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Dinner.
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7 поверхностей Римана, Melissa, Mr Saturday Morning NFG and 49 other people liked this
a thing of beauty is a joy forever
- Jim Hearts FF
Thanks, Derrick. Now I'm wanting a steak.
- ha3rvey, not a sweetheart
salivary glands...geysering...must seek help!
- Joe Silence is not dead
Please Brightkite your location post-haste!
- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
I've only recently found myself as a steak fan, but I've conjured up a pretty good rub, and I think I have a pretty good cooking technique. It's too big though, oh my stars, I ate just under half of it.
- Derrick
Sweet-potato fries?!
- JA Castillo
You are making me regret ever giving up red meat.
- April Russo (app103)
Sweet. Potato. Fries. *dies*
- Derrick
and to think that up until 15 seconds ago i was full. /droolz
- Carlos Ayala
Dude, what's in your rub? I have one I use for short ribs and the like, but I'm not sure how it would work for steaks.
- ha3rvey, not a sweetheart
I'm starting a new diet next week, so I decided to go out on a high note. Tomorrow night is my last bit of drinking for a while.
- Derrick
Dude, what's in your rub? LOL
- LogEx
Chili powder, granulated garlic, brown sugar, kosher salt, little dried thyme and oregano, black pepper, cayenne, and onion powder. I put it on just before lunch time, let it sit, and let the steak come up to temperature just before putting in the cast iron, which had been in a 450 degree oven for twenty minutes.
- Derrick
In a wonderful turn of events, D, you'll get to have steak on Instinct as well.
- Jason Toney
That's a lot like the one I use. I have a couple ribeyes in the freezer right now, in fact.
- ha3rvey, not a sweetheart
I want some please!!!
- YoYo_P
Whuuuut, JT? I have to admit I bought these for a photo shoot that never came to fruition. The indulgent side of me loves the ribeyes, but the more practical likes the skirt steak. Good to know, JT. Just gotta load up on the veggies, right?
- Derrick
yeah, 6 oz steak portion (and lean) plus some veggies and you're all set.
- Jason Toney
@Derrick - now I know you are family...sweet potato fries are loved here too!
- JA Castillo
Well, damn, JT, that's kinda what I ate tonight. JA, I need to learn how to make mine from scratch; these were frozen via Trader Joe's.
- Derrick
The wife cuts hers, places them on a cookie sheet and adds a dash of olive oil atop and then drops them in the oven. Season w/ salt thereafter. It's a bit different and if you are not on top of things, you can burn them, but it beats frying them up! :)
- JA Castillo
I think Cook's Illustrated had a recipe for oven sweet potato fries earlier this year. I'll see if I can find it.
- ha3rvey, not a sweetheart
Damn that looks good. Not to mention a very tasty looking skillet.
- Mark Krynsky
Real food for real people.
- sean808080
tat is so yummy~~~~~
- natalie
Wow, I just realized neither of my kids have ever had a pork chop before!
- Adrian
omnomnom
- ProsePetals (aka Denise)
i could go for some of this. probably not til october or something though
- Cee Bee
that looks so good!
- Anna Lynn M.
Looks Good, but after having a tooth pulled it would be hard to eat......... LOL....
- SCS Watching the Sun
nice~~~
- natalie
“Myspace Profile Pic Meme”
Xitong Liu, Iván Abrego, Beau Liening and 19 other people liked this
Evil and bitchlips to keep em away. That said...I..err..never had a myspace
- Mo Kargas
I never had myspace either, and I never would have guessed you were a Muslim women
- sofarsoShawn
You don't scare me Mo :P
- Penny
Oooolld shots :/
- Mo Kargas
Found one! You're kinda hawt.
- Mellissa Claus
Keep searching ;)
- Mo Kargas
Nice evil facemask on the right...
- Tim Moon
Chrome OS will help kill Silverlight and other non-open tech, preventing msft and others from recapturing the web. (though I expect that it will support Flash by necessity)
ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,, Charles Frith, Vladimir Yashnikov and 149 other people liked this
Good point.
- Robert Scoble
I hope it doesn't. After all we need good media delivery platforms.
- Swaroop
Including GNASH - the open source alternative - would solve that problem
- Bogdan Costea
yeah, nobody really needs flash. kill it.
- Zio Bonino
Chrome OS might be a compelling case for SVG/<canvas> + <audio> tag replacements for flash. Dunno what SVG's perf is like on WebKit tho.
- Matt Mastracci
Microsoft will port it. It's all about codecs & DRM. Ogg Theora isn't all that great.
- Rodfather
Is that Steve Jobs disguised as Zio ?
- Swaroop
@Swaroop Yes, we do. Like HTML5.
- Benjamin Dobson
@Swaroop eh eh, I've got flash disabled on all my systems :)
- Zio Bonino
@Benjamin I'd prefer HTML web apps over native apps anyday. But it'll take time for it to mature
- Swaroop
Rodfather, I don't think that will be an option for msft :). If Chrome is built the way I would do it, there is no installation per-se -- everything runs in the browser and the config in stored in the cloud (and cached locally). The computer is a pure appliance.
- Paul Buchheit
@Zio You're the real Steve Jobs
- Swaroop
Microsoft moves much too slow to force new standards these days.
- Louis Gray
@Louis: IE8 flunking ACID test :)
- Swaroop
What about more standard codecs like h.264? That isn't open and is in hardware already.
- Rodfather
h.264 is established and must be in there, but it's not a platform like Silverlight is.
- Paul Buchheit
I know some of the guys behind silverlight. It is some great technology. Too bad it's from Microsoft and is closed.
- Joe Beda ()
from iPhone
A world with no Flash and Silverlight. I can't wait.
- Paul Grav
Yeah, it's too bad they didn't open-source it. This stuff with Mono is silly -- if you want to make a real standard you need to make the real implementation be open.
- Paul Buchheit
MS are about 10 years too late with Silverlight. And they'll most likely be dragged kicking and screaming into supporting HTML5.
- Paul Grav
Zio sez (hopefully humorously): "yeah, nobody really needs flash. kill it" -- have you ever watched a single YouTube video in your life? Like seventeen gazillion other people across the wired world. yeah, you're right, nobody needs Flash. ha!
- .LAG liked that
Remember Dave Clark in 1992, "We reject kings, presidents and voting. We believe in rough consensus and running code."
- Guy Vander Heyden
.LAG: most YouTube videos are playable without Flash now. My iPhone plays most of them and it doesn't have Flash. Certainly by the time the Google OS came out YouTube would be converted completely to non-Flash capability.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: The youtube flash application helps read the flv files on Youtube's servers and provides a UI (decoder too).
- Swaroop
Even Google admits they're not sure I'd bit for bit html5 video is less bandwitj consuming than flash. And flash isn't just media delivery, also interesting games and apps like tonepad, splicemusic.com's online sequencer, etc (I'm musically inclined, so most of my examples will be along that line) and please don't suggest we redo it all in java
- Ed F
from Nambu
Does this mean the next Silverlight release is codename Seppuku?
- Jay Cuthrell
Maybe we'll see commercials encoded in movies if everything is open.
- Rodfather
Flash is too established to kill off right now, so I'd be surprised if Chrome didn't include flash support. It will take many years to get rid of that thing. First they need to fix the standard browser to not be so broken (lack of video, multi-file upload, etc), then they need everyone to switch to the new html5 solutions.
- Paul Buchheit
Scoble ...that may be true, and YouTube plays on my Pre without Flash (yet)...but that doesn't mean that "nobody needs Flash." really? what would replace it?
- .LAG liked that
So Google's NaCl http://code.google.com/p... (now integrated within Chrome/Chromium) was just a temporary workaround, right?
- Jérôme Flipo
Use HTML 5 instead!
- Minh Bui
Is it just me or does Native Client (NaCl) remind you of the Microsoft Active X approach?
- Daniel Chow
But who prevents Google from taking over the net?
- Andreas
youtube videos play on iPhone/iPod Touch as they are higher res mp4 files NOT flv files. It was a big deal when Steve negotiated that deal with youtube.
- vijay
You have Moonlight to run Silverlight applications in Linux. Not perfect, but then an application made on Silverlight is "not perfect" by definition
- Marcos Marado
The point here is that Google has no motivation to include Silverlight on these machines, and installing software likely won't be an option (it's a web appliance), so it will be absent from a lot of netbooks, just as it is absent from iPhones. That cuts into market share, which is a bad thing for a platform that is trying to compete with more universal tech like Flash and HTML....
