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FriendFeed did WHAT?! - http://pikchur.com/t30
Zu from AOD, Ahmet Yükseltürk, John Jarvis and 176 other people liked this
A picture is worth a thousand words and this is no exception. Well "said" Rah.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
About the only laugh I've had today. Thanks Rah! I needed that.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
this picture rocks
- Violet Mae Lim
Amen.
- Yolanda
++ Rasheen.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Totally excellent!
- Warren Butler
lol, I know right
- Wayne Sutton
The iconic Rahsheen face. Good for a number of occasions.
- Hutch Carpenter
Yes...definitely applies for various occasions :)
- Rah-PM 2012
That's the face :)
- Micah
Hahaha
- Rodfather
that picture kills me LOL! :D
- Susan Beebe
from BuddyFeed
What's weird is he's wearing a shirt!
- anna sauce
lollllllllllllllllllllll
- Melly Botts
If RahRah is wearing a shirt, hell must be freezing over!
- imabonehead
Rah needs to do a video like I did.
- Outsanity
best avatar eva!!!
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Love that expression man :D
- Praveen Vasudev
ahahahah :D
- Sinan İŞLER
ahaha excellent expression!
- Jacque
*bump* This is so perfect.
- Andrew Smith
hey man this is really perfect =)
- Ahmet UZUN
Retitled: 2 Social Networks and a cup, reax
- Christopher Galtenberg
from iPhone
I gave this a "like" yesterday, but every time I scroll past it I have to laugh all over again! Great shot!
- Mark J Severely Inert
Love it! Great face!!
- Mitchell Tsai
Jejeje
- Stalyn☂
They took the 50 mil and went to San Mateo without us.....
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
...but I LOVE this pic!!!!
- WoH: Minding her Botts
Seriously - it makes me LOL everytime I see it!
- WoH: Minding her Botts
lets remember it, what did happen that day :)
- alperyz
*sigh*
- Joe The Sausage
WIN
- Roberto Bonini
Wait, what? LOL
- Rah-PM 2012
Will still be a classic remembered 500 years from now.
- Micah
yep. :)
- Abhishek
The Motorcycle Diaries (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
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The Motorcycle Diaries (Spanish: Diarios de motocicleta) is a 2004 biopic about the journey and written memoir of the 23-year-old Ernesto Guevara, who would several years later become internationally known as the iconic Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara. The film recounts the 1952 expedition, initially by motorcycle, across South America by Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado. As the adventure initially centered around youthful hedonism unfolds, Guevara discovers himself transformed by his observations on the life of the impoverished indigenous peasantry. Through the characters they encounter on their continental trek, Guevara and Granado witness firsthand the injustices that the destitute face and are exposed to people and social classes they would have never encountered otherwise. To their surprise, the road presents to them both a genuine and captivating picture of Latin American identity. As a result, the trip also plants the initial seed of cognitive dissonance and...
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- Thomas Page
from Bookmarklet
Motorcycle books and gear http://www.aerostich.com/sundry...
- Thomas Page
Wonderful movie. In my top 5.
- Christopher Galtenberg
Thirteen years ago I met someone unusual. Nine years ago we got married. Happy anniversary my love <3
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حاجی مبارک باشه ،درسته فرندفید رو ول کردید به امون خدا ولی انشالله خوشبخت باشین :)
- CNFRMST
همین که استاد کانفو فرمود، مبارکه
- آقا هادی
What Conformist said.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Congratulations!
- Stephen Mack
Con'grats !!
- Peter Dawson
For you, I wish happiness.
- CNFRMST
Many many years of happiness to come!
- Dani Radu
Congratulations!
- Mark J Severely Inert
from Android
Well of course Thomas Dolby has a hot girlfriend. Duh! Oh, wait. That's you... And that's your wife? Nice! Happy Anniversary!
- Mark Davidson
Happy anniversary!
- Eric
Happy anniversary!
- Lix
happy anniversary, you cute couple!
- imabonehead
: ))
- Friendfeed's Francisco
Happy Anniversary!
- Elena
There is always a woman behind every successful man.
- ThinkEzy
Congratulations :)
- WoH: Minding her Botts
Congratulations! You picked a winner for sure.
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
hatun bayağı aşıkmış sana zaten yaa, zaten kadınlar ister vealır hayat böyle. hadi mutluluklar ciğerim :)
- Suç Bende
Congrats to you two and the kids!!!
- Kevin Fox
Happy anniversary! :)
- ciw
from FFHound(roid)!
Happy Anniversary Paul and April! :)
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
up! :)))
- moltogatto
Happy Anniversary Paul and April...
- Sunny Gene
Were you quoting your wife? :) Happy anniversary!
- Christopher Galtenberg
Ha, Christopher, I thought April posted this until I took a second look! Happy Anniversary you guys.
