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Matthew DeVries
Research Administrator at a medium sized midwestern university. Science Geek4life. Grad Degrees in Pharm/Tox and Biology. Love theology, philosophy, music too
You come upon a cliff and you dangling from it seconds away from dying, losing their grip, 1 random unknown human and all of the Gorillas on the planet. You only have time to save either the human, or all the Gorillas (they're all like in the same bag or something) Which do you save?
Riddle me this.
- Matthew DeVries
Tell the human to grab the bag of monkeys and save all of them?
- Jordan Hofker
Can't, turns out they're deaf, and can only lip read highschool Latin
- Matthew DeVries
The gorillas.
- Amy
YouTube - This faggot looks like Uncle Roy - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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WTF?
- Matthew DeVries
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Someone needs to start a website, with a bunch of pictures of objects, where the title of every picture is captioned "INVISIBLE CAT!"
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Like a picture of a bicycle
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A picture of cheeseburger with a bite out of it
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A finger with a piece missing...
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
from iPod
A dog running away looking scared.
- Sarah June
A shredded tree.
- Sarah June
Arrests made in ring that sold human fat, Peru says - CNN.com - http://www.cnn.com/2009...
SOYLENT SOAP IS PEOPLE!!!!! IT'S PEOPLE!!!!
- Matthew DeVries
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Soccer, Boxing, MMA, F1, Golf, Rugby, Cricket, Tennis - The thing that is infuriating about these sports, there is no real champion, championship, or ranking system for the 200,000,000,000 championships, tests, cups, trophys etc.
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It seems like every other week there is another Soccer "Championship" that everyone is losing their freaking minds over. We have all this about this Fraco-Ireland debocle, that everyone this is so important because it's a championship, but I swear to Bob we just 4 months ago during the summer were dealing with the soccer championship. YOU CAN'T HAVE A FRACKING CHAMPIONSHIP EVERY 45 MINUTES!
- Matthew DeVries
And Boxing? WTF?! Not only are there 45 different belts declaring who the "Champion" is, but the second someone does pull their shit together and gets all the 200 belts, they take all but one away from him, give them to random people and scatter them to the wind.
- Matthew DeVries
I guess technically Golf has the annual money winner and Tennis has the world rankings, but neither of these are the result of anything you route a whole year for and comes down to a match up.
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The Superbowl? You know who the champion is.
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The World Series? You know who the champion is.
- Matthew DeVries
March Madness, you know who the champion is.
- Matthew DeVries
I think the big problem for football/soccer, is its popularity. There are so many different leagues in different countries and regions that by nature it is decentralized. The US teams aren't the center of attention. The World Series and the Superbowl barely involve two countries.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Lord Stanley's Cup, you know who the champion is.
- Matthew DeVries
Though I must say, I really enjoyed College Football a whole lot more when the season just ended with a bunch of disjointed by invitation bowl games that have zero to do with who the champion was.
- Matthew DeVries
But isn't Europe ~= USA in population? Can't they have a "European Championship" and be done with it?
- Matthew DeVries
Brainstorm some spaces for a good ole' game of FriendFeed Bingo.
Cristo pumps an Akiva or Alex Scoble thread full of man lust
- Matthew DeVries
Akiva's songs to code by
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Thomas Hawk's daily walk pictures
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Sad - Old school websites at the cutting edge of the multimedia by coding in Shockwave......But today's Flash will not play the old Shockwave sites. These gems of media perfection, forever silenced. Pushing their code to ears that will never again see them, or eyes that will never again hear them. :(
*tips one for quiet shockwave sites*
- Matthew DeVries
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Since Allen Iverson is now a free agent, couldn't I technically sign him to shoot free throws in my drive way?
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Anyone want to chip in on this?
- Matthew DeVries
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Hamster Blast, a Parody of hamsterdance.com - http://www.friedberg.org/tyler...
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@Veronica - Within the last month one of the Tekzilla sponsors was a service that goes through and fixes all your music library files, adds album art, puts in the right track numbers in, etc. However, I can't find a per/episode sponsor list for your shows, so I can't track down that service. Any clue what it was?
Maybe it was scam school......
- Matthew DeVries
it was a twit network cast.
- Micah Wittman
from iPhone
net@night I think.
- Micah Wittman
from iPhone
This was also on the Totally Rad Show this week. The company/software is TuneUp.
- Mitch
Here's the TRS segment: http://revision3.com/trs...
- Mitch
They mention the coupon code "TRS" which saves you 15% off the price of the software but I'm sure there's something similar for Tekzilla.
- Mitch
That's it Mitch, thanks.
- Matthew DeVries
I guess there are sort of parallel apps being profiled. Thanks, Mitch. I had a chance to look it up: I was thinking of Pollux http://polluxapp.com/ - see net@night 122 http://twit.tv/natn122
- Micah Wittman
Isn't iTunes supposed to have a button for converting my DRM tracks to DRM free? Like a legit make the FBI happy kind of way? Something about "Upgrade My Library"? I can't find that button dammit.
