+102 for Bill Waterson references in picture Kevin or words Sinterclas
- Steve C
cute but what happened to festivus this year?
- Laura Norvig
Merry Christmas to the FriendFeed team. You guys rock! FriendFeed reacts quickly and you're adding wonderful features all the time (Thanks soooo much for the "edit" feature.)
- Mitchell Tsai
Happy Holidays FF crue -- you've made this an excellent and memorable year for many of us. Facebook couldn't have done it without you! :)
- Christopher Galtenberg
w00t you gave me the best online year in 15 years!!! ;p Thanks a lot, everyone, for what you've done here XD
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Sigh. Sometimes it is the little touches, like seasonal logos or easter eggs, that mark a site as a living project, and that you really miss when the developers have all moved on to something else.
- Michael R. Bernstein
I thought Samsung owns them now, so maybe it's only acceptable for South Korean hip-hopsters?
- Ray Cromwell
If you like it wear it. FUBU is international now ,they are making more money overseas than in the U.S.The creator is on the show Shark Tank his name is DAYMOND THE SHARK,its on Tuesday's on ABC at 8pm ,watch it-interesting show.
- R_ C
I think you should maybe stay from the Circa line. I can't get the Platinum page to load to see what it looks like. Do you wear jeans? Oh, my opinion's useless, anyway. I look at my clothes, select a solid-color shirt, a solid-color pair of pants, try not to mix two primary colors, and that's my fashion sense.
- MiniMage - HLtW
I thought of this the other day; waiting at the street light was an old Asian guy decked out in FUBU and wearing Timbos. I'm still kicking myself for not snapping a picture. I know he knew he was fly.
- Admiral Anika
"Yesterday, in a bookstore here in a very red town in the middle of Tennessee, the Rude Pundit stood aghast by a table stacked with Palin's book. It reads like a passive-aggressive Rick Warren tome, where the message is that you can self-actualize through Jesus if all those fuckers holding you back get out of the way. Two or three people grabbed copies and headed towards the cash register. People are lined up for hours to meet her in Michigan today. In the end, the facts of the the book don't matter. All that matters is that idiot America has its queen."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
Ilia: I want to watch The Wiz, but only the Michael Jackson parts. *sings part of this song* Then watch the Wizard of Oz, then Rocky Horror Picture Show. *sings Time Warp* Me: Ooh a documentary on the Coral Reef.
- Admiral Anika
I just added it to my Netflix. I don't know if I've ever seen it from beginning to end. Non-weavable Diana Ross and all.
- Derrick
You've never seen The Wiz from beginning to end? O_o
- nakachi
I was scared of the Wicked Witch, 'kachi! And the flying monkeys! :(
- Derrick
Mabel King killed it\ in this movie. Her Wicked Witch was a highlight!
- Admiral Anika
The first and only show I've ever seen on B'way was "The Wiz". I remember sadly little about it but I remember how good Mabel King was in that role.
- Spidra Webster
Re: the b'way version, Stephanie Mills' version of Home is the business.
- Derrick
Those are my favorite characters!! "Don't you bring me NO bad news!" I know that's right....
- nakachi
Stephanie Mills was 12 years old when she played that role.
- nakachi
This movie has been floating near the top of my Netflix queue since Jackson died. I've seen The Wiz way more than I have The Wizard of Oz.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I am sooooo old, I saw this in the movie theater. Yes, we had shoes when we walked uphill both ways in the snow, but we had to kill the deer, skin it, tan the hide, and sew the shoes, ourselves, using porcupine quills (fortunately, it was up to our menfolk to kill the mountain lions that provided our catgut).
- MiniMage - HLtW
Mage, when this movie came out, the entire school went on a field trip, opening day, to see it. It was considered 'historical'.
- Admiral Anika
"In case you’ve been wondering about the sporadic posts and lack of commenting, I’ve been in Asia for the past month. As much as I love the food of my homeland, eating nothing but Korean and Japanese food for the past thirty days had me itching for a change. Since I’m spending a week at a Napa retreat (a.k.a. my parent’s house), I decided to make the most of the plentiful Mexican supplies while I can. Chicken enchiladas from scratch seemed like a good place to start."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
Wow ,,, I'm all over that like White on Rice
- johnpiercy
from iPhone
it'd definitely going to take me a while to get to a million. I'm publishing about 200 photos to flickr a week right now and at this pace it will take 92 years to get there. I'll get the pace up to 400-500 a week in the future though. Better technology should make processing easier and someday my kids will be grown and I'll be able to quit my day job and focus on this even more. The best photos have yet to be taken.
