I know it's early, but when you guys find out if it's a boy or a girl, you have to let us know. If it's a boy, we need to send you more stuff!
- Jason, Mosquito
I leave FF for five minutes only to return and find out you guys are preggy. No doubt Akiva's white russians contributed to this! Congrats and welcome to the 2 kids club!
- Mark Krynsky
How exciting! Congrats to both of you..Rochelle & Akiva <333
- Myrna
I have been seeing this feed for sometime, and did not want to jump in as it is a very personal feed, however I cannot help but smile everytime I see the second picture.. what a lovely big(!) sister she is, and what a gorgeous smile.. I also fell in love with the shirt:) I just wanted to share the feelings even a complete stranger can get from such sweetness:) congrats!
- Neşe Uyanık
Rob La Gesse might correct me, but I am doing a few things for Rackspace. 1. I am its eyes and ears in Silicon Valley and SF tech regions, out of which a large proportion of its potential customers comes.
- Robert Scoble
2. I watch for trends, new technologies, new companies, and things that Rackspace should pay attention to, learn more about, or build partnerships with.
- Robert Scoble
He's lucky to have you, you're the best eyes/ears I've ever seen!! :)
- Susan Beebe
3. I do a video show for http://building43.com that helps share these things with the world, along with our own internal learning.
- Robert Scoble
4. I represent Rackspace on conference stages around the world, most recently at LeWeb which is the largest independent web conference in the world. Next week I'll be on stage a couple of times at CES.
- Robert Scoble
Well, if we are doing our jobs right, I won't have to correct you - we'll be in sync - and we are :)
- Rob La Gesse
5. I watch a large chunk of the tech industry on social networks like Twitter and Facebook and help Rackspace respond to customer pain and ideas. When Rackspace was down last month I pointed customers at information and more in real time before even Techcrunch wrote an article.
- Robert Scoble
This is exactly what companies need to do everywhere. This is a terrific customer service model.
- Susan Beebe
6. I work with high profile customers like Techcrunch and Mashable and make sure they remain happy with Rackspace. If not, at least they now have someone to call and yell at and/or make fun of in blog posts. ;-)
- Robert Scoble
7. I study the world's best customer-focused companies and pass learning onto Rackspace. This past year I've visited Zappos and Tiny Prints, both highly service obsessed companies. In past I've visited Target, Boeing, and many other companies.
- Robert Scoble
You also pass me leads, introduce me to people that might need hosting, introduce me to audiences that need cloud, etc. It's all about finding the influencers - and that's what you are really good at. It's a complex role that Robert makes look easy. It isn't.
- Rob La Gesse
Yeah, Rob, lots of people don't see that part of my job, in 2010 Techcrunch switched from another hosting company to Rackspace and that led to this video: http://www.rackspace.com/blog...
- Robert Scoble
But really I'm paid to make sure that Rob doesn't sleep. :-)
- Robert Scoble
@scobleizer - not sure if I sleep better or worse working with you. Guess it depends on the color of the wig, and who you are kissing ;)
- Rob La Gesse
Rob: and Techcrunch didn't even publish the worst pictures! :-)
- Robert Scoble
i can assure you rob doesn't sleep - he's called me at 2am before!
- Allen Stern
Allen: he does sleep. Just not that often and not on a predictable schedule.
- Robert Scoble
actually, i don't think Scoble sleeps either! hehe :) Then again, who in the hosting business does? LOL
- Susan Beebe
I've been with Robert when he didn't sleep the night before :-)
- Jesse Stay
Congratulations, Tudor and Jeanette! You are both certainly invited to use my just-for-fun http://bebepool.com site if you were planning on having friends/family prognosticate about babby's arrival :) Cheers!
- Micah Wittman
The Oregon uniforms are ok today (they change every game); Oregon is fired up, they did the bush league move of encrouching over the 50s while Ohio State was at their 45, and what was worse is their fans cheered it. I expect Oregon to come out riding a wave of emotion based on the pregame
- RAPatton
from iPhone
I'd guess the avg Ohio State fan here is 50, average Oregon fan is about 35
- RAPatton
from iPhone
He's also starting to look just as wooden as Dick Clark. You think when he does this, it's like spending time with your great grandfather?
