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Akiva Moskovitz
A radioactive cat has 18 half-lives.
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Alfredo, Mike Nayyar, SHAMarieWOW and 3 other people liked this
That's one sweet tweet, Ak Ak!
- Mike Lewis
K, so what does this mean? Why do people post this every so often? Twitter-ignorance -->
- Jason Huebel
I KNOW YOU ARE BUT WHAT AM I?
- Josh Haley
via iPhone
I love CoCo.
- SHAMarieWOW
via iPhone
YOU CAN'T BEAT THAT TWEET
- Akiva Moskovitz
Whoo! Versus is showing the Tour in HD this year.
Rochelle, Derrick and Johnny Worthington liked this
Well, kinda-sorta. It's actually widescreen SD but it still looks far better than a standard SD broadcast.
- Akiva Moskovitz
watching the TDF on versus web ,,, dont have cable :(
- johnpiercy
A little solo ASL action
Nir Ben Yona, Bill Kinney, LPH™ and his dog P™ and 9 other people liked this
Well, there would be if Rochelle didn't interrupt me to ask a question about something every 45-90 seconds.
- Akiva Moskovitz
you'll go blind doing that/
- Matthew DeVries
Game Day Files: Germany gears up for Operation Barbarossa in Europe Engulfed
John, Rodfather, Alex Scoble and 9 other people liked this
Unfortunately, we didn't really get to actually play as we're just learning this one.
- Akiva Moskovitz
My son and I started a game of Risk back in January, but never finished. I took a picture of the board, so we can recreate it when we are ready to resume hostilities.
- Joey Gibson
don't get hung up at Stalingrad... :-p
- Live4Emma (L4S)
Funny, for all my love of war gaming, I have never, ever played Risk. I've never even seen it other than in photographs.
- Akiva Moskovitz
L4S, I was playing the USSR so I was pretty much prepared to let Germany roll over my first line of defenses. I just needed to hold the line until winter and then build up a huge second line of conscripts in January '42 and let the snow take care of everything else. By then, the US would be entering the war, too, and it would've split Germany's production and focus by half.
- Akiva Moskovitz
if not for that idiot from Austria, the Germans would have conquered Europe....they were within sight of Moscow before the winter...well thankfully for the Allies, General Akiva is running things.... :-)
- Live4Emma (L4S)
thought you were playing ASL?
- Live4Emma (L4S)
that looks like risk. i played it some years back, and i still have it. i played it with some slightly different rules however bcause the game sometimes be too long.
- Alfredo
L4S, we play a lot of different games.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I thought that photo was Risk. Oh well.
- Joey Gibson
Joey, it's Europe Engulfed.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Alfredo, a full 1939-1945 campaign game can take up to 12 hours to play. And that's nothing: in the game World in Flames, a full campaign game can take up to 40 hours or so to play.
- Akiva Moskovitz
yeah that's why
- Alfredo
ohhhh...I used to play ASL quite a bit when was a kid...biggest claim to fame, i sniped Rommel in France in 1940...my friend decided to try to have Rommel cross a river on a dingy and one of my French Snipers rolled a 2 and poof...changed the direction of WWII just like that...should have seen the look on his face when he realized what happened and he had to remove him from the board...haha...
- Live4Emma (L4S)
Hah, I bet! Reminds me of when some friends and I would play Axis & Allies as teenagers. One time, I took Berlin alone as the UK. It pretty much surprised everyone, including the other Allies, and essentially ended the game on the spot. Good times, good times.
- Akiva Moskovitz
L4E nice!
- Alfredo
HAHAHA...nothing like eliminating a 10-3 Field Marshal! Played A&A a bit too...never could get into the larger tactical stuff...really stuck mostly to the squad and company level stuff...ASL...Panzer Leader...stuff like that....
- Live4Emma (L4S)
L4S, you understand, then, what I mean when I say that our living room is pretty much covered with counters for these games! Akiva's clipping the corners and I keep finding pieces of the corners all over the place...
