Yeah, sorry I couldn't respond to that one before. :-)
- Kevin Fox
well i be darned .... we now can rejoice, since fast paced additions to already good product are surely fastly coming about off the feedpipe ... it'l be a hectic season of finest upgrades ... I'm sure they'l start with keyboard shortcutze. ... I mean Google Reader rules on that. Intelligent to the extreme. ..Google.com, on the other hand - are we sleeping? .. not even "/" ??.. and that...
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- pb:
Congrats Ben! Totally agree with Jason. Our latest project wouldn't have become feasible without Ben -- I'm just so glad we managed to get a fraction of his time before he left! :)
- Simon
Congratulations, Ben! You're joining an awesome team.
- Anne Bouey
Congrats, you are now a "big company"! ;))))
- K.D.
That's not my picture! They got the picture wrong! In fact, I didn't get the letter of hire either. :( Oh, Hi there, Ben...if that's your real name. ;)
- Josh Haley
Good luck Ben! With you our preferred service will go more interesting
- Roberto
from fftogo
I think there were a bunch of spam comments made to some 2009-era posts by FF employees. For some reason even after the spam is nuked, the post stays bumped.
- Stephen Mack
Yes, I blocked a spammer that was bumping old posts about FF themes and what not.
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
Well, let's see this as an opportunity to raise a virtual glass to Ben and FriendFeed-that-was!
- Kevin Fox
It probably had something to do with the Tornado 2.2 release. I noticed Ben was the one who posted about the release on HN earlier. Edit: Or it could have just been a spammer. *shrugs*
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
I don't think it had anything to do with the tornado release - a spammer bumped a bunch of Bret's old posts today.
- Ben Darnell
You can now get a daily or weekly email digest for anybody's feed on FriendFeed. You'll get a daily or weekly email with the most popular posts from that person's feed. To get the email, click the "Email/IM" link at the top of anyone's feed, and select the "Best of day" or "Best of week" email option.
Thanks to Kevin for doing a great design for what turned out to be a more complex set of UI options than we had originally anticipated, and thanks to Tudor for implementing the email backend.
- Bret Taylor
I now get the FriendFeed Feedback posts as a Best of Day email so it doesn't fill up my feed, but I don't miss feedback. I also set up a "Best of Day" email for my "Technology people" friend list so I get a pretty good overview of tech news every day via email.
- Bret Taylor
This is a really cool idea Bret, I wish you can make that an RSS feed option as well. I'd be much more likely to read summaries in RSS than in email.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Casey: Thanks for the tip. What's the 7 before the "?" mean in the URL? The number of likes or replies needed to be included?
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
this is killer, the random influx of email during the day was kinda getting fail-ish. I love the daily digest.
- Drew Lucas
Very cool! Any way to get archives of previous months? (especially helpful for those of us who leave the internet for weeks at a time...)
- Mitchell Tsai
Just curious - at what time of the day will we get these emails ? Midnight US-Time, or will it respect our timezones ?
- Ahsan Ali
Ahsan: it is somewhat random right now when the emails are sent, but we built in the backend capability to control what time they are sent, and we plan on exposing that control to users in the future. Right now, it is kind of random - sorry!
- Bret Taylor
But what exactly is "Best"? Is it anything that has a certain number of likes/comments?
- Laura Norvig
@Bret LOL THAT WAS MY PROJECT! I will release it tomorrow. But you've also did it and killed my friendfeed application **sigh** But mine has multi-reporting weekly-daily-monthly at the same time and adjustable entry count!
- Alp
@Bret please consolidate me or I won't code new apps with you api! :-)
- Alp
Alp: we were not trying to withhold data. Later today the documentation will be updated to reflect the ability to obtain "Best of" for users. The feed id will be USERNAME/summary/N (similar to "Best of" for lists)
- Benjamin Golub
Hi Ben, that is pretty funny, I tried that URL earlier today to see if it has been secretly released :)
- Paul Kinlan
Bret: While Twitter struggle to keep their fail whale under control, you guys are developing stuff like this. Amazing - Thanks!
- Jim Connolly
awesome feature, this will be highly useful for my corporate group ideas / content sharing; projects, etc.... THANK YOU :)
- Susan Beebe
Great work. I especially like that it works on lists too.
- Meryn Stol
my inbox might say different, but I like that :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Wow, this is really neat! And it links into the idea I expressed earlier, re: reducing signup friction / enabling limited guest privileges. Imagine if I could embed one of my FF rooms on my personal web site, and enable people to subscribe to that feed by e-mail with just a couple of clicks... rather than saying "you can get e-mail notifications but you have to sign up for Friendfeed first." "sign up" -- though admirably lightweight on FF -- is still a huge barrier.
- Adam Lasnik
is there a love button cause I dont like this option I LOVE this option..great work guys
- (jeff)isageek
Three options I would like (1) Can I select "top 100" instead of "top 30"? (2) Could I select both "best of day" and "best of week"? (3) How about older timeperiods? I'd love to get an e-mail with stuff from last week or Mar 2009? Start & end dates? Anything to help me read FriendFeed off-line would be great since I spend long periods off-line at festivals (especially during summer time) or overseas. - Awesome job guys!
- Mitchell Tsai
So this works on groups too, cool! But we still cannot see Best of for groups on the site on friends lists. :-( I have several friends lists that include just groups and when I select to view the best of the page it's empty (even though if I got to the individual best of for those groups there are entries there).
- Kol Tregaskes
does anyone know of a web service that can do this? (I'm thinking weekly email updates of my favorite feeds/people) I don't think there's anything like friendfeed ..
- Friendfeed's Francisco
We have received numerous reports of excessive FriendFeed posts showing up in Facebook this evening. While we are not 100% sure, it appears to be an issue on Facebook's end due to ignoring application settings. We have disabled all FriendFeed updates to Facebook until we are sure the problem is resolved.
See http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... for more information - it seems to also have impacted Twitter's Facebook app. Again, we are not sure if it is a problem on our end or not, but we are investigating now.
- Bret Taylor
No problem, if I knew it was on your end, I wouldn't have cared, but thanks for letting me know about the situation. I was confused because it happened right as I was trying out a new twitter game. This was compounded by the fact that the game has no controls for turning off public messages. I'll bet they plan to add them later, but right now they want everyone to hear about it. It’s a...
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- Michael Fidler
So, is it fixed?Every tweet, every everything is showing up as individual news feed posts for all my friends, this is too much and I'm likely to piss them all off. Options ... 1.Stop tweeting etc. 2.Ditch the FF Facebook application. Hmmm, it's a no brainer. Anyone got any updates on this?
