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i got a request to bring back the movie haiku database. Sounds like a perfect RoR exercise!
I'm at Cigar Bar & Grill (850 Montgomery St, at Pacific, San Francisco). http://playfoursquare.com/venue...
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I'm shocked.
Baard Overgaard Hansen, John, Michael McKean and 10 other people liked this
LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU!
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
I felt pretty foolish doing this in a cafe, but hey. That's the internet. Makes you feel dorkier than you are (really)
- anna
If you're done with what you've been procrastinating doing for about a month, do you become less productive, or do you find something/someone else to avoid, to maintain productivity? Or am I overthinking this...
the assumption here is that you are most productive with everything else in your life when you're avoiding that one task.
- anna
Globe Bicycles - Specialized - http://www.globebikes.com/us...
Baard Overgaard Hansen and Mathew A. Koeneker liked this
YUMMY
- anna
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hey they have a new twitter account too at @globebikes
- anna
follow specialized's @globebikes :) yay! So glad they're on now. The bikes look sweet, too http://www.globebikes.com/us...
Swedish auntie got me into keffir, granola & banana for b'fast. Not bad.
Rodfather, Alix Whitmire ☂, Penguin ♉ and 4 other people liked this
keffir ummm:):)
- Özge Lillith Çevik
My husband's been on a keffir kick. I still can't drink the stuff.
- Anika Malone
healthy. You will live long :)
- Baard Overgaard Hansen
+1 Baard:)
- Özge Lillith Çevik
I don't drink it, I use it as a yoghurt substitute. The tang is great. Or, milk substitute in cereal, etc. I now think our American yoghurt is hella sweet and cloying.
- anna
There's something interesting about the Scandinavian diet- lots of Omega 3's. You feel full, but you didn't eat much, and the tastes are more clear and bitter, tangy, than sweet and creamy (like French/American). I'm exploring all of hte fish options- herring, pickled, smoked salmon, fish paste, anchovies, etc.
- anna
She also served fresh currants with the keffir, which is interesting to me because it's so bright and tart. The rye caraway bread with goat cheese, or, Greek chese, and smoked salmon is great. The bread with fish paste or pate in the morning was also a really satisfying breakfast.
- anna
I ate that rye bread w/ smoked salmon for lunch for a week and was totally satisfied.
- anna
That is right, Anna. You feel satisfied after eating a Scandinavian meal, but not like you want to lie down and sleep (as after eating a meal here in Germany)
- Baard Overgaard Hansen
I eat salmon with rye bread every day at work :)
- Baard Overgaard Hansen
I'm not surprised... so I'm making my own rye bread Baard, top that!
- anna
I can't top that, Anna. I am impressed :)
- Baard Overgaard Hansen
I was really impressed with how slim everyone was in Stockholm, and how well they ate, despite huge portions at restaurants (though what's hte % of people who eat out, compared to US?) and also that Swedes tend to be shorter than other EU/US countries
- anna
Also how everyone was exercising all the time- SF is actually like that, people out jogging and walking all day, all hours
- anna
There's this US stereotype of Swedes that the're tall...
- anna
I have heard lots of people say the same thing. My wife used to say that she has never seen so many thin people as when she lived in Norway. Here in Germany they are, how should I put it, fatter :)
- Baard Overgaard Hansen
All Swedes are also blond :)
- Baard Overgaard Hansen
And love sex! With random non-Swedes!
- anna
Yeah German food is an interesting, uh, thing. Sausage and biscuit for breakfast. The beer makes us appreciate the culinary culture. It's almost protecting the whole nation from criticism.
- anna
Baard have you ever seen this movie, the Commune? "commun" in Swedish I think.
- anna
@anna - I'd always heard from my great grandmother that one of the reasons the Swedes in the US were so tall is that they were too tall to work in the mines, which meant they'd have to be in the army... which didn't sound as much fun as moving to the US :)
- Jennifer Dittrich
@anna, No, I don't think so. Do you mean the movie where they moved to live together in the 1970's?
- Baard Overgaard Hansen
@anna, that is true about German food. Exactly my thoughts on it. Beer saves the meal :)
- Baard Overgaard Hansen
@Baard - yes! It came out in 2000s but is about some kids who grow up in a commune in a track house in suburbia. There's a gay-female couple, and a straight couple with 2 kids. Maybe the straight couple moves in with them?
- anna
@Jennifer something about the US makes every immigrant's kids grow a foot. Hormones in the beef? No idea.
- anna
@anna I think maybe you mean "Tillsammans" / "Together". Great movie. :)
- Baard Overgaard Hansen
http://www.imdb.com/title... This is the movie :)
- Baard Overgaard Hansen
all Americans holding stereotypes about Swedes shall be sent to Finland for changing them to Finnish one's :)
- A.T.
