And don't forget the variation for the night crew with the N and C sign afterwards =) Josh, no lie, I was thinking of exactly this last night. Get outta my head!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Tina..I'M IN UR HEADZ, MAKNG U FEEDZ FRENZ
- Josh Haley
We throwing up signs now?!! It's Like That?!! hahahahaha!!!!!
- Anna Haro
I am SO not an expert on signs. My fingers can barely bend enough nowadays. Just trying to get some ideas out there. Let's see some more from everyone. Rahsheen's fault, he brought it up last night on a video.
- Josh Haley
Those first two will make people think you are throwing up "Bloods".
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
I think the only course to go here is to pick something directly from sign language.....I don't want anyone to bust a e-cap in my ass
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
Monique - THANK YOU for that because I would never know. I too am not in need of a cap-busting.
- Josh Haley
If you want a real ASL sign, let me know what word/words and I'll find it!
- Rochelle
Rochelle, One for friend, feed and confess(ion)
- Josh Haley
That's nothing like the Blood sign (which is the coolest gang sign ever). Working from that, can anybody spell "feed" with their fingers? The night before the inauguration someone managed to spell "OBAMA," it was beyond awesome.
- Lo
Apple working on a touchscreen remote for upcoming Apple TV? http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009... [This seems crazy fake but any talk of AppleTV/Home Theater on MBW is welcome to me :D]
- sunkenplanet
"Based on the documents we had a look at, the short-term plans seem to involve a one-size-fits-all solution (somehow allowing for multiple connections but avoiding "double dongles") which would enable users to connect a variety of devices into a single Light Peak port, while slightly longer-term plans will mean Light Peak obviates the need for almost every type of connector you use...
more...
- sunkenplanet
Tease: Merlin Mann previews the new Rush lessons on Garageband, Gina Trapani talks about Light Peak, the new 10 gigabit connection, and Andy Ihnatko likes pie. MacBreak Weekly is next!
- Leo Laporte
It's should be Apple Weekly the Mac is less popular than the iPhone but still both are Apple products.
- George Mag
from iPhone
Love the show Leo, but you guys spent way too much time on Window 7 and the House Party, IMO. If I wanted to hear about Windows 7, I'd listen to Windows Weekly (and I do listen to it.) I understand that companies don't exist in a vacuum, and you can't always talk about one without the other, but sometimes you guys divert off topic for quite a while. :-)
- Joe
Show him how awesome digital music services and devices can be...if he doesn't already know ;)
- Andru Edwards
he's anti-consumerism. he doesn't like "things."
- Veronica
which is tough for me, because i love things (and especially "stuff")
- Veronica
What does he normally do? When my sister visited me we would usually go to the movies or go shopping. I doubt a 17-year old guy is into shopping, though.
- Michelle Martinez
Punk rawk... take him to a gig with Patrick?
- Simon Wicks
Why don't you drive down to Monterey with him and check out the aquarium. You'll probably both enjoy it. http://www.mbayaq.org/ I'm assuming you live in SF.
- Michael Fidler
We've actually been to the aquarium together there already! And I don't have a car... I might take him climbing at Mission Cliffs, and then maybe to the cartoon art exhibit at the museum!
- Veronica
I flipping LOVED the Monteray aquarium. One of the best things about California.
- Chris Nixon
Climbing or hiking was going to be my other suggestion, By the way you've described him, it seems like something he might enjoy:-)
- Michael Fidler
Any local sites that are creepy and/or rumored to be haunted? Every 17 year old guy I've ever known loved creepy places.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Do you have any cute, quirky friends that he might find interesting?
- Morgan Haley
Morgan wants to live vicariously through Veronica's little brother... LOL
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
take him to berkeley or stanford to mingle!
- Pokai
Mark: Dude! Ixnay on the icariouslyvay!
- Morgan Haley
Saying your borther is "anti-consumerism" makes me wonder if he is political at all. Would he be interested in seeing sights where Harvey Milk made speaches or other movements that started in SF? But don't worry to much about it. Go to a movie, make dinner, talke and have a cup of coffee. Big Sisters rock!
- ChiliMac
As someone who watches little TV and plays few Video Games, I know I like trips to Book Stores, Cafe's, and other places I can people watch. When I was seventeen, there was nothing I cherished more than alone time with a good book. Not sure if that describes your brother.
- Joe
from twhirl
Would he like the new California Academy of Sciences?
- Alan
Yea I agree with with Simon. Let him hang out with Patrick, they can listen to his Black Flag collection. I'm sure they would figure something out to do.
- Fee501st
Interview him for Tekzilla as the "mirror universe Veronica". Although, I guess Patrick already fills that role? :)
- Chris Luckhardt
There's a museum tour & gift shop at San Quentin -- pretty off-beat and weird. Or the Winchester House or Santa Cruz Mystery Spot.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
A brother who doesn't game.. you sure he's related
- Michael Rowe
from twhirl
OMG, send him to my house! No TV or vids for kids Chez Spamson!
- Martha
If weather is good, outside hikes or parks, picnic or frisbee or sports. If weather bad, inside board games, cooking together, books, music. Does he have any particular interests?
