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AP: New advice: Skip mammograms in 40s, start at 50 - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin...
"Most women don't need a mammogram in their 40s and should get one every two years starting at 50, a government task force said Monday. It's a major reversal that conflicts with the American Cancer Society's long-standing position. Also, the task force said breast self-exams do no good and women shouldn't be taught to do them."
- vicster is...
from Bookmarklet
Tell that to my friends with breast cancer. Pshaw.
- Paula W
I know. The timing of this is just a little suspect, too, what with the battle over health insurance reform going on right now.
- vicster is...
I'm torn on this... I had breast cancer at the age of 24. I self-screened, and then had the mammogram and mastectomy. I also was fairly certain that I had one of the BRCA genes, which is why I was hyper aware. I know that there are many women who are deeply scared of breast cancer when their risk is minimal, and maybe these guidelines are for them? But at the same time, I think early mammograms aren't hurting anybody and that self-screening can be effective if people actually do it.
- Kendra <3 Three Lions
Come to my art show! Friday, Nov. 13th « A Damn Fine Product - http://damnfineproduct.wordpress.com/2009...
MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS and Penguin It's Cold Outside liked this
The opening is over but the art is up 'til Dec. 15th. "Behind the Cup: Coffeeshop Portraits by Paula Wirth Art Opening: Friday November 13, 2009 from 6:00pm – 9:00pm Urban portraiture sketched in brush and ink, captured in Vancouver, BC Canada and the SF Bay Area. Show runs November 13 – December 15 Woody’s Cafe 1841 Park Blvd, Oakland, CA 94606 Hours: 7:30-7pm daily 510.893.0281
- Spidra Webster
from Bookmarklet
I wish I could go to this. Will there be more online? Oh wait... I've subscribed to her flickr stream... great stuff!
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
Paula's on FF, although she's not super-active here. http://friendfeed.com/inkvisi...
- Spidra Webster
Subscribed. Thanks Spidra!
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
Thanks, Miss Spidra!
- Paula W
It's nice to have a Flickr group that doesn't have a 101 "rules". Ones with rules really put me off.
vicster is..., Kevin Pedraja, Iván Abrego and 2 other people liked this
In order to add your photos you must comment on at least 5 photos in the first 10 pages. You can only add 4 photos a week, provided that day doesn't have an 'a' in it. You must participate in at least 3 memes a month, as long as they're not in a row. There can be no photo editing. All EXIF information must be public....
- Admiral Anika
LOL, Anika. Yeah groups like that are annoying. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
So, is there a FF group on Flickr?
- Kevin Pedraja
My groups are probably annoying, since I ask people to contribute on-topic images ;-) Like vintage images in a vintage pool ;-)
- Paula W
Kevin, yep: http://www.flickr.com/groups...
- Kol Tregaskes
Just sent my 135 f/2 lens back to Canon. This will be the fourth time it's been in for repair for the same autofocus problem. This is getting expensive.
Almond Dhukka, Jeremy Brooks, Kenton and 7 other people liked this
so it stops autofocusing?
- Ivan Makarov
Dang, I remember when you had sent it back the third time. I don't think I've heard of anyone having as many problems with this lens as you have. The heck are you doing to it? =)
- ronin
I think I'm just using it a lot. But it should hold up better than it has in my opinion. It just won't autofocus. I think it's the focus ring because it doesn't manual focus either. It's my favorite lens and I use it to shoot with probably 80% of the time. Hopefully it comes back quick. I may also just have a lemon of a lens. You never know.
- Thomas Hawk
Maybe they should just replace it with a better copy.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
That would be nice John. We'll see. I doubt they do that. I think they like being repaid over and over again to repair it.
- Thomas Hawk
I doubt you're using it too much. You likely don't use it more than a wedding photographer who shoots 2-3 weddings a week using mostly one prime.. It shouldn't give you this problem.
- Ivan Makarov
I wonder if mine has issues, what happens?
- Paula W
for the first year it should be under warranty Paula. But after that it's not. I'd watch it. If you are having any trouble at all close to the end of the first year of ownership you might want to think about sending it in. It costs about $175 every time I have to have it repaired.
- Thomas Hawk
You've almost doubled what you paid for it in the first place, right? That's gotta hurt.
- Almond Dhukka
I sent my 50 1.4 in because the focus stopped working. It works now, but it's not like it was. The ring is sticky, and it doesn't focus as fast. When it dies again, I'm just going to replace it. And take the old one apart.
- Jeremy Brooks
Well damn. I'm finally getting this lens in a couple of weeks. Hopefully yours is an isolated event - never heard of this happening.
- Blake Caldwell
get a Nikon - they just work...wait a sec, maybe that's a Mac...uh...never mind
- johnny action
Blake, it's the best lens I've every used. Even with it's horrible repair record I'm not disappointed I bought it.
- Thomas Hawk
I loved that lens when I rented it. It would really suck to have to send it in multiple times for repair.
- Jordan Hofker
Woot, thx Thomas - again, can't wait.
- Blake Caldwell
Thomas do you find you have to step back when trying to frame shots with the 135 ? I guess you are used to the focal length now so probably change lenses if you want something wider/closer ?
- David Pascoe
My leica lenses never had autofocus issues.