Where they have to run 3 miles every day and eat luftefisk and aquavit, with currants.
- anna
oh, yeah, lutefisk! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... A misconception is that lutefisk is most popular in Norway. In fact, lutefisk is today more commonly eaten by Norwegian Americans and Canadians of Norwegian descent than by their counterparts in Norway.
- A.T.
That reminds me of how I wore my clogs out of the house and my auntie was all freaked out. Turns out American Swedish women in their 30s wear clogs. nobody else, really. (outside, it's a inside house thing, or gardening thing, I guess).
- anna
I can't believe how many weird Swedish anecdotes I've gotten out of a 3-day visit. must go back.
- anna
Masumoto Family Farm - Organic and Sustainable - http://www.masumoto.com/organic...
Alex Scoble liked this
"Farmers also enlist science to create a legion of new weapons against the weeds. They spray preemergent herbicides, killing latent seed pods before they germinate. Others use contact or systemic killers, burning the delicate early growth of weeds and injecting the plants with toxins that reach down to the roots. As spring weeds flourish between rows, a strip of barren earth beneath each vine or tree magically materializes from a spray applied a month or two before. At times I wonder what else is killed in order to secure an area. A weed might be defined as any undesirable plant. On my farm, I used to call anything that wasn't a peach tree or vine a weed. I too considered a field "clean" if it contained nothing but dirt, barren of anything green except what I had planted. All of my neighbors did likewise. We'd compete to see whose field would be the "cleanest". But our fields weren't clean. They were sterile."
- anna
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I'm at Emeryville Public Market (5959 Shellmound St, Emeryville). http://playfoursquare.com/venue...
सत्याग्रह {Bren} liked this
We're actually on the same side of the bay!
- Baroness Von Cut-A-Bitch‽
Yay!
- anna
my 8$ Wazwan meal will last for 2 meals, yay.
- anna
I don't know what Wazwan is!
- Baroness Von Cut-A-Bitch‽
It's the Pakistani food stall in public market!
- anna
Mmmm! Maybe I'll have to wander down there this week. Ooohh, weekday movie!!
- Baroness Von Cut-A-Bitch‽
is it... I am also at same place... where were you..?
- Ashok G
Ashok is embellishing a bit. He went for Middle Eastern today.
- anna
I can never pass up the Gyros from the place across from Wazwan, or maybe a big bowl of ramen from the noodle place. <-- Lives in E-Ville.
- Tony Del Porto
Tony! A local! Excellent. Also I am a real Ruby's addict on Hollis. But I enjoy the "stairmaster" tower walk across the railroad.
- anna
I tried Aquarius over the weekend. The burger was good, but the service was slllllooooowwww. Also tried Rotten City Pizza recently and were somewhat underwhelmed. We live on the other side of Powell, so we take the scary underpass bridge. How odd to meet another resident of a 2 square mile city on a random social networking site!
- Tony Del Porto
Yay! Tony is engaging people in conversation -- my evil plot has succeeded.
- सत्याग्रह {Bren}
I liked Aquarius but man, the acoustics suck with all of that tile. And yeah the service is a little disjointed. I'm a worker bee- over there for the noonday rush!
- anna
Tony did you read the Sf-Chronicle's article on Emeryville?
- anna
Anna - I did read it - the gate is one of my "read daily" links, though as of late it has been more and more a real-estate journal and less of a news site. Re the article, it covers a lot of ground and touches on the general struggle between being a walkable city and a giant mall. There's always conflict between the pro-development city council and concerned citizens, which is pretty fun. See the local muckracker blog: http://e-villenews.blogspot.com/
- Tony Del Porto
Do you know the whole shellmound fiasco too?
- anna
I love the public market, miss living near by there. Sucker for food courts, especially gourmet ones. What's the fiasco, the horrible traffic flow?
- Stephen Mack
I really like the Caribbean place at that food market...homemade ginger beer!
- Carl Haynes
Yes re shellmound/Bay Street. The mound of dirt on the other side of the creek from Old Navy is rumored to be the remains... Trying to get the developers to consider the living is difficult; the dead even more so.
- Tony Del Porto
Yeah my sister is like- they found old native american shells while digging, which put the project back a few years, and finally the developers dedicated the street and the mound to the native Americans
- anna
Photos from Tillsammans - http://www.imdb.com/media...
edythe liked this
such a great movie.
- anna
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credit to baard, I remembered the name as "commune" when it's actually "together"
- anna
Random fact: my Sports Basement visit on Sunday resulted in no standing tire pump. Why? They sold 30 of them in 1 day. I attribute this to record heat in SF and a warning that the next week would be "safe the air" days, meaning, everyone bikes to work. Still, seems odd.
