This is clearly not my cat. If this was my cat he's have one arm shoved down into the printer trying to tear up all the internal whirling bits with his bare claws.
- Soup
Too Funny! Reminds me of the San Mateo Cat Shelter where one of the cats loves to sleep on top of the laster printer where the paper comes out...
- Greg Lato
1600+ to beat the FFundercats live chat thread. I think with this real time now on all threads we're going to see some truly epic comment numbers.
- Simon Wicks
Ivan, no the picture speaks for itself. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Petr, I have no idea what you mean, but thank you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
@Kol .. :] that, partially, might have been the purpose.... I don't know it exactly either. :] .. was I reflecting on a cat under the fax, and that it is hard to fax that way ... /?:] ... "underfaxing at its worst" ..
- Petr Buben
there ya have me ! :] .... see, to be honest with you, i saw this pic couple days ago, but i let it go, without posting it ..... what does that make me? :]
- Petr Buben
even a flat cat... faxes just can't handle the hair. You'd have to shave the cat first, else the hair will burn and stick to the drum... a mess! (I am extrapolating from transparencies, mind, i don't have access to a cat to test)
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Hehe, Joelle. This is now tied for the 'likes' top stop. One more then, hehe. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Hehe, Greg. Blimey! Erm, is that not far from 500 likes now? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Bloody marvelous, Kol. Wish I could like it again... too cute (and help u to 500 likes).
- Roberto Bonini
I couldn't believe it when I logged on from the morning over posting it and saw it was at something 200 likes! You all have a strange fetish with cats and fax machines, hehe. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Am I the only one who saw this and their first thought was - My goodness did someone break that cats neck? It still freaks me out a little
- Steve C
Steve, it does look a little out of place, but cats are pretty bendy. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
They fax much better if you flatten them first. What?
- Kevin Pedraja
So we can put this post to rest now. :-) 505 likes final count, wow! :-D Good night all!
- Kol Tregaskes
My like is the last one so far :) - 509 afaik
- getalifejerk
did 3 people really un-like this? now at 506. wtf (edit: uh, oh, yeah, me and 2 + 506 others makes 509. dammit, jim, i'm an artist, not a mathematician)
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
One of the best funny cat pictures I've seen! :-)
- John Collis
Kristian, it appears to be. Hehe, John.
- Kol Tregaskes
ای بابا این پیشول بی خیال نمی شود، بابا پاشو برو دنبال یه بازی دیگه ، از هفته پیش تا حالا تو فکس ولو شدی حوصله ات سر نرفته، پاشو اقلا بپر رو کیبوردی چیزی
- Maryaminaa
It's really only social convention which regards it as inappropriate, same with Xeroxing it, like one does with their b__tocks. Wait are we still talking about cats cats here or...
- sofarsoShawn
OMGosh 700+ likes now!! LOL. Thank you all 702 of you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
OBVIOUSLY YOU ARE NOW REAPING THE WHIRLWIND FOR YOUR CILANTRO ADDICTION. THE TOMATOES ARE ROFLing AT YOU. YOU SHOULD EAT SOME RED AND BLUE FOODS TO BALANCE YOUR COLORATION. OR MAYBE JUST RED.
- ha3rvey (needs soup)
LITTLE MAN MAKE DYSP ANGRY WITH STUPID WORDS!!! DYSP SMASH!!!
- Steven Perez
from IM
Liked for the use of the word miasma. <3 13th century medicine...back when people thought piles of cloth would magically transform into rats.
- Christian (Simply X)
I read miasma and think of Oedipus. Clearly not enough caffeine yet.
- Heather
100 FriendFeed Picture Groups & 3 Video Groups [Last updated 9/16/09 2:47 am EDT - most of the room counts are from 8/10/09] - http://friendfeed.com/rooms...
Also, here are ~50 people at FriendFeed with cool pics (remember to check their likes & comments) http://ff.im/Bd3Lhttp://ff.im/BqOL This page was motivated by Thomas Hawk's "What is your most viewed set on Flickr? Mine is my my 10 faves or more set" discussion (5/24/08) http://friendfeed.com/e... I finally made myself a "Picture Rooms" list. :-)
- Mitchell Tsai
The batter has garlic salt, dill, romano cheese, and habernero sauce. The white dipping sauce is: mayo, sour cream, horseradish, lime juice, salt. pepper, cayenne and chives from my yard. The pinkish sauce is: tahini, hummus, mesquite seasoning, lime juice and oregano from my yard. The stuff in the middle is pico de gallo Adrian made last night.