- Ricardo Liberato
David, exactly, I've got a 14mm, 24mm, 50mm, 100mm macro, and my 135 that are with me whenever I'm shooting. Lots of lens switching but mostly I shoot the 135. Zooming with your feet though is one hassle of primes over zooms and is not always possible.
- Thomas Hawk
Autofocus is your friend dear Liber, remember that.
- Thomas Hawk
my canon 28-135mm hasn't auto focused for about 6 months now. out of warranty. is that what they basically charged you every time you sent it in?
- bluetick
yeah, about that. Manual focus wouldn't work either on my 135 f/2.
- Thomas Hawk
my favorite lens as well, hope you get your fixed
- tomms
th, you ever use a 1.4x extender with the 135mm? would you recommend it?
- tabbr
yeah, I've used it. Don't really like it. But I usually don't need that little bit extra bit of reach. If I do I'd likely use it on my 70-200 f/4.
- Thomas Hawk
Woah, just got my repair quote for the repair on my lens. Canon is repairing it free of charge. That's pretty cool of them.
- Thomas Hawk
Very cool
- Alex Scoble
Yay, Canon...that's great! I have to say, the 135L was my favorite lens and the one I miss the most and really only got to use it a few months before I sold my Canon gear and went all Leica.
- Susan Dennis
That's good to hear.
- Jeremy Brooks
That was nice of Canon to fix it at no charge when it's no longer under warranty. Moves like this win points with the man upstairs.
- tabbr
It was nice of Canon. It was the 4th time it had been in for the same problem. It was nice to see them recognize that and offer to fix it free this time. Normally the warranty on repairs is 6 months.
- Thomas Hawk
i dont like the extender either, ive used the 1.4 and the 2x and it felt like i lost a lot of the sharpness, which is what the 135 is known for. and because im shooting on a crop camera, i get the 1.6 anyway
- tomms
Never heard of a leica lens going in for repair four times. Not even twice.
- Ricardo Liberato
Robert Scoble is fearless. And brings our total to, what, 5?
tinypants - Hagitha of FF, Francois Lamotte, Jesse Stay and 48 other people liked this
What the heck is this?!
- Adam Helweh
They're just one beach and one appletini away from http://friendfeed.com/akiva...
- Akiva Moskovitz
Whoa.
- Derrick
What Shel doesn't count?
- Brian Sullivan
I think this was part of the promotion (maybe unscripted) for their book "Naked Conversations"
- Brian Sullivan
YAY!
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
So even Robert Scoble is part of the topless meme. Excellent!
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Am I the only only laughing my bits off that he now works for Rackspace? HAahahahahhahahaha!!!!!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
OMG that's so perfect! HAHAHAHAHA WIN!
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Hehe Tina - until they see this pic ;)
- jcunwired
topless meme!!!
- anna sauce
HAHAHA
- mjc
a little bromance is great for the soul......
- Lokei Atikus™®
LMAO! digging Tina's comment. :D
- vijay
...HIDING in 3-2.....
- .LAG liked that
There is a lot of history to this picture. It was taken in Mike Arrington's back yard at the last Techcrunch party to be held in his house. This was a launch party too for our book Naked Conversations. It sounded like a good idea at the time. JD Lasica shot the photo and my wife and dad were within a few feet.
- Robert Scoble
This pic totally reminds me of when SF incumbent mayoral candidate Frank Jordan posed in the shower with two morning shock jocks. Ran on the front page of all the papers. Jordan lost, btw.
- Sue Radd
Sue: I guess I never will run for mayor then! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Nice...just the picture to see before I walked the dog and made my coffee. ;-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
we do not deserve this
- Giovanni de Paola
ahahah
- Giovanni de Paola
OMG :)
- Gökmen Karasu
DAMN IS IT REALLY SCOBLE?
- Alp
There really should be a caption competition for this pic
- Ewan MacLeod
Bump for good times.
- Mark Krynsky
Be scared, be very very scared.
- Paula W
O_O
- Danny Minick
Has Yahoo peed the carpet with its new ad campaign? | Blog | Econsultancy - http://econsultancy.com/blog...
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Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is tired of the press trying to dictate what Yahoo should and shouldn't do with its business. But the company's new $100 million ad campaign, which was met with much derision from the press when it launched last month, does not appear to be doing well with consumers.
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
Is it any surprise that Yahoo's new $100 million marketing campaigns rings false and hollow when their actual company practices of destroying user data without warning stand in direct contrast to the tagline that the new Yahoo is all about you?
- Thomas Hawk
Probably why the ads offer ZERO content and really are just one big expensive $100 million banner that blandly spams the Yahoo brand
- sofarsoShawn
$100 million banners that fly in direct opposition to Yahoo's actual practices and attitudes towards their customers unfortunately.
- Thomas Hawk
Who took the photo of the guy with the flickr pink ball? Looks like Cal Henderson...
- Paula W
That is Cal Paula. Interesting today to see Yahoo hire Goodby, Silverstein and Partners to try and fix this mess.
- Thomas Hawk
What format did you start listening to music on?
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Soon, we'll buy music on chips (actual potato chips, not computer chips). Until then, let's reminisce. - Tuesday's Plinky question: http://www.plinky.com/prompts...
