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Sold all stocks in my retirement portfolio. I'm holding cash until all this blows over.
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Leo, I'm in the market for the long term so am holding. I didn't invest in fly by night funds or companies, so why would I get out now? I plan to hold for long term.
- Rod Bauer
from twhirl
Yep knew this was coming, after TWIT the "Disciplined Investor" recommended this. Lots of opportunity still in the market. Solid investing means the long haul.
- michael sean wright
You guys assume Leo has time for the 'Long Haul' to recover :)
- Johnny Worthington
Problem is, that cash is losing value just like the stocks. Your foundation should be built of something other than money.
- ComicList
Should he trade the money in for gold? :P
- Kevin Vinck
wise move... this financial mess is getting worse...freaky
- Susan Beebe
Leo will be around forever as our tech guru
- Rod Bauer
from twhirl
I think you are right and should hold some liquidity until things settle down. The market is too emotional, but deals will be abound. Flight to quality.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
I hope Leo consulted his financial advisor first. Mine told me to hang tight.
- Pete Delucchi
It's now a buyer's market. You can probably pick up some good bargains. Just make sure you don't put all your eggs in one basket :)
- imabonehead
Gold is okay for now, but even it is going to lose its value.
- ComicList
Leo, go buy a macbook so the new ones will be released already! You should hold for a few more months so things can get better and sell in Feb when it's starting to pick up... you are selling at the bottom! WTF?
- Trevor Pressman
Cash may be losing some value, but not like stocks. How can some of you say this is the bottom, especially some of those stocks. The bottom is likely yet to come. Gold may seem cliched, but it is a safe place when all else goes in the tank. Gold related companies as well.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
I've deliberately not looked at our portfolios since everything starting hitting the shitter. I trust our money people...though I suppose I should call and at least make sure they've not offed themselves.
- abacab
Oh, this is not the bottom. The bottom is coming, and it's going to be much worse than we are seeing now.
- ComicList
Is it going to crash more than the penalty for selling stocks in 401k? That's what I want to know.
- Trish R
Allocating all of your assets to any one instrument is folly.
- LogEx
In times of financial crisis er collapse where can one safely invest their funds?
- Susan Beebe
I plan to invest mine in my mattress... :-|
- Lisa L. Seifert
staying invested...riding this baby out. a whole mess of ugliness ahead, but I've never been good at timing the market. i can't touch it for 30 years anyway. ;)
- cjmart
Isn't the fact that the stock market is become like it is BECAUSE people are just selling all their stocks? Sorry if I've got it wrong.... but I thought that's kinda the cause of everything,
- Chris Gilmore
from twhirl
Hope you don't miss the upswing and end up buying back in above your sell prices...
- Steve Lacey
Wish I'd learned this a lot earlier: Never. Sell. Assets. (unless you plan to actually use the money) I'm not selling a thing this time around.
- Ray Grieselhuber
Leo: you are always on KGO Radio. Did Bob Brinker recommend you do such a thing? That dude is ALWAYS right. I don't know how he does it, but he's called nearly every up and down in the past 20 years that I've been listening pretty damn accurately. He also usually gives sound advice like "don't sell all at once, but dollar cost average." Doing stuff like that keeps you from reacting emotionally at the wrong times and keeps you from trying to totally time the market, like what you're doing here.
- Robert Scoble
Selling low?
- Mike Doeff
I have what investment cash I have in Prosper.com, earning an average of 15% to 19%, and small amounts in sharebuilder.com (very small). I prefer investing in microlending where there's a long-term almost certain return...
- Justin Long
Prosper looks cool. I wouldn't put ALL my cash there (or at least in a single loan) but I would consider putting some of it there.
- Ray Grieselhuber
I put in a set amount a month on automatic disbursement, and I am using one of prosper's automatic portfolio selectors that divides investments up amongst different grades of risk, at $50/loan. So its *very* diversified. I've been in well over a year and even with the inevitable losses that of some loans going bad, I *still* average between 15% and 19% return at any given moment. I can't say enough good things about Prosper.
- Justin Long
Sell low buy high?
- Steve Rubel
Sold some positions but because I am in the market for the long term, I am still investing in stocks
- Rajiv Doshi
My 401k lost 10k :(
- Ari Braginsky
Just wondering. Have you started buying any stocks? Is the bear market over? Probably still a bear market rally?
- mahjongmi
and is it all stuffed in the mattress?!
- Shivanand Velmurugan
if you'd said that in December or January you could've bought back today at a huge discount - the same will be said in 4 months time - check Gold going to 1300$ while you hold and wait
- Nicholas Paul Gordon
Check the date. I moved to cash on 9/22 (about $70,000 off the low for me) and bought back in (no load index funds primarily) when the Dow was at 8,000. Hope I didn't do it too early!
- Leo Laporte
Leo... Why would you do such a thing? You never sell low after buying high. You must be an Obama voter.
- Paul L. McCord Jr.
This is HYSTERICAL! Why are people commenting on a freaking TWEET from 9/22/08?!? Whoops... guilty.
- Carter Rabasa
cool, friendfeed shows this as current, i guess because of comments
- Nethead
Time to buy. :P
- Phillip Stewart
Just posted a new Apple-bashing cartoon http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveabl...
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Pretty weak for a bash don't you think?
