I thought maybe it was a figment of my imagination. But no, I found it on YouTube. What are these people doing to our 80's?!
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Haven't heard this before. I like this version better, but I'm a rock fan and definitely not a George Michael fan.
- Brandon Titus
I like the music, but not the vocal. I never even knew this was a George Michael song. I actually like the original.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
Reminded of the great lyrics...rock ballads all kinda sound the same to me so not loving this version.
- Jenny Morman
This is so weird. I feel like I've heard that riff a hundred times (the beginning Saxaphone/guitar part). Sounds a lot like some riffs from Dream Theater's newer album but not exactly.
- Brandon Titus
This version embarrasses me far more than the original ever did (I wasn't crazy about the original either; though I admit I loved Wham! for a brief time).
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
I'm the oldest of five. The oldest two (me and my brother Phil) are left-handed, the other three kids are right-handed. Our parents are right-handed too. It's too early to tell for my two kids (1 1/2 and 3 1/2), but I think they're going to turn out right-handed. There you go, nine data points for your son's survey!
- Stephen Mack
My dad broke is right hand two times in a row when he was six. So things he learned then, like writing, he does with his left hand. He also still eats his soup using his left hand. For the rest he does everthing with his right hand. One cool trick he has up his sleeve is that he can start writing a sentence with his left hand, switch the pen mid-sentence, and complete the sentence with his right hand. As for me, I'm a plain boring righty.
- Jeroen Van Goey
Residual effects of childhood polio have forced me to be right handed but according to medical professionals, I ought to have been left-handed. (That may skew your results a bit!)
- Jill O'Neill
I am left handed, however I use my right hand to scroll up and down and to search the web with the mouse. Using the left hand is just weird for me.
- Patrick
from twhirl
AJ: the first step in making changes is identifying something you really want to change. Weight is a thorny, tricky bugger. If it is a something you want to change then how about looking at it from a different angle. You want to lose weight so you can be healthier, more active, do more things or whatever. Why not look at the other side - exercise? Take one fitness goal and work towards that. As you get towards it you will be achieving two things.
- WorldofHiglet
...You will be improving your health and you will be more motivated to look at the food you eat in a positive way. On Jan 5th Sparky and me set up this room http://friendfeed.com/rooms... so we could reach the goal of 100 push-ups. We're not there yet but I've seen a big improvement and I've started doing other exercise, too. Very best of luck!
- WorldofHiglet
145lbs, usually varying by about 5lbs either way. I should be about 155lbs though.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Weight isn't the real issue, though. The real issue is fitness, and given that muscle weighs more than fat, that makes weight a poor indicator of fitness.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
so... no one here is heavier than me. i will sit on you if you piss me off ;)
- AJ Batac
AJ, I must weigh more than you. I know I gained back the weight I lost last summer, so if I weigh 250 I wouldn't be surprised. I don't weigh myself though.
- Anika
Funny, if you asked a typical woman how much she weighs to her face, she would either lie or get offended, or both but here people seem to be pretty free with posting their weight.
- Jeff P. Henderson
133 right this moment, but it varies +/- 10 pounds every day because of the baby.
- Rochelle
@Jeff: I will readily answer if someone asked me to my face as well. :) I've gotten to a point where I feel silly lying or getting offended by the questions. I can understand why others do it, but I'm (weirdly enough) comfy with sharing the truth. My normal weight is actually 135 and I'll get back there one day. So I'm cool with dishing numbers. :D
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
just a little note to everyone - weight is less the issue, nor BMI for that matter, than is bodyfat % and where that fat resides (apple [bad] or pear [not so bad] shape) - you can be heavy, and have a moderate bodyfat % and be healthy - the key? - exercise, exercise, exercise
- William Harryman
entirely too damn much! 150lbs (5'5") Grrr
- Susan Beebe
I weight a lot but it's all muscle, so I don't really go by weight. I weigh 160, 5'7, but I look like a weight a lot less.
- Shevonne
117 last time I checked (a few mornings ago). Possibly a little more *right now*, though, since I just ate dinner and a piece of cake.
- The Bohemian Penguin
After that burger and fries, I think I'm floating up to 300lbs.
- Anika
"The British organisation has claimed dressing pets in human-like garments — such as boots, overalls and hoodies — could be harmful for dogs, and owners could be prosecuted if an animal's welfare was deemed to be at risk, the Daily Mail reported."
- iMorpheus
from Bookmarklet
"iKnow is developed by Shibuya-based Cerego — a company that started out in 1995 as some sort of privately-funded think tank with a hard-on for cognitive learning research. Whether that “private funding” came from the CIA or some ambiguous division of the JSDF is anyone’s guess, and I’m not one to speculate. What I do know, however, is that they seem to have hit the proverbial nail on the head — enough to crack right through the skull and pierce the cerebellum (which I assume is the inspiration for the first half of their corporate portmanteau)."