- Laura Norvig
New head shots. Which should I use?
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Third
- Christopher Galtenberg
#3
- Jeff (Team マクダジ )
#1, then #3. Not #2.
- Louis Gray
1st
- 我是真砂！
1
- Johnny
What Louis said, "#1, then #3. Not #2."
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
#1
- kartik vaithyanathan
I like the third one.
- Derrick
#1 :)
- Scott (Honey Boo-Boo!)
#1
- Mike Nayyar
I vote # 3
- djchuang
#3
- pala
#1
- DJ Stevie Steve
#2, you look thoughtful and trustworthy.
- Stephen Mack
#3, #1 looks too mug-shotish and #2 looks a bit ... smug. #3 says you're an amiable confident guy. (Or that's what *I* see FWIW)
- AJ Kohn
3
- Ceren Şekerci
Love the smile in #3!
- vicster
I'd have to say none of the above. I guess I'm officially an old fogey now, but I'd button the shirt.
- David desJardins
3. i like 3.
- Roberto Bonini
3 is the best. 2. looks a bit too i-made-him-an-offer-he-couldn't-refuse and 1 is all sign-up-for-my-newsletter-for-tip-on-gaming-the-google
- Rah-PM 2012
What Louis said, in that order.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
#3
- Corinne L
#3
- Private Sanjeev
#3
- Kevin L
#1
- Jérôme
#1 looks like a badge photo. #2 makes you look like you're smug and cocky. #3 is the winner. Friendly and open.
- EricaJoy
I like the first one. I think you look friendly
- Julie Parker
#1 = everything looks just right, #2 = too pompous, #3 = 笑点低 (so easy to be amused)
- 我是真砂！
I think you should use your FF profile picture, but barring that, the third one is my favorite of the three above.
- Vicarbott
I thought you only wanted to use the original one you used back in the day at google. BUT 3.
- Ru Viljoen
#3!
- Rachel Lea Fox
3
- Bren
That's a big brainy meditative dome. :) Lots of cogitation going on there obviously. #3.
- Sean McBride
3
- Alex Scrivener
3 is more interesting. Not 2.
- Louise Alcorn
i vote 3. 2 looks like somebody opened some limburger cheese in your presence :-)
- tiffany
#3, then #1.
- Ruchira S. Datta
I've always been partial to http://img.labnol.org/images... especially with you being an angel and all...
- Kevin Fox
Third one
- AJ Batac :)
I like #3 the best...
- Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™
from Android
#3
- batuhan icoz
do you have any of brad pitt? hee hee....just kidding....
- Morgan
3 has the best smile and looks the least posed.
- Bruce Lewis
I love 'em all. :)
- April Buchheit
While I am thinking of it: why I really like Paul Buchheit? He has given the world some amazing, innovative and elegant software, much of which I have used with great pleasure. Thanks, Paul!
- Sean McBride
#3
- imabonehead
#1
- Vishy
#3, but it depends if you want to be in commercials or the theater: http://www.headshots101.com/commerc... :)
- Simon
3 or 1
- Jeff P. Henderson
#3 if you don't go with Kevin's suggestion
- Anne Bouey
#3
- Shevonne
Not 2. You look either uncomfortable or inauthentic or both. The other pics are both great.
- Laura Norvig
from iPod
I like 3. There is unfortunate distortion caused by your glasses in 2 and 3 but your smile is best in 3.
- Benjamin Golub
#1
- Oguz Serdar
#3 - didn't look at comments before I answered, but I was tempted! Never met you in person but either #1or #3 seem the most like the person I *think* you are.
- Liza + = ?
Now looking at comments - this is a very cool game! We draw so many conclusions when looking at a photo!
- Liza + = ?
3
- Volkan Çelebi
3, angle + smile = win
- Todd Hoff
Definitely the third one!
- Technogran
Third
- Martha
third
- Comics Forge
I like the third one. A class portrait view. The first is too standard. The second not smiling enough. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Yes, No. 3! Extra points for multiple buttons unbuttoned. SKIN TO WIN!!
- Harold Cabezas
1 and 3rd 2nd one is a bit odd to atleast
- testbeta
where 'd you get that black shirt btw?
- testbeta
What about using the Friendfeed avatar vs. #3 - now that is A/B testing.
- Liza + = ?
#2 or #3. I like #2
- Imabug
#3
- Surya
#3
- Ahmed Mubbashir Khan
What's the headshot for? I vote #1. #3's great too.
- Dan Hsiao
#1
- Ashish
#2 is like Politician #1 like normal guy #3 looks like advertisement for Tooth Paste.
- Suresh S
Representation of information - http://blogs.patternsmithing.com/entropi...