- Brian Sullivan
Brian, I was being ironic when I said "Apple-bashing". Just being a tease etc. Please remain calm ;-)
- Hugh MacLeod
Since Web2 doesn't naturally facilitate critical thinking, it's either bashing or emotional blow jobs.
- Amanda Chapel
Yay! Blow jobs!!!
- Hugh MacLeod
Hmm -- what would constitute an emotional blow job I wonder?
- Brian Sullivan
Hugh... in the name of "art," you get away with a lot.
- Amanda Chapel
Yes, Amanda, that was all part of my evil plan from the very beginning ;-)
- Hugh MacLeod
Not funny.
- Amanda Chapel
@AmandaChapel I get away with being lewd on occasion, you get away with impersonating a woman. Vive la difference ;-)
- Hugh MacLeod
Small minds throw that accusation when offended. Sorry. The fact is I'm not impersonating a thing. I was adding to the topic here which was/is your cartoon.
- Amanda Chapel
Amanda, I am not offended, nor do I believe that your sex is female. Sorry if I have disappointed you on either count.
- Hugh MacLeod
Your judgment puts your "art" into question. That was the point. And again you underscore it. Fact is: Dopes don't produce art. They bash or give emotional blow jobs.
- Amanda Chapel
PS Good news is it makes you a hero among the talentless.
- Amanda Chapel
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- anna
Bush leaving office more unpopular than Nixon - CNN.com - http://www.cnn.com/2008...
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"No other president's disapproval rating has gone higher than 70 percent. Bush has managed to do that three times so far this year," says CNN polling director Keating Holland. "That means that Bush is now more unpopular than Richard Nixon was when he resigned from office during Watergate with a 66 percent disapproval rating." Before Bush, the record holder for presidential disapproval was Harry Truman, with a 67 percent disapproval rating in January of 1952, his last full year in office.
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
Harsh dude, harsh. ;)
- Chris Nixon
I feel safe in predicting that history will be much kinder to him than social media. Much. Nicer.
- Mike Lewis
from Alert Thingy
W's captures are so unfortunate. He always looks like Curious George.
- Mona Nomura
Congress' numbers are worse, but nobody noticed
- Robert Hafer
I do have to say that I loved David Letterman's "Great Moments in Presidential Speeches" series that he did on Bush.
- Thomas Hawk
No president has provided more comedic material than W. If nothing else, we enter into a wasteland the likes of which we've never seen, one where we'll see the real measure of The Daily Show's writers. How good are they without a 1,000 pounds of raw material daily? I think our national comedy defense is strong and we'll be fine, but it may be rocky for a while :)
- Bob M. Montgomery
As long as no more terrorist attacks have occurred during his watch - good to go.
- tony
STDs have a higher approval rating that Bush.
- Admiral Anika
Isn't the election over? You guys knew that, right?
- Gregory Pittman
from twhirl
I thought it was over too!!
- tony
Are STD's more popular than Democratic Congress too?
- tony
It's too bad that congressional approval ratings aren't broken down by party. It's easy for folks to say that Congress's low approval rating is the fault of the majority party, but that logic is at odds with election results where Democrats were re-elected to every post they ran for, while many Republican incumbents lost their seats.
- Kevin Fox
@Anika LOL
- Costa Walcott
Kevin, rest assured that Democrats in Congress share ratings just as low as the Republicans. The Democrat advancements last Tuesday are due solely to the Obama's coat tails, not to the fact that America thinks they're doing a great job. Proof in point: When the Democrat leadership was speaking several weeks ago on the financial crisis, Wall Street tanked. The minute they shut up, it recovered. That happened every single time they went in front of microphones. Every. Time.
- Gregory Pittman
from twhirl
Gregory: I'm not sure what you mean. I'd like you to find a single Democrat (or Republican) in Congress who has an approval rating as low as President Bush. Here's a source to get you started: http://www.surveyusa.com/50State... The approval rating of an institution is completely different than the approval rating of its constituent members, and it's overly simplistic to try and brand an institution's low approval rating on a single party.
- Kevin Fox
I would even go so far as to suggest that the low approval rating of the US Congress is largely due to its perceived ineffectiveness in challenging or reversing the abusive practices of the Executive office.
- Kevin Fox
So they were ineffective in challenging Bush's policies. They're the majority party in both houses and have been for years and they get low ratings because they were ineffective in challenging Bush's policies. That doesn't even come close to approaching logic.
- Gregory Pittman
funny how the conversation is being diverted from bush to congress as if they had anything to do with the last 8 shitty years
- Cee Bee
...and Truman was one of our great presidents. Nixon was the best Environmental president in 50 years.... and blah blah... proves nothing. Bush did fuck up the loan situation... but popularity polls... make me like him
- Noah David Simon
Cee Bee, are you saying they had *nothing* to do with the last 8 years? I hope not, because if you are, you're showing a gross lack of understanding of the American political system. Chris, indeed they have been a no-op Congress but accomplishing the things you suggest here would have been detrimental for America. No doubt we're about to see just how detrimental.
- Gregory Pittman
from twhirl
I agree that Congress has been ineffective for the last several years, and that it deserves low ratings. I do however disagree with assertions that the low approval ratings are an indictment of the Democratic party. If that were the case, the Democrats wouldn't have drastically solidified their hold on both houses last week, and I don't buy the coat-tails argument.
