Derrick, hope knowing they went to Dubai doesn't spoil it for you! Jimminy, I felt like there was someone I knew on here who lived and/or worked there. Danny, I bet Leo Laporte has been everywhere. :) SML, aren't they? Sounds great, from beaches to nightlife to desert safaris.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I worked/lived there between 2000/2001 followed by a year working/living in the Bahamas. Dubai got me all starry eyed at the time but if I had a choice, I'd chose to live in the Bahamas. I'm sure Dubai is still pretty cool for a holiday though - during the winter.
- 1x29
I've subscribed to a lot of people lately and seen a rise in my subscriptions (awesome all ways around), so I'd like to ask where peeps are from and/or currently residing?
Born in Chicago, lived in something like 12 states and 2 countries, now living in Pennsylvania
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Born in New Delhi, raised in Berlin, Riyadh, Dubai and New Delhi. Now living in New Delhi.
- Faraz Mullick
Born and raised in Kentucky. Attended University of Kentucky. Left Kentucky to move to Marlyand(between DC and Baltimore) when my wife was transferred. Still want to move back home.
- Alan Simpson
I'm from Cupertino, CA...currently reside in Beaverton, OR.
- Alex Scoble
Born in southeast MO; grew up there and in MT, WV, and OK; not long enough in PNW; now back in OK.
- Kirsten
Grew up all over the place, currently living in the Kansas City Metro Area.
- josh neff, geek at large
Air Force brat, been calling sunny Tucson AZ home since 1986 (with a brief break to live in Hawaii for a while).
- Ruth, just Ruth
Born, raised, and live in the jewel(*) of the south coast of England: Portsmouth. (*) Jewel may be cubic zirconia.
- Mark H
born: austin, tx. raised: honolulu, hi. currently living: los angeles, ca
- Morgan Haley
Salt Lake City, Utah, grew up in Houston, TX
- Jesse Stay
Born in Key West, FL moved back here recently after living in CA, TX, and GA
- Eric Logan
born in So. Cal, raised east coast (Mass then PA - thus tuned to instantaneously recognize the DM & Ween, lol!) Lived in NYC for 8 years, now in SF
- Dan Freeman
Dan, I lived in Philly for 5 years....gotta love those South Philly accents!
- Mary Carmen
Nottingham, UK - but can occasionally be found near Lima, OH.
- Nick B.
Born in Chicago. Now residing in San Marcos, Texas.
- Steven Perez
Born in Palo Alto, CA, raised next door in Menlo Park. Bummed around NorCal and SoCal for xx years, am currently holed up in Sparks, NV, moving back to CA next year (don't ask!)
- Helen Sventitsky
Minnesota in the Capital St. Paul born and curently reside
- WarLord
I was born in Columbus, Ohio but lived in Washington DC, Boston, North Caldwell NJ, Houston (twice), Kingsville TX, Chicago (twice) and Charlotte NC before ending back in Dublin Ohio
- RAPatton
from iPhone
Born & raised in Chicago, but have been in NC for a while now
- Herb Hernandez
Born in MA, raised in southern CA, living in northern CA.
- Lillian Chow
Mary - aright, yo Philly! I lived in North Philly and West Philly in the early 90s. Fond memories of the Khyber Pass & Trocadero ..... (cue "Freedom of 76")
- Dan Freeman
Born in Hartford, CT (cheers @manielse). Lived in Madison, WI for a while, now live in Fuquay-Varina, NC.
- cdogzilla
Born in Britain. Residing in Adelaide, Australia
- Mo Kargas
Born in Scotland, but live in Adelaide, sunny South Australia <well, sunny this week>
- Chris Loft
Yay for Adelaide. I was there for a week!
- Mary Carmen
living in the DFW area but i'm from lots of places (missing Auckland, NZ the most).
- Joe Silence is not Santa
Born and raised in the Monterey Bay Area. I'm back here.
- Rodfather
Bill, I lived in Tuckahoe for 2 yrs. :) Born in Providence, RI, grew up mostly in NC, where I live now in Durham. Also lived in Istanbul and Los Angeles.
- Ayşe E.
Born and raised in Chicago. Joined Air Force, lived in San Antonio TX, Charleston SC and now live a little East of St Louis MO on the IL side.
- David Cook
Born in Truckee, Ca. I now live smack dab in the middle of Wa. state.
- suzanne
Raised in San Francisco, live in San Diego (CA) that is...