FRACKING HATE APPLE!!!
- Matthew DeVries
if I remember correctly, it's in the iTunes store - in the Quick Links section in the upper right? I think?
- holly
It's in the iTunes Store. Click on the link that says, "iTunes Plus" on the right.
- aldenoneil
What she said.
- aldenoneil
:)
- holly
Ah, there it is. Only $9....... I guess I was a bigger Pie Rat in my college days than I thought.
- Matthew DeVries
I mean, I burned from my CD's a lot.\
- Matthew DeVries
Bad Gods™ | Your Hands - http://badgods.com/yourhan...
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Why did I ever become a healer? I seem to remember being all hardcore in love with Boomkining, then it all goes black, suddenly it's 6 months later and I'm a tree.
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Haven't played at all for year, working on my WoW memoirs
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You know how the Pharmacy always staples a second bottle sticker to the bag that your prescription is in? Is that so you can put that sticker on a second special bottle when you get home?
Like if you have small bottle that fits in your purse?
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YouTube - Classic Sesame Street: I'm Sure Gonna Miss You, Mr. Hooper! - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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I saw this when it happened for real, live, the first time...... Was like 5.... Sad.
- Matthew DeVries
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Dear Friendfeed old people - I'm watching a TV show right now (Not spoiling which) where the power is hopelessly out, and they're forced to do their police work without power. They had drawing of a suspect, and someone found an old Mimeograph machine. The young people were clueless, the old guy on the show comes up, grabs the drawing, throws it..
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..in the drum and boom, makin copies. I thought that these things needs wax stencils, made with ribbonless typewritters, you couldn't just throw a piece of paper in it and make the copies.
- Matthew DeVries
Am I wrong?
- Matthew DeVries
yeah - mimeo def needs a stencil.
- MikeAmundsen
more here [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...]
- MikeAmundsen
Ditto machine? Yeah needs the original on the carbon paper
- CW™
hey! this is an 'old people" trap! and i fell for it!
- MikeAmundsen
I know they seem to still use them in some schools here. Yikes!
- Eric @ CS Techcast
actually, memio is very cheap and easy to use. can even do them w/ crank-powered drums; no elec. needed.
- MikeAmundsen
This brings back memories of running stuff through the mimeo in jr. high and all the purple ink....
- Sally Robinson
yep - i can still smell it; takes me back to school daze....
- MikeAmundsen
Why were they always purple and blue?
- Eric @ CS Techcast
So how could you tell what you were typing without a typewriter ribbon?
- Matthew DeVries
Mimeo was black. And yes, this old person wondered about the stencil. You'd need to trace the drawing on a wax stencil first. The ditto machine produced the heady-smelling purple copies.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
You mean all these years I'd been mislead in believing that the purpley-ink copy machine was a mimeo? Next you'll tell me that an IBM Selectric really a typewriter.
- Sally Robinson
Actually, I was considering "Blurry Purple Dittos" as a band name.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
actually, i used Ditto Machines in school, not mimeographs [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...]. in fact, my dad used to work for Ditto Corp when i was a kid and i got to play around a lot w/ them. messy, aromatic, and lots of fun!
- MikeAmundsen
Matt: TV show might have used a Thermofax[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...] machine instead of mimeograph. Thermofax worked w/ regular typewritten or written pages, but were lower quality.
- MikeAmundsen
since i've already offered way more than requested, i might as well complete the set. in a previous job (long ago) i was a music score copyist. we would write the 'originals' in black ink on clear plastic sheets and the copies were produced using an Ozalid machine [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...]. the copies yellowed over time, but it was a popular and relatively inexpensive way to produce the copies needed for performances.
- MikeAmundsen
*ditto copying this thread right now*
- Micah Wittman
from iPhone
@Micah: +1
- MikeAmundsen
Wasn't thermofax, it was manual, crank driven, no electricity.
- Matthew DeVries
I really don't like Domino's Pizza, even compared to other large fast food type Pizza places it wouldn't be in the top 5, but their online ordering system and tracking set up is so easy and fun that I just order it from them. 3 clicks and pie, none of this dialing the phone bullshit.
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Though I'd never pick them up in person.
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I used to like Papa John's for the same reason (not the tracking, but the ordering). Now that I'm 20' outside their delivery area, I hate them with the fire of 1000 suns. I'm not a big Domino's fan, but I might have to check that ou.
- Jennifer Dittrich
"Jonah put your order in the oven at 6:08pm"
- Matthew DeVries
Ooooh. OK, that kicks ass. I think I know what I'm having for dinner tonight.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Better than the Pizza Hut iPhone app?