- Thomas Hawk
When I think about this I realize your best days are ahead of you.
- Russellreno
What's your shot/publish ratio? I mean, on average how many shots do you take to produce those you publish?
- Yuval Atzmon
atzmon, I probably average about 2,000 shots a week that I shoot. And I'm probably processing 300 or so of those a week at present, so I'm probably keeping about 15%. The other 85% never get processed and are kept in my archives. I'm trying only to process and publish the shots that I think meet a certain quality criteria.
- Thomas Hawk
You upload a lot more than I do. I have about 40,000 pictures but only about 2000 uploaded. Mostly because I have not gotten around to processing more. =)
- Jauder Ho
from twhirl
Jauder, the good news is that processing will only get easier in the future. I've watched it get better with each successive Adobe release. Lightroom 2.0 is the best processing tool yet. It's not necessarily faster per se though because with more tools there are yet even more ways to tweak a photo hence even more time. But the tools to speed things up are coming too. auto geotagging, better anti dust tech, faster processing speeds, easier online tools with faster broadband are all around the corner.
- Thomas Hawk
16,000 ?? Yikes. Cool number. Congrats.
- Charlie Anzman
This photo is total awesome. It is made even more awesome by the knowledge that there are 15,999 more photos just as awesome as this one. EDIT: This photo is now my desktop background. :)
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Always loved that quote " The best photos have yet to be taken. - Thomas Hawk"
- johnpiercy
Congrats, I even don't think I took so many photos in my life. :)
- Ferhad Fidan
from fftogo
@thomas: Yahoo should be giving Flickr to you for free. You'd do a great job with it. And it would be historical: the first user-generated (company) acquisition :)))
- Alberto D'Ottavi
from fftogo
I guess the metier of 'photo editor' is kaput...or, at least, greatly altered....
- Chris Gulker
You know they are going to delete your account without warning once you hit 999,999, right? :)
- Ace
Ace, I hope not, I'd be so pissed. Actually I think alot of what gets me so upset about all the content/account deletion issues is that I really do worry that it actually will happen to me. Flickr staff hates me and they'd *love* to delete my account. I worry that I'll wake up one morning and everything will have been nuked. I suppose that's why I'd like to see them enact the ability to...
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- Thomas Hawk
Holyshit! You have taked just couple of photos...
- k00pa
Because this post is from September last year k00pa :)
- Simon Wicks
@Chris Gulker. Someday I hope to work with a photo editor. God knows I need to. I like to think of my Flickrstream today more as the raw material in a lot of ways for future projects. A good photo editor adds tremendous value to shaping a photographer's imagery.
- Thomas Hawk
I clearly need to get to bed because I saw this at the top of the page and thought, "Wait. It's Sunday already? Where did the week go?" ooph.
- ♥patricia♥
Conventional logic holds that people don't carry baseballs around with them. Conventionally, would you think a person with pockets full of baseballs as "normal"? Do you carry everything you own in case you have to logically prove to someone that you own it in the event that some conventional debate arises?
- Darian Rawson
Omg I found it. Derrick, one more! :)
- Mona Nomura
Are you familiar with "Russell's Teapot?" : "If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion...
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- Christopher A Carr
I've never known a christian to react like that when someone asks to prove Gods existence. If someone is sincerly asking the question we'll usually talk about why we believe. If someone is being hostile I'll walk away.
- ChiliMac
ChiliMac, on a serious note, it's really dependent on the parties conversing. I've openly had many discussions on religion. It's also helpful to comprehend the other party's(ies') views and backgrounds, to have amicable discussions. :)
- Mona Nomura
Mona: You are absolutely right, it does depend on the parties. I believe most people still know how to and are polite and respectful of one another. I was having this conversation with a friend from my church the other night. His roommate had criticized him for reading books by Dawkins. We disagreed with him. We should understand those who have different opinions then ours and be respectful to one another.
- ChiliMac
could also be titled "conventional logic vs evolutionist logic" or "conventional logic vs global warming logic". i see more unfounded dogma from these two groups than any other.
- Brooks Bayne
Yeah, Brooks... or "conventional logic vs. round Earth logic," or "conventional logic vs. heliocentric solar system logic." I'm sick of dogmatic round-Earth liberals! If the Earth is so round, why don't Australians fall into space? Eh? Answer that secular libs!