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- Paul Buchheit
@DanielChow: NaCl has very little overlap with ActiveX, apart from running native code. It runs in a provably safe way, and explicitly does *not* allow it to access arbitrary host APIs. But it can be quite useful when you need to run code that would be too slow in Javascript (even on v8): e.g., heavy encryption/decryption, possibly codecs, definitely game physics, and so forth.
- Joel Webber
There is a time and a place for Flash and Silverlight so I hope it will run it. There are simply some things you can do which aren't possible, or practical in html/css/javascript.
- Steve Temple
Paul: why wouldn't Chrome OS come with Moonlight? And if not, why wouldn't you be able to just install it? And third, why the hell would people want Moonlight for? I never installed it and not even once felt the need to!
- Marcos Marado
from fftogo
because of moonlight http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlig... the potential userbase of silverlight is greatly improved, agree that projects which don't consider compatibility are limiting their potential
- Mike Chelen
@mindboosternoori Ryanair site uses silverlight: http://www.ryanair.com/site... that's the only website I know that uses it - for this you would need moonlight :)
- Ihar Mahaniok
Flash is needed for the google os to be useful in education. Many education based websites are flash based.
- Willowdale
@Paul "Google is probably paying OEMs to ship with this OS, so instead of paying $x/machine to include windows XP, they will get paid $y/machine to include Chrome." - paying present tense, already? Isn't it enough for OEMs not to have to pay hefty licenses to Redmond, etc., while being able to ship with a free, stable OS+browser combo; they need to be paid to do that as well?
- ianf ⌘
I sure hope so. I think the wide array of JavaScript libraries have been killing Flash for years. Silverlight was never really a player. The only think keeping Flash afloat is video
- Scott Radcliff
I don't know what's under the hood of Silverlight (nobody knows), but Flash is basically a sprite engine controlled by Actionscript, which is basically an adapted version of Javascript anyway. It's nicely packaged though, and has an army of developers, so it won't go away that easily, at least not until there are Flash-to-Canvas/ HTML5 porting tools/ translators and the like.
- ianf ⌘
to follow that logic...photoshop is needed as well
- Chris Hofmann
somebody call me when http://playboyarchive.com is working in Chrome OS (it's currently implemented in Silverlight)
- Karim
If it gains any traction at all, MS will just make Silverlight version that will run on Google OS. Sure google could block it, but they haven't done so with the Chrome browser.
- Jeff Weber
Interesting. I doubt the Google OS will get that big anytime soon though.
- Scott Radcliff
from email
Silverlight doesn't have a chance now...I wonder what would Adobe Air do.
- Saad Kamal
not really, if google want to be open then they will need a plugin architecture for it and then MS could just port for it. I really don't see this troubling mainstream users any time soon.
- Darren Stuart
Though I agree with the view that MS monopoly may erode as alternative devices get adoption over PC/Notebook, and these devices will mostly run on open source OS, but it may take years to create a significant change in every day usage of normal users. In the end, OS choice is mostly done by manufacturers, and they would be happy to get paid by open source vendors for putting their OS on...
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- Kaan Bingol
People want media. Hulu, Netflix, Kindle, iTunes, etc. They need to address that or they are DOA.
- Hayes Haugen
Hayes, what makes you think it will lack media support?
- Paul Buchheit
I don't think it will lack licensed media support but what deals they are able to make will be crucial.
- Hayes Haugen
Hayes, i thought you were going to say that Netflix was using Silverlight. ;-)
- Karim
Yes, they are, what is their deal with MSFT? Can they do non Silverlight distribution?
- Hayes Haugen
i believe the Netflix non-Silverlight distribution is a format called "DVD" that works over the "Snail Mail" protocol. ;-) but clearly if Google is paying OEMs to install Chrome OS, they can pay Netflix to go back to Flash which Chrome OS will probably support "by necessity" ;-)
- Karim
How can Google make money from Chrome OS? Or does it want to make money from it except through advertisement? I still can not imagine that all software and service are free and sponsored by advertisements.
- Derek Wei
All Chrome OS questions are answered by today's Fake Steve Jobs ;)
- Hayes Haugen
Is there a need to make money? If more and more people eschew desktop offline applications in favor of online web based apps, it means more pageviews, more eyeballs, more advertising inventory, plus has the side effect of undermining a big competitor's cash cow.
- Ray Cromwell
That's the key, Google wants everything online. They figure the more people online, the stronger they become, and the more money they make. At least that what was said at the Chrome launch.
- Scott Radcliff
from email
I'm amused that the "backwards compatibility" argument against alternative operating systems has slowly turned into "does it support flash", and when you unpack that it really means "does it play YouTube". I suspect Google will make sure ChromeOS cna play YouTube and they don't need Flash to make sure of it.
- Nick Lothian
Is it possible that Microsoft will write Office for the Web using Volta instead of Silverlight? Could be a showcase announcement for their attack on GWT
- Ray Cromwell
I think Microsoft is going to focus less on the front-end of the web and more on the back-end, middle tier and database sides. Azure is a big deal that consumers aren't talking about because it's not flashy but will be pretty important to developers (and especially enterprise-level applications) when it's finally ready because everything becomes an interface to the cloud. Microsoft is...
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- Lindsay
Azure looks really cool. Hint: so did Blackbird.
- Michael R. Bernstein
lol blackbird (scary redmond flashback) - a good example of azure platform utilization can be seen via jon udell's elmcity project - http://blog.jonudell.net/elmcity...
- mike "glemak" dunn
Nosense, I want silverlight, flash, html and any other technology in my desktop & mobile phone. Silverlight? yes, there you can develop under Python, Ruby et al, instead of the outdated javascript.
- Sebastian Wain
It looks like with Native Client, you should be able to write your Chrome OS app in any language you feel like. So far, they have some examples in C/C++, but one of the things they ported is a Lua interpreter. If Adobe isn't going to invest heavily in fixing the show-stopping bugs on non-Windows versions of Flash, it's inevitably going to die, and there's really nothing either Google or Apple can do even if they wanted to support Flash better.
- Victor Ganata
...ActionScript3 is ECMASCript-compliant. I know nothing about standards bodies, and shii like that, but what if Adobe dropped ActionScript and said, "You can now use pure Javascript to build Flash applications..." It wouldn't be a big leap. I'm pretty sure that would shut-up all the Flash haters. And to the folks who say Flash is hanging around just because of video...well, video is...
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- .LAG liked that
Actionscript is just the glue for the more advanced what-iffy graphic functionality of Flash. They can not drop it for Javascript, because it contains additional graphic primitives that JS lacks. But it's not the JS-or-Actionscript that makes it a target for hate, it's other things. Nobody denies that it's pretty capable, but it is also badly written, eats up memory like no other, makes...
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- ianf ⌘
I like this post!
- Mohammad Abdurraafay
from iPhone
I honestly don't know how necessary Flash is. Apple seems to be doing fine without supporting it. But certainly Gnash and Swfdec should be implementable on Chrome OS. The fact is that without Adobe's full support on a given platform, Flash apps will always be second class citizens on alternate platforms, and so far, there's no indication that Adobe is interested in fully supporting any platform other than Windows.
- Victor Ganata
ianf ...you bring up great points about Flash's detriments, as does Victor, but until there's a better way to bring video to the Web, I can't see it disappearing. Adobe seems to keep improving the Flash VM, hopefully they'll address those CPU-hogging issues and make a more efficent runtime. Yeah, I hate hearing the fans kick-in when visiting a Flash-heavy site too. <sigh>
- .LAG liked that
alternative to flash video such as ... html5 :) (requires ff3.5) http://www.dailymotion.com/openvid...
- Mike Chelen
from IM
Ed, only??? thats one of the main reasons cited for the continued requirement of flash on popular sites like youtube
- Mike Chelen
Ed, those other uses can be accomplished through pure Javascript, video was the last remaining stumbling block
- Mike Chelen
Still waiting on non-Flash recreations of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch... or this: http://www.youtube.com/watch... Well aware of how someone mentioned higher up how you can combine javascript and svg to get nifty flash-like effects. I want apps like that though ^ Only real alternatives I've seen are Java-based ones, and those runs even slower than Flash.
