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#oohyolanda - ha3rvey (Ho)^3

This should be your new avatar. LOVE. <3 - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

Love. :) - pea

Johnny's lost his mind, y'all. - Yolanda

Cute! - josh neff, geek at large

If this is losing my mind... I don't think I wanna find it again - Johnny Worthington

If Johnny's lost his mine, mine's gone, too. - Alix Whitmire

I love me some Yo. With #bitchlips? Please. - Derrick

Those are some of THE best bitchlips I've seen in a long time! - Helen Sventitsky

You are so adorable. - joey

*goes all melty* - Joe Silence

"I see you." - Josh Haley from iPhone

heya! - Ian May

Awesome! Yo, you're great! - Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)

Try as I might, I can't think of a good reason why I haven't met up with Yolanda yet. DO ANYBODY NO WHY - ha3rvey (Ho)^3

Your hair looks nice when you wear it up. - cecily

Harvey.. probably because you live way the hell over there in Dallas. Man... what a trek!! And thanks Cecily. - Yolanda

<3 - Michelle Martinez from Android

Sorry you're feeling exasperated, but you do look cute! :-) - vicster is...

hee! <3 - Carmen - Happy 2010!

Even the rice it was sitting on is making my eyes water... - Shey, Jamaican of FF

The Mango Cafe in Palo Alto served mild, jerked, or extra jerked. They would put on latex gloves before bringing out an extra jerked plate. I couldn't handle the extra jerked, too much pain. - DGentry

I did warn you. I'll go easy on the pepper next time! Cute pic. - Jasmin Smith from iPhone

Yeah, next time I'll stay away. Far away. *sniffle* - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Dude, your Jamaican card is going to be revoked. - cecily

Just don't tell PM Golding. :P - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Whooooooooooooooooo - johnpiercy

haha love that face!!! - Carmen - Happy 2010!

If we all agree to knock on wood, will you tell us? - SAM

Sending good karma your way. - rowlikeagirl

I held out. Sending a big hug and a bushel of positivity your way. :-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

My fingers and toes are crossed.... - WorldofHiglet

I don't know all that much about it, actually. I got a message on LinkedIn from a recruiter asking me if I knew anyone that had a fairly niche-y skill set since I was in the Greenville area. I responded that *I* did but might not have the length of experience the client required and offered a suggestion of where he could advertise the position. Apparently that was enough to get him to actually look at my profile and he'd like to talk to me about it... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Sending good luck thoughts, Tina! - Ayşe E.

Oooh! Best of luck! - LB - not a snow bunneh

Good luck! I hope that once you talk with the recruiter, you both find that you're a good fit! - vicster is...

If it's the position I think it is, I know it's something I can do. I just have to get my foot in the door and prove it. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Good luck with the interview tomorrow. Hopefully, it will result in an early Christmas present! - Anne Bouey

I hope so Anne! Turns out my dad's pre-test interview for therapy got shifted back tomorrow morning so I have to do that first. If I wind up playing phone tag with the gent about the job again, I'm going to offer to meet up with him over lunch. Nothing like tasty noms to put someone in the hiring mood! - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Good Luck Tina! - MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS

Hope your dad's interview goes well, too! - Anne Bouey

Here in Italy people use to say "in the mouth of the wolf" :-) - Roberto from iPhone

Good luck, Tina. - Kol Tregaskes

Hoping it's what you want and they realize how awesome you are. :) - Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)

All the Best, the Tide needs to turn someday, today is your Day !! - Peter Dawson

hmmm - ★ Soner Gönül

Hope this goes well - fingers are still crossed! - WorldofHiglet

Well, I played phone tag with the gent earlier today but just got done with a 27 minute phone conversation with him. He seemed intrigued (and specifically complimented my phone demeanor) and is sending me more information about the position. I'm not exactly qualified for it per se, but I know it's something I can do well. My job at this point is to make myself look like an undiscovered gem *shines her facets* - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Sounds promising - I really hope they snap you up. And, if I may say so, your facets are looking particularly alluring today.... - WorldofHiglet

You've been discovered now; he just doesn't know what kind of gem he's found yet. Shine! - Anne Bouey

Best of luck! - LB - not a snow bunneh

Keeping the positivity flowing your way! :-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

heard anything? :) - edythe

How about now? - WorldofHiglet

Keep it to yourself & Best of Luck - Tom Awtry

Don't know him but why is he leaving? - Paulette Garcia Morris

1UP Paulette - Josh Haley from iPhone

Who? - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

where's he going?? - Sir Shuping

#DYSP :( - Christopher Harley

Josh - 1UP? Do you mean in the Home Feed sequence? - Paulette Garcia Morris

I guess Mexico really is a 3rd world country. :( - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

hee hee, no Paulette. I mean +1, which means *fist bump* which means ;) which means I liked your comment, which means - Josh Haley from iPhone