- Kol Tregaskes
Vinyl!
- Mellissa
Audio Cassette.
- Adi
Mostly cassette but some vinyl.
- CAJ, somewhere else
vinyl
- winckel
78's - honest. We had a bunch of them when I was a kid. Then 45's on a spindle that played a stack of them into a radio. First 45 was "Rock Around the Clock".
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Cassette and vinyl
- Joe Dawson
Vinyl. My first record was the 45 of "Like a Virgin" by Madonna.
- Michelle Martinez
Vinyl. Then 8Tracks. Then Cassettes. Then CDs. Then MP3s. So, I guess i have run the gamut.
- Martha
Vinyl. My first LP was "Kings of the Wild Frontier" by Adam And The Ants and my first single was "House on Fire" by The Boomtown Rats.
- Timothy Griffin
45 => 33 vinyl. First CD in '81 then LaserDisc then SACD and MP3
- Francesco LVDI
cassette, then lots vinyl
- Ronald
Vinyl
- Robert Davies
33 1/3 Vinyl Albums - my 1st two were Beatles Hard Days Night + the one o them Jumping on the Rooftop in their Beatle Boots?? Twist + Shout?? I just remembered my Grade 4 Teacher wouldn't let me play them during Indoor Recess!! Damn Long-Haired Hooligans from Britain!! ;))
- Billy Warhol
I thought it was tape, but my first system was actually a record player. Wow, I don't feel that old.
- Rob Haas
Vinyl. We had 8-tracks, too.
- LB - all new for '10!
Vinyl.
- Rochelle
Wax cylinders.
- Akiva Moskovitz
45 => 33 1/3 => Cassette => CD. my parents had some 78s laying around the house & friends had 8-tracks; I never liked 8-track.
- jbrotherlove
8 track & 45's. I remeber dancing in front of the record shop on St. John's Place and Ralph Ave. in Brooklyn for quarters to purchase new James Brown Records.
- professor daddyo
Cassettes for me. I bought a few vinyl records but not many. I bought loads and loads of CDs but very rare to buy any physical media now.
- Kol Tregaskes
Live
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
Hmm - I am guessing that people are wrong -- I first listened on radio -- wouldn't that also be true of most here as well?
- Brian Sullivan
Vinyl. Yes, I'm that old.
- Helen Sventitsky
Maybe radio doesn't qualify as a "format"?
- Brian Sullivan
Analog: vinyl and 8-track. Digital: .au files via FTP on my C64.
- Jason, Incognito
from iPhone
The "Theatre of the Mind" Radio!! FM "no static at all" lol (there was a little AM in there ) ;)
- Melanie Reed
Vinyl & 8-tracks. Vinyl has never left my life though.
- Admiral Anika
Somnabulist, was that always virgin vinyl acrylic? Direct to disc? :)
- Melanie Reed
People used to sing to me well before I started listening to the radio. Radio was next, and then LP's, but the first music I ever (personally) purchased was "American Pie" (45RPM single)
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
Well, for all those vinyl lovers, always remember Nick Cages' endorsement from "The Rock": "These sound better."
- Melanie Reed
Actually, now that I think about it, the very first music was probably at church.
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
Glen, actually, I think it was people singing to me that came first. You're right.
- Melanie Reed
Records... and cassettes...
- Paula W
Records and cassettes, though a few years later CDs were the dominant format.
- Andrizzle Gizzle
vinyl first (45s and then LPs) and then cassettes. i gave 8-track a miss.
- Joe Silence is Dr. Teeth!
Cassette and vinyl. Cassettes (and eventually CDs) were more common when I was growing up, but we still had the turntable set up in the dining room and I was a fiend for my dad's records... Stones, Grand Funk, CCR, Skynyrd... it's no surprise I'm still big into classic rock.
- Penguin It's Cold Outside
my first 45 was Tubby The Tuba. my first LP was The Beatles - Rubber Soul. my first cassette was ELO - Time (my second was Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon, so i hope i get some slack for that). my first CD was Rush - Exit...Stage Left.
- Joe Silence is Dr. Teeth!
like
- ИonikД
8-Track tapes - My God, I am soooo old.
- Will-Pastor of FF
i must be ancient. :P
- Joe Silence is Dr. Teeth!
Transistor AM radio. 45rpms. LPs.
- Spidra Webster
The first song I remember playing in my room is "All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth" on 45, on a portable record player that had its own speaker. This was in the 1970s, so I guess the song was already 30 years old by the time I heard it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Phil G
LP Records, we still have the LPs around here (someplace), many of which are older than I am...
- Grant Bierman
LPs and audio cassettes
- Ciaoenrico
Vinyl, 8-track, and radio
- Rodfather
Vinyl, from my parents' collection. But I when I started buying music it was cassettes.
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
Vinyl.
- Mycaptain
Radio and jukeboxes (in Romania)
- Adrian
Vinyl, 45's and 78's - We had a red Disney record player, it was so cool
- martha
Vinyl.
- Derrick
CD-ROM
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
Vinyl.
- Kisha, Well Conditioned
from BuddyFeed
In person - saw Jefferson Airplane when I was 3 years old :) - outside of that, LP's and 45's.