- Scott
Born in Annapolis, currently work 'inside the Beltway'
- Alex Scrivener
Born/raised/living in WA - lived in DC for four years at the beginning of the decade.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Grew up half time in Rep of Panama, half time in MD currently living in Boston, MA
- mikepk
Born in Melbourne VIC, spent a few years in Darwin, NT and I'm now living in Sydney NSW (All in Australia)
- Glenn Slaven
All my profiles that have locations say "Near Seattle, WA, USA".
- Dennis Jernberg
I live in Mansfield in the state of Victoria in Australia :)
- Daryl Hunt on FF
Born in Buffalo, NY...I've spent the majority of my life in San Diego, CA.
- Bonnie Foster
Born in Lisbon, Portugal. Living in Porto, Portugal for 8 years now.
- Carlos Sousa
Born in Modesto, CA (attended high school with George Lucas, for what that's worth), lived in Berkeley, Walnut Creek, Menlo Park, Redwood City, Mountain View (all but the first in Silicon Valley), now in Livermore, CA. Some Northern California natives never leave.
- Walt Crawford
Born and raised in San Diego, now two hours north in the City of Angels.
- Derrick
Grew up mostly in Florida (all over), now live at the south end of the SF Bay area
- Lo
Born: South London, England. Live: Kent, England.
- Kol Tregaskes
Born in KS, raised just outside of Nashville, TN and living in Nashville, TN
- ~Courtney F.
Born: To a poor black family of sharecroppers...I remember the days, sittin' on the porch with my family, singin' and dancin' down in Mississippi. They named me Navin... Navin R. Johnson. I'm not a bum, I'm a jerk. I once had wealth, power, and the love of a beautiful woman. Now I only have two things: my friends and... uh... my thermos.
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Born in NJ, grew up in CT, came of age in VA and now 11 years a resident of beyootiful Boston, MA.
- Liam Sullivan
Born and raised in Wales, UK. Just coming to the end of a year working in SETX.
- 1x29
Born & raised in Chattanooga, TN, now living in Tucson, AZ.
- ÉllbeeÇee
Born and raised in Jefferson City, Missouri and I now live in a small town about 30 minutes from Kansas City, Missouri.
- tab thinks you're awesome
I'm from Michigan. Relocated to Arizona two years ago.
- R1CC1
I'm born and raised mostly in South-Eastern West Virginia, lived outside of Greensboro, NC for a few years growing up, and plan on moving down to Raleigh at some point in the future.
- Jimminy Fuller
Yes! Red Dwarf! (I like to think of it as "Waiting for Godot in Outer Space")
- josh neff, geek at large
Joshua - thanks, Mary's feed will make a good shopping list - Amazon, B&N won't do eBooks here or ship electronics, haven't checked on dvd's yet. The local dvd stores I've been to so far tend to be heavy on Filipino and Indian
- bob
Mary, you've named so many of my and Anne's favorites it's a little startling. This makes me certain that Anne and I need to see Hippies since it's the only one I've never seen from your list.
- Jàson Puçkett
They're not making them any more, but I've been a big fan of The Vicar of Dibley.
- Joey Gibson
Linds, I totally forgot about Murder Most Horrid! I was never a big fan of Coupling.
- Mary Carmen
Jason, Hippies is good, but I found it hit or miss at times. Definitely worth checking out though!
- Mary Carmen
What, no one mentions the best Britcom of all time Are You Being Served?
- ♫Geek in the 410♫
Good one, Mo! I can't remember everything....you know....BRAIN TUMOR!
- Mary Carmen
Are You Being Served is no Yes Minister. And you're missing Shameless.
- Kendra <3 Three Lions
Green Room. Peep Show. Michell & Webb. How Not to Live Your Life.
- jambina
Absolutely Fabulous, The Vicar of Dibley, Are You Being Served, Keeping Up Appearances, One Foot in the Grave, Jam and Jerusalem, As Time Goes By
- yankeeincanada
After working with Gentoo and Ubuntu, I find yum is just not yummy....
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
i've never really liked apt-get - just personal preference - sort of like the vi/emacs, blackboard/webct & etc. that seem to generate amazingly passionate arguments. Most of the IT depts at the schools i've been at seem to migrate to rh flavor linux, hence yum which, at least, improves on rpm
- bob
Steve Lawson asked us if we read books about library science that weren't assigned to us (http://friendfeed.com/lsw...). My question is: How many of you have read fiction that involves action/scenes in a library or a character(s) that happens to be a librarian/archivist?
