George Brickner › Comments

So what's the prognosis of getting back on the road or is it by choice? - Jude

Fat? I don't think so. - George Brickner

This is why I hate Twitter - Jesse Stay

lol, i think he really said that? did he? - Fee501st

I think she made it up, Fee :) - Thomas

Oh that Sarah! - Fee501st

LOLing @jesse what industry are you in again??? - sofarsoShawn

sofarsoShawn it's a love/hate relationship :-) - Jesse Stay

why should you always include context in your tweets? - echostreamer

Things to stop Twittering about. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

... - Mo Kargas

If one cannot pee, then one has a serious problem. - George Brickner

Yet another reason old-style RTs are useless. - Otto

Gary V... Thats the wine guy right? - J. Abdul-Qahhar

Yeah, the hyper cracked out guy with the, " Yeah I've spent the last two nights sleeping in a ditch look", he's probably hammered ALL the time - sofarsoShawn

I got to meet him in Mesa a few weeks ago. Actually a pretty decent guy. - FF's Bubba of Arizona

He reminds me of my dog. - Nine

Oh with the jokes and the funny. - Brett Kelly

and then i had one of these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... and after it had x86s from then on - Fee501st

this is from memory....IBM XT 8088 4mhz. 256k ram 10 meg hard drive. monochrome. it was used. my first new pc was an i386-20mhz 1 meg ram. 80 meg hd. - Mike Nencetti

I was dual training an Apple 2E and a Commodore 64. - Jeremy (on vacation)

It might have been one of the early TRS-80 models at elementary school. Or Commodore PET. It's hard to remember what they had exactly. - Rodfather

A ZX spectrum - http://www.zxspectrum.net/ - ovigia

Ah, the vic-20... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas

The first computer I ever used was an IBM 360 mainframe via dial-up (150 chars per sec) in my senior year of high school (1969-1970). - George Brickner

The first computer I ever owned was the Mark 8 as featured in Popular Electronics in 1974. Then I bought an Altair 8800 in 1975. - George Brickner

I'm from the last generation that starts with a C64 :) Then I moved to Amiga1200T and Mac Classic - Acharad-Sami-

The first Acura NSX I ever saw had a personalized plate that said "MRI4U2" - ha3rvey (Ho)^3

Unfortunately we can't return our brains for better models. Too bad. ... MRI tests are way expensive, even compared to other testing. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

I had a CT Scan and a Bone Scan earlier this year. The HMO group pre-paid all but $135 which was sent to the main HMO to pay. So far, no bill for me (other than the premiums Ack!). - George Brickner

i think MRI's cost $1500 - echostreamer

If life gives you lemons, squeeze your head and make lemonade... - Thomas from FreshFeed

I think mine was 7K before ins - Steve Mott

Abed from Community is based on my ability to tell the future - RAPatton from iPhone

I'm pretty sure Captain Awesome on Chuck is based on me - Alan Simpson

I haven't had that feeling since I watched the Goonies and saw Sloth... - Thomas

Is Sarah taking a stab at Gary Vaynerchuk here? - Richard from iPhone

I'm not taking a stab at anyone. I liked what Eric said, that's it! - Sarah Lane

Nice guys get "noticed" last, but in the long run, they come out on top. - Chad McCoskey from iPhone

Best then to be a cute nice guy. - aldenoneil

don't they have clapping emoticons?????? - ffcode

easy to say. hard to do when you're ugly and a jerk. : ) - Jerry Perez

I know. I'm screwed... - Thomas

I've seen your YouTube submission, Jerry. Don't sell yourself short. You could very well be a jerk, though. - aldenoneil

i am with Jerry but it is good to read it and her advice to the women i wonder how good this lady (Sarah Lane) is. i don't usually listen to celebrities but you surprised me - ffcode

The quotation's actually from Michelle Obama, ffcode. - aldenoneil

There is evidence to support the jerk theory. Just ask my offline friends. - Jerry Perez

Does Michelle count as a celebrity? - Jerry Perez

Yes, and maybe I misunderstood ffcode's comment. - aldenoneil

this goes to my tumblr log too - ffcode

That's pretty good advice - Amy

Is it too late for a "That's What She Said" comment in response to Chad?? - Jerry Perez

What's nice is in the video clips about it, nobody's cured or gets better, the dumb host just talks about how deadly and awful it is. I shouldn't even have watched. - Sarah Lane

I'm not surprised you'd watch something about what you have - it's human nature. Sounds like they were going more for shock value and ratings, though. I wouldn't put too much stock in their portrayal of those afflicted... - Thomas from FreshFeed

+1 Thomas - Jerry Perez

I know I'm dumb, but no idea who Chris Hansen is. - Sarah Lane

He hosts "to catch a predator"... :) - Thomas from FreshFeed

People, I was 12 once. I wore this outfit on game days. I am older than that now, and it still fits and I feel like a metabolic warrior. Good grief with the pedo commentary! - Sarah Lane

