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Just played with a nook at Barnes and noble. I think ill stick with my kindle.
What's the compelling reason for going with the Kindle2? The in store browsing of all books for free on the Nook (just like you would with a paper book) and the lending feature make it seem very attractive.
- John Foster
Who said anything about the K2? :P I am keeping my K1 and not getting a nook because of one reason: page turns lag like a mofo. I devour books. Millisecond per page turn and screen refreshes matter and the nook is too slow. Maybe I'll check out their second gen device.
- EricaJoy
Good to know. The reviews I heard to GDGT and CNET were saying that it lags everywhere except page turns. I guess I'll be waiting for v2.0 of the Nook software or for Kindle 3.
- John Foster
Does the Kindle not have that annoying refresh thing? Or is it just faster? I saw a Sony Reader for the first time in person yesterday, and was seriously underwhelmed. It took forever to flash up the new page. My iPhone is a better ereader than that.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I don't know what you're talking about, but it sounds vaguely naughty... :)
- T. Brent, technopeasant
The refresh thing i the main reason I can't seriously consider anything except the kindle. I can't think how they have such good refresh when everything else sucks - unless someone made a pact with the devil perhaps
- James Polley
What's your favorite non-Google Android app? Mine is Twidroid.
Jon, the Chilled Beartato, EricaJoy, Matthew DeVries and 3 other people liked this
Either Babbler or Shazam.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Boy oh boy where to start... FxCam, Dolphin Browser, PicSay, Devil Huntress
- Adrian
Second tier (for me): Wireless Tether for Root, Linda File Manager, Astro File Manager and Qik
- Adrian
Third tier: Speed Test, Benchmark, Overclock Widget, Advanced Task Manager
- Adrian
Damn Adrian, I thought I cracked out *my* phone. I need to get a new memory card so I can use apps2sd again. I am suffering through internal memory. :/
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
I'm still using the 1gig chip that came with the phone. Apps2SD works fine with it. #lowbudgetbaby
- Adrian
TuneWiki.
- Christopher A Carr
I partitioned the chip so it's 350megs for apps, the rest for storage. It's just enough for a couple of days worth of relentless shooting with the camera and keeping maybe 4 or 5 albums on it for listening. I think of it more as a "CD-changer" than mp3 player. Call me a wackadoodle! :D
- Adrian
You're a wackadoodle peanut butterhead!
- Admiral Anika
Hmm.. You've got me thinking. I'm getting my partitioning software right now. XD
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Just "butterhead". Please.
- Adrian
Bootable G-Parted cd FTW. It's free.
- Adrian
Oh I know. Love it. :D
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
:D
- Adrian
Shazam, Tunewiki, ACast, eBuddy, Qik, Stitcher, Evernote, Astro, Layar, Smart Monitor
- Rodfather
Oh! and G-Mote! Definitely. Everyone needs to try that.
- Adrian
Swift followed by the Photoshop app.
- EricaJoy
Hey I just had a serious case of dejavu... and now I'm thinking, did you (Tad) ask this or similar question early last year? I could of sworn...
- Adrian
Apple & Audiobook Firms Insist On DRM - http://techdirt.com/article...
Ah, my pain, in words. eMusic kind of helps but its lacking a lot.
- EricaJoy
FreeBSD / ZFS box is up!
J. Abdul-Qahhar, Ozkan Altuner, James Myatt and 19 other people liked this
Now installing Samba and MediaTomb.
- Tudor Bosman
Yay! Now clean up the office. :)
- Jeanette Bosman
I'm doing the same thing this weekend.
- Scott Ludwig
Does it have a time-slider equivalent? The integration into nautilus is a nice touch in opensolaris.
- Eric Borisch
So what constitutes the 8.94T pool?
- Antony Jepson
s/MediaTomb/Firefly/ as I wanted something that iTunes recognizes.
- Tudor Bosman
8.94T: 5 * 2TB drives (- 40GB reserved for the root fs), raidz1.
- Tudor Bosman
@Tudor What is Firefly? Got a link?
- EricaJoy
http://www.fireflymediaserver.org/ although the site seems down at the moment. Search for "Firefly media server" (formerly known as mt-daapd)
- Tudor Bosman
sweeet
- Logan Lindquist
Also, I love the FreeBSD ports collection (which Gentoo tried to imitate). cd /usr/ports/devel/git; make install will fetch git, build it, and install it, and automatically deal with any dependencies as they arrive.
- Tudor Bosman
Another option is pkg_add -r git which will install a binary package compiled with default options, and resolve dependencies.
- Scott Ludwig
from iPhone
Okay, nested dependencies work just fine until you find a package that depends on TeX. Why does my little storage box need latex and amstex and mkfontdir and dvips and...?
- Tudor Bosman
Because you need PDFs of the documentation, of course!
- Eric Borisch
In many languages, apparently. /usr/ports/print/latex-cjk/scripts/installt1enc.sh arb5sung arb5sung.ttf Bg5 Generating Type 1 subfonts arb5sung from arb5sung.ttf [Bg5 planes: 1-55]:
- Tudor Bosman
This is apparently all caused by updating the freebsd-doc-en package, which regenerates all forms of documentation from scratch.
- Tudor Bosman
One of my disks appears bad, hopefully it's the cable.ad8: FAILURE - READ_DMA48 timed out LBA=766744255
- Tudor Bosman
Yep, RMAing now.
- Tudor Bosman
Two more disks are showing read errors, including the boot disk. This is not good at all. Maybe WD actually qualifies RAID-level drives, and rebrands the crappy ones (with bad sectors which auto-remap) as consumer-level. With auto-remapping turned off, errors start creeping in within days.
- Tudor Bosman
I'll investigate this more, of course, by mounting the bad disks into a different machine and looking at SMART output, but so far it smells of a bad batch of drives.
- Tudor Bosman
How hot are they getting? (It's in the SMART data) ... We had a fan go out on a drive tower (and the 'dead fan' alarm didn't sound -- wonderful) and we smoked at least three drives before figuring out what was going on.
- Eric Borisch
Eric: While trying to stress the disks with a few dd commands running in parallel, I can't get them to heat up above 26 degrees Celsius. I'd say that cooling inside my box works well. The two newly failed disks have 5 UNCorrectable sectors each -- and that's just because the SMART buffer only remembers the last 5 errors.
- Tudor Bosman
Maybe I just got a bad batch, but at this point I would recommend against using WD20EADS drives for anything.
- Tudor Bosman
yeah, the EADS aren't so good. The ABYS series have been super reliable in comparison, but I don't think they go up to that many TB.
- Private Sanjeev
incidentally the drives are physically different (the mechanicals are more vibration-resistant on enterprise drives), so WD doesn't just rebrand flaky drives.
- Private Sanjeev
Any opinions on the new, 4-platter WD RE4 RAID edition drives? They're 2TB, expensive as hell, but there may be deals to be had. Alternatively, the Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB.
- Tudor Bosman
I have a bunch of EADS drives (4x1TB, 4x1.5TB) and I haven't seen any problems. Might just be a bad batch.
- Joe Beda ()
Currently leading the pack: Hitachi 7K2000.
- Tudor Bosman
I only have experience with ABYS and EADS in production :(.
- Private Sanjeev
I have 24 A7K1000s that have been going great for over a year. (Knocks on wood)
- Eric Borisch
Okay, I ordered 5 7K2000s. Let's see how this goes.
- Tudor Bosman
The box is back up with the 5 Hitachi 7K2000 drives. I copied all the data over again, and "zpool scrub" now completes without errors. I'll update this post after 2 or 3 days of burn-in.
- Tudor Bosman
Hint: Read the man page. The "--batch" option to portupgrade is supremely useful. portupgrade -vaP --batch: upgrade all installed FreeBSD packages, prefer to use precompiled packages if available (-P), don't ask questions (use default configuration options).
- Tudor Bosman
A few scrubs later, still zero errors, and normal smartctl output. I now deem the box ready for production use (that is, the main storage device in the Bosman household).
- Tudor Bosman
Does anybody sell a BSD/ZFS raid box that is all ready to go?
- Peng-Toh
For small boxes, you could consider a self-contained box like a MSI Wind PC ($139).
- Scott Ludwig
from iPhone
I mean something that comes with all software (BSD/ZFS) installed, an UI and no "hacking" required. Something for a non-techie.
- Peng-Toh
my EADS results: 2/6 failed so far (free RMA replacement). no data loss though.
- Michael Herf
Tudor: FWIW, random activity is much more stressful (and power consuming = heat producing) than the contiguous reads/writes you get from dd. Try bonnie++ or iozone if you'd like to really hit the system. Glad to hear you're up and running - ZFS is fantastic stuff.
- Eric Borisch
Michael: Yes, I had 3 out of 5 EADS drives fail within a week. I returned all 5 and got Hitachi 7K2000.
- Tudor Bosman
When he asked for chocolate chips, I had no idea he was being literal. on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Manantsoa, Parth Awasthi, Bindu Reddy and 21 other people liked this
Reason #4895, I should take over grocery shopping. Too bad, I detest grocery shopping.