- Ed F
Pardon me, but the OP is a ridiculous conclusion. For that to be the case, Chrome OS would have to kill Windows, OS X, etc altogether. Paul, I understand your viewpoint as being an ex-Google person, but that's just NOT going to happen. Right now the video specification from HTML5 has been dropped because of an impasse, meaning that we may be transitioning from 1 closed-source boss - Flash - to another - H264. Good luck.
- LANjackal
But why do these type of apps have to be written in Flash at all? You can easily do the same thing in C, C++, ObjC, Python, Ruby, etc., with the Native Client API that they're building for Chrome. http://code.google.com/p...
- Victor Ganata
I'm just saying, it's not like Flash is the end-all/be-all. As Apple well demonstrates, some people can live quite well without it.
- Victor Ganata
Victor ...i think the answer to the 'why do these have to be written in Flash at all' question is because Flash is installed on such a significant portion of Web browsers. But I recall that Adobe Flex had a competitor, Laszlo/OpenLaszlo, which compiled apps to SWF or to Javascript. Who's to say that Adobe doesn't have the same capability of making SWF apps into JS ones? On one hand, it...
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- .LAG liked that
Ed, such apps are possible with Javascript and HTML5 multimedia features, the question will be how difficult developers find it, and whether the performance is fast enough
- Mike Chelen
LANjackal, there is a question of degree in that Flash + H264 uses proprietary software and codec, while HTML5 + H264 requires only the codec. while OGV is no longer part of the spec, it can certainly still be used to have completely open video formats, and recent comparisons have shown it performs well http://people.xiph.org/~maikme...
- Mike Chelen
Silverlight's 3 is looking pretty impressive today but tend to agree
- Charlie Anzman
What everybody seems to be missing about Flash is that it works because there is one implementation which is mostly backwards-compatible and the same across platforms. It beat Java because, among other reasons, Java just didn't work the same across JVMs and platforms. The problem with HTML5 is that it will have a different implementation for every browser, and that means your app/game...
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- Gabe
Paul, don't you prefer brutal competition SL vs. Flash vs. standards bring to the table by definition? Or are you more into http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - 2020 Google Union - type of ideology?
- Kari Honkanen
Kari, I don't understand your question. Competition is good, but with open-source we get that -- no need for flash or SL.
- Paul Buchheit
Paul, no, we don't get the same level of competition with open-source only. As long as there's an opportunity for big gains (like in this case to bridge the gap before html 5 era...to satisfy demand), there will be innovations driven by that. I believe we all benefit from a free market economy that includes commercial, closed source, innovations. I am more scared of the possible future...
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- Kari Honkanen
I wouldn't worry too much amount multimedia. By exposing WebGL, (and hopefully OpenCL), you can offload a lot of compute intensive stuff onto the GPU via GPGPU techniques, and NativeClient is there to take up the rest of the slack, but the for the vast majority of iPhone-like games, I'm willing to bet V8 Javascript on a modern processor is more than enough. That leaves licensing issues...
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- Ray Cromwell
Paul, so are you saying that Google will block both Flash and Silverlight from ChromeOS? That's a new take on 'open.'
- Cliff Gerrish
MSFT next smart move: get Chrome OS (it's BSD licensed), inject IE9 and Silverlight into it and go benchmark against Chrome :)
- Claudio Cicali ♋
MSFT sucks Claudio :)
- Orlando Pozo
Something feels contradictory about a system touted to 'kill' competitors being 'open'. Sounds almost predatory to me.
- Karoli
I'm not opposed to non-open software, but for OS, browser, etc I prefer that it be open. Cliff, Google isn't going to "block" anything, but they can certainly choose what to include, and my guess is that they won't include SL. As Claudio points out, MSFT can make their own version of ChromeOS that includes SL, which is why open source software is nice (it can't be crippled too much or else someone will fork it).
- Paul Buchheit
I have heard somewhere that Fash uses it's own port where Silverlight works over the HTTP port. That's why Netflix works so well. To that, Flash costs more on a sever side because providers can charge more for that port traffic. Could it come down to who is cheaper? (I am fully prepared to be wrong).
- Johnny Worthington
Johnny, they both use HTTP -- there's no difference there.
- Paul Buchheit
Is Chrome OS BSD-licensed? I thought it was using a Linux kernel.
- Victor Ganata
@Paul - well, Flash can do P2P stuff over non-HTTP posts, but that is very new (Flash 10 I think). The cost isn't affected anyway.
- Nick Lothian
My understanding is that netbooks would have to be absurdly popular for Chrome OS to make a dent in the popularity of Flash or SL.
- Gabe
it is possible to have smaller groups for open source software, such as google's own gears api http://code.google.com/apis...
- Mike Chelen
How is HTML 5 going to defeat Flash and SL? I haven't used it, but I don't see anything in the spec that looks like it could compare.
- Gabe
@Gabe - what do you think HTML5 is missing? It does video, drawing, local storage, "threading" via WebWorkers. The biggest hole I'm aware of is the lack of access to webcams & microphones. What have I missed?
- Nick Lothian
Nick: When you say HTML 5 has "drawing", are you refering to the Canvas element? I would not consider an immediate-mode procedural raster drawing library to be much of a competitor to retained-mode declarative vector libraries like SVG or Silverlight. Programming with the Canvas tag is sort of the equivalent of programming in assembly language for bitmaps.
- Gabe
@Gabe: I think you've got it upside-down. A Canvas-style API is the fundamental basis on which you can build a retained mode structure like SVG, et al. If a platform includes a retained-mode library as a convenience, so be it. You can build SVG on Canvas, but not the other way around (hacks like IECanvas notwithstanding -- they have horrible performance characteristics and are a nasty abstraction inversion).
- Joel Webber
So, if Moonlight (Mono) runs on linux -- Will google make sure it doesn't work on Chrome OS?
- Cliff Gerrish
Joel: I don't think you said anything contrary to what I said. I just don't understand why any programmer would want to waste time writing an app using a low-level library when I could use a high-level library that implements everything for me.
- Gabe
@Gabe - I agree, and people are implementing those libraries now. See http://raphaeljs.com/ for example. Also, don't underestimate the convenience factor. I don't own any Flash development tools, but my text editor works pretty well for Canvas+JS based stuff.
- Nick Lothian
Nick: Didn't the author of raphael have some massive rant about how bad the Canvas element is? And I don't have any Flash dev tools either, but I use a text editor for most of my Silverlight development. It is incredibly convenient to be able to type something like <DataGrid ItemsSource="{Binding tabledata}"/> into a text editor and not have to create the data grid myself.
- Gabe
Why is Flash a "necessity" for an OS? I enjoy what flash can do, but it is like putting pimped out leather Oldsmobile seats in a Ferrari. It would definitely be nice, but certainly not a necessity.
- Dan Douglass
Early post goof up. To your original point, I agree. I like how Google is approaching the internet space with web apps that can be run with out a bloated browser.
- Dan Douglass
Dan Douglass: Flash is necessary because so many web sites rely on it. How many people would want to get a netbook that couldn't play FaceBook games or watch YouTube videos? Of course Google is in the unique position of being able to make YouTube work on ChromeOS without Flash, but they probably can't do anything about Hulu, Vimeo, or any of the other video sites out there that require Flash.
- Gabe
Anyone else think Joy is Spam?
- Chris Myles
already reported it yesterday :)
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
from IM
Google fails for not having a special logo pic today to celebrate the Interwebz 40th anniversary.
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Our Sailing Trip- The Stats: 5.5 years, 32,800+ Miles, 24 Countries, 160 Nights at Sea - S/V Billabong Blog (or our interactive lifestream map http://ff.im/4Nbtx) BlurbBits - http://svbillabong.blogspot.com/
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BTW we usually only travel at 5 knots (5.8 mph) .. so that is over 5500 hours at Sea. Our longest non-stop leg was 24 DAYS. (non stop = no land, nobody else, nothing ... 24/7).
- Chris Myles
Petr, Thanks for suggestion. I actually use the blogger supplied search because it displays the results with the expanded post text on a new page. The BlurbBits mapping map utility that I wrote searches the post text to build a popup maps of each posts location AND adds it to the "Geo Blogs on this page" map. Try different searches (like Awesome) and the map will change. The new Search...
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- Chris Myles
Sounds like a great adventure!
- Admiral Anika
sure :] ... well have a deep blue calm waters ! :] .. what prompted such a magnificient voyage feat? ..so, now my question - how did you get labels cloud on your blog? ........ and, do you plan to write a book about your travels ? thanks
- Petr Buben
You mean the ones to the right? It's just the basic Blogger label gadget (via Add gadget use layouts).