- Tsali, The Native of FF
Cassettes. Never heard a vinyl before I started going to clubs with DJs :-)
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
from fftogo
Cassette!
- Andrew Dobrow
from iPhone
vinyl here too -- pretty much all LPs
- Nathan Rein
8 Track/vinyl
- Alex Scoble
Vinyl.
- Kevin Pedraja
vinyl, 8-track and radio
- Carmen - Happy 2010!
My dad's Beatles/Dylan vinyls, my mom's Marxist vinyls, some cassettes and radio.
- Johan Bakken
Vinyl.
- Rick Cogley
My old boss had some reel to reels from when he was a kid. they were so cool to see and listen to! The sound was great!
- Baroness Von BusinessTime
Vinyl and 8-track. LOL.
- Victor Ganata
Probably vinyl.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Oh man, the question alone makes me feel old!
- Karma Martell
Phonograph cylinder.
- Amy℠
I'm so old... had a childhood record player (vinyl, obviously) and at the time (circa 1960), many 'children's records' were 7-inch 78s! (Golden Books had Golden Records that were bright yellow).
- The Web's Wendell Wittler
vinyl and radio.
- Laura Norvig
listened to radio and vinyl, first owned & selected music was on cassette
- Mike Chelen
Vinyl for me. Not LPs, at least at first; 45s. I still have all the old LPs from my childhood, at least those I haven't replaced with better copies (because I ruined the old ones when I was a kid), plus I've collected 1,000s more! And I listen to them. My next computer-related acquisition, at least after I get a new power supply and video card for my Dell (to run Windows 7), is a USB turntable. Of course, I got rid of the old 45s decades ago...
- Dennis Jernberg
Vinyl
- Deepak Singh
33s (a few 78s) and radio
- Mitchell Tsai
Cassette tape and a Sony Walkman. Yep, I was livin' it up like Fresh Prince. Holler.
- Danny Minick
8-track, i guess. Also reel-to-reel and vinyl were around, but we weren't hifalutin enough to have reel-to-reel.
- j1m
Cassette tape with a Panasonic Mini player / Recorder .... I used to record my favorite song from other tapes using a karaoke double tape player
- Arash Nightwatcher
Not sure if it was vinyl or 8-track
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
This depends. If we're talking about the first music I purchased and listened to that would be cassette tape. First music ever listened to period would probably be 8-Tracks and Vinyl.
- Give 'Em DBizness
Vinyl and reel-to-reel tape. Oh and radio
- Pete Gilbert
O - I forgot DAT and reel to reel, from my studio and live recording days!!!!
- Martha
1/4" full track @30ips with Dolby SR?
- Joe Silence is Dr. Teeth!
tho, IMO, at that tape speed i really don't think noise reduction is really that important.
- Joe Silence is Dr. Teeth!
Vinyl /Compact Cassette
- Kevin J Hatton
Bumping for later.
- Kol Tregaskes
records (45rpms even) & 8-track, ;)
- chaz2b
vinyl for sure. i had a teeny little record player that unfolded. wish i still had that thing.
- Blackeyed P
need to buy a vinyl player with USB connector
- winckel
Winckel Great idea! http://www.anthems.com/Convert... I have a brand new turntable that's never been used just sitting around. would be nice if it could be converted.
- Melanie Reed
I'm going to start recording all Facebook bugs as I see them so I can start fixing them once I get setup at work.
Keith Bourgoin, Myrna, Kazutaka Ogaki and 88 other people liked this
I like your style.
- joey
Benjamin, are you able to publicly say what your duties are?
- John E. Bredehoft
I'm telling mom!...
- Thom Kennon
and what if the bug is in the leadership?!!
- abdellah
Then I would like to kindly offer up a report of my 'everyone' privacy setting not making status updates available on my public, world viewable profile (even though FB warns me every time that it will).
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
cool you`re in San Mateo now at Facebook!!!!!
- sofarsoShawn
how do you make a profile public?
- mikepk
Mike, in your privacy settings there are options to make profile, status updates, etc. viewable to 'everyone'. The privacy FAQ on FB says setting it to 'everyone' will make those items viewable to the entire internet, even people without a FB account. That is not, however, what is actually happening.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Benjamin, there is this bug - I can't get "facebook.com/torque" - can you help me?
- τorƍue
Can we report them to you? ;-)
- Jesse Stay
Go Benjamin!
- Mitchell Tsai
You can start with the email notifications! ;) They aint like the FF ones.
- Kreg Steppe
Here's one: when someone sends you a friend request, there's a box you check to say if you want that person to be in your feed. Regardless of whether that box is checked or not, the person will show up in your feed. That is annoying
- Becca
If you seek Zuckerbum....give him a swift kick in the nuts for me...no no, just kidding, tell him hey, from Shawn.
- sofarsoShawn
Benjamin, considering your expertise, I'll take a look at Facebook's mobile interface and see if improvements are warranted.
- John E. Bredehoft
from fftogo
ok, their real time search engine suck. and what they are using bing for web search?!!
- abdellah
One other Ben..when you go to your friends list and check to add them to your SMS list, it doesn't take the first two or three times...Eventually it does but it's very frustrating to have to keep going back and adding friends to your SMS list..