_The Time Traveler's Wife_ and _The Historian_ come to mind immediately. Loved them both.
- Laura Lou Who
I have, there was a graphic novel set in the library...I'd have to hunt for the title though. And I'm sure if I stop and think I can come up with a few more. Movies also.
- Sir Shuping
Yes, Time Traveler's Wife and The Archivist. I think maybe others, bu they aren't coming to mind. My theory on fiction that features a book or manuscript as an important item or MacGuffin will *always* have the item (if not the whole damn library) destroyed in the end.
- s t e v e
Who hasn't seen Star Wars Ep II? Also, Terry Pratchett and the Librarian of Unseen University.
- D0r0th34
Attack of the Clones--bad example of a librarian. Discworld--excellent example of a librarian. Ook!
- josh neff, geek at large
Oh, also several career books for girls about being a librarian.
- s t e v e
I love The Name of the Rose. And Borges. And The Librarian (Ook!) Also, there are a lot of kids/ya books that have librarians or libraries in them. And Something Wicked This Way Comes has a prominent library scene. Also, I recently re-read an Agatha Christie novel in which Miss Marple mentions using the library. Not quite the same thing, but I took notice of it.
- Katy S
Oh, I remember quite enjoying The Giant's House.
- s t e v e
Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians! :)
- Rachel Walden
Yes, I have - I've read the Alcatraz vs the evil librariansone. I read some chick-lit thing a few years ago about a librarian who wore thick glasses and ended up having laser surgery and she roasted a chicken every sunday. But after she had the laser surgery - and did a few other things to improve herself (I think one of which was seeing a psychologist) - she ended up in love. Oh, and...
more...
- ÉllbeeÇee
I have, but librarians are a common trope in romances because there are so many librarians who write romances. ::cough::
- Katie
Oook! And The Librarian: A Novel by Larry Beinhart. Oh, and a mystery novel set in western Canada in which the main female character was a librarian and the male a Mountie (can't recall the author or title, of course).
- Kirsten
A non-exhaustive list of librarians in novels is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... (the article shouldn't be for lists really, because they tend towards trivia, but I haven't got around to tidying that side of things). I've also ready this one: http://www.webscription.net/p-469-w... - people who like military science fiction would like it. (I don't much.)
- Deborah Fitchett
The The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - the librarian-by-day, super-hero w/ luna moth wings by night was one of my favorite characters! And Catherine, Bats in the Library definitely counts!
- Galadriel C.
I forgot about _The Library Dragon_, too!
- Laura Lou Who
Geraldine Brooks' - People of the Book was great - loosely based on the Sarajevo Haggadah
- bob
Ha! Yes, there is. I think he's going to enjoy the guilt-trip more than if I'd remembered. Well all that AND the pricey Bourbon I just picked up ,-)
- Jess
from iPhone
Of course ,-) But he trumped me with a gift. Yeah, that's material, but he had to be REALLY paying attention to find it. I'm now working on a rebuttal by way of food.
- Jess
Keep us updated in this ever escalating conflict to see who can out gift the other
- RAPatton
from iPod
only recently when we had to drag out documents for the move here, did we discover that we had been celebrating on the wrong day (married 17+ years)
- bob
“Our present education consists in telling us what to think, it does not teach us how to think, how to penetrate, explore; and it is only when the teacher as well as the student knows how to think that the school is worthy of its name.” - Think on these things, Jiddu Krishnamurthy
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
there was a good article a while back in Harpers that pointed out that the primary role of modern education is to teach unquestioning submission to authority - not dissimilar to the quote above.
- bob
I'm not surprised.. "trap them young" must be the refrain.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Wow, you really emptied your feed! Deleted your twitter a/c from here, I imagine. I did the same.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
ahsan, i really like ff but don't have a lot a confidence in facebook's ability or willingness to respect or appreciate ff users - prob just hang out for awhile & see how it shakes out --
- bob
Close to where our office was situated before... a building that was under construction. Luckily, noone was hurt. First time this has happened in recent memory !
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
mostly they badly messed up our pre-populated ILL forms and the guy that did it and his backup aren't returning messages. i don't even know what the heck he did, but they need to fix it
- Sir Shuping
Ouch! We've had some weirdness with our account profiles lately, but nothing that really impacted users--just stuff that only a few of us would ever notice.
