Bruce Lewis - Likes - FriendFeed

"Witnessing whales as they break water surfaces (aka breaching) is an enthralling experience in the wild. From a chin slap to a full-body aerial, this lunging behavior displays the impressive power and imposing size of these marine behemoths. Seasickness, extreme patience, luck, timing, balance — all factors in seizing moments to shoot exciting whale shots like the ones featured here. See more photos in the Whale Breaches gallery. Photos from Justin Hart, Lacewing!, EricOPhotos, evanffitzer, and Tom Clifton" - John (bird whisperer) from Bookmarklet

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:O Is that a baby sperm whale?!?!?! - Soup in a TARDIS

The first one, yes. - John (bird whisperer)

:O :O :O :O - Soup in a TARDIS

beautiful photoshoot ! http://bit.ly/LhxGQi - SchoolandUniversity.com

Mary Carmen

Project Little Human initiated. ETA: November 11, 2013.

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Congratulations :) - Hedgehog

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ha! i guessed right but i didn't think it proper to ask. Congrats! - Christina Pikas

:) - Pete #TeamMonique

#bleepyeahbuttercup. And congrats to the Nycest parents in the school. - ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫

Congratulations! - adf

Lol. Yes, mommy has hypermesis and has been home for the past month with no end in sight. Other than the constant vomiting everyone is healthy. - Mary Carmen from iPhone

woohoo! :) - Smaller Joe Silence

CONGRATS! - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo

How wonderful! - Anne Bouey

CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so happy for the both of you.... - VALZ/TEAM TRAVIS

Congrats! - Brent Schaus

Very happy for you both! - Friar Ticket to Ride

Thanks y'all. We strongly feel its a girl, but won't know for certain for a few more weeks. - Mary Carmen from iPhone

Congrats! Hoping they offer you a Zofran pump option! - Janet:#TeamMonique from FFHound!

WAHOO!! :D - Laura H.

Congratulations! - joey

Yay babby! - ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤

HappyHappyHappyHappy!!! - Fish Are LIES from FFHound!

Yay! Finally I can congratulate you! :) Maybe you can talk to Kate. - Running Slow

Congratulations!!!! - the king of the interweb

Congrats! - Jimminy IS Everybody

Congrats! - MoTO #TeamMonique

congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Sir Shuping is just sir

You know, "Barry" can be used with either gender. #justsayin *cough* - MoTO #TeamMonique

Lol....the baby is going to have a either a very Scottish name or a very Italian name. There seems to be no in between. - Mary Carmen

Congratulations!!! - Jennifer Dittrich

#nycenycebaby - holly #ravingfangirl

Congratulations, that is exciting! - Stephan Planken from iPhone

Christina: I also guessed right but also didn't want to ask. Also, congratulations! - Betsy #TeamMonique

Yeah, it was pretty obvious. But Scott wouldn't let me come clean till after the first trimester. - Mary Carmen

w00t! :-) - Steven Perez from Android

Congrats! - John (bird whisperer)

Wow, you've been breeding! FANTASTIC! Srsly congrats, lady :) - LibrarianOnTheLoose

Congrats! :) - LB: #TeamMonique from Android

I look forward to little Eva's debut on the podcast. OH NOEZ POSSIBLE FUTURE INFO CONTAMINATION OF TIMELINE DELETE COMMENT - Steven Perez

Hyphenate for the best of both: Guiseppe-Hamish if it's a boy, Carmine-Eilidh if it's a girl. - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo from iPhone

Hamish Kaidan or Isabella Suzanne.....no hyphens necessary. - Mary Carmen

Beautiful! - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo

Hooray!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Katy S from iPhone

<333333!!! - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart from Android

Congratulations!! - Yolanda

Would be neat to deliver the 12th. 11/12/13 :) - Janet:#TeamMonique from FFHound!