- Martha
Take him to the Mabuhay Gardens. Oh wait, it's a strip club now :)
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
tell him to bring old sneakers, take him bowling, in a kind of ironic, cool, retro, rebel scofflaw way, walk out with the rental shoes. cz
- John Czwartacki
Too bad the Watchmen movie isn't out yet. Actually, if you have a copy of the graphic novel...
- Jason Wong
Has he been to the Bay Area very much? A simple tour would be cool. Maybe even riding the BART under the Bay would be interesting.
- Paul Reynolds
:))))))))))) این یوزرش به میریام میخوره ها
- Mil∂d
(talking like an android or kindle2 text-to-speech voice): i find that many that are not into stuff are into plenty of physical outdoor activities. perhaps skydiving, rocking climbing, paintball, or other action that requires expending plenty of stored atp (adenosine triphosphate: energy) would be mutually & acceptably entertaining -if not satisfactory for the current time frame allotted?
- sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq
Might be time for a little reprogramming. All you'll need is a reclining chair, some duct tape, eyelid holders, eye drops and a bigass TV... But if you don't want to go through all of that Berkley sounds like it has promise.
- Joe Pierce
17 year olds are self entertaining if you get my drift. Just make sure there is a lot of the food he likes to eat in the fridge. ;) Maybe take him out to a movie or something.
- CW™
go on a walking tour in SF, visit the cool santa clara flea market. Alcatraz, mountain biking, hiking, go out to the wetlands in mountain view, that park is neat
- anna sauce
I read the headline and delete. probably read .01% of them.
- Dan London
If by PR blast blast emails you means newsletters etc from companys, i tend to ignore most of them. Especially the ones from where i work..
- Simon Wicks
Yeah, just the headline for me, too...
- Jason Wong
I treat them the same as I treat ads from online retailers: 99% get canned.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
If it's a product I might want to review, I read it. Otherwise, delete.
- Joe
from twhirl
Katie: click click? That seems like one too many clicks..
- Angelo Rodrigues
I'll read the ones relating to something I'm very very interested in, but that's 0.1% of the time. Otherwise I delete on sight.
- No FB
depends on the product. Delete 95% of them. If I like and know the product or know the PR person though I'll always look at them.
- Thomas Hawk
I have to admit I at least scan most of them.
- Dion Hinchcliffe
I scan them to see if they are relevant.
- Heather Solos
For me they're simply search engine fodder... something you find when you are looking into a company, product or service. More useful as historical archive.
- Clay Newton
It depends on the product, but for the most part, I think press releases are a total failure in terms of communication.
- Jill O'Neill
Totally depends on the product. By now, I've figured out which PR blasts might actually contain useful information and which are just "We loves you! Buy our stuff!" The quality/message is amazingly consistent per-company.
- Chris Weiss
from twhirl
I mostly just leave them unread (yay virtually unlimited Gmail space), but I may scan them depending on who's sending and more importantly, how bored I am when they come in.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
It depends on the pitch. Most of the time blast emails do nothing to reveal where or what the story is. Just saying "XYZ has launched" is fine for a news beat reporter, but doesn't do much for a trend or feature reporter.
- Patricia
As an aside - since I'm thinking a few PR folks are reading this. Don't get cute with your sender name/subject; From: "sales@company" Subj: "Winter tips from company.com!" will get a lot farther than From: "Jill Stevens" Subj: "Winter tips!". Save the 'informal tone' for the message body.
- Chris Weiss
from twhirl
I've had plenty of editor response from targeted blasts. It also has a lot to do with the industry.
- Dean Rodgers
from twhirl
From an editorial standpoint, unless it direclty relates to our industries, it's deleted. However, if it fits within one of our publication's topic areas, it will be evaluated.
- Bob M. Montgomery
from twhirl
Oh. hee. Good. And I got it from a friend so it's nice that it's getting passed along. <3
- ♥patricia♥
When the world seems mean, I just stay as nice as I can. I always remember that what other people think of me is none of my business and go on with my day.
- Joe
from twhirl
It's frightening to realize how often this happens... I hope she just ran off with her boyfriend, and that it was of her own free will. Scary.
- Veronica
Nope, never played it. As to how dare I, it's hard to trust a so-called animal loving organization that destroys more animals than it saves. Also, I'm a speciest. In my view, people ARE more important than animals. Thinking otherwise is silly.
- Joe
from twhirl
Hey Joe... I'm curious how PETA destroys more animals than it saves? I'm honestly just wondering, I've never heard that before...
- Veronica
Fortunately, she can always change it to Whatthehell WasIthinking when she turns 30
- Robert Hafer
hmm interesting @joe however I would be more inclined to trust the information if it came from or was linked to any actual news sites versus just a single website dedicated to the subject . Even the court documents are not actual transcripts but retyped.
- Socom
@Joe good article and a little more of a level argument to it. I do agree, we need to get to a point where we are as close to no-kill as we can get, and I am amazed to find that PETA has such a high rate of kills as they put it. I do see PETA's argument, better to be euthanized then your skin ripped of while they're alive. Thats a video I will never forget.. horrible.
