A certain friend of mine likes to joke that Obama will give us all ice cream and puppies. Well, I have yet to receive mine (snickerdoodle flavour from Bluebird and a beagle, please) but apparently Washington is getting COASTAL RADAR!
I once listened to my old atmospheric sciences professor complain about lack of same for an entire quarter!!!! Also, maybe someday we will actually be able to predict the weather out here! YAY!
- joey
at first i was confussed thinking washington = dc, and why would they'd need coastal radar (are we being replaced, in other words), but then my mind remember the west coast version of washington, ;) o', and about friggn time, what dark ages are you just leaving, :o
- chaz2b
chaz: we have lots of radar around the seattle metroplex but no radar out on the coast, which is a whole mountain range and a hundred miles from any heavily populated areas. This was especially awesome because the aforementioned mountains, the Olympics, block all inland radar from seeing anything out over the pacific ocean, creating a huge blindspot. For some reason state and federal...
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- veo
thank you veo, i'm just a hurricane fan, :( but i also thought that at least all US coasts would have the coastline, & at least out to international waters under radar watch, just amazes me, didnt mean to insult, i was just kidding, :(
- chaz2b
and i'll put the outer banks, nc, up to seattle weather any day for most complex weather in the nation (its not the bermuda triangle for nothing, ;)
- chaz2b
which, i'm sorry to continue, brings me back to radar. they've had bouys out to sea for for ever with radar here, again another reason why i'm astonished no radar before. and mountains actually provide a really good base for radar systems (just cause you cant see through them dont mean you cant see from them), but i'm just going on-&-on, i'm sorry, :(
- chaz2b
It'll be awhile. It won't be ready until mid-2012.
- Rochelle
I heard about that. I haD no idea you guys couldn't see what was coming from the ocean. Seems basic.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
from iPhone
Hey, I was trying to protect your privacy. HEY EVERYONE IT WAS AKIVA OKAY? Like we couldn't all figure it out anyway.
- joey
Rochelle, it's funny to hear of things that are happening AFTER my wedding because I put that thing off for so long it's like time is ending haha.
- joey
Skinny jeans are actually kind of nice for PNW weather (especially short ones) because they don't get soaking wet at the bottom, which is kind of like a miracle.
- joey
(Almost) everyone has body image issues. The girl selling me the jeans was gorgeous and curvy and was disappointed that I fit (barely or not at all) into their smallest size/style that she liked. I was disappointed that I couldn't wear their sexy jeans that she was sporting because I have no hips. We probably both looked good in our respective fits.
- joey
It's kind of worth it to have a nice pair of jeans instead of the (literally falling apart at the seams) pair that you stole from your sister a few years ago.
- joey
I wear the same size as I did in junior high, so I can probably pull out some of my old wardrobe from my parents' house. I'm not a hoarder, I just keep clothes as long as I can. I bought one pair that fits me perfectly now (but should stretch) and one that is a bit big so that as I gain my weight back, they'll fit. That's another thing...kind of awkward when people are like 'I'm jealous, you are so skinny' to be like 'oh, yeah. I'm sick.'
- joey
The first thing you mentioned is my absolute favorite thing about skinny jeans. No more soggy knees! Can't wait to see them :)
- Alexis Hope
Knees? Why would you have soggy knees? Do you hike funny?
- joey
This reminds me. I need to get off my ass and buy a new pair of jeans. Some of my jeans are developing holes in intimate regions. Been putting it off because none of my jeans fit right, in a variety of different ways.
- Wirehead
Soggy knees from too-long flares getting dragged through the puddles, and acting like a wick to suck up the rain?
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
Loving these comments and imagining my 216-pound self in your situation. More than half of that weight is below the waist.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
Ah, Mary that may make sense. Mine do get soggy pretty high up, but usually it's the bottoms that drag the worst (especially bad for us short people). And I'm sure that they have the right jeans for you at one of these specialty shops. They seemed good at envisioning what would flatter just about anyone. Of course, they weren't $20.
- joey
I tried on a pair of Fox skinny jeans and was surprised at how amazing they were. The saying "If you wore the trend the first time don't repeat it" doesn't always apply. Also, American Eagle boyfriend fit is great. They have 00.