Yay! I was so hoping that this was the secret! Congrats to you both. - Shannon - GlassMistress

I'd guessed this as well - and happy I was right. Nyce. ;) - Great Scott! Snow!

congrats! - imabonehead

Congratulations! - Harold

Yay! - Jed Harris-Keith from iPhone

Yay!!! :) - Micah

Congratulations!! - Rachel Lea Fox

Squee! Omg! - Mary B: #TeamMonique from iPhone

I wondered at one point with all the emesis. - Mary B: #TeamMonique from iPhone

Congratulations, you two!! <3 - Kelli H.

Yay! Congrats! I was wondering when you'd be ready to share. =) - Yvonne from FFHound!

Congratulations! - Son of Groucho

YAYAYAY!!! I wondered... :))) So happy for you guys!! - WoH: Professor MOTHRA

The most awesome project you will ever undertake! Enjoy! - DJ Stevie Steve

Congratulations Mary and Scott! - Mike Nencetti

Yay! Congrats to you both :) - Jen

*bumpity* because it's MC and Scott. LITERALLY! - MoTO #TeamMonique

YEAH BABY!!!!!!!! - Headless Gnad Kicker

Congratulations, that's fantastic news. - Yvonne

Con'grats !! - Peter Dawson

LMP? :D - ووووزلا

Congrats!!! =D - David Cook

<3 Awesome. - Pixie

Yay! :D - Michael W. May

Congratulations! - Jim #TeamMonique

Congrats!!! So exciting!! - Georgia from iPhone

I just saw your pregnancy whine post and I think all of downtown Sac heard me say, "Wait, she's pregnant?" (scroll back scroll back scroll back, find announcement) Wow! Congrats to you and Scott. - Corinne L

Thanks, Corinne! - Mary Carmen

Congrats!!!! - Rachel Walden

Kazutaka Ogaki

Say Hi. - http://ourdoings.com/kgbu...

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Hi baby girl! - Bruce Lewis

Kazutaka Ogaki

子供達の日々 - http://ourdoings.com/kgbu...

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Kazutaka Ogaki

だっこしたげる - http://ourdoings.com/kgbu...

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Headless Gnad Kicker

Kitten pillow. http://instagram.com/p...

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That cat is so good with your kids! He looks like he's an absolute love! - Katy S

This melts my heart!! - Lola Bean (Penguin) from iPhone

He is everything we hoped for and more! He's a little imp, but an adorable, snuggly one <3 - Headless Gnad Kicker

Stephan Planken

Sophie pointed at a butterfly in the air. Promptly it came to her and landed on her finger. Priceless moment.

May 11 from Advanced Tweets - Comment - Like - Share

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<333 - Tamara J. from FFHound(roid)!

John (bird whisperer)

127 species in Middlesex County for the World Series of Birding, which matched last year's total. The highlight was a Western Grebe in Raritan Bay.

May 11 - Comment - Like - Share

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i'm going to need you to visit my house and identify all the birds for me. :D - holly #ravingfangirl

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That would be an interesting challenge since I don't know western birds all that well. :-) - John (bird whisperer)

So if I understand your op, congrats are in order? - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo from iPhone

Not quite since we didn't win our category (results here: http://www.njaudubon.org/Section...), but it was still a fun day. - John (bird whisperer)

MoTO #TeamMonique

Waif got chosen to run on the 4X400 team at the Conference Meet tomorrow. Very proud.

May 10 - Comment - Like - Share

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Go Waif go! - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo

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Woo! \o/ - Jennifer Dittrich

w00t! :) - Steven Perez

she initially was supposed to be an alternate. not sure if they decided to send another team or if someone dropped out. naturally no one will sleep tonight. - MoTO #TeamMonique

We'll be cheering for her! - Anne Bouey

Thanks, everyone. Correction though. She's running the open 400. - MoTO #TeamMonique from Android

Go waif! - Tamara J.