- Michael M Bailey
"Today we are launching version 2 of the FriendFeed API for beta testing. We focused on making the API simpler to use, and we added number of compelling new features." Documentation: http://friendfeed.com/api...
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
nice, good to see OAuth support, this will enable a larger 3rd party ecosphere around FriendFeed, I hope
- Jeroen De Miranda
After going through the documentation and playing around with some feeds, I love the fact that you can now see the subscriber lists of people who have their feeds set to private as long as you are subscribed to them and authenticate (mimicking the main site functionality). One thing that's absent is a discussion of Direct Messages. Do they show up in feeds if you authenticate? How do we find just direct messages?
- Mark Trapp
Mark: direct messages are accessed using the feed ID "filter/direct". Read more about feed IDs at http://friendfeed.com/api.... Also direct messages appear in the "home" feed.
- Benjamin Golub
Benjamin: ahhh, I see it now. I missed it when skimming that list over. Thanks!
- Mark Trapp
Can you post the wget version of the command line?
- Gabe
Gabe: wget --user=bgolub --password=passwd --post-file=MyPhoto.jpg http://friendfeed-api.com/v2... should work. In theory. Edit: nope. I'm not sure it's possible to do with wget.
- Mark Trapp
Gabe: wget doesn't support multipart forms as a design decision. If you post a file, FriendFeed returns a 404, and if you post data, the query is too long for wget to handle.
- Mark Trapp
Woowoo, bgolub's password is “passwd” ;-)
- Amit Patel
Amit: I wonder how many people tested that :)
- Benjamin Golub
Thanks to bgolub posting his password, I now have all of FriendFeed's secret documents about notorious users, useless metrics, Justin Timberlake's promoting FF on Oprah's show, hiring Colbert as a spokesperson, Ev Williams being just a “distraction”. TechCrunch is going to love this! ;)
- Amit Patel
Yes big big thanks to the whole team for all their hard work!!
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
When I first came on to ff today, this is what I saw at the top of the feed. As I leave, it is at the top again. Thus, I both start and end the day smiling.
- Katy S
It looks just like Derrick is about to say "Goo goo ga ga"
- iTad
I'm just gonna go ahead and let this be my embarrassing photo meme entry.
- Derrick
Now you're just getting lazy with your scripts!
- Mike Nayyar
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- Tinfoil 2.0
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- Tinfoil 2.0
So it's since Tuesday huh? The ultimate thread. How will the thread die then? We must have a limit for that, let's say 24h without one comment.
- Zu from AOD
As a side note, I do have to applaud the endurance and pettiness of those of us on FriendFeed. No one on Facebook gave this status update a second look!
- Mike Nayyar
We pride ourselves in our pettiness and obsessiveness. Um, wait.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Remember. It's not whole Scoble likes. It's who likes Scoble.
- Akiva
According to FriendFeed, that's everyone. And some Twitter marketers and SEO experts.
- Mike Nayyar
Mike will get in the last word. Eventually. Everyone else is an idiot for playing his little game. Me included. :-)
- Robert Scoble
I'm not actually playing. Or, if I am, I'm playing to lose.
- Akiva
HAHA! You see that? Robert Scoble acknowledges I will eventually win! HAHA! FINALLY! For once in my life, I win! :) :) :) :) Unless Logical shows up...
- Mike Nayyar
Only mostly dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
- Tinfoil 2.0
We're testing the limit on the number of comments.
- DGentry
Nah, the FFundercats live chat pushed that one way over the top. We are, however, testing the limits oh how sick people are getting of setting my face.
- Mike Nayyar
This thread has a lot of comments, that must mean Mike is an expert of some kind...or maybe an A-Lister. Must stalk^H^H^H^H^Hinvestigate him...
- Rah-PM 2012
Olympus too? Good thing Logical doesn't know any Japanese mythological figures.
- Mike Nayyar
All right, if you're going to play that way, Raijin AND Ajisukitakahikone are BOTH mad at you. And Raijin was especially unhappy because you interrupted his NOMmage of children's bellybuttons.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Dude, my best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Raijin put down the platter.
- Tinfoil 2.0
We'd be content, of course, if you (Mike) issued a public retraction of the assertion in your post, followed by allowing someone else to post the last comment in the thread ;-)
- Tinfoil 2.0
805 comments!! I'm afraid to click on the more link....
- Jeff P. Henderson
Nicholas, as long as it's not Mike, it's irrelevant.
- Tinfoil 2.0
I'm sad that Logical saw this Facebook status.
- Mike Nayyar
You know at some point, expanding this comment will really put a strain on mortal browsers. It already has a 3 second pause to expand it.
- Mark Philpot
I wonder if at some point we will hit a soft limit and FF won't let it keep going. That or they look at this as a great high-bounds test case for the system.
- Sparky, lurking
Great experiment there, I'm somewhat scared opening the thread here. Funny thing, Even the explosion of words spawned through this, making it a wordle madness. http://www.wordle.net/gallery...
- Zu from AOD
I'm scared to expand the comment thread :)
- Roberto Bonini
There are few computers with the processing power capable of handling the comments in this thread. Except for, you know, quantum computers.
- Mike Nayyar
from iPhone
i'm afraid to click on the link to see all comments. so i'm just typing this so another guy (or gal) can read it and comment to make this comment disappear.
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
If anyone gets these emails in their gmail and got sick and tired of them like me, just press 'm' to mute the conversation (if you have keyboard shortcuts enabled) (haha i got the last word)
- Daniel Morgan
No you just don't know I posted this.
- John D Reasor
cant the person that started this block the comments now? and thereby win.
- Morgan
If you can get buddy buddy with mike and figure out his schedule, you can prevent him from stopping the comments because you'll always be able to get the last word in. We must prevail for great justice!
- Jonathan Hardesty
That would be cheating, and he knows it :)
- Tinfoil 2.0
That's how the FriendFeed Mob rolls. :-D
- Steven Perez
from IM
you didn't disable the comments yet? you could comment and then do it and then you really would get the last word. but then again, that's cheating. and cheaters never prosper.
- Trish Haley
You're not supposed to make sense of it. It exits only as an opaque, monolithic data structure that is constantly being updated and evolving. ;)
- Tyson Key
Attempting to parse it in a manner that is not approved by FriendFeed, Inc may result in disruption of the space-time continuum, and a series of Bad Things(R) occurring.