- Admiral Anika
from Bookmarklet
*awestruck*
- Micah Wittman
I've eaten these before, they are like Chocolate crack cocaine.
- Iain Baker
omg
- holly
They are trying to convince me to try one, but I'm not a fan of milk chocolate.
- Admiral Anika
NO.
- pea
C'mon, Patricia! There's "crunchy bits" in them!
- Admiral Anika
Oh! Crunchy bits, why didn't you say so in the first place? In that case, AW HELL NO.
- pea
ROFL
- Admiral Anika
@Anika: http://traderjoeslist.blogspot.com/2009... (No I have not tried, yes I will be trying.)
- EricaJoy
My sense tells me to recoil in horror. But there's another part of me that could easily devour the contents of that packet.
- vicster
Erica, dark chocolate is better. Vicster, it's just chocolate with crunchy bits. There's no potato involved.
- Admiral Anika
Straight C*R*A*C*K, I tell you!! The devil of it is it's impossible to take them out of the box without spilling them all over the place, and then of course you are forced to eat at least half the ones that fell. I'll be visiting my man on the corner again tomorrow... *shudder*
- Adrian
Pure awesome. At least the dark ones are. The milk probably aren't bad, either. Go ahead, indulge! The serving size is like, 12 chips.
- Kamilah Gill
WANT TO TRY
- Anna Haro
My best friend had chocolate covered potato chips at her wedding reception. I ate more than my share. So even without potato I'd probably love these.
- Kisha, Well Conditioned
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Cheesy Mexican Cornbread, Smashed Pinto Beans - http://www.ezrapoundcake.com/archive...
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"I highly recommend a cup of Smashed Pinto Beans and a hunk of Cheesy Mexican Cornbread. If you have a Southern granny, you know Mexican cornbread, a simple cornbread amped up with corn, bell pepper, chopped jalapenos and cheese. Seriously addictive. And the Smashed Pintos aren’t your basic boring bowl of beans. They’re flavored with onion, garlic, tomato sauce, beef broth, hot sauce, cumin and red wine vinegar. Complex and a little punchy. Great as a main dish, a side, as part of a taco salad or in a breakfast burrito."
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
Pintos are my favorite bean, but I think it took spending a few weeks in Mexico to come to that conclusion.
- Christopher A Carr
Pinto beans give you super powers. I read that in a comic book.
- Adrian
My goodness that looks de-lish.
- EricaJoy
I had red beans and rice with cornbread for dinner tonight. I'd show you a picture, but it's gone. It was really delicious. Zummo's sausage in it, too.
- Jason Huebel
I think I've baked a cornbread dish like that. I lost the recipe, though.
- ha3rvey (sup homepants)
Must Read: Why James Chartrand Wears Women's Underpants | Copyblogger - http://www.copyblogger.com/james-c...
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"One day, I tossed out a pen name, because I didn’t want to be associated with my current business, the one that was still struggling to grow. I picked a name that sounded to me like it might convey a good business image. Like it might command respect. My life changed that day. [...] I was applying in the same places. I was using the same methods. Even the work was the same. In fact, everything was the same. Except for the name. The answer was plain. Without really thinking much about it, I tried an experiment when I chose my new pseudonym: I became a man (in name only) Taking a man’s name opened up a new world. It helped me earn double and triple the income of my true name, with the same work and service. No hassles. Higher acceptance. And gratifying respect for my talents and round-the-clock work ethic."
- EricaJoy
from Bookmarklet
See http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty... (Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination)
- Thaths
No ID is required for credit card purchases. If a store says it is, they're violating their contract.
Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF), Joe Silence is not dead, Jimminy and 23 other people liked this
It happens rarely, but it really irks me when a store asks for ID to complete a credit card transaction. It happened to me today at an apparel merchant I won't specify here. It is a violation of their merchant agreement with the credit card issuer. You can choose it go elsewhere, try to get an exception or escalate it to their management, or cave in. But it is a good idea to report it to the credit card issuer: http://consumerist.com/333160... Stand up for your rights as a consumer or you may find those rights eroding.
- LogEx
If you're using a MasterCard and get asked for ID, you can report the merchant here: http://www.mastercard.com/us... Edit: I see the link is in that Consumerist article, too. LE, why is this in the Apple room, though?
- Rochelle
Umm...and this is exactly what's wrong with the credit card system. Stores should be required to verify your ID when you buy using a credit card.
- Alex Scoble
No they shouldn't Alex, the issuers have sophisticated fraud detection algorithms and specifically forbid the merchants from checking ID. This is a good consumer-friendly policy. Your card and signature are all that's necessary. UPDATE: Sorry this is in the Apple rooms, I think I was making two posts (the other about Apple) and did that by accident, don't know if/how to remove it from the rooms. It was NOT an Apple store that required ID.
- LogEx
Given how many ways you can use a card without showing ID (online, gas pumps), having to show ID nowadays is rather pointless.
- Rob Haas
Their sophisticated fraud detection algorithms are "we take responsibility for any fraud"...They still lose billions in dollars because retailers don't do their due diligence when ringing up sales. The scammers know exactly what stores are lax about their practices. We all pay because of this in higher interest rates and credit card fees.
- Alex Scoble
Key distinction: they cannot REQUIRE an ID, but they are not prohibited from REQUESTING it.
- Glen Mistletoe
That may be true Glen, but when they say it's store policy to show ID before the transaction can be completed, that's requiring. I have refused before and had the refusal accepted, and that's fine.
- LogEx
Having spent 6 months trying to get fraudulent changes out of my record and off my credit reports, I wish more merchants would verify ID.
- Glen Mistletoe
LogEx — only if they refuse to complete the sale without the ID. If you politely decline, and they proceed with the sale, no harm, no foul. But I still do not understand why you'd not want them to verify your identity.
- Glen Mistletoe
21 years as a retail manager: we've never required ID but we will ask in some situations. Stolen CCs are a major problem in this city. Asking for ID discourages those using stolen cards.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
I'm fine with ask, but don't require, as long as consumers are educated that they are not required. The transaction is what's important to verify, not identity.
- LogEx
Merchants usually have the right to refuse service. If they think something is fraudulent they have a right to ask. Based on your response they can refuse if they are not certain.
- Robert Higgins
Incorrect, LogEx. I've had fraudulent charges put on my card before with a completely different name. If the system was set up to link ID to CC # this type of fraud would not be possible.
- Alex Scoble
That's true and it is increasingly annoying to have stores seemingly require ID. Just say no.
- AJ Kohn
@Alex... "billions in fraud"? Do you have a citation for that. I pay no interest and only a minimal fee (in exchange for benefits). Also, ID is easy to forge too. There are no guarantees. The credit card companies know what they are doing. They know if the card is being used in a manner or place that is atypical enough to be potentially fraudulent.
- LogEx
Ken, that's perfect if it works for you. My point is that it is not required and for those who do not like showing it, they should know they don't have to. Looking at it is one thing. But sometimes they want to do more, like scan it or enter the number into the register. That is completely unacceptable to me.
- LogEx
They do? Have you read the PCI standard? They don't have a real good clue of what they are doing. But they have a lock on a huge market with a lot of transactions that allows them to make a huge amount of money despite the high amounts of fraud they deal with so they eat it. To date it's been cheaper for them to pay for the fraud then to do anything reasonable about it.
- Alex Scoble
LogEx - you would think they would -- I had $14000 in fraudulent charges on my CC with 7 transactions over a 7 day period -- all through "purchases" at a hydroponics store in Petaluma. Until my wife alerted them the CC company had no idea. I live in Toronto btw and have never been to Petaluma.
- Brian Sullivan
Brian... but you were not liable for any of it.
- LogEx
The fraud number is in the billions as I said, LogEx.
- Alex Scoble
I still don't see the problem. Get a no-fee card and pay when it's due (if interest rates are bugging you).
- LogEx
No but I had to jump through hoops to deal with it -- I was in Paris at the time it was discovered -- the card was cancelled immediately. That left me with no credit card.
- Brian Sullivan
Yeah, Brian, that's why I travel with two cards now.
- Alex Scoble
Brian, I understand and can sympathize with the inconvenience. But I think it would be worse if we have a regime that requires ID to every merchant, large and small, honest and rogue… and that puts your ID info at risk and only helps identity thieves and other fraudsters.
- LogEx
The liability is not the problem. My card company did not require me to pay anything. They did, however, carry the charges and show me as severely past due on my credit reports until they finished their six-month "investigation" and cleared everything.
- Glen Mistletoe
I don't have so much of a problem with requesting ID. Its the minimum purchase amount to use a credit card that pisses me off. Explicitly not allowed yet so many businesses do it. I wish Visa would let me be an official spot checker for this so I could make a business stop or remove their ability to accept credit cards.
- EricaJoy
All my credit cards now are PIN based -- no ID or signature required. So that helps somewhat (until the PIN stealers catch up I guess) with direct purchases. Web purchases are still a problem though -- which is where the fraud came from on my card (or at least how the card information was stolen).