Is he moving out? o_o - अभिषेक(Abhishek) Das

Bye, Bunneh Perez! We'll meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeess youuuuuuuuuuuuu!!! - Ladybug Heather

he'll be back one day. - Joe Silence

fuck, no cilantro? be well bunneh. - Blackeyed P

What kind of place is the bunneh running too that doesn't have innernets? *cries* - Yolanda

Ah Josh - I gotcha now! :-D - Paulette Garcia Morris

*tear* Who is going to argue with me for 45 mins every week? - Amber, Random Time Lord

:( Be well. - Anne Bouey

no bunneh? I hope he has fun while he's away. - Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)

:(((( - Alix Whitmire

Safe travels, mate. (he just might see this) - Arlan Koizumi

#oohbirthdaybarry - Derrick

It should be obvious what I should say here. - Josh Haley from iPhone

Happy Birthday Barry!! - aden

happy b-day barry! hope it's a great one - Sir Shuping

Merry Birthday!! - Archangel ωαřмaiden

IT'S BARRY'S BIRFFDAY????? *does happy dance* - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Happy Birthday, Barry - Christopher Harley

Happy B'day! - अभिषेक(Abhishek) Das

Happy Birthday, Barry! - RAPatton

Happy Birthday! - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Both Birthday and New Year wishes for ya Barry - Have a great day and good year! - Tom Awtry

You guys are too much. Thanks one and all. You make my day of "birf" all that more special. MVB EVEN DANCED --- HAPPY EVEN! - MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS from fftogo

Happy Birthday! - Alex Scoble

YAY! Happy birthday!! - Yolanda

Happy Birthday! - Nurse Katie

Oooo! Happy Birthday! Love these pictures too. What a great looking man. =D - Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)

Awww Thanks Junebug - MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS from fftogo

Happy Birfday! - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

Happy Birthday! :-D - vicster is...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BABE!!!! - Mary Carmen

HBTY, B. - cecily

Happy Birfday, Barry! - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

HAPPY BDAY!!!!!!!! - Shevonne

Happy birthday, B Dub! - Admiral Anika

:) - winckel

Happy Birthday! - Alix Whitmire

Happy birthday! - Spidra Webster

Happy Birthday, Barry! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Happy Birthday, Barry! (I'm not dancing, though) - ha3rvey (Ho)^3

happy birthday, Barry! - holly

Happy Bday Barry! - Steve

Happy Birthday, MotO! - Jim Misses SP

B.!!!!!!!!!! <333333333 - Ayşe E.

Happy birthday to Barry with the smile full of Wynn! <3333 - Carmen - Happy 2010!

Happy birthday! Hope you have a great birthday. Cheers! - Adrian

One of those posts that give you such a warm fuzzy feeling inside! - Adrian Scicluna

*strokes chin*... if only... - Johnny Worthington from iPhone

We share exactly the same feelings about Twitter. - Tom Awtry

I mostly agree, but to play devil's advocate, I would say you could improve your skills by attempting to create a coherent statement in 140 characters. And I mean a statement with out IM type abbreviations, and stuff like that. - Michelle Martinez

That is true Michelle, but I focus more on getting the message across then lyrical gymnastics. I'm commenting on a hockey fight at 12:30am, not writing Shakespear or haiku :) - Johnny Worthington from iPhone

And the worse thing is, if you aim to get retweeted (which seems to be the circle-jerk currency of the day) you have to take into account your username etc... - Johnny Worthington from iPhone

Fair enough, Johnny. - Michelle Martinez from iPod

Been asking this for 2 years, and no one has even looked at me long enough to attempt an answer, but does anyone have a damn clue why the 140 character limit exists? - Matthew DeVries

Text messages were limited to 140 characters. Twitter was built to utilize the SMS structure. It has evolved since that time, but the limit remained. - Heather Solos

If that's the truth, then that is beyond silly. SMS translation software hasn't been limited like that in forever. Look at Google Voice, it always takes people's names into the message, and just splits the message into multiple pieces if it has to. - Matthew DeVries

The SMS limit is actually 160 7-bit characters, as specified in GSM 3.40 back in 1985. Twitter reserves 20 characters for your name. Many if not most phones support more now e.g. splitting longer text into multiple messages, but I think if you want to maintain compatibility with *everything* that uses SMS, you have to stick to 160. - Ken Sheppardson

Or perhaps Twitter is the headline and a link? You know, for SEO and marketing gurus... - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

140 character limit is rubbish. Thank goodness for FriendFeed! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