- R1CC1
My jeans double as a tent for normal sized people.
- Morgan Haley
My jeans double as a portable garage for humvees. :)
- CW™
Christo just called me and asked to borrow a couple pairs of my skivvies....Is that a bad thing?
- Morgan Haley
no, the water usually soaks all the way up to my knees! it's horrible. edit: yes, what mary said :)
- Alexis Hope
Haha. They're meowing at me. They think I'm going to let them outside despite the fact that they are primarily indoor cats and it is pouring rain.
- joey
I'm also apparently watching an infomercial for airbrush makeup. I don't even wear makeup but I seem to be too lazy to find something to watch.
- joey
Joey, it's so good to see your beautiful face! <3
- Derrick
I've tried to have a few conversations this morning, both on FF and off, and my brain is not functioning. Thank you to the people who are able to jump in and actually form a cogent argument, guess what the heck I am referencing, or even just complete my sentences. No thank you to Depakote, the potato masher of brains.
A lifetime of happiness to you both. Congratulations!
- Steve
WHOOOOOOO!!!! CONGRATULATIONS! I LOVE WEDDINGS
- sofarsoShawn
Congrats to the both of you................love and kisses from LI NY
- VAL D. Zone
*buys bag of rice to throw at monitor*
- Steven Perez
It's too bad this cannot be embedded in a FF page somehow -- we could all watch the activities (and even better than being there) discuss in real time here. I guess though watching in separate window and discussing here is just about as good.
- Brian Sullivan
What's it called when a group sends someone to an event, to spy? Not in an enemy way like a true spy, but just to be there and send signals to the outside world. Maybe that's a spy. Or a plant! Is that what it's called? Maybe we should have sent a plant.
- Rochelle
Yeah, a mole! That's better. Do we have a mole on the inside?!
- Rochelle
Have a great wedding Cassie and Alex. And Alex, get off FF already, you don't wanna be late for this one! ;-)
- Rene Wirtz
Now the question is, will Alex pull out his phone and update FriendFeed like that guy in the YouTube video last week pulled out his phone to update his Facebook status during the middle of the wedding?
- Rochelle
Yeah, I need to start getting ready in a few minutes...my family is coming to my room at 2:30 and then we do pictures
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Hey they're putting on table clothes right now... this is really cool!
- SAM
Congrats... :) I'm going to bed now :( I thought to watch it. But, damn sleepy now.. Somebody please wake me up! I'm from IST :P
- Mohammad Abdurraafay
I just logged on 10 minutes ago. I don't think it's an overload issue.
- Call me Bronco
Got Vista/Firefox working fine; also have the Modify Headers plug-in forwarding for 12.13.14.15 by default if that helps anyone, in case there's an international thing going on.
- Mark H
Haha. We're putting the wedding cam on our huge HDTV with music on in the background. What kind of music should we play?
- Rochelle
Woot Got in, after about 2-3 dozen refreshes, just like old school FF fun.
- Jimminy
I bowed out since we are gaming in a bit, so hopefully other people can get in now. Someone grab me a screen shot of the two of them up there for me later? :D
- aden
Real nice setup Alex and Cassie have here. Bridesmaids are in purple. Groomsmen are in black. Except for Robert - he's wearing Twitter blue. [/just kidding]
- Steven Perez
from IM
awww this is so sweet. I'm so happy for them.
- Call me Bronco
A package arrived just now and I was thinking 'I didn't order anything...' I am totally floored by the generosity of a certain FriendFeeder (not sure if she wants to stay anonymous). Thank you so very much, not just for taking the time or money, but for having faith in my writing to believe that it was justified.
"Meticulous ancient notetakers have given archaeologists a glimpse of what life was like 3,000 years ago in the Assyrian Empire, which controlled much of the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf."
- joey
from Bookmarklet
I just treated myself to a manicure, pedicure, and brow waxing. I feel 20% guilty for frivolous spending and 80% better for feeling more put together and human.
Thanks, peeps. I've been walking around with a buzzed head since May, but it's getting chilly so I decided to work on growing my half-fro back for the winter.