- Kirsten
Right now - iPhone 2.somethinorother. I have OS X 10.5, Windows XP, Windows 7, and Ubuntu 9.04 all at my disposal in the other room.
- Aaron Hood
from BuddyFeed
Windows XP, but only because that is what came on this thing and I'm escared to completely format the drive.
- Joe Pierce
XP on netbook. Ubuntu 9.04, Android, and Windows 7 RC1 in VirtualBox on netbook. Windows 7 on desktop. Vista on work laptop. OSX on Macbook.
- Rodfather
ingilizce sormuşsun ,türkçe cevap vermişim :)) yorumları okuyunca farkettim ingilizce sorduğunu ,bir de diyorum ki içimden niye herkes ingilizce cevap vermiş :)
- ♪♫ halilinho de souza ♪♫
xp at work, vista and 7 at home, apple notebook. Windows CE on my phone, and I have an Ipod. Right now I am on XP, later on tonight I'll be on 7 and Apple.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
Dual-booted ubuntu and Win XP on the desktop. On the laptop is Ubuntu. I'm running Jaunty right now on both.
- Amy H.
One Ubuntu 9.04 32-bit, one Vista Enterprise SP1 64-bit
- Andy Kruger
Running Mac OS X 10.5.6 on a 2004 PowerBook 12" G4 - Have 10.5.6 on a Mac Mini, and MacBook as well
- Pilgrim Five
OS X 10.5.6 on my Mac Pro. OS X 10.6 on my MacBook. VMware ESX 3.5 with multiple VMs running Windows Server 2008 R2 RC, Windows 7 RC, FreeBSD 6.2 & 7.0 and FreeNAS 0.69. FreeBSD 7.2 on my colocation server.
- Peter Kruit
Let's see..computer #1; Windows Vista , Computer #2; Custom Windows Vista , Computer #3; Windows XP, Computer #4; Mac...something or other. I never use the Mac.
- Candace
Tiger. I think XP at work ... not sure.
- Laura Norvig
all 14-15 ubuntu except for 1 lone vista
- John Serra
TO many win xp users :) Though does virtualized o's count? :) Primarily Jaunty 9.04 but also have a previous windows server 2003 setup. @donor why upgrade to windows 7 at all look at the open source possibilities :)
- Ray Marr aka Knatchwa
EEEPC 900 Pardus, Toshiba A210-19D Win 7(vista upgrade), Desktop PC Win XP
- Hamza Şamlıoğlu @TEAkolik
Windows Vista, but with many RDP sessions to Windows 2008 servers where I do most of my work.
- Pete Gilbert
OSX 10.5.6, Win7 and iPhone OS(X) 3.0.
- Thomas Bøhm
OSX 10.5.6 on 5 machines and I think we still have an Amiga 500 in the loft. Oh and an Acorn Electron. But we don't use those last two. Much. There are also a couple of XP machines gathering dust in the garage.
- Gilbert Harding
W7 RC, XP SP3, many flavors of linux. screw the mac os. I'm moving away from MacOS for coding/development. HATE DRM'd HW too. I will NOT be buying another product from Apple for a LONG LONG time I think.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Ubuntu 9.04 at work, Arch Linux at home, Windows XP on both laptops. Planning on upgrading to Win7 on the 'tops.
- Daniel Bruce
At home, Vista laptop + Gentoo server
- James Myatt
XP, but I miss Win98SE. Loved it. Would like to explore Linux. btw, I have an old Mac that works if anyone's a collector. Pay UPS (or whatever you choose) shipping and it's yours. DM me or email me @ infolode.com@gmail.com Keyboard, mouse, unit all there and working last time I booted it up.
- Molly
OS X on my Laptop, dual booting XP, Ubuntu Linux on my server, Android on my phone. :D
- Evan Travers
was quad booting osX 10.5.3, win vista, slackware linux, and backtrak3. and I just wiped and installed windows 7. and in a few months I will reinstall Slackware.
- Charles Rice
Jaunty Jackalope Ubuntu 9.04 with customized staff desktop menu (on work's laptop) - home still running Ubuntu but not Jaunty think it's still on 8 something
- Mlibrarianus
Home - Win Vista/Ubuntu (laptop) Win XP/Win 7 (desktop) Work - Win XP, Server 2003,
- Charles Dick
Windows Vista 32 and 64-bit SP2 (I have TechNet), Windows XP Pro 32-bit, Ubuntu 9.0.4 64-bit, OS X 10.5.6. Oh and Windows Home Server PP2. Need to check out Fedora 11 Preview. :) Forgot to add Windows 7 64-bit (on a laptop).