Sarah, they're MALE, they clearly have no understanding of how this is a good thing. :) Also: *thumbs up* - Amy

12? You look sixteen at least. - George Brickner

I see a new shirt in Veronica's closet! ;) - Fee501st

i thought she kept the Rons in the closet. - Carlos Urrutia

she got many closets for different things! lol - Fee501st

I think we may have created a bit of a meme on Veronica's posts now. :) - Carlos Urrutia

o god - Veronica

lol, like the internet needs a another meme! - Fee501st

Veronica: it could be worse. we could be constantly speaking in a metaphorical language on your posts and you'd be able to understand us :) - Carlos Urrutia

Too bad the name's already been taken - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas

Worf seemed to mutate a bit between ST:TNG seasons. - George Brickner

:( At least you're closer to knowing what it is now, I guess - Amy

You're closer to an answer and they both sound treatable (based on initial feverish Googling). Hang in there. - Thomas

Aww.. It's hard to be a pimp. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Well at least it's not lupus, hope you get better soon. - Jimminy Fuller

Tumors are lame, but your attitude is freaking awesome! - Lo

Can we get a #blamesarahstumor ? - Rochelle

Wish that eveything will be allright, our prays are we you - Robert Martin

I pray that things will get better. Love your positive attitude. - Jerry Perez

Prayers b with u - LANjackal

Hoping, wishing and praying for you Ms. Sarah... :) - JA Castillo

Praying your days get better soon - Eric Logan

:(, but love your great attitude - chaz2b

keep that great attitude and positive out look. prayers and hopes kid. - echostreamer

All the best and a mountain of hope for a full recovery. You're a treacherous ball of steel. Knock it out. - Dave Friedel

thanks guys. xo - Sarah Lane

Let us know if there's anything we can do. I'm totally willing to donate one of Dave's kidneys if it'll help... - Thomas

Gee thanks. Think maybe you should ask me about that first? I might be using it... wait... yup, I'm using it right now. - Dave Friedel

Yeah, but both? C'mon, Dave - be a team player... - Thomas

Don't be selfish Dave. - Jerry Perez

Yeah, but she may not need an extra kidney. I mean, just leaving a perfectly good kidney laying around the cottage?? Nobody wants that... except maybe Colleen who will hook a 12 monitor gaming computer up to it... but still.... - Dave Friedel

Embrace the joy of giving, Dave... - Thomas

Fine. But I'm keeping my remaining lung. - Dave Friedel

Deal. And if she can't use your kidney she can sell it - maybe get Mad Men on DVD or something... - Thomas

( PS- For context, this is a continuation of http://ff.im/8WkWA ) - Dave Friedel

Sarah, much love to you. I read up on those conditions. The neurocysticercosis just sounds.... ewwww. I hope the doctors take care of it and you heal up quickly. This kinda stuff weighing on ones mind can be hard to handle sometime.Think positive and focus on healing! - Jim Bednarz

Eeek ... good thoughts your way. - Kalidor

Best wishes and hope to you, Sarah. xx - Andrew Terry

Best wishes from here as well - Charlie Anzman

We love you! - Veronica

Damn... That kid from Kindergarten Cop was right? :-( - Otto

Truly wish you all the best! - Charles Alden

Best wishes for a speedy recovery, Sarah! - George Brickner

May G-d grant that you merit a complete and speedy recovery to full health. - David C. Cooper

Very cool. - Thomas

I went looking for some Bob Seger music on iTunes and Amazon but couldn't find any. Then one day, the album with 'Night Moves' appeared and I bought the song. After a while, I went back to get another song and the album was gone. Perhaps Seger doesn't like downloadable music? - George Brickner

I love that the sample tweet they used was your "drunken" tweet... :) - Thomas

Very cool Veronica! But Hipster Interests? ;) - Fee501st

Also we heard of you ;) - Fee501st

yup :) - Carlos Urrutia

I don't know what "hipster interests" mean, unless they're talking about drinking. - Veronica

yea me either! - Fee501st

Wait, who's this "Veronica" person? According to CNN, I've never heard of her. I can tell by her sample tweet that she may have a drinking problem, though... - Thomas

I should probably stop cultivating that. - Veronica

It's not a "problem" if you are having fun ;) - Fee501st

It's not a "problem" if they haven't found you drunk in a ditch :) - Carlos Urrutia

Though that would make an awesome profile pic... - Thomas

Gin is not hipster. It is, however, magically delicious. - Otto

She would never live that down. - Carlos Urrutia

They took *that* tweet for the article? Oy veh. - Dave Friedel

It's CNN - did you expect any different...? - Thomas

It's not that, it's just not a typical tweet from V. A gaming or tech tweet would have been more 'her'. - Dave Friedel