- Kevin Fox
they've been around for two years and like chris white wrote, have pretty much gone along with the bush administration's follies in order to not step on toes. regardless of that, this thread was about bush and his failures until a few of you"party loyalists" tried to flip the issue in order to cloud/avoid the subject
- Cee Bee
It'll be interesting to see if Howard Dean's successor will invigorate Congress beyond simply trying to limit GWB's damage.
- Kevin Fox
I'm not so sure the Democrats were merely following Obama's coat-tails. Democrats picked up House seats in states that didn't even go for Obama, and in states that did go for Obama, some Democratic candidates won by much higher margins than Obama did.
- Victor Ganata
You can't do very much when the minority party makes sure to block you whenever they can, and even if you manage to push something through, there's a veto pen waiting at the other end.
- Victor Ganata
Well, no excuses now. You guys have the ball. Dems: Please give us a date you will cease blaming Bush and take some responsibility. I bet we have to wait til the mid term elections. Kind of like a dog chasing a bus. What do you do when you catch it? Tee hee.
- Oldengrey (Jay)
January 20, 2009. I may keep blaming Bush/Cheney, for the things that need to be fixed (privacy, civil liberties, Gitmo, Iraq), but I won't blame him for continuing to try and block them.
- Kevin Fox
At least he's leaving, the sooner we can move on the better...
- Grant Bierman
Odd how GWB is so unpopular and Obama is so popular, when they share so much in common.
- ComicList
The comments of Bush supporters and apologists continue to be as empty-headed and substance free as they have been for the last eight years. They simply can't discuss policy issues in an informed and rational way. That is how we got into our current mess and why it is that Bush has pegged the unpopularity meter.
- Sean McBride
We may not agree he was the absolute worst, but there's no disputing the fact that he was terrible. But, unless you've got a crystal ball that actually works, there's no telling what will happen the next two years (until the next midterms.) With the economic disaster, it's not going to be pretty no matter what the government does. Hopefully we'll make to the other side OK.
- Victor Ganata
"Ha HA" in my best Nelson voice from the Simpsons
- sofarsoShawn
Nixon was the most popular elected president ever. your point is lost on me. check the 1972 election results http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ...in fact most people during Watergate still liked Nixon. and for good reason. relative to the other people (besides Reagan) in the last fifty years he was a strong leader.
- Noah David Simon
Instructive comment - Henry Kissinger once asked Chinese PM Chou En-Lei "what do you think about the repercussions of the French Revolution, in the present day?". Without missing a beat, Chou replied "Too soon to tell" Note - French Revolution began in 1789.
- Russell Wagner
exactly @Russell Wagner you are quoting the Nixon admininstration.... hence Nixon is not really a pariah. I'm not justifying Watergate... but with Nixon you are dealing with a man who was a good leader for the most part. if you compare Nixon to W Bush it is not a shock who is more popular. better to compare W with Carter
- Noah David Simon
Mohomed, do you have any particular reason for resurrecting this old chestnut? Not complaining, just curious... It's a keeper for sure though :-)
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
Just making the point NoahDavidSimon - too soon to tell...
- Russell Wagner
I find it ridiculous that you are talking about Bush when Obama's Chas Freeman is in the news. guess what zionist hater!? you lose http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Noah David Simon
OMG. A fact! Let's not talk about *that* but instead make specious statements of comparison! Let's shift the conversation to another political body entirely! Too bad they don't track the US approval rating of dictators, huh? Maybe I should try this when I get a performance review. "Nevermind my rating, what about that Angolan dictator!" [edit] Sorry, but it's annoying to see such rationalization. He was one of the most unpopular presidents while in office. Deal with it.
- AJ Kohn
"U.S. President Barack Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner received failing grades for their efforts to revive the economy from participants in the latest Wall Street Journal forecasting survey." http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Noah David Simon
"Yes, free the president from his flacks, fixers and goons -- his posse of smirky smart alecks and provincial rubes, who were shrewd enough to beat the slow, pompous Clintons in the mano-a-mano primaries but who seem like dazed lost lambs in the brave new world of federal legislation and global statesmanship. Heads should be rolling at the White House for the embarrassing series of...
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- Noah David Simon
and you still talking about Bush? where you on the football team in highschool?
- Noah David Simon
@NDS: Again. Apples vs. Turtles. Approval of a President by People versus Approval of a President's handling of a topic by a group of economists. These are *not* alike. For the record I'm an avid Obama supporter but I *do* dislike his handling of the economic crisis. And whether you like it or not, Bush *was* unpopular leaving office. No amount of comparison or tangential topics will change that.
- AJ Kohn
I'd say when the economics guys says you suck... that is a rather bad sign. Truman was a great president. so was Lincoln. both unpopular. Nixon I mentioned was the most popular... for a while. shows how fleeting pop love is. Robert Scoble was the whale of the Alist. now he is leaving Fast Company. give me the king of the world and I will show you an easy target to harpoon. I didn't vote...
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- Noah David Simon
Good riddance.
- TranceMist
"What do you think Bush’s legacy will be? You know, I think the closeness of his administration to events right now and the public perspective on those events and his handling of those events and the outcome—you know, right now, I think, has a mixed result. ’Cause while everyone could scream and jump up and down about the war, you can’t take away from the guy a number of things. One, he...
