Yeah, sorry I couldn't respond to that one before. :-)
- Kevin Fox
well i be darned .... we now can rejoice, since fast paced additions to already good product are surely fastly coming about off the feedpipe ... it'l be a hectic season of finest upgrades ... I'm sure they'l start with keyboard shortcutze. ... I mean Google Reader rules on that. Intelligent to the extreme. ..Google.com, on the other hand - are we sleeping? .. not even "/" ??.. and that...
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- pb:
Congrats Ben! Totally agree with Jason. Our latest project wouldn't have become feasible without Ben -- I'm just so glad we managed to get a fraction of his time before he left! :)
- Simon
Congratulations, Ben! You're joining an awesome team.
- Anne Bouey
Congrats, you are now a "big company"! ;))))
- K.D.
That's not my picture! They got the picture wrong! In fact, I didn't get the letter of hire either. :( Oh, Hi there, Ben...if that's your real name. ;)
- Josh Haley
Good luck Ben! With you our preferred service will go more interesting
- Roberto
from fftogo
I think there were a bunch of spam comments made to some 2009-era posts by FF employees. For some reason even after the spam is nuked, the post stays bumped.
- Stephen Mack
Yes, I blocked a spammer that was bumping old posts about FF themes and what not.
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
Well, let's see this as an opportunity to raise a virtual glass to Ben and FriendFeed-that-was!
- Kevin Fox
It probably had something to do with the Tornado 2.2 release. I noticed Ben was the one who posted about the release on HN earlier. Edit: Or it could have just been a spammer. *shrugs*
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
I don't think it had anything to do with the tornado release - a spammer bumped a bunch of Bret's old posts today.
- Ben Darnell
In Pic #3, I am holding my youngest brother (picture in 1984). In pic #4, I am with my younger brother who was a year behind me. He is sporting one of our Superman capes.
- Louis Gray
These remind me of Chris Pirillo's kid pics. Do glasses predestine you to become a geek? :) I think I'll ask the government for millions of dollars to study that question. Fascinating.
- Dawn
Adorable !! Thanks for sharing :) I wish I had more pics of my childhood (they're all at my Mom's house!)
- Susan Beebe
When I first came on to ff today, this is what I saw at the top of the feed. As I leave, it is at the top again. Thus, I both start and end the day smiling.
- Katy S
It looks just like Derrick is about to say "Goo goo ga ga"
- iTad
I'm just gonna go ahead and let this be my embarrassing photo meme entry.
- Derrick
Yes, Mo asked to participate in the Ass Roasting. I wasn't really serious about it until Mo asked. Then I had to make it exist.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
LMAO, Kamilah so awesome, but you missed Sean's half-stache and goatee. Those would have made it even more awesome.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
aw, shoot. I checked, but I wasn't sure about the status of his facial hair.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
This is THE. BEST. THING. ON. THE. INTERNET. EVER. *weeps for joy*
- MoTO Bott
I'm tempted to lie about it just to see what I'd look like in one of your illustrations
- chrisofspades
oh, though sketch is good, ever had an exhibition?
- testbeta
I always knew it. The first time I saw Mo Kargas on FF, I knew he could roast asses with his eyes.
- Joshua
Thanks, everyone :) I don't know that I can sell the original sketchbook, it's really my personal journal. As I say from time to time, though, my goal is to do some larger drawings and paintings, and eventually I hope to sell those, I just need, like, 48 hours in a day to get everything done... it's going to happen somehow, soon. I have had some of my work exhibited at various times,...
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- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Kamilah, you're here! You should subscribe to me. :)
- EricaJoy
What happens if I subscribe to you, Erica? Is something in particular happening over on your feed?
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Nothing interesting happening on my feed but I bet $100 I could make your day. :)
- EricaJoy
By the way Kamilah? I want the MoBot on a t-shirt.... Pleeeaaaasssseeee???
- MoTO Bott
Yes, giant robots are made of win. I dunno, Barry... last time I tried to make a t-shirt, people got all excited but no-one bought it (DYSP!). I might just make a design but not bother to try setting up a Spreadshirt (or whichever one it was that I used) for it. I'll have to see.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
I could do that somehow, I guess. I've taken payments through PayPal before. I wonder what pose the MoBot should be in? Have some source material I could work from?
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
"i've wanted to do this for a while. i'm not a good singer, and it's ok. and this is how i look when i'm doing the just-ok singing. this is part of me dealing with all my faces."
- edythe
from Bookmarklet
thank you, mark and nia and jlt-j. brent, the sky is supposed to be on fire, but i forgot and mumbled. :) jlt-j: it's a warron zevon song that Jill Sobule does a beautiful cover of.