- Kevin Pedraja
Have fun eating that "Anti-Choice" pizza.
- Alex Scoble
Ugh, Domino's. We almost exclusively buy from our local neighborhood pizza place.
- Kenton
Ok, someone seriously needs to fucking explain this to me: 6,079 Following 6,796 Followers 23 Listed
* 16Tweets
And I read those 16 tweets. There is NOTHING there to warrant 6K followers for that little content provided...
- Matthew DeVries
spymaster account or something maybe?
- Wang Yip
Post what you think is the worst sounding Verbs ever, even throw in what tenses are the worst.
Scrobble, Scrobbled, Scrobbling
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Grok
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Apple battles 'jailbreakers' over iPhone control - CNN.com - http://www.cnn.com/2009...
""People are so annoyed by Apple and their s**t, and if you give them opportunity to go around it, then they'll even pay for it,""
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I'd really like to see Leo Laporte do a talk-soup type show, that summarizes the best of all the TWiT network shows, doing clips, with banter in between by one of the producers who's putting it together. It could be called This Week At TWiT.
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Anyone else think this would be a great show?
- Matthew DeVries
*waits for it*
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Tina, you're waiting for someone to suggest that that use the @ instead? :)
- Matthew DeVries
Something like that...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
TWiTWiT - catchy name
- Bryce, Low in Sodium
I like my suggested name better Bryce
- Matthew DeVries
Yes!
- Micah Wittman
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This Week in This Week
- Ken Sheppardson
*still waiting for it*
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Did you offend someone Tina? No one seems to want to give you your satisfaction.
- Matthew DeVries
Apparently so, Matthew =(
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
@TWiT? Mind you, most americans can't pronounce twat correctly ;)
- alphaxion
I would like that if someone else was the host like Enigma
- gerald miller
i like TWiTWiT or TWiT Soup if they go like a direct talk soup style of show
- Chris Heath
Shouldn't it be called... no; wait - I'll have to do this when Tina isn't looking...
- Andrew Terry
Well Gerald, it would appear that I will soon have an abundance of free time...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
This idea I like.
- Nate Pilling
I can't believe that this week of all weeks, not a damn one of you is willing to give Tina, who has given so much to you, her much deserved release! Shame! Blueballing the best of us......
- Matthew DeVries
Tech Soup™
- Dave Friedel
Great I would watch that.
- Bryan Lee
There are too many TWiT shows!
- Manuel Mas
How so Manuel?
- Matthew DeVries
I had a conversation just like this with my buddy Jason. The result was the following TWiTWiT podcast: http://bit.ly/75fBa [iTunes link] What do you think?
- Noah Wolfe
I prefer the name "This week at TWiT"
- Matthew DeVries
why 'at' ?? why not 'on' or some other preposition?
- Chris Heath
It just feels nicer?
- Matthew DeVries
Need a geeky comedian to host this. I'd suggest MDV and Glen Campbell for this. Both of them are very funny and mildly geeky enough to pass it off.
- CW™
"mildly geeky"?
- Glen Campbell, B.A.
Well its not like you work for any real tech company doing anything super seriously geek or anything.. :P
- CW™
*still waiting for it*
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Anyone share this with Leo yet? Cause he always likes ideas about new shows. This would be easy to do to with a wrap up of shows that were done that week with a fresh face that wants to get into podcasts. Easy to do and fun. Did I mention easy to do?
- CW™
*taps foot impatiently*
- holly
*starts whistling theme to Jeopardy*
- CW™
*starts whistling theme to the Andy Griffith show*
- Glen Campbell, B.A.
I can't believe this thread hasn't pulled on Leo's vanity searches yet.
- Matthew DeVries
We've wanted to do this for some time, but it takes a lot of manpower we don't have at the moment.
- Leo Laporte
Or woman power... *still waiting*
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
TWaT would you call it? (I hate to leave a lady hanging.)
- Leo Laporte
FINALLY!!!! And I'm tickled to death that you're the one to finally answer the question, Leo =)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
O.M.G....*dead*
- WorldofHiglet
*giggles in corner with WoH*
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
yesssssssss!
- holly
funny thing is, that this has been sitting in my inbox (inbox 1 if you will call it) since nov 4th... i'm glad we could finally get you some release Tina ;-P
- Chris Heath
oh and now i get to claim inbox zero!
- Chris Heath
YESS!!!! Best payoff ever!!!
- Matthew DeVries
Leo, if it's in the offing somewhere, you should grab the URL .tv for it. I bet it would quickly be the top search result when you type in that title!
- Matthew DeVries
*still giggling*
- WorldofHiglet
Wow
- Eric @ CS Techcast
from iPhone
I KNOW!!! *still giggling in corner with WoH*
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Yeah...Leo went there...! *snigger*
- WorldofHiglet
*bowled over* woot!
- Micah Wittman
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