Maybe just all the user the input 'shortcuts' to things that exist in their mind... For instance, instead of having them draw a geometric shape, allow them to enter "that tetrazoidal thingy from that one science blog"... Whatever will most quickly re-generate the knowledge/experience existentially in their mind (which is more important than it being represented, in the tool or elsewhere).
- Christopher Galtenberg
But possibly have many modes for entering those shortcuts -- in the cases where the image is of a symbol or graphic. Would still require only a fairly rudimentary tool.
- Christopher Galtenberg
The Twitter integration in iOS 5 is odd. Why Twitter over Facebook? #wwdc
Facebook likes Micorsoft?
- mohamadreza
Twitter is more open and less convoluted with privacy settings?
- caj needs a haircut
Because Twitter the company is more amenable to integration. Twitter already "plays" iTunes content. Apple and Facebook tried to talk, nothing came of it. (Trying to think of other reasons...)
- Christopher Galtenberg
Because Facebook is stupid. The end. *waits for Jesse to delete this comment*
- Skyler Call
Yes, I do remember who's network I am on.
- Skyler Call
Yup.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Cristo, really?
- Skyler Call
It would hardly put a dent in Apple's cash position.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Simple, Jesse (other than what every else here already pointed out) because Twitter's malleable in Apple's hands and Facebook isn't.
- Micah
If Republicans seek a country w/ low taxes, little regulation & traditional family values, I have the perfect place for them. Body armor suggested. - http://www.nytimes.com/2011...
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"It has among the lowest tax burdens of any major country: fewer than 2 percent of the people pay any taxes. Government is limited, so that burdensome regulations never kill jobs. This society embraces traditional religious values and a conservative sensibility. Nobody minds school prayer, same-sex marriage isn’t imaginable, and criminals are never coddled."
- Christopher Galtenberg
from Bookmarklet
"The budget priority is a strong military, the nation’s most respected institution. When generals decide on a policy for, say, Afghanistan, politicians defer to them. Citizens are deeply patriotic, and nobody burns flags."
- Christopher Galtenberg
"So what is this Republican Eden, this Utopia? Why, it’s Pakistan."
- Christopher Galtenberg
The Tao of Travel by Paul Theroux - NYT Book Review - http://www.nytimes.com/2011...
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"Why do people travel? Is it only, as Philip Larkin suggested, 'a deliberate step backwards' in order to create a new objective, namely homecoming?"
- Christopher Galtenberg
from Bookmarklet
"Despite its promotion into the serious league of literature, travel writing has remained something like the opera of letters: inherently bourgeois, faintly redolent of its imperialist past. The traveler here is emphatically not a tourist; he (usually not she) is a connoisseur of place whose aesthetic is other people’s lives. Contemporary travel writing still has the occasional reek of leather armchairs and gin, of old colonial maps."
- Christopher Galtenberg
Why Hasn't Anyone Signed Up For the High-Risk Health Insurance Pools? - http://www.theatlantic.com/busines...
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"I've predicted that lots of parts of Obamacare will not work the way they're expected to. But here's one I wouldn't have predicted: the high-risk pools, which were meant to tide people over until 2013, have signed up just 18,000 people as of March."
- Christopher Galtenberg
from Bookmarklet
"It was estimated by Medicare's Chief Actuary that around 400,000 would sign up (the CBO estimated 200,000, but only because they assumed that HHS would use its authority to limit enrollment in order to stay within the $5 billion budgeted for the program). So where are all the uninsurable people?"
- Christopher Galtenberg
"The administration is now loosening the requirements (you just need a note from a doctor or nurse saying you've been sick in the last year) and lowering premiums. But this doesn't mean that they're finally covering more "uninsurables"; it just means they've decided to use the money allocated for those people to cover someone else. They're changing the "high-risk pools" to something...
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- Christopher Galtenberg
We Can Absolutely Afford Gridlock And Delay On The Long-Term Budget Gap - http://thinkprogress.org/yglesia...
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"DC seems to have forgotten *why* it is that deficits are a problem."
- Christopher Galtenberg
from Bookmarklet
"The reason is this. All else being equal, the more the government wants to borrow the higher, the interest rate it has to offer savers. And the higher the interest rate a saver can get from the government, the higher the rate he’ll demand from any other potential borrower. And those high borrowing costs end up depressing consumer purchasing and new business activity. An entrepreneur...
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- Christopher Galtenberg
"This is why we had substantial deficit cutting deals early in the Reagan administration, midway through the GHW Bush administration, and early in the Clinton administration. Interest rates were high and spiking, the threat of crowding out was real."
- Christopher Galtenberg
"But today? Really? It might be in some sense preferable to have a long-term budget deal in place. But it’s hard to say in what concrete ways this would improve any current problems. We’re just not—not—suffering from unusually high interest rates and crowding out."
- Christopher Galtenberg
Every Entrepreneur Needs to Outwit the Devil - Martin Zwilling - Startup Professional's Musings - Forbes http://blogs.forbes.com/martinz...
