Thank you everyone!!! I couldn't be more excited! My cheeks hurt from smiling so much today. We got to hear the baby's heartbeat too. It was so awesome!!! He/She is due on December 8th. Thank you all for the love and support! =)
- David Cook
OMG Congrats David!!!!! And as a side note, if FF turns into the magic baby bringing social media site, I might have to cut back a little ;-)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
@Mostafa Lameei, yes this will be the first one. I have a lot of close people with kids to go to for advice though. I'm ready for him or her. ;)
- David Cook
Congrats David, I promise I won't comment on the current machine settings used, okay I will...person has the gain way too high for the posterior portion of the image. I am soooo anal about these things. Give me their number, I will make certain your next pics are better.
- Janet
Great for you and the momma! All the best ~ it's such an exciting time!!!!
- Lori
Oh, weren't you bitching about FF stupid posts not making you smarter last week? Well, here ya go. No more bitching. We get to talk about bacon again.
- Eric @ CS Techcast
well we know what tomorrow's caption contest will be on Valleywag :-)
- Duncan Riley
There have been too many pics of his naked chest this week.
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Yeah, I don't care how many people take pictures of themselves in the shower, I'm not gonna join in that memefest. No thank you. Besides you've already seen my brother in the shower...Remove some weight, adjust the nose a bit and you've got me too...ugh...that's just so wrong.
- Alex Scoble
Tina: I hope they don't do a shower meme. I'm not going to take a picture of myself in the shower, no matter how drunk you get me. *lol*
- Mol, Time Warping
Is this your entry for the bitch face meme? It's a very disappointingly happy bitch face.
- Pete Delucchi
With all that flyin' around, Twittering, and Friendfeeding, he's gotta need 3 or 4 showers a day. The question is ..... Which soap is he plugging ? :)
- Charlie Anzman
I hope it's lever 2000 messing with Valleywag :)
- Anthony Farrior
"I just want you people to drink in this world-class douchebag known as the Tibetan Fox. Have you ever seen such a holier-than-thou fucking look on a non-dolphin before? I'm not one for slapping foxes, as I generally think they know what they've done, but this one really has that look, like the asshole boyfriend of the girl the main guy wants in an 80s movie. Unsurprisingly, he is extremely rare. That's probably because he thinks if he has too many babies, some of them will turn out to be commoners and he wouldn't be able to show his square face at the country club anymore."
- Corie
from Bookmarklet
"How's your ivory tower, Tibetan Fox? I'm sure it must be terribly stressful to stand in judgment of the rest of us little people, so why don't you just retire to your cabin and play lacrosse? You know what, on second thought, WHY DON'T YOU WANDER THE DESERT LOOKING FOR RODENTS. Some of us have to work for a living, Tibetan Fox. We don't get everything handed to us by a lifetime of hunting and scavenging, you stuck-up snob."
- Corie
He is better than me.... look at that face :)
- Jason
@Phil It's not the products that are hated, it's the rabid fanbois/gurz. I like some of the products, and own several, as well.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Or be a real rebel and join the other 90% of real rebels
- Christopher Harley
Phil, Apple haters? This is the result of blind Apple Fanboys even defending shit against anyone. But it's not the products at most. It's the behavior of Apple, just like you see in AppStore, iTunes/iPod (yeah still no official sync without iTunes), or lately the attack on the Palm Pre. I had 5 Macs / MacBooks Pro, and I got disappointed not only by the community and their idiocy, but from Apple too. Every Time sooner or later. Apple is a company that have a church that want to be a company.
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Guys, think. That's like saying you hate Jesus because of those f'ing Christians. Products are loved and hated, I understand that. It's a Ford v. Chevy thing for hillbillies. For geeks it's Mac v. MS, Linus, Atari, Whatever. Apple is like Porche or Lamborghini, a niche company for folks willing to pay more. That creates Attitude, you take time to design, you make people pay for the cachet. If you hate them because in comparison to Apple you are a schlub, I understand. But they kick butt.
- Phil Boiarski
What? Mac vs Atari? There's no vs...Atari FTMFW!
- Mo Kargas
I wonder if 7-Eleven sells 'Apple flavored Haterade'?
- Morgan Haley
Heh, does anyone else find it ironic that Apple supposedly make some of the best performing Windows machines?
- Tyson Key
they never perform better than my windows machines :P And not only can I make a better performing windows machine but it costs about 50% of the price of an Apple too ;P
- alphaxion
I work on both systems, side by side in a production environment. I keep the Mac even though management has tried to take it twice because I maintain it unlike the Windows machine which requires a whole frickin MIS department. I have a top of the line Dell, new every year and I get it maxxed out. All the business side gets done there or I would never touch it. It's down and up and crashes and I won't even go there. Whatever experience you have, I've been in this sort of situation since 1990.