- Rochelle
hahaha!!! wait till Audrey gets more mobile!!! i'm sure you'll find a Tiger Tank or two in her play pen half chewed up! :-p and yes, the GAME is hella fun...the cleanup SUCKS ASS!
- Live4Emma (L4S)
I thought this was a room-sized picture and you just gave Louis Gray the ultimate checkmate in play spaces for newly mobile children......
- Matthew DeVries
Wait! Isn't ASL what kids ask when you join one of those immaturish chat rooms?
- Yuvi
Cheryl Jones, Majento and Jandy liked this
Can I just take a second here to mention that the Blu-ray edition of Band of Brothers is unfathomably awesome? I can barely stand it.
TiTi, Live4Emma (L4S), CW™ and 5 other people liked this
Purchased, viewed, and admired on your recommendation, Mr. Moskovitz.
- Derrick
Mr. D, even though I didn't even know you when I first saw this, I can't watch it now without thinking of you.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I'm going to buy it first thing tomorrow. I'm a huge band of brothers fan
- Johnny Schroepfer
Johnny, you're in for a treat. Seeing it in Blu-ray is like seeing it for the first time all over again.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Which Bluray player do you use?
- Rodfather
"CURRAHEE!!!" (Rod I have a PS3)
- Derrick
I love the miniseries, but if you *really* want "unfathomably awesome"ness, read the Stephen Ambrose book on which the show was based. :-)
- Joey Gibson
OOohh good idea! Thats one BlueRay I'll have to buy. I loved that mini series.
- CW™
Rob Michael (Atmos Trio), CW™, Molly and 11 other people liked this
They make a hot couple, right?
- Christopher Harley
The married war gamer's creed: When you can't play, clip.
rowlikeagirl, Live4Emma (L4S), Johnny Worthington and Alex Scoble liked this
Clip?
- Alex Scoble
Bris?
- Johnny Worthington
Yeah, clipping counters. Taking the rough edges off of the corners. It's kind of controversial, though. Some grognards see it as 'mutilating' or 'defacing' the game. I think it makes stacking easier and makes the counters look nicer.
- Akiva Moskovitz
And it's kind of a Zen thing, really. My father used to pick weeds in the yard and would lose himself in his thoughts for hours doing it. I clip counters.
- Akiva Moskovitz
*points* MUTILATOR!!!!!!!!!!!
- Sparky, king of carbs
"Grognards" and a new term enters the lexicon.
- Alex Scoble
Alex, it's a French term for an old soldier. Now commonly used in the board gaming community to describe players who gravitate toward complex, simulation-oriented war games such as Advanced Squad Leader, World in Flames, etc. It used to be kind of a pejorative but is now often rather complimentary.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Dearest Adobe, I just downloaded and installed Reader on a fresh computer. Now it's telling me it needs to update Reader. Why doesn't the installer you offer have the latest updates already in? WHY YOU SOMNSFLKaaLS UUFCJckALVK OYouaLGk;b
Robyn Hawk, Vishy, Marcel Weiß and 20 other people liked this
:) Agreed
- CW™
Why would you install that bloated crap :) Is there no reader alternative on Mac?
- Tim Hoeck
This is on a Win 7 machine and I hate all the alternatives.
- Akiva Moskovitz
foxit reader http://filehippo.com/downloa...
- Alfredo
you hate foxit?
- Richard Lawler
I am using foxit reader as well - to hell with Adobe and it's BS.
- Brent:Too Cool for School
Yep. Can't stand it. I'm fine with Reader.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I have no idea how that can be the case. There isn't anything worse than Adobe Reader.
- Richard Lawler
I experienced that just yesterday! :)
- τorƍue
Dear Google, you've enabled some drag and drop for labels in Gmail yet I can't arrange the order in which labels appear?
RAPatton, Alfredo, ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ and 7 other people liked this
Well it is still in BETA
- Johnny Worthington
Beta man, things will get better.
- Mathew™
Yeah. Beta! That explains it all away! Eh, I'll stick with Postbox.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Labels are ranked according to most frequent use.
- Eric Logan
Eric, that's even more irritating.