Ran a PR. - MoTO #TeamMonique from Android

Yay! - LB: #TeamMonique from Android

Hurrah! - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo from iPhone

Congrats, Waif! - Anne Bouey

*applause* - Anika

Annnnnnd we thought we were done, but now we may be doing Regionals on Friday. Track, the season that never ends - MoTO #TeamMonique

^ :-) - Heleninstitches

The 400 is a tough distance! Gotta be a sprinter AND have endurance. Kudos to Waif! - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ from Android

DB, Just DB #TeamMonique

I accepted a full time position at work earlier this week. No more contract work for me (I hope.) It means less money salary-wise but it will be nice having benefits again. Hopefully we'll be able to drop Wifey's health insurance and save some money that way. It's expensive and not all that great to boot. Hooray for stability!

May 11 - Comment - Like - Share

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Congrats! - LB: #TeamMonique from Android

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Awesome! - Jim #TeamMonique

As expected their initial offer was lowball city. I came back with an over the moon counter offer expecting them to come back offering the median rate for the pay scale my job falls under. An old boss told me companies are loath to bring a new hire in for higher than the median. Their initial offer was well below the median. As expected they came back with the median and not wanting to push my luck I accepted. Official start date is the 20th. - DB, Just DB #TeamMonique

That's great! - Katy S

The company is expanding like crazy (good looking out Affordable Care Act) so there is lots of opportunity for personal/professional growth within the organization. My boss has big plans for me and the rest of our team. Exciting times. - DB, Just DB #TeamMonique

Congratulations! - Anika from Android

Benefits are highly beneficial. (And often worth 20 - 25% of one's salary/hourly income.) - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

Congratulations! Good job on not taking the lowball offer, too. - joey

c.a.j.

In some kind of creepy coincidence, I was hired at my part time job one year ago today. I say it's a coincidence since I'm celebrating that anniversary by being promoted to full-time Supervisor. Yay me! A real full time job! :P (Time to update the resume.)

May 9 - Comment - Like - Share

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YAY! - Jimminy IS Everybody

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Congratulations! - Anika

Congrats! - Anne Bouey

Woohoo! - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo

good for you!!! - VALZ/TEAM TRAVIS

Congratulations!!!! - Janet:#TeamMonique from FFHound!

Congrats! - Spidra Webster

Congrats! - John (bird whisperer)

Maybe I should have said "funny" instead of "creepy". Oh well. Thanks everybody. :) - c.a.j.

Hooray! - LB: #TeamMonique from Android

Congrats - SteVe C

Congrats, c.a.j.!! - Brent Schaus

Congratulations! - Stephan Planken from iPhone

Congratulations! - mina_sydney

congrats! - imabonehead

It really wouldn't be a creepy coincidence unless it was based on some anniversary like one Mars-year or something. THAT would be creepy. (Plus it would take longer!) If you had to wait one Neptune year (~165 Earth-years) for a performance review, that would really suck. - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

Sweet! - Jim #TeamMonique

Rachel Lea Fox

Not just a girl - Jaime Moore photography - So my amazing daughter, Emma, turned 5 last month, and I had been searching everywhere for new-creative inspiration for her 5yr pictures. I noticed quite a pattern of so many young girls dressing up as beautiful Disney Princesses..." - http://www.jaimemoorephotography.com/2013...

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"...no matter where I looked 95% of the “ideas” were the “How to’s” of how to dress your little girl like a Disney Princess. Now don’t get me wrong, I LOVE Disney Princesses, from their beautiful dresses, perfect hair, gorgeous voices and most with ideal love stories in the mix you can’t help but become entranced with the characters. But it got me thinking, they’re just characters, a writers tale of a princess (most before 1998)…an unrealistic fantasy for most girls (Yay Kate Middleton!). It started me thinking about all the REAL women for my daughter to know about and look up too, REAL women who without ever meeting Emma have changed her life for the better. My daughter wasn’t born into royalty, but she was born into a country where she can now vote, become a doctor, a pilot, an astronaut, or even President if she wants and that’s what REALLY matters. I wanted her to know the value of these amazing women who had gone against everything so she can now have everything. We chose 5 women... more... - Rachel Lea Fox from Bookmarklet