Could have been worse - they could have found the cat lady picture to use for the article... - Thomas

Don't tempt fate Dave :) - Carlos Urrutia

I bet CNN picks her up one day. She's better than most of their anchors. - Dave Friedel

I never heard of those other four people. - George Brickner

lol, Veronica - the most famous alcoholic you've never heard of on twitter. I'd go with: 'it's not a "problem" if there's no photographic evidence of you drunk in a ditch' - Amy

LOL - Thomas

Veronica, will you still talk to me when you are hanging out with Blitzer and Amanpour as a big time CNN anchor? - Dave Friedel

She talks to you now? :P - Thomas

Ahem, Dave, you might want to rephrase that to sound slightly less needy - Amy

When did that happen? :p - Carlos Urrutia

Could be worse. They could be surfing this site: http://www.lazylaces.com/56Kmode... - Thomas

^ aww, i miss that sound, but not the speed! - Fee501st

Dunno, it might get old after a while if you looped that sound. I agree about the speed thing, though - was thinking the same thing last week when I was downloading the win7 ISO's... - Thomas

Thomas: Now, THERE is an idea :) - Carlos Urrutia

I wholeheartedly agree. Maybe they haven't heard of a great little invention called headphones. :) - Carlos Urrutia

Or... http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Dave Friedel

Dave: lol! where are the Vulcans when you need them? :) - Carlos Urrutia

Is that your "bad mood" profile pic? :) - Thomas

Vampira Veronica! - Veronica

Vampira, eh? You sure it's sinuses and not the fact that your still up and the sun's out...? - Thomas

thats a cool pic. - Carlos Urrutia

I guess they can't kill me... because I'm ALREADY DEAD! - Veronica

at least you know have your Halloween costume :) - Carlos Urrutia

I take it you ran out of Ron Howards... - Thomas

Amy keeps eating them. - Carlos Urrutia

Strumming my pain with his fingers. Singing my life with his words. - Fleagle

Even dead she still Veronica! :D - Fee501st from iPhone

Kill your sinuses first. - George Brickner

Dead people don't need to breathe, didn't you get the memo? Your sinuses evidently did. Breakdown of communication there. :) - Amy

Carlos: I resent this idea that I can't share the Rons. I'm not THAT greedy! - Amy

Amy: Apparently she isn't getting enough of them. I mean, look at her avatars complexion. She's going goth. Obviously its because you've had too many Rons. - Carlos Urrutia

I'm a Scottish geek! I need a booster, man! I'm practically blue! - Amy

Yeah, but couldn't you just bathe in their blood like normal people? You just *had* to eat them... - Thomas

I told you, blood makes me faint! Besides, they taste good with BBQ sauce... - Amy

Yeah, but you took too many from her stock of Rons. - Carlos Urrutia

It's fine, Dave's off cloning some more! - Amy

just make sure they are Rons and not Fonzies or Chachies. - Carlos Urrutia

Hey, do I look like Dave's boss? Dave knows what he's doing...kinda. - Amy

I whole heartedly agree! and so true... - Gary Oswald

"You're an asshole and your browser is an asshole" Best line ever! - Fee501st

Wow! The whole rant could have stopped at "...best experience possible." But the brutal honesty afterwards? Wow! - Devon Blugh from twhirl

Who still uses IE6? I've always wondered that... - Thomas

lol - Carlos Urrutia

Corporate users who have no choice may still be on 6. - Dave Friedel

they have a choice: resign - Mark

Yeah, give up benefits, have the house foreclosed on... but use Firefox! LOL. - Dave Friedel

If I recall I think IE6 is without tabs? Imagine the horror, seriously. - Mark

In some cases, internal applications were written to work with crappy IE5 or 6, and don't work right with anything newer. Some companies hold back upgrades due to the cost of modernizing the applications. My personal favorite is Firefox, but it doesn't work with Active Directory security for internal apps on a Microsoft network. - Dave Friedel

Yeah, that's the excuse we were always fed in web scripting classes - that they haven't moved due to internal websites and whatnot - but ffs, seriously IE 7 came out 3 years ago! - Amy

Yep. That's life in large companies. Unfortunately they have the money to employ lots of people... and to put off updating their internal apps. See they don't care that you can't surf some site on the net. Unfortunately it encourages some office workers not to bother upgrading at home either and just be indifferent to browser version. Another argument for Cloud computing. - Dave Friedel

It also implies that they haven't updated their pcs in FOREVER. These people work in Hell. - Amy

A little harsh , but true and funny . - Lisa zahara Hopkins

I've been in the position of trying to justify a six figure upgrade to a set of applications because they only worked on very old versions of IE. Without showing how it makes the company money, saying "people can't see some sites on the Internet" isn't enough to get approval for that much money to be spent on salaries vs other development. This is why I watch Revision3, to know there is a better world outside of multimillion dollar corporate hell. - Dave Friedel