- Akiva Moskovitz
agreed.. and I can drag the labels to and from.. but I have to go to settings to decide which are shown? On a related note, will Gmail ever not be beta?
- Tim Hoeck
Just randomly remembered I used to have a bit of a crush on Janet Jackson in Good Times.
Valley, J. Abdul-Qahhar, LPH™ and his dog P™ and 12 other people liked this
I had a huge crush on her up until she lost all her curvatures and dropped that B&W video with that African-looking model-guy. Love Will Never Do or something...
- Rahsheen ™
I'm right with ya, Rah.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Replace Janet Jackson with Michael the little brother and then you have Derrick.
- Derrick
One of the best things in the world: forgetting and then remembering you have cold pizza for breakfast. One of the worst things in the world: being immediately told that of the three slices, you're only allowed one because your wife wants the others later for her lunch.
Lindsay is :), Ed Moltzen, Peter Dawson and 9 other people liked this
Hey now. :|
- Rochelle
I feel your joy/pain
- BEX Happy Long Weekend
hehe, nice
- Georgia Diehl
I actually like cold pizza better than hot pizza.
- Joey Gibson
So true. A cold leftover slice of pizza is the best breakfast there is.
- Brome
Just noticed that if I have FriendFeed open in a tab, Webkit hovers anywhere between 8-45% CPU usage in OS X.
Live4Emma (L4S), BraGiu aka Beppe Bravi, Rahsheen ™ and 5 other people liked this
No wonder my MBP is running hot. I'm not sure if it's changed since real-time search was implemented or not but I only today noticed the temperature.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I get that a lot when I open multiple tabs with flash heavy objects. Sometimes it spikes to 100% till I close 'em out.
- Adi
Have you had trouble with Safari 4 quitting on you too? I've had that a bunch, especially if I have a few other windows open and 2-3 CS4 apps going too . . . on a MBP.
- Mary Baum
FriendFeed is definitely a little heavy on resource usage. It also eats up RAM after a while. I'm in Chrome, though.
- Rahsheen ™
Mary, nope, not really. I've had it crap out on me a couple of times but it's fairly rare. Keep in mind that I'm running Webkit nightlies so my experience is fairly variable compared to running Safari 4.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Try IE8 instead!!!!!
- Sparky, king of carbs
OMG INSTALLING WINDOWS ME
- Akiva Moskovitz
*cues the slide whistle*
- Live4Emma (L4S)
via iPhone
I want 'Cue the slide whistle' on a t-shirt.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Breakfast: two slices of buttered toast, one with melted smoked Gouda and the other with melted smoked Beecher's Original. To the latter, I added some white pepper and a few dashes of Crystal's. Simple, delicious, and effective.
Alex Scoble, Christopher Harley, Kimberly Broutsas and 6 other people liked this
YUM
- Live4Emma (L4S)
YUM. I am just getting ready to walk out the door and get breakfast, now your making me REALLY hungry.
- ZoneDancer
I had an apple, some cantaloupe and some string cheese for breakfast.
- Lindsay is :)
I just had a breakfast bagel....not bad...
- Live4Emma (L4S)
GOUDA IS GOOD!
- Nathan Chase
I stuck with my rye toast, and grapes... grrr I hate being a good girl :) sometimes.
- Kimberly Broutsas
I ate a quart of strawberries!
- Christopher Harley
When are you coming over to make mine?
- Cristo the Troll™
Oooo. Akiva, you just reminded me that I have a $5 wedge of stinky Gouda in the fridge that I need to eat. I'll be adding some with lunch today. :-)
- Joey Gibson
Smoked gouda! MMMMM...
- Cheryl Jones
Game Day Files: Finishing up one of our first games of Agricola
Harold, Amit Morson, veo and 6 other people liked this
We clearly didn't fully 'get it' yet.
- Akiva Moskovitz
boy, my farm sure looks sad with only that little vegetable patch.. in the 2nd to last round no less!
- veo
Oh yeah, thats the game everyone paid to use my mill.