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Very cool and cute, bur are annual portraits a "thing" now? - Soup in a TARDIS

My mother got annual portraits when she was a kid in the 40's. The photographer did a full page ad of her through the years, beginning from when she was a toddler. - Betsy #TeamMonique

I had annual portraits from when I was a kid. I know lots of people who do and I know people who don't. In this case the photographer is the kids mother, so she gets more than annual photographs. - Rachel Lea Fox

Saw Jane 6 days ago. Good speaker. - Yo Joe. No, go slow.

Hear hear! - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

MoTO #TeamMonique

Wife:"Why is it when I hear news about social media, I never hear anything about FriendFeed?" Me:"It's run by The Librarian Mafia. Very cerebral, very hush hush." Wife: <.< ... "then why do they let your short bus butt hang around?"

May 9 - Comment - Like - Share

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LOL - Xabaras (G.O.)

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:D - Pete #TeamMonique

:p - Jason - The Opaque from Android

heheh - lris

I luh Mrs. Dub. - LB: #TeamMonique

Wifey is funny :-) - Shannon - GlassMistress

"Comic Relief." :) - c.a.j.

Because the Librarian Mafia needs a Bosley. - Steven Perez

Because he makes the girls feel good. - Uli - Sent to Coventry

something something milkshake brings all the lady librarians to my something something. - MoTO #TeamMonique

lol I wanna give her dap for that one :-D - Starmama from FFHound(roid)!

Stephen Mack #TeamMomo

Some of the states I've been in... a lot of journeying still to do.

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Have you ever been to *you*, though? - Pete #TeamMonique

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I'm not sure! What's it like? And where is it? - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo

somewhere between Nice and the isles of Greece - Pete #TeamMonique

I've been to paradise, but I've never been to me. - Brian Johns

#mapmeme - April Russo

Zot reminds me of the anteater in the old B.C. comic strip. Haven't seen/heard that word in a long while. - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

Tamara J. to Tamara's feed, Lovefest

Completing my first half marathon in 2 hrs 19 minutes, not fast at all and I don't care. We stopped and took lots of pics, said hi to friends and had a blast. I ran sick and with a pulled IT band, but you know what? It was still one of the very best experiences of my life. Truly.

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Sorry I accidentally double posted. Thanks for everyone who supported me. - Tamara J. from FFHound(roid)!

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Congrats, Tam! - Anne Bouey

I'm glad it went well! - Kelli H.

w00t! :) - Steven Perez

Thanks, guys. <3 - Tamara J. from FFHound(roid)!

Ah, did you remove the other one? OK, I'll say here what I said there: Great job and that time is not at all a bad time for more than THIRTEEN MILES. Congrats! - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo

Congratulations! - Brian Johns

Stephen, actually they announced on FB last night that they apologized for the 2+ hrs it took everyone to get out of the parking lot after the race AND that they had mismarked the mile markers. I actually ran 13.58 according to 400+ runners who reported their Garmin results so the race officials rechecked the route and it was nearly 13.6. So I ran an extra half mile for the hell of it. Haha. Oh well. It makes me feel a bit better about my time. - Tamara J.

You rock, girlfriend!!! - Yvonne from FFHound!

Heather Piwowar

guessing 39yo moms may be an underrepresented group at @github meetups. oh well! off to represent on behalf of nerdy women everywhere. Because I really want a laptop sticker :)

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#fuckyeahbuttercup - jambina

John (bird whisperer)

My concert was tonight, and it went really well. Singing Brahms's Ein Deutsches Requiem was an incredible experience.

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<3 - Kelli H.