Nice find
- Christopher Galtenberg
Good hack for absorbing @TheEconomist (thx @galtenberg for sale tip) - download audio edition, sync to Amazon Cloud, setup playlist, enjoy.
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I'm really enjoying listening to podcasts during the day... somehow the work isn't interfering :)
- Christopher Galtenberg
Been doing this for weeks now - listening in car. When I saw they had the audio edition I instantly purchased, then just skim the magazine later.
- Joel Kotarski
If you have an iOS device app, there's an option to have it read aloud any article in the electronic edition of the magazine (almost literally everything)
- Christopher Galtenberg
I used to listen to this as a podcast in Google Listen but somehow Economist broke that integration by changing formats (I guess people were filesharing the raw mp3s), but yes, love listening to Podcasts like the Moth Radio Hour.
- Joel Kotarski
Yes, that's a definite extra value for iOS with the subscription - hoping they do Android one day. This read aloud, is this a computerized voice or the actual professionally recorded audio edition (which is excellent)?
- Joel Kotarski
They have 3 different professional (real) readers. Same as online. I didn't check recently, there may be an Android version now... (they intended to)
- Christopher Galtenberg
Nice - good they use the same audio from audio edition. Bah, you got my hopes up - Android app still pending.
- Joel Kotarski
I read on all 3 mediums (phone, pad, mag), I think I'm getting better coverage on the material than ever. Oh, 4 mediums... twitter.
- Christopher Galtenberg
Useful hack 4 research: Find book @ Amazon, get ISBN, locate in library catalog, setup label + email rule @ Gmail, pullup on phone @ library
What's the label? Library catalog ID? ISBN? Name of book? Combination of?
- Christopher Galtenberg
Yeah, kind of hard to transmit/fit on Twitter. It's just a Gmail label - LibraryResearch that I sync on my phone in Gmail app. Also note that I'm using the Email full record feature at my local library http://minerva.louisville.edu/ which I couldn't fit in the tweet. Having the full record tells me catalog # and floor/location.
- Joel Kotarski
Of course, a little notepad in the back pocket would suffice as well, but this is nice for what I wanted. :)
- Joel Kotarski
Got it. Library days are good days...
- Christopher Galtenberg
Perpetual War Is a Bigger Threat Than Terrorism - http://www.theatlantic.com/politic...
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"As the 10th anniversary of what Americans once called their Global War on Terror approaches, a plausible, realistic blueprint for bringing that enterprise to a conclusion does not exist."
- Christopher Galtenberg
from Bookmarklet
"Those who might once have felt some responsibility for articulating such a plan--the president, his chief lieutenants, senior military leaders--no longer feel any obligation to do so. As a practical matter, they devote themselves to war's perpetuation, closing one front while opening another. More strikingly still, we the people allow our leaders to evade this basic responsibility to articulate a plan for peace. By implication, we endorse the unspoken assumption that peace has become implausible."
- Christopher Galtenberg
"What the hawks fail to recognize is that perpetual war poses a bigger threat to the citizenry of a superpower than does terrorism. Already it is helping to bankrupt us financially, undermining our civil liberties, corroding our values, triggering abusive prosecutions, empowering the executive branch in ways that are anathema to the system of checks and balances implemented by the Founders, and causing us to degrade one another."
- Christopher Galtenberg
"Being far more powerful than our enemies, we pose the biggest threat to ourselves."
- Christopher Galtenberg
The Global War on Terror was a hoax and a fraud from the moment it was conceived -- arguably as early as the 1970s. Neoconservatives had been developing that propaganda meme since at least that era, and they are now entirely in control of this never-ending confidence game with nary a peep of protest from the US Congress. Who would have guessed that it would be so easy to roll over the American people and pick their pockets to the tune of several trillion dollars?
- Sean McBride
Americans by a very large majority are unable to pose any intelligent questions about foreign policy, and apparently don't care about how much of their wealth is wasted in losing foreign wars. A nation of sheep indeed. No wonder Obama doesn't feel the slightest need to offer a rational explanation for any foreign or military policy he adopts. The American people are utterly passive. The mainstream media have played a central role in reducing them to this abject state.
- Sean McBride
I'd like to just evaluate GWOT in its own time on its own terms, neocon build-up aside. People should first get a grip of how much this is costing, per family... and that we can't afford it. Next that it's immoral... totally so. And finally to look in the damn mirror: how can this country tolerate so much war?
- Christopher Galtenberg
To begin to reverse these policies, one is going to have to go hard after the people who have been most responsible for engineering them -- fewer than fifty names constitute the core lobby for the GWOT.
- Sean McBride
I'd love to read that list, and an overview of their responsibility.