- iMorpheus
from Bookmarklet
"Individuals, too, can reduce the effects of food production on planetary climate. To some degree, after all, our diets are a choice. By choosing more wisely, we can make a difference. Eating locally produced food, for instance, can reduce the need for transport though food inefficiently shipped in small batches on trucks from nearby farms can turn out to save surprisingly little in greenhouse emissions. And in the U.S. and the rest of the developed world, people could eat less meat, particularly beef."
- iMorpheus
from Bookmarklet
"Raoul Charles Magrin-Vernerey (7 February 1892 - 3 June 1964), also known as Ralph Monclar, was a French Army and French Foreign Legion general who fought in World War I, World War II and commanded the French Battalion in the Korean War[1]."
- iMorpheus
from Bookmarklet
"There is no exact death toll of the 1980 Gwangju Uprising. "Official" figures released by the Martial Law Command put the death toll at 144 civilians, 22 troops and 4 police killed, with 127 civilians, 109 troops and 144 police wounded. Individuals who attempted to dispute these figures were liable for arrest for "spreading false rumors".[8]"
- iMorpheus
from Bookmarklet
Most all things - right - except at work I have to write with left to be efficient - started as scratch but now not too bad and can easily read. Play pool with left hand too.
- Janet
Technically right, but if I'm not paying attention, I write with my left.
- Nine
i cant write with my left hand at all. single letters look nothing like they are supposed to, so im screwed with words!]
- ♥ Stephiepooos ♥
Left-handed but I can only use scissors with my right, weird huh?
- Andy Murdoch
Both...ish. CTS did my right hand so I had to learn how to do stuff as a lefty. I also believe my personality changed slightly as I started to use a different part of my brain. My hand did get loads better till I typed up my film script last week, now it hurts again. But I can do everything left handed these days, including some impressive feats but like Steph I just can't write for toffees.
- Toby Graham
i just lead with my right foot. surely it's different depending on what position you are moving from e.g. getting up from lying down or getting on a chair or walking again after stopping
- ♥ Stephiepooos ♥
Well if you're a skater or snowboarder, you have "regular" stance and "goofy" stance. I do Goofy. It also applies to soccer, BMXing and other foot-controlled sports.
- Daniel Bruce
Both. My parents forced me to be right because in their culture, it was bad to be left. Now they feel bad, but now I am ambidextrous
- Shevonne
Left but very ambidextrous ... play tennis right handed (though I also hand a good left hand forehand). My writing style is also like a right hander though so never have trouble with smudging pens. Both my parents are right handed though. 2 out of 3 of my kids are right handed .. 3rd too young to tell yet but I'm hoping she's a lefty :D
- Penny
I once saw a person sign her check upside down in perfect beautiful handwriting. It was amazing. I am right handed, but I can write with both. I can even write backwards in both print and cursive. Writing is a habit thing, so you can teach yourself to do either if you practice.
- Trish Haley
Is there a word for the opposite of ambidextrous - where you are clumsy with both hands? I am thinking I might be that.
- Seth Gottlieb
I'm right-handed but left-footed. Is that odd? (i.e. When I used to practice tae kwon do my left leg was more flexible and I kicked better with it)
- Glenn Batuyong
"Surprisingly, one of the biggest questions about the spread of the AIDS virus, HIV, is whether more or less promiscuity can combat the spread of disease. Slate, Michael Kinsley's Microsoft-backed e-zine, recently ran an article by Steven Landsburg, an economist at the University of Rochester, that offered the beguiling possibility that more sex could actually slow HIV. The results were based on the work of Michael Kremer, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who used differential equations to model the epidemic. The article focused on a hypothetical heterosexual world in which all the men but only a few of the women were promiscuous. In this situation, the promiscuous women quickly caught the virus and became a sort of viral clearinghouse, spreading HIV to every man with whom they had contact. The men, in turn, brought it home to their wives. If the number of promiscuous women increased, the Landsburg-Kremer model posited, each man would be less likely to find an infected woman in h"
- iMorpheus
from Bookmarklet
"My fourth day in prison was the first day that I was allowed in general population and while in the recreation yard I was approached by a prisoner named Marcus who calmly informed me that as a new prisoner I had been purchased by him for three packs of Winston cigarettes and 8 ounces of Pruno (prison wine). Marcus elaborated further that I could expect to be anally raped by him on a daily basis and that I had pretty eyes. Needless to say, I was deeply shocked that my life had sunk to this level. Although I've never been homophobic I was discovering that I was very rape phobic and dismayed by my overall personal street value of roughly $15. I returned to my cell and sat very quietly, searching myself for answers on how I could improve my life and distance myself from harmful outside influences. At that point, in what I consider to be a miraculous moment, my cell mate Jim Norton informed me that he knew about the Marcus situation and that he had something that could solve my problems. He handed me a copy o"
- iMorpheus
from Bookmarklet
British MP Andy Burnham plans to work with Obama administration to establish international rules for websites | Technology | News.com.au - http://www.news.com.au/technol...
""If you look back at the people who created the internet they talked very deliberately about creating a space that governments couldn't reach," Burnham told The Daily Telegraph. "I think we are having to revisit that stuff seriously now.""