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Isn't it? Glad it went well! We had ours too, Sacred Concerts by Duke Ellington. So. Much. Fun. - Uli - Sent to Coventry

I have sung that before in the Susquehanna Valley Chorale. It is a great piece of music. - Friar Ticket to Ride

Glad it went well for you as well. - Friar Ticket to Ride

Sounds like it was pretty amazing :D - Jennifer Dittrich

We were accompanied by a small (15 pc) orchestra so that added to the experience. - John (bird whisperer)

very cool - Friar Ticket to Ride

15 piece orchestra for Brahms I'd call daring at least. - Will, which one did you sing? - Oh, and I am cooked. I'm going to bed. Night, all. - Uli - Sent to Coventry

Good night, Uli. It wasn't quite what Brahms called for, but it balanced the chorus pretty well. - John (bird whisperer)

Brahm's Requiem. - Friar Ticket to Ride

Bret Taylor to Bret's feed, FriendFeed News

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.

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You can see all of your email settings at http://friendfeed.com/setting... - Bret Taylor

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Thanks Bret! :) - Matt Ruiz

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

Great! Thanks! Love FF! - Scott Monaco

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)

Mark: http://friendfeed.com/bret... - Casey Muller

Lovely. Thanks guys. - Mitchell Tsai

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

WOW. that's really helpful！ - K.D.

Looks like a great addition for those who are not embedded on the site. Nice intro. - Louis Gray

Cool! - Josh Haley

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

Cool! can i get a daily or weekly email digest for the "Saved searches"? - 0M0M from email

This will be incredibly useful. Thanks to all involved in the design and execution. - Kathy Fitch

Nice addition! - Michael Fidler

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 .. - Franc, a rememberer

That's a cool feature - Xitong Liu

Emails no longer get sent except for Subscriptions. The last non-sub email I recieved was July 15th, 2011. - Jimminy IS Everybody

I still get them. - AJ Batac

I get these every day. - Me

i get it - solncee

I still get it - AJ Batac

*jealous* I no longer get anything but subscription emails. - Bruce Lewis

Shannon - GlassMistress

Am home! Doc says looks good, went well, and he got all of the tumor he could. He also said it looks like normal tissue and he'd be surprised if the pathology came back bad. Woot!

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That's good to hear he's so positive. - Anika

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So glad to hear that, Shannon! Rest up and take care. - WoH: Professor MOTHRA

Yay! - Yvonne from FFHound!

So glad to hear. I will endeavor to get drunk in your honor this weekend. - MoTO #TeamMonique

Oh me too! Great news. - SAM

Rachel Lea Fox

For a year or more I have been planning to submit some of my photography to Getty Images Stock Photography (through Flickr) to see if I could sell some images. I get approached semi-regularly for rights to images, but I usually turn people down because I don't really know how to set it all up. I have friends who have been working with Getty for...

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...years ans loving it, but as life goes I kept putting off the submission, and putting it off more, due to life just being busy. Well I guess procrastination works for you sometimes. Today I got a letter inviting me to join Getty Images. Yeah for awesome things falling into your lap!! - Rachel Lea Fox

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Good luck! - Juan Pablo González

Woot! - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo from iPhone

Yay! Congrats, Rachel. Your photos are wonderful. - Anika

Congrats! - Tamara J.

Congratulations! - Betsy #TeamMonique

That's way cool, but you may want to read some of Thomas Hawk's recent writings on the subject. He just quit and moved to a different service. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

Way to go! That's exciting. Hope it all goes well. - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

These are incredible! Congratulations. :) - Running Slow

Micah

Let me pick your brain: What mobile app features typically get you to upgrade from FREE to PAID version?