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- Noah David Simon
Your = possessive, i.e., your boat. your webcam, your mom. You're = contraction of 'you are', i.e., you're tall, you're lame, you're driving me crazy confusing the two. </PSA>
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Keep fighting the good fight but it'll never work: those idiots will never get it.
- Akiva Moskovitz
RAMEN!
- Far
YES. I had to read something on here four times earlier today trying to make it make sense because someone used "your" instead of "you're."
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Don't matter how much you say it, it's still gonna get mangled
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
It's always bugged me, but today it seemed like a good chunk of people were doing it rampantly and blatantly.
- Admiral Anika
Similar problem with "it's" and "its". And that whole "would of", "could of", "should of" thing? Don't even get me started!
- Morton Fox
My right to what?
- Mistletoe Glen
Oh Morton, I know!
- Admiral Anika
Not to mention "their" "there" "they're." The triple threat!
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I get the difference, but when I'm typing quickly (especially on my phone) muscle memory can take over and I type whichever one comes out first.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
As a fellow grammar nazi, I salute you.
- Bryce Roney
were is the problem? its know big deal. their our no more then some words at steak when we right, weather you like it are not! :D (ouch, that actually hurts my eyes to read what I've just written!)
- Adam Lasnik
@Adam. Thanks for that headache. :p
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
adam just made my eye explode.
- Admiral Anika
I usually just opt for 'ur' then I it doesn't matter which one I intend...
- Bren -- feeling merry
yore = ages past; days gone by; a long time ago
- Mitch
It's amazing how people get this wrong, one among many common mistakes made.
- Kol Tregaskes
very late but YES
- Kamilah Gill
Bumping this because I keep seeing it today and it's driving me crazy.
- Rochelle
Rochelle, the people who this is intended for clearly don't care. It's almost like they're taunting us. :)
- Admiral Anika
Not sure what you're deal is with this. I mean, your getting all worked up for no reason...LOL *runs*
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Rahsheen...*cockpunch* :)
- Admiral Anika
Anika, LOL
- imabonehead
This is one of my pet peeves too. I saw one today - one the side of the road where someone had died, people had taped flowers to a lightpole, and it said something like 'your always in our hearts'. -_- I'm thinking about going and correcting it.
- Will Higgins™
I use to have great/spelling grammar skills, but IM and texting is quickly eroding them
- cjmart
I campaign relentlessly against the wandering apostrophe, especially when misplaced in plural forms.
- Kate Foy
I should start a thread on discrete/discreet. That's my personal bugaboo.
- cecily
I would add that apostrophes are way over used as well.
- Keith - @tsudo
Your/you're and their/there/they're get screwed up by people all the time, and they drive me up the wall when they do.
- Joey Gibson
Too funny. You beat me to the punch Morton. :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Grammer Police Alert! *thanks, actually, that gets on my nerves too!
- Susan Beebe
Ok, but...uh...where were we supposed to be learning all these fancy grammar rules? Clause? Like Santa Claus? I use commas/apostrophes wherever I think they might go. Better to have it and not need it then to need it and not have it..LOL
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I think it was the book called "Warriner's English Grammar and Composition: First Course" that I learned from.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Your not making any sense. What is you're point?
- Alex Scoble
@Alex - *twitch*
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
This thread is full of loose. Oh hey my shoestrings have come lose.
- Alex Scoble
This is one of my pet peeves - and I lost count of how many times I marked this problem while grading MBA papers.
- Bill Sodeman
I've been saving this one (*breaks in case of emergency glass*): Eats, Shoots & Leaves http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... And http://www.npr.org/templat... and "As I noted in Eats, Shoots & Leaves, good punctuation is analogous to good manners....Manners are about imagination, ultimately.They are about imagining being the other person." http://www.eatsshootsandleaves.com/excerpt...
- Micah Wittman
A tip from a non native english speaker: please write correctly if you aim to a global audience - remember that errors make translating even more difficult. TANX
- Opensource Obscure
Summer Heights High Is The Funniest Australian Import of 2008… And Maybe Ever - http://www.bestweekever.tv/2008...
Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ, sandhal, Alexander Carlill and 2 other people liked this
I heard a lot of good things about Summer Heights High- enough to tempt me to purchase a copy. Unfortunately, I could never quite get into it and certainly didn't find it as funny as I had expected :-(
- David Adam
great aussie humour!
- Darren Heydon
Twitter will never come close to being a viable IM-style platform as long as they throttle the API. TweetDeck defaults to 12 minutes and six minutes for @replies and DMs respectively. I dunno about you but I don't want to wait six minutes to see if someone I'm talking to has replied.
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I have a question about this -- first -- the obvious one -- do we need a "viable IM-style platform" when we already have many? But that's just the obvious one. Here's what's been puzzling me. Since FF has a realtime bridge to Twitter, and FF has a realtime API, doesn't that give you a realtime API for Twitter? I have an app here that gives me realtime updates for selected people I follow. It's really coooool. Couldn't do it without the realtime API in FF.
- Dave Winer
I can't seem to get all my twitter updates to show up on Friend feed. Probably a mistake on my part, but I still need a separate tool for real time Twitter.
- MarkCarras
Dave: Thumbs up on two outstanding points. :-)
- Michael Krigsman
I can tell already I am going to have to unblock Dave Winer because I can see his artifacts.