- Bill Heslin
Kick some ass. :)
- Louis Gray
Tina, ah, that was why I asked. I was playing with those settings and tried it from logged out browsers and was like WTH? Does "everyone" mean "everyone on facebook"? Guess so.
- mikepk
+10 for your enthusiasm!
- Winston Teo
Hilarious. sorry. No that I doubt your enthusiasm ONE BIT.
- anna sauce
Ummm... if you get started on this, you may have to set up a cot at work... you won't be going home for a while...
- Paula W
Yes, Paula W. Truth. Get a comfy one for the body. The brain will compensate for sleep deprivation. Eventually.
- Michele Lorito-Chase
Could you start by reverting to the previous version of their UI? No, seriously! So many people I know (myself included) no longer use FB because it's too easy to miss things. The previous timeline view was much easier
- Anthony
superBen is on a mission
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Awesome. This is one of the most tedious bugs on FB: http://www.facebook.com/help...
- David Schmidt
You, my friend, are pure awesomeness.
- raphaeL
careful what you wish for, you just might get it. Actually, i wish you were still creating clean code on top of FF clean code
- Robert Higgins
That Many ??????
- johnpiercy
U saying FB is full of bugs ?
- johnpiercy
There seems to be some sort of bug with exporting data outside of Facebook. Thanks for looking into it!
- Matt Cutts
from iPhone
Matt Cutts has the best bug report.
- Amit Patel
hahaha awesome matt
- Ru Viljoen
YAY!! you rock Ben!!
- Susan Beebe
from BuddyFeed
I'm going to start calling you Bug instead of Dude. Nahhh, you'll always be my dude, Dude.
- Marci Golub
Can you fix the annoying "Write a Comment" tooltip? It stays up WHILE you are commenting (sometimes covering your comment text).
- Chris Myles
++ John, Why can't I delete messages from the FB mobile interface?
- Sarah Miller
from iPhone
Not a bug... more a wishlist... I wish oh how I wish for a native Symbian FB app...
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
Same here Pandu. I'd like a Symbian FriendFeed application more, though
- Tyson Key
Tyson, have you been reading my mind?? xD Although since Ben's talking about FB, I limit my post to FB. And besides, for the time being, http://www.fftogo.com/ is sufficient for my needs :-)
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
how many Texans are there in this feed? please speak up in comments!
Haggis (Sean Loyless), Greg Guitarbuster, Morgan Haley and 8 other people liked this
Hola. I'm in the Beaumont, TX area.
- Jason, Incognito
from iPhone
Fort Worth, here.
- Matthew Horton
Arlington
- Joe Silence is Dr. Teeth!
Grew up in Texas, but now in Oregon.
- Dawn
I'm headed back that way.
- Steven Perez
Define "Texan"
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
I was born and raised in Beaumont, TX, went to college in Waco, lived in Austin for more than a decade, but I haven't lived in Texas since 1996.
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
Wherever there's a good feed there will be Texans :-)
- Todd Hoff
I was born and raised on the Gulf Coast. Left Texas in 1997.
- Akiva Moskovitz
i left Texas in 1997 as well. i should have stayed gone. :(
- Joe Silence is Dr. Teeth!
spent 13 years in Spring and Houston...
- Paula W
I've lived there a couple of times. I think I'm Michitexazonian.
- R1CC1
In Dallas.
- ha3rvey (wants confit)
Never been there, but I was made an honorary Texan in 1996. The company I worked for in my first cellular network development job was based in Dallas, and a good 60% of the initial 30 person crew were Te3xan. Don't play poker with me. :)
- Adrian
Lived in Texas while going to grad school at Baylor. So temporary/honorary Texan, but not really.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Here
- Robert Kenney
Living in Beaumont, Texas. From Wales, UK though.
- 1x29
It really freaks me out how many people here on FriendFeed are from the Golden Triangle area.
- Akiva Moskovitz
technically I'm a Texan. I was born in Austin. But 6 weeks after being born, I moved to Honolulu. But when you is born in Texas, you is Texan for life.
- Morgan Haley
Fort Worth
- Greg Guitarbuster
I lived in Arlington for years until just over a year ago. Now I live in Louisville, KY
- Tony, Paradox of FF
Houston.
- Trish R
I notice Aden, Haggis, and Christian haven't chimed in, but they're all in TX, too.
- LB - all new for '10!
Oooh! pick me! I'm in Tyler/Jacksonville.
- MicahBear78
Born in Houston, live in San Antonio, party in Austin. (Took me a while to find this!) :D
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Sparky, sean808080, Ninoo and 29 other people liked this
robolove
- Yolanda
robosexual?
- Yolanda
Robofabulous?
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Don't be sorry, that's hot.
- Derrick
Derrick: Get the T-shirt: http://joannarchy.com/artwork...
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Now that is just porn!
- Kevin J Hatton
Oh my!
- John Cooper
from fftogo
+1, John Cooper!
- Cheryl Jones
I am fluent in over six million forms of communication
- Patrick
Why is threepio making out with Dracula? And for that matter, why is Dracula involved at all?! There's no blood! Oh well. Oh, you know who'd make a great Dracula? Brent Spiner. That guy from Night Court.
- Pete Delucchi
:(
- WorldofHiglet
Please let this be a tshirt..... WAHOO!