- Tyson Key
not only does it make julian fries, but it slices and dices in in seconds. ORDER NOW and you'll get this special gift ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!!!!11!!1ONE!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
from email
this is the thread that doesn't end, yes it goes on and on my friend, Mike started it not knowing what it was, and it'll keep on going no matter what just because this is the thread that doesn't end, yes it goes on and on my friend, Mike started it.....
- T-Bone Tsali, FF Cherokee
from IM
welcome back my friends, to the thread that never ends, we're so glad you could attend, step inside, step inside.
- Mike Nencetti
MISSILES FOR ALL! Gun control is for unarmed wussies! Blow away comment limits! Damn the torpedoes! FULL STEAM AHEAD!!!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
from email
Test conducted to see how long this can last.
- Ashish
it'll never die, with all the wireless cards out there transmitting this, it'll reach alpha centuari in about 300 years.
- T-Bone Tsali, FF Cherokee
from IM
It's not because I'm a person who wants to have the last word, but just because you people keep me reminding that there are others that do want that very badly, that causes me to comment here once again. HI! I'M BETTER THAN MIKE NAYYAR!!!!!!! LOSER! :-)
- Ton Zijp
This IS the time and place to announce a gathering of the societal beginnings of the intrepid adventures of... Wait... sorry, this isn't the place? Oh, okay, I'll go back home then.
- T-Bone Tsali, FF Cherokee
I was able to expand this thread on my Droid incredible, and post this comment at the end. Nice test of Dolphin HD browser.(edit - I use the default FF web page.)
- Mike Nencetti
from Android
If I get the last word in, will I get .LAG's World Series tix???
- Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™
It's been a while, Mr. LastWordThreat. I did some good things these recent months. Care to share some of your insights while you were on that trip? TLDR. 8) (2K+ comments is massive hehe, we're getting to your second b-day)
- Zu from AOD
All I want for Christmas are my two front teef.
- Mike Nayyar
Eventually, you will win. Because you're not married to this thread. But if you ever marry...your trend of always getting the last word will end. Painfully.
- Bubba Botts
This thread must go away!!! What if it kills FF!?
- SAM
this thread could go away right now. but you people keep posting comments...wait....didn't I just do the same thing? OK, nevermind. Long live this Thread!!!!
- Morgan
I heard Nayyar had to get in the The Last Word, always. I talked to the casting director, and Mike Nayyar got the lead in The Last Word.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
this is the last one -------------->>> WORD!
- .LAG liked that
Every middle brings another middle. When the world ends, will this comment be toward the end of the thread, or toward the beginning?
- John E. Bredehoft
You guys!!! This post will forever break FF if we're not careful.
- SAM
Yeah, we should all totally stop bumping this post.
- Slippy
I'm surprised Friendfeed can still expand this thread.
- Morton Fox
OMG, doesn't even want to image what would happen if Nayyar tried to use #fftop20. Actually I kind of do, but I bet it would be slow. Scores would be off the charts though.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Probably still under 9000, people should try harder.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Attended Michael's Trisagion Service tonight, will go to the funeral tomorrow. Family OK w photos, will post as memorial to Michael.
- Norman Demetrios Fletcher
Wish he could have seen us tonight. He just may have.
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
"when tomorrow starts without me....." My heart and prayers go to you, Michael and you're family. May you're family find peace and comfort in the days ahead. <3
- Lynda Dmoch
I was too far from my screen and read that as "marketing koalas", John.
- Spidra Webster
They missed out the land sharks in Sydney..
- Mo Kargas
I live somewhere between the convicts, fires, Danni Minogue and the giant spiders. They missed out on killer snakes, scorpions and centipedes the size of your forearm though.
- Penny
Anyone ever play the movie game? (Name a film, then an actor in that film, then another film that actor was in, etc. without ever repeating any.) I used to play with friends, but now don't have any that will. :/ I remember one thread that went for WEEKS. We had a spreadsheet by the end to keep track of what had already been said. We = dorks.
Yeah, LogEx, exactly like that, except without the need to get to any specific point in a limited time. Six Degrees stresses me out (though we used to do that too, but not with Kevin Bacon - just pick two people and see how many close we could get them). How do you do it with music?
- Jandy
Rick Moranis, Ghostbusters. (gonna put the previous one in, so we don't get confused if there are overlapping comments.)
- Jandy
Jandy, either find a path from one song to another (via artist, title/cover, bandmates, etc., valid parameters to be agreed upon), or string together a playlist by changing only one element each step.
- Tinfoil 2.0
What's the penalty for getting one wrong?
- Tinfoil 2.0
Uh....we never had one. We just went back to the last correct one when someone called us on the wrong one.
- Jandy
Can we do tv shows, too? Because then I can play!
- Lis
By the strict rules, no - only movies, and only actors/actresses. We used to play house rules, though, that let us do TV shows if necessary and other crew if necessary. Not, like, going on IMDb and using the third grip, but you know, directors/screenwriters, that sort of thing. Well-known people. I have no problem with using TV shows, but I'd like not to get stuck in TV world - i.e., use TV actors who also have decent movie credits.
- Jandy
Zoe Saldana - Crossroads (Please let me be remembering this right, I can't lose on my first turn!)
- Joe "Brrzzzzzzt" Pierce
IMDb vindicates you, Joe. But I don't know the film, and I'm not clicking through and cheating, so let's see if someone else knows what to follow that with.
- Jandy
I've never seen it, but I looked up Zoe after Star Trek...for research
- Joe "Brrzzzzzzt" Pierce
Uh-huh. Is that what they're calling it these days?
- Jandy
Oh man, if we were doing TV shows I would have an awesome one...someone else can field the next Troyer flick though...2 easy ones come to mind immediately.
- Joe "Brrzzzzzzt" Pierce
Way to go, you picked potentially the only person in the film that I couldn't immediately think of a follow-up for. Especially if we're allowing TV shows. See if someone else can, though.
- Jandy
I can think of at least 3 right off hand! But the one I would use probably Would kill it dead.
- Joe "Brrzzzzzzt" Pierce
Joe, yeah he takes on a bet, with his friends for Lent, it goes up on the internet and he falls in love with a girl who is a net nanny, so she eventually finds out.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Sam Rockwell - Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
- Jandy
Drew Barrymore - Donnie Darko. [And with that I'm out for the night; see y'all tomorrow! Feel free to keep going, I'm curious to see how long this can go.]