- Dr. Apps
from twhirl
W2K - Windows 2000 pro. It does all I need. Next will be some *nix + virtual machines.
- Markus Merz
Windows XP (upgraded from Windows Vista)
- Brian Massey
OS X Leopard with virtualized XP, plus a Vista box.
- Eric P
XP home and work - Could someone (Alp?) please turn this into a graph/chart of some form - would be really interesting to see this given the data in thus far.
- Graham Steel
OS X Leopard. It's the only way to fly. ;)
- Meryn Stol
Windows. I want to use Linux but not without a dedicated hard drive for it. I am not ever installing a boot loader on my primary hard disk's MBR again.
- Zed Darkman
XP and OSX Leopard, both home and work
- Sean O'Brien
Interesting that this comes up to the top again. Now I'm using OS X 10.5.7, funtoo (instead of gentoo), Ubuntu, Win7(rc), and the Vista that will not die. and about to try OSx86. :)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Ubuntu Linux on my personal laptop, work desktop, home server, and my VPS. I'm running Debian Linux on the many thousand servers I help manage at work.
- Travis B. Hartwell
OS X Leopard on MacBook Pro and Ubuntu 9.04 on HP Mini netbook
- Travis Smith
Xubuntu and XP dualbooted on laptop. Xubuntu on 2 other desktops. Vista on another desktop and a laptop. ChromeOS, DSL, and Crunchbang on USB.
- Itachi
Grew up in Louisville, KY. In college in downtown Chicago, going into my junior year. Flying to Brooklyn to hang out with my brother.
- Daniel Zarick
from iPhone
Just saw the intro from Ben so I'm a new follower. (c: My wife and I are in Salt Lake, or more specifically Sugar House. Just a couple streets away from the park.
- Tim Costantino
Don't you guys think that this information, altough not essential, should have its place in the bio? Think of geolocalized friendfeed, for instance. Quite not possible yet.
- Zackatoustra
I'm a software engineer / system administrator for Mozy. In general, I like to call myself a software toolsmith, eventually that means more active in free and open source development, perhaps writing a book, who knows?
- Travis B. Hartwell
Travis, yes, I know you read my posts. :-) Hopefully people do more than just that though - I would be really worried if that were the case!
- Jesse Stay
Marketing and advertising, mostly for small and medium businesses
- Dennis O'Neil
Software problem solver (meaning I support teams, most of the time devs, and help them do their work by handling network, infrastructure, build/release, whatver tasks. Currently Ops and Infrastructure person at Seesmic. Active in a couple open source projects and lurking in a lot more. Yep I read your blog.
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Bear, I've been following your work since before you joined Seesmic. Thanks for chiming in!
- Jesse Stay
Oddly, I just realized I'm not subscribed to you on FriendFeed. Not sure how that happened - just subscribed, and added you to my favorites. :-)
- Jesse Stay
Bear: Haven't you been involved with the Twisted project in the past? Your name sounds familiar. :) Perhaps we've met at PyCon?
- Travis B. Hartwell
Bear was the original developer of Twhirl before it was bought by Loic and Seesmic.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse - Marco is the original Twhirl dev - I did some command line tools for Twitter tho. Travis, yes while I was at OSAF I was active in the Twisted project. We met at PyCon in DC once.
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Bear, did you do anything with Twhirl before it was acquired? I swear you were involved somehow. Maybe not. Maybe my memories are after it was acquired.
- Jesse Stay
Media management and graphic design student obsessed with tech, Internet, branding, and design. Work as a "community manager" and social media director for my school's student communications office. Columbia College Chicago, if you are interested.
- Daniel Zarick
from iPhone
evidently i wasn't subscribed either - but with everyone else reading and commenting on your stuff it probably didn't matter. I was seeing it already :)
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
I'm an independent social worker - you could call me a professional big brother.
- Kevin Nordmand
I work in Forticom as a creative. Company runs several social networking sites: odnoklassniki.ru nasza-klasa.pl one.lt one.lv (I am also LDS, that's wahat I "do" :))
- Mindaugas Kucinas
Online community manager for Public Library of Science; blogger at Scienceblogs.com; organizer of ScienceOnline conferences; series editor of The Open Laboratory; adjunct faculty at NC Wesleyan college (teach Biology to adults); external advisor for the BBC/PRI/Nova/SigmaXi science content online.
