.83, (?, ?), (28.August.2009); 0.97, (6,694, 6,929), (11.Nov.2009); 0.91, (13,933, 15,222), (17.April.2010); 0.94, (15,045, 15,978), (11.May.2010); .98, (20,405, 20,834), (03.August.2010); 1.00, (27,093, 27,080), (06.January.2011); 1.02, (38,615, 37,927), (27.September.2011); 0.99 (44,752, 45,200), (24.April.2012); 1.01, (47,240, 46,956), (14.September.2012); 1.03 (51,436, 50,018), (15.March.2013);
- Jimminy IS Everybody
.44. I guess I'm getting lazy.
- LB: #TeamMonique
2.22. I use YouFeed a lot, and liking takes an inordinate amount of time on the app....
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
3.10 up from 2.83 a year ago.
- Ross Miller
Thanks, Ross.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
BUMP
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
0.51
- Ahmet Yükseltürk
1.07
- Kristin
1.90
- Jason - The Opaque
from Android
0.62 (5077/8197) as of 4/29/13
- Betsy #TeamMonique
2.49 today
- Marissa
Good morning, FriendFeed. - http://bunnzies.tumblr.com/post...
Iván Abrego, Jennifer Dittrich, AJ Batac and 2 other people liked this
O HAI! :)
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
Good morning.
- John (bird whisperer)
Good morning, John. :)
- Steven Perez
Good morning!
- AJ Batac
Good morning, AJ. :)
- Steven Perez
silly Mr. Bunneh
- VALZ/TEAM TRAVIS
Hey, Val. :-)
- Steven Perez
from Android
a good day to photowalk #winnipeg by AJ Batac http://flic.kr/p/eeny4B
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:)
- AJ Batac
Today has turned into a big big day. An exhausting day. An expensive day. An exciting day. I am no longer dependent upon an undependable car. I also will have no reserve credit to speak of for the foreseeable future. I might be slightly insane. Details to follow.
Eivind, Mike Nencetti, SteVe C and 12 other people liked this
Also, the dealership where I closed the deal was having a grand opening celebration. I had to ride my bicycle back to the dealership to pick up the beater Infinity, so I stopped in to see the festivities. There was a drawing for prizes of various types, including giveaways of 4 new cars. After a 30 minute wait, I was one of 8 people remaining who had a chance for a car. I opened the wrapped HotWheels car that they had given out (one to each of the 20 finalists.) Only one of them was red. If mine was red, I'd win the car. 11 people ahead of me unwrapped theirs. No red car. I ripped my open. Green. Sigh. #19 finally unwrapped the red car. It was an older woman, and she was overwhelmed, so I didn't feel too badly about losing out. Still, what a trip!
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
What'd you get?
- DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
Also, if anyone wants a 1996 Infiniti i30t with power leather seats (heated), power moon roof, power everything else, 3.0L V6, 145K miles, give me a holler. Runs good (if you can get it started.) Body is ready to return to its original mineral state. Tread wear is less than 20%, suspension is good. Exhaust not so good. Give me a holler. It's yours for the taking! Else I'm going to donate it to a good cause.
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
I went with a Kia Soul. The features, price with incentives, fuel economy, cargo capacity, and "fun-to-drive-ness" won me over. Mostly the incentives, including some special ones due to the grand opening. Buyer's remorse is already kicking in.
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
That and I wanted to be like Uli and Kirsten. ;)
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
Actually (and only those of you over 50 or 55 will appreciate this) one of the key considerations was the ease of getting in and out with my iffy hip. A big improvement over the Infinity! Yes, I'm getting old.
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
^I appreciate that.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
While only people >50 might appreciate the "iffy hip" part, anyone of larger carriage will appreciate the "ease of getting in and out" part. That's part of why I like my Focus so much. Getting in and out of my Focus is infinitely simpler than my wife's Kia Optima or my great-aunt's Mazda 6 (both of which I drive occasionally, and both of which sit much, much lower to the ground than my Focus).
- DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
Yeah, I definitely considered the Focus. They're a really sharp car and getting great reviews. If not for the incentives offered on the Soul right now, I might have gone that way. I was tempted as it was.
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
When I look at new cars over the next few months (planning to wait until mid-June before actually buying anything - we have to get through some major expenses in the next month & a half, first), I'll definitely be curious to see if the Fusion sits as high as the Focus. I've loved both of my Focuses, but I would like to get something a tiny bit bigger (the kids aren't getting any smaller).
- DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
I came close to getting a used Fusion (3 years old with ~30K miles on it) but the dealer had a pending offer and it ended up as sold. As I recall the seating/headroom is way better than my Infiniti. Not sure how it compared to the Focus.
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
I hope you like the Soul as much as Uli likes his! It's been a good car thus far.
- Kirsten
^5, jkram!!! What color is it? (On our trip to Houston I drove a Ford Focus, and MAN, was that a POS. I was so glad to be reunited with Fridolin.)
- Uli - Sent to Coventry
*gasp* ;-)
- MoTO #TeamMonique
from Android
I loved my Soul and we seriously considered getting another one when we traded our cars in last year. It's a well-designed car that has an amazing amount of room. But, I'm happy with our Kia Forte now.
- Running Slow
I admire your soul to, Jylli... oh, wait...
- MoTO #TeamMonique
MoTO: FWIW, the Focus was having issues (the clutch was going). Got really good gas mileage, though.
- Kirsten
Thank you, Kiki. You're my favorite.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
I think we know that, B. Still that Focus was a POS, Detroit or not. :-P ---just messin with ya, dood.
- Uli - Sent to Coventry
*sigh* --- Am I so delicate a flower? Well, I am, but still.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
You am, I is, we all be.
- Uli - Sent to Coventry
I was really tempted by the Focus electric model, but the upfront cost was intimidating (way out of my range) and the $7000 tax credit wouldn't arrive for another year (or so I assume.) And then there's the $1500 - $2000 power station installation cost... maybe in my next life? It looks like an excellent choice for someone looking for an all electric vehicle, particularly with the price...
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- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
Now to come up with a name... suggestions are welcome. (As a starting point, the Soul has a high rear roof height, so personificationally/anthromorphizationally(!) it's as if someone had a butt-lift. But in a good way.)
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
Of course there's also the 'soulful' aspect, in this case silver-haired soul, I suppose. Boz? Jimi? Ray? Stevie Ray? (I lump blues and soul together.)
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
FWIW, I haven't rioted in years. #WaitWHUT?
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
http://twitpic.com/yqhgf - In memory...
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Marie, Shevonne, Eivind and 83 other people liked this
RIP Michael. :(
- EricaJoy
RIP. :(
- iTad
RIP Michael :( My condolences to family and loved ones.
- Penny
Condolences to your family. RIP.
- AJ Batac
RIP Michael
- Rick Cogley
from iPhone
RIP Dear Michael
- DanDan
Fly with the angels my friend
- VALZ/TEAM TRAVIS
condolences :(
- Holden Page
OMG.. RIP, Michael.
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
RIP
- گناهکار
:(
- Mil∂d
RIP. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
RIP Michael.
- Mark Krynsky
Attended Michael's Trisagion Service tonight, will go to the funeral tomorrow. Family OK w photos, will post as memorial to Michael.
- Norman Demetrios Fletcher
oh...we weren't ready for this
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
RIP Michael. This is so sad... I just learned about his passing yesterday. :-(
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Miss you, Michael.
- Russian Space Lizard
Wish he could have seen us tonight. He just may have.
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
"when tomorrow starts without me....." My heart and prayers go to you, Michael and you're family. May you're family find peace and comfort in the days ahead. <3
- Lynda Dmoch
Happy Birthday.
- Mike Nencetti
no more pain.
- Hieronymous Boob
RIP Michael. ;( ;( ;(
- rowlikeagirl
Coming on one year. I hope that his family is doing okay, and am truly saddened that we couldn't interact with him this year.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
Wow, I can't believe it's been that long.
- Lola Bean (Penguin)
from iPod
:( I forgot to bump this on monday. :(
- Jimminy IS Everybody
:(
- Rachel Lea Fox
from iPhone
:-(
- Ashish
I only new him for a very short time here, but I miss him.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
Happy Birthday Michael.
- Mike Nencetti
Happy Birthday Michael. nice to see your account is still here.
- Mike Nencetti
On FB he kept turning up on "People You May Know" even a few months ago. Bittersweet to see him there. Happy Birthday to Michael.
- Russian Space Lizard
Seal teaching its baby how to swim … at Point Lobos. Beautiful place.
Balasundaram Balasanmugan, Starmama, humanwatch - آرمان and 15 other people liked this
are there enough seals around to watch this time of year?