Alex Scoble, Sue Radd and Anika Malone liked this
I have 3 FF'ers in my "smartypants" list that I will share with you: (please add your own)
Penguin ♉, Michael McKean, Rodfather and 2 other people liked this
Kate Foy, fascinating, always doing neat stuff/posting neat stuff: http://friendfeed.com/dramagi...
- anna
2 more 2 more 2 more... crosses fingers.
- Louis Gray
Aneeekah (my spelling) also writing/commenting on interesting things - to me, more in line with my particular interests... http://friendfeed.com/fabooma...
- anna
MG Siegler ... first went on my radar because of an earthquake that we both posted/commented on, and live nearby in SF... but have never met (so SF too). Funny and sparse, for being a jouranlist & social media person. Anyways, I appreciate the brevity & wit http://friendfeed.com/parisle...
- anna
Very funny Louis. You know I stalk you regularly on the social sites. DIdn't want to call out that nasty habit again.
- anna
You know what's weird? the list is completely different on Facebook, and Twitter.
- anna
Ha. I didn't mean me, Anna. I would have remembered that referral. :)
- Louis Gray
Smartypants is a compliment right ;) My friend Bryan just joined friendfeed and he's pretty much awesome. He's the Vice President of my business school, involved with the finance club (he worked in microfinance!) and got his degree in "IT and the Arts". http://www.friendfeed.com/bryanz.
- Frankie Warren
at ruby on rails railsbridge, devchix thinger. very fun. Restful auth! watch my progress http://suggestoramabanane.heroku.com/
Loïc Guitaut and Thierry R. Andriamirado liked this
Jesus Is A Shitty Scientist T-Shirt - Headline Shirts - Funny t-shirts, graphic tees, and political tshirts - http://www.headlineshirts.net/jesus-s...
Dave - SustainedEuphoria, Case, Will Higgins™ and 10 other people liked this
I like t-shirts that could potentially get you in a fist fight in ... certain areas of the US
- anna
Fistfights! It's the "Xian" way...
- angrykeyboarder™ (Scott)
Who Would Jesus Punch Out?
- Dead Silence
WWJPO?
- anna
Hrmm... not touching that one. (Looks for lightning bolt...)
- Danny Minick
I didn't know he was a Scientologist.
- Will Higgins™
Poor Mojo's Newswire: Sarah Palin profiled, gutted - http://www.facebook.com/ext...
"McCain's people are done being nice about Palin it seems. This Vanity Fair article is full of long knives and bitchy asides and seems to be well-earned. Below is a small excerpt. But the whole thing is worthwhile, especially as she is currently the front runner for the 2012 Republican seat."
- anna
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mine: Monique realized she'd left her cream rinse in again. Her hair was sticky and rank, and as she teased her colleague, national specialist in animal husbandry (he had perfected the much discussed artificial mating hybrids of the walrus and elephant), she suddenly grew tired of the badinage and wanted to climb under her natural science director's desk, claiming sickness, maybe invisibility, or simply becoming a science martyr, essentially. It was a bad hair day.
- anna
no takers??!!??
- anna
I would enjoy using the phrase "mating with a walrus" in regular rotation
- Baroness Von Cut-A-Bitch‽
Surrounded by bodyguards French Minister for Cooperation and ... - Yahoo! News Photos - http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos...
Lars Clausen liked this
"Surrounded by doctors, the only survivor of the Yemenia Airbus 310 jet crash, 14-year-old Bahia Bakari, is seen in a hospital bed, through the window of the room where she is being cared for at the El Maaruf Hospital in Moroni, Comoros, Wednesday, July, 1, 2009. The Yemenia Airbus 310 jet was carrying 153 people to the island nation of Comoros when it crashed into the sea early Tuesday as it attempted to land in the dark amid"
- anna
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Wow, my first post to ruby on rails mailing list and I got hit on. NICE. (not)
Thierry R. Andriamirado, Ahsan Ali, Josh Haley and 10 other people liked this
Are those space pants? Cuz, yo booty is out of this world.
- Geoff Schultz
what was my super sexy post about? Um, getting lawyers to rewrite your contracts to include protection for certain toolkits.
- anna
Wow, that sounds HOT.
- Martin Bryant
via iPhone
It's amazing what a simply Swedish name will do for the online dating mojo. This man knows me... how??? lol
- anna
anna, not to worry, the getting hit on won't scale :P
- Micah Wittman
cute little inside joke there MIcah. I'm so new to RoR that I can't realy shoot one back atcha.
- anna
That brings a whole new dimension to trolling for dates. Sorry to hear that.
- Tony Del Porto
They're dealing with so many issues re: the gender ratio... I wonder why...
- anna
I'm getting warm just listening to all this saucy legal mumbo-jumbo. :D
- Steven Perez
:) Micah
- Ahsan Ali
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