- Bora Zivkovic
Developing a new Twitter service "HQFollowBack".
- Wulffy
database stuff, mostly for email/marketing, blogging, social media stuff.
- anna sauce
IT Manager / Web Developer / Photographer
- Justin Korn
Network/Linux sysadmin. I keep things moving, and fix stuff when it breaks.
- Andy Bold
Teaching & consulting knowledge economy & information design ... writing about them
- Ozgur Uckan
In web biz since 1998, online editorial/community/marketing. Now fully dedicated to starting up a new web service.
- Majento
My bio here (as one wag saw fit to tweak me about!) includes most of what I do: teaching, writing, designing, etc. I guess my work falls into the "boutique" category--small collection of clients, very personal touch.
- Kathy Fitch
IT Manager (really IT Department) for a small company in Orem, UT
- Skyler Call
Retired now after a career in data processing for banks and insurance companies. First programming job was on the IBM 1401, language Autocoder, 8K of memory. I don't know what I would have done with out computers. Loved them then and still love them.
- Jack DeWitt Smith
Oh forgot to mention, of course I read your posts. I helped you coin Social Technology And You.
- Bryan Lee
from iPhone
I run the technology school at a local private college and teach there too, I blog, I write, I take pictures, I play bass guitar, I do computer security, tons of stuff. I also run an online comic book store.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
Software (Web) Developer, I work for a chain of bookstores and a literature festival - though I do a lot more than that, as is the norm here.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
I manage a software development team at a big bank.
- Michael Hocter
I try to live with the fact that I'm your brother. It's a full-time job. :)
- Luke Stay
I'm a software developer (web, primarily - at least, these days) and blogger (TUAW and an upcoming new blog).
- Brett Kelly
from iPhone
Holden, I have a Mom and a Dad, too. Even a sister. :-)
- Jesse Stay
Software Architect, focusing on web software. Worked as an Architect for a large bank for four years and now work as an Architect in a small company here in Salt Lake.
- Tim Costantino
All sorts, currently a data monkey for the telecoms industry.
- Kol Tregaskes
I'm a Risk Analyst in a large financial services company's Compliance Management team.
- Alex Scoble
Jesse, was just looking at your site today. :) I've been a Program Manager for software development projects involving offshoring, a Product Manager for new software product startups, and now a writer for MakeUseOf.com. I'm based in Pune, India.
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Alex, you do what most of my siblings, and Dad do. My sister's interning for KPMG right now, and my brother-in-law just started with another one of the big Accounting firm. My other brother-in-law worked for Fidelity for quite awhile, and my other BIL was a consultant for Monitor for quite awhile.
- Jesse Stay
I manage the websites and content for the X PRIZE Foundation on Drupal CMS as well as all 3rd party web services. For fun I write at Lifestream Blog and on a personal site.
- Mark Krynsky
Mark, that sounds like a fascinating job!
- Jesse Stay
Accountant.....used to work for a CPA firm.....now self-employed.....much better.....
- Bonnie Foster
Technology Consultant / Software Architect / DBA. My tool-belt is based on but not limited to .NET. I've been mostly working with securities trading, portfolio management, pension insurance systems and various EAI solutions..
- Tapio Kulmala
Web software developer for one of the world's largest language translation companies.
- Tony Ruscoe
developing web sites, databases, email servers, administrating unix/linux machines and having fun :)
- Mihai Secasiu
Manager, IT Integration and Project Management for Nelnet, Inc (NNI) - Nelnet Enrollment Solutions Division (2 companies - CUnet.com and Petersons.com). Also Innovating my new Social Media products for Higher Ed - internally funded innovation program) Founder, Social Media Club - Rochester, NY and VP of PR, Marketing for PMIRochester.org. Plus I like chocolate, cats and beaches! I blog at http://susanbeebe.com. Oh and I absolutely love FriendFeed, but you already knew that! :)
- Susan Beebe
Hi Jesse, I enjoy your feed. I am a sales and marketing guy and I am really passionate about how emerging media tools can fit into business' marketing efforts. I currently "embed" with companies to set up and utilize emerging media tools. So what does that make me? I got tired of trying to tell people how to use these tools and decided to find companies that already KNEW they had to be in that space, but they didn't know how to do it well.