- Andy Bakun
What was up with Dick Clark? His skin looked younger than my 4 yo! I remember him having wrinkles 5 or 6 years ago. My husband said that it was animatronics being used.
- Admiral Anika
How was Dick Clark's voice last night?
- Jon Ursenbach
I love that despite being "well preserved," Dick Clark still looks less fake in all of those pictures than the people he's with.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Dick Clark looks good in still shots, when you don't need him to move. On screen, it's brutal. As Jennifer points out, the opposite is also true.
- Andy Bakun
Weekend at Bernie's, featuring Brian Seaquest.
- Dave Roth
from iPhone
His voice was horrible. He never really recovered from the stroke, but it seemed that is was worse than last year or the year before, whenever I saw him last. I still claim botox because he had wrinkles in at the beginning of the decade.
- Admiral Anika
congrats *echo pours you a glass of OJ*
- echostreamer
Leo: I'm hoping some sort of cool black titanium ;)
- metalerik
Laura: yeah, I totally fought the power and got clean at 21. ;)
- metalerik
Jemm: cool! not sure if this is you too but I have a friend that just never tried any of it. It's so rad because he's a total metal head and been in lots of bands that have toured all over the earth. It's a cool example of one way to go. I don't at all think it's wrong to drink or whatever- just if it messes up a person's life and relationships (like for me and even then it's not for me to judge).
- metalerik
thanks again everyone. you guys are the only ones I told. xo FF friends!
- metalerik
congrats. you should be damn proud of yourself ; )
- liladreams
@metalerik: Yeah, never tried for no particular reason. I'm far from metal head, though ;) I'm just a geek who wants to be always in control of himself and able to think clearly in all situations. It's probably harder to give up drinking after trying, like you have done, than not having an idea what's the big deal, anyway :)
- Jemm
I never thought about it, but looking at what I've posted to the posterous site is collectively very motivational. It's been a good thing. I have to give it up to Mo who encouraged me to start blogging again. <3
- Derrick
Aw man that was beautiful. Just beautiful D. Thanks for opening up like that. It can't be easy. But it does this guy a world of good.
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
Crikey. I wrote this yesterday on an impulse; I just re-read and burst into tears. Oh my stars. Thanks for all the kind words, everyone. They mean more than you could ever know. <3
- Derrick
It's a good thing you suck at suicide, because you seem to be pretty awesome at everything else.
- s t e v e
*big giant hugs* I am SO GLAD you are here - on the planet with us and on FF.
- marthalib
(Um, I'm pretty sure Derrick will take my comment upthread the way I meant it, but lemme just stop being a jokey bastard long enough to say I'm glad you are still here, D. If you can tough it out, I expect I can, too.)
- s t e v e
Steve, crossing paths with you has been one of the highlights of my year.
- Derrick
Derrick, when I finally make it to the States... drinks are on me...
- Johnny Worthington
Thank you for sharing this, D. The universe wants you in it and your friends love you. I don't know what more to say except I feel blessed to know you. Thank you. Now get your ass to NC so we can have cheddar chicken biscuits!!!!
- Mary Carmen
from iPhone
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. That just made me cry and when I see you one of these days at a meetup, I'm going to hug the hell out of you. *hugs*
- Lis
Absolutely, Lis. I'm looking forward to it.
- Derrick
*fist bump* D. You are truly an inspiration. MAD RESPECT! Happy New Year brother!
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Brian, the thought had been in my head for a month or so, but it was seeing your post about "the abyss" that made me punch away at the keyboard. Happy New Year, my friend.
- Derrick
I made my comment to Derrick via private...but...this man is one of the most amazing, feeling, people...your a great person...thank you for sharing Derrick
- Bill Heslin
If we can't catch a Nigerian with explosives in feminine underpants, whose father alerted the U.S. embassy, whose ticket was bought in cash, who didn’t check bags, whose visa was denied by the UK, who studied in Yemen, whose name was on a watch list, who can we catch? - http://origin.reddit.com/r...