- Robert Scoble
Dave, we don't need another one; I was just exploring an idea that came up in a discussion over DestroyTwitter this morning. The only problem with FriendFeed's realtime API, besides what Mark brings up, is that, as far as I know, there's no way to receive alerts when someone messages you. Furthermore, it doesn't consume direct messages so if you wanted to have a private conversation, the FriendFeed API won't work.
- Akiva Moskovitz
It appears that FriendFeed is more like a chatroom than normal instant messaging.
- Zian Choy
Amen. Even with the slidebars on the timer, this capture affects API, no? Also, would love to see a link for a reply/dm thread.
- Jim Mitchem
Akiva -- those are all good points and right on. My little app only captures public messages from people I follow -- on FF -- who have their Twitter bridge enabled. Still a nice subset, but not what you're asking about.
- Dave Winer
I guess my interest here is that very few people I know use IM these days but they're all using Twitter. Twitter is just a few steps away from being a viable IM platform. I'd like to ditch my IM client which I use only to talk to maybe one or two people on but still be able to have conversations with them.
- Akiva Moskovitz
That's my problem with Twitter going real-time. Do they really want to become competitors with the likes of Microsoft and AOL and Google?
- Jesse Stay
boycott twitter. @Jack is censoring Jewish voices http://digg.com/world_n...
- Noah David Simon
you call igor outspoken? loud, maybe..
- Terry O'Fee
obviously you approve of censorship... glad I can out that Terry! twitter and youtube censor Jewish voices. Holocaust special at Kmart http://www.seesmic.com/video...
- Noah David Simon
twitter and these programs is a privilage, not a right. but regardless of whether igor deserves to be banned for mass spamming people his links daily, do you really believe what he is posting in his blog? for real?
- Terry O'Fee
Cat's Cradle - http://www.amazon.com/dp...
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- AJ Kohn
Red ring of death right outta the box. Mother. FUCKER.
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Yes, already did all the troubleshooting. Called Customer Support. Was on hold for EVER and then spent half an hour with a live person. Guess who gets to wait in line at the post office tomorrow?
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Should clarify...this isn't mine. It's my brother's...a gift from his girlfriend. And it sounds like the issue was caused by her and not MS themselves, so. Yeah. We're having a bit of a "care and feeding of your technology" talk today...
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Oh god. What a pain in the ass. Sorry to hear.
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
What, did she run it under a pillow?
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Wow...
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
Noted. :)
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Side benefit of being a part of the nerd community: having a techie geek who can fix a broken 360 in less than an hour. Christmas is good. :)
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Also, husband says: "Nothing says Christmas like blasting the Who on vinyl at top volume." And I totally concur.
Alexander Carlill liked this
And I'm thinking Nothing says Christmas then watching the Dr Who Christmas special ... to each their own I guess
- Bastard Operator From FF
No Country for Old Men - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
james reilly, Parth Awasthi, Brandon Titus and 9 other people liked this
4 out of 5 stars. I was very impressed with this movie. I will be honest and say I was a bit confused at the end and was once again left wanting more. The fella who played Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) stole the show. He was awesome and as cold blooded as heck. I love his banter with the different people before he would just kill them. Especially in the scenes when he is like "Flip a coin ..." I thought that Tommy Lee Jones was brilliant in his own way. I love him on screen and want to see more of him. His banter and dialogue in this movie was great. His story-telling was nice as well. He did confuse me in the final scene as I was lost in connecting the story he told to the end of the movie. I can now see why this movie won Movie of the Year as it was very different and unpredictable (two characteristics of movies I love). I took off a star because at parts I was confused and a bit lost. When I watch it again, I may adjust it up a half star or something. This movie is worth buying on Blu-Ray IMO.
- Amani
from Bookmarklet
The film bored the hell out of me.
- ::Kristen::
I'm the opposite of Just Jill. I loved the book, but didn't think the film was as good. Not a bad film, but the book is scary good.
- Bryan R. Adams
I am too biased when it comes to Coen Brothers films. They have rarely steered me wrong.
- Pete Delucchi
I hesitate to say such a thing about a film so recent, but NCFOM is very nearly a perfect film. I can't think of one thing I would change about it to make it better. It'll be studied in film school for years to come.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Basically I consider a film perfect if there's nothing that could've made it better (mostly I mean cinematically speaking - angles and editing and so forth). The end is meant to be ambiguous. The world that Bell knew, the world of right and wrong that he could understand and manipulate as a lawman, has changed into something unknown and possibly unknowable - Anton Chigurh's world, where evil exists relentlessly and essentially without motive.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
The end is taken almost word for word from the book. Compare McCarthy's The Road, which is similarly bleak, but takes the metaphor of "carrying the fire" from Bell's story about his father and turns it into a symbol of hope.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
You explain that so well Jandy. Perhaps since I was confused at the end, the movie had the full effect on me. I will have to ponder that as I go to sleep. More movie talk tomorrow. I likey ...
- Amani
Amani, thanks. :) I should credit my friend Lydia, who just finished her dissertation on McCarthy and sorta helped me understand his work a bit better. She actually preferred the movie to the book, despite being a literature PhD.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
the EMPEROR HAD NO CLOTHES
- sofarsoShawn
Name of US08 election
- Aly
Jandy, could you take another shot at explaining the ending. But this time a little slower for the McCarthy impaired :-) I just didn't get it and I would like to.