- Chris Myles
What prompted it? long story: http://svbillabong.blogspot.com/2008.... short story: because we could!! It's the only way to travel the world, visit remote village and go "home" to sleep in our own bed, plus it's reasonably affordable (wind is free). No book is in the works.. but if we did one it would be a photo journal book (http://snaps360.blogspot.com). I just don't think anyone would buy it.
- Chris Myles
Wow, simply wow! I am jealous and happy that you had such an amazing experience. :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Don't miss the interactive lifestream navigation map option.. http://ff.im/4Nbtx (also available under the header of the blog).
- Chris Myles
wow
- mikehedge
"I even remember what it was like before Robert Scoble got here!" - http://louisgray.com/live...
ydfeed, rtshiva, Shea and 100 other people liked this
i do miss festivusfeed. airing of grievances brought about actual FF updates, right?
- MG Siegler
there should be a "love" option for things like this. lol
- shaun mclane
Great example of how the FF culture was a big part of growing a love for the service that will no doubt be eaten by the FB dragon.
- Mark Krynsky
++Mark
- vijay
Awwwww
- Susan Beebe
from iPhone
Will this be the butterfly?
- Jesse Stay
Bump for the good times.
- Mark Krynsky
Jesse roflol!
- Melanie Reed
Jesse wins!
- Micah Wittman
How many users did FF have when FestivusFeed was implemented?
- Cristo
Cristo, not enough. It was in December of 2007. :)
- Louis Gray
Louis, I know. I was using it. But I'm still interested to know what the number was. 5K-10K?
- Cristo
FriendFeed has never released user statistics, to my knowledge.
- Louis Gray
No reason for them not to now though, right? I mean, who cares how many users they had in 12/07 except us?
- Cristo
I forgot about this one, a true classic. I need to have a high-trafficked site just so I can pull out gag logos.
- Vezquex: God of FF
FriendFeed Stats from December 2008
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I can't say this is the first time I've posted these (probably not). But no major surprises. This also debunks Mona's comment previously that I didn't like her enough.
- Louis Gray
I am also glad that those I follow have a much lower percentage of activity coming from Twitter. Diversity FTW. (See Scoble for his example: http://friendfeed.com/e...)
- Louis Gray
Sarah Perez is worthy of your likes.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Sarah gets lots of my likes. But there are a lot of people I like. I wish I could extend this to 25, 50 or 100.
- Louis Gray
Louis - Mona's comment...that's funny LOL!!!
- Susan Beebe
Very honored Louis! Wow.
- Robert Scoble
Almost all of my likes are your posts, LG - how come I'm not on yoru list? BIZARRE. I LOVE YOU LG!
- Mona Nomura
Interesting... Louis and I both share a strong "LIKE" on Robert's content and conversation...neato!
- Susan Beebe
Mona - LOL tooo funny!
- Susan Beebe
Wow - compared to the group of people I'm with, I'm very honored as well!
- Jesse Stay
no one will dethrone me :-)
- Mike Fruchter
Louis Gray doesn't find me interesting! sniff...first Scoble says I have no signal, now this. That's it, I quit the internet.
- Sarah Perez
Any one can game the system. Just go to Mona's feed and 'Like' every post. You aren't fooling anyone, Louis... Oh and Happy Festivus! ;)
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Hi Sarah, you're wrong. And guess what, your picture is going in my very next blog post!
- Louis Gray
Bump for the good times - remember when we had FriendFeed Stats? (Louis is a great database of FF history)
- Jesse Stay
I ranked # 1. Those were the days :)
- Mike Fruchter
I miss "Like" Fruchter. :)
- Louis Gray
I thought it was "Like" Ffruchter - I miss him too :-)
- Jesse Stay
Drunk in burka.
Iván Abrego, Joe, Jason Huebel and 104 other people liked this
Where'd the hijab come from?
- Katy S
Some random Japanese chick who is also at happy hour.
- Derrick
is she drunk too?
- Jim Hearts FF
Japanese hijab? Does not compute.
- Rochelle
Take me now!
- sofarsoShawn
That's so cute it's hilarious/scary/silly/awesome.
- Internet's Tad
Lookin' good!
- veo
Hi sweetcheeks.
- joey
Awww, puddin'.
- Christopher Harley
D - you look content!
- WorldofHiglet
OMG! you are killing me with these! :)
- Anna Lynn M.
ohhh! heee! god, you're cute. :)
- edythe
Margarita's, yay!
- Nicholas Kreidberg
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"
- Internet's Tad
I'm just gonna go ahead and let this be my embarrassing photo meme entry.
- Derrick
why, hello thar
- Mark Davidson
alalalalalala!
- Michael Forian
GET OFF MY LAWN!
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Is soo cute also.
- Brent - Loving Life
Brent, I've been cute since I was six weeks premature. Trust. :)
- Derrick
Cute!!! :D
- BeeLing
still loving this.
- edythe
This is dope..
- Terence
Yellow becomes you.
- Brent - Loving Life
Why won't this picture die?
- Derrick
because you are just so darn cute!
- martha
Cuz it's all kinds of hilarious?
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Damn, I tried to like it again. I'mma download this and put it on my ipod touch as wallpaper. You beat out a basset hound, D.
- B. Hatin
Now there is a compliment - Ya beat out a basset hound
- Brent - Loving Life
*cries*
- Derrick
Just goes to show, you never know what's under some of those burkas.
- Katy S
I nominate this as the cutest picture of a black guy that's been posted to Friend Feed. And seconds?
- Internet's Tad
I dunno...Rah might disagree
- jamar78
Is Rah "cute"? He might prefer handsome. LOL
- Internet's Tad
Bump for good times.
- Mark Krynsky
Mark, you're bumping some great shots! This one always makes me smile.
- Laura Lou Who is tired
I'm crushing on D even more now - I love this pic! That day was so funny with all the drunken tweets and posts!
- WorldofHiglet
Lord have mercy, I don't even remember that day.
- Derrick
Adding to the 1980s photo meme: Here are my 1983 and 1985 contributions. :-)
ffcode, Felicia Yue, rowlikeagirl and 66 other people liked this
Awesome Louis! :)
- Nicholas Kreidberg
H-O-T
- Mona Nomura
Nice bowtie!!! I LOVE bowties.
- Mattie Kenny
Don't make me pull out my 1980s Speedo pics!
- Jesse Stay
Awww... :))
- Anna Haro
Look at that young go-getter!
- Mo Kargas
LOVE.
- Derrick
omg. so cuuuuuute
- Erin @queenofspain
Cute photos. :-)
- Håkan Dahlström
Wife says, "Oh no, not the little nerd photos." Oh yeah, where is her FriendFeed account and photos? Hmmm?
- Louis Gray
haha so confused, half nerd, half cool kid, ya thats louis
- sean percival
اینجا رو =)))
- 1Fathi
Louis: She's got her defense sorted out with no account eh? :D Maybe if you're in for a bit of risk taking.... post hers! :D
- Mo Kargas
Love these. That first one is so fantastic.
- Ayşe E.
Yep, that fist pic is so much WIN. :D
- Anna Haro
OMG that first one is tooooooo cute!
- Adriana
*bump*
- Rodfather
It is definitely you ;)
- Alp
Both great pics
- Mo Kargas
Awesome! The bowtie is perfect!!!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
you look very smart even then
- Thomas Power
One of mine, from '81, I think http://twitpic.com/27xn
- Rob La Gesse
that first pic is absolute 100% undiluted WIN Louis!
- Parth Awasthi
Bump for good times.
- Mark Krynsky
yes a geek
- Thomas Power
Trying to start my first meme: Wearing big headphones meme!
Thomas Power, Louis Gray, Tim Costantino and 50 other people liked this
Optional: what are you listening to? http://www.livephish.com/live-mu...
- Benjamin Golub
Are those Sony MDR-V6es?
- Kevin Fox
Indeed they are Kevin. I think they are 8 years old and still kicking
- Benjamin Golub
I have Sennheiser HD280 Pros, which are pretty gigantor.
- Mick Crawford
Share a photo!
- Benjamin Golub
They look like Sony MDR-7506s too. I have a pair of those, as well as the Senn HD280s, which are definitely much bigger than the Sonys
- G. Sigh
What big ears you have!