- iMorpheus
from Bookmarklet
"On the 1st of January, 1998, Bjarne Stroustrup gave an interview to the IEEE's Computer magazine. Naturally, the editors thought he would be giving a retrospective view of seven years of object-oriented design, using the language he created. By the end of the interview, the interviewer got more than he had bargained for and, subsequently, the editor decided to suppress its contents, 'for the good of the industry' but, as with many of these things, there was a leak. Here is a complete transcript of what was was said, unedited, and unrehearsed, so it isn't as neat as planned interviews. You will find it interesting..."
- iMorpheus
from Bookmarklet
"You can search through more than 1000 WWW pages around the world with updated music charts! Just enter name of artist and/or title to find out where it is charted."
- iMorpheus
from Bookmarklet
"Marry Him by Lori Gottlieb , urges me to ignore the advice I’ve gotten from mom, grandma and come to think of it, every female friend I have with more life experience than I do and go ahead and get hitched to that guy I only feel so-so about. Why? because, silly children, didn’t you know that once you hit your 30s your marriageability goes down? And you don’t want to hit your mid-30s or God forbid your 40s childless and without a ring on your finger, now do you? Because every woman who’s not married by 30 wants to be and feels deeply insecure about it, and if you don’t you’re just lying or fooling yourself."
- iMorpheus
from Bookmarklet
"What do we want, a society without rich people or a society without poor people? To me the answer is clear. What we want is a society without poor people or, like my Argentinean friend Maximiliano Fernandez says, what a country has to aspire to is to have the “richest poor” people in the world. Why? Because if the poor people of, let’s say, Switzerland are the richest in the world –which they may very well be– then the rest of the Swiss will be even better off and all is well. And Switzerland is a good example because it has the richest poor people in the world, but it also has some of the richest people in the world. The same goes for Sweden, another country where the poor live well, but where there are also people, like the founder of IKEA, with huge fortunes almost unrivaled in the world."
- iMorpheus
from Bookmarklet
"In Europe going bankrupt is the same as firing all the employees and you as the founder, PERSONALLY owe the money that has to be paid to the employees for letting them go even if the business has done nothing wrong. I know, it sounds crazy, but this is the case. So Spain for example, had a construction boom for the last 5 years that ended in a bust, and now entrepreneurs are having to close down businesses. But when they do they have to sell their home or do whatever to pay the severance pay of the employees. Because in this case not only the employees can sue you (through the Seguridad Social) and force you to sell your home, car, and deprive your own family of whatever they need but if you don’t have money to pay now they can hunt you down for the rest of your life. You never recover, you can never declare bankruptcy. You can never start anew. If you start a new business and begin to do well, whatever you make then goes to pay for your past losses in your past business. Spanish law ties your future e"
- iMorpheus
from Bookmarklet
"All men have secrets and here is mine so let it be known we have been through hell and high tide I can surely rely on you and yet you start to recoil heavy words are so lightly thrown but I'd still leap in front of a flying bullet for you"
- iMorpheus
from Bookmarklet
"The F-5A and F-5B Freedom Fighter and F-5E and F-5F Tiger II are part of a family of widely used light supersonic fighter aircraft, designed and built by Northrop in the United States, beginning in 1960s. Hundreds remain in service in air forces around the world in the early 21st Century, and the type has also been the basis for a number of other aircraft. The F-5 started life as a privately-funded light fighter program by Northrop in the 1950s. The first generation F-5A Freedom Fighter entered.."
- iMorpheus
from Bookmarklet
Honda on Friday announced its shock withdrawal from Formula One over the global financial crisis, ending an involvement which began in the 1960s and raising fresh fears over the sport's future. Honda Motor president Takeo Fukui made the announcement at an emotional press conference, apologising to fans, staff, drivers and F1 authorities.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
from Bookmarklet
Honda has been in F1 only sporadically having some great success and dismal failures. The latest BAR venture could only be counted in the latter category. The withdrawal based on economic grounds is a face saving measure I think.
- Brian Sullivan
Barrichello -- retirement would be my guess. That was the speculation even before this announcement. Button I doubt will find a ride either.
- Brian Sullivan
This may not be good for F1, but F1 is in a death spiral I think. It costs too much, and they've abondoned their North American audience. I hope the manufacturers start their own series and bring it back down to earth.
- Kenton
This saddens me. I am a Honda fan, an F1 fan, and an open-wheel racing fan generally. :(
- Steve Lowe
"BrickArms Zombie Defense Pack Defend your minfigs against the zombie hordes! Includes the BrickArms Combat Shotgun Prototype and a glow-in-the-dark zombie head!"
- iMorpheus
from Bookmarklet
"According to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, these are the Top 25 most-performed “Holiday” songs for the first five years of the 21st Century:"
- iMorpheus
from Bookmarklet
Awesome Video, Joi!!! Love the shots of you burning the leaves, hanging out in your backyard, and the persimmon at the end is gorgeous. Oh, and the momiji is beautiful too. :-) Great video. So what did you end up using for your workflow?
- David Sifry