- Brian Sullivan
I worked with a CC company doing training a number of years ago and got the impression that the fraud detection algorithms and procedures were very strong. I found out to my dismay that they are woefully inadequate.
- Brian Sullivan
Yeah, I wish that temp card numbers were the norm and not an exception. Chase doesn't offer them, but BofA does, unfortunately, BofA charges a yearly fee for most of their cards, at least that I've seen.
- Alex Scoble
Credit card companies don't lose as much money on fraudulent credit card transactions as the merchants do, especially on-line merchants who can not collect signatures. The credit card companies consider the CVV2 number to be proof that the person who is asserting the card number is also holding the card (and even this falls flat for anyone who knows anything about security). Often...
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- Andy Bakun
Alex is right about the PCI standard; it's all about CYA on the part of the card issuers. Some of the things in there don't even make any sense. Off the top of my head, on the self-auditing questionnaire, they ask if you encrypt all credit card information for storage, then ask if you've delete all credit card information after the transaction is complete and don't store it. It's really bogus.
- Andy Bakun
Andy, I agree it's not merchant-friendly, but it is consumer-friendly (which to me is far more important). Merchants, and consumers, have a choice of whether to use/accept credit cards (consumers obviously more so). It is a broken oligopoly, but it works (well) for most consumers.
- LogEx
All I can say is, I've charged hundreds of thousands of dollars on my credit cards over the years in large stores and small, much on the internet, much while traveling. As you can imagine, I'm careful with my credit card and my other credentials. I've never had a bad charge. I'm open to better alternatives, but I strenuously object to ID being required at POS, it's worse for fraud than no ID. Fraud will never go away, but it can certainly be decreased.
- LogEx
Great. 1 data point, that confirms it.
- Glen Mistletoe
LogEx: true, as a consumer, I am much more concerned about consumer protection, I don't really care who else eats the cost of the fraud. But if anyone thinks that the card issuers are doing most of the eating and are not pushing the majority of it on to the merchants, they're mistaken. This is why we have not seen better card security features coming from card issuers: they don't have an economic incentive to avoid fraud better, and they leave the merchants' hands tied.
- Andy Bakun
Ah, here's one of them, from PCI DSS Security Audit Procedures. Requirement 5: Use and regularly update anti-virus software or programs. I notice that they've recently updated it to exclude systems not "commonly affected by viruses", such as UNIX based systems or mainframes, but it wasn't like that a few years ago. There was no way to answer this question honestly and still get 100% on...
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- Andy Bakun
Glen, it's not 1 data point. In general, the system works for consumers.
- LogEx
Andy, I have no argument on the merchant side. This is where the issuers use their power, and the market harms are done. Like I said, I'm open to alternatives for reducing the merchant issues, and fraud in general, but ID is not the right answer.
- LogEx
Mitigating Identity Theft - "Identity theft solutions focus much too much on authenticating the person. Whether it's two-factor authentication, ID cards, biometrics, or whatever, there's a widespread myth that authenticating the person is the way to prevent these crimes. But once you understand that the problem is fraudulent transactions, you quickly realize that authenticating the...
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- LogEx
@Brian Sullivan... being PIN-based, are they actually credit cards any more or now debit cards? I'm curious how that works, it's already confusing at some check-outs between credit, PIN-debit, and signature-debit.
- LogEx
They are still credit cards -- you have to be at the machine to enter your PIN just like a debit card but in all other respects it is a credit card. The only real issue is at places like restaurants where they normally take your card away. Now they bring a remote card reader to you in most places -- in some places you have to follow the server to a stationary machine somewhere. My understanding is that this has been quite common in Europe for a number of years.
- Brian Sullivan
Yeah, that's a good writeup, LogEx, but I disagree that it can't involve the account/card holder on any level. I've been waiting for years for a real-time transaction authentication that works via my phone. It can be effectively instantaneous. Swipe the card, you acknowledge the transaction via your phone (to a pre-configured phone number tied to the account). This would also put more consumer visibility into the process of credit card transactions. But why hasn't anyone implemented this?
- Andy Bakun
I have my photo on my credit cards that I use in public - that works well
- Susan Beebe
I feel showing my id protects me from identity theft. Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't. I would like to have a cc with my pic on it. Which company does this?
- Bill Grubbs
I've had to ask people for photo ID a few times when their signatures have been almost rubbed off on their cards. It might be different in America, but if someone was to steal someones card and then sign for purchases and the real card's owner disputes the charges it is our store's responsibility to trawl through thousands of signatures slips and prove that I did all I could to ensure the transaction wasn't fradulent. That's why banks are (only now) trying to push PINs on people.
- Bryce Roney
Visa wants to take away all barriers to using their card. Don't like it? Don't use it.
- Lindsey is Fierce!
actually, i haven't used Visa since 1999.
- Joe Silence is not dead
I'm with Alex here 100%. They should ask for your ID, I always give my ID with my credit card. There is no inconvenience is doing it, and it helps.
- Matthew DeVries
I always thank the clerk when they ask for my ID - Personally I think it is great and fully support that move.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
If there is a scheme where people can opt-in, for example a checkbox on the card saying to check ID (which probably still won't happen 90% of the time), I'd be OK with that for those who want that. But ID is bad for a number of reasons... (1) IDs vary widely and are basically impossible for a retail clerk to validate, (2) IDs are quite easy to forge (see #1), (3) it puts your ID...
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- LogEx
Debit with PIN typically doesn't require ID, neither should credit with signature. The main point of all of this though was that retailers asking for ID are violating their contract, and consumers have a right to know that they cannot be compelled to show ID for a credit card transaction. Very few places try to check for ID, many places don't look critically at the signature stripe,...
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- LogEx
LE - But that simple step catches the "stupid crooks", the ones who will screw me for a $10 to $100 that I may never catch myself even happened. That's a good thing. The smart crooks, who make fake ID's and steal $1000s of dollars, the credit card company hels me with and will kill that person for me if they find them. It provides ZERO inconvenience. I'm just baffled that you are...
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- Matthew DeVries
The only photo ID most people have is their driver's license. It typically shows D/L#, DOB, full name and address, height, weight, license class, potentially some medical/living will information, plus mine has three distinct bar codes, one of them high-density (I don't even know what's in there, I'm not about to let a retailer scan and database them). It's too much of a personal intrusion, and it's explicitly forbidden by Visa, MasterCard, and AMEX.
- LogEx
Which is enough information for a person to establish that you are the person named on the card. All of that information should be on the credit card as well.
- Matthew DeVries
LE - If you don't want to share that moddest amount of information to allow everyone to be comfortable with the transaction, carry cash, or barter goods, or barer bonds, or have cashiers checks issued to the service provider.
- Matthew DeVries
No Matthew, I'm only standing up for the rights the issuers have given me via the agreements they make with their merchants. My issuers do not have most of the information that is on my ID, and I'd never want them to. People confuse identity with security.
- LogEx
No Matthew . . . if you're not comfortable that ID is not required for transactions then you should request Visa change their policy or not use them. The best way to avoid fraud is to not use credit cards period
- Lindsey is Fierce!
Then you should put up a post asking the CCCompanies to start requiring ID checks for all transactions, rather than standing up for a bad rule.
- Matthew DeVries
But why? I'm totally against that. I don't think ID helps anything, and in fact would be worse on the whole.
- LogEx
Why would I ask them to do that? I don't want them to require IDs
- Lindsey is Fierce!
If ID was required, or even allowed by the issuers, I'd move to other options like PIN-credit, temp/alias cards, and more use of cash. I still wouldn't use debit though, but that's another thread entirely.
- LogEx
I'm just totally lost on the logic of that thinking, to the point where I can't accept it's a real one, but just a contrarian one. So let's talk about this issue that we can all get on board with. Restaurants that make you fill in the tip and total and sign before giving you your receipt, and the cashier is often the exact same wait person who just served you, who will not watch you fill in her tip amount. I don't go to Bob Evans, Dennys, or IHOP any more because of this.
- Matthew DeVries
No, I am 100% serious and honest about this thinking, and clearly it's shared with many other consumers or the issuers wouldn't have such a stringent policy (there are other reasons for the poilcy as well I recognize... like ID isn't a good fraud prevention strategy).
- LogEx
Matthew, In restaurants that process like that (if I'm understanding correctly), if the situation is sensitive I typically leave a cash tip, and mark the receipt accordingly, just like I do for pizza deliveries.
- LogEx
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- Matthew DeVries
Interesting thread. I didn't know about the "no ID required" policy. I understand arguments in favor of showing IDs. But honestly, it's rare that I *am* asked. And when I am, I'm suspicious as to why (Do I look distrustful? unable to afford to shop at their establishment?). I just don't believe an ID card is extremely effective against fighting fraud. I've been a victim of credit fraud....
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- jbrotherlove
++ jbrotherlove ...consumers are much much better protected against the repercussions of CC# being stolen than other identity data.
- LogEx
Do the terms of the contract expressly forbid the seeking of ID or do they simply remain silent on the matter?
- Matthew DeVries
They expressly forbid merchants from REQUIRING ID. They can ask, but not require. The event that prompted this post was a merchant who stated to me that they Required ID as a condition of the credit card transaction, even after I pointed out to them that it was a violation of their merchant agreement.