- Admiral Anika
Looks great but, damn, was I disappointed when I saw the picture after reading the words ;D
- Andy Bold
Yum! This makes me want to go to my fave bbq place and get some fried pickles or fried jalapeños.
- Carmen
Andy, that's not what I call them. >.<
- Admiral Anika
OMG, my mouth is watering at the thought of these things. Sour pickle, fried. Found some recipes on line, may be my weekend project. I make my own dill pickles so it will be extra special.
- Janet
Ummm, I'm going to need to make more of these for dinner.
- Admiral Anika
Sounds like another interesting food to try, even though I'm not much of a pickle fan. I'll try almost anything once.
- Kamilah Gill
Good thing they gone, Anika 'cause I was thinking of maybe hopping in the car for a road trip and a fried pickle liberation. I've been known to make the drive in 5 hours ;)
- Maria Niles
it'd definitely going to take me a while to get to a million. I'm publishing about 200 photos to flickr a week right now and at this pace it will take 92 years to get there. I'll get the pace up to 400-500 a week in the future though. Better technology should make processing easier and someday my kids will be grown and I'll be able to quit my day job and focus on this even more. The best photos have yet to be taken.
- Thomas Hawk
When I think about this I realize your best days are ahead of you.
- Russellreno
What's your shot/publish ratio? I mean, on average how many shots do you take to produce those you publish?
- Yuval Atzmon
atzmon, I probably average about 2,000 shots a week that I shoot. And I'm probably processing 300 or so of those a week at present, so I'm probably keeping about 15%. The other 85% never get processed and are kept in my archives. I'm trying only to process and publish the shots that I think meet a certain quality criteria.
- Thomas Hawk
You upload a lot more than I do. I have about 40,000 pictures but only about 2000 uploaded. Mostly because I have not gotten around to processing more. =)
- Jauder Ho
from twhirl
Jauder, the good news is that processing will only get easier in the future. I've watched it get better with each successive Adobe release. Lightroom 2.0 is the best processing tool yet. It's not necessarily faster per se though because with more tools there are yet even more ways to tweak a photo hence even more time. But the tools to speed things up are coming too. auto geotagging, better anti dust tech, faster processing speeds, easier online tools with faster broadband are all around the corner.
- Thomas Hawk
16,000 ?? Yikes. Cool number. Congrats.
- Charlie Anzman
This photo is total awesome. It is made even more awesome by the knowledge that there are 15,999 more photos just as awesome as this one. EDIT: This photo is now my desktop background. :)
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Always loved that quote " The best photos have yet to be taken. - Thomas Hawk"
- johnpiercy
Congrats, I even don't think I took so many photos in my life. :)
- Ferhad Fidan
from fftogo
@thomas: Yahoo should be giving Flickr to you for free. You'd do a great job with it. And it would be historical: the first user-generated (company) acquisition :)))
- Alberto D'Ottavi
from fftogo
I guess the metier of 'photo editor' is kaput...or, at least, greatly altered....
- Chris Gulker
You know they are going to delete your account without warning once you hit 999,999, right? :)
- Ace
Ace, I hope not, I'd be so pissed. Actually I think alot of what gets me so upset about all the content/account deletion issues is that I really do worry that it actually will happen to me. Flickr staff hates me and they'd *love* to delete my account. I worry that I'll wake up one morning and everything will have been nuked. I suppose that's why I'd like to see them enact the ability to...
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- Thomas Hawk
Holyshit! You have taked just couple of photos...
- k00pa
Because this post is from September last year k00pa :)
- Simon Wicks
@Chris Gulker. Someday I hope to work with a photo editor. God knows I need to. I like to think of my Flickrstream today more as the raw material in a lot of ways for future projects. A good photo editor adds tremendous value to shaping a photographer's imagery.
- Thomas Hawk
Lets see. If things don't go well, we can break out the pitchforks :) After all the commmunity is FF's most valuble posssesion.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
Be conscious of your thoughts, of the makeup of your internal dialogue. Know that any thoughts you repeat that are contrary to your divine eternal essence are keeping you from experiencing the joyous and complete life you deserve.
LE: I have followed you on twitter, you are one of the person I don't wanna lose if I leave FF (love your shares and your greader stuff) -- i'm "aliebs" over there
- alieb
I'm happy for the FriendFeed team, they've done so much to build this community for us. Time will tell whether Facebook has acquired some technology or whether the community will follow.
- LogEx
Daily. It's the bonus of living in the US, I think it's required in the constitution even.