Maybe we're not trying to catch terrorists? Maybe we're trying to manufacture excuses to more tightly control US citizens, and terrorism is just the rationalization du jour?
- Mr. Gunn
Mr. Gunn: Space aliens are actually doing the terrorizing in preparation for 2012.
- Christopher A Carr
Petr: While I'm sure it, in a strange way, comforts you to think there a Grand Order behind all things -- a Big Conspiracy to rule them all -- that's really not the reality. Human brains are exceedingly good at recognizing patterns, but sometimes this capacity is hyperactive (as in your case). If you think the Virgin Mary appears to us in common objects, your brain will construct Virgin Mary visages on burnt toast. And you ascribe way too much competence to human organizations.
- Christopher A Carr
I read this week that the two most important changes to airline security since 9/11 are re-enforced cockpit doors and that now passengers know to fight back. Who knows how many plans have been thwarted by the first, and between 1 and 3 have been thwarted by the second (depending how you count it: Flight 93, the shoe bomber, and the underwear bomber).
- Kevin Fox
I'm with you Cristo....heavy on the incompetence.
- Bonnie Foster
Please translate from Latin(?) for us dumb folk, thanks
- LANjackal
from IM
*remove the cause - sickness will go away itself* - old medical proverb (yes, in Latin)
- A.T.
if people can crash a White House party and it goes on and on
- VAL D. Zone
And yet we have no problem putting 12 year old girls on the no-fly list because of a name match ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-k... ). The people working at the TSA are clearly fast-food burn-outs. At what point do we, as citizens, stop putting up with this tomfoolery?
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
I'm not convinced this can adequately be explained by incompetence. I don't know that there was a conspiracy, but I can't dismiss the possibility given the depth of incompetence required. Assuming conspiracies never happen is as mindless as assuming everything is conspiracy.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
It *is* pretty interesting that people bitch about too much airport security until there's a thwarted bombing, then they say there's never been enough.
- Kevin Fox
I'm not complaining about there being too much, Kevin, just that there isn't any effective.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Ummm I think you're confused, Kevin. The *general public* complains about there being too much security. The only people who complain about there being too little are politicians trying to win votes via FUD & scaremongering
- LANjackal
from IM
Anyone know the names of the companies who are making whole body scanners? I think I need to buy some stock.
- Victor Ganata
Kevin - There's a reason for the "no getting up last hour" rule, and it's not to prevent a terrorist from going to the bathroom. It's to prevent innocent people with headscarves from being tackled by well-meaning but jittery passengers.
- Mr. Gunn
Moot point, that rule was silly and has since been repealed
- LANjackal
from IM
As I understand the TSA strategy, it involves catching anyone who tries to do something that has already been tried. In other words, we're preparing for the previous "war" rather than the next one.
- Mark "Mr Bolivious" J
In other words, the TSA strategy = FAIL.
- Victor Ganata
Seriously. An amazingly _expensive_ FAIL. All that time, people-power, money spent, so we can hear platitudes about why it did not work or that there are things that can be improved.
- Rick Cogley
Three hours delay at Paris CDG for this the following day on-route to Detroit. Most of this spent in the queue at the departure gate as they had only one male and one female officer to carry out an intensive search of 300 pax and their carry-ons. Explanations from Air France were very sparse, fortunately I'd caught all the details on Sky News at Manchester.
- Nick B.
@Chris..No, I do not think there is one big conspiracy, and that all is conspiracy. Let's please stick to FACTS and lets debate that. ok? (1). Detroit bomber was on a Britain 'no-entry' radical Islamist list. IF THIS will not hint CIA FBI DHS TSA to not only not to allow this guy in the US, BUT ALSO to search him down while boarding, then I DO NOT believe it was complete imbecile fail...