- Marci Golub
http://skitch.com/micahwi... (I slipped out of them :)
- Micah Wittman
Aw, I would totally do that! But my big headphones are at work. And I don't have a webcam at work, either. :(
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
(Listening to FFundercarts) - http://friendfeed.com/inkedmn...
- Brett Kelly
Let's see who looks most like the Napster logo.
- Morton Fox
Just posted mine http://friendfeed.com/krynsky...
- Mark Krynsky
Posted: http://ff.im/3Q5lp
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Posted ! http://friendfeed.com/mokarga...
- Mo Kargas
Here's mine: http://friendfeed.com/adrianc...
- Adrian
REMIX or should I say... MEMIX?, plus B side "The Canz - Canz U C Me?"
- Adrian
Totally missed this. Must find pic now.
- Josh Haley
Get on it Haley!
- Mo Kargas
OK, OK... here: http://friendfeed.com/joshhal...
- Josh Haley
ARGH. I miss all the cool memes while I'm sleeping! Now I have two to do when I get home.
- Steven Perez
Not a bad turnout http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Benjamin Golub
Bump for good times.
- Mark Krynsky
They're not big. They are slimline in my book.
- Travis Koger
for Kid Meme - Me at 16
rowlikeagirl, zooz, Darth Farhad Sama and 61 other people liked this
Rockin it old school with my Atari 800 in 1982.
- Mark Krynsky
Awesome!
- Vincent X
HOT
- Mona Nomura
Proof of geekitude. Sweet!
- Josh Haley
That's like from some hacker movie where someone has just broken into Pentagon...
- Jemm
If you look closely in the lower right corner you can see my Hayes 300 Baud Smartmodem.
- Mark Krynsky
Yeah! Neat stuff! Even the kind of light effect comes in so tightly in the pic.
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
looks like you got caught with some dirty ASCII-pictures on your screen
- Pascal
Hehe, Pascal ;)
- Jemm
Dirty ascii pictures....yea...are there any other type?
- Mark Krynsky
WOW. nice.
- Melissa
Atari 800 - I wanted that and never got one.... lucky!
- Susan Beebe
and a close up of his monitor reveals: http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt...
- Pascal
*bump*
- Rodfather
Hey dude!
- Derrick
OMG 800! ULTRA WIN!
- Mo Kargas
HAWT
- Shevonne
you look like the lost Brady Bunch brother.
- edythe
here's the story of a boy named krynsky
- Cee Bee
HAWT!
- BEX
and geeky
- BEX
Ah...Atari 800. My first brush with programming. First computer was an Atari 1040ST. So so so long ago. Thanx for the memories.
- CAJ, somewhere else
This thread is so old that the pic was taken straight from the camera... Edit: or actually scanned..
- Jemm
Check you out Mark - total hottie.
- Mona Nomura
Mona...you make...a...me...blush.
- Mark Krynsky
At least you had a Hayes 300 Baud Smartmodem. We had to make do with a half-duplex No-name British 1200/75 baud one, and we didn't have anyone to sort out the wires for us the first very frustrating weekend!
- ianf ⌘
Bump for good times.
- Mark Krynsky
H-O-T
- Louis Gray
I'll be in my bunk.
- Spidra Webster
cutie!
- edythe
Me As a Kid meme - http://www.facebook.com/inbox...
TheHenry, Eivind, Jeff P. Henderson and 45 other people liked this
I know - I need to scan new pictures...
- Mona Nomura
from Bookmarklet
So cute! Glad to see much hasn't changed about you over the years (with respect to your absolute cuteness, that is)
- Christian (Simply X)
Aww, love that smile :)
- Mo Kargas
It's funny because I walk down the street back home and people STILL recognize me WTF LOL
- Mona Nomura
Look at the cheeks :)
- Rodfather
I can see why for sure.
- Christian (Simply X)
Very cute:)
- Baard @ Pixum
from Nambu
Cutiness!!! :D
- Niki Costantini
If you look at the comments, some of my childhood friends left comments. LOL
- Mona Nomura
That's the happy Mona we all know and love.
- Mark Krynsky
Happy Mona = Happy FF
- Christian (Simply X)
Aw Christian :) Ok, I need to sleep. It's 4am!! Good night, everyone - and sorry for bumping all the kid pictures at once!
- Mona Nomura
Good gravy that is cute!
- Michelle Martinez
the apples of your cheeks are so highly defined. :)
- edythe
You still look the same
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
Omg my cheeks... I still have them too :(
- Mona Nomura
That's a good thing
- Rodfather
Which cheeks?
- Amani
So cute! :)
- MissStrongAle
MissStrongAle, I love your avatar SO MUCH. You're a total ROCKSTAR!
- Mona Nomura
Thank you very much! Is a photo of a couple of years ago, now I have much shorter hair :)
- MissStrongAle
Bump for good times.
- Mark Krynsky
Embarrassing picture meme.
nakachi, Jason Huebel, Johnny Worthington and 56 other people liked this
Honestly. What am I going to do with *two* knives? O_o
- Derrick
OMG YES
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Cut a bitch? Twice?
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
The same thing only...in smaller pieces?
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
The more to butter with, my dear.
- Josh Haley
Argg!
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Why have we not partied together?! I'm distressed!
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
I know this might be stating the obvious, but I am duh-RUNK in this photo. The time is drawing nigh, Amanda. ;)
- Derrick
Nigh is not getting here fast enough! *cries*
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Omg Derrick I LOVE THIS HAHA!!
- Mona Nomura
stabbity
- Pete Delucchi
lookin' good!
- Thomas Hawk
Danger at the Gay Gangsta Birthday Bash!
- James (!?)
Don't you need two knives for the drumming? :-)
- Ladybug Heather
Bump for good times.
- Mark Krynsky
P1010364 on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
edythe, Lindsay, Micah Wittman and 66 other people liked this
Dos muchos. :)
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
uhm. why are we resurrecting this? :D
- pea
also, ha. that made me laugh. those Five Guy's fries musta been laced with something.
- pea
Los Cuatro Amigos!
- Shevonne
This is awesome....
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
It is *still* the best photo EVER!
- Admiral Anika
all the photos taken in the store are pretty damn hilarious and full of awesome.
- pea
That's pea and my husband Adrian. My kid in the background.
- Admiral Anika
And the ones you took of Derrick and Ilia on the tree still make me laugh.
- Admiral Anika
One can't go wrong with photographing D or your kids. It's a guarantee that a good photo will come of it.
- pea
We still have our bandannas too. I was just wearing my last week playing Kung-fu Panda with the kids.
- Admiral Anika
I think i need to file a complaint against Captain Come Lately in the background trying to get his suit on. Doesn't he realize that we recognize him in the this picture?
- Carlos Ayala
nevermind, its exponentially made up for here: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Carlos Ayala
Carlos, I love Adrian in that photo you linked to. He was *bringing* it.
- Admiral Anika
I have my headband tied around the doorknob in my bedroom. o_O
- Derrick
An elite band on ninjas ready to bring the pain
- RAPatton
The Team
- johnpiercy
I still have my headband, packed away with all my other stuff but there was no way I wasn't gonna keep it.
- pea
You went to Five Guys and didn't invite me?!
- Benjamin Golub
What's that Benjamin? You don't pay attention to our posts? This meetup was in February!
- Admiral Anika
:)
- Benjamin Golub
bump bump... oooh oooh!
- Adrian
Nice! :))
- Brandon
OMG AWESOME! <3
- Nicholas Kreidberg
hahaha
- Melissa
Bump for the good times.
- Mark Krynsky
Oh, man, the headbands!
- Spidra Webster
oh shit
- nakachi
You guys are lucky I didn't hang around for this...I got mad ninja skillz
- Mark Krynsky
aaahh! i love this one!
- edythe
Family Togetherness Time
Kimitake, Johnny Worthington, M. Serdar Kuzuloglu and 106 other people liked this
Look at them sleeping. So daggone cute!
- Hutch Carpenter
Looks like Dad got a bit of schwag, too... :)
- Mark Dykeman
awesome!
- Thomas Hawk
Where are the FF onesies?! :-)
- JA Castillo
The FF onesies are way too big. My "biggest" kid is five pounds. When these guys get 3-6 months, let the schwag wagon roll.
- Louis Gray
FFTwins FTW!