- Christopher Galtenberg
Americans are facing vastly greatly problems than terrorism. I really liked this article by Conor Friedersdorf, but quite a few better minds have been making precisely the same points for a decade now with zero impact on the neocon-controlled mainstream media propaganda machine.
- Sean McBride
It's on The Atlantic's feed. Hopefully Bacevich will soon have the same cred as a Nassim Taleb. Till then, keep talking em up.
- Christopher Galtenberg
A dozen names will land you smack dab in the command center for the entire Global War on Terror/Clash of Civilizations op: Benjamin Netanyahu, Dennis Ross, Douglas Feith, Frederick Kagan, Joe Lieberman, Michael Ledeen, Norman Podhoretz, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Robert Kagan, Rupert Murdoch and William Kristol. For a full list of names, scan the affiliates of AEI, Commentary, CSP,...
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- Sean McBride
The main objective of the Global War on Terror is not to suppress terrorism, but to greatly *increase* it. Neoconservatives are seeking to ignite a holy between the United States and Muslims worldwide -- hence the endlessly escalating provocations, designed to stir things up, not to quiet them. The neocons need an ever-intensifying pattern of terrorist incidents to keep this show on the road. They won't rest until they have used American military power to crush every possible threat to Israel.
- Sean McBride
Andrew Bacevich is a courageous soul, but the mainstream media for the most part have no problem ignoring people like him. Skeptics like Bacevich from within the military establishment are off the neocon message of all war all the time against the Muslim world and the enemies of Israel.
- Sean McBride
We just need a candidate that doesn't give a shit about Israel. How that would change the conversation.
- Christopher Galtenberg
But when the Israel lobby even smells the possibility that an American politician might go off the reservation and begin to cut loose from Israel, it pulls out all the stops to destroy him or her. So the American political system is facing a real dilemma. Either you grovel shamelessly before the lobby, or you don't become a candidate. And the lobby is driving Americans into a permanent...
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- Sean McBride
Bigger problems than terrorism: 1. Chinese economic competition 2. Korean economic competition 3. Indian economic competition 4. European economic competition 5. crumbling infrastructure 6. extreme wealth inequality 7. global warming and climate change 8. pollution 9. dwindling water resources 10. dwinding oil resources 11. obesity 12. diabetes 13. traffic accidents 14. religious extremism (of all kinds) 15. ethnic nationalist extremism (of all kinds)
- Sean McBride
The neocons have taken our eye so far off the ball that it's scary. It's almost like they are an enemy within the gates.
- Sean McBride
Why markets and consumer-choice won't fix health care - http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011...
"HALF of all health care costs in the US is concentrated in only 5% of the population, and 80% of costs are accounted for by the top quintile!"
- Christopher Galtenberg
from Bookmarklet
"So the effect here is that with such a concentration of costs in such a small segment of the population, the ability of the larger population to move the market is highly restricted. You can make 80% of consumers highly price sensitive, but they can only affect a tiny fraction of healthcare spending."
- Christopher Galtenberg
"Conversely, those who are high consumers of health care simply cannot be made more price sensitive, since their costs are probably well beyond what they could pay in any event, and for most are well beyond the limits of even a catastrophic health insurance policy."
- Christopher Galtenberg
You can ask me anything in this post, and Akiva will answer it. I'm going to bed.
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The first rule of Slide Rule Club is?
- Micah
Always honor the safe word.
- Akiva
TWSCan'tRememberToS
- Micah
What causes Glen-mode?
- Christopher Galtenberg
Believe it or not, Skittle overdose.
- Akiva
For immediate effect, administer a green Skittles concentration.
- Micah
Who would win in a fight? Spock or evil Spock?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
They would cancel each other out as the true Spock is neither good nor evil.
- Akiva
"Banilla" yogurt (banana vanilla), corn flakes, strawberries.
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Just gave up every other dessert on earth. (For tonight.)
- Christopher Galtenberg
A stellar Brooks article. The most supervised generation in American history enters the real world - http://www.nytimes.com/2011...
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"This year’s graduates are members of the most supervised generation in American history. Through their childhoods and teenage years, they have been monitored, tutored, coached and honed to an unprecedented degree. Yet upon graduation they will enter a world that is unprecedentedly wide open and unstructured."
- Christopher Galtenberg
"Worst of all, they are set off into this world with the whole baby-boomer theology ringing in their ears. If you sample some of the commencement addresses being broadcast on C-Span these days, you see that many graduates are told to: Follow your passion, chart your own course, march to the beat of your own drummer, follow your dreams and find yourself. This is the litany of expressive individualism, which is still the dominant note in American culture."
- Christopher Galtenberg
"College grads are often sent out into the world amid rapturous talk of limitless possibilities. But this talk is of no help to the central business of adulthood, finding serious things to tie yourself down to. The successful young adult is beginning to make sacred commitments — to a spouse, a community and calling — yet mostly hears about freedom and autonomy."