- Tobin Truog
I'm an editor of a humanities journal. I love the diversity of expertise and interest on FF. :)
- Ayşe E.
MVB, my kids would really like you. :-)
- Jesse Stay
Independent Demonstrator for a Vinyl Lettering & Decor Company - Uppercase Living®
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
I wear many hats for a rather small data security company including marketeer, graphic designer, web developer, PR person and IT Guy - the company is http://www.deadondemand.com/
- Mike Bracco
Jesse I'm available for birthdays, weddings, bar mitzvahs...
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
With Anika learning Hindi, Derrick learning French & My learning Mandarin, I'm curious; What Languages are you learning and What Method are you Using? And if not, why not?
Latin. Method: attending Mass in Latin, even if it kills me.
- Alex Scrivener
Are you making strides, Alex? Did you know our very own FriendFeeder, Glen Campbell is a Latin speaker? http://friendfeed.com/glenc He may be able to share some tips.
- Christopher Harley
German, using Rosetta Stone. The partner-in-crime is using Rosetta Stone to learn Spanish (Latin America version)/
- Nine
Some. I can follow along with both the Ordinary and Extraordinary rite, but in no way is my Lain conversational. I am not surprised that there are Latin scholars here. FF has a lot of over-educated people.
- Alex Scrivener
Alex, years ago, when I first read of Father Reginald Foster, I always imagined that his would be an interesting way to learn Latin. Check out his summer program in Rome. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Christopher Harley
Nine - Good things to say about Rosetta Stone? The written instruction is a missing component of Pimsleur but Pimsleur justifies the exclusion. The wiki link explains further.
- Christopher Harley
been trying to learn French for about 10 years now... the odd self study book and a couple of dubbed French films :)
- Kim
Spanish: by getting fast food in Texas. (also had 4 years of training in school)
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
And do you get to practice much, Josh? This last winter, during our terrible snow storm, one of my taxi customers was a native Mandarin speaker. I had her in the cab for over 30 minutes and pretty much blew her mind while encouraging her to speak only Mandarin with me. She was thrilled and because of that, so was I. That experience and visits to very ethnic Chinese restaurants are my only authentic interaction with other speakers. It's something I hope to build on.
- Christopher Harley
And Nine, I see Annenberg Media is also streaming "Fokus Deutsch." http://www.learner.org/resourc... Hours of free instruction. And Deutsche Welle has a news podcast wherein the anchor slowly reads the news for German Language learners. Oh how I wish there was a Mandarin newscast set up this way. http://itunes.apple.com/WebObje...
- Christopher Harley
I'm not using a 'method' per se. I'm just reading whatever books I can get my hands on and now the CDs to help me differentiate the words better. I'm also working on bumping up my Spanish skills which is a little aggravating at the time. When we go to places around here I try to speak Spanish but people ignore me. They then speak to my husband in Spanish, which is just WRONG since he doesn't know any Spanish. GRRRRR
- Admiral Anika
I'm really enjoying the Rosetta Stone. I followed your link to the Pimsleur method and it does seem that Rosetta Stone follows that. I like being able to practice the language with the computer rather than a person. The computer doesn't yell at me. :) I also like that I can do sections over and over again until >I< feel comfortable and competent. The drawback is expensive, but being able to do it on my own time and my own speed is worth it.
- Nine
I do not really get to practice it much anymore. I actually enjoyed it more when I didn't hear it all the time. I feel like I am so rusty that I would look tan gringo if I tried to use it on Spanish speaking Texans here. Oh, and Ni hau ma!
- Josh Haley
I would love to improve my Spanish & Portuguese to something better than infant level, but I just haven't made the time for it.
- josh neff, geek at large
I'm learning English, have been for 29 years. I'm crap at languages, even my own. I can swear in all the important European languages mind you.
- Toby Graham
Español: Took a semester at university (paid for by work, tyvm!) about 10 years ago. now I do free podcasts radiolingua.com
- Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
Yeah, I'd imagine for both Anika and Josh, Spanglish is lingua franca in the Southwest. Oh, and hen hao xie xie
- Christopher Harley
Not currently learning any other languages. My best foreign language is French, which I learned through 4.5 years of classroom instruction. :-)
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
I'm working on Danish, using the Butchering method... basically involves spending two nights a week in danish classes, then going to the local shops and butchering the hell out of the language while trying to order, pay, or whatever. If nothing else, it entertains the locals, and some of them even try and help with pronunciation. Or they switch to english, with apologies for their lack of fluency, which far outstrips mine in danish. :D
- Bette Cooper
Spanish via work and Spanish radio, Mandarin via my bf and (previously) some college courses. I recommend getting one of these if you're learning Mandarin: http://esinophile.wordpress.com/2008.... It improves your reading and writing proficiency much faster than handwriting alone.