I actually enjoy the challenge of having to prune down a thought into grammatically correct sentences for Twitter. It's like writing a haiku. - Akiva Moskovitz

People of the Commonwealth nations are like the Mimbrates, and love their flowery adjectives. - Matthew DeVries

+1 Akiva. It's fun trying to find just the right words and structure to say what I want to say succinctly enough for Twitter. When I really, really can't, then I switch to FriendFeed. But Twitter makes you focus on what's really important about what you want to say. If I taught composition, I'd use Twitter in my curriculum. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Akiva, I love haiku like no one's business but it's a bitch to hold a conversation in... Some statements just don't require or warrant that level of craftsmanship. - Johnny Worthington from iPhone

Johnny - does your ISP charge you by the tweet or something? Just - Matthew DeVries

make - Matthew DeVries

another - Matthew DeVries

tweet - Matthew DeVries

What Mona said. - LB - not a snow bunneh

Thinking of you. - Blackeyed P

you are in my prayers my friend - VAL D. Zone

Think of you every day. - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

You two on the same thread is a FF spectator sport for me. Love it. - SAM

Lack of knowledge, Alex? I'm schooling you. - Cristo

SAM, good to know someone's entertained. :) - Cristo

You aren't schooling me. Your lack of knowledge on automation and management is why you write posts and then don't like the response you get. - Alex Scoble

Alex, I'm leaning towards others for my automation education. No offense. :) - Cristo

And you still won't get to where you want to go by yourself. No offense. - Alex Scoble

Alex, so are you in the "only installers can do it" camp or the "it isn't worth doing" camp? - Cristo

Only installers can do it. I worked for a building management system installer and know what goes in to building automation. It is very unlikely that someone who hasn't gone through an extensive amount of training on the subject could do it. It takes a lot of knowledge over many disciplines to do this sort of work. So while I don't doubt that it will keep you occupied, at the end of the day you are going to have to turn to an installation company to get what you want done. - Alex Scoble

Alex, would you have said the same for the multi-zone media work I've done? - Cristo

No...different ballgame completely. Although even there you had to have someone do the wiring and wall patchwork. - Alex Scoble

Alex, yes I hire people to do work for me using my design. What is wrong with that? I suppose if I did the drywalling myself, you'd complain that I didn't manufacture it. - Cristo

Well, I think that you'll find that you'll have to take more of a backseat when having someone automate your house. And hopefully you find a very patient installer because you will be very high maintenance on this particular project. - Alex Scoble

Alex, can you tell me what can be automated and how? - Cristo

I don't even believe this is a real project, I think it's just an excuse to talk about money and different cables - Andrizzle Gizzle

Andrizzle, you got it all figured out. Not only that, but itblogger is just another one of my accounts. - Cristo

man I fucking knew you were into Domo - Andrizzle Gizzle

Yup, I've got one in my pants now. - Cristo

Can you, Chris? - Alex Scoble

Alex, why would I ask if I knew? I'm not testing you, I'm seeing whether there is anything worth automating. Seems like much of what I want to do can't be done. - Cristo

I think that most of what you want to do can be done, it just will be expensive. Most consumer electronics that have wireless controls are not intelligent and have no feedback mechanisms for what state they are in, so you have to bolt on devices that track the state of devices under control. - Alex Scoble

That's not very specific. What appliances in the kitchen or laundry room can I automate? - Cristo

AMEN. - cecily

The good news is that at least I know for sure 2010 will be completely different. - Lo

My ex-wife sent me that one today! 2009 sucked for both of us in many, many ways. 2010 looks to be a better year for the both of us. - josh neff, geek at large

ok I found it :http://friendfeed-media.s3.ama... :)) - Erkkan

Is this a twilight reference or something of that nature? - Nicholas Kreidberg

they were bored, I was bored. I ended up thinking about (because the movie was not engaging) how the virtual world would work well for League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 1910 and how, in this version, Holmes was Batman, Watson was Alfred, Irene was Catwoman and Lord Blackwood was Ra's al Ghul - RAPatton

They've never fallen asleep during a movie before and this was a 5pm show - RAPatton

Heh. I liked it. - Derrick

there are scenes that are fine, but they also waste time showing Holmes ability to leverage his mind as a fighter, like Batman, which is fine, but they do it twice and apparently, those techniques don't work when you have to fight really big french guys. Also, when you fight really big french guys, no ones ever thinks to sweep the knee. If only holmes had Kreese as his sensei - RAPatton

Derrick, lots of people liked it, I am just not one of them, and there are good things about it. I think the script was solid, I just don't think that Guy R did much with it - RAPatton

I liked it too, Derrick. - James Ferguson

Well, yeah...lots of people tend to like movies I don't really care for either, so it all works out in the wash. - Derrick