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Please let there be tongue.
- pea
Please don't let them both be bottoms.
- Derrick
Please let there be slashfic.
- Jon, the Beartato of '10
But...I'm not sure C3PO has the required...er...interface...!
- WorldofHiglet
Data is/was anatomically correct, after all. Just ask Tasha Yar.
- CAJ, somewhere else
The C3P0 unit is equipped for over 4000 types of sexual activities.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
I know Data is, but their's might be a doomed love
- WorldofHiglet
Time to upgrade?
- WorldofHiglet
Hmm. For some reason, I never did think those two would hook up.
- Paula W
Oh dear. Does R2D2 know?
- Fossil Huntress
am i scarred or turned on? both?
- Joe Silence is Dr. Teeth!
hahah
- Alexis Hope
What do people think of harem pants? - http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban...
Jeanette Bosman, Bindu Reddy, RAPatton and 6 other people liked this
None for me.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
No. Same goes for capri pants most of the time.
- Kamilah Gill
agree, no. and my 60+y/o mom wears capris.
- mjc
Not even if I was thin.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
Only certain women and girls can wear them, scarey when the wrong ones do
- Kim Landwehr
from iPhone
I should probably disclose that I bought this pair. I'm wondering whether to return them or not. They're super comfy!
- Jess Lee
No
- BeeLing
Jess, there are ways to make them work. Look in some fashion books if necessary. They're just really not for me personally.
- Kamilah Gill
Isn't there a saying that if you can wear these and look good, you can probably wear anything and look good?
- Andrew C
MC Hammer pants.
- anna sauce
Very handy when one is kidnapped and placed in a harem
- Renee Hendricks
No
- Amit Morson
I like the texture.
- Daniel Dulitz
this would not be a good look for me. yet another fashion for bony boy-looking girls.
- Paula W
i like them and see a lot of girls rocking the genie look right now. granted, i live in a fashion forward city so what works here might not work elsewhere.
- jack
I think they are hideous
- Eta
I have the legs for it! lol
- Kevin J Hatton
If my Dad were alive, he'd call them "poop-catchers".
- Mellissa
super no
- cysko
I love them actually... they are super comfy. I don't own any though
- Bindu Reddy
That picture is not a pic of harem pants.
- Spidra Webster
They're like tightened-up harem pants... what would you call them, Spidra? They're not just capris.
- Kamilah Gill
I couldn't wear them (I think) but I think they would look great on you. With some strappy and maybe even studded high heel sandals, and a flowy trapeze tank. When it gets colder, add some funky colored tights and a boxy jacket or sweater shawl.
- Jeanette Bosman
Reminds me of MC Hammer pants! Jess, I think you could pull it off....
- Karen Padham Taylor
I am wearing them right now actually.
- Jess Lee
The ones depicted? I'd call them knickers. Although not in the UK.
- Spidra Webster
Yup, I'm wearing the exact same black ones as shown in the photo. The green version shows the drape more clearly -- http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban...
- Jess Lee
I think they look fabulous on some girls (stylish, skinny) but I think the look is hard to pull off.
- Jennie Lin
Yup. Like most styles, they look good on certain bodies and less good on others.
- Spidra Webster
Just uploaded Facebook for iPhone 3.0 to the App Store for review. :)
Marco Fabbri, Mete Donmez, Vijendar and 30 other people liked this
Congrats on getting the new Facebook app for iPhone done, looking forward to getting it.
- Robert Scoble
Ooh, looking forward to it! Hopefully it fixes a few of the issues I'd been having with the current one.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
And if they decline it, just post it as an attachment here on FriendFeed. :)
- Louis Gray
Looking forward to trying it out!
- Paula W
looking forward to new the new facebook app.
- Fuad Arshad
I just wish there was a native client for Android.... That is what would make me very happy... but, Congrats, on getting the latest update out the door...
- Robert
I want to learn to dance the tango. It was beautiful watching these couples.
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Nice calves! I wonder what their secret is?
- Adrian
All the women with dresses on had sexy calves!
- Admiral Anika
Yeah but I wonder what the dudes' calves look like... notice they're all oh so conveniently covered?
- Adrian
Where do you live? I know fantastic tango teachers in Oakland...
- Paula W
Adrian, ballroom/latin dancing. Or really dancing in general. You use your calves A LOT!! it builds strong calves.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Anika, are you still there? Ask them where they dance and who teaches them. They will happily tell you.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Anika, my wife and I have been talking about taking some ballroom dance classes, especially tango. Looking forward to trying it out sometime.
- ha3rvey (wants confit)
Thanks, Paula, but I live in Los Angeles and there is *no* shortage of classes near me.
- Admiral Anika
RT @ggiachetti: Thank you universe, friends, family and strangers. I found my #lostdog in #alameda after 18 days... // wonderful news!
that's wonderful!! yay!!!!!
- Paula W
Google Launches A Major Offensive Against Microsoft With “Going Google” - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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Cem Ozkaynak, ashish, PierG and 55 other people liked this
That billboard was the best thing they could come up with?
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
I'm ahead of the curve on this one.
- Jason, Incognito
Yeah. Courier is going to send them scurrying.