- edythe
I love this song :D good job! I like your faces
- comix aka martha
[applauds] BENNY THE CAB: Hey Roger, what do you call the middle of a song? ROGER RABBIT: Gee, I don't kn -- [sees that he needs to duck] A BRIDGE!!!
- Karim
*birthday bump*... One of my most favorite Polly moments ever
- MoTO Bott
Awww. Heh, Barry. If they ever made this into a single, you'd push it into some platinum list. :) ;) this is the only song I have ever sung and made sound reasonably good.
- edythe
from iPhone
"Bridge..." JUST LIKE JAMES BROWN!... *sigh*
- MoTO Bott
Hee hee, Barry. Now you're just buttering me up like a roll. ;)
- edythe
from iPhone
FriendFeed is now available in Persian! Thanks again to all of our Persian users — it has been extremely exciting for us to see FriendFeed so widely used around the world. You can set your language preference here: http://friendfeed.com/...
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
Any way we could auto-translate (or even have a link with the option to?)? It'd be great to really be able to collaborate with the non-English speaking world...
- Chris Reichow
wow, another language... I can't read it, but that is cool! :)
- Susan Beebe
Now if we could only filter out languages other then our own and have the lang:en search filter.
- DarknessFalls
You're welcome! We are excited to better support our Persian users.
- Bret Taylor
This feels so good to be able to view the pages in a way are eyes used to see Persian writings. Thank you so much! We really appreciate your effort! Thanks again ! :)
- انجل
Great Bret! I remember that in the past some persian people wrote here that whould be nice to have FF interface also in persian, probabilly because their language is very different and english isn't so diffused such in Europe. A welcome to persian friends! :)
- Roberto
from fftogo
bretçim herkes google plus'a gidiyor ama ben seni bırakmam ^^
- aynebilim
Aynebilim'e katılıyorum Bret. Bir sürü idiotla paylaşsam da burayı, vazgeçemiyorum işte. - Ben bu yüzden hiç kimseden gidemem gitmemmmm.. la la laaa
- pippi haşmet
bretçim sana dm atamıyorum..bana abone olur musun ^^
- aynebilim
«If Lustig is right, then our excessive consumption of sugar is the primary reason...» — heh, you can die on the spot from overdose of salt (about 300g per adult human) or even water (say, 15-20L could just tear apart the intestines).
- 9000
«I’d like to eat sugar in moderation. I’d certainly like my two sons to be able to eat it in moderation, but I don’t actually know what that means, and I’ve been reporting on this subject and studying it for more than a decade. If sugar just makes us fatter, that’s one thing. But we are also talking about things we can’t see — fatty liver, insulin resistance and all that follows. Officially I’m not supposed to worry because the evidence isn’t conclusive, but I do.»
- 9000
You think sugar's bad? You should see what happens due to excessive exposure to sunlight!
- Gabe
"It’s hard to imagine, but up until 1950, Detroit was the fourth biggest city in America. In 1960, it had the highest per-capita income in the U.S." - Very hard for me to imagine.
- Ross Miller
from Bookmarklet
It's interesting to note this not because the president has an iPad, but he treats the question of whether he does like asking someone if they have a computer: a no-brainer.
- Mark Trapp
Presumably the President uses the iPad for limited recreational purposes only - unless the iPad or the Blackberry incorporate some really tight security. Or maybe I'm wrong and Barry has one of the few copies of the "Launch Nuclear Attack" app. (Derogatory comment regarding Biden's access to the same app removed.)
- John E. Bredehoft
There was a story when he first became president about how he was going to have to adjust to not having access to all of his gadgets (being an avowed Crackberry addict), and that the resolution would likely be that he could use the devices to communicate with close friends and family only. Everything official has to go through "channels". Edit: Here it is...
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- Mark Trapp
I just heard a story the other day about how the governor of Florida did a Facebook chat. Anyhow, it was a huge deal because apparently he was saying before he was elected he didn't even have an email address. Really?
- Michelle M
Wow, that guy was just elected, wasn't he? I was embarrassed I didn't get a personal e-mail address until 1996.
- Mark Trapp
Yup. I can see how he is trying to be all 'folksy' and stuff, but damn, my mom had an email address in 1999.
- Michelle M
Guinness is good for you. I look forward to it all year. ;)
- Melanie Reed
I spent seven hours pouring Guinness and topping each with a shamrock!
- Anne Bouey
I had no idea you worked as a bartender, Anne!
