He hopes that in two years he can convince her to not divorce him, which would cost $300M. Or two years would be long enough for him to divest his assets in such a way that divorce costs him less :)
- Tudor Bosman
If she divorced him _now_, it could seriously eat into his earnings via endorsement losses, even if that money doesn't go to her. So he has a serious financial incentive to get her to stick around. (though wow, she got him to agree to several-times-a-DAY marriage counselling.)
- Andrew C
Thx for the link, johnpiercy. I should know better than to read further about this. Oy.
- Ayşe E.
re Andrew. I presumed the counseling was his idea as part of his desperate plan to keep her. She is probably angrily bashing things still.
- niniane
It's weird that he'd lose the endorsements if she leaves him now, but he would keep them if she were paid to stay. Either way, his image is ruined.
- niniane
He's no longer one of the greatest golfers the world has ever seen?
- ronin
from iPhone
Oh no! "The latest kind of recycling has nothing to do with soda bottles. It entails liposuctioning fat from, say, thighs or buttocks and injecting it into breasts to augment them. After being condemned in the early ’90s, this procedure is generating newfound excitement among the handful of doctors nationwide who offer it and patients keen to enlarge their breasts without resorting to implants. ... Sarah, a petite 34-year-old woman from Miami who asked that only her first name be used, considered implants, but said she didn’t want her breasts to “look hard or fake or extremely unnatural.” So she had Dr. Roger K. Khouri, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon in charge of the Miami Breast Center, take fat from her thighs and buttocks to fill out her chest. “I love that it’s just mine, my own fat,” she said. “I didn’t have to put anything foreign in my body.”"
- Christopher Chung
from Bookmarklet
"A report from its task force reviewed the limited research on fat grafting to the breast and concluded that it “can be considered a safe method of augmentation.” ... Thus, the task force’s statement turned a red stoplight into a yellow one, signaling to plastic surgeons: Proceed with caution."
- Christopher Chung
The quality feels a little on the toy-ish side, but it works fine. I still have it though I think the novelty of it wore off pretty quickly.
- Dan Hsiao
But you know, it's a poached egg, right? Using steam from the toaster! that's neat.
- Christopher Chung
i bought one at target a coupla years ago for $20, and still use it as my main toaster. rarely poach eggs in it, altho i still sometimes use it for hard-boiled eggs. it's much quicker than the traditional way of boiling eggs, and I like that i'm using one energy cycle to get both toast and eggs. agree with dan that the quality is rather low, but for $20 i can't complain.
- Felicia Yue
Googlers (and former Googlers and anyone else familiar with the area): any recommendations for good lunch eats near Google HQ? I'm meeting an out-of-town friend in the area for lunch tomorrow.
Maybe they got a bulk discount on the old models now that the slims are out.
- Dan Hsiao
from iPhone
I think the "upgrade supercomputer" thing is just a coverup for the fact that DoD is currently playing the most epic season of Madden EVER.
- Brian Chang
Water is still the fluid necessary for life. After all that vodka, you are dehydrated, and need the water to make it through the hangover...
- Seth Greenblatt
Fill up some ice and tonic with lime wedge.
- Nyan Min
Nice to see that your posts are getting more frequent than past few months.
- ashish
I'm guessing the rest of the vodka found its way to your mouth? :)
- Dan Hsiao
from iPhone
first one ;) may b u can change colors but as theme? definitely first one =]
- emre dede ve haremi
The one on the right caught my eye first than the one on the left because of the pictures. The text on the left catches my eye more than the one on the right.
- imabonehead
I love the photos on the second one best!! I like both designs, but like the first design a little better.
- Rachel Lea Fox
The one on the left with the top pic of the right swapped for the first pic. Not that I enjoy being difficult or anything. Is this Tinyprints?
- Heather Solos
I like the one on the left better, but the first picture could be replaced with the photo from the bottom left on the right version and it should say 2009 somewhere.
- Clare Dibble
I like the big picture on the right the best; the kids look great and they're facing the reader. And the pop of green brightens the card.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
If it's a personal card, go with the one on the left. If it's for professional/business acquaintances, go with the one on the right.
- Curtiss Grymala
Easy -- on the Right. Bigger pictures over bigger fonts on a holiday card every time. They're not for reading, they're for looking at!
- Eric Borisch
I would like to put in a write-in candidate for a card with a picture of the whole family - Paul, April, Camilla, and Thomas. I like seeing the adults too!
- Robert Felty
I like the photos on the right, but I like the design on the left.
- Karen Padham Taylor
Thanks for your help, everyone!! :) I think I'm going to go with the design on the left, but replacing the picture on the left panel with the picture in the middle panel and putting the picture from the bottom left panel of the design on the right in the middle panel of the design on the left. (Am I confusing you yet?) I'm also going to make some changes on the font, as well.
- April Buchheit
They both look good, but with the change you decided on it'll work very nicely.
- James Stratford
Rob: Getting a picture of the whole family has proven to be a difficult task for the Buchheit family. Obtaining collective cooperation from all members (both children and adults) is a daunting endeavor.