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Free is a trial and I need it - Jason - The Opaque from Android

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i use it all the time and keep hitting the upload limit (Flickr, Evernote) - ~Courtney F

Not terribly specific, but customization - the ability to customize how I interact with the application. - Jennifer Dittrich

If there is storage/retrieval of scanned or downloaded items. It really depends on the app, though. - Anika

Thanks (keep 'em coming) - if it varies by type of app just name a few examples if possible. I'm working out what feature split I'm doing on my to-be-released calculator app. - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

porn - t-ra: not givin up

For a calculator, maybe have scientific on the paid side? - Jimminy IS Everybody

J, it's fraction-oriented which doesn't try to be a full blown scientific calc. Main features: fraction form input /output, rounding to nearest fraction (1/8, 1/16, etc), imperial + metric conversion display, input mixed units (feet, inches, meters, mm) expressions, calc history, attach note to a calc, search for notes by keyword, send calc by email, copy expression from calc history back to input, identify repeating decimals, display improper fraction form. - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

Ad removal is a big one for me. - DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE

No ads in either version. - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

Jimminy - since there are so many calculator apps with scientific built in, I'm not sure how effective that would be. However, if it's a graphing calculator, maybe the free version could plot a specific number of points, or perform a specific number of operations at once, and the paid version could have more capability in those areas. - DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE

A limit to something I really want to do. - Todd Hoff

Micah, maybe artificially limit history on the free version (as per Courtney's comment), and have notes and send to email only in the paid version. - Jimminy IS Everybody

Variety. For example, I use a bunch of creative apps. I get a basic toolset on some of them and have upgraded to unlock additional tools. Could that work with graph types or number of expressions? - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)

Good ideas here, appreciate it. I have contemplated a total # of calculations limit, which effectively makes the free version a trial app, but not sure I like the way that feels. - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

When I said a limit on number of calculations (or operations), I was more referring to it being able to do something like [(2+4)(3+2)]/7 but not something like [(2+4)(3+2)(7-5)]/(12-3) (limit to the total number of operations in a single problem, etc.). That's still similar to a trial app (feature-limited, though, not time-limited) - DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE

Oh, interesting, that's one I hadn't thought of, thanks Curtis. - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

A virtual register tape on the paid version, with the ability to save tapes. - April Russo

Yep, the virtual tape (I just call it the history entries) is a major part of the interface. I'll think over maybe partially limiting it. - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

No, it's not the same. It's a partial history, like a POS transaction. Bonus points if you can find a little cheap wireless roll printer to print out the transactions, individually, and add that ability to the paid version, too. Then all you need when running very small biz is your phone and a mini printer to print the receipts. paypal already has an add-on for accepting credit cards. No need to buy a cash register. - April Russo

Oh, interesting. The sales transaction use case wasn't on my radar. The app is linear measurement (ft, in, meters) centric, with construction trade in mind. But a printer interface would be pretty cool - I'll have to look into it. - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

If the game is fun i'll pay for full. Don't usually use mobile for much else. - SteVe C

I have a desktop calculator that has what I am talking about. screenshot: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u... - April Russo

This probably doesn't apply, but I'm more likely to pay for something that works underground or caches/archives whatever online content (i.e., does not require connectivity), since my commute is underground. - Meg V. Meg

Anne Bouey to Anne's feed, Parenting-A-Go-Go

Zeal for Play May Have Propelled Human Evolution - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2013...

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"When it comes to play, humans don’t play around. Other species play, but none play for as much of their lives as humans do, or as imaginatively, or with as much protection from the family circle. Human children are unique in using play to explore hypothetical situations rather than to rehearse actual challenges they’ll face later. Kittens may pretend to be cats fighting, but they will not pretend to be children; children, by contrast, will readily pretend to be cats or kittens — and then to be Hannah Montana, followed by Spider-Man saving the day. And in doing so, they develop some of humanity’s most consequential faculties. They learn the art, pleasure and power of hypothesis — of imagining new possibilities. And serious students of play believe that this helps make the species great. The idea that play contributes to human success goes back at least a century. But in the last 25 years or so, researchers like Elizabeth S. Spelke, Brian Sutton-Smith, Jaak Panksepp and Alison Gopnik... more... - Anne Bouey from Bookmarklet