- Jandy
Vincent Price- The House on Haunted Hill (b/w)
- Jenthemum
LOL - you guys did a lot while I was sleeping and gallivanting around town today. Not to be strict, but I think we need to go back to Mary McDonnell, because we already used Independence Day. (Also, Goldblum's The Fly and Price's The Fly are two different films.) Unfortunately, I can only go to a TV show from Mary McDonnell unless I cheat. Anyone else?
- Jandy
What was that one she did with Robert Redford?
- Bonnie Foster
I know.......Mary McDonnell - Sneakers!
- Bonnie Foster
Haha, does that mean I can safely go Sneakers - Robert Redford?
- Jandy
Sure! Robert Redford - Butch Cassidy and the Sundown Kid.....oops.....Sundance
- Bonnie Foster
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Paul Newman
- Jandy
[doesn't want to do Witherspoon because she wants someone else to pick a certain movie so she can go do the next one; but the likelihood of this all working as planned is miniscule, so....carry on]
- Jandy
>.< I can name 3 tv shows he has been on, but no movies that aren't named Pulse.
- Joe "Brrzzzzzzt" Pierce
DAMNIT, we were counting you to get us out of this! I did look him up to make sure he wasn't a dead end, and he's been in two or three well-known films.
- Jandy
Shall we allow a TV show? I know of at least one that will get us back into movies quickly.
- Jandy
Yeah, that's about the only way to do it at this point. Unfortunately, I don't know anything about The Hole, so I can't continue this from here anyway. :)
- Jandy
I brought it back up. I think I found it by looking for either Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt. Noticed Scarlett hadn't come up with a quick find.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Here in West Hollywood, my best friend of 18 years and his boyfriend are getting married. So yes, I get to be a groomsman at a gay wedding - prop 8 or not. Should be awesome.
- Louis Gray
It was a fantastic ceremony. One of the best weddings I have ever seen. It was traditional Jewish themed, so I am wearing a yarmulke to match the vest and tie. Lots of great friends from my teenage years.
- Louis Gray
from iPhone
Louis, I own a yarmulke as well - my wife brought it for me when she visited Israel
- Jesse Stay
+ a million for the whole thread. Looks like you're picking up some admirers here, Louis! Nylissk, we gotta warn you, you're ging after a married man with many admirers. You want a piece of this guy, you're gonna have to get in line - like filing a lien on a house with five mortgages and a line of credit, with outstanding remodeling bills. ;-)
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
Hey, who is this guy from the past. Has he come to warn us about the future?
- Eric
hey, i'm Martyyyy on Realpics. about it being a story, some dude asked her for nudes, and she said no. and he called her a pussy if i remember correctly. so she defended herself by saying she used to be a stripper, and then the rest of it is right in front of you.
- Martyyyy
It's pretty retired to lunch into a asspletive attack when you bearly read end rite OMFG ... poor thing has a future full of *facepalm* ahead of her!
- Richard Walker
One of the latest comments from her Profile "Hey RDS, hows that hooked on phonics coming along? Clearly not working, inquire about a refund."
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Duuuuuude how in the world did you find this Jimminy?!
- Mona Nomura
Mona, search was working pretty well at the time, can't remember what I was looking for though. Edit: I searched for "pussy comments:jimminy" trying to find a post from a week or two ago where I posted "P is for pussy, that's good enough for me." Didn't find it though. Embarrassed.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
You always see the terms inept and disgruntled, but we rarely use ept and gruntled. Perhaps I should make a tshirt that says "Ept and Gruntled". What kind of graphic would be appropriate for that? I'm thinking an alpaca.
A shirt with "Ept and Gruntled" and an alpaca on it would be awesome. Sign me up for five.
- Hookuh Tinypants
Wouldn't it just? Because alpacas always look like they're smiling and perhaps plotting some mischief, and if that's not the definition of "ept and gruntled" I don't know what is!
- FFing Enigma
Well, we are cool like that Chris. And in other news: I think I found just the alpaca for this shirt.
- FFing Enigma
isn't the opposite term to inept "adept"? so, inept is useless, adept is good at it.. would ept be "average at it"?
- alphaxion
Good point. Then again, I do find myself to be rather average in most things so I think the shirt would still work. Actually, the meaning 'average and happy' is perhaps appropriate.
- FFing Enigma
Face it, The English Language is just bizzare
- Brent - Yes I am
I love the Online Etymology Dictionary. Oddly enough, 'dis-' in 'disgruntled' isn't the usual negation, but provides emphasis. http://www.etymonline.com/index... So 'disgruntled' is even more gruntled than 'gruntled'. 'Inept' is derived from Latin 'ineptus' which can be parsed as 'in-' + 'aptus', so the opposite of 'inept' would be 'apt'. http://www.etymonline.com/index...
- Victor Ganata
A Very Descript Man (attributed to a J. H. Parker) I am such a dolent man, I eptly work each day; My acts are all becilic, I've just ane things to say. My nerves are strung, my hair is kempt, I'm gusting and I'm span: I look with dain on everyone And am a pudent man. I travel cognito and make A delible impression: I overcome a slight chalance, With gruntled self-possesion. My, dignation...
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- Micah
Can't help thinking about this exchange on The Office when I see "gruntled":Michael: No need for consternation. Everything is under control. Jan: Michael, last Friday one of your employees attacked another employee in your office! Michael: It was a crime of passion, Jan. Not a disgruntled employee. Everyone here is extremely gruntled.
- Cheryl Jones
Sometimes when I have too much to eat, I gruntle a little.
- Rick Cogley
This thread is making me want to gurgitate.
- Reed Porter
Really? I find it makes me rather combulated.
- FFing Enigma
Whoa, a lot more good ones in here! Added the ones we didn't have yet into my thread (including your original "ept") - http://friendfeed.com/faithx5...
- Jandy
I think the words "ept" and "gruntled" would be well-represented by the image of a goat. A goat is ept, rarely putting a foot wrong on the sheerest of rock faces, and seems particularly gruntled while its life lacks surprises and predatory threats.
- Slippy
In 1986, on Usenet, the "Longest thread ever" post debuted. It was kept going continuously for over eight years. How long, I wonder, could a FriendFeed post be kept going? This is just a place for random posts to go. Think of it as a long slow chat room that will never die. Topics vary.
- Stephen Mack
Sure, why not? This one. This one... FOREVER.
