Any clues who wrote it? Do you still have the chain e-mail? My older computer died, and all my old e-mails are on a DVD backup. Too lazy to restore them... - Mitchell Tsai
Hutch: Wish I were in shape. Sigh... Started running again & I can only do a few miles. Once upon a time marathons were ok. Time to work up to road race. There was a 75-yr-old guy (now probably 85) who was always faster than me. My goal was to get faster times than him. Also met a guy 100+ who was gunning for the "oldest guy to run a marathon" record. Unfortunately, there was a guy 5 years older who was still running...waiting for that guy to die... :-) - Mitchell Tsai
Mitch, next time, how about strategically placing a stick on his path. - Anna Haro
To be 100 y.o. and able to run a marathon. Damn that's tough. - Hutch Carpenter
My grandmother turned 102 this year. Uncle is 80s and still walks 5 miles around a lake every morning. - Mitchell Tsai
@HC--Ditto. And this is what inspires me to really be healthy and active. I am 29 and for the first time ever, I am realizing my body has a mind of its own--damn it! But seriously, I would love to be like those older runners, beating people much younger than I, like Mitchell. j/k Mitch ;) - Anna Haro
In 1992-95, there was a 65-yr-old lady who was like "smoked lightning". Her running times were also better than my fastest-ever times (even my age 18-25 times...) I've been out of running for 10 years, but I'm willing to bet people now are in even-better shape. It's a weird dichotomy. As a population, we're now super-obese (~25-35%) but we also have more super-fit. Maybe like with FriendFeed, the information-junkies can learn even faster...while "joe shmoe" thinks there are 48 states in the US. - Mitchell Tsai
When I was 17 and ran four marathons, best time was 3:14, I ran with a 50-year-old woman who ran 100-milers and regularly kicked my ass. - Robert Scoble
At UCLA in the gymnastics "open gym", I was telling someone the story of how "48% of Americans don't know that England is an island"...and one of my friends said "I think I should take a geography class". I was looking for the nearest hole to crawl into.... :-( The average person (not the IQ 120 UCLA type) is ...very... uninformed & FriendFeed would be totally overwhelming (unlike how it delights the information junkie addicted to reading and learning)... - Mitchell Tsai
Robert. Cool time! As a former 115 lb high school geek, I was only able to eeek out a 3:54 in the 1994 Los Angeles Marathon. My one & only time running more than 21 miles. There was a super-fat lady who I just passed a mile before the finish line. Embarassing. I could barely run 400m in 60 sec. Best event would have been 800m 2:24 (like a slow female college Div 2 runner). 100m at 14 sec. An Asian with no sprint speed. - Mitchell Tsai
Your work is amazing! My favorite is the flower! - Daynah
Daynah: Wish I could take credit, but these are pictures from other people. My work is all on Google Picasa (or my website). - Mitchell Tsai
This very modern and very Public Relations combination of a traditional "feast" with the rather aggressive "explode" leaves room for a lot of misinterpretations. - doubleaf
Arrington's activity the past few days here, and pointing to Friendfeed in that piece are long overdue ... and welcome. No doubt TechCrunch now pointing to FF will increase the diversity of the audience, and increase the dialog. As for voicemail, there are still a few of us that like to escape the electronic world every so often. When I get back, it's in my e-mail - Charlie Anzman
I agree! In 10-15 years, VM will die. The boomers will take VM with them... - Shawn Smith
I've always hated voicemail. Never been great at checking it. - Jeff Quinton
Good riddance. The only thing I have ever disliked more than the phone is voicemail. I never used it. - Tom Harrison
Voicemail works great on the iPhone, and it's a good way to deal with building contractors. No hate here, but then I don't have to deal with it in a corporate environment. - Chris White
Like your edit Bwana - Bay area, NYC, and Seattle are living in a 'future' state :) - Charlie Anzman
So voicemail is dead, email is dead, snail mail is dead... what does that leave? Twitter? Oh yeah, dead. Facebook? dead. Let's just declare everything we don't like to use as dead. - Bwana McCall
Absolutely. I want to change my vm message to a slow-mo voice that says "Email" - tsudohnimh
My VM Message used to say, "Do NOT leave me a VM. I don't check it. If you have no other way to contact me, I probably don't want to talk to you" - Rahsheen Porter
Bwana, basically seems like the whole internet is dead - Outsanity
seems people make these kinds of grandiose claims for attention more than anything else. if one out of fifty silly predictions is correct by nothing other than coincidence that person will then be labeled a genius. - Cee Bee
so is twitter. Can we please move on now? - keif via twhirl
This will be a photograph in the top 10 of many future lists. - Andrew Baron