- Christopher A Carr
Definitely something Richard Dawkins would approve of! :) And @ChristopherCarr - the Celestial Teapot was the first thing I thought of when I saw this.
- jack
I would not mind living in a place where I could actually see the sky at night. Here we see no stars.
- M F
When I was 18 I went to some Greek islands with some mates and one night after a lot of drinks ended up on a secluded beach and looked up to see something similar to this picture. Absolutely stunning. Never seen anything close to it back home; way too much light pollution. A shame we lose so much.
- Mark H
The night sky in Death Valley is amazing at any time ... No light pollution at all. Breathtaking.
- Brent - Loving Life
It's been a long time since I've been to death valley. Must go again sometime.
- Beau Liening
If you have not had the chance to see a truly dark sky, you should make every effort to try. Bring a telescope for even more awesomeness!
- Michael McKean
Gorgeous! Makes me want to go out to Racetrack again
- Alisha Vargas
Spent the last 4 days staining the deck. Thank god the weather wasn't hot. I think next time I'll live less frugally and give someone else the honor of doing it.
Ep III was ok but I choose it over the matrix because I am a SW geek. I can watch it over and over because it stimulates me geek brain - even complaining about it or pondering how it could have been better is interesting. Matrix was a great flic but not too many extra neurons were stimulated. And on 2nd, 3rd or more viewings, M becomes more and more meh to me.
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
Matrix, easily. The first three star wars set a benchmark that the next three easily slipped under ...
- Paul W. Homer
Blinding speed Kung Fu vs colored light sabres. The Matrix is The One!
- Shane
Matrix. The sequels are bad enough to cause villagers to riot, but the original is near perfect. Empire vs. Matrix, well...in that case SW all the way.
- Jeremy Thompson
Wait, Jemm....are you counting the pod racing scene as part of Ep 1? Or are you just counting that scene as its own separate movie? If you count it as part of Ep 1, no way Ep 1 > Matrix.
- Jeremy Thompson
@jeremy: Of course. And Jar Jar Binks, too!
- Jemm
@Jemm: Hehe, I actually didn't mind either of those too much the first time through. Second time was rough -- stiff acting and a lot of exposition. Ep 1 > Matrix 2 unquestionably, tho.
- Jeremy Thompson
this is the flickchart battle that keeps going! :)
- (jeff)isageek
and it looks like The Matix is the clear winner among the friendfeeders :)
- (jeff)isageek
Only because you chose episode 3. That's not really a contest. If you'd said The Matrix versus Episode IV or V then Star Wars would likely have carried the day.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Hey, thanks to KShep's URL trick I've been able to force rank my favorite movie to the top of my list by pitting it against my former #1!
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Not even remotely close. The Matrix.
- Chieze Okoye
""Battlestar Galactica" may be gone, but it's not forgotten. On June 4, "Galactica" stars Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell will join key creators Ron Moore and David Eick on a panel that revisits the darker story lines of the show and address real-world human rights issues. I'm moderating the panel at Hollywood and Highland and hope to see a lot of you Hero Complex readers in the audience. The event is part of the Envelope Screening Series, which brings in Los Angeles Times writers to moderate panels featuring the elite talents behind top television shows. ("The Shield," "Californication" and "Rescue Me" are among the other panels this time around.) The "Battlestar" discussion will be different than the others, with an emphasis on taking the show's themes and re-framing them as a human rights commentary -- and a call to action. This panel will be a follow-up event to the April cast visit to the United Nations, which left many of the participants energized. I spoke a few weeks ago to McDonnell and she was intent on turning talk into action. I expect this panel will be the start of that."
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
"Most of the general public is fascinated by Hugh Hefner; most men envy him and see him as some sort of hero. Women find him attractive due to his money, fame, and sex appeal, and even those who don’t feel this way about Hef still find him to be very interesting. His ideals on sexual curiosities and interests were not well thought of in his earlier years, as he was at times a topic of controversy. Luckily times have changed."
- Vijayendra (V-Mo) Mohanty
from Bookmarklet
"Piccata is probably most associated with chicken, but a while back I ended up at the blog Proud Italian Cook and found a post for Tilapia Piccata. I'd always wanted to try it with fish. At the market I ended up with two fillets of pike, but pretty much any white fish would suit. The recipe is a straightforward piccata preparation with the requisite lemon juice, capers, white wine, and parsley. You don't get quite the same meatiness as with chicken, but the buttery, briny flavors suit white fish wonderfully."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet