I miss the old days. Back then, if you saw a girl you liked, you just grabbed her and carried her back to the cave. Good times. Good times
- ha3rvey (business time)
See that, even when I go the ignore route I end up with the laughs.
- Joe Pierce
That actually works for some people. It's called "playing hard to get". Generally speaking, humans usually want what they can't have more than what they can easily get. But you need to know when to stop that and let yourself be "caught", or you run the risk of the other person thinking it's futile and moving on to the next "unobtainable" thing.
- April Russo (app103)
Not sure I agree. Playing hard to get seems like ways people cover up their insecurities. I also prefer quality - and if choosing quality makes it seem like I am chasing unobtainable, than so be it. ;)
- Mona Nomura
Playing hard to get is an art, and not something that should always be used. When used most effectively, it's more of a backing off and not smothering someone with too much attention, till they show they want it. It also diminishes the appearance of being needy and clingy, 2 things that a lot of people find to be a complete turn-off.
- April Russo (app103)
While it is sad, I think this is most definitely true.
- Martha
I think April is 100% correct. Courtship is a bit of a dance and the art comes into play between the fine line between playing it cool and leaving a woman feeling like she's being rejected.
- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
Maybe it's the guys I choose to date, but most have a lot of things going on...so essentially they play it cool unintentionally but mind just enough attention. People who analyze courtship and treat is as a game usually end up EFing up or landing the kind of partner who likes games. Worst kind of person to be in a relationship with - I know, I've been there and done that. ;)
- Mona Nomura
This is totally wrong... you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women...
- Johnny Worthington
...then when you get the power, you get the high social status, then you get the women. High-status men are better able to provision offspring.
- Christopher A Carr
It's good to know I'm not an idiot. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Oh, so that was the master plan? 1. Declare friendfeed dead 2. Idiots leave. 3. Enjoy the good stuff without them around any more.
- April Russo (app103)
April, that's not a bad plan actually. Finally Robert's master plan is becoming clear ;)
- Glenn Slaven
April: bbbbwwwwaaaahhhhhhhaaaaahhhhhhaaaaaaa. Said while rubbing hands together in evil fashion.
- Robert Scoble
Keith: I never left. I've been here almost every day since July. I have reduced the number of hours I spend here from about 10 to 10 minutes, though. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Just JOkkkkkking, you know I <3 you LG =;o)
- sofarsoShawn
I'M BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111eleven
- Jim Norris
great to see you back here at friendfeed.. it's still rocking in it's own way.. welcome back and great new year
- Jaap Willem
I've found even if they're not idiots there are some times people that are just so negative or draining you have to block them, at least for a short period. I wish there was a way to do that which wasn't offensive.
- Jesse Stay
Hey Jessie - was hangin' with Damon today and your name came up. Damon ROCKS MY SOCKS.
- Mona Nomura
@jessethey should get indeed like a mute button for 30 days or something??
- Jaap Willem
from IM
Nice to see you still here, Robert. Hope the wife and kids are well.
- Martha
So I've decided that my weird end of the world sci-fi idea I wrote as a screenplay in Apocalyptic films class isn't going to work as a movie. Instead I think I'm going to take the idea and turn it into a series of books that I'll try and publish on LuLu or wherever. The question is: do I have an audience with this?
Good suggestion, Johnny! WorldofHiglet has been serializing her novel "Turning Left at Albuquerque" as a podcast so she'd be a good person to ask for advice.
- Spidra Webster
Sure, I'll give it a try. Re: podcasts, it's not for everyone, in fact it's a pretty divergent market/readership. You know what I mean? They don't really overlap. So both could work, if you wanted it to. Me personally, I like the series-of-blog-posts serialized writing, as podcasts take more work to produce. At least, that's my experience, and it's hard to "grep" or quickly browse, a...
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- anna sauce
Hrm. I should check out "Turning Left.." to see what you mean. It just dawned on me that my experience in audio books or radio serial podcasts is rather limited.
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
Zelda games can be so inconsistent that way. The game is best when it is difficult to figure out what to do, but pretty easy to do once you hae it figured out.
- s t e v e
I agree, Steve. I'm fighting a boss right now, & while I know what I need to do to defeat him, the game doesn't want to let me do that with any kind of ease whatsoever.
- josh neff, geek at large
"In research involving 50,000 men over 20 years, scientists led by Kathryn Wilson at Harvard’s Channing Laboratory found that the 5 percent of men who drank 6 or more cups a day had a 60 percent lower risk of developing the advanced form of the disease than those who didn’t consume any. The risk was about 20 percent lower for the men who drank 1 to 3 cups a day, and 25 percent lower for those consuming 4 or 5 cups."
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
"In a heartier take on eggs on toast, swap bread for heftier taters for a more substantial breakfast -- with the crunch and creamy interior of fresh potato pancakes topped with the protein-packed runny egg yolk, you may never want to return to a bread-and-butter base."
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
thank you so much, mwm and everybody. you are all so sweet. it was a nice thing to see today. :)
- edythe
aww, thanks, russell -- and lisa, too! :)
- edythe
It's Edythe's birthday, and none of you told me about it until now?!?!?!? I AM VERY DISAPPOINTED WITH ALL OF YOU FRIENDFEEDERS.
- ha3rvey (business time)
Sans Serfs! ... Yes, I know. Bad pun.
- Arlan Koizumi
Steve, I didn't take the picture. I wish I had that kind of an eye. I just saw it on Google images and it reminded me of the Family Guy quote.
- Joe Pierce
Movable Type is no threat to the old order, since you have to do a full site rebuild every time you publish. Oh ... wait. The other kind of movable type. My bad.
- Chris Baskind
I took one last year that I thought was more similar that it really is: http://www.flickr.com/photos... Mine has the type already off the stick and tied up.
- s t e v e
I love letterpress. I should take that class. Hmmm.
- Derrick
"Perhaps one of the most interesting lessons from this whole experience, for me, was how profoundly we have all internalized the idea that we must be able to travel how and when we want to."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
I, as a free man, in a free country, demand the right to travel wherever and whenever I please. You 'orrible lot there, yes you, the unwashed crowds, are getting in my way.
- Ian May
I used to travel 2x every week for about 5 years, and it frustrated me how low the prices were and how easy business saw it to send someone across the country for, literally, a powerpoint presentation once. Conversation: me: "why can't I view that from SF?" them:"Because we are getting everyone together to see it." Me: "why fly to boston for 1 meeting that can be emailed?" (no answer,...
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- anna sauce
No, no, wait. OK, one client wanted me to fly to Seattle by 9am so I could, yes, get on a phone call with LA. "Why can't I just dial in from SF?" Them: "We want to see your facial expressions while you're on the speakerphone." ??? It was in all seriousness.
- anna sauce
If I wasn't living on an island, I might be inclined to drive rather than fly, mainly because I had a good experience on my road trip vacation. However, the recent times I've flown wasn't all that bad. I'm a good sheep doing the routine and easily get to my gate as a result. I was never told to put away a paperback book as I waited for takeoff and other times, I just take a wee nap. While all the rules nowadays suck, compared to flying in the 80's and early 90's, it's not a big deal.
- Arlan Koizumi
I can't read during take-off- motion sickness. I just do some half-assed meditation.
- anna sauce
Bin Laden can't down a plane but he can bring down an entire industry #irony
- WarLord
I seldom fly because I seldom travel anywhere that requires flying. Anywhere that I can drive to in a day, I do so. Obviously when I go to the UK or Europe from here, I have to fly, but I can't say I relish or particularly enjoy the experience, but I never have, current restrictions or otherwise. I don't like the airport, herding around, lining up, waiting, and then sitting for hours on...
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- Ian May
I love flying, but I hate all the TSA regulations since the Patriot Act here in the US. I'm sorry, but taking my shoes off to go through the scanner does not make air travel any safer. It just annoys me and slows down the whole process.
- Sally: ice cube
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)
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)
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
The reason we’re so resistant to anomalous information — the real reason researchers automatically assume that every unexpected result is a stupid mistake — is rooted in the way the human brain works. Over the past few decades, psychologists have dismantled the myth of objectivity. The fact is, we carefully edit our reality, searching for evidence that confirms what we already believe. Although we pretend we’re empiricists — our views dictated by nothing but the facts — we’re actually blinkered, especially when it comes to information that contradicts our theories. The problem with science, then, isn’t that most experiments fail — it’s that most failures are ignored. [...] not all data is created equal in our mind’s eye: When it comes to interpreting our experiments, we see what we want to see and disregard the rest. [...] Belief, in other words, is a kind of blindness.
- Meryn Stol
People who are overweight rely on a series of behaviors that fit within a spectrum of behaviors that contribute to being overweight. There is no cure-all and there certainly is less likely to be a solution to ones individual weight problem if they've chosen to contract out the growing and preparation of the food they eat every day of their lives. Folks need to establish a provenance for their food and a more participatory and ceremonial approach to eating. Families need to sacrifice other activities in favor of reestablishing an atmosphere that gives attention to reverence and respect for food instead of a quick reward. A big part of that is the willingness to avoid hedonic lingering in and out of the pantry while sitting around reading, watching TV, or claiming to be bored around the house.
- Christopher Harley
I find it interesting that back 30 or 40 years ago, just the right amount a scarcity insured that we were a fitter, albeit slightly more hungry, society. When faced with abundance, and that pretty much means an abundance of hollow food, we've become slower and fatter, having forgotten what to eat and why.
- Christopher Harley
As a child, I lived in a household with two other generations, my parents and my paternal grandparents. We ate breakfast and dinner together every day and no one ever got up in the middle of the evening and waltzed into the kitchen foraging for food. Another interesting fact is that there was nothing to go out and eat after say 9:00pm. The landscape wasn't littered with neon signs...
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- Christopher Harley
The reasons for why we are fat and why we can't seem to get out of the cycle of being fat stem from too many factors outside of food yet we drag food into the complexities that define our stressors. It is an addiction, but more likely it is a plea for anodyne. Food is the closest relief from whatever was happening 5 minutes ago. And for many that can mean elation or depression equally.