- Steve C
why wait, i was just doing that while cutting my grass, :(
- chaz2b
I would try it, but the middle of the country is too far away for a lunch break run. If I try yelling from here, most of the impact would head right out to sea. And after all, this is Los Angeles - I would probably get cited for performing in public without a permit.
- Morgan Haley
Post surgery and with 20-20 hindsight, I'm finding it fascinating to think back over the last many months and look for the clues that I actually had a tumor in my brain (left frontal lobe). Here are some of them:
1. The first thing I noticed was at times I'd use the wrong word for something--in particular nouns. For instance, I'd call a "hat" a "helmet" or the trunk of a car the "back yard." This didn't happen all the time. We figured it was an odd permutation of chemo brain.
- Loren Heiny
2. Short term memory wasn't up to par. Again, this is a common chemo brain problem. If you gave me more than three numbers--like for a phone number--forget it, I'd probably not be able to repeat them. I also had lots of trouble remembering to do things. My iPhone started becoming essential to me. I took pictures, wrote notes, used the calender, set up alarms to remind me of things. This came and went in terms of how significant it was.
- Loren Heiny
3. Concentration was getting shorter and shorter. Some said I was getting older, some said it was courtesy of medications and chemo. As a developer, this was probably the most frustrating issue to me. By the time of surgery, my ability to focus on doing something was probably down to 5 minutes. It was a rapid drop off though. Before that it was just something I noticed as being different than it was.
- Loren Heiny
4. About two weeks before the tumor was discovered, I was really having a lot of trouble answering questions. If someone asked me, "What did you do today?" I could start answering, then it's like I could hear myself in my head mention what I should say next--often just a bunch of filler words that didn't say anything, and then poof whatever I was going to say wouldn't come out. As a result, my answer became more and more "I don't know" or "I can't remember." This is when we knew it was time to call the Drs.
- Loren Heiny
5. I'd picked up an occassional limp (maybe 1 or 2 times a week in the afternoons) in my right leg that came and went. I thought it was a result of my surgery on my right leg--it's quite uncomfortable though getting better. I had a limp early after my right leg was operated on so the return of the limp I figured was just part of the ups and downs of recovering. The limp started a couple weeks before surgery.
- Loren Heiny
6. Occassional headaches. Again these appeared about a week or week and a half before I actually got into see the doctor. They were one of the last new symptoms. They were mild headaches that maybe started in the morning or late afternoon and lasted maybe an hour or so though two days before I got into see the doctor it lasted all day and the next two days there was no headache at all.
- Loren Heiny
7. When I'd wake up in the morning my right ear would feel like it was under pressure--you know that allergy kind of feeling. That's what I thought it was. It wasn't. It was the tumor pushing my brain against my ear.
- Loren Heiny
Anyway, there were some other symptoms, but back to the language issue for a second. Just to illustrate its affects. On the day the medical staff realized I needed an MRI they asked me what was going on, they wanted to know everything I could think of. I gave them first one of my stock answers at the time, which I find curious now because today I never would use it, since it really...
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- Loren Heiny
8. Oh, I forgot: Over the last year or so--particularly at industry events--I realized I wasn't very good at making a point that might require let's say more than a paragraph or too. Let's say in my head I'd plan to make three points about something. I'd start talking and all might be fine for the first couple of points and then I'd realize I have no idea what else I was supposed to...
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- Loren Heiny
Are there any side effects that linger? Our brains are weird things. Good stuff to know and look out for.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
It's much, much better than it was before. I realize now how much better I am, for instance, just by what words I use to describe what happened. Now I can use precise words, before I used general words like "confused." However, when I'm really tired or if I stress myself by trying to do/or react to something real fast, a wrong word might pop out or I might stutter a bit, but other than that it's like night and day. It's simply amazing. It's like my brain is ten years younger :-).
- Loren Heiny
I am also realizing now that I don't do well with filling out forms, no matter how simple they are--especially if it's something that's important and not routine. I think it has to do with the "planning" involved. Not sure. I've had this problem for the last year or so, but now I'm realizing it's still with me. I'm guessing it's because I can't balance in my head all the repercussions...
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- Loren Heiny
"Many experts will say that to fully oxygenate the muscles and clear the body of carbon dioxide you should breathe a 3:2 inhale-to-exhale ratio; full inhales and full exhales. This means you INHALE on the LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT foot strikes and EXHALE fully on the RIGHT, LEFT foot strikes. This pattern is not that hard to turn into a habit, but it may require you to slow your pace down for a few runs to master the technique. You will notice a lower heart rate as you are able to get more oxygen in and more importantly push all the carbon dioxide out of your body. You may notice that you naturally drop to a 2:1 ratio when you are really pushing it to the finish. That is OK. But realize it is difficult to maintain a pace that requires you to breathe at a 2:1 ratio."