- kartik vaithyanathan
I went to Point Lobos on Apr 18 and there were plenty of seals. They had closed one of the beaches so that the seals could use it for pup-rearing.
- Amit Patel
I was at Fitzgerald Marine Reserve last weekend and there were a bunch of pups being born. Bring binoculars.
- Steve and 4 other people
Awesome! I have only been there once and want to go back.
- Amit Patel
This morning we changed the format of FriendFeed subscription email messages to include more information about people who subscribe to you. Please let us know if you see any problems, and keep an eye out for more email improvements in the future.
superpultdu, Kishore Balakrishnan, Tanath and 65 other people liked this
Thank you very much, Casey! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Nicely done :)
- LANjackal
Awesome! Now lets see support for more web services...
- Jac Falcon
saw that, and it was mega-helpful. bravo.
- Nathan Chase
Shoot. Now I need a subscription.
- Josh Haley
I'm all for improving the format of notifications, but wonder (aloud) if it is such a smart move to include the Approve/Reject link right at the top (unless it only appears in private feeds to which someone has requested access). Right now we have the option of blocking/ rejecting a subscriber at any time but presumably not at the very outset. This may lead to more of a walled gardens' mentality, already very prevalent at FF.
- ianf ⌘
ianf: approve/reject is only for private feeds. Public feeds just have a link to subscribe back :)
- Benjamin Golub
Nice
- Grant Bierman
that's great!
- K.D.
LIKEY.
- Steven Perez
I noticed this one! Such informations about people who subscribe to me on FriendFeed are useful, and makes it easy to quickly get in the conversation. Thanks for the good job!
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
w00t!
- David Cook
For features like this one, I'm ok to receive html emails. -MANY- html emails ;-)
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
The new emails are AWESOME!
- April Russo
Gmail automatically showed me the images in a subscription email, even though I never told it to (you know how gmail has the 'display images below' option). further, it doesn't give me the option to hide the images. not that I'd want to, but how are you bypassing gmail's security feature to hide the images?
- chrisofspades
Chris, we don't do anything special. I'm not sure how gmail decides what images to show, you'd have to contact them or check the gmail help.
- Casey Muller
Casey, you sure FriendFeed's founders didn't use some of their "we created Gmail" mojo? ;)
- chrisofspades
Chris, the "show images" only applies to external images hosted on other sites. Gmail doesn't show those by default because doing so would allow people to "bug" email. We include the images with the email so that they can be displayed immediately.
- Paul Buchheit
ahhhh that explains it. thanks Paul.
- chrisofspades
from email
Museum sets aside time for autistic kids - San Francisco Chronicle - http://www.sfchronicle.com/educati...
mina_sydney, Halil, Laura Norvig and 24 other people liked this
"On a typical day, the Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose would be parent Shannon Rosa's worst nightmare. She and her son Leo, 12, would draw angry stares as the large boy whooped and galloped sideways, narrowly avoiding small children and never saying sorry or hello or "Can I play with you?" Other parents probably would complain. But on a recent night, no one at the museum glared at Leo or his mom or even noticed his unusual behavior. That's because all the other parents there had a child with autism, too. The museum is among a handful of similar children's centers across the country that offer special access to children with the disorder, providing services and accommodations to make it easier for them to visit. "Normally people would freak out," Rosa said. "The hardest thing is the expectations of other people. Autistic behavior makes them very uncomfortable." An estimated 1 out of every 50 children in the United States was diagnosed with autism in 2012, almost double what it...
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- Anne Bouey
from Bookmarklet
"For nearly three hours on a recent night, Leo and other Bay Area autistic children played with their siblings and parents, getting wet, climbing in the fire truck and exploring with creations that spin, bounce, wobble and light up. It was the fourth such event in the last year or so. In the water area, one boy played in the section usually reserved for those 4 and under. He was a bit...
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- Anne Bouey
What a wonderful idea!
- Anne Bouey
<3
- Heather
So good.
- Marie
Excellent
- Mo Kargas
Our transit museum has an after-school program for children with autism: http://www.nytimes.com/2011... I love them.
- Meg V. Meg
getting easier with every passing day #walking #merightnow @ Phil Hardberger Park http://instagram.com/p...
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MoTO #TeamMonique, AJ Batac, imabonehead and 15 other people liked this
You broke 100k for the week! Well done, bunneh.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
Danke. :)
- Steven Perez
Great job!
- Kelli H.
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