- Christopher Galtenberg
"Today’s graduates are also told to find their passion and then pursue their dreams. The implication is that they should find themselves first and then go off and live their quest. But, of course, very few people at age 22 or 24 can take an inward journey and come out having discovered a developed self."
- Christopher Galtenberg
"Most people don’t form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling."
- Christopher Galtenberg
"The graduates are also told to pursue happiness and joy. But, of course, when you read a biography of someone you admire, it’s rarely the things that made them happy that compel your admiration. It’s the things they did to court unhappiness — the things they did that were arduous and miserable, which sometimes cost them friends and aroused hatred. It’s excellence, not happiness, that we admire most."
- Christopher Galtenberg
"Today’s grads enter a cultural climate that preaches the self as the center of a life. But, of course, as they age, they’ll discover that the tasks of a life are at the center. Fulfillment is a byproduct of how people engage their tasks, and can’t be pursued directly. Most of us are egotistical and most are self-concerned most of the time, but it’s nonetheless true that life comes to a point only in those moments when the self dissolves into some task."
- Christopher Galtenberg
"The purpose in life is not to find yourself. It’s to lose yourself."
- Christopher Galtenberg
The Republican Party has gone completely nativist. Beginning and end of story.
Traits strongly associated with nativism: racism, xenophobia, anti-intellectualism, hostility to science, religious fundamentalism, etc. We all know the drill. Human ignorance at full throttle.
- Sean McBride
This is from 2008?
- Christopher Galtenberg
It's an ongoing meltdown with no relief in sight -- yes?
- Sean McBride
No kidding. Unless for some reason they fall in love with Gary Johnson or Jon Huntsman.
- Christopher Galtenberg
Haim Saban hints: No more donations to Obama - Israel News, Ynetnews - http://www.ynetnews.com/article...
"Billionaire funder of 2008 Democratic campaign disappointed by Obama's conduct towards Israel"
- Sean McBride
from Bookmarklet
"Media mogul Haim Saban, who has donated millions to the Democratic Party – especially during its 2008 campaign, led by President Barack Obama – has hinted that he will not continue to donate in 2012. In an interview with CNBC Tuesday, Saban expressed his dissatisfaction with the public disagreements voiced by Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "The US and Israel need to...
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- Sean McBride
Haim Saban is a pro-Israel militant who hates our freedoms. He wants to censor open and public debate about American Mideast policy.
- Sean McBride
"But his critique was mostly aimed at Obama. "I am perplexed as to why the president has been to Cairo, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey but has not stopped in Israel and spoken to the Israeli people," the billionaire said."
- Sean McBride
Could the fact that so many pro-Israel activists and militants have spewed so much hatred and vile verbal abuse at Obama explain his lack of "warm feelings" for Israel?
- Sean McBride
Haim Saban is the single most powerful player in the Democratic Party, and he is, by his own admission, driven entirely by his passionate attachment to Israel.
- Sean McBride
Jeffrey Goldberg's latest article is clear-headed on this. Settlements = Zionism. No love for settlements = Anti-Zionism. http://www.theatlantic.com/interna...
- Christopher Galtenberg
Jeffrey Goldberg is gradually moving towards a sane position on these issues. I admire his ability to revise his views based on reality and reason.
- Sean McBride
What really disturbs me is the kind of financial coercion that pro-Israel militants like Haim Saban and Sheldon Adelson are exerting on both the Democratic and Republican Parties -- all of this on behalf of a foreign government whose policies and values are radically discordant with American policies and values on several important issues. The situation is intolerable.
- Sean McBride
I arrived at Jeffrey Goldberg's current position more than a decade ago -- it seemed like a no-brainer, basic policy arithmetic. But Goldberg still hasn't come to grips with the reality that reasonable Zionists of his school totally lost control of the movement quite some time ago. Events will inevitably push him into the anti-Zionist position eventually. Zionism has morphed into a...
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- Sean McBride
I think it's the definition of "pro-Israel" that has morphed into something ugly -- in the past decade, as you say. I wouldn't necessarily hold people who had past pro-Israel beliefs accountable for the new fanatic version.
- Christopher Galtenberg
Oh, I don't disagree -- there have been many enlightened Zionists and pro-Israel activists during the history of Zionism from its beginning to the present. But that faction in the movement is rapidly shrinking. Historians are going to have a field day in sorting all this out -- there is so much interesting material to explore that touches on so many important aspects of world history in general.
- Sean McBride
Social media disappointments:
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FriendFeed got sold to Facebook and is running on fumes.
- Brian Sullivan
Facebook is mostly confusing and unexciting -- like a family get together -- fun while it lasted but I keep hoping it will be over soon.
- Brian Sullivan
Twitter is like writing on post-it notes and throwing them out the front door.