- LogEx
Sorry I missed this one - I wrote about this a couple times last year for Money Magazine (among others), and I continue to be baffled by those (Matthew D, etc.) who think it "helps". Because every single security and privacy expert I interviewed for the story - to a person - said that it does nothing to protect the consumer. In fact, most of them believed the policy put customers at...
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- Anthony Citrano
One other thing, LogEx: AmEx does *not* prohibit this practice, but their spokesperson told me that they "strongly discourage" it. MC, Visa, and Discover *do* explicitly forbid merchants from requiring ID.
- Anthony Citrano
Thanks, Anthony. The Consumerist article has some interesting AMEX 'discrimination' fine print that could be useful at times: "American Express's regulations do not explicitly prohibit minimum charges, but its policy is to discourage any merchant practices that create a "barrier to acceptance." Amex does prohibit "discrimination" against the Amex card, however, so if a merchant has no...
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- LogEx
What about gas stations charging 1 price for cash and a higher price for credit purchases?
- Matthew DeVries
I don't know about that, as long as they don't charge different for different credit cards.
- LogEx
@Matthew - the workaround to that (as stupid as it is) is a "cash discount".
- Anthony Citrano
http://twitpic.com/qn2ee - 35ft Building Jump!
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Balls.
- Itachi
He haz big ones.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I keep watching expecting him not to make it next time.
- Todd Hoff
Serious jump. One mistake... splattt!
- AJ Batac
I told you once and I will say it again some jackass kids are going to see it and do it........
- VAL D. Zone
DON'T TRY THIS ANYWHERE.
- AJ Batac
I'd say.
- Roberto Bonini
Whoa!
- Kol Tregaskes
Is this another fake jump viral campaign? The middle part of his jump looks a bit fake to me.
- Stephen Mack
I saw this photo last week... could it be the same event? http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news...
- Neil Bernhart
Totally bonkers!
- Gordon Herd
Yup. That's the one Neil.
- AJ Batac
don't know if this is correct or not, but here it is in Turkish: bir aslan gibi topları
- Morgan Haley
@zeigen, of course it will look like bit a fake, we don't see every day boys jumping 35 ft -)
- Cibron Nethis
Video: http://friendfeed.com/ajbatac...
- AJ Batac
crazy, looks like it's raining too
- sean percival
HARDCORE PARKOUR! #theoffice
- EricaJoy
Up to you if you want to jump 35ft off the side of a building
- Alonzo Hayden
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The red chair looks comfortable
- Rodfather
IT IS. The problem is the people in the showroom had no idea what it was or how much it cost. I took all these pictures to try to find it online. No such luck. I want it I want it.
- EricaJoy
That's a nice-looking chair. I think I want one, too. :)
- ha3rvey (sup homepants)
Lane calls these kinds of chairs "snugglers". Still looking for the red one specifically.
- EricaJoy
But wait! That looks like... The Comfy Chair!! Oh no! http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Dear Bay Area Coders, If you want to try your hand at Android apps, @hackerdojo has some Dev G1s available for hacking with/on.
3 daughters and for some reason the youngest is the one who wants to share her menstrual cycle experiences with me. :(
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I have no idea what to get my sisters husband for Christmas. I barely know him at all. Robe and slippers?
My in-laws gave me slippers 3 years in a row for Christmas. I'd advise against it. (I'd ask her.)
- ha3rvey (sup homepants)
perhaps gift card to their favorite sport store?
- VAL D. Zone
"Slippers socks. Medium." Why not just ask your sis what her husband is into? It's always funny to me when my family sends my husband sport stuff. He's not that sort. I am.
- Admiral Anika
That's a tough one, EricaJoy. I have returned at least a dozen inappropriate gifts from my in-laws. Slippers, too-small socks, 3 identical pairs of olive green Dockers, etc. This isn't about me, though. I'd lean toward a gift card to a favorite store or restaurant.
- ha3rvey (sup homepants)
Is an Amazon gift card a crappy gift?
- EricaJoy
That sounds great to me. :)
- ha3rvey (sup homepants)
Is he into Professional sports? does he have a favourite team?
- T. Brent, technopeasant
Hypothetical: Your next door neighbor puts up a webcam and blogs about everyone in the neighborhood (with video). Can you stop it?
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I am interested to hear what friendfeeders have to say on the topic.
- EricaJoy
I think you should stop him/her. Primarily if your neighbor has made it an everyday habit.
- Sardar Mohkim Khan
I think they could stop the webcam, if they wanted to. I've blogged about my neighbors and they know it. I've never been asked to stop.
- Admiral Anika
@Sardar ...but how? On what grounds?
- EricaJoy
don't think you can
- VAL D. Zone
I am guessing this is a "it depends" situation. It depends on what is being shown and what is being said.
- Brian Sullivan
if they are doing something illegal .. perhaps .. if they are just nosy neighbors perhaps not ..
- johnpiercy
Every evening they put up a new blog post documenting the comings and going of everyone in the neighborhood, based on video footage. The camera can only see the front doors and garages of the homes. Occasionally they note when things happen that are out of the ordinary (new person comes home, new car, etc).
- EricaJoy
from IM
Would the coming and goings be time-stamped? It sounds like a base invasion of privacy. Is this in a SFR or in a HOA?
- Admiral Anika
More or less time stamped. No HOA (shudder) or anything.
- EricaJoy
That's weird. But I don't know if you can stop it.
- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
I remember reading Orwells 1984 in the 60's and thinking how far fetched is that...........well guess what......
- VAL D. Zone
I don't know that the people can stop it, then.
- Admiral Anika
as i said a decade or so ago at PopTech, we don't need to worry about "Big Brother" because technology is going to give us six billion "little brothers". Welcome to the future, kids. ;) [and Val, my point back then was that we were going to experience something akin to the complete reverse of 1984. Orwell was wrong; Huxley was right.]
- Anthony Citrano
*wink*
- VAL D. Zone
I'd take this as a personal invitation to see what kind of crazy (fake) shenanigans I could stage. It would become my mission in life to make it into the blog.
- Dave Roth
I don't think you could force them to stop, but you could ask politely. OR, do the same thing to them.
- Kenton
It may depend on your state law (many states don't allow recordings without permission in situations that are relatively private). However, I'd be very tempted to write a letter, or speak to them in person, about their behavior. As a single woman, I don't think it is very safe for me to have someone announcing whether or not I'm at home, or anyone is visiting me on a regular basis.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Its funny how hypothetical no longer means anything anymore. That being said, this question was a bit of a thought experiment, not something going on in my hood. :) If it were, I'd be Dave, 100% shenanigans at all times.
- EricaJoy
@Jennifer Most laws regarding recordings only apply to audio, I think because when the laws were written, nobody was even thinking about video recordings. So. Video is fair game. So lets imagine you've spoken to the person and they are adamant about continuing the practice. What's your next move?
- EricaJoy
My opinion? You can't stop it. For the most part, while this may feel like a privacy invasion, based on current laws, its not. My personal opinion (not the opinion of my employer) is that privacy is a pure function of how many eyes are watching you. In the past, the eyes watching us were limited to a small circle (neighborhood, coworkers, family). These days each member of that circle...
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- EricaJoy
I guess it wouldn't be much different than the lonely old person sitting there watching out the window all day and night and then writing on a blog about it. This just involves video tape. But there are places were people come and go all the time and could be living in cities where there are cameras recording. Not much we do these days is really private.
- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
Related story on the local news today: http://www.komonews.com/news...
- Rochelle
I will now point a webcam of my mind's eye on EricaJoy's hypotheticals just to keep on eye on them for when they jump from hypo- to hyper-thetical;)
- Micah Wittman
The real question is why would you want to stop them? It sounds like a fun quirky neighbor to me. You could always try a counter offensive and publish personal intel on the neighbor to see if he would stop, but I like the idea of doing crazy things to make the blog. I bet we could even get a couple of clowns to show up at your house or something.
- Davis Freeberg
I would hypothetically stab them off camera.
- Andrizzle Gizzle
I would think video of the property would be illegal, but not of the sidewalk/street?
- Alix Whitmire
from iPhone
Pretty sure I would go on the offensive. Not sure you can stop someone from filming your property. If simply asking them to stop didn't work, I'd simply throw up a Posterous solely about them filming and blogging about the neighbors. I would be very invasive and have oodles of fun with it.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
In California, I believe you can legally videotape/photograph anyone in a public place. Recently, however, someone tried to use a webcam to report/prevent crime in the SF Tenderloin, and they were threatened, and eventually driven out of the neighborhood.
- Cristo
I think it could be potentially dangerous if someone else who reads the blog uses the info for illegal means. Single woman home alone, house empty could get robbed. I guess you could get this on tape but then it would be too late so to speak.
- Paulette Garcia Morris
Because this person has taken the approach of reporting on his blog all the comings and goings and other activities in the neighborhood as news, it's possible if he were to be even remotely considered a "journalist" that you may have room for a lawsuit, since you are not a celebrity and your actions are not newsworthy.