Katie liked it too - RAPatton

I thought it was well done. - Bryan R. Adams

Yeah....really liked it - Nurse Katie

I thought Gladiator was the worst piece of ish in the world, but everyone and my mom enjoyed the heck out of it. Every once in awhile, we all view a flick way differently than our peers (and the world). - Bryan R. Adams

Agreed Bryan....though not about Gladiator :o) - Nurse Katie

That's how I feel about The Matrix. Apparently that makes me some kind of freak of nature among my other geek-like friends. - Derek Coward

I'm kinda meh about The Matrix....not a huge deal but it was ok. Hated it when I saw it in the theaters. - Nurse Katie

When I was in film school the movie du jour that was changing everyone's life was Fight Club. I thought it was merely ok. - Derrick

I really like Ritchie and Downey and Holmes but that trailer makes it look like two hours of Brad Pitt's Pikey Boxing Revisited. - Daniel J. Pritchett

I thought Sherlock Holmes, Gladiator, AND The Matrix were boring. :D SH had some good moments, though. - Alix Whitmire

I loved it a little bit, and not just because of the eye candy. - cecily

My reaction to Sherlock Holmes was similar to Robert's. Good story but something about it dragged. - Anne Bouey

:D - yuri

Not mother? - Christopher Harley

nolmuş elmaya tööğbe estağğfirullah bişi olmuş - hкиdми™ (ff doktoru)

It looks like a FPS game level. - Adrian

I've seen a lot of these on the internet... We're considering using one as a sustainable cottage out on Moosicorn one of these days. We're trying to make sure all the cottages are educational and architecturally very different. Getting it to look good out there will be a challenge, but we're excited about it. - SAM

And Akiva I think it really depends on the environment you using it in. Insulation and fabrication costs would be much more feasible in a moderate climate than they would be in extreme weather conditions. Also depends on the complexity of the structure. If you are only using 1-3 containers as I have more typically seen and aren't putting in all the bells and whistles you could do these very afford-ably. - SAM

CAJ is living in a container like this in Afghanistan right now. He's been posting pictures and info about it: http://friendfeed.com/iphwin - Rochelle

WIN - Josh Haley

Hell no, it's all about the Tanuki Suit! - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

My personal favorite is the Bee suit from Super Mario Galaxy. (which isn't shown) - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Sean, I think the Bee Suit is the third from the left on the bottom row. - James Ferguson

Hey you're right. It just looks different from the front: http://thenintendo.com/wp-cont... - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Also, I really dig your site's layout. - James Ferguson

Hehe, thanks. That's almost 8 years of work, two colleges, and several content changes later. :D - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

One day I shall be able to afford Haggis to redesign my site for me. :D - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

When checking out of the Haggis Shop, enter DYSP in the promotion box... - Uncle CW™

That's about the exact pose my dogs have been in today. When they're not pestering to go out or for attention. That's the best thing about picking them up from the boarders. They are clingy and want a lot of love. - Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)

I'm very impressed with how good mine are being. Those two don't always get along, but they seem to have found common ground in a nap. ;) - LB - not a snow bunneh

4! - Stephen Mack from iPhone

oui - anna sauce

Just played Seafarer's which was very fun. - anna sauce

Never played Settlers. A friend introduced me to Carcassonne and then I just vaulted to Puerto Rico. Now I mainly play Agricola. - Akiva Moskovitz

I've only played Settlers on my X-box, but loved it. Really digging Pandemic right now. - Jennifer Dittrich

Ooh, getting lots of good gaming ideas here. - anna sauce

anna, http://geekdo.com is the place to be for all of your board gaming needs. - Akiva Moskovitz

"Watching this video for at least the fifth time brought to mind a few things that always surface in conversations about what girls really want in a game. While it feels almost sacrilegious to criticize the work of one of the first people to re-evaluate who plays games and why, Brenda Laurel's one TED talk cannot be the be-all, end-all of discussions on girls and video games." - Jennifer Dittrich

"Laurel asked us to listen to the voices of girls - but what the girls are saying and the final result didn't exactly match. The selections she showed during her TED talk appeared to be very different from what girls were asking for - a game that didn't pander to gender stereotypes. However, as Laurel explains in "Notes from a Utopian Entrepreneur," many girls really enjoyed the Rockett... more... - Jennifer Dittrich

I like the main point of the article: separating "girl" and "boy" gamers isn't very helpful. Neither group is monolithic, and both have varied interests. Finding out what both groups want more of will make for better games overall. - Jennifer Dittrich

"There is No One Kind of Girl Gamer" <-- Amen! Or boy gamer for that matter. I thought Beyond Good and Evil (the game pictured here) was pretty well done, though. - Alix Whitmire