- veo
ok that looks like a fun game
- Jason Wyttenbach
Game Day Files: Moving the General in Conflict of Heroes
Rochelle, Harold, veo and 4 other people liked this
This produced the biggest argument we've ever had at the table. The smoke still hasn't cleared.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Are just you and Rochelle playing these, or are some others involved (other than Audrey ;) )?
- Kamilah Gill
Kamilah, our friends Eric and Rob (veo here on FriendFeed) are the other players.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Haha, I think the smoke has cleared nicely. Now it's a laughing matter.
- veo
Stella and Spike trapped in the laundry basket
Rochelle, Charlie Anzman, Penguin ♉ and 16 other people liked this
They made their escape shortly after this photo was taken.
- Akiva Moskovitz
ITS A TRAP!
- Sparky, king of carbs
we just did this last week to one of our cats. using the same laundry basket.
- holly
Should have dropped Audrey in there too!
- Matthew DeVries
Fields of Fire - http://boardgamegeek.com/boardga...
Live4Emma (L4S) and Penguin ♉ liked this
'Fields of Fire is a solitaire game of commanding a rifle company between World War II and Present Day. The game is different from many tactical games in that it is diceless and card based. There are two decks used to play. The Terrain Deck is based on a specific region and is used to build a map for the various missions your company must perform. The Action deck serves many purposes in controlling combat, command and control, various activity attempts. The units of the company are counters representing headquarters elements, squads, weapons teams, forward observers, individual vehicles or helicopters. A single game is a mission and several missions from a historical campaign are strung together for the player to manage experience and replacements. A mission can be played in about 1 – 2 hours. This game is based on three actual campaigns experienced by units of the 9th US Infantry in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. “Keep Up the Fire” is the motto of the 9th Infantry, known as the “Manchus” for their service in the Boxer Rebellion.'
- Akiva Moskovitz
via Bookmarklet
This came in the mail today. Can't wait to play it.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Dearest Opera, until you support multi-touch, you will never be my primary browser.
Will Higgins™, Alex Scoble and edythe liked this
Always a bridesmaid, never a bride.
- Christopher Harley
Someone get Akiva a new browser! He hasn't posted in 4 internet years
- Matthew DeVries
Well, today's been pretty much a waste. I got this much mathematics done today: 0.
Morton Fox, Live4Emma (L4S), Haggis (Sean Loyless) and 4 other people liked this
Now I'm watching Broken Social Scene on Morning Becomes Eclectic. Soon, I'm going to start prepping for tomorrow's game day. We're playing Europe Engulfed for the first time and, for some reason, I just can't make the rules stick.
- Akiva Moskovitz
What did you do?
- Yolanda
Qua?
- Akiva Moskovitz
slack - er
- Live4Emma (L4S)
Terminate (software) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Eric @ CS Techcast liked this
'Terminate (terminat.exe) was a shareware modem terminal and host program for MS-DOS and compatible operating systems developed from the early to the late 1990s by the Dane Bo Bendtsen.' This was my weapon of choice back in the day.
- Akiva Moskovitz
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Woah. Totally forgot about QWK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Akiva Moskovitz
RoboMail! That's what I used to use for QWK reading. Wow, talk about stumbling down memory lane alone over here.
- Akiva Moskovitz
fsweet: Lightweight WPF Twitter client sample in F# - http://www.strangelights.com/fsharp...
Marty and Micah Wittman liked this
'The client lets you both see your friend's timeline and post tweets, all in under 200 lines of F#!'
- Akiva Moskovitz
via Bookmarklet
Tweaking Postbox to Be a Little More Like Gmail - http://akiva.posterous.com/tweakin...
Cheryl Jones and Sean McGee liked this
Dude LIKE LIKE LIKE
- Sean McGee
Advanced Squad Leader. This is pretty much my favorite board game outside of 7 Ages.
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Harold, edythe, WorldofHiglet and 12 other people liked this
That's a picture of the old first edition manual.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Hey Akiva A/S/L?
- Matthew DeVries
oh you're one of *those* people. :) ASL is some dense material
- mikepk
American Sign Language? Yeah, dense stuff.