- Socom
My name is www.peoplegettingkickedintheballs.com. It's all about awareness.
- Fleagle
Sometimes, I think certain organizations are not looking at the big picture. Their energies could probably be focused somewhere else in order to push their cause further. Can't see the forest for the trees.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
"No regret at all. We can't allow one naturalized citizen to become president without changing the constitution and allowing all of them to do it. That creates an issue: Sleepers from foreign governments can become president. That's too dangerous."
- Joe
"Wind power is one of those things I just like. I'm not big into environmentalism or alternative energy, but I like the idea of having wind power and lowering the costs of my electricity, hehe."
- Joe
"And let me be the first Libertarian to agree with you. This is an absolutely amazing demonstration of how states can move much, much faster and much more reliably on an issue than the federal government can."
- Joe
"You know what, the kids will get over it. There are children right now dying of starvation. Kids crying because they can't go to Disney World or grandma's for vacation are spoiled, plain and simple."
- Joe
"Here in Northeast PA, there are tons of windmills on the grid. A Canadian company installed them years ago. Not sure how much energy they add, but considering the size and number of windmills, I'd have to say it's quite a bit."
- Joe
A lot of people want the IM and tracking features. I know a few people who are going to different places because they don't have these features. They will lose more people because of not adding these features.
- Mol, Time Warping
They got an improved design ready but not IM and tracking. That does not lessen the new design, does it? I really like it.
- Alexander Kohlhofer
I like it better BUT where's the search input window, @twittter?
- Jorge Escobar
No! They are evil. They want to take over our planet! They keep sending that super Skrull guy after the Fantastic Four. I will not support them. Only thing worse are those damn Kree. Thank the gods for the Shiar. :p
- Joe
from twhirl
I despair for our democracy every day. When we argue over nonsesne and forget there are real issues, nobody gains a thing. That being said, in a democracy where free speech is an important ideal, we have to accept senseless speech. No matter how much it ticks us off (we can shut it off, of course)
- Joe
from twhirl
I think you have something else disguised as a democracy. Particularly when it seems to be ruled by a small number of families (Bush, Clinton, Kennedy)
- Simon Hicks
We live in a democratically elected representative republic.
- Jim the Tolerable
@Jim ...with secret laws and law-breaking representatives.
- LogEx
What I despair for most are the people who think that they had no hand in how our democracy works -- when they're the ones who have the strongest influence over it with their votes. You don't like the way our democracy works, you vote to get people in their to change it and you rationally try to convince people to work with you for change. You don't belittle people who disagree with you and treat them like they're stupid.
- Laura Smith
from twhirl
Okay to put it in more blunt, non-politician sounding wording: I despair for our country when people use "Republican" and "Democrat" as derogatory insults and then despair for our democracy when nothing gets done.
- Laura Smith
from twhirl
@todd: Okay, that's officially the dumbest thing I've ever heard during this election season. What we need is for people to grow up, stop whining and start working with each other respectfully to get something done. This kind of attitude is why we have such a sky-high divorce rate in this country: we'd rather leave than work together on anything.
- Laura Smith
from twhirl
At least I have succeeded at something today.
- Todd Hoff
A quote I read before sums it up. I believe it was Churchill: "Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried."
- Chris Thomas
Clarion. Chrome. Windows Live Writer. Wordpress. Ultraedit. Axialis IconWorkshop. Filezilla. Setupbuilder. Audacity. Snagit. And my own password/account software. I use them all most every day.
- Stu Andrews
from twhirl
That's a tough question...if I had to choose though, it would be Photoshop CS3 (because then at least you'd get camera raw support (removing the need for Lightroom) and you can also design posters, etc. (though much easier in InDesign).
- Don Martelli
If I have to choose ONE software item it has to be firefox. I can accomplish more with that, than any other peice of software, as long as I can have all the plugins I want.
- Ian May
Textpad, Slickrun (Firefox goes without saying)
- Sean McBride
#1 Like Mo Kargas : Notepad++ ; #2 Opera Browser ; #3 Like Michael W. May : Trillian Pro ; #4 winamp ; #5 Steam ^^
- TiTi
That name bothers me... I think because if you take the d away it's an offensive term. Yeah, I'm being too "politically correct" but I can't help but think about it every time I see it.
- Her Lindsay-ness
Companies don't have names that start with 'dw' for a reason: it's one of the more awkward sounds to make for English-speaking people. Also, if you pronounce it like you'd pronounce 'Dwayne', you end up with exactly what Lindsay points out anyway.
- Akiva Moskovitz
wow... not a good thing. seriously. people tend to follow what they hate more then what they like. didn't work for me anyway btw when I logged in. guess I'm just a dumb wigger... ooops
- Noah David Simon
No, well, um, that depends on your definition of destroy? Do you remember our lizard alien masters and the zombie apocalypse, or is that just me?
- Joe
from twhirl
"Hi there, thanks for the link. I attended your session at Podcamp Philly (I was all the way in the back. The startup guy, lol.) Anyhow, Good session and good link here. Joe"
- Joe