- Todd Hoff
Dearest Evernote, what I want more than anything right now is an OS X Dashboard Widget for quickly entering and searching for notes. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.
Colide81 (James), Alexander Carlill, Karoli and 2 other people liked this
Akiva, if you can type in Russian and use the Cyrillic alphabet, you might get a quicker response. ;)
- Helen Sventitsky
I'm working on it! I'll ask again in six months.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Frédéric Chopin – Funeral March - http://www.last.fm/music...
Kevykev, Alexander Carlill, asiriusgeek and Bren -- feeling merry liked this
Children of Men
Alexander Carlill, Rodfather, Michael Fidler and 2 other people liked this
I just watched this again, then read up on it in the wiki. It makes since this was released stateside on Christmas because there's an awful lot of hope in this dystopia.
- Pete Delucchi
from email
I watched it while giving platelets at my local blood bank. Great movie, but not while giving blood products. My heart rate never recovered from watching Julianne Moore get shot at point blank range.
- Helen Sventitsky
I like the motorcycle stunt right after that.
- Pete Delucchi
Bad parenting advice - http://poobah.tumblr.com/post...
Brian Bufalo, Carolin Müller, Andy Bakun and 76 other people liked this
What's embarrassing: When we go to the store and one of the kids, get concerened, "You didn't get beer (or wine)" and I say, "That's right." or somthing flippant and they freak out, practically yelling, "Mama, buy some beer!"
- Admiral Anika
Freudian slip by placing both items in same isle ;) We don't have that problem in PA - beer sold at beer store, wine sold at State Store.
- Janet
I don't know about baby, but dkb needs beers and wines ...
- dkb
"Baby needs beers & wines" and its parents do good stick:)
- Igor Poltavskiy
It depends on who "baby" is if this is bad parenting advice. People are getting younger...
- Pete Delucchi
Makes sense really to put them close by. The more children I had the greater my alcohol consumption became :P
- Penny
+++Penny
- Admiral Anika
i think it is pretty normal because that's the statistics : the people who buy baby needs, buy more beer (one of my lecturer told that)
- İzzet Emre Kutlu
So do I!
- Jeff P. Henderson
sure thing this!!!!
- Anurag Gupta
Bad parenting advice? This is awesome parenting advice; I wish my parents gave me that advice.
- Jamelle
We have a newborn onesie reading, "Daddy Drinks Because I Cry."
- DGentry
We have another one reading "I Ripped Mommy a New One."
- DGentry
Pope Compares Gays to Destruction of the Rainforest - http://www.towleroad.com/2008...
Farahnaz, Tyson Key, Ladybug Heather and 8 other people liked this
""Pope Benedict said on Monday that saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behaviour was just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction. '(The Church) should also protect man from the destruction of himself. A sort of ecology of man is needed,' the pontiff said in a holiday address to the Curia, the Vatican's central administration. 'The tropical forests do deserve our protection. But man, as a creature, does not deserve any less.'....The pope said humanity needed to 'listen to the language of creation' to understand the intended roles of man and woman. He compared behaviour beyond traditional heterosexual relations as 'a destruction of God's work'. He also defended the Church's right to 'speak of human nature as man and woman, and ask that this order of creation be respected'.""
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
Do gays get a pass if we recycle?
- Derrick
:-(
- Mattie Kenny
ugh
- Nadine Schaeffer
Fuck that rainforest!!!
- B. Hatin
Does the Pope even matter any more?
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
Pope? Who/what is that?
- Nicholas Kreidberg
amazing example of compassion and loving, their god would be so proud.
- alphaxion
oh, and if homosexuality is a destruction of gods work then why is it observable across the animal kingdom?
- alphaxion
Wow. Who knew the Pope was so hip as to hitch his anti-gay agenda to the environmental bandwagon, one of the hottest soup du jours going right now. I bet he starts podcasting his sermons soon. Has anyone checked to see if he has an MS or FB profile? Ohhhh...Pope on Twitter...
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
I'm obviously not Catholic, but I miss the old Pope. Not quite a fan of this one.
- Derrick
Palpatine pope always saying stupid things that doesn't make sense.
- Bibi
No disrespect to Catholics nor transsexuals, but this is coming from a man wearing a dress. Work it, Benedict!
- Rosalind Hancroft
Just a quick question... If homosexuality is such a cornerstone of this religious battle, why isn't it in the 10 Commandments?
- Johnny Worthington
@Lindsey I'm not a fan of any religion. I think people should be nice with each other without any religion saying to do it.
- Bibi
Every time a guys sucks another mans dick, A tree falls in the forest.
- Uncle CW™
This Pope doesn't seem to be about compassion, understanding, love, etc. all the things that I thought Christianity goes on and on and on about. I really don't care what you do in private or who you choose to love. There are so many BIG issues that we need to focus on in the world and gay bashing seems counterproductive.
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What a bunch of bitchy, bitter old queens these clerics are.
- Chris Baskind
And the Chrises win. :)
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Jeebus ftw!
- Rob Spectre
WTF?
- Tyson Key
I don't remember Jesus ever talking about the "intended role of man and woman." Religion FAIL
- Chrimmus Tad
So glad I'm am no longer Catholic.
- Brian Bufalo
Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything - http://www.amazon.com/dp...
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable - http://www.amazon.com/dp...