- April Russo (app103)
It turns out it wasn't big brother that we had to fear, it's little brother that's hard to stop
- Davis Freeberg
yes, you can stop it because you have a reasonable expectation of privacy in/around your home. a court would back that.
- Marie is monkeying around
You have a reasonable expectation of privacy within your home. If you had one AROUND your home, every tabloid that posted pics of famous people in their yards would be in deep...
- EricaJoy
If my property had line of sight to the web cam, I'd be investing in some high intensity infra-red generating equipment and use that to jam the web cam video feed. Something like a laser pointer might be enough to do the trick, not sure if you can get an IR one though.
- Ken Gidley
There are a LOT of Kate Gosselin "swept bangs in the front with a hot mess in the back" hairstyles in Vegas. #bitchlips #forshame
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Too bad you just got your hair cut, D. You 'd look awesome with a Gosselin.
- s t e v e
Another reason for me to avoid Vegas.
- Mark "DerBingle" J
I just got my hair cut like that, Derrick. (No, I didn't.)
- joey
My favorite Vegas hairstyle is the two toned layers. Blonde on the top layer, some other color underneath.
- EricaJoy
I hate Vegas. I can't handle that much stimulation. I think Vegas is definitely for extroverts.
- Baroness Von SmashAHomie
Erica, I've never understood why blonde girls like to dye their roots so much.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I don't mean dyed roots. Let me see if I can find a picture.
- EricaJoy
It's was a joke, Erica.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Wedding venue web cam http://www.WestEndWebCam.com username is guest and password is guest http://leibee-scoblewedding.com
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Wedding starts at 4:30PM on Saturday, 12/12/2009
- Alex Scoble
*SCREAMS*
- sofarsoShawn
¡ROCK.AND.ROLL!
- Christopher Harley
from iPhone
Bump! This is this afternoon, guys!
- Rochelle
Congrats Alex!
- Shevonne
Congratulations!
- Heather Solos
Missed the webcam post earlier -- thanks for the bump.
- Brian Sullivan
I'll bump it again later, too. :)
- Rochelle
Congrats! Hope y'all have a wonderful day!
- Laura Lou Who
To-night's the night!
- Christopher Harley
Have a good day Alex Scoble
- Andrizzle Gizzle
\o/ What time zone? Mountain?
- Jason Huebel
Jason, Pacific.
- Rochelle
Congrats Alex and Cassandra .. happy moments always
- johnpiercy
Congrats! Fantastic!
- rowlikeagirl
@Rochelle, I thought Alex was in Utah? That's in Mountain TZ.
- Jason Huebel
Beaverton, OR -- says his Twitter profile.
- Brian Sullivan
Yeah, he lives in Beaverton, OR. No idea where you got Utah from!
- Rochelle
Oh. Huh. Who's in Utah then? *scratches head*
- Jason Huebel
I see unwed people.
- Micah Wittman
Congrats Alex!
- AJ Batac
CONGRATULATIONS!!
- joey
Oh, the venue looks lovely!
- joey
A lifetime of happiness to you both. Congratulations!
- Steve
WHOOOOOOO!!!! CONGRATULATIONS! I LOVE WEDDINGS
- sofarsoShawn
Congrats to the both of you................love and kisses from LI NY
- VAL D. Zone
*buys bag of rice to throw at monitor*
- Steven Perez
It's too bad this cannot be embedded in a FF page somehow -- we could all watch the activities (and even better than being there) discuss in real time here. I guess though watching in separate window and discussing here is just about as good.
- Brian Sullivan
oh man this is exciting!
- Lo
Brian, we can discuss in this thread just like how FFundercats is done!
- Rochelle
Wow, streaming your wedding.. cool :)
- Thomas Bøhm
WE HAVE MOVEMENT
- Johnny Worthington
Pretty chairs!
- Alix Whitmire
I see the cake!
- Rochelle
We need to get Alex to give us a sign
- Johnny Worthington
What's it called when a group sends someone to an event, to spy? Not in an enemy way like a true spy, but just to be there and send signals to the outside world. Maybe that's a spy. Or a plant! Is that what it's called? Maybe we should have sent a plant.
- Rochelle
A mole?
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
ROFL
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Congratulations!!
- martha
Also, congratulations and have fun this evening!
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Yeah, a mole! That's better. Do we have a mole on the inside?!
- Rochelle
Have a great wedding Cassie and Alex. And Alex, get off FF already, you don't wanna be late for this one! ;-)
- Rene Wirtz
Now the question is, will Alex pull out his phone and update FriendFeed like that guy in the YouTube video last week pulled out his phone to update his Facebook status during the middle of the wedding?
- Rochelle
Yeah, I need to start getting ready in a few minutes...my family is coming to my room at 2:30 and then we do pictures
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Hey they're putting on table clothes right now... this is really cool!
- SAM
Congrats, can't wait to see it.
- SAM
Congrats... :) I'm going to bed now :( I thought to watch it. But, damn sleepy now.. Somebody please wake me up! I'm from IST :P
- Mohammad Abdurraafay
The chairs are beautiful.
- EricaJoy
I can't stay long, but hang in there, A & C! :)
- Micah Wittman
so happy for both of you... Congrats!
- Harold
The tree looks so pretty!
- aden
DID IT START YET? DO I HAVE TIME TO ORDER PIZZA?
- Steven Perez
Steven, you have 1 hour, 45 minutes.
- Rochelle
SWEET! IMMA GET SOME ICE CREAM, TOO!
- Steven Perez
Oh, the lights on the tree came on!
- Alix Whitmire
I wish there was sound.
- Rochelle
Sound would be nice. Very pretty room.
- Laura Lou Who
I see people! (Well, sort of. My connection is lousy.)
- Laura Lou Who
I don't get anything. Maybe it's reached a connection limit?
- Jason Huebel
Seems ok from where I am.
- Brian Sullivan
working for me too?
- holly
I can see, Jason. Maybe you need to reboot?
- Laura Lou Who
@Laura, no it just won't let me connect. For those who are connected, I'd recommend not closing your browser.
- Jason Huebel
Oh, boo, Jason.
- Laura Lou Who
holy wow! I'm grabbing some popcorn and wine. :)
- Call me Bronco
Which side is the groom's side?
- Steven Perez
from IM
Usually the right, Steven.
- Laura Lou Who
oh look, someone's here. HI PEOPLE!
- Call me Bronco
Hmm, won't work for me. Image returns a not found symbol. Might be because I'm international
- Mo Kargas
same here Mo. Not international
- Steve
I SEE WEDDING PEOPLE.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Pretty purple dress!
- Laura Lou Who
I spy a bridesmaid!
- Call me Bronco
not working for me :(
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
rats. maybe people are having browser issues? I'm using Firefox/Mac OSX if that helps.
- Call me Bronco
Using XP with Firefox and it's working fine for me. Then again, I've had this browser session open all day.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Working okie for me on Win7 and Chrome. If it's got too many people maybe I should log off so family can get on?
- Alix Whitmire
YAY!
- Rochelle
I just logged on 10 minutes ago. I don't think it's an overload issue.
- Call me Bronco
Got Vista/Firefox working fine; also have the Modify Headers plug-in forwarding for 12.13.14.15 by default if that helps anyone, in case there's an international thing going on.
- Mark H
Haha. We're putting the wedding cam on our huge HDTV with music on in the background. What kind of music should we play?
- Rochelle
Al Green
- Call me Bronco
Barry White?
- Laura Lou Who
Al Green, Barry White, and Marvin Gaye.
- Call me Bronco
Oohh. I'm nervous!
- Rochelle
GET. IT. ON.
- Steven Perez
from IM
I'm getting a broken video image :o/
- Nurse Katie
It was working for me earlier and not now :( (Firefox/Vista)
- Maria Niles
Akiva can't see it with OSX. He tried Chrome, Chromium, and Safari. I can see it fine with Windows 7 and Firefox.
- Rochelle
Not working with XP/ Firefox :(
- Jimminy
I'm on Vista with Firefox. I just rebooted and still can't get it to work. :(
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
Ooh! Camera pan!
- Mark H
I'm falllling.. *watches cam move*
- Alix Whitmire
HEY! WHO'S MOVING THE CAMERA?
- Steven Perez
from IM
Panning!
- Rochelle
screenshot http://friendfeed.com/orchid8...
- Call me Bronco
urgh....nothing in FF or IE
- Nurse Katie
Cool centerpieces!
- Alix Whitmire
Vista/Firefox working here.
- Laura Lou Who
*feels a little seasick*
- Call me Bronco
I tried loading the image manually, I get "The maximum number of clients are already connected "
- Bryce Roney
Aww, maxed out then.
- Rochelle
oh. :( I feel bad.
- Call me Bronco
I was wondering if there was a viewer limit, I'm not seeing it either and I'm just in Vancouver.
- Joe Pierce
:o( Bummer
- Nurse Katie
Woot Got in, after about 2-3 dozen refreshes, just like old school FF fun.