"Dr. Gopnik shows this brilliantly with a game she invented with the psychologist David Sobel (her student, now a professor at Brown). In the game, which has the fetching name Blickets, players try to figure out what it is that makes an otherwise undistinguished clay figure a blicket. In some scenarios you can win even if you’re applying a prior bias. In others you can’t. Last summer I... more... - Anne Bouey

"Esther, along with most other 4- and 5-year-olds tested, bested not just me but most of 88 California undergraduates who took the “and” test. We educated grown-ups failed because our prior biases dictated that we play the game by the more common and efficient “or” rule. “Or” rules apply far more often in actual life, when a thing’s essence seldom depends on another object’s presence.... more... - Anne Bouey

Stephen Mack #TeamMomo

I want to make guacamole tomorrow. But the avocados I bought are like a rock. Is there anything I can do to make them ripen faster?

January 5 from FFHound! - Comment - Like - Share

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Like is it better to put them in the fridge, or outside, or wrapped in a paper towel, or sacrifice a goat? - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo

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(Posted in the form of an avocado man saying hi because generally speaking I have the maturity of a 12 year old.) - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo

Anecdotally, I've put some in a plastic bag with a couple of apples, and that seemed to make the process go a little faster. (Non-refrigerated.) - Jennifer Dittrich

Hahaha! Avocado Man! :D - WoH: Professor MOTHRA

Bananas in a brown paper bag - Johnny from iPhone

You can make almost any fruit ripen faster by exposing it to apples or bananas, which give off ethylene gas. Definitely leave them out of the fridge. Don't put them in the fridge until you're trying to slow down ripening. - Spidra Webster

Many thanks, all! For a perverse second I felt like being scientific about it and trying each suggested method separately for each avocado (along with a control avocado not being futzed with at all) to then establish which method was best, but the problem with that is there's no objective way for me to easily measure the firmness of each avocado, so I quickly realized I'd need a lot more data points to draw proper conclusions. - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo

...down to the store to get more avocados, by the sound of it - WoH: Professor MOTHRA

No matter what you decide, I think you should sacrifice a goat. You know what they say: Trust in God, but tie your camel. - Eivind

I thought the saying was: Trust your camel, but tie down your God. - Kristin

I'm sacrificing some chicken and baby back ribs; that'll have to approximate. - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo from iPhone

I think babies are considered even larger sacrifices than goats, so that should be fine. I think the sacrificial value is about ten chickens to a goat and two goats to a (male) baby. - Eivind

I have sliced avocados in half & put them in a paper bag for a while to ripen them for guacamole. - Starmama from FFHound(roid)!

If you do your avocado experiment, these people would love to have some evidence: http://cooking.stackexchange.com/questio.... But I suspect the goat is key. - Jenica

The word "avocado" comes from the Spanish aguacate which in turn comes from the Nahuatl word āhuacatl [aː'wakat͡ɬ] (testicle, a reference to the shape of the fruit). - Greg GuitarBuster

lol - Starmama from FFHound(roid)!

Greg, that is good to know. - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo from iPhone

Jenica, awesome link. - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo from iPhone

Thanks all! Much riper this morning. I went with bananas in a plastic bag. - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo from iPhone

good to know plastic worked -- I always heard close up in a paper bag to ripen avocadoes, but almost never have paper bags - RudĩϐЯaЯïan

My goat loves avacados! (She also loves bananas and camels) #butnotinthesameway #asusualiammakingthisup - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

How did it turn out? - Tamara J. from FFHound(roid)!