- April Buchheit
Heather: Yes, this is from Tinyprints. :)
- April Buchheit
April - tell Paul I'm expecting the full family for 2010.
- Robert Felty
April, I work @TinyPrints so won't be much help deciding:) But, you know we're local in Mountain View right? Happy to set you (or anyone else) up with our best discount if you're interested. Feel free to reach out. I'll need to DM the code.
- Rick Bucich
April, it sounds like it'll turn out cute :) We have four kids and can't get them all to look at the camera either. I went with a single shot of each to save my sanity.
- Heather Solos
What April said. :) I wish I made 'em. "The Kitchen Table" isn't necessarily the best name for a restaurant from a branding perspective... :P
- Dan Hsiao
I don't understand the sweet potato fry craze... everywhere I go, there're sweet potato fries EVERYWHERE. Didn't know you can send photos to FF by text. Crazy.
- Mona Nomura
They're doing it wrong. You need to have an R2-skinned case with R2 sounds. You could do a 3PO one for those who want a golden-rod iPhone. Or a furry Ewok one. :)
- Dan Hsiao
No, Dan, *you* need to have an R2-skinned case with R2 sounds. har har.
- Christopher Chung
You don't want to sell me Star Wars iPhone cases. You want to go home and rethink your life.
- Brian Chang
The problem is what happens when someone is incorrectly using a function that you then add an extra arg to? Bad things. Example say we have: function happy() { make_everyone_happy(); }. But someone goes and calls it like this: happy(true);. That is completely valid. Then I go and change the function to be function happy($sad=false) { if ($sad) blow_up() else make_everyone_happy(); }. Since it was never erroring before you are likely not to notice that you've just blown things up.
- Benjamin Golub
Basically, it's a good and a bad thing :). I'm just used to languages where you don't have to check all the calls of your function when you add an arg. Now I know you have to be extra careful doing that with PHP.
- Benjamin Golub
Yeah, I just realized I'm thinking of C, not PHP, where you have to explicitly state that you want to use variable arguments. It's like that in PHP for legacy reasons (and it will not throw any warning/notice/error regardless of how you have error reporting set up). I guess it's always assumed with PHP that before calling a function, you'd check to see what the function is going to do...
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- Mark Trapp
It's not considered an error on PHP, I've tried it in the past in our codebase and there was no notice we were doing it
- Jorge Escobar
Just like Javascript. Lovely, isn't it?
- Joel Webber
Hahahaha. This is just the beginning. Maybe you should have looked into this stuff *before* getting acquired. :-) (I'm taunting now while Ben can laugh too. A few more discoveries like this and it won't be funny anymore.)
- Bruce Lewis
Benjamin you are my idol from the time of friendfeed. i'm sure you can have a look to php source code and hack something to improve php
- Fabrizio
Of course, if it's that big of an issue for you, you could always build the error handling into each of your functions. Basically, check to see if any arguments are being passed to the function, check to see if each of those arguments makes sense in the context of the function, then throw an error if they don't belong. That way, you would catch the happy(true) issue before changing the function to function happy($sad=false)
- Curtiss Grymala
Curtiss: we both know that doesn't scale (both with the size of the project and the team) especially with an already established code base. This is just the way PHP works and now I know :)
- Benjamin Golub
I was going to say that they can't call it SMB since that's what the original NES game was called, but the DS version is also called New Super Mario Bros. so that argument doesn't really stick. I'm hoping my Amazon pre-order from mid-October finally arrives today... (yeah, Prime would've been nice)
- Dan Hsiao
I think it's been long enough that they can just call it SMB. It's a whole new demographic now and nobody is going to be confused or disappointed if I say let's go play Super Mario Bros. and it isn't what they are expecting. Actually I'll probably just call it "Mario"
- Benjamin Golub
Holy crap are you serious??? I want to download a song from iTunes. Can't. Need to upgrade iTunes. Upgrade iTunes, launch it and am told "iTunes requires Safari 4.0.3 or later to use the iTunes Store within iTunes." Lame, but fine. Open Software Update. iTunes is not in there. Go to Safari's page and download version 4.0.4. Try installing. Can't....
This was frustrating, but not as frustrating as Windows restarting my computer when I wasn't looking ;) Thanks for the reminder. I'm much happier as a Mac than as a PC ;)
- Dan Hsiao
Yup, it's stupid on Apple's part. They've gotten very arrogant.
- Spidra Webster
Anyone remember when you could just go into a record shop and, you know, buy a record. Without having to upgrade your wallet AND your pockets?
- Slippy "WildBeard" Lane
I'm guessing you ignored some of your software updates for a long time? I wouldn't expect to be able to run the latest version of core apps if I hadn't kept my OS up to date.
- LogEx
So iTunes won't work without Safari. Nice.
- EricaJoy
LogEx, ever since Apple pushed an update to TAKE AWAY A FEATURE with 4.0.1, I've been wary of downloading iTunes updates. Of course, if I want to still use the iTunes Music Store, eventually I have to give in.