- Jimminy
I bowed out since we are gaming in a bit, so hopefully other people can get in now. Someone grab me a screen shot of the two of them up there for me later? :D
- aden
How appropriate, Jimminy. ;)
- Call me Bronco
I spy Robert Scoble.
- Call me Bronco
Aden, will do.
- Rochelle
Definitely aden.
- Call me Bronco
Sarah, where is Robert?
- Rochelle
he walked past the stage and out the door on the left.
- Call me Bronco
venue is really pretty.
- Call me Bronco
So are the colors silver, white, and navy? Or is that purple?
- Rochelle
It is Sarah. :)
- Jimminy
dresses seem to be a sort of eggplant/purple. hard to tell on monitor.
- Call me Bronco
The dress looked purple earlier.
- Laura Lou Who
The cake looks delicious.
- Jimminy
The chair ties looked blue when all of the lights were on.
- Rochelle
men are all pre-ceremonial. wandering around and looking important and nervous.
- Call me Bronco
Showtime!
- Steven Perez
from IM
Jimminy, it just looks like a white triangle. Haha.
- Rochelle
OMG I SAW ROBERT
- Rochelle
I think it looks more like a Devo Hat. But white.
- Call me Bronco
I love Christmas weddings. And that they're collecting toys for kids, that's so cool.
- Call me Bronco
Do the attendees know there's a webcam?
- Laura Lou Who
We need a webcam with a CSI-style zoom-with-enhancement.
- Mark H
I feel like the peanut gallery. It's a good thing they can't hear us.
- Call me Bronco
It's 4:30!
- Rochelle
photog is taking pictures of the guests.
- Call me Bronco
I like how everytime the flash goes off the room gets washed out.
- Jimminy
*blinded*
- Alix Whitmire
any wedding worth its salt starts at least a few minutes late.
- Call me Bronco
Hahah. Is that Milan? He's the ring bearer.
- Rochelle
POTTY BREAK.
- Call me Bronco
Weddings never start on time.
- Steven Perez
from IM
ok the kid is back.
- Call me Bronco
I bet it's going to start! Everyone in front left.
- Rochelle
Oooh I'm already teary.
- joey
I'm at the ready with Skitch for screenshots. :)
- Call me Bronco
Thanks :)
- aden
IS IT TIME TO START THE ELECTRIC SLIDE YET?
- Steven Perez
from IM
YES OMG START IT
- Call me Bronco
this is sort of like SyFy Saturday night. Only different.
- Call me Bronco
I had the same thought, Sarah. :)
- Laura Lou Who
*passes tissues to Joey*
- Alix Whitmire
parents being seated by ushers.
- Call me Bronco
Or ushers. ;)
- Laura Lou Who
I am ready to throw rice at my screen
- aden
LOL. You caught it, Sarah.
- Laura Lou Who
No Sound ????
- johnpiercy
I only have cooked rice.
- Laura Lou Who
LOL.
- Call me Bronco
THIS IS TEH BESTEST SYFY SATURDAY NIGHT MOVIE EVAH!
- Steven Perez
from IM
Seasick!
- Laura Lou Who
IT'S PANNING!
- Rochelle
oh camera pans down. i think we're going to follow the bride in?
- Call me Bronco
IT EVEN HAS BETTER SFX!
- Steven Perez
from IM
TO THE DOOR!
- Rochelle
Sarah, yup.
- Rochelle
This play by play rocks
- aden
or not? panning back.
- Call me Bronco
how come no sound
- johnpiercy
because. no sound. it's not mic'd.
- Call me Bronco
DO ANYBODY NO WHY DIS MOVIE IS SILENT?
- Steven Perez
from IM
HEADS TURNING.
- Call me Bronco
I see legs up front.
- Laura Lou Who
bridesmaids coming up the aisle, meeting the men.
- Call me Bronco
HEADS UP!
- Steven Perez
from IM
Beautiful!
- joey
YAY!
- Rochelle
This is exciting!
- Laura Lou Who
here he comes
- johnpiercy
cute!
- EricaJoy
Colors people tell me the colors!
- aden
I've never watched a wedding from my sofa in jeans.
- Laura Lou Who
Awwwwwwwwwwww
- Alix Whitmire
STOP MOVING THE DAMN CAMERA!
- Steven Perez
from IM
Weird camera pan...
- EricaJoy
!!!!!!!!!
- Rochelle
The panning is annoying. We'd better get to see Cassie!
- Laura Lou Who
I need some Organ music
- johnpiercy
Yay!
- Laura Lou Who
OH, SNAP!
- Steven Perez
from IM
GORGEOUS!!!
- EricaJoy
here comes the bride
- Call me Bronco
Aww gorgeous bride!
- joey
sorry hard to comment and screenshot simultaneously
- Call me Bronco
CRYING
- Rochelle
waaah, i can't see the venue on my screen. keep your comments coming!
- Marie is monkeying around
is that purple or navy blue?
- EricaJoy
LOVE the long train on the dress.
- EricaJoy
looking good alex and cassie
- johnpiercy
I vote purple.
- Alix Whitmire
Dude, she's too pretty for Alex.
- Steven Perez
from IM
I thought it was purple, but the lighting is kind of weird.
- Laura Lou Who
We need to zoom back up to the front.
- Laura Lou Who
OK, now comes the boring part. SKIP TO THE END!
- Steven Perez
from IM
we need the Priest Camera
- johnpiercy
MAWWAGE.
- Steven Perez
from IM
lol
- EricaJoy
about to post some shots, see my feed in a sec for those.
- Call me Bronco
THAT DWEEM WITHIN A DWEEM ...
- Steven Perez
from IM
moar zoom!
- EricaJoy
I zoomed in with my browser!
- Rochelle
Real nice setup Alex and Cassie have here. Bridesmaids are in purple. Groomsmen are in black. Except for Robert - he's wearing Twitter blue. [/just kidding]
- Steven Perez
from IM
awww this is so sweet. I'm so happy for them.
- Call me Bronco
LOL, Steven!
- Laura Lou Who
And they get to escape all the Christmas drama and spend the holiday in Jamaica. Lucky bastards!
- Call me Bronco
Heh.
- Laura Lou Who
yeah i want that zoom back. why did they zoom in and out so fast?
- Call me Bronco
the camera operator needs to be on friendfeed
- EricaJoy
lol
- Call me Bronco
blah blah blah love between a man and a woman blah blah blah
- Call me Bronco
Attention to the next couple to get married live on FriendFeed: Qik or Ustream please. Or 12seconds if you're keeping it brief.
- Mark H
HAH 12second wedding.
- Call me Bronco
oh zoom!
- Call me Bronco
ZOOM!
- Rochelle
OY! Enough with the zooming!
- Steven Perez
from IM
Yay zoom!!!
- Alix Whitmire
OMG
- EricaJoy
VOWS!
- Rochelle
facing each other. definitely vow time.
- Call me Bronco
VOWS!
- Steven Perez
from IM
The vid won;t play!!
- WorldofHiglet
blessing of rings, i think
- Call me Bronco
WoH it's at capacity for viewers, I think
- Call me Bronco
RINGS! ONE RING TO TWEET THEM ALL!
- Steven Perez
from IM
did he kiss her yet?
- WorldofHiglet
nope we're not there yet
- Call me Bronco
screen cap the kiss!! :) you know when it happens
- aden
i will
- Call me Bronco
Call Me Bronco - THANKS fr the Live Play by Play
- johnpiercy
MUCHAS SMOOCHES!
- Steven Perez
from IM
:) happy to do it
- Call me Bronco
awwww :)
- WorldofHiglet
alex and cassie turning to face the celebrant as he says some words
- Call me Bronco
first time Ive seen a wedding streamed ..
- johnpiercy
MUCHAS SMOOCHES FTW!!!!!
- Steven Perez
from IM
XOXOX's
- johnpiercy
W00T! ALEX AND CASSIE SCOBLE!
- Steven Perez
from IM
omg i think they HUGGED
- Call me Bronco
and now they're walking out
- Call me Bronco
Mr and Mrs Scoble
- johnpiercy
i think i missed the exact moment. lol.
- Call me Bronco
Lovely.
- Mark H
*throws rice at screen, drops pants*
- Steven Perez
from IM
Huzzah!
- aden
YAYAYAY!
- Rochelle
Now Dancing with Lampshades ?
- johnpiercy
Whoo-hoo!
- Laura Lou Who
TIME TO GET DRUNK AND PAR-TAY!
- Steven Perez
from IM
*drops pants, too, even though I couldn't get to the video*
- ha3rvey (sup homepants)
Bird Dance
- johnpiercy
Oh wow!
- WorldofHiglet
Now we need a party/reception cam.
- Laura Lou Who
Laura, I think the reception is in the same room so we'll be able to see that, too.
- Rochelle
Congratulations Mr and Mrs Scoble!
- WorldofHiglet
that was a quick service
- johnpiercy
yay! that was sweet. ok time to make dinner now, then back to check out the reception. here come the CATERING ROUNDS.
- Call me Bronco
purple tablecloths, natch.
- Call me Bronco
BREAK FOR POTTY, THEN IT'S TIME TO EAT AND THEN GET FUNKY!