Isn't San Cilantro that clothing-optional beach in Costa Rica? - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

Tam, turned out very well! I was happy. - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo

My working theory is that a plastic bag should work better for short term ripening (like 1 day) since there is no airflow, but a bad idea for longer than overnight because of moisture/mold issues; so for non-urgent ripening, brown paper bags are best. The link Jenica put in earlier had an interesting discussion about why brown paper vs. white paper: No bleach. - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo

I place them in a paper bag, roll it up, and stick it in a corner. That seems to ripen them up nicely after a day (or two if they were really green and hard). - Steve

No ...only the goat sacrifice works.. ! - Peter Dawson

Whether avocados, bananas or apples, I've found that toting them around in the front of my pants causes them to ripen quite rapidly. (That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.) - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

0_o - Smaller Joe Silence

I confess that the produce guy does give me a strange look when I make my usual request of two avocados and a large unripe banana. Apparently he's not a fan of mixed fruit. - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

Stephen Mack #TeamMomo

. ... omg Omg OMG O.M.G. O!M!G! OOMMGG O!M!G! O.M.G. OMG Omg omg ... .

March 31 from iPhone - Comment - Like - Share

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Are you okay? - Janet:#TeamMonique

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I had a wave of excitement but it passed. - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo from iPhone

;0 - Janet:#TeamMonique

You won the lotto? - imabonehead from Android

But then I lost the ticket. - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo from iPhone

*hoping to catch the wave* - Amit Patel

Are you by yourself? - Eric - seven eleven

Yes. - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo from iPhone

Put ice on it. - Eric - seven eleven

OMG, Eric killed me! - Janet:#TeamMonique

DUDES STOP WITH G.O.T. AND WALKING DEAD SPOILERS FFS - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo from iPhone

Lovefest: Yolanda

The company removing social media blocking. Yay!

April 29 - Comment - Like - Share

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HI YOLI! - holly #ravingfangirl

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OH HAI HOLLY! - Yolanda

YAY! *waves & flails* - Lisa | #TeamMonique from Android

:) - peamageddon

Laura Norvig

I really need to shift gears. After working on a project for 12 years, it is weird to just let it go. But I want to free up my energy to move ahead in other ways. Very hard to focus on "winding down" effectively, elegantly, efficiently.

April 29 - Comment - Like - Share

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if anyone can, I know you can. I wish you saw yourself the way that i see you, doll. - t-ra: not givin up

sometimes i think i'm pretty awesome, but it comes and goes. are we going to get you out here again before september? - Laura Norvig

dunno. There is usually 1 trip a year, and the past few years it's been in August or Sept. - t-ra: not givin up

Kevin Fox

This is the first time I've been on Friendfeed in about a month... I'm not sure what that means...

April 23 - Comment - Like - Share

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Kittens? - WoH: Professor MOTHRA

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What's a couple fortnights among friends, right? - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

Electric Imp, and too many social services. - Kevin Fox

It still does. The people just do it remotely and don't have any official credential to do so. - Kevin Fox

#redwigglerimp - WoH: Professor MOTHRA

It means "best of month" really was worth implementing. - Bruce Lewis

This post appeared in my 'best of month' so apparently it works! - Kevin Fox

Tudor Bosman

Man Already Knows Everything He Needs To Know About Muslims | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - http://www.theonion.com/article...

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"SALINA, KS—Local man Scott Gentries told reporters Wednesday that his deliberately limited grasp of Islamic history and culture was still more than sufficient to shape his views of the entire Muslim world. Gentries, 48, said he had absolutely no interest in exposing himself to further knowledge of Islamic civilization or putting his sweeping opinions into a broader context of any kind, and confirmed he was "perfectly happy" to make a handful of emotionally charged words the basis of his mistrust toward all members of the world's second-largest religion. "I learned all that really matters about the Muslim faith on 9/11," Gentries said in reference to the terrorist attacks on the United States undertaken by 19 of Islam's approximately 1.6 billion practitioners. "What more do I need to know to stigmatize Muslims everywhere as inherently violent radicals?"" - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

"I almost gave in and listened to that guy defend Islam with words I didn't want to hear," Gentries said. "But then I remembered how much easier it is to live in a world of black-and-white in which I can assign the label of 'other' to someone and use him as a vessel for all my fears and insecurities." Added Gentries, "That really put things back into perspective." - Paul Buchheit

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