- Wang Yip
from Bookmarklet
Question for runners: is this article saying to breathe out on your right foot striking? I've always heard that you should breathe out when your left foot strikes
- Wang Yip
I'm not a runner but I understand it this way: Each inhale+exhale cycle takes 5 steps, 3 for inhale and 2 for exhale. Since it's an odd number the pattern will alternate with exhaling starting on the right for one cycle and on the left for the next.
- Fred Yankowski
Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understands, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to... - http://furryrabbits.tumblr.com/post...
Only 316 out of 1,196 men survived the sinking and shark-infested waters. These men exercised courage towards each other in extreme circumstances. Indianapolis is my home town.
- Melanie Reed
from Bookmarklet
"Scientists from Scotland and Singapore have unraveled a mystery that has perplexed scientists since red wine was first discovered to have health benefits: how does resveratrol control inflammation? New research published in the August 2009 print issue of The FASEB Journal, not only explains resveratrol's one-two punch on inflammation, but also show how it—or a derivative—can be used to treat potentially deadly inflammatory disease, such as appendicitis, peritonitis, and systemic sepsis."
- Tudor Bosman
from Bookmarklet
"It's an excellent lightweight program, handles just about every kind of disc-related task imaginable, and it's totally free. Version 2.5 boasts a big list of additions, changes, and bugfixes, though the core functionality remains the same. It still burns discs and creates images as well as any program out there (if not better). ImgBurn can also run as a portable app, perfect for carrying on your USB flash drive for burning on the go."
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
Windows 7: The Best Vista Service Pack Ever While I haven't been unhappy with Windows Vista, it had a lot of rough edges: This is why the screenshot of the Windows 7 Calculator, although seemingly trivial, is so exciting to me. It's evidence that Microsoft is going to pay attention to the visible parts of the operating system this time around. I'm a fan of Vista, despite all the nerd rage on the topic, but I'll be the first to admit that Vista had all the polish of a particularly dull rock. Let's just say the overall user experience was.. uninspiring. This led many people to shrug, sigh "why bother?", and stick with crusty old XP. Vista was like a solid B student who shows up at your doorstep reeking of body odor and dressed in shabby clothing from the local thrift shop. There's something decent at the core, but it's a real challenge to get past the obvious surface deficiencies. Thus, I've been following the development of Windows 7 with cautious optimism. It's important to me not...
- Bwana ☠
Daym - I have been trying for 2 weeks to get my wife to make some measly Choco chip cookies and you have to come around with these bad boys - Not fair.
- Brent Smorgen Bleg
I've never had the pleasure of eating a snickerdoodle. I'd never even heard of them until last year! I bet they're good, though. They LOOK good. *nom nom nommy nom!*
- Kelly
"The Michael Jackson memorial is over, but the debate over the estimated bill to the city of nearly $4 million continues to rage. Newly elected Los Angeles City Atty. Carmen Trutanich told the City Council he was investigating how the city ended up on the hook for police costs surrounding the memorial. He assured the council that his new management team was going to find out how the city got into the position of providing support for the event and how it could recoup some of the money. His staff also is researching legislation “so we won’t be caught in this lurch again,” he said. City sources had estimated the cost of policing and other city services at $3.8 million, though officials are still tabulating the final costs. Far fewer fans than expected converged on downtown Los Angeles for the memorial than expected, and the LAPD decided to let about 1,000 officers go home early."
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
Can you believe how stupid I am - I capitalize 'God' out of some subliminal need to show respect. then I follow it with 'dammit', when combined with 'God' only breaks what? the first commandment and pretty much gets me moved to the front of the line to hell. It's too late to take it back now....but shit, what a dumbfuck I am....except when it comes to who should pay for the MJ thing. Take some of the 20% he wants given to charity and pay the fucking city that hosted your Molesta-palooza Service!
- Morgan Haley
personally I think that they just should have put a charge on the tickets and let those who attended the memorial service foot the bill. If the family then felt that it was important that the event be free then they could have agreed to pick up the charge. If they wanted to invite 9,000 of their closest friends and family then they should pay for the cost of putting together the public safety portions of the event. Just my two cents.
- Thomas Hawk