- Brian Sullivan
Google has abandoned Buzz and like many people didn't really understand Wave -- announced it would end, then suddenly changed and set it adrift.
- Brian Sullivan
I might have to go back to meeting with real people in real life for social contact. Maybe it is just God telling us we have to meetup again in meatspace?
- Brian Sullivan
well that easy enough, you can coordinate it with "social networking" geolocation check-ins, just foursquare it! ~ that'd be another social media bomb
- The Real sofarsoShawn
I barely have a cell phone -- the mobile internet for me is moving the laptop from my office to the family room.
- Brian Sullivan
Lost drop.io to Facebook too.
- Morton Fox
I just learned that about 5 minutes ago, Morton.
- Rah-PM 2012
Sometimes I wonder if social media really is the success it is talked up to be. Maybe it is a generational thing and I will never really get it.
- Brian Sullivan
it is in large part generational, that is with Facebook I know for sure. However since it being so new we don't have stats/evidence for its later use. I'd like to see how these kids's Facebook use, changes, as they grown up
- The Real sofarsoShawn
While partially generational, I think it also changes with your phase of life. The older I get, the smaller number of people I need to interact with. My closest contacts I IM/email with. My Facebook isn't my #1 thing to do in the morning (Email, then FF). As far as Tumblr and Posterous, they're seldom remembered and even less used.
- caj needs a haircut
Tumblr/Posterous are categorized as blogging, the social media margin is thin. I'm just curious about kids who's only known experience & real interaction with the internet is Facebook; they post thousands of pics & tag away, wall post, FB chat! (that one's strangest to me ~ its just a ridiculous, as soon as I open it, there's 5 pop up wanting to IM, it's chaos). So with this being all they really know, are these habits going to change? Doubtful, if you've grown up using & knowing the one and only system.
- The Real sofarsoShawn
Oh, Holden Page, has brought to mind another disappointment: Empire Avenue: fake money and status that no one cares about, even if you're selling a brand.
- The Real sofarsoShawn
I think Facebook and Twitter have crossed a threshold where they're now permanent. So that's a "success", if you like the services. You called them disappointments because of your experience on them.
- Christopher Galtenberg
considering the history behind the rise & fall of .com's, nothing's permanent at all.
- The Real sofarsoShawn
Relatively. For this era.
- Christopher Galtenberg
awesome people hanging out together - http://awesomepeoplehangingout...
The Most Interesting Men In The World
- Christopher Galtenberg
Believing in WTC 7 is just anti-imperialist die-hards believing there's no extreme too extreme for their cause.
They don't think there's a line where the truth ends, because the evil is still plausible.
- Christopher Galtenberg
They should be teaching people to think that it is possible. And hence that we should be on guard.
- Christopher Galtenberg
But they've fallen into what would be the richest story ever. It's too good not to advocate its probable truth.
- Christopher Galtenberg
"If it were true", war and the military machine would come to an end. So why not just skip ahead and imply that it is true.
- Christopher Galtenberg
Huh. I've apparently seen all of David Fincher's films except Alien 3. I did not realize that.
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I agree. Alien and Alien3 were good. The rest were rubbish.
- Akiva
I didn't know that either. The Game is still a favorite. And I remember nothing about Se7en (even vaguer than Zodiac).
- Christopher Galtenberg
Well, now that I know it's the only one, I want to see it just to finish out his filmography. :)
- Jandy
You, dawg, I dunno.
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they are... interesting. you'll either like them or you won't.
- holly #ravingfangirl
These are terrible. They're not a new breed of apple or anything like that. They're normal apples *artificially flavoured* to grape. Ugh.
- John Fink
eh, I don't mind them in small doses. but I like grape flavored stuff. :P
- holly #ravingfangirl
These freak me out.
- Derrick
I love my Grapples. :) The smell alone makes me happy. Don't go into it expecting anything fancy and you won't be disappointed.
- Hookuh Tinypants
yes, *love* the smell. :D
- holly #ravingfangirl
Would they be better if you injected them with grape vodka?
- Gabrielle
oh ew.
- tiffany
The smell is all they have, in my experience. Gimmick :(
- Christopher Galtenberg
They're still delicious apples. Nice and crisp. But it has nothing to do with them being infused with grape and everything to do with the company selecting good apples. The smell is definitely a gimmick, but honestly, I don't care. I still enjoy them.
- Hookuh Tinypants
I grappled with the decision for about 2 seconds. Didn't buy. No hard feelings, grapple, maybe another time.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
MY NEXT T-SHIRT : "Dear Israel & American Jews: Your holocaust doesnt justify Palestinian genocide. Sincerely, The World" #bibispeech
I too am pissed at the cement shoes Israel has put on our country, but genocide is a completely inappropriate term. My motto: "Liberate America and Palestine from Israel."