- Spidra Webster
Spidra, I understand that, it's always is a choice of whether to stay in an ecosystem or not. Now that all audio is non-DRM though, I don't see any limitations.
- LogEx
I don't want to install Safari to use iTunes. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
Ya know? FAIL! iTunes bites...which is amazing given the elegance of other Apple products. Perhaps it sucks because it's free.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
I don't think it's necessary on Windows, iTunes must be bundled with enough WebKit to work there, or have some other way of rendering.
- LogEx
LogEx, no not that I've seen. But I'm sure it's just a matter of time?
- Kol Tregaskes
I doubt it, especially after the flack they got by checking that box in the software update. But a dormant app is not big deal anyway on either platform, it's not like disk space is scarce.
- LogEx
Yes, I lived through this hell before. I hear you, Dan. I have given so much of my music buying business elsewhere because my 'primary library' machine can't handle all the upgrades needed to cope with iTunes. I just wanted to say, I feel your pain.
- Holly Rae, FFer
This is why I buy from Amazon so I don't have to keep up with Apple's bloatware.
- Alex Scoble
"But when Mr. Bradford, a skinny, short 19-year-old resident of the Farragut Houses, was arrested the next day as a suspect in a robbery, the words took on a level of importance that no one in their wildest dreams — least of all Mr. Bradford — could have imagined. They became his alibi."
- Brian Chang
from Bookmarklet
"Mr. Reuland acknowledges that, in principle, anyone who knew Mr. Bradford’s username and password could have typed the Facebook update, but he regards it as unlikely in this case. “This implies a level of criminal genius that you would not expect from a young boy like this; he is not Dr. Evil,” Mr. Reuland said, adding that the Facebook entry was just “the icing on the cake,” since his...
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- Dan Hsiao
Heard about this on the radio. Didn't know it was in my hood! But seriously... criminal genius? What are they talking about? A scheming 11-year-old could come up with this plan, no? Or at least the facebook part.
- Christopher Chung
"We are just destined to be really, really good friends who only hang out when I don't have a boyfriend, but still need male attention to boost my fragile and all-consuming ego."
- Ana
from Bookmarklet
"Don't worry. You're so funny and smart and amazing, any girl but me would be lucky to date you. You'll find someone, I know it. And when you do, I'll be right by your side to suddenly become all flirty and affectionate with you in front of her, until she grows jealous and won't believe it when you say we're just friends. But when she dumps you, that's just what we'll be."
- Dan Hsiao
The conclusion of this article finds the Onion in top form.
- Andrew C
translation: I am not into you like that. You don't do it for me in that way. Never did. never will. Sorry, but only sort of...
- Morgan Haley
The "my mom says hi" part is a nice way to twist the knife a bit.
- Brian Chang
The Glee cast is so ridiculously talented. Though it seems slightly odd that they had Kristin Chenoweth guest star in an episode and didn't find a way to have her as part of this number (since she was the original Glinda).
- Dan Hsiao
Yeah they are great. We saw Lea Michele (Rachel) in Spring Awakening about a year ago. She was very good (the whole musical was).
- Benjamin Golub
@Dan - I think the main difficulty there was that Kristin Chenowith's story arc lasted only that one episode, and the episode that this number is in hasn't aired yet.
- Brian Chang
Yeah, it didn't really fit in with the way her character was written... but I also feel like they didn't necessarily pick the best pieces for her. How awesome would it have been if she did "Popular"? Anyway, I'm really behind in this show so should find time to catch up :(
- Dan Hsiao
I really liked the duet they did together, I think it was Maybe This Time. But it isn't really fair making anyone go up against Kristin Chenoweth
- Benjamin Golub
I dunno... i feel like Lea Michele sounded better than Kristin in their duel... Lea Michele's voice is freakin' amazing.
- Dan Hsiao
Dan, did you see them perform the national anthem at the world's series?
- Jeannie Choi
I was impressed. The songs on the show are very over produced, you know? So I was skeptical about their actual singing talent, but wowzers, they can sing well live and a capella, not an easy feat.
- Jeannie Choi
Agree Jeannie - why do they have to super-synthesize the songs on an otherwise fine show? it's hecka annoying
- Felicia Yue
Tell me, what do you have planned for this evening? What, you want to take me on a date? I’m thinking about it. I’m gonna go get me some pizza. Ooh. Where? In Brooklyn. Do you have a specific pizzeria in mind? Yes, but I can’t tell you that. I see. Well, what do you like about this pizzeria?
- Jeannie Choi
from Bookmarklet
It’s the best pizza I ever had in my entire life. Brick oven. Thin crust. A sauce that they have to make at three in the morning ’cause it’s a family secret – only the father and the son can make it because the people who work at the restaurant can’t know the recipe because other restaurants try to bribe them for it. It’s that good. And that’s a true story.
- Jeannie Choi
any idea where jay z goes for pizza? ;)
- Jeannie Choi
dunno but i could use some good 'ole NYC pizza right now!
- Dan Hsiao