- Akiva Moskovitz
no idea if that's what they'll really look like. that's just a demo in the video they sent
- MG Siegler
I'm consistently impressed with the value delivered by Google Apps. I expect the acquired Postini base to be more aggressively mined for Google Apps converts as well.
- Jay Cuthrell
I have alternative text: Day #3 - our Google App based corp mail is bouncing and we don't know why. No one responds in Google. :(
- Kfir Pravda
Kfir: Whatever. I've documented in video where Google Apps Support answers the -phone- when you call them. If you're running "corp" mail with a free account, you should not expect a paid support experience and you won't have access to the phone number of course. Here's the video I did a year ago for example: http://video.seesmic.com/threads... and it's gotten even better since then btw...
- Jay Cuthrell
Go google, go!
- Lakshman Prasad
Google is developing a brand that says "we want our design to look like it was created by engineers. Oh wait, let's hire engineers to design it!"
- Paula W
Errrr what? Developing a brand? Pretty sure Goog has had a brand for a good while now.
- EricaJoy
Google is developing a VAR and integrator channel.
- Jay Cuthrell
Check blogoscoped take on this http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
- Varun Mahajan
Can you do pivot tables with google spreadsheets?
- Matt Soreco
Matt - you'll have to create them yourself or use gadgets like Panorama
- Jay Cuthrell
Thanks Jay. I think your average excel user (like me) would just want to work without extra gadgets. For me, it'll be a wait and see.
- Matt Soreco
Google is taking over the world...one piece of the enterprise at a time.
- Don Martelli
(Just speaking for myself here) It's worth pointing out that Google is *itself* a huge user of Apps, and it works very well for just about everything we do. Sure, there are cases that aren't covered yet -- I suspect some sophisticated spreadsheet users aren't going to have all the features they need, but it seldom matters for day-to-day users. And I suspect the teams are working hard to close those gaps as fast as they can.
- Joel Webber
And from a "cloud security" perspective (one concern I see coming up a lot), it's also worth considering that Google is as susceptible to this issue with its own apps as anyone else, so the company has an extremely strong incentive to get security right.
- Joel Webber
Jay: in recent cases that I've witnessed and documented in my blog, Google apps showed that in some cases they suffer from performance issues. When I published it, I received several comments from others suffering from the same issue, including corp accounts. That's why I mentioned the fact that bouncing emails occur on this platform, and other issues exist, that are not necessarily reported/covered. I am happy that you received great customer service.
- Kfir Pravda
In the "I'd really rather not" category: the dermatologist wants me to have three moles (all of which look small and cute and nonthreatening to me, even as I scan the ABCD rules) removed. Says I should have a plastic surgeon do it. I have the referrals in hand. Do not want to. Sigh. Anyone been down this path? Should I just get it over with?
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I don't do sun worship. Never really have. I'm fair skinned, green eyed, and auburn haired, though. Shoot.
- Kathy Fitch
I had the rather large mole on my chin removed by a dermatologist, and he did a damn fine job, at a much more affordable price than a plastic surgeon... Might be a better solution for you. And no, didn't hurt.
- Paula W
Thanks, Paula--the derm says I clearly don't scar much (even the c-section scar all but disappeared), but wants to ensure that I get the bittiest little scars possible. I just don't know. I keep thinking, "Yeah, well, would she suggest all this if I didn't have such good coverage?" I think I'm getting too close to the healthcare industry, and it's making me suspicious.
- Kathy Fitch
After all, she'll get a referral fee. Sigh.
- Kathy Fitch
I think you are right to be suspicious, though that could also be my suspicious UK based perspective on the US health industry :-O Maybe get a second opinion? And maybe the second derm would do the procedure. Sounds to me like the first one is nervous about their skills in taking these off. Though if they are in a 'tricky' location then a plastic surgeon will probably do a better job...
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- Andy Bold
Andy, I don't want pits, though, even small ones! :-) Mostly, though, I just don't see the fuss. I'm a savvy kind of girl, well-read, etc., and I would not have pegged these cute little beauty marks as at all suspicious. Hmm. Think I'll ask the primary doc what she thinks. She looks about ten (sigh), but she's a smart one.
- Kathy Fitch
Cult-foo » Gil Elvgren. The best pin-up illustrator. - http://www.cult-f.net/2007...
Alex Scrivener, Parth Awasthi, Phil Harrison and 21 other people liked this
You and me both, RAP.
- Christian (Simply X)
wohhh pinup girls :D
- anduanetcampos
i kinda wanna live in that world...
- T. Brent, technopeasant
I dunno, Art Fram is my favorite.
- Andy Bakun
from Android
Check out this article on how he used pictures to help him set up his paintings - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Paula W
The tipping point: iPhone users turn against AT&T | Wireless News - Betanews - http://www.betanews.com/article...
Brian Felix, Daniel Rowley, Altan Khendup and 43 other people liked this
"The iPhone crowd has turned into an anti-AT&T mob. Spend 30 seconds on Twitter or perform even the most basic search for iPhone and AT&T information and you're sure to run into some serious rancor from disgusted iPhone users across the country. While the exclusive partnership between Cupertino and the Dallas teleco has never been perfect, user hostility has lately been at a fevered pitch. In February of this year, prominent blogger Om Malik announced he was "breaking up" with his iPhone. "I love my iPhone -- but AT&T's network has failed me. Apparently I'm not alone. If you follow me on Twitter, then you know how often I complain about it; my complaints always result in me receiving similar messages of frustration from other iPhone users. A status update on my Facebook page on the topic unleashed a flood of messages from people expressing abhorrence of AT&T's service.""