- Jessie
It's funny and I have to laugh at those that slight language learners who are obviously fluent in their native tongue but still a little shaky with English. Don't forget, they can speak enough English to get by and too many of us don't even bother.
- Christopher Harley
Studied Spanish in jr/hi school, learned a bit of Korean in grad school (due to a large concentration of my friends from South Korea; it's ghetto at best), and starting French in September at a local community college.
- Derrick
Thanks for that link, Jesse. Yeah, the writing... Pimsleur is spoken instruction only. So I could say that I'm learning to be functionally illiterate in Mandarin. At some point, learning the pinyin system in addition to the simplified Chinese characters will have to come into play.
- Christopher Harley
I have not, Christopher. My desire to learn French is a recent one. I'll check it out, thanks.
- Derrick
I have to watch it for Mireille and her loose blouses. But hey, Robert is a damn handsome man :)
- Christopher Harley
I've been putting off learning Arabic for years but seeing as there seems to be a core of language-learners here I might just have discovered the impetus to finally go for it. As for method... don't know yet.
- Mark H
Yes, Mark H. and now that you can upload and call in audio, I think we'll see a convergence of talent in how users can teach and learn. At least I hope so.
- Christopher Harley
Took French (4 years) and Latin (2 years) in high school 46 years ago; sometimes surprise myself with how much I remember. I got a book to refresh my Latin. I wish you could still learn it in school; it's so helpful.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
You're right about that, m9m. I think Latin instruction probably helped many English speakers use their native language more artfully.
- Christopher Harley
Studied Korean for 3 years, now I usually watch movies to remember words, but usually I can't :( I'm thinking of trying Japanese with Pimsleur technique.
- Onur Gündüz
m9m didn't mention that she had German in college, and occasionally figures out other foreign languages based on her knowledge. She's evil in that "really really smart" way.
- Nine
Christopher, I'll definitely try Pimsleur next :)
- Onur Gündüz
hm speaking hindi and mandrain, then you can communicate with 2/3 of the worlds popluence.. good choice there :)- its like in the old days, if one speaks english/french , then one could get around !
- Peter Dawson
I have an online friend who updates her Facebook in Icelandic. I have so much fun trying to read it. It looks a lot like Old English.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Grew up trilingual. I was fluent in French until age 16 but haven't really used it since age 18. I'm getting my Spanish back but need help getting the grammar to be anywhere near as good as it used to be. My English used to be much better than it is now--now it's very lazy. I flunked Chinese 101 in college because I didn't realize that learning languages was hard work.
- Betsy (bentley) Vera
Thanks Christopher for inviting me to such a great thread! I'm currently learning Turkish as a 6th language (and trying with Japanese as a 7th) - For turkish, I do everything online, and especially here on FriendFeed, the turkish community is really warm and kind, so I'm often helped with a smile http://ff.im/54eS7 ! with japanese, I'm using the NHK website, which has a great podcast...
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- directeur
Brushing up Swedish - social media is awesome here. Tyring to learn Japanese by myself, but I think it's mission impossible :(
- Sasha Kovaliov(.com)
Spanish, by chatting, websites online and books also ebooks :)
- Yasin Jason
I can't say I'm "learning" but I want to learn Georgian for my son. He's half Georgian and his dad isn't around much to teach him. But I want my son to know some because it will help since most of his paternal family is still living in the Republic of Georgia. I have a computer program called "Before You Know It" that is not bad. I'm just horrible at learning a second language.
- Nurse Katie
Like Franc, I'm learning English thanks to you guys. I also tried learning Japanese on Livemocha, which is an excellent site to learn languages, but I haven't visited it lately.
- Brome
Mona's teaching me Japanese words! Ummmm but nothing really, where's all the Spanish stuff?
- sofarsoShawn
Brome, check out http://www.yesjapan.com/. It's possibly the best online resource for learning Japanese. I used it extensively when I was trying to teach myself.
- Akiva Moskovitz