- Christopher Galtenberg
Fox's Bolling: Obama Is "Chugging 40's" In Ireland | Media Matters for America - http://mediamatters.org/blog...
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"Monday night, Fox News' Eric Bolling posted the following to his Twitter account:"
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
and that, my friends, is what we call a dog whistle. what a douche.
- Que Sarah Sarah
Stay classy Fox.
- DB Botts - Just DB Botts
Republicans are tar babies.
- Christopher Galtenberg
Fox Rage
- Eric
Fox News = Spineless Cowards.
- Rene, Pro Button Pusher
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False! It's on Spotify for free.
- Louis Gray
*eyeroll* that's just for you, LG.
- holly #ravingfangirl
I would posit that while most people have heard of Amazon, Spotify doesn't have nearly the brand recognition or visibility of Amazon. And if you're going to push and sell and reveal your product and services on such a huge platform, then they should work. That's all.
- Derrick
I agree with Derrick. ^^
- Louis Gray
Haven't ever had an issue with amazonmp3 - but certainly I wouldn't keep my master collection of music only online - should only be a backup
- Christopher Galtenberg
I don't understand the problems people are having. Are they trying to actually download this crap to their computer or just play it from Amazon CloudPlayer?
- Rah-PM 2012
Music purchased is not available to stream or download, Rahsheen I purchased an album around 9am this morning. I have three songs from that purchase. There are eleven songs missing. So I've bought and paid for an incomplete purchase that I cannot use.
- Derrick
I'd rather have paid full price to know the crap would work.
- Derrick
(per NYT) "Thanks for your patience." So instead of apologizing, they assumed customers are showing amazon with patience. Huh.
- Micah
Derrick - Maybe it's time for you to come over to the dark side? :) http://thenextweb.com/microso...
- Curdy G
:|
- Derrick
clearly, Amazon underestimated what it would take to handle the album sale of one of the most popular pop artists for 99 cents. even I bought the album (99 cents? why not?) the problems with the Gaga purchase - and people's reactions to those problems - is a PR issue for sure. maybe it's b/c I'm *not* a Gaga fan that I don't see this as the end of the world or even the end of cloud-based music/players.
- jbrotherlove
What J. said. I'm annoyed...not sure why exactly? I bought something and don't have it? Hrm.
- Derrick
but you *will* have it, D. you haven't been ripped off; you've been inconvenienced.
- jbrotherlove
I know, I'm just annoyed. Signing off.
- Derrick
not sure if this is has been said yet, but Amazon is not a cloud-based service. there are reasons to be wary of the cloud but not being able to download Gaga today is not one of them.
- chrisofspades
I apologize if I'm coming off as insensitive. I'm easily ticked today I think. also, the near-violent reactions to the recent tech luxury failures has cause me to think more about what is - and what is *not* - important.
- jbrotherlove
I'll just STFU up then. Sorry my irritation and annoyance has bled over to pollute everyone's day.
- Derrick
I gotcha D. I feel your pain. It's a total first world problem, but if the first world is failing, well, consarnit, as a first world citizen, I demand my first world luxuries! Oh well. Back to streaming porn. Also, Louis' opinion doesn't count for using a Commie Hippie Streaming service no American can use yet.
- Mike Nayyar
You can just make a chunnel and use spotify by making it think you are EU not that I would know how to do such a thing or would even advocate it. ;-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Uh-oh--Anyone in the Alameda (CA) Area got a guitar I can borrow for 2hrs (yes-really)? I'm at my gig and forgot mine. #I_am_an_idiot
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Bugger. Acoustic is at home in Alameda, but I'm in SF. There is Thin Man Guitars on Webster Street, at Santa Clara, if that's any help.
- vicster
Thank you vicster. Thin Man came through for me. :-)
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Yay!
- Anika
Showing-up to a gig sans guitar has been a recurring nightmare for me for decades. Hopefully, it can now be nothing more than another silly anecdote I can tell.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Go Vicster!
- Spidra Webster
Oh yay! I'm so glad they were able to help you out!
- vicster
Rob, I'm curious about how you ended up forgetting your guitar!
- Stephen Mack
This was awesome. vicster = hero of the day
- Christopher Galtenberg
@Stephen--My auto-pilot loading mojo needs sharpening (I guess...)
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
RT @twitter: Starting today, we're rolling out an email notification that lets you know if someone you follow retweets or favorites one of your Tweets.
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RT @gmail: Starting today, we're rolling out an email notification that lets you know if someone sent you an email.
- Louis Gray
lol
- Eric
That's funny. But there'll probably be a setting here: http://twitter.com/setting...
- Christopher Galtenberg
RT @xzibit: You dawg I heard you like Tweets in your email, so we'll email you whenever you tweet.
- Louis Gray
Whenever *anyone else* tweets
- Christopher Galtenberg
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