- Josh Haley
I'm sorry....I've been tortured too much in AOL Chat rooms when I was a kid. Everytime I see "ASL" I think of "Age/Sex/Location"......GAHHH
- Mike VanLare (slayerboy)
Uh. Okay.
- Akiva Moskovitz
this looks kinda like heroclix
- Alfredo
Oh my, this looks awesome!
- Michael Forian
It's a blast. It's an expensive hobby with a steep learning curve but it provides play as realistic as it is tense.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Have not played that one, but my brother and I were huge military board game fans - tons of games from Avalon Hill, SPI, and others. Great games many of them were.
- Patrick Jordan
Hubs has this edition - mind you, his is in much rougher shape. He loves ASL.
- Abby Martin
I'm more of a candy land sort of person.
- Geoff Schultz
Patrick, right on. I'm trying to migrate my gaming group more toward war gaming. If I could get World in Flames on the table, I'll be one happy old bastard. But, for now, I'm happy enough to see Europe Engulfed coming up on Wednesday.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Abby, luckily ASL's still in print (mostly). That's not my copy above; mine's in even better condition.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Geoff, one of the most vulgar and vicious game tournaments I ever played in was for Chutes & Ladders. I still have scars.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Chutes & Ladders is pimp shit! "YOU THINK THIS IS A GAME? YOU THINK THIS IS A FUCKING GAME!?"
- Geoff Schultz
Akiva - cool. What was your first game of this type you played? I think our first two were Blitzkrieg and Gettysburg - long time ago though, might be forgetting something :)
- Patrick Jordan
Patrick, well, some friends of mine and I used to play Axis & Allies every December 6 when I was a teenager but I didn't start getting into hardcore war gaming until a couple of years ago and it's only been maybe this year that I've been able to get actual players. I've been doing a lot of solo gaming. I am really, really dying to get a game of World in Flames on the table but that'll...
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- Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva - I remember Axis and Allies. And yeah that was always one of the biggest challenges - finding a safe place for a game board, and getting permission from parents, and later girlfriends and wives, to leave games out chewing up masses of space :) I seem to recall a couple Napoleonic ones that were fantastic, but took up virtually entire rooms.
- Patrick Jordan
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- WorldofHiglet
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- Akiva Moskovitz
A high school buddy owns a chain stores. Back when he had just one, we'd crack open each add-on as it came out, and play in the store after hours till like 3 am.
- Robert Hafer
Wasn't the full ASL with all the add-ons like multiple binders. Didn't it amount to thousands of pages?
- mikepk
mike, nope. It required modules which themselves had pre-requisites to get the necessary counter mix and mapboards, however.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Think I might be entering into a Coil/Swans phase again. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Akiva Moskovitz
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Akiva Moskovitz
AAAAAAAAAAAA
- Akiva Moskovitz
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Josh Haley
BBBBBBBBBBBBB COILS AWASNS? SBBBBBBBBBBBBB
- Sparky, king of carbs
Uh, yay? I mean... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Robert Haas
What's this now?
- Alex Scoble
I'm confused, entertained, and a little concerned.
- Marty
+1 Marty. *befuddled*
- Jason Huebel
Well, Swans is the Yiddish word for tallywacker I think, and coiling that, well, I'd scream
- Matthew DeVries
I like this.
- joey
I was just never a big Psychic TV fan.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Coil is probably my favorite group of all time, just incredible on so many layers. As experimentalists they are superb, as musicians they are unique, as occultists they are legendary. Swans is also a group that deserve many of these same praises. I suppose they are relatable because they are both so different. Nothing sounds like Swans but Swans, and nothing sounds like Coil other than...
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- Matthew DeVries
I don't know either of those bands, but think it made me think of was The Residents.
- Matthew DeVries
The Residents - Like the Velvet Underground, The Pixies, The Stooges - are adored by other bands and influence other bands, but me as a non-musician just can't.fucking.get.to........ (actually I do love many Pixie's songs)
- Matthew DeVries
I'M FAT AND NOBODY LIKES ME - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Christopher Harley, Lindsay is :), Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕ and 2 other people liked this
Great talent for a "fat" kid :)
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
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