- Phil Boiarski
Lindsey. That's the most computer I can get for the budget. I can't exactly build one and the guys who keep it running tell me, I don't tell them. My point was more that ROI, which is what I have to show in my budget every time I justify the new Mac, clearly shows much more "up" time, even when I had a fancy Silicon Graphics machine. I am like a convert. I loves me some Macintosh.
- Phil Boiarski
"NS7 is a cutting-edge DJ system. It seamlessly combines Serato ITCH music-mixing and management software on your Mac or PC with premium performance hardware to create the future of DJ performance"
- Amani
from Bookmarklet
"THERE is nothing particularly unusual about the living room of the two-story town house that Scott Veazie shares with his wife in Washougal, Wash., except for one piece of furniture in a corner: a full-size replica of the captain’s chair from the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise, as seen in the original “Star Trek” television series."
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
“The closet command-chair Trekkies have come out of the closet,” said Keith Marshall, 45, an unemployed phlebotomist, emergency medical technician, corrections officer and firefighter whose uncompleted chair, currently sitting in his brother’s garage, is slated for his own living room in Bonney Lake, Wash. “For a lot of people in the last few years,” Mr. Marshall added, “the pieces have...
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- Thomas Hawk
It doesn't even look particularly comfortable to sit in though...
- Eric P
You never sit in it long. Job description requires you to stand up suddenly at random intervals and growl, "Khan!"
- Chris Baskind
Do you guys wanna know what's worse? Look closely at the bag it came in. There are arrows that show exactly where to cut. This person was like, "YO, Screw that! LEROOOOOOOOOOOY JENKIIIIIIINS"
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
Damn, NIN is going into hibernation for a while. I bet Trent is going to work on some other projects in the meantime. I look forward to whatever he decides to pursue following the 'goodbye' tour.
- David Wilson
I guess that's the most you could call Olivia Munn...a reporter. She just reads the teleprompter without knowing what the hell she's talking about.
- Mattie Kenny
oh i've never even heard of her Mattie...so i'll take your word for it :)
- Zee.
I can't look at Attack of the Show clips. Too many sad memories of Tech TV. *pours out some of my foty on the ground*
- Internet's Tad
@Tad .. yeah they really screwed the pooch. I watch Revision3, Leo Laporte, and Chris Pirillo, but it's just not the same. Rev3 comes closest to me.
- Mattb4rd
"On the Origin of Species is one of many hundreds of thousands of Oxford University books now available through Google Book Search, and we look forward to bringing even more volumes online for scholars and enthusiasts alike."
- AJ Kohn
from Bookmarklet
Calling that the most important single work in science is a stretch. I would say the discovery of DNA is much more significant. The invention of the light bulb is more significant, in my mind as is the invention of the air plane. Not that I'm taking away from the significance of what Darwin did, but the usefulness of understanding evolution pails in significance to the usefulness of quite a few other scientific discoveries/inventions, in my opinion.
- Alex Scoble
@Alex: yeah, might be some hyperbole there. but, IMO, the essence of his book (multiple small changes over time can result in more complex outcomes) is pretty powerful stuff. it applies to all dynamic systems, not just living tissue.
- MikeAmundsen
I don't disagree that it's a very important piece of scientific knowledge/understanding, but NOT the most important.
- Alex Scoble
Alex: "Not only is it the explanation for life on this planet, it is the only theory so far suggested that could, even in principle, explain life on any planet. If life exists elsewhere in the universe (and my tentative bet is that it does), however strange and alien and weird its nature may be (and my tentative bet is that it will be weird beyond imagining), some version of evolution...
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- Alejandro
Yeah, still the invention of the lightbulb, nuclear power, fusion, DNA have all been far more useful and transformative of our world. And yes, I'm aware that DNA sort of builds on what Darwin first theorized.
- Alex Scoble
I'd rate penicillin over all those Alex
- Jeff Quinton
I think Alex's examples don't qualify -- the "work" referred to is the book itself. Important as it is though being "most" might be a stretch -- Newton's "Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica" probably is right up there along with a few others.
- Brian Sullivan
Yeah, Jeff...another big one, thanks.
- Alex Scoble
How do you figure that my examples don't apply? The invention of the lightbulb was a scientific WORK, the invention of the airplane was a scientific WORK, the discovery of DNA was a scientific WORK.
- Alex Scoble
The "work" being referred to is a published work -- a book or paper -- at least for the purposes of the article posted.
- Brian Sullivan
I'd have to defend the hyperbole. Evolution is the grand unifying theory of biology. It's the thing that makes DNA and genetics make sense, and understanding it is critical to much of modern medicine. The powerfully simple idea of evolution has also transformed our thinking across any number of other domains. The only other contender I can think of is Newton's Principia Mathematica.