- Steven Perez
from IM
Nice quick service; we approve. Purple bridesmaids; Mrs we approves. Nobody fainted; well, you can't have everything.
- Mark H
Awesome!
- Laura Lou Who
Damn I missed it -- they are setting up now for the dinner?
- Brian Sullivan
Yep.
- Laura Lou Who
So, there must be a bar area for guests, and then photos are being taken?
- Cristo
For some reason I thought they did pix earlier. Did Alex post something about that?
- Laura Lou Who
Sometimes they do family shots before, and then do more photos between ceremony and reception.
- Cristo
Alex said earlier that they were doing photos before.
- Rochelle
Candlelight. :)
- Alix Whitmire
:) :) :)
- Steven Perez
from IM
Cool
- Rodfather
I am waving at you!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
The wedding was awesome. Milan almost choked at the beginning though.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Yeah we saw that Robert. Too funny.
- Call me Bronco
Reception looks like fun. Tell Alex and Cassie we love the hell out of them.
- Call me Bronco
He knows that, loves you back.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
How geeky is this wedding? Three Droids and counting! :-)
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
YES! I have a connection!
- Mo Kargas
Too late :(
- Mo Kargas
Just saw their first dance! Awwww!
- Mark H
Yeah, very nice first dance!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Can you hear too? I wish you could cause I am gonna do a toast.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Nope. :(
- Alix Whitmire
No sound unfortunately
- Mo Kargas
Congratulations! Looks like a great day!
- Jim Hearts FF
Best wishes for the Scoble family. Thanks for sharing with all of us!
- mrsha
Mingle mingle mingle.
- SAM
Best wishes to the Scoble family ,MAZAL TOV
- Johni Fisher
Congratulations! Best wishes!
- Anne Bouey
That was so cool :)
- Lo
That was so awesome. I read every word since I missed the streaming... :-) Congrats, Alex & Cassie!!!!
- Lisa L. Seifert
Congrats to you both! :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
A long and happy life to you both. Many blessings.
- Dawn
Congrats and Mazel Tov Alex. Best wishes for you both !!!
- Nir Ben Yona
Googlers "get to test out a new technology and help improve it." : Official Google Mobile Blog: An Android dogfood diet for the holidays - http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009...
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"We recently came up with the concept of a mobile lab, which is a device that combines innovative hardware from a partner with software that runs on Android to experiment with new mobile features and capabilities, and we shared this device with Google employees across the globe. This means they get to test out a new technology and help improve it."
- EricaJoy
from Bookmarklet
For RAP and MWM - http://bigstarlet.posterous.com/for-rap...
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Horrid pic but this is Metric @ the Oracle Arena 5 min ago. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry ...
- Helen Sventitsky
from Posterous
Yay! They were SO good when I saw them last Monday. Enjoy the show!
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
They were good last night too. They only did 5 songs, however :(
- Helen Sventitsky
They're getting around... they'll be in Chicago next week :)
- LogEx
I was there too! I just uploaded my video of Muse, should appear in my feed at some point.
- EricaJoy
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!! Thanks for the heads up, Erica! Can't wait to see it! :D
- Helen Sventitsky
I want to go to a place with giant comfortable chairs that will let me curl up all day with a book & keep the hot drinks and snacks coming.
Helen Sventitsky, VAL D. Zone, RAPatton and 3 other people liked this
Does this place exist?
- EricaJoy
If it doesn't exist, should it? Heres what I envision: a big room with comfortable oversized chairs of all kinds. Beanbags, love seats, high backed chairs, etc. You must show proof of possession of a book, an ebook reader, or writing elements to enter. No power outlets anywhere, no wifi, no typing allowed. Silence is a requirement (except for the occasional outburst of emotion). The walkways are narrow.
- EricaJoy
There are waitresses that come around occasionally and check to see if you've turned over your service chip. If you have, they quietly interrupt you to hand you a notepad with the menu and a pencil. You circle what you want on the menu (remember, silence) and hand it back. Mostly drinks and foods that don't require a lot of effort are on the menu. The waitress takes your order to the soundproofed kitchen and returns with your order once its completed.
- EricaJoy
Name of place? The Reading Room. The Hidey Hole. Something. It isn't advertised anywhere but libraries and bookstores. This is where I want to go today.
- EricaJoy
sounds like those old private clubs... gone public. :)
- T. Brent, technopeasant
Starbucks?
- Jeremy (cropmarks)
Where is this mythical Starbucks? All of them that I've been to are quite the opposite - noisy, lots of power outlets and wifi, tons of people typing, no waitresses, etc.
- Rochelle
Here is our local spot the have a wired internet area in the back but, no WiFi and lots of big chairs on the patio.Let me know when you are 10 minutes away, I will come buy the coffee http://www.coffeeplantationkeywest.com/
- Eric Logan
If it's slow they'll come over and ask if you want another drink or something.... but we're very nearly rural.
- Jen Hodges
I got 99 donuts..... - http://jeffisageek.posterous.com/i-got-9...
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http://www.snorgtees.com/igot99d... is the shirt.
- EricaJoy
roflmao......................
- VAL D. Zone
"Got nuthin' to have with your coffee? Well I feel bad for you, son!"
- Ciaoenrico
Ciaoenrico ++
- Andrew C
I officially do not understand art. : The Met Store - Ellsworth Kelly: Untitled - http://store.metmuseum.org/Limited...
Jérôme Flipo, Itachi, Akiva Moskovitz and rowlikeagirl liked this
$4,500?!
- EricaJoy
from Bookmarklet
I was an art major and I feel that way about it, EricaJoy. The "high art" world is like a number of other businesses (medicine, law, IT)...there's jargon, mythology and a caste that acts as intermediaries between the general public and members of the profession.
- Spidra Webster
Looks familiar: http://www.amazon.com/Showtim...
- Akiva Moskovitz
omg Akiva, copyright infringement! get the lawyers!
- Kamilah Gill
This probably makes me a big old prick, but if your domain name redirects to a blogspot blog... sigh.
Jimminy and WorldofHiglet liked this
Thems fighting words buddy. What do you have against blogger? :P
- EricaJoy
domain snob
- WorldofHiglet
I don't have anything against blogger as a platform, actually (though I think there are many better options) - it just reminds me of some people I know and therefore rubs me wrong. Like I said, big old prick :)
- Brett Kelly
from IM
I suppose that's true :)
- Brett Kelly
from IM
You can hate away. I'm webtarded. You'll REALLY love this: I'm building a googlesites website next! Muhahahahah!
- Jeremy (cropmarks)
Not a damn thing wrong with Google Sites :)
- Brett Kelly
from IM
No Cyber Czar for You, America: Obama Fails to Appoint InfoSec Head - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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About to unsub RWW for the image in this post. I expect old media outlets to pull the darken to seem meaner trick but not "new" media.
- EricaJoy
You're attaching an emotional response to a mere picture. The "Big O" should have taught all of us that control and logic is key to winning in our society. I may not agree with everything that Obama does, but the man has an almost Asian quality about himself and lives in a Zen world. I wouldn't attach any emotional value to the article or its source what is important is the whole story,...
more...
- John Foster
Bully for Obama. Erica? Not a fan of darkening someone's skin so they look scarier or meaner or whatever.
- EricaJoy
I think Sisyphus is available.
- Anthony Citrano
Did you mean: friendfeed
'Like' robot (frɐnc), Thaths, parazitt and 115 other people liked this
Yep...this should get FriendFeed hopping again...LOL
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
FTW!
- chaz2b
Boo-YAH
- Josh Haley
Mine doesn't say that. :-(
- Jason Huebel
*whistles innocently*
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
LOL
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
heh heh
- Kamilah Gill
Iz ze New Wave ?
- Desirade
hahah awesome! :D
- Susan Beebe
Oh man if Google bombs weren't terrible terrible things, that would be an awesome one. However, they are terrible so don't think about it.
- EricaJoy
OMG Google does know everything! It sees through the PR Spin: the same but different *eye roll*
- sofarsoShawn
FACT: fudge, brownies and just about anything chocolatey that isn't pure dark chocolate is just disgusting. Don't even get me started when vile little pecans or walnuts are added.
Bonnie Foster, Kelly, Stephen Mack and 11 other people liked this
Well. I thought we could be friends. I was wrong. :P
- EricaJoy
You know, I can take care of all that non-pure-dark-chocolate stuff for you. Because I'm a giver :)
- ωαřмaiden, MFA'd poet
Ah a chocolate bigot are we then?
- Brian Sullivan
I prefer chocolate snob.
- Admiral Anika
I love fudge and brownies, but I'm with ya on the nuts. I generally don't like nuts in my chocolate.
- vicster
Snob it is then.
- Brian Sullivan
Wow, I can't imagine not liking brownies, fudge, chocolate cake... it boggles the mind!
- Lindsay
I used to hate chocolate cake until I found a nice, moist, well-made one. Hershey's milk chocolate is disgusting (except for Symphony). I have no idea how I used to eat so many Kisses. I can't even get them down anymore.