- Stephen Mack
Not very long. Unfortunately, unless they've fixed it, threads tend to disappear from the friendfeed radar after a certain length and length of time. Even ffholic stops cataloging them properly.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
But if I or others kept bumping it...
- Stephen Mack
You are correct, Steve, but it's now too late, the train has left the station and it's unstoppable. The best I can do is add ASCII graphics to the initial post and the first comment.
- Stephen Mack
Georgia and Stephen - I think you both are under the miss-assumption that crazy can not also be awesome.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Crazy is to awesome as fish is to bicycle?
- Stephen Mack
A fish on a bicycle is totally crazy awesome!
- Rachel Lea Fox
An orange, because a vest has no sleeves.
- Stephen Mack
Continuing to edit the title is a nifty idea. I'm sure there all kinds of clever things that can be put there on a Friday afternoon.
- Steve and 3 other people
I hope so. Because keeping this thread alive is my newest hobby.
- Stephen Mack
I'd say "longest" in this case means the thread that has the largest # of comments.
- Stephen Mack
Micah, those are indeed some very very long threads.
- Stephen Mack
You should add subjects to the title and change them now and again. give us something to discuss, and as soon as one subject starts to get boring, change it.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Good idea -- I was trying to a little bit (bacon, bel air, xzibit so far) but will be more explicit.
- Stephen Mack
Drive carefully Alex, and tip your wait staff. What are you all doing this weekend?
- Stephen Mack
Going to a party in the city tonight. House chores tomorrow, and then Beer league softball sunday.
- Dario Gomez
Visiting family in Crystal River, maybe see some manatees, and finally finishing our never-ending kitchen cabinet update.
- adf
Random bump, 'cause this needs to become # 1.
- Dario Gomez
6:30am Saturday is a perfectly reasonable time for two small children to wake up and want to go to the zoo. Absolutely. Anyone know any 24-hour zoos?
- Stephen Mack
Watching the cat attack my husband's feet while he tries to fix the armchair.
- Kate Schmidt
cat attacks are awesome!!!! good plans.
- Rachel Lea Fox
no 24 hour zoos I know of, unless you build on in your house. my sister seems to be working on one. SF zoo has some great baby animals now though!
- Rachel Lea Fox
We have a birthday picnic and then working on Kevin's office!!! plus some gardening.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Best man at my friend Matt's wedding, in N. Carolina.
- George S.
What kind of tacos were they, and how many did you have?
- Stephen Mack
Just ground beef tacos, but I spiced them from scratch, not a mix. I had two and some homemade refried beans. I've had a tummy ache for a couple of days, though, so I haven't eaten much other than tea and toast lately. The delicious spicy tacos were a bit shocking to my tum.
- Kate Schmidt
Talking about tacos, I think I'll be having some after my softball game today.
- Dario Gomez
You should just post your status message updates here instead of to twitter. Who needs a whole website when you've got a single post on FF?
- Steve and 3 other people
1625 comments, that'll take a while to beat. No problem. Slow and steady.
- Stephen Mack
Man it was hot this weekend. How hot was it? It was so hot, my cat had to lie under my _______.
- Stephen Mack
You will have to explain the match game.
- Dario Gomez
1625 comments over 8 years? I don't think it'll be that hard.- oops missed that was for FF. Sorry. I think we can do it.
- Dario Gomez
Of course we can do it. As for The Match Game: You are part of a panel, filling in the blank in that sentence, and trying to match the pre-written answer.
- Stephen Mack
Well it's a spare the air day. But I bet there's another reason the day is special.
- Dario Gomez
The thing I hate most about hot weather is not being able to sleep well at night. TOO HOT!!! Can someone bring back the late-90's Bay Area weather? I like my 67 degree evenings, please!
- Steve and 3 other people
Agreed. apperently it's suppose to rain this weekend as well. It's so wrong. It's not suppose to rain until September at the earliest.
- Dario Gomez
I think we should discuss other threads in this threads. Like, how it sucks that Stephen has pink eye (get better soon.) And how now is the time scam Georgia. :)
- Dario Gomez
Hey Georgia -- I talked to the doctor and apparently the only way my eye is going to get better is if you buy me some special $83 medicine. Please help!
- Stephen Mack
Ok, thanks for the heads up Dario, now I'll know to say no to you!
- Georgia
And yes Stephen, since it's your birthday, I'll buy you $83 eye drops :)
- Georgia
When have I ever asked for anything? :)
- Dario Gomez
Hey, why isn't anyone posting to this? Post your excuse for not posting. :)
- Dario Gomez
ummm... I haven't seen it pop up lately!
- Rachel Lea Fox
I can't decide, do I like it cool and breezy, or hot and sunny? They both actually have their good points. I like the hot weather because it's pool weather. I like it cool and breezy because it's more comfortable at mid-day. I like it when it's hot enough to eat dinner outside, but I don't like it so hot that it's still 80F in my bedroom at midnight.
- Steve and 3 other people
I said no more rain until September. I might have been wrong.
- Stephen Mack
I know we need rain, but I always think it's strange when there's any rain between May 1st and September 1st.
- Dario Gomez
I couldn't handle Seattle weather. Got enough of that growing up in England.
- Stephen Mack
YAY rain! My garden will appreciate the rain!
- Georgia
New topic (4/29, 11:45am): Have you ever broken a limb? If so, when and how?
- Stephen Mack
Yes, my left arm, at age 10, while tight rope walking the parallel bars at the playground behind my grandparents house. I went back and forth 10 times before falling on my arm. AND it was my grandfather's birthday. Also fractured my shoulder blade, not sure that really counts as a limb though. (edit - didn't break the shoulder blade, I must have been having a brain fart moment)
- Rachel Lea Fox
Never broken, but I did chip a chunk of bone off of my elbow, to me that counts!
- Georgia
Gymnastics. I fell forward off of the uneven bars and put my arms out to catch myself. In doing so I dislocated my left elbow, and it chipped the bone when it was relocating itself... OUCH!
- Georgia
eeek, sounds painful. I broke three fingers in my right hand playing basketball in college, but otherwise have not broken any bones.
- Stephen Mack
This lame in comparison. I broke my toe jumping off the top bunk of my bunk bed when I was 7 or so. The bad part was my parents didn't believe me for a couple of days. The worst part, all the doctor did was tape it to the toe next to it and I was fine.
- Dario Gomez
Sorry to change subject, but who's watching wolverine this weekend?
- Dario Gomez
I saw it on Sunday. Awful, just awful. I'll write a review for my blog, but I had low expectations that were not met. Bad special effects, bad story, bad acting -- this movie fizzled on every level for me.