- Eric P
Archimedes; what little remained of his written works effectively became the spring board for all "western" science. Thence came the giants including Newton, Copernicus, Galileo, da Vinci et al (' philosophers' of the middle ages and their followers.)
- David HC Soul
The criteria/category though is "single work" meaning a book or paper.
- Brian Sullivan
Sorry, but I see the term work more broadly as in something useful. What works have been the most useful? I have listed many that have been much more useful to mankind in the last 150+ years than Darwins theory. Doesn't mean his theory hasn't been important, as it was the starting point for some really awesome stuff, but the derivative works (like DNA) have been, in my opinion, MUCH more useful and therefore more important.
- Alex Scoble
Alex -- did you read the article? -- how you see the term is not germane to this particular discussion. The article is about published "works".
- Brian Sullivan
How I see the term is exactly germane to the discussion. If the title of the post was "The most important single WRITTEN work in science" we would be having a slightly different discussion, now wouldn't we? Details ARE everything.
- Alex Scoble
Arcimedes Palimsest then Brian. While leaving room for Alex's perspective (on work vs written work) to the side for now, if we reduce it to your perspective only I'd still have to go with the collection of papers as one published work by your terms.
- David HC Soul
Alex - did you read beyond the title to the posted article? That is what I am talking about.
- Brian Sullivan
From a bibliophile perspective (I worked in the industry for ~3 years), a work is essentially a piece of content with a unique combination of title and author.
- AJ Kohn
To be frank, no I didn't because the title was so jarring and obviously poorly formed that I saw no point. Instead I started a discussion here which has been much more intellectually engaging. I have now read the article and wished that I hadn't as the title and quote that it's based upon still bothers me.
- Alex Scoble
Now Alex - let's get into a debate on the" Most important single work in science" on your terms (the way the headline reads) ... Not such an easy task I'd say .... Where does one 'discovery' begin and end? Very few are the result of totally idependent and truly isolated works.... Myself I rank the work on "governors" culminating in Watts engineering marvel and the sciences of control and communication well up on the list if sciences that have changed us irrevocably.... like most Advances not solitary
- David HC Soul
I'm still confused on what basis you're declaring DNA more important than evolution. DNA is pretty useless without evolutionary theory. And the light bulb is an invention; it's an application of scientific ideas (Maxwell's laws), not a scientific discovery in its own right.
- Eric P
Meanwhile if your criteria is number useful applications stemming from the theory, you *still* have to give it to evolution, as most of modern medicine owes itself to evolutionary theory in one way or another.
- Eric P
The discovery of penicillin had nothing to do with evolutionary theory. And if you want to use "most useful derivative applications" then something like the wheel would be the most significant. In our world the microprocessor has been much more significant than Darwin's theory and that had a long history of discoveries behind it as well, none of which had anything to do with Darwin.
- Alex Scoble
BTW, I hope none of you took this to mean that I don't think that Charles Darwin and his theory were complete awesomesauce, because I do think that they were complete and UTTER awesomesauce. That doesn't make his work THE most important thing ever done in science though. I think that honor goes to The Woz for building the Apple II. Just sayin'!
- Alex Scoble
(sorry to keep messin with you, Alex, we crossed paths a bunch of times this evening). Gotta pedantically say, Apple II building is more technology than science... I'm voting for Darwin Wins It.
- Kamilah Gill
nooo... it is, sort of... it's the application of science? versus pure research and theorizing? at least that's the difference I make between the two
- Kamilah Gill
Okay, that came off the top of my head. Here's Wikipedia (not authoritative, I know, but it's a start): The distinction between science, engineering and technology is not always clear. Science is the reasoned investigation or study of phenomena, aimed at discovering enduring principles among elements of the phenomenal world by employing formal techniques such as the scientific...
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- Kamilah Gill
There are plenty of researchers in labs working on technological breakthroughs on the bleeding edges. Scientists working at Intel, IBM, etc. trying to get die sizes down under 30nm is definitely science even if it's technology. Engineers trying to get true white LEDs are working on science. Etc. I think where the line blurs between science and tech is software...is it science? Is it art? A blend of the two?
- Alex Scoble
Yeah, I guess the smaller the computer chips get, the closer the chip makers get to dealing with pure physics just as much as any other researchers. (Last I read. I need to brush up on the subject.)
- Kamilah Gill
Actually, that was hardware. As for software... I don't know. Not sure I follow.
- Kamilah Gill
Well a lot of the research in to hardware requires development of new software as well. For instance, the router couldn't work without software and that was something developed in part by researchers at Stanford. Ask anyone in the business though and they will tell you that writing good code is as much art as it is science.