- Christopher Harley
There's a good NY Times book review today on rewiring our brains for fast-food overload (http://ff.im/4lsKD) that addresses the why and how of food engineering.
- Jennifer Dittrich
How timely! And herein lies the rub; "But this book is less an exposé about the food industry and more an exploration of us. “My real goal is, How do you explain to people what’s going on with them?” Dr. Kessler said. “Nobody has ever explained to people how their brains have been captured.”
- Christopher Harley
THe commercials on TV are also completely out of this world.
- anna sauce
Yes, Anna. Because they don't aspire to feed us they aspire to sell us food widgets.
- Christopher Harley
During the summers of 2006 and 2007 I worked a booth at one of Portland's Farmers Markets. http://www.portlandfarmersmarket.org/ The farm I sold for wasn't organic but instead, it adhered to a philosophy of sustainable agriculture, keeping in mind the triple bottom line and beginning with a reverence for food and the culture that surrounds it. We worked hard, everyone from the pickers...
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- Christopher Harley
Hi Christopher, just want to say keep up the good work, and I wholeheartedly agree.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Awesome! Thanks, Jason. I got no funny when it comes to food.
- Christopher Harley
Here's the Santa Anita horse race track captured with the Oly OM-1 on 35mm film. For once, the Kodak Gold 200 seemed to be in it's element and earned it's keep, capturing the gloom and grit of an overcast day at the races.
- Adrian
I didn't really try to capture any actual horse racing, as I only have a 50mm lens, and no high speed film, just the people and general atmosphere.
- Adrian
Once again, following my recent mantra, very little to no digital post-processing was done to these. The color, contrast and texture seen here are inherent in the film stock and merely ushered by the in-camera exposure settings. In case you can't tell, I fucking love film!
- Adrian
Tune in tomorrow, when I try and look even more horrific.
- Steven Perez
i should take a camera phone shot of myself just after i take off my CPAP mask in the morning. i look like a fscking corpse, and not a fresh one.
- Joe Silence
I think I just won the Embarrassing Photo Meme. Forever. :D
- Steven Perez
Keiko, I tend to drink beer with mine, depending on time of day.
- Admiral Anika
I wish there was a good ramen-ya nearby because now, I'm craving ramen.
- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
@Mark Davidson>and natto?? wowwww.....wonderful! are you Japanese?? :)))) because, some of Japanese people (especially Kansai area) could't eat natto.....
- Keiko Yamada
@ Admiral Anika >I see...me too! beer is the best! :)
- Keiko Yamada
@Mark Davidson>So, I'll deliver for you from Tokio !! :))
- Keiko Yamada
I bought some frozen natto; not sure what to do with it, since I can't read the package! I may try making okonomiyaki; my Taekwondo Master's wife grew up in Japan and is a good cook; she told me I can buy the sauce I found so intimidating.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Mage, I've never seen frozen natto, but I'm sure you can prep it like what my husband and kid eat. They have finely chopped green onions, spicy mustard, ponzu, a quail egg and I think soy sauce. Mix that all up into the natto and eat it. If you get some yakinori, you can make a handroll and lay the natto on bean sprouts.
- Admiral Anika
Ohayou-gozaimasu. Hajimemashite? Oai-deki-te ureshii-desu. My Japanese is still very poor. I am thankful for such good teachers as you. ^_^
- Ken & Kiyomi
good, maybe you can explain the elements pf sentence too, like what does yoroshiku mean? or how do you compare these two phrases , etc. :)
- Mahmood Padura
Piacere di conoscerti. Un saluto dalla Sardegna
- Isola Virtuale
and I was surprised that a HELLO FEED has much attention!
- Amin Diary
from IM
بابا بیخیال خانم، خوشحال شدم از این تبادل فرهنگی! در ضمن کامنت بعد رو داشته باش:
- Amin Diary
from IM
?? no, I can't understand.....what does it means?
- Keiko Yamada
I am an Iranian .... o, I am not a terrorist nor a wife beater, I don't live in a tent in a desert and camels are not our way of transportation. I speak Farsi, not Arabic. Iran is pronounced "EERAUN" and not "I - ran" (it's not track & field) Iran is the first country on earth to have a lion (male) and a sun (female) for its symbol; and the colors red, white, and green for a flag. A beautiful country ran by the wrong people, but still the best part of Middle East
- Amin Diary
Actually, as far as I can tell, Like in FB does do something: it's basically an empty comment, so you get notified of new comments that occur after you Like it.
- Glen Campbell, esq.
@Glen: it's true but what bothers me most is that unlike friendfeed, fb delivers a separate mail for every person that comments on that post. #lame
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
I would just like to go on record here and clearly state that, were I able to do what this lion is doing, I WOULD NOT! NO! NEVER! EVER! Thank you.
- Mark "Godt Nyt Ǻr"
Mark, not even if they were dipped in chocolate?
- Adrian
Yau'll are some sick _ucks. Let the King have a private moment for God's sake. Shame on you people. Can't yau'll see he's welcomed by his peeps in the jungle. He went down south for a royal visit :)
- Jeunelle Foster