- Stephen Mack
So, the question is: Was Wolverine worse than X-Men 3? Now *that* was a bad movie. :)
- Steve and 3 other people
I didn't think X-Men 3 was very good. But I think Wolverine is far worse. On the 0-100 scale, X-Men 3 I'd give like a 38 or so, and Wolverine a 23.
- Stephen Mack
Wolverine was ok to me. Not great, but entertaining....
- Georgia
so how many people have already lost the summer blockbuster competition?
- Steve and 3 other people
No one yet! It could all go downhill from here...
- Stephen Mack
I already lost. Wolverine will not be rated well. :( Oh well next year. Wolverine was a good action flick with the required elements to try to explain what happened to wolverine. So I agree with Georgia's statement, not great but entertaining.
- Dario Gomez
I'll be seeing Star Trek this weekend with my parents. I have to say, of all the upcoming summer releases, this is the one I'm most looking forward to.
- Stephen Mack
Was glad to take my parents to see it, definitely enjoyed it a lot. Despite some plot quibbles (and what would a trek movie be without those?), it's an extremely well-made and likable movie with a charismatic cast and plenty of summer popcorn thrills.
- Stephen Mack
Agreed! I'm not a Star Trek person, and I really enjoyed the movie. It's just a good summer action film!
- Georgia
I loved it. i hope to see it again, though next weekend i'm going to see wolverine, even though its not supposed to be that good.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Dario, just go see it! Rachel, I really was disappointed in Wolverine, but it has its moments. Set your expectations low -- no, lower -- no, lower than that. A bit lower. Not THAT low! There. Right there.
- Stephen Mack
Wolverine was good. Just think of it as a mindless action flick and it'll be fine.
- Dario Gomez
So who's going to see Angels & Demons this weekend?
- Stephen Mack
I was thinking about it... is it supposed to be good?
- Georgia
I hate this thread and having to click 'more' to open it and then scroll down 10000 lines. Hiding. :(
- Ken Gidley
Georgia, it has 51% positive reviews on RottenTomatoes, so, no, sadly it doesn't look to be very good. Ken, I hear you on that. It is a bit annoying. But for science, I will soldier on to make this the longest thread in FF history (no matter how long it takes).
- Stephen Mack
So, did anyone see Angels & Demons?
- Stephen Mack
Seriously? After the DaVinci Code, why would I? DaVinci was even bad by my "airplane movie" standards, which are pretty low.
- Steve and 3 other people
I thought DaVinci was passable. Tom Hanks is usually watchable, and there was interesting scenery if nothing else. I'm very surprised that Angels & Demons beat Star Trek last weekend (http://www.the-numbers.com/charts..., $46 million to $43 million).
- Stephen Mack
Woah, new Terminator only got 31% on Rotten Tomatoes? (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m...) I knew it'd wouldn't score high, but didn't expect it to be THAT low. I'll see it tonight anyway though...
- Stephen Mack
I'm glad you posted to this. I haven't been able to find. And I will reiterate. Lower expectations makes for better movie experience. (well at least I hope so.)
- Dario Gomez
Why isn't anyone posting to this thread?
- Dario Gomez
Good question! Anyone going to see UP this week? Maybe I should switch topics. Of the summer blockbusters, so far I've seen Wolverine, Star Trek, and Terminator, but not Angels & Demons (3 for 4). I give Star Trek a 4/5, Termination a 3.5/5, and Wolverine a 2/5.
- Stephen Mack
I will hopefully see UP next week, I'm really looking forward to it!
- Georgia
How do you like the Diaper showings? Is it possible to really watch the movie?
- Stephen Mack
It depends on the movie and the crowd. Sometimes it works, and other times not. We went to see Horton Hears a Who there, and it was a bit chaotic, because it caters to kids, so there were lots of toddlers there. It could be said that it's a livingroom experience, (lights on, kids talking) so it's not a huge win over just Netflix, but I think it's good practice for the kids to go to a real theater. You should give it a try and report back. :)
- Steve and 3 other people
Pixar's Up grabs 98% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, beating Star Trek's 95%! http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m... -- wow, some amazing reviews there. I didn't expect it to score this well with critics. Why do I ever doubt you, Pixar.
- Stephen Mack
Wow! I didn't expect that either! Go UP!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
I better go leave negative feedback so I can still win the contest :)
- Georgia
It only counts well-known critics, Georgia, so you'd have to set up an alternative career and corpus of reviews first!
- Stephen Mack
Anyone paying attention to this thread?
- Dario Gomez
So glad to see "Up" took #1 for a second weekend in a row, and that "Land of the Lost" was beat out by "The Hangover." Saw Up, last night, it's very very good.
- Stephen Mack
I heard "Land of the Lost" will be the "My Greek Wedding" of 2009....;)
- Roger N
And no.. that last comment has not been influenced by other outside factors such as the "Movie Blockbuster" contest....
- Roger N
It's always possible that LotL could a huge international hit. Will Ferrell is bankable overseas.
- Stephen Mack
Dario, 39% is highish among the people who responded, but very close to mine.
- Stephen Mack
I'm glad you commented I thought I had killed this thread. But now... oh never mind. :0)
- Dario Gomez
No, this thread will never ever die, sorry. It will take its slow but sure way to infinity. In 2086, when FriendFeed runs in our brains, it'll still get bumps for historical interest.
- Stephen Mack
Is our attempt at longest thread ever dead?
- Dario Gomez
No, I just wanted to see if anyone else would bump it :) It'll never die.
- Stephen Mack
So what's the status of this thread with the news that Facebook will be taking over the joint?
- Dario Gomez
This thread will still be the longest thread ever. Guaranteed. Will never stop. Never stop. And with the new "comment at the bottom" link, it's easier to use than ever.
- Stephen Mack
GI Joe. Worth it, or does it Destro-y even more Saturday morning cartoons?
- Neal Krummell
Neal -- I'm gonna pass on GI Joe. If the RT reviews were higher, I might have checked it out. But for now I'm waiting for District 9 and Inglourious Basterds.
- Stephen Mack
I thought it was interesting. I don't hate him like a lot of people on FF seem to. But I will not be spending much time watching either. The new set is amazing. It did seem to go by quickly, and the 2 chair/no desk setup makes it a lot more intimate...just in time for Leno to ask Kanye about what his dead mom thinks of him interupting Taylor Swift's acceptance speech, watch Kanye flounder for words, then see him immediately go get gangsta rap on stage. What's not to like?