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Link bait! :)
- Andrew Baron
@Louis you are such a product pimp ROFLMAO .. god love ya and yer family :)
- Steven Hodson
awwwww
- Michelle Trent
Do they have FF accounts yet?
- Johnny Worthington
aww gorgeous :) and the babies too!
- Allison
LOL that is alll kinds of win
- Mona Nomura
I've always thought it's important to establish brand awareness early on. Good job ;-)
- Jonathon
So, what are their domains and RSS feeds? I need to add them as imaginary friends for now.
- Rob Diana
Peace. That's the word that comes to my mind :)
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
good thing they are always this happy. right!
- Tim Connors
I want that shirt!
- James Hull
totally got a cool idea for new schwag... two items: for new Moms, a friend feed shirt with slots for easy feeding of infants... and for new Pops like Louis, nipple with bottle attachment inserts with one nipple coming out of the first f and the second nipple coming out of the second d... saweet!
- Rob Reed
FF schwag and twins! best picture of the day!
- Sarah Perez
Cute as a button. Akiva you crack me up. :)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
from fftogo
@Rob Reed: Awesome!
- April Buchheit
Kinda wished I had some FF schwag to wear with the newborn on the way.
- Randy Hall
The first marriage on FF cannot compete with this.
- Russellreno
Congratz.
- Bill Bittner
Mega awesome ;) Congratulations to you and your family, like the Friendfeed t-shirt ;)
- Mario Olckers
Tiny... little... eentsy... lumps of yum. There, my estrogen has officially shown itself.
- Carla Thompson
No way - they have FF onesies??? How do I get my hands on one of those?
- Jesse Stay
The Gray family Babies!!!! Sarah and Mathew look sooo cute in your arms! and sooo tiny my goodness!!... still LOL @ Rob's wacky comment..whoa!
- Susan Beebe
cool beans! workin on those biceps!
- TheMacMommy
from twhirl
So cute!
- marinka239
bring on the schwag, very cool pictures indeed
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Bump for good times
- Jesse Stay
For Benjamin's Big Headphones Meme
Micah Wittman, Lindsey is Fierce!, WorldofHiglet and 20 other people liked this
As seen here: http://friendfeed.com/bgolub...
- Mark Krynsky
Ok, gotta try this.
- Adrian
Bump for the good times.
- Mark Krynsky
Went for the meme trifecta. Silly hat, holding a pencil, while I take a drink
Rodfather, WorldofHiglet, nakachi and 21 other people liked this
Just another Friday night on FF
- Mark Krynsky
WIN WIN WIN
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
I would say this also qualifies as a 'funny face meme' pic too. PURE WIN!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Ah, bested! I tip my silly hat to you, sir.
- Penguin It's Cold Outside
I can't believe you guys went for this. You know there IS NO Trifecta, right?
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Says you.
- Mark Krynsky
If you'd also said this would be the last thing a spammer would see, you'd have four!
- Kisha, Well Conditioned
from BuddyFeed
Well I'm the one who suggested it in the first place. Do we have a quadrifecta? Lessee - hat, pencil, funnyface, drink... What would you do for a PENTAfecta? Topless?
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
If I had a mighty hammer to wield I would have added this...however I believe this would just be comedic to a spammer and actually prompt him to up my mailings.
- Mark Krynsky
Topless? Hey now.
- Mark Krynsky
Bump for the good times.
- Mark Krynsky
Had a weird, weird dream where Dead Silence and I pulled Penguin from the wreckage of the Lincoln Memorial ... and then we all fought a deranged Professor Xavier and his horde of alien killers !
Rachel Lea Fox, Steven Perez, Penguin It's Cold Outside and 10 other people liked this
Were her stripey socks in tact?
- Nicholas Kreidberg
We were all wearing combat fatigues!
- Mo Kargas
Was she grateful? is the question I think we all have.
- Josh Haley
She said nothing, we just left. I remember thinking how big and heavy Lincolns head was
- Mo Kargas
You're dreaming it wrong
- Josh Haley
DS had a real occker Australian accent as well..I think he was putting it on
- Mo Kargas
Or maybe not
- Mo Kargas
more likely a Kiwi accent.
- Joe Silence is not dead
*sound of 00 shot shell entering chamber*
- Joe Silence is not dead
BANG
- Mo Kargas
sweet as.
- Joe Silence is not dead
I can't believe I missed this!
- Penguin It's Cold Outside
:D
- Mo Kargas
Embarrassing photo meme. That's me on the left, DJ Jack Friday on the right.
Darren Heydon, MiniMage TKDteacher of FF, rowlikeagirl and 118 other people liked this
Yay Leo!
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Well played, sir!
- Josh Haley
Wow Leo, that's vintage and precious.
- RODNEY OLIVER
Whoo, Leo! Way to mix it up with the common folk!
- Akiva Moskovitz
That photo is WIN!
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
When is that Leo? I'm guessing 1978 or so?
- Michael R. Bernstein
Slow and clear.. and with a blue vest
- Rhys Amos
Woah...he MEMED! respect
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Dear Leo, I love you to death, however, please let your darling daughter know Monaco is not an island off the coast of France and yes, Monte Carlo is the capitol. My daughter is the same age and we are starting to shop college's as well. I wish you the best of luck finding a school that suits her well. I was an exchange student as well and found it the best experience ever!
- Jennifer Ragde
Okay, now my computer politically correct daughter is telling me this was not the correct way to state my opinion as I should have commented on the photograph. I'm really sorry, I love to listen to your broadcasts, but I really am computer retarded so please forgive me if I have transgressed in any manner. I can't even upload photographs without her help! Really, you don't look dapper,...
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- Jennifer Ragde
I do believe Steve Jobs was in the process of creating the Macintosh then? This is '70s right?
- Danny Minick
LOL Jennifer and +1 for your daughter. :)
- Josh Haley
You look so dapper, Leo!!
- Mona Nomura
go leo!
- sean percival
That's awesome
- Jesse Stay
lookin good ..
- Saad Kamal
Outstanding, Mr Laporte. You can see the in dream there. Potential and promise sporting a tank-top.
- Dan Biddle
Those pants look like they may be restricting blood flow a little bit... Also, sweet chalk board! Haven't seen one of those in years!
- Mark
I hardly recognised you. It maybe your outfit but you look older in this photo
- Kevin J Hatton
Taken at a radio station? (based on blackboard notes) Wait. BLACKBOARD??? Wow. :)
- CAJ, somewhere else
Jack looks like wolverine.
- Harold Benfield
Excellent sweater vest there, Leo!
- John Lutz
That's on handsome man! lol
- Melissa Goetsch
Leo, you were one hot stack if pancakes back in the day!!
- Erik Boles
Not to nitpick or anything, but Monaco is the name of the state and the capital city. Monte Carlo is just one of city's administrative areas :)
- Dorian
It's 1985 or 1986. I was 28 or 29. And an utter dork.
- Leo Laporte
This vintage is good stuff!
- Jackie
not vintage but funny - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Mike Bracco
Okay. Leo you rock! Let me get that out of the way. But you look like Susan Boyle in this photo. Sorry, someone had to throw it out there. ;-)
- Oracio
LEO: if this was a family photo I think it might make it on to the hilarious site that aggregates awkward family photos: http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/ must check this out! :)
- Mike Bracco
Not a family photo - it's a work photo. That's from KLOK-FM San Francisco.
- Leo Laporte
Leo: I know, I was just saying if it was :)
- Mike Bracco
What's that funny lookin thing in the background?
- Daniel James
Daniel.. I think that is what was known as a monochrome display. They were all the rage back then apparently.
- Rhys Amos
Your hair wasn't even real back then! :P
- Kreg Steppe
I think his hair looks better now
- Jim Hague
Dear Dorian, I stand corrected. I was just stunned that someone thought Monaco was an island. When I was in high school (when Dinosaurs roamed the earth, ha ha!), we had to memorize the world in geography. I guess times have changed.
- Jennifer Ragde
LOL, I took all those old photos of me and hid them deep!
- Lillian Banchik
OMG I just found this... *DEAD*
- Johnny Worthington
Oh wow, totally 80s, fer shure. :P
- Mol, Santa Claws
You looked smart and confident :) Great photo! Thanks for sharing!
- mahjongmi
Cool iPhone augmented reality toolkit just demoed to cheers. Details:
Andres Montano, Susan Beebe, Charles Ruelle and 17 other people liked this
From http://twitter.com/haseman... At #iphonedevcamp The first version of #ARkit our #opensource #AugmentedReality toolkit for iPhone3GS http://su.pr/2bVfPv about 3 hours ago from web
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Augmented reality is really taking off! The weekly Best Buy ad in the newspaper has an AR tag on the cover. It works at http://bestbuyin3d.com
- Pete Barry
Awesome! Did they show the ghosts? I was helping with that part =)
- Kevin Cheng
Any idea how we make use of the toolkit, there is new download at the link, I'm new to iPhone Dev, so I'm probably missing something.
- Keith Moon
It is new and I don't have all the details yet. Yes, they showed the ghosts. Funny!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
http://code.google.com/p... for the source
- Kevin Cheng
Mark you aim your iPhone at things and it tells you about them.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Android has more and better augmented reality. There are more Android phones out there than iphone 3gs, soon about a dozen new Android phones are coming out from Samsung, Dell, Acer, Huawei, Philips, Motorola, Archos, Asus, Creative and others
- Charbax
Mark: that is part of it but think the world, not apps. Go watch some videos on YouTube to see what AR does.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Thanks for the tweet Robert, the website of the Augmented reality kit is available : http://www.iphonear.org
- Charles Ruelle
Robert, remember the ghosts on iPhone ARKit? We have a beta that's almost ready for the appstore. If you have a 3GS, let me know and we can get you a test version if you like!
- Kevin Cheng
How to get large animated GIF's on Friendfeed:
2ndmoon©, Jordi Soler, Tony, Paradox of FF and 35 other people liked this
1. Get a Soup.io account http://www.soup.io
- Mo Kargas
2. Upload gif to your new Soup.io account
- Mo Kargas
3. Come back to FF, go to add new service at friendfeed.com/< YOUR USERNAME>/services
- Mo Kargas
Add a new Custom RSS/Atom feed. Enter the URL of your new Soup.io account ie. http://mokargas.soup.io
- Mo Kargas
TwitPic?
- Andrew Trinh
Done
- Mo Kargas
I'm sure other services can be used, but Soup.io is the only one that worked off the bat easy
- Mo Kargas
Anyone know a size/resolution limit?
- Andrew Smith
@Andrew I don't think there is one on size. I've seen Alejandro post 3mb GIF's with no issues. Resolution I'm not so sure
- Mo Kargas
but what about rooms (that you do not admin) ? :<
- Tim Hoeck
Posting any URL to TwitPic will provide an image in the post but I'm not too sure how it goes for Soup.io.
- Andrew Trinh
from IM
Posterous seems to work too.
- Kol Tregaskes
if you use twitpic, it will be resized and some of the gif may be cut off.
- Alfredo
Mo, you are the man. Thank you!
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Is there a list anywhere of the sites that automatically post images to FF when you put their RSS/MRSS feeds into here? I want to get images from Google Reader to show up here. If not from GReader, then I need a few other options. Looking for something that's not blocked at work (so not Twitpic, Posterous, similar sites).
- Kamilah Gill
thanks
- Richard Lawler
What software do you use to convert/create your animated gifs?
- Ken Morley
This walkthrough with GIMP shows how to do it from a video file: http://friendfeed.com/rjcc... http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Richard Lawler
Richard, do you need Linux to run Gimp?
- Ken Morley
nope.I'v pretty much only used it in windows
- Richard Lawler
I was bad tempered all day until I finally found this post. Now I know how to post Gifs to FriendFeed. Thanks, Mo :)
- Baard @ Pixum
The typical 2:30 AM Lady Gaga listener
Travis Koger, Steve Rubel, Jay Cuthrell and 6 other people liked this
nice glasses, very Jack Benny. thick framed black glasses are really fashionable in England right now
- Mark
Pa-pa-pa-poke her face! :)
- Mona Nomura
is this a poker face?
- sean percival
Can't read my poker face.
- Mark
*BUMP*
- Jay Cuthrell
Seesmic, Friendfeed and Twitter next to each other in a test version of Twhirl. Adding tons of Friendfeed experience improvements in there, Marco rocks.
Nicholas James, Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah, Wins Fern and 95 other people liked this
I love this version. And Seesmic in Twhirl is so addictive
- Loic Le Meur
nice improvements Loic!! bring it on!!
- Susan Beebe
can't wait - gimme more ;o)
- Marco Sascha Sven Hoppe
from twhirl
very interesting. The friendfeed integration looks way better than before. Will have to give this a look when it is released.
- Rob Diana
okay, so FF and Twitter are in the latest? but not Seemic correct?
- Lou Paglia
This might get me back into Twhirl.
- Akiva Moskovitz
and it has FF rooms support!
- Loic Le Meur
The question is when ?
- Gilles Meiers
from twhirl
wow, looks great. remind me http://twitku.com/ for a second there...
- Orli Yakuel
looks very cool. exactly what we need. but what about plurk ;)
- Phil Coyne
from twhirl
yes... when?
- Mike Wills
@LouPaglia - correct, Seesmic is not integrated with Twirl desktop app yet
- Susan Beebe
in a few days I think for the new FF integration. Seesmic comes next.
- Loic Le Meur
from twhirl
Super! When!??!
- Florin Grozea
from twhirl
looks like it might replace alert thingy as my RIA of choice
- Steve Lynch
from Alert Thingy
Great ! Thanks
- Gilles Meiers
from twhirl
integrate into one window, is all i ask, make it indisputably the best
- Ruben Llibre
none of them working in linux TOO BAD!
- Yassin Alvandi
Is twitter's api actually back up at 50 req/hr?
- Shawn Farner
The old Twhirl works for me in linux for me, it just won't remember my password.
- Daniel E. Renfer
from twhirl
Yes Marco does. Twhirl is becoming my info hub. And if Twitter dies, who cares I'm sure Pownce, Jaiku or whatever could be swapped in
- Tris Hussey
from twhirl
so is seesmic cool now?
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
How do we score the test ver? :)
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
You tease. Where do I download it?
- Rafe Needleman
Cannot wait, big Guy!
- ledretch
I want... When?
- highcenter
from twhirl
Can't wait!!
- Danish Khan
from twhirl
actually it will be pushed in an hour or two
- Loic Le Meur
from twhirl
Can't wait!
- Tris Hussey
from twhirl
Nice teasing. Do you have any release date or will you take the "it's done when it's done" side?
- Romain Péchard
from twhirl
I would love some "best practices" guide for how to get the most out of all that information that will be flooding in.
- Brendan Cosgrove
from twhirl
How do I add my Seesmic account into Twhirl 082? It's not showing up in the "accounts" list.
- Rafe Needleman
from twhirl
We should have a Twhirl + Seesmic preview in the very next days
- Loic Le Meur
from twhirl
wait, what exactly is the difference between Twhirl and Seesmic? I thought Seesmic was replacing Twhirl...
- Piero Ardizone
This looks awesome!
- Svartling
I think this what im looking for!
- Michael Scott
Wow nice work, I really like the improvements made :)
- Jeunelle Foster
awesome!
- barbarars
wow - one of the furthest back boomerang ff threads i've seen
- mike "glemak" dunn
nice!
- .LAG liked that
Wow, this is pretty old. I got excited for a second, thought Loic had seen the light and was starting to care about Twhirl again. NOPE.
- Shawn Farner
HUGE HAIL.
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EPIC HAIL!
- josh neff, geek at large
Oh look at that. It's definitely coming down out there.
- Lucas Parker
HAIL SEIZURE
- Akiva Moskovitz
LOL @ Akiva!
- Laura Lou Who is tired
Micah Wittman to Translatorize, Jesse Stay, guruvan (Rob Nelson), metalerik, Eric Logan, Robert Scoble, NaHi, Brian Daniel Eisenberg, K.D., Louis Gray, April Russo (app103)
Translatorize - [Sneak Preview] - Bookmarklets and user scripts that translate real-time social network user-generated language content in sites such as Facebook and FriendFeed. The Google Translate service, via the API, is used to perform the source to destination text conversion. - http://translatorize.com/for/
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I've taken the friendfeedTranslation script and ported it to Facebook - slightly enhanced over the original app even for the v0.1 release. Also, there's now a unified brand to this growing family of scripts: Translatorize (www.translatorize.com). The open code code is hosted directly from its google code project http://code.google.com/p... and the bookmarklets are served directly from there as well for robust performance. I've geared up for this script release much more than any previous, having in mind that the user-base size of Facebook is _slightly_ ;) larger than FriendFeed's, and I have no idea what the uptake might be, but it will be fun to see where it goes. Thank you for any feedback you can give to me and this project.