- Kamilah Gill
brownies without walnuts are NOT brownies. they are little chocolate step-snacks that nobody loves. Walnuts rule! especially in brownie land!!!!
- Morgan Haley
Not in my world, Morgan. So, I'll just keep my insanely good, rich, sinfully delicious brownies WITHOUT walnuts to myself. :p You're on your own, mister...
- Bette Cooper
When I make brownies, I use good quality dutch-processed cocoa. It makes a world of difference. They are dark and rich. Kamilah - Hershey's has lowered their standards in recent years. I'm pretty sure the percentage of cocoa has dropped in their products. Not that it was ever high-end chocolate, but it was once better than it is now.
- Katy S
Walnuts to the rescue! Save the naked, neglected brownies from their plain-ness!
- Morgan Haley
Why walnuts, though? Toasted almonds sound tastier to me.
- Katy S
No Nuts in Baked Goods (tm).
- cecily
Cecily - I normally don't use them in baked goods. The exceptions are a couple quick breads I make and some almond blondies that have slivered almonds across the top of them. EDITED TO ADD: I do make pecan pie, so I suppose that counts as baked goods with nuts.
- Katy S
++ cecily! I am fully onboard with your philosophy.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Cecily++. Dark chocolate is gross. Maybe my definition of dark chocolate is different though.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
The No Nuts in Baked Goods brigade is something I pilfered from Jason Toney.
- cecily
Pecans > walnuts.
- Derrick
ah, i see fellow member of the No Nuts in Baked Goods Brigade has responded. i have a mild allergy to some nuts and don't like most others. that said, i can't get behind this pure dark chocolate doctrine. ancho chile in dark chocolate is The Bizness. and i enjoy a good milk chocolate, sometimes with caramel.
- tiffany
What about a flourless chocolate cake? SO GOOD.
- Andrew C
Nuts are good in chocolate (especially hazelnuts), milk is not. Milk chocolate should be banned.
- Christopher A Carr
Hmm...something that Anika and I agree on foodwise? Well, except for the nuts bit, but I'm totally with you on the dark chocolate bit.
- Alex Scoble
I like both dark and milk chocolate, but either way it needs to be high quality.
- Katy S
You obviously haven't had Lindt Lindor chocolate.
- Bryce Roney
from iPhone
It's taking a lot of self-control for me not to make brownies right now using my dutch-processed Bensdorp cocoa.
- Katy S
Oh, I forgot... Hershey's so-called dark chocolate is gross, too. I like proper dark chocolate. Katy, you're probably right about the cocoa reduction. They shouldn't even be allowed to call that garbage chocolate.
- Kamilah Gill
I think in Canada there are minimum requirements of cocoa inclusion before something can be called "chocolate" -- most "chocolate bars" here are labelled candy bars because of the requirement.
- Brian Sullivan
I'm not partial to nuts in baked goods......and I prefer dark chocolate....but let's be honest....I love any kind of chocolate I can get my hands on! Dark, milk, no nuts, nuts.....
- Bonnie Foster
Bonnie, you need to come to my house and hoover up all this chocolate my MIL gives us. No one here really eats it.
- Admiral Anika
LOL Anika....I'd hoover away!
- Bonnie Foster
from iPod
Cable Lobbyist Says Net Neutrality Violates The First Amendment - http://techdirt.com/article...
Um. Businesses (mind you the entity of the business and not its employees) have rights guaranteed by the Constitution?
- EricaJoy
VeriFone Payware Mobile iPhone peripheral looking ready to square off with, er, Square - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
What the fsck? Can we please at least pretend to make an effort to catch up with the rest of the world in tech? Stop enabling old clunky technology with crap like this.
- EricaJoy
Product idea: a screwdriver with LED lights at the bottom of the handle, facing towards the tip.
Peter Fedin, rowlikeagirl, Rachel Lea Fox and 3 other people liked this
Inspired by Bossco's lighted wrenches, https://commerce.rsaa.com/bossco... and by my frustration of trying to see anything inside an all-black computer case.
- Tudor Bosman
They have those... I know I've had one before...
- Lindsay
I could find a screwdriver attachment, but it looks big and clunky. http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008...
- Tudor Bosman
Found, appropriately enough, at http://www.thingsyouneverknew.com/product...
- Kevin Fox
Kevin: the handle is way too big compared to the shaft, which makes me think that's either too clunky or too short.
- Tudor Bosman
OK, follow-up idea: a big belt-mounted flashlight with the light directed to the working area via a longish fiber optic cable.
- Andrew C
Alternative: a small but powerful goose-neck flashlight with a magnetic base.
- Tudor Bosman
How about this one? http://hardtofindtools.com/p-21-sp... I found it via our own LockerGnome's web site: http://chris.pirillo.com/its-not...
- Kevin Fox
Pro tip: if you spend any non-trivial amount of time dealing with (home or rack-mounted) computer hardware, spend $10 and buy yourself a good, comfortable Phillips #2 screwdriver with a magnetic tip. (Not one of those all-in-one screwdrivers with replaceable bits)
- Tudor Bosman
Kevin: light coming out of the tip? I'm intrigued.
- Tudor Bosman
(Yeah, I know. THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID.)
- Tudor Bosman
LOL
- EricaJoy
Insert screwing joke here.
- Kevin Fox
Are you regretting building your own ZFS box now?
- Benjamin Golub
No, I'm regretting not researching the hard drives more :) But the case is awesome, and replacing drives in it is trivial, so the only hassle is the return.
- Tudor Bosman
Which drives did you get? Which drives do you want? What did you find that changed your mind?
- Kevin Fox
Kevin: full story here. https://friendfeed.com/tudor...
- Tudor Bosman
Found out today that our office overhead lights will now be attached to motion sensors. I hope they've taken into account how little I move, some days. On a related note, does anyone have a perpetual motion machine they could give me?
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Heh, this happens to some of my co-workers. They have to get up every once in a while and jump around, waving their hands.
- marthalib
See that's the kind of thing I'd be easily amused by... I'd try to see how quickly I could make the lights turn off.
- Matt Lorfeld
Guilty.
- Derrick
bring pippin to work with you, he'll move the times that you don't :)
- Sir Shuping
That'll probably end up being a good thing ergonomically. Folks have to get up every once in a while...
- Spidra Webster
strangely, the lights never turn out on me
- marthalib
just develop a nervous twitch. doing so has worked for me!
- Morgan Haley
perpetual motion device: small fan.
- D0r0th34
Keep an umbrella in the office and open it when necessary. :)
- Katy S
I prescribe energetic typing. Get your shoulder into it.
- s t e v e
The lights in the lab where I'll be teaching are on motion sensors. It took all I had not to giggle at the instructor who was showing me how to turn them on.
- cecily
Tangent: The best office light system I've ever seen was at the Google Atlanta office. We had lots of windows so the lighting came on and turned off based on how much sunlight was coming into the space. Highly efficient.
- EricaJoy
The questoin is: does the energy trickle for the motion sensor offset the potential energy savings from when people forget to switch off the light? (also, I often end up in the dark in my motion-sensor-lit office - I got a fan to keep the motion going and provide some white-noise, does that energy use offset any potential savings? oh & I forgot to turn off the fan last night, so I had the motion-sensor, the lights and a fan sucking up the power. Penny-wise, pound-foolish is what I say
- Zen Master the Librarian
I also agree with the ergonomics observation -- it's a great reason to remember to get up and stretch a bit during the day!
- Jenica
I once took a final exam in a room with motion-sensor lights. Every 20 minutes the prof had to get up and jump around to turn the lights back on (we were too busy scribbling in our blue books). It was hilarious.
- Catherine Pellegrino
None of this is making me like the new plan more.
- lris
That's kind of the point, lris. ;)
- Catherine Pellegrino
I hate you all.
- lris
You need to watch the episode of Better of Ted dealing with this. The lights wouldn't recognize people of color. It was very funny.
- Alan Simpson
I should go to my boss: "I know I look white, and I know I'm 3/4 European descent, but the 1/4 that's not is REALLY MAD that the lights turn off. DISCRIMINATION!"
- lris
obviously, this is all a ploy to get you to do interpretive dance in your office. perhaps something with scarves.
- marthalib
How often do you really need the overhead lights? I have a small lamp on my desk that works fine for most paper-based projects. Then again, I had the facilities folks remove the bulbs from the florescents right above my desk (too much glare) so it's darkish anyway. When the rest of the lights turn off from lack of movement, there isn't much difference.
- Kirsten
Iris, we still need to go to Ikea to buy lamps
- marthalib
Yes! We'll have to do that soon. And also introduce you to the "pickled things galore" isle at United Noodle.
- lris
"does anyone have a perpetual motion machine they could give me?" On this website, we OBEY THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS. 8^P
- Chieze Okoye
so, no interpretive dance? :(
- marthalib
Is there a Nancy Pearl Bobble-Head you could use?
- Abigail wants more eggnog
*hunts for box big enough to hold waif*
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
The worst is the bathroom lights that are on motion sensors. Stupid idea.
- Jeremy (cropmarks)
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