- Josh Haley
Surprised this thread is still going - maybe it really us the longest thread...
- Rich
Rich, it's not there yet (with only 160 comments) -- some threads here on FF in the last 30 days have almost 1k comments. But I won't let it die, never.
- Stephen Mack
It just needs to be the longest lasting thread right?
- Dario Gomez
Dario, I think we decided at the beginning it had to have the most comments. If it's just oldest-continuously bumped thread, then someone could bump an older thread and snatch victory away from us.
- Stephen Mack
I think Leno was a bore the other night....even with Kanye on it! I think Leno is going to be the bottom of the barrel in TV ratings for the 10pm time slot.
- Bonnie Foster
He doesn't have to do well to make money for the network, though, given how cheap his show is to make compared to, say, an episode of Law & Order.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
So how is everyone who reads this thread doing?
- Dario Gomez
------------------- 2010-May-12 --------------- I'm resurrecting this longest thread ever and will use it for status updates that I don't want to have in a whole new post. Feel free to join in. Also: Feel free to hide. Here's my first status update: Bleaugh, I'm starting to not feel well. Achy joints and headache. Will go to bed early. Long for Lucozade.
- Stephen Mack
Life itself is transitory, Blu. (In response to: "Somehow I suspect my comments here will not persist. - Blu T")
- Stephen Mack
Our kids' preschool is closed today, so my wife and I have the day off and we're all headed to the beach! Yay for personal days.
- Stephen Mack
when was the last time this was posted to? Before this post of course.
- Dario Gomez
It was me on June 8th... Kind of weird, haven't signed on since then, and this thread is at the top!
- Rich
Hey Dario, thanks for bringing it back! I've thought about this thread a bit but wasn't sure if it was practical to keep bumping it. I suppose people can hide it if they hate it.
- Stephen Mack
And Rich, that is weird. You and Dario must share a psychic connection.
- Stephen Mack
This can't possibly be the longest post. Where's the big guy being tickled?
- Kevin Fox
I wouldn't feel bad about being at work today if I were actually saving lives or something. If I hear one more person complain about having a stomach ache after stuffing themselves yesterday, I will scream.
The problem is all I'm going to tell you is that you have gas. There's really nothing you can do but wait for it to come out one end or the other. :)
- Victor Ganata
So, if i eat more, then the gas will come out sooner, right? The food pushes the gas out. You're giving me the green light to do another round at the table. Got it.
- Anna Haro
When you do end up having to go to the ER, please don't mention my name. :)
- Victor Ganata
I wish I could double-like this thread.
- Andrew C (✓)
I can see it now. "So she had a stomach ache after Thanksgiving, and her doctor told her to eat more, and now her esophagus just exploded." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Victor Ganata
"Mr. Simmons, you see this light-colored area on your angiogram? That's cheese."
- ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)
hahahaha! Okay, see this thread right here? This is *exactly* why I love friendfeeders.
- Anna Haro
"During the previous week, van Wassenaer had suffered a particularly vexing bout of his usual stomach trouble. After three days of near fasting, though, he had felt well enough to treat himself to a sumptuous lunch. He tucked into veal soup and cabbage boiled with mutton, then devoured calf sweetbreads, spinach, a generous helping of duck, two larks, apple compote, and bread, all washed...
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- Victor Ganata
I am laughing so hard, I'm almost crying. How in the hell did I miss this thread? I IZ SLACKING
- Hookuh Tinypants
Almost a year later and I still love this thread. (sorry, just found this link in my Delicious)
- Hookuh Tinypants
"It’s taking something everyone knows on the web (your email address) and making it immensely more valuable as a way to identify yourself and information about you. Exactly what kind of information? Here are some of the ideas from the WebFinger Google Code page: * public profile data * pointer to identity provider (e.g. OpenID server) * a public key * other services used by that email address (e.g. Flickr, Picasa, Smugmug, Twitter, Facebook, and usernames for each) * a URL to an avatar * profile data (nickname, full name, etc) * whether the email address is also a JID, or explicitly declare that it’s NOT an email, and ONLY a JID, or any combination to disambiguate all the addresses that look like something@somewhere.com * or even a public declaration that the email address doesn’t have public metadata, but has a pointer to an endpoint that, provided authentication, will tell you some protected metadata, depending on who you authenticate as."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
I don't want my contact information to be my identifier. I shouldn't have to give a website my email address, just like I shouldn't have to give a store my phone number.
- Daniel Sims
Daniel, I think it just takes the form of an email address, but does not in fact have to be one (or could be a "throw away" account).
- Paul Buchheit
It would be cool if we could get our act together (as an industry) and make this stuff happen. I'd also like to see ENUM deployed to the point that my phone number can be linked to my identity. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...)
- Joe Beda
This is a bad idea in so many ways I can't even begin to list them.
- April
If a site wants my email address, it's probably in order to spam me. It's usually a bad sign. If legit sites ask for my email more, it will make it harder to identify the spammers.
- Tim Tyler
Do gmail users seriously still have problems with spam? I don't.
- Robin Barooah
Personally this sounds great - as long as it really doesn't force you to use your actual gmail address.
- Robin Barooah
Does this mean I can have a .plan again?
- Benjamin Lee
Sounds like the .plan which is (again) accessed via an id in email format and returns different information/metadata about a person depending on who's accessing it. Email id is used to do a DNS lookup in order to discover URL for the XRD file (accessed with a HTTP GET) containing the metadata about the person being, er, WebFinger-ed.
- Nenad Nikolic
it is like user authenticating, having two three ids won't hurt ;) well i don't want to be identified, they are going same as gravatar
- testbeta
It's so curious to me that people have concerns that WebFinger would lead to more spam, and yet don't like the "format" of URLs for IDs. Personally, as far as OpenID is concerned, I don't care what the identifier looks like as long as people can remember it — typically email seems easier to recall than URLs (for most people in today's world).
- Chris Messina
Some users who have an email account with Google, myself included, have oodles of incoming mail both standard and secure so it fits the bill to increase security for both vendors and marketers.