- Micah Wittman
Ok, Facebook, there you go. Now I can get back to FriendFeed :D
- Micah Wittman
OK, I have to ask, mainly because I am curious, do you have any plans on supporting Twitter? Besides the obvious use for translating tweets in languages other than your own into something you can better understand, I have at least 1 friend that would go absolutely nuts over the idea of translating EVERYTHING on Twitter into Esperanto.
- April Russo (app103)
April, I suspect Twitter will be next (cooincidently, it's probably the easiest of the three to code against - but we scratch our own itches first and foremost, I suppose).
- Micah Wittman
Cool!
- April Russo (app103)
I'm so excited about this! This is truly awesome. Thanks Micah!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Rob, Thanks! I hadn't seen seen you much in the last bit, so didn't know when you might see this. In a way, you started me down this crazy road: http://friendfeed.com/guruvan... I #blameguruvanscandor ;)
- Micah Wittman
I've never used Facebook but I will to test out any of your stuff Micah :)
- metalerik
metalerik, oh, I see. He mentions having friends who write in various languages in Facebook and asks how hard it might be to port over the script from FF to FB. If you get hooked up with FB and try it out, let me know how it goes :)
- Micah Wittman
Outstanding work Micah. Keep it up!
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Updated Translatorize for Facebook to v0.1.1 - bookmarklets are auto-update, but the new userscript needs to be installed over the older version. Fixed control panel not closing - was especially an issue on latest Firefox release. More feedback from anyone would be appeciated. Thanks again. :)
- Micah Wittman
from iPhone
thank you, Micah. I will have a look to Translatorize :-)
- Maurizio Cassi (mcassi)
You're welcome, Maurizio!
- Micah Wittman
Is it possible for the script to run automatically, instead of requiring clicking translate?
- Mike Chelen
Mike, the bookmarklet by nature can't be auto-translate - but, the user script (X to English: http://wittman.org/project... ) can be. All you need to do is change two config options in the script. Set var autoTranslateEnabled = true; and var autoTranslateRealtimeEnabled = true;
- Micah Wittman
HOW TO EDIT A GREASEMONKEY SCRIPT INSTRUCTIONS (friendfeedTranslate as the example): Right click on the GreaseMonkey icon on the bottom of the browser > Manage User Scripts > select friendfeedTranslate > click Edit button (it may ask you to choose a text editor, such as notepad) > in the /************ Configuration **********/ section (around line 40) look for and set...
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- Micah Wittman
editing the greasemonkey script will be fine, thanks for the explanation about which parameters to adjust =)
- Mike Chelen
from IM
Any time, Mike :)
- Micah Wittman
another question, would it be possible to integrate with a page embed? so visitors to a website would see the translated version. thanks!
- Mike Chelen
Mike, how would the javascript get injected into the iframed / embedded friendfeed page? Someone could reimplement the friendfeed service with the API and use the javascript in the bookmarklet code - that's certainly possible, though.
- Micah Wittman
Micah, what about with the feed widget? http://friendfeed.com/embed... writes its output directly with javascript
- Mike Chelen
If you are the leader, press * now. The leader has not yet arrived.
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Name one item always handy in your glove compartment...
Mahmood Padura, Penguin It's Cold Outside, Tyson Key and 6 other people liked this
Toothpicks
- Micah Wittman
from email
Sewing kit.
- Admiral Anika
pens (plural)
- Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
Deodorant.
- Admiral Anika
Eye drops.
- Admiral Anika
Tire air pressure gauge - but that's a given.
- Micah Wittman
Um, gloves?
- Glen Mistletoe
Gasp! Glen, how unorthodox!
- Micah Wittman
Tissues.
- Admiral Anika
My wheel lock adapter.
- Derrick
Proof of insurance and registration
- Glen Mistletoe
I had a mylar emergency blanket at one time. But it got used and you can never get it back into the package again.
- Micah Wittman
Mouthwash.
- Admiral Anika
GPS
- Micah Wittman
Extra lighter.
- Admiral Anika
What Glen said.
- Josh Haley
Iocane powder. If you spend years building up an immunity to it, might as well have some ready for that perfect occasion.
- Micah Wittman
ROFL I don't think I can get that OTC, though.
- Admiral Anika
Josh, you have Glen's insurance and registration in your car? I must have missed that day of FF.
- Micah Wittman
symmetric or asymmetric?
- Micah Wittman
That explains a lot, Josh :)
- Glen Mistletoe
I don't drive, and Josh only has the car manual and some other car-related papers in the glove box. But if it were mine, I'd have toilet paper, hand cream, a first aid kit, baby wipes, a plastic bag, paper & pen, a hairbrush & band, and a pair of underpants.
- Mellissa Claus
Sunscreen (convertible)
- Ken Sheppardson
AccessPort link cable for connection to my car's ECU, window breaker/seatbelt cutter, assorted lighters and tools.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Ken - got to get your Vitamin D, absolutely.
- Micah Wittman
Mellisa, sounds like you're ready and packed for an IKEA trip.
- Micah Wittman
Brian, we're gonna need pics regarding that AccessPort. Thank you.
- Micah Wittman
toothpicks are good. i've got floss. i've also got ziploc baggies of various sizes (for snacks or for vomit, either way i want it contained), tissues, toilet paper in a convenient little roll, bandaids (the first aid kit is in the back - wouldn't fit in the glove box, and by glove box i mean the drawer under the passenger's seat), pocket knife, and... i think that's it.
- Trish Haley
a flashlight and a swiss army knife
- Alisa Douglas
Alisa, that just made me wonder, does the Swiss Army make flashlights? EDIT: hey, look at that: http://www.swissarmy.com/multito... EDIT-2: Swiss Army brand products foray into the US market: "In 1937, the Forschner Butcher Scale Company of New Britain, Connecticut, began importing Victorinox butcher knives. However, American buyers were not...
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- Micah Wittman
Micah - see: http://friendfeed.com/infinit... :)
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
A pack of batteries.
- Morton Fox
multi-tool
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Thanks, Brian! (that was quick :)
- Micah Wittman
Fast food coupons.
- Mahmood Padura
Trish - how do the ziploc baggies go when they're vomit-filled? Do they ever leak?
- Mellissa Claus
Leatherman Wave tool.
- CAJ, somewhere else
A satellite phone with built in GPS
- Moved to Facebook
Napkins. Kleenex. Screwdriver, wrench, and pliers.
- Ladybug Heather
A pen
- Chris Heath
Heck, most of that stuff is in my purse. My glove box has - gloves. And registration, and maintenance schedule.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Here's what this http://friendfeed.com/moosico... made the first night... Salmon cakes with homemade dipping sauce. Served with a Calabrese Salad.
Kamilah Gill, imabonehead, Micah Wittman and 7 other people liked this
That looks wonderful!
- Admiral Anika
This was actually an aggressive post for all the times you and Derrick made me hungry beyond belief! Take that!
- SAM
Whoa
- Rodfather
ROFL @Scott getting all hardcore on me. *ouch*
- Admiral Anika
word. *puffs chest* .... *then smirks* ;)
- SAM
If it's any consolation, I'm utterly jealous (read: devasted) over your salmon catch. I want to move in with you guys!
- Admiral Anika
WTF is that with the face?
- Outsanity
I like the face!
- Admiral Anika
I think the face is garden art or something... gift from parents. We haven't yet figured out it's perfect spot. Anika: First cottage out of the ground at Moosicorn has your name on it, whenever you're ready.
- SAM
I was ready yesterday!
- Admiral Anika
Oh, forgot to mention... the tomatoes and basil were out of our friend's garden too!
- SAM
*dead* I pulled one tiny tomato from my garden. The bugs have eaten all of my basil.
- Admiral Anika
Samsung R&D goes bananas for mobile, intros 1GHz processor, 5 megapixel camera-on-a-chip, much more http://www.engadget.com/2009...
Brian Daniel Eisenberg liked this
Hoarders sounds like a show I should watch. I'm an incurable collector of stuff.
Josh Haley, Rodfather and Brian Daniel Eisenberg liked this
Yes. I mentioned it the other day after watching the pilot episode. Fascinating and educational.
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
It's quite disturbing. Intervention with meth addicts has a better success rate. Watch well after eating
- Keith - @tsudo
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