These pictures are great. They look so cute dressed up. My favorite one is where you are holding them, both asleep on your shoulder. *wipes tears* so precious.
- Aden
I can see the Louis sense of humor coming through
- anna
Louis, now that you have twins, I bet you can't imagine just having one, eh? My daughter is scared to death of having twins. I'll have to show her these pictures. :)
- Dawn
Just too cute for words. Love them all dressed up. I'm bummed I can't see the dress up shoes though. Little baby shoes are darling.
- pea ♥ fierce as a woozle
Does he actually sit there so sweetly and let you drape noodles on his noggin? Also, I love the recurring bow-tie theme. So courtly for a young man!
- colleen wainwright
Colleen, he let me put the string cheese on his head with no problems. Matthew is very mellow. :) And pea, if you want to see baby shoes, try here: http://friendfeed.com/louisgr...
- Louis Gray
I especially love the photos of the twins walking all over you.
- Maggie
Thanks, Maggie. So did they. :) I can't do that much longer, as my facial structure would be forever altered.
- Louis Gray
Thanks! it was my daughter's first real show. we camped out at a friend of a friend's front yard right across the street from the park that held the display. we got lucky. getting into the park was impossible.
- Carlos Ayala
Reminds me of a line from a John Hiatt song: "She is beautiful, she is small/She don't want to play basketball"
- Joe Bonner
via fftogo
This is what Sarah and I were doing after escaping from sacrament meeting. She got fidgety, so we wandered around the church. Some of you can no doubt relate.
- Louis Gray
That looks like the Relief Society room. We usually just go out to the car and sleep when that happens. :-)
- Jesse Stay
Both. I just turned 20 and wish I learned piano growing up, if only just to be the groundwork to my current musical talents. At the same time, I was never huge on basketball growing up, even though I played, yet I have been playing every day the past week with friends.
- Daniel Zarick
Louis, if we ever move out there Rebecca will be happy to teach the Twins piano - she is now going on child #3 of ours at the piano. I can't say the same for basketball though unfortunately.
- Jesse Stay
In 10 years -- as you're trying to sleep -- would you rather hear the bouncing of a basketball or piano music?
- Robert DeBord
I <3 FriendFeed Real-Time search - it lets me see Twitter Fail, as it happens
- Jesse Stay
Thanks for the heads up. BTW, here is the retweet from the SPAM account: RT @SPAM If someone you just KNOW isn't a spammer is suspended right now, their account is prob contaminated and we're fixing it.
- RAD Moose
I'm glad about the real spammos being zapped, but sure is odd they have to temporarily suspend bona fide accounts in droves!!! Thanks for staying on top of this Jesse. Where is Mashable when we need them?? Nothing from Pete et al yet...
- Mari Smith
Hopefully it will get rid of all those Kathy34982s and Elisa9867s
- Carlton
they're suspending legit accts, but the bots and spammers aren't getting banned the way they need to.
- Dawn S. Lambe
I have gotten a lot of spam followers in the past few weeks.
- John
My account was suspended for some reason. Awhile ago I had some duplicate posts due to wayward drupal module however for some reason it was suspended in the last 4 hours. I was using twollow and was following "online marketing" so that I could learn more from people discussing online marketing. Could this have caused it? I sent in a support request so we will see what happens.
- Brian Kenyon
via iPod
FYI I'm going to update the post but that message from @spam is from May 30 - it appears that Twitter does not yet know about this one
- Jesse Stay
via iPhone
I got suspended and I am not spam! A lot of good Tweets are getting suspended.
- Kimber Scott
4chan is currently to blame, they were trying to get on the top of trending topics (and succeeded)
- /Users/mjc
Michael, I'm wondering if it happened for some reason due to that. Maybe Twitter got trigger happy to kill the attack.
- Jesse Stay
Doesn't necessarily make sense. If the problem is the gorilla anatomy thing, wouldn't they just go after those accounts?
- John E. Bredehoft
via fftogo
"There seems to be a wave of suspensions going around Twitter today, and it’s turning quickly into an echo chamber of confusion and frustration. We’ve received several tips (the first one being from Mashable guest writer Matt Singley) that a range of users are being taken down, including some with large followings such as @marismith and the LA Times Top of the Ticket account." http://mashable.com/2009...
- Kimber Scott
Kimber, check out the comments on my post - you'll see there are many more. Also check out the real-time stream and you'll see people complain real-time.
- Jesse Stay
They suspend @marismith but not @GangbangGirl @cumcandy & @kellikanyon. That's rich
- Peggy Dolane
Yes, Jesse, I saw the stream and the other comments. My Twitter account is working again. Thank goodness.
- Kimber Scott
via email
I didn't get suspended. Glad in a way, but not sure I care about it. I don't bother with twitter much anymore. I'm mainly here on friendfeed now.
- Jannifer Stoddard
I like it here on FriendFeed. I like the features and the fact you can have a real conversation. Besides, I feel very distrustful of Twitter now.
- Kimber Scott
via email
Twitter has become a farm house for spammers
- Michael_techie
I'm an old Street Fighter II arcade system cause I enjoy young teenage boys giving me quarters to handle my joystick in a rough manner...
- Johnny Worthington
via iPhone
50% PC (work), 35% iPhone, 15% Mac. Most of what I can do on either computer, I can do on my iPhone, particularly in terms of content consumption.
- Brett Kelly
via iPhone
i'm an S/390 with a cooling problem.
- Dead Silence
I have only tested Tweetie and TweetDeck. TweetDeck I found to be very buggy. My vote is for Tweetie, it's fast, clean and works extremely well. I'll have to give Birdfeed a test. The UI looks sweet.
- Mike Fruchter
I agree...if the device is that beautiful and at that price point, it's too hard to pass up.
- Craig Eddy
Definitely. Its a beautiful piece of equipment. I dont have a netbook or a laptop. Just my trusty EEEbox which doesnt take up any space, but there is times, id like to still be on the sofa and check something quickly or surf while im waiting for a program to come on, or the girlfriend to bring me my dinner. :)
- Giraffes Up in The Air
This is nice. @dezertsnow, check this out. Do you wanna? ",)
- jan geronimo
yeah it looks nice in that picture but what is it ? from what i have read so far its just a browser on a touch screen . No OS, No storage, has anyone seen this thing running yet? how will it be better than a netbook? or even an ipod touch?
- tony bland
Tony, the post should explain. It's a Web tablet. No hard drive. No keyboard. No apps to slow it down. Just a browser. Supports Flash, unlike the iPhone.
- Louis Gray
yeah thanks Louis i got that, i'm just eager to know more.
- tony bland
It's only a rough 3D rendering. Long way to go baby.
- ĐS†Λ
if they manage to produce a product that looks like the render and also is cheap then it will do well. however if apple join the party all bets are off. Also the render looks little like a large iphone/touch so they need to get to market first.
- Darren Stuart
I just don't know anyone who DOESN'T want one of these.
- Jolie O'Dell
very cool... I'm amazed they followed through, should be nice!
- Tim Hoeck
Total cloud computing. No apps or storage to slow it down. I assume since it boots from the web, that no internet, no go (may be a big downside). I wish I had one of these a few years ago on my travels. Very keen to see when it comes out.
- Alistair
that's a good point Alistair with out an internet connection this thing is just an expensive tray, cant see this beating netbooks or iphones any time soon.
- tony bland
It still has some computing power built into it. I'm sure it'll be hackable for other uses. I'm sure Arrington will decry that, too.
- Darren Landrum
Interesting NY Times coverage (showing NY Times being displayed) - http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009... - this is something that it seems inconcievable for Arrington to pull off on his own - no doubt he needs powerful partners (or purchasers) -- could it be that the Times is involved?
- Brian Sullivan
@ Brian Sullivan I think you may have something there, though it wouldn't be necessary. It is probably sufficent to get the NYT to do a story by just showing their webpage on the CrunchPad Demo.
- Phil Boiarski
The only reason this doesn't flat out kick the kindles ass from here to the VFW at the edge of town is the lack of eInk. Because the eInk only needs power when it changes it's sick on battery life. Like years or something between charges.
- Matthew DeVries
I think Tablet Computing is the future, but this device seems really crippled.
- Tad, Anti-Immanentizer
I don't disagree with that Tad, but isn't this just an eBook reader with some tablety potential? I don't think it's going for a tablet price point.
- Matthew DeVries
It's not an eBook reader, though. It's just a web browser. You won't be buying books and reading them on this or even viewing your PDFs on it.
- Tad, Anti-Immanentizer
Yeah, you're right Tad. I was going off an old article I read where this was supposed to go after the Kindle, not the fabled apple tablet or the Android tablets that are in the pipe.
- Matthew DeVries
I do think, though, that the upcoming tablet computers WILL be used as e-readers. But e-reading will just be a small bit of what they'll be used for.
- Tad, Anti-Immanentizer
Reminds me of a PepperPad without the thumboard.
- Rodfather
Is a fat dog heavy? Absolutely, in fact it's several jobs.
- Michael Metz
that was a good article. judging by the way so many ads for social media "managers" are written lately, I think a lot of companies don't get this.
- Laura Norvig
The take-away, "This is about people re-adjusting and rebalancing the very idea of business" is important indeed. Thank you.
- E-Advocate Network
Bought Autostitch ($1.99) after seeing the results from Chris's post: http://friendfeed.com/chrisla... Here are the results from making a panorama of my front yard. Not bad for a mobile app!
Whoever made this app is probably going to make a fortune off of it. You take a bunch of pictures, open Autostitch, pick the photos you want to stitch together and it does its magic. No manual alignment necessary.
- Jason Huebel
It's a wonderful program and it can generation panoramas from dozens of photos and they dont have to be all lined up, you can even do grid. Here are some inspiring ones - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Mark Interrante
I heard Leo talking about this app the other day. One tip he gave for using any panoramic app is to try to rote the camera, not yourself. IOW, If you are holding the camera at arm's length, try to just rotate the camera, instead of you turning. This will reduce the amount of parallax shifts. At some point you have to get out of the way, but a tripod will yield better results.
- Joey Gibson
idk if I'd pay for a mobile app that does what a free app on my PC can easily do ...
- LANjackal
Well if you are away for a computer and want to post a wide shot, this does the trick. I used it quite a bit today.
- Jason Huebel
via iPhone
As much as I want to like hugin, I was immediately put off by it because it wanted all kinds of technical information about my camera. Well, it's an iPhone, I'm not a photographer and I really didn't want to fool with it. I think I'll stick with Autostitch, since it "just works" and I can do it all within my phone.
- Jason Huebel
I've come to mostly ignore the trending topics. They are very rarely the "trending" topic of the people I follow, and even more rarely a topic that I even care to divulge into.
- Daniel Zarick
Louis, I saw that too. More colossal immaturity from 4chan.
- Stephen Mack
via iPhone
There has to be a better mechanism put into in place for the trending topics, it's way to easy to game.
- Mike Fruchter
@Mike, there isn't much that can withstand the sheer number of /b/tards..
- /Users/mjc