- frank burns
I have no problem with the idea, but it seems to me that it won't help the current state of affairs much. The kind of information I'd be interested in sharing via Webfinger (my OpenID, a URL to a FOAF file, etc.) will have no better adoption, so the Webfinger configuration doesn't buy me much. I'll hold out hopes that after a couple tight integrations between Webfinger and OpenID providers (say if Google, Microsoft and/or Yahoo provided and consumed both) things will improve ... here's to hoping :(
- J. McConnell
Years ago I experimented with FOAF. I didn't fully understand nor appreciate what I was doing. To serve as a warning, if you take this example, ensure that it is blocked. #Example: I sent a file to Adobe which in turn, was sent to another email account I had at the time. I verified it's sender (ME) and sent it back in the direction of travel. A signed FOAF (API KEY) was then returned...
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- frank burns
"Dr. Frank Ryan, plastic surgeon to Heidi Montag and other celebrities, was sending a Twitter message about his border collie just before his fatal car accident, his ex-girlfriend tells PEOPLE. "He lived up in Malibu on a tiny street and he was texting while driving and he accidentally went over the cliff," Charmaine Blake says. Blake, a celebrity publicist, says Ryan's family was told by investigators that the Tweeting caused the wreck on Monday. The dog, whose name is Jill – Blake's middle name – was in the car at the time of the crash and survived injuries to the head, eye and paw."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Tweeting about your dog seems like one of the worst ways to die...
- Paul Buchheit
The first tweet I saw this morning was someone reporting an accident in front of their house: a car smacked right into the back of a stationary UPS van with flashing lights. Txting and driving just isn't worth it.
- Sally Church
I'm just glad the dog is ok and he didn't take anyone else with him. Stupid is as stupid does.
- <3Heather<3
Such a stupid move. Driving near a cliff and ignoring the whole "keeping to the road".
- Yolanda
from iPod
snapping pics of people texting and driving is a bad way to crash a firetruck... ;-)
- Brian Johns
At least he didn't drive another car off the road with his irresponsibility.
- Kevin Fox
from iPhone
I thought "on the back" meant you got to steer the back half! That would be cool. Not that being a fireman isn't cool enough already.
- Brian Johns
Just sad, and stupid. Hope that this story gets around to the morons who keep texting while driving. Unfortunately, they'd probably have 2 responses: "wont hpn 2 me, i 2 smart" & "r no cliffs arond heer in indy"
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Well it is sad....sad that people can be so clueless and irresponsible. Glad the dog is O.K.
- Bonnie Foster
The worst way to die. just sad for him.
- Emre Köse
Doh! I have very little sympathy for the guy. He should have known better.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Well the doctors have stopped squabbling and decided that she doesn't have pancreatitis. Her endoscopy procedure went fine this morning. They discovered that one of her medicine tablets had stuck to the wall of her stomach and burned the lining. They think that combined with all the antibiotics she's on is what's causing her stomach to be so irritable. They've taken her off of all meds by mouth and are administering something that's supposed to help her stomach heal.
- DB - Just DB
She's supposed to come off of all the antibiotics completely this weekend which will be great. Her tummy wound is almost completely healed. There's an outside chance she'll be out of here by the weekend but we'll see. I think they want to keep her here until they're sure she can keep food down consistently.
- DB - Just DB
Oh, wow. I hope she feels better soon. The stomach burning sounds really painful. :(
- LB so u no it's real
Surprisingly her stomach hasn't been hurting. She's just nauseous all the time and can't keep much down. All her stomach likes right now is juice, yogurt and mashed potatoes. They're concerned about all the weight she's lost as a result of that.
- DB - Just DB
Normally I go out for a steak after I pass an exam but I settled for a Blizzard from Dairy Queen last night. It was yummy.
- DB - Just DB
I tried to get an animated gif to upload here but it never works. I do the Snoopy Dance in my head every time I pass an exam now. Edit: I will do it IRL when I graduate.
- DB - Just DB
Christian evangelicals, fundamentalists, or reconstructionists, and the Taliban, have much more in common than most people might realize or would like to admit. Not in the sense of a murderous group of black-cloaked men as we’re shown on television, but as a group of social conservatives who have proclaimed themselves to be divinely-ordained, and... - http://silas216.tumblr.com/post...
Archery is awesome! Even though I'm way worse at it them shooting I like it better.
- <3Heather<3
In college, I took an elective class called "Bowling and Archery." I took it for the archery. Never once did I get to hold a blooming bow.
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
Ha. I took archery in college too. We have several places near me to shoot. I'm thinking of getting the kids started on it. It's fun.
- Anika
Probably good for college resumes too if they turn out to like it. Not every kid from LA randomly becomes an archer at under ten.
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
from iPhone
Sorry if that intrusion from Mrs. PreppyPants was hopelessly obnoxious. I'll have to borrow a lacrosse stick and beat her silly with it.
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
from iPhone
I did. As soon as I published my comment. Did it not take? I'll try again.
- April Buchheit
I tried it out briefly last year while I was still in the bay area and I liked it alot. I'm thinking of getting into it for real, but I don't really have the money for a bow...and I don't know where any archery ranges are out here in Seattle
- Chieze Okoye
Oh, and did I mention my alma mater's mascot is a BRAVE? And yet they never brought out a single arrow for an archery class? Classic.
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
I love the hanging ear! It's just crying out for drive-by nommage. :-)
- Ladyepiphanybug
The dangling ear & the dangling feet, the smooshed face...in French, they refer to bassets as "armchair clowns." I believe it :)
- ωαřмaiden ☆TeamOtto☆
I'm looking at this one hours later, and I still want to nibble at that deeleeshus ear danglage.
- Ladyepiphanybug
Spot on, that ear is just asking for it!
- <3Heather<3
Changing the name of that from slipping someone a mickey to slipping them an Otto seems appropriate yes?
- G Dub of the Carolinas
In related news, the cats are pissed at me because their catnip is missing. One suspect has been identified and is wanted for questioning.
- Bubba Botts
My man is outdoing himself for dinner again. Fried chicken, collards, mac n cheese, corn on the cob, rice, gravy, leftover corn bread and leftover French fries (somehow he knows how to resurrect fries). I'm about to nom times seventy-eleven.
I put the gravy on the fries - my first poutine (minus the curds, but it got me going)!
- Laura Norvig
from iPod
Love seeing mr. Five gobble down the collards!
- Laura Norvig
from iPod
Oh yeah, and the perfect accompanying beverage for said feast: bourbon and coke. Now if only I can find some room for the Ben and jerry's karamel sutra ice cream I got today (for free with my coupon from Credo).
- Laura Norvig
from iPod
Managed to fit the ice cream in. It's good but the caramel was in a big blob in the middle of the carton. They should swirl it in more. #firstworldproblems
- Laura Norvig
from iPod