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The Wire: Season 5: Disc 3 - http://www.netflix.com/Movie...
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edythe, Aaman (Clone of FF) and Alexander Carlill liked this
I'm wondering if Digg is the next tool to be deleted soon. I don't really use it anymore.
Kelly W., Jesper Lind, Alexander Carlill and 14 other people liked this
I'm guessing you read this: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008...
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
Digg has way too many users to go away. I have lots of friends who play on Digg all day at work. It's an easy and fun quick read.
- Andrew
@Kenny No I haven't. I was talking for me personally
- Shevonne
Digg isn't going anywhere. It might be sold at firesale prices but it will survive.
- Steve Spalding
I think Digg is a good service, but with FriendFeed, Twitter, and Delicious, I don't know how it can compete.
- Shevonne
the paradox is, that Diggs only chance to survive is to go lifestreaming ;)
- Dieter Schwarz
I still use Digg, the better articles are in the Upcoming/Recommendation page for me.
- Kol Tregaskes
no way. no digg, no diggnation. and we don't want that.
- Josh Haley
Caroline Kennedy backs same-sex marriage - http://www.upi.com/Top_New...
heather ♥s fauns on mars., Rick Powell, Russellreno and 3 other people liked this
"Caroline Kennedy, now seeking Hillary Clinton's New York Senate seat, said through a spokesman Saturday she supports gay marriage. Kennedy's staff responded to eight questions on her views submitted by Politico. She refused to answer one, whether she would support the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York in 2009 over the independent incumbent, Michael Bloomberg."
- Kathleen Anderson
from Bookmarklet
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Kanye West - Love Lockdown (Flying Lotus Remix) | RCRD LBL | Free MP3 Downloads - http://www.rcrdlbl.com/2008...
Alexander Carlill and Melissa liked this
"At this point everyone has an opinion on Kanye West's new album 808s & Heartbreak and more specifically his single "Love Lockdown," so we'll leave that discussion behind and instead turn to this mind-melting new remix of the single from our perennial favorite Flying Lotus. Using only the main vocal stem from the original, FlyLo has built a moist, aromatic swamp around 'Yes lead, with collapsing shards of percussion and amorphous tempos (sometimes the vocal seems to get lost, but just go with it, it works out.) It's par-for-the-course for the celebrated producer and deejay, who just nabbed the nod as Pitchfork's 28th best record of 2008 for his Warp debut Los Angeles. Next year brings his installment in !K7's celebrated DJ Kicks series next, which, if his Essential Mix for BBC's Radio 1 is anything to go by, it's going to be pretty extensive and trippy."
- Jason Toney
from Bookmarklet
Flying Lotus just kills it with the remixes. <3 him!
- Melissa
Meebo Unveils Support For MySpace and Facebook IM - http://www.inquisitr.com/12629...
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Chris Loft, Alex Haar, Alexander Carlill and 12 other people liked this
that's hot
- mjc
They just need downloadble clients. Web based ftl.
- Mona Nomura
pretty cool
- Jay
I used them a lot when I was behind a restrictive firewall last year, they turned a fast, handy service with lots of promise into bloated, ad-filled crapware
- Bjorn Stromberg
@Mona there's a libpurple plugin for facebook chat - http://code.google.com/p...
- Bjorn Stromberg
@mona - what do you mean a downloadable client?
- Amani
Mew - The Zookeeper's Boy (Yahoo! Who's Next) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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edythe, Kamilah Gill, Heather Cee and 3 other people liked this
Love me some Mew.
- Steve Isaacs
Oh my goodness I love this song. Edythe was the one who introduced me to it via Muxtape before that got killed. Can't wait to see what the video is like when I get to my unblocked computer at home.
- Kamilah Gill
:D
- edythe
Paul Revere by Beastie Boys - http://www.pandora.com/music...
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David Bisset (sn), Alexander Carlill, Victor Ganata and 2 other people liked this
Not my favorite song on the album, but still good. This is one of the very few rap albums I will listen to.
- Joey Gibson
Chuck E. Cheese: A Place Where Moms Punch Dads In the Face - http://gizmodo.com/5109636...
Alex Haar, David Cook, Kev and 14 other people liked this
"Chuck E. Cheese is a place for mom-on-mom deathmatches. An uninvited kid joined another kid's party. And when the cops finally showed up, they found a rumble between 40 bloodthirsty parents. That's what the chain gets for serving beer to parents already trying to cope with brats and arcade machine sound effects for hours on end."
- Mona Nomura
Awesome. I never went to Chuck E. Cheese as a kid.
- Jamelle
I have decided I will *never* take my child to Chuck E. Cheese. Ever.
- Michelle Martinez
It smells like feet. :( But seriuosly, that's what they get for serving beer. Wise decision, MM!
- Mona Nomura
Beer? They don't serve beer. Not at the ones on Houston at least. (sad that I know that)
- Russell Holliman
Mona, you should smell the inside of the rat costume, or not. It's like a big enclosed fur coat worn by sweaty teens and never washed. Kids yank the tail off, and teens try to determine the gender of the wearer, by groping.
- Alan
Everything about Chuck E. Cheese spells hell... you need beer to dull the smell of urine, flopsweat and failure... the should have a full bar IMO.
- Trish Benningfield
OMG I just threw up in my mouth.
- Mona Nomura
from IM
Pick-up/drop-off curbside service is what they need...