- Derrick
Dood...liking the tight cut. A little fade in there?
- JA Castillo
I caught the pic before the caption and was about to be all like "Damn! Look at Derrick all lined up and isht!"Now, my comment makes even more sense. LOL. I'm about to try and grow a half-fro as well, but it's cuz my head is just shaped funny and I wanted to try something new :)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Trying to remember if I have seen your hair before. It's always hats, hats, hats with you.
- s t e v e
Steve, in the summer I tend to buzz all my hair off. I do like hats a bit, but I've been growing my hair out cause it's too cold (at least for me by Los Angeles standards). I'm actually not wearing a hat today.
- Derrick
That's clean, I like it. I should print this out to take to my barber so he gets the lengths right (I want something basically exactly like this, and he just can't get it quite right).
- Chieze Okoye
Henk Wijnholds presents an interesting approach to UX design — you should address your designs to four types of people — competitive, spontaneous, humanistic and methodical as defined by MBTI methodology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...).
- Juras Vetrau
from Bookmarklet
they scanned a biz card from a Android ... into an Address Book ,.
- johnpiercy
Looks like on the fly OCR, properly parsed into contact data. That is win.
- EricaJoy
Two weeks ago, my boss came back from a big event with 60+ visit cards. He had a scanner and a software. Guess what I suggested and then regretted? :)
- Jérôme Flipo
This feature will save a lot of time, for many users, and move many of them to Google Contacts.
- Jérôme Flipo
Richard, it's one possible use of the new Google Goggles product http://www.techcrunch.com/2009.... It recognize the text on visit cards and makes it useful. That's a pretty convincing application of Google's mission IMO.
- Jérôme Flipo
I was just thinking how much I would like smartphone OCR.
- Andrew C
If you have this installed on your Android phone, for fun go to Amazon and start taking pictures of book covers. Its nuts!
- EricaJoy
Erica, does it read the book in the language you want? What, not yet?! :)
- Jérôme Flipo
Another reason to get an androphone soon, very soon ;-)
- Stanislas Jourdan
When is the Iphone vers,,, I want NOW
- johnpiercy
I bet they'll merge this Goggles thing with the current iPhone app. If they release their branded phone with Google Nav and Goggles, I'll feel old school with my iPhone.
- Jérôme Flipo
Erica, the existing Amazon Android app does book covers. And so does the standalone app SnapTell. =)
- Andrew C
Just DL'ed from Android Market. Doesn't work all the time but very cool!
- Mike Reynolds
It's been hit and miss for me, but when I took a picture of a business card, it Goggles scanned it and gave me a list of the contact information just like the picture depicts. It messed up a couple of letters ("e" was "o", etc), but overall did a decent job. It /does not/ do facial recognition.
- Jason Huebel
Took a picture of a bag of potato chips and got some demon wicca sex blogs. But then took a picture of a coffee table art book that's just a figurative painting on cover and it correctly identified it as a Julian Schnabel book. Definitely entertaining but definitely labs level results.
- Hayes Haugen
Can't see it in the [Canadian] Market. Does it work with Android 1.5?
- Andrew C
Nope, 1.6 and newer. Turning into a trend.
- Hayes Haugen
Then Rogers *really* needs to get off their asses and release the 1.6 update.
- Andrew C
Ahhhh.so it's for people with crappy input devices ;-). One day will people have forgotten how to type. It's a good idea. We'll see when they make it available to all platforms.
- Richard A.
If a device hasn't been updated to 1.6 already I don't think it's likely it ever will be. Everyone has their hands full with 2.0.1.
- Hayes Haugen
Ergh, maybe I'll just root the phone then. =P
- Andrew C
Thank you! I was so nervous going dark, but I LOVE it :D
- Penny
Great 1st shot there. You look awesome. Down to earth and hawt.
- Josh Haley
The dark is a tad less "innocent" (ha) and a tad more sultry. You've tipped the angel/devil balance from slightly one way to slightly the other way ;)
- Michael W. May
I'll have to take a pic with my devil horns next ;)
- Penny
from iPhone
know i have been called creepy for commenting like this but i would say you look great in both!