- Alex Scoble
My boyfriend tells me a lot about it since he's a computer engineer focused on automation. I have a little better understanding of what's involved myself now, too, since I at least wrote a Perl script to do a simple task. Anyway, I think Darwin is especially important in part because of all the assumptions that got challenged by his theories.
- Kamilah Gill
Alex: just to be ornery ;-) I guess you are too young to remember the Sol-20 of Lee Felsenstein et al....(or the folks behind the Altair to go back a step further)... (The Sol-20 was the first "true" PC I had on my desk and oh what a revolution it was; too bad the unreliability of the HELIOS drive helped drive it under)
- David HC Soul
Yeah, David, sometimes first isn't always best. I just think of all the really cool things that have been discovered in the last 200 years, the periodic table, radiation, going to the moon, I mean the list goes on. Darwin's theory is certainly in the top 100 and probably in the top 10, but THE top thing?
- Alex Scoble
You NEVER caught me arguing it was the top thing.... I have a LONG List of things that I think top it; Not all mine are in yours (I think) but all that you've mentioned certainly belong in any short list..... I brought up the Sol-20 to emphasize how many things are done in parallel or build on other pieces... The "hobby" computer was moving forward quickly; in commercialization Sol 20 went down in flames, I happen to believe Apple's success was in large part due Visicalc ....Aldus etc secured it in the end
- David HC Soul
Nahhh. Darwin was theeeee MOST BIGGEST THING EVAH!. Why? He provided an explanation for the variety of forms of life- everything we see about us- that did not depend on a supernatural force.Everything flows from that. Does that make me stare into the void? - Thats a different subject altogether,something that only a Marist Brother could answer and it does not make me neither a good nor a bad person:). What Darwin did was set us free. Can we rise to our free man status? YES!(I think we can)
- laprensa66
It WAS the top thing. It killed any conception of god that had existed for thousands of years.
- laprensa66
Jewwrewd. I took the risk, you didn't respondt.defo im on your side. But the good thing id we are tottally pro. I am with you. no dought/
- laprensa66
@Alex: The discovery of penicillin was an accident. The subsequent decades of research and development into antibiotics are utterly dependent on our understanding of evolution.
- Eric P
"Gibbs introduction of probability into physics occurred well before there was an adequate theory of the sort of probability he needed. But for all these gaps it is, I am convinced, Gibbs rather than Einstein or Heisenberg or Planck to whom we must attribute the first great revolution of twentieth century physics." -- Norbert Wierner
- David HC Soul
"Willard Gibbs is, in my opinion, one of the most original and important creative minds in the field of science America has produced." —Albert Einstein
- David HC Soul
Or ... it's criticism of people for being overweight by sites like this that depresses them and causes them to seek comfort in delicious food like this, exacerbating the issue.
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THIS is my dream come true. I want to try every. single. thing on there
- Mona Nomura
from IM
This reminds me of that Kim Basinger movie "My Stepmother is an Alien." Yummmmmm
- Shevonne
Part of that sandwich looks good...I think I'm going to have a grilled cheese sandwich for lunch now.
- Tamara
Hey, I have my weight issues, god knows, but nothing on that site makes me remotely hungry. I think a better name for the site would have been, "This is why people have heart attacks." imo. :)
- ♥patricia♥
It says underneath: "where dreams become heart attacks." :)
- Mona Nomura
It's not beer. Well, not by my definition. Just had a Flying Dog Double Pale Ale here which was rather nice. Mind you, wouldn't make a good session beer, not at 11.5%
- Ian May
Ian, you would have enjoyed last night's beer tasting. My favorite was a peanut butter home brew.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
But Bud, PLEASE keep making the commercials. Budweiser jingle writer guy, you're our hero. You make us laugh and consider drinking you're crummy beer.
- Christian Anderson
Tina, it *sounds* disgusting. Still, I'll try almost anything at least once!
- Ian May
I won't drink their crappy ass beer but they always have the best commercials.
- jamar78
from fftogo
Y'all must not live in the American South. Sometimes I want a tasty beer, but sometimes I just want a cold beer that doesn't cost too much. You can't exactly sit in a boat and drink Chimay all day, you know.
- Mr. Gunn
thin definitely! :) but this is a personal preference imho.
- vijay
Natural unless there's a unibrow. @Christopher YIKES! LOL
- Jim Goldstein
can't say I ever bothered to pay attention unless they were rediculously out of place (too small usually gives someone a very strange expression)
- alphaxion
It really depends on the person and her style:)
- Nia
More so eyebrows should match hair color. I hate to see light blonde hair with deep black brows...Madonna, girl from Criminal Minds, Gwen Stefani...it looks so artificial.
- Janet
Something in between...unibrow is definitely right out.
- Alex Scoble
It depends on what works for someone's face. Thin can make a woman look older than she is
- Patricia