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Mona didn't you throw up in your mouth about something else earlier today?
- Marko Bon
I think so - can't remember what. Oh man, now people are going to think I have an eating disorder.
- Mona Nomura
from IM
I guess I shouldn't mention the full diapers that moms always leave in the booths. Oops, too late.
- Alan
hehehehehehe
- johnpiercy
lol. Is it just me though, or has Gizmodo gone wide lately and off gadgets? I understand the move (hell, we go wide) but it's interesting coming from a dedicated gadget blog
- Duncan Riley
J writes a lot about military and space crap... whatever works, I guess. Personally I don't mind the mix. Engadget and their projector stories are kinda boring. I unsubscribed from them a long time ago. (oops, did I say that out loud?)
- Mona Nomura
Son Of Bazerk - This Band Gets Swivey On The Wheels - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Donna Mugavero and Alexander Carlill liked this
Is that the PE side project?
- Alexander Carlill
That's some slice of awesome.
- Donna Mugavero
Essay - Consider the Philosopher - After the Death of David Foster Wallace - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2008...
Alexander Carlill liked this
"What most bothered Wallace about Taylor’s paper was not the despair-inducing worldview of fatalism itself (though that was indeed worrisome); it was, as Jay Garfield recalled, that “this metaphysically troubling conclusion followed from these ordinary-seeming premises.” Taylor seemed to have scrambled the normal relations among logic, language and the physical world, detaching them from their proper spheres. There was a kind of anguish for Wallace in the prospect of a world so out of whack."
- Christopher Galtenberg
from Bookmarklet
"The real accomplishment of Wallace’s thesis, however, was not technical or argumentative but more like a moral victory. His demonic attention to detail in language and logic, and his seemingly limitless cognitive abilities, had set aright a world momentarily upended by a conceptual sleight of hand. “In light of what we’ve seen about the semantics of physical modality,” Wallace wrote in...
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- Christopher Galtenberg
NSFW!!: Konichiwa Bitches by Robyn http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Alexander Carlill and Rodfather liked this
You wanna rumble in my jungle? I'll take you on. Stampede your rumpa and send you home. You wanna rumble in space? I put my laser on stun. And on tha north pole I'll ice you son.
- Alex Scoble
You wanna thrilla in my nilla? You'll be killa bee stung. Wanna taste the vanilla? Better watch your tongue.
- Alex Scoble
'Cause I'll hammer your toe like a pediatrician. Saw you in half like I'm a magician. Tear you down like I'm in demolition. Count you out like a mathematician.
- Alex Scoble
I'm so very hot that when I rob your mansion. You ain't callin' the cops you call the firestation.
- Alex Scoble
'Cause my flavor so sweet you'll be zoom-zoom-zoom. Don't even get me started on my bada-boom-booms. One left one right thats how I organize them. You know I fill my cups no need to super-size them. Right now you probably thinking: How she get in them jeans? Well I'm gifted all natural and bursting the seams.
- Alex Scoble
A-ha! Kon-ichi-wa bitches. A-ha-A-ha! Kon-ichi-wa bitches.
- Alex Scoble
Don't I look tasty like a french Bon-Bon? Even more sweeter than a cherrybomb. Coming with the postman like I'm a mailbomb. Cummin' in your mouth make you say yum-yum.
- Alex Scoble
Hit the gong-gong bring the sumos on. I'm a kick ass all the way to Hong Kong. Make their balls bounce like a game of ping pong. Kon-ichi-wa bitches from Beijing to Siagon.
- Alex Scoble
Got nothing on me 'cause you know you's a bum. Dum-didi-dum-didi-didi-dum-dum. Check the scenario: I'm 'a bust your ear drum. And leave your heads ringing with the ringa ding dong.
- Alex Scoble
Busy on the mic since the day I was WHAT? Born. Check out my style, it's the Raka WHAT? Mo'. Shine is on me like a dog on a WHAT? Bone. Fight the power, put myself on the throne.
- Alex Scoble
You know when shit is getting heavy like it weights a ton. I will run you down like a marathon. Tape you up good put you in the trunk. C U next Tuesday you is a punk.
- Alex Scoble
Albums of the Year : Rolling Stone - http://www.rollingstone.com/news...
Dee S., Alexander Carlill, Clay Newton and Helen Sventitsky liked this
Agree with most of this list, well, some of the list, ok a fraction of the list.
- michael sean wright
from Bookmarklet
I really wished that I liked TV On the Radio. It seems like it would be a band that I'd like but their music just leaves me cold.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I'm enjoying TV O.T.R. it but not as much as the Fleet Foxes.
- michael sean wright
from IM
I've tried to like TV on the Radio. I've been unsuccessful.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I thought that this was a fantastic year for music. Fleet Foxes, Cloud Cult, The Dodos... definitely far better than last year.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I actually like TV on The Radio (I have their first two CDs). I listened to a lot of music this year, but mostly stuff released from other years/eras. John C.'s right. Last year was better.
- Helen Sventitsky
Lucinda Williams and Sam Phillips both had GREAT records this year. I'm really liking the new Keane as well.
- michael sean wright
I know. I loves me the new Lucinda and Keane. Those are just three, tho'.
- Helen Sventitsky
@ John Cozen, boy are you right! Crystal Castle is so well done.
- michael sean wright
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