- ffcode
I love the smoky eyes in the brunette shots - you are going to find that you will have much more fun with makeup as a brunette - more drama ;-p
- Robyn Hawk
:( That turkey better not hurt any TJ employees. I like that place way too much.
- Kamilah Gill
It was two regular-sized guys initially. And the dude was giving them all they could take. Then this third big TJ's employee came outside and joined in. That ended it. Police arrived shortly thereafter.
- Hutch Carpenter
The TJ employees will be lucky if they don't get fired for that.
- Dave Roth
from iPhone
Does this look decent? I've really, really been needing a camera bag to tote my lenses in and I found this quite by accident (there was an advert while I was looking at a friend's art). It seems pretty well-designed.
- joey
That looks like a nice camera bag. How many lenses and camera bodies do you need to carry? I have this Lowepro bag (http://bit.ly/7mSnjc) and I carry four lenses, one body, plus a backup point and shoot (Canon G9), my Macbook Pro and misc things like USB sticks, cables etc. I really like it, but it can get real heavy with all that stuff!
- Drew
Right now three lenses (will probably stay that way for a while) and one camera body. Sometimes I carry a point-and-shoot, too. I don't have a camera bag now, so I end up just kind of dumping everything in a bag and it's a nightmare.
- joey
Oh, that bag looks nice but I think it might be too much for me. I don't think I'd carry my laptop around at this point (though it could be nice to). I'm pretty small so things get really heavy and burdensome rather quickly.
- joey
If you're looking for a bag strictly for your camera stuff, it looks like a good choice. The problem I have with mine is that I carry it with me everywhere I go (on my bicycle) and if I want to stop off at the store and grab a bottle of wine or some small groceries - there's no room at all. Thanks for this post though. I can add dAPRO to my search for the perfect all around camera bag.
- Drew
I am resting/recovering right now so I can't go out with them until later, but one of my best friends just surprised me by showing up at my door (from NYC)...with our other close friend (who lives in Montreal now, I think) from junior high/ high school, who I have not seen for probably 10 years. Holy cow. Please let this be a good headache week.
" Milan’s Matteo Gualandris gives us some nice vintage inspirations in ‘Science Fiction Typography’, which is an analytical story of typographic used in America’s most popular science fiction magazines published between 1930 and 1970."
- Mine Ekim
from Bookmarklet
Grey Sparrow journal just took two poems: "Sacrifices" and "Fishing." (They wanted 3 more, but those were just spoken for by Lamplighter review.) i win at poeting!
My mum collected Hallmark 'daughter' and 'son' ornaments for us kids until they were discontinued this year. When I came 'of age' (she planned to give them to me when I got married) she gave me the ornaments (including ones she made for me or I made) that she had collected throughout my life. Ben's family didn't have that particular pathology, but:
But where did the lighter fluid come from?
- Andrew C
"Maybe you can take a date up to the cabin." "Where am I going to find someone to go into that musty old claptrap?" (three beats) "Oh, the cabin... right."
- Andy Bakun
I reckon she'd like me better if she heard me talk. girls (and boys) always do ;)
- Eoghan Sullivan
you mean that faux-Irish nonsense? :P You only lived there 'til you were 3.
- Bren -- Not Grinchy
with a name like that, how could I not subscribe? the Bren thing is all right too, I guess. ;)
- holly
That may be, Bren, but you've heard my da' ... with that guy teaching me to speak, I was bound to be damaged in some appreciable way. Hiya holly :)
- Eoghan Sullivan
welcome, btw! hope you enjoy this crazy place!
- holly
I hope it sticks around long enough for me to enjoy it! so far I like the variety of content. I'm not the "techiest" guy, but there seems to be a ton of stuff to look at. thanks for the welcome, holly
- Eoghan Sullivan
I don't have a favorite album. I do, however, have favorite songs. Little Drummer Boy, Winter Wonderland, Los Peces en el Rio (which I listen to at least once a week even though it's churchy type of song. The version I have is just so mellow and pretty that I can't save it to just Christmas.) Wham's Last Christmas is a given. :D
- pea