Explanation: "In January 2007, people from Perth, Australia gathered on a local beach to watch a sky light up with delights near and far. Nearby, fireworks exploded as part of Australia Day celebrations. On the far right, lightning from a thunderstorm flashed in the distance. Near the image center, though, seen through clouds, was the most unusual sight of all: Comet McNaught. The photogenic comet was so bright that it even remained visible though the din of Earthly flashes. Comet McNaught has now returned to the outer Solar System and is now only visible with a large telescope. The above image is actually a three photograph panorama digitally processed to reduce red reflections from the exploding firework." - Andrew Baron
Wow, 153 people 'liked this" so far and almost 30 comments. - Andrew Baron
Absolutely incredible shot! Then again some of the best shots on the web come from NASA, National Geographic, Discovery and, of course, Hawk :) - Charlie Anzman
Not to be too cynical but that shot seems to good to be true -- I wonder if there is more processing going on than the text seems to admit. - Brian Sullivan
I'm going to side with Brian here. What is right: Comet McNaught was that bright in WA (I use to live there), but I checked my attempted pics, they predate this by over a week. I'm sure the comet was only that bright for less than a week. Second, the main Australia Day fireworks occur in Perth City...which isn't near a beach . Maybe it's Leighton Beach with Fremantle to the left...but it doesn't seem right. I did check the weather records though, there was a storm that night, and it's in the right direction - Duncan Riley
I do hope it is real though...and I forgot how wonderful the environment there is - Duncan Riley
Duncan, last year both Fremantle and I believe Hillarys held their own fireworks for Australia Day. I myself was trying to guess the location this morning. Being a regular on Leighton beach though it doesn't look familiar so I was thinking it may have been taken to the north of Hillarys. It also made me very nostalgic for Perth :) - Penny
oddly, I've never been a big Delicious user until I started using FF, so now I use it as a way to share things I find. It has undoubtedly though been damaged by Yahoo, where it has stagnated as others have innovated. The bigger question though: will Flickr share the same fate? - Duncan Riley
without question, never had a chance even if FriendFeed never was - Lou Paglia
They aren't the same thing and don't serve the same purpose IMHO. I love the two. - directeur via NoiseRiver
friendfeed is for explicit sharing, delicious is for myself, others can lookup if they are interested - Murali
seems like ff adds strong motivation to take action in services where you would not have in the past.. in order to bring the content back here. like every button in other social sites is now a ff share button - Travis Parsons
Murali - I agree, that's how I use ff and del.icio.us. I wonder if that's how most others do too...? - Sonciary Honnoll
Delicious is much more about explicit action. Take for instance their resistance to auto suggesting tags in the beginning. Where FriendFeed is more about capturing the actions you take about the web and consolidating them without any extra ongoing effort on the part of the user. - Caleb Elston
the "social" aspect of delicious is greatly enhanced through the use of friendfeed (or in my case in addition to another site like diggo as well). as is, delicious has a big barrier in trying to make those "connections" between users personal in any way. - Cee Bee
@Travis: That's a good point. I've found myself trying to keep a balance of services, so I use more than I usually would. And the good thing is that everything you do on those services comes back to FF - you share wherever you are. - Cyvros/fyc
Off topic, but picking up from Duncan Riley's comment re Flickr. Just in case Flickr dies a slow death, are there any real alternatives to it? - Paul Rees
friendfeed is very different from del.icio.us, here there are no tags and even if it did I would compare it to stumbleupon. Yet I don't use SU for bookmarking but rather for sharing so they're not in the same league - Dobromir Hadzhiev
It was my first flash flood. The lines for the exhibits were 1-3 hrs long for the popular ones (and it was 100-110 deg). A few of us were sitting outside at a circular restaurant table under a big umbrella to shield us from the sun. When the pouring rain started, we decided not to go inside. Then we started standing on our chairs, and when the water started overwhelming the chairs and we were thinking of climbing on the table, we were like "oh sh--!" - Mitchell Tsai
When the sun came out, the water drained into the ground with giant funnels (like the kind you seem in your bathtub) about 1-2 feet around. Best of all, the lines to the popular exhibits became very short. - Mitchell Tsai
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