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- Petr Buben
@Chris.. further, please understand, that nanothermite high military explosive was found on the site of WTC controlled demolition inside operation pretext for wars, just as pools of molten steel. please understand that buildings were PULVERIZED with the speed close to free fall, 11 floors per second .... NoT possible other than masterpiece controlled demolition, per irrefutable scientific evidence .... i mean, have seen the video footage? http://ae911truth.org
- Petr Buben
HOW do you colonize countries in the age of airplanes as suicide weapons, of people willing to die in a suicide and terror act to resist occupations, in the age of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons? ....these wars are a big mistake .. http://krunchd.com/911 pretext for wars
- Petr Buben
So...cheeseburger face? Dare I ask how this came about? :D And I agree with Mo...this pic deserves to be on a card of some sort. :D
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Amanda, it started out by me saying "say cheese!" and getting her to smile. Somehow "cheese" morphed into "cheeseburger"!
- Rochelle
Ayse, her favorites right now are sweet potatoes, mangoes, banana, and Ritz crackers.
- Rochelle
LOL!!! We say "cheeseburger" in my family too, and that is *exactly* the kind of face we make.
- Anna Haro
Audrey and I have some faves in common. :)
- Ayşe E.
Also note the fact that's she's 11.5 months old and still has NO TEETH. We're going to have to get her some baby dentures soon.
- Rochelle
No teeth? I bit through a bottle nipple at 6 weeks; when my mom noticed she was happy she wasn't breast feeding, bit my development was odd in general.
- RAPatton
from iPhone
No teeth at all, not even bumps or dots or anything!
- Rochelle
Having no teeth is what makes it even cuter :)
- Charlotte M
i wonder if being older will make teething easier or harder for her
- RAPatton
Our kids didn't get teeth until after a year, but it didn't stop them eating whatever we were eating. I still remember Sarah, now 19, eating corn on the cob with two teeth.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
You home or at the office? If home, did you know SAM had an online posse? If office, well, I'm impressed - 9:22 pm on December 30!
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
hehehe... Home MaryB... Most people expect I have peeps though... you guys represent real well though. Thanks for flaunting to her the magic. :)
- SAM
Don't mind Akiva. He actually has two hers, one just under a year old. BTW - where are they lately? Haven't seen any Audrey pix in a while.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
He actually has three... Joey is his 2nd wife.
- SAM
Although... my two her's laughed out loud at Akiva's comment. Too funny.
- SAM
Good show... it's fun how overwhelming FF is to folks who aren't savvy with it... She's on her way out now, heading home to start up her FF account I'm sure. You all are amazing. Thank you.
- SAM
I don't think it's all that amazing. I didn't get a cellphone until 2008.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Timing is irrelevant. Your feelings are irrelevant. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
- Mo Kargas
I am getting a Mo. A Mo Mo Mo? Mo Mo MO?
- Louis Gray
Mo, I was assimilated once all ready, and recently ripped the damn thing away from my head, for the time being. It's likely I'll be assimilated in the future.
- Jimminy Fuller
Rod, nah. He stopped sellin' drugs and pimpin' hoes long ago.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I didn't get my first cell until 2004 and that was only because life circumstances kinda forced it on me at the time.
- Spidra Webster
My mum still doesn't have one. Which was annoying when she said she was going to be in Harris Scarfe and wasn't.
- Bryce Roney
I have a cell phone that I only use to make emergency calls and for locating my Kid at Home Depot.We tend to get sidetracked in there.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
My first cellphone was prepaid Sony flip phone back in June 2007 , which I used for one week and switched for post paid blackberry and within 30 days I switched to iPhone.
- ashish
from iPhone
My mom doesn't have a cell phone or computer... heck not even an ATM card! She's never driven or typed in her life.
- Adrian
Cellphones are overrated....as long as your near a landline phone and a computer with internet!
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
I bought my first cellphone for business use about 15 years ago, but I only got one for personal use (pay as you go via Virgin Mobile) when payphones started becoming scarce a few years ago. However, whenever I find myself in northern or central Wisconsin, Upper Michigan, or vast areas of the Dakotas, I find myself longing for the payphone days of yore.
- Mark "Mr Bolivious" J