- Spidra Webster
Spidra, I don't really. I volunteer to help out when this pub does special events and sets up a beer bar outside. There are several of us who have been helping out for years. The regular staff is really busy for events like tonight's so they appreciate the help, and they get all the tips we collect! Shamrocks atop the Guinness froth earn extra tips!
- Anne Bouey
Interesting. I never knew there was a difference between "sunny side up" and "over easy". (I've taken to asking for eggs "over easy" after the waiters at IHOP didn't know what "sunny side up" meant.)
- Tudor Bosman
People don't know what sunny side up is?????
- Andrew C (✓)
The number of options for eggs in the USA is far greater than I was used to in the UK or NL, where a fried egg was served how the cook chose to do it.
- Phil Pennock
Note that in the UK, "free range" means that there's 1 sq.ft of sky per bird, not that they're uncaged. It's mostly a gimick. My mother's policy strikes me as wise: pay more if you can see the birds wandering around free, in a local farm, otherwise don't be suckered in by the scams.
- Phil Pennock
Rad. Watch out for guru meditations!
- Nathan Chase
FACEBOOK is surprisingly usable? I hope you meant FriendFeed, Kevin. FriendFeed IS surprisingly usable and Facebook has serious usability problems and lots of them.
- Internet Strategist
Calm down, guy. This was all just a ruse of which Kevin was aware: he and I are talking about the ability to use Facebook and FriendFeed in the new browser Pixelfari, respectively.
- Mark Trapp
HAMPTON, VIRGINIA—During a press conference Wednesday, Michael Vick admitted that he was both surprised and somewhat disturbed at how quickly and easily the NFL and its fans have forgiven him for running an illegal dogfighting ring.
- The Onion
I'm usually asleep before the wheels leave the runway.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Hate to break it to you, Mark, but YOU ARE ASLEEP ON A PLANE RIGHT NOW.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Crap, what's my kick? Someone trigger the super slo-mo that makes 15 seconds take 2 and a half hours!
- Mark Trapp
When the drink cart hits your knee--that's not it, when the guy next to you elbows your out of the arm rest--that's not it; when you feel the jet engine suction of the toilet--BINGO!
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
I was "Okay, well..."-ing as hard as I can, but the hint was not received. Then I started with, "Well, thanks for the help, but I gotta get back to this" and that didn't work. Then I started with "Okay, thanks and take care" and *he* got annoyed. Dude, I'm not your phone buddy: I got taxes to file.
- Mark Trapp
This is the only time of the year that people actually want to talk to them. They have to take in all that they can.
- James Ferguson
A tax man on April 16th is the saddest thing.
- Mark Trapp
"Rib-eye steak is also known as Delmonico steak, Spencer steak, or New York strip. It's sometimes called a boneless rib eye, because the steak is a sliced prime rib with the bone removed."
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
I occasionally catch myself indenting paragraphs.
- Spidra Webster
Bullet points, numbered lists and other such are indented. Depends on layout scheme.
- Brent
Unless things have drastically changed in 4.5 years when it comes to writing essays, you still have to indent paragraphs in essays: especially crucial given essays are double spaced and there'd be no other realistic way to detect a paragraph break. I guess you could quadruple-space a paragraph break, but now you're talking crazy.
- Mark Trapp
Think of the future for pythonistas... scary.
- Micah
Johnny: Abuse? As in over-use? Incorrect use? Please to be describing...
- Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™
I indent all the time. Makes my code neater.
- Kevin L
Crazy that I completely forgot code indenting even though I do it every day. Mary: I'm not sure why I started thinking about that last night.
- Kevin Fox
LaTeX handles indenting for you. Interestingly enough, the default in LaTeX is to not indent the first paragraph of a section, because it is unnecessary (many magazines and journals do this). I have seen a number of people who really like to indent the first paragraph. Of course, there is a LaTeX package that will do that for you \usepackage{indentfirst}
- Robert Felty
"Explanation: Hugging the horizon, a dark red Moon greeted early morning skygazers in eastern Atlantic regions on December 21, as the total phase of 2010's Solstice Lunar Eclipse began near moonset. This well composed image of the geocentric celestial event is a composite of multiple exposures following the progression of the eclipse from Tenerife, Canary Islands. Initially reflecting brightly on a sea of clouds and the ocean's surface itself, the Moon sinks deeper into eclipse as it moves from left to right across the sky. Opposite the Sun, the Moon was immersed in the darkest part of Earth's shadow as it approached the western horizon, just before sunrise came to Tenerife."
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
SAN FRANCISCO—“Not only does it look awesome, but it can do pretty much anything you want as long as you believe in it,” said Paul Conrad, a loyal Apple consumer.
- The Onion