Excellento - loved the Miles Davis' covers too - our university seems to be locked into IE6 - it's like going back to the dark ages . . . - Chris Loft

Ha! - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

I know someone who still uses IE6. He upgraded to IE7 and now wants to go back to IE6. Poor deluded guy. - George Brickner

I gotta be honest, I'm a little hurt. I still use IE6...because I have to because my work won't upgrade because they've put to much money into systems that work with IE6 and I'm stuck with this piece of junk! It makes me cry. :( - ChiliMac

As long as they don't have any Spam in them... - Jeff P. Henderson

...and no pink gadgets. - Jerry Perez

By "I love you", did you actually say "STFU"? - Thomas

You've been permanently scarred by that, huh? - Veronica

Some wounds never heal... - Thomas

Some mean lady will tell him to STFU, and he fall in love! At least it be a funny story for the grand kids! - Fee501st

Isn't that how all courtships start? I'm confused... - Thomas

They do for me. :$ - Faraz Mullick

lol, were they extra special sandwiches or are you just especially hungry? - Amy

hungry and lazy. - Veronica

cool Veronica, i share those same traits! :D - Fee501st

I'd say I'm guilty as charged there too :) - Amy

Who doesn't? :) - Carlos Urrutia from Android

So that's all it takes... I'm going to return this diamond ring. - Jason Wong

Nothing says "Will you marry me?" like someone on bended knee holding out a foot-long sweet onion chicken teriyaki... - Thomas

Nahhh, steak and cheese with southwest sauce... *drools* - Amy

I was originally going to say "holding out a foot-long meatball", but for some reason it didn't sound right in my head... - Thomas

Sweet. I've got a hoggie in the fridge, where should I mail it? :D - ChiliMac

My cow-orkers qould be very disturbed if i said that to them. - George Brickner

Silent whistle LOL - Michael King

Does an orrder discrepency = "I hate you"? Lunch can be a fickle affair. - rosenasylum

Things like that are just assumed at this point... - Thomas

Thomas: That was fast. :) - Carlos Urrutia

Friendfeed notifier FTW :) - Thomas

No prep is needed for me. I'll just install Win7 on the Windows partition of my MacBook. Reformat. - George Brickner

I'll probably reformat eventually, but since win7 RC is good for a while longer I probably won't do it right away... - Thomas

That should be an event in the Tekzilla Olympics. You'd probably destroy Patrick in this one... - Thomas

I hope Power Supply chucking is in the Tekzilla Olympics! I good at that! - Fee501st

LOL - Veronica

There would have to be some sort of PC assembly competition, too - fastest to build a bootable PC wins... - Thomas

Just saw the the video, and the first video of her showing her mad hula skills :) _Damn_ you're good! :) - Carlos Urrutia

I can't compete. I haven't seen my Hula Hoop in over half a century! - George Brickner

Wow, you're pretty darn good at that. I had no patience for it as a kid - I think I threw ours over a fence in frustration. Probably along with the pogo-stick... - Amy

Amy: You'll probably like the new pogo sticks then. you can REALLY jump on those :) - Carlos Urrutia

Hey, now there is an idea. A video of veronica on a pogo stick. - Carlos Urrutia

Carlos: Nah, I've learnt my lesson: rollerblades etc. = fine, things that require skill = not fine - Amy

Bradley Langerman loves Vernica's comment pages. - Bradley Langerman

Amy Sansom loves cheese. - Amy

John Fillers likes Amy Sansom's loves cheese comment on Veronica Belmont's Friendfeed post. - Fee501st

Amy Sansom likes John Fillers' comment about liking her comment about loving cheese on Veronica Belmont's Friendfeed post - Amy

Carlos Urrutia likes Amy Sansom's comment about John Filler's comment about liking her comment about loving cheese on Veronica Belmont's Friendfeed post. - Carlos Urrutia

Veronica: Nice moves! Personally, I wouldn't last more than 5 seconds. - Sylvain Nadeau

I like cheese - Veronica

Thomas Serio started to like Veronica's liking of cheese in response to Carlos Urrutia's liking of Amy Sansom's comment about John Filler's comment about liking her comment about loving cheese on Veronica Belmont's FriendFeed post, but sadly his hands fell off halfway through typing it... - Thomas

lmao :) - Amy

lol - Carlos Urrutia

I'm jealous of the cheese! - Jason Wong from iPod

Veronica you totally rock the friendfeed.com website comment pages. - Bradley Langerman

Dragons? Where? - Carlos Urrutia

No wonder dragons are endangered. - George Brickner

Slacker! - Rodfather

Yeah, Veronica keeps killing them! - Carlos Urrutia

and take care of that pesky Horesman while you are at it....always with the laughing. - Joe Pierce