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
How is it that there are places in San Francisco where I can literally get no iternet service on my iPhone from AT&T? No 3G, No Edge, No nothing. Or why is it that when driving over the Bay Bridge my wife's 3G phone shows a 3G signal but my newer fancier 3GS phone defaults to Edge in the exact same vehicle? AT&T's service sucks. Having to reboot your phone just to get it to try and get a better signal is frustrating as hell as much as I love my iPhone.
- Thomas Hawk
Because as I've said several times before, AT&T doesn't have the infrastructure in place in most areas. They are still working on upgrading their own and Cingular's old infrastructure. Last year when talking to AT&T engineers, most of them said that they use T-Mobile or Sprint at their main phone. One client tends to switch to whatever carrier he's working for at the time. He's been a contractor for AT&T for a year and is very disappointed. He has no coverage within 30 miles of his house.
- Admiral Anika
One of the biggest WTF moments in telecom was when Apple announced the partnership with AT&T. It wasn't just that the infrastructure wasn't there, it was who won the contract nationwide. Trade magazines predicted users would be upset within the first year because of this, while touting the phone at the same time. Even at the beginning of this year, RCR (now defunct) had articles urging...
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- Admiral Anika
But, I will say that I'm kind of shocked that service in the Bay Area is lacking. One person I tried to get work from a couple of years ago said they were doing a huge build-out up there and that SF would be the first major city with full AT&T 3G service.
- Admiral Anika
I lose all AT&T service at my office at least twice a day. That's the main reason I'm not upgrading my first generation iPhone right now. I'm holding out as long as I can in the hope that Apple will open up the phone to other providers.
- vicster is...
If Verizon can get the iPhone under their roof, I'll switch back over in a second.
- Justin Korn
I haven't had any trouble with my ATT service since switching, but once my contract is up, I very well may go back to T-Mobile. I didn't have any problems with them, and their plans were cheaper, with better customer service.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Verizon will never get the iPhone until Apple decides to change the chip in the phones. Verizon's network runs on the CDMA system rather than the GSM system that AT&T is currently using. So for all of you out there hoping and praying for Verizon to get the iPhone, you might as well wake up from the dream, because I don't see apple changing the chips any time soon or Verizon going to the...
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- Wizetux
Changing the chip in the phone would not be a big deal in my opinion. Many phones on the verizon network are world phones. Which means they will run on GSM or CDMA why could apple not adopt such a chip and then just make one phone for everyone.
- Zach Scott
I just wonder if AT&T could do anything to improve reception in SF. Why doesn't Apple exert more pressure on AT&T to create a better experience for their customers? It's particularly bad along the waterfront.
- Thomas Hawk
@Zach: many of those phones have dual band chips in them. It has been told that it would only cost Apple an extra 5 cents per phone to have a dual band chip put into the phones, but that would also require Apple to change the production method that they have add in place for the last 3 years. And if I had to guess, it is part of the AT&T / Apple agreement that the phones would not be...
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- Wizetux
@Thomas: it would probably mean that AT&T would have to put in more towers in the SF area. But if I had to guess, no one want's those towers in their backyard or they would take away from the beauty of the waterfront area so the city won't allow them to put them in.
- Wizetux
More towers sound good to me. I love photographing Towers. The Sutro Tower is one of my favorite things to shoot in SF.
- Thomas Hawk
You have to keep in mind that it's also a long process that includes approval form the the landlord & city. A long process from finding a city to actually building it. We work on a small part of that process and sites are often finally built 6 - 12 mos. *after* we've done our part. One AT&T site (upgrading Cingular stuff) we worked on at the beginning of April first started in July '06. we just got it back because the structure changed. If it's upgraded by the end of the year, it will be a surprise.
- Admiral Anika
Yes, AT&T is in trouble, even though Apple just reported that iPhone sales were up 600+% in Q3 2009. Clearly, the iPhone mob—made up of a small subset of Twitter's estimated tiny userbase of 10-15 million users—has taken to the streets with pithforks and fires.
- David Chartier
from iPhone
Yeah, it doesn't seem to be stopping a whole lot of people from buying them.
- Bill Kinney
Ugh I'm so tired of hearing how much the AT&T network stinks when the only people I hear complaining is the SF metro area people. :P
- Nate Pilling
Nate it stinks in LA and NYC too.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Just seems like the big metro areas are echo chambers. :P I'm surprised AT&T doesn't have indestructable networks in place in those areas simply because of that fact.
- Nate Pilling
I live in the Twin Cities and I've never once heard any of my Iphone toting friends complain about the AT&T Network here.
- Bill Kinney
from email
Nate, it does seem repetitive, but it just boggles my mind that I can be in San Francisco, a large tech heavy city and literally get no service. That really sucks. Maybe AT&T needs to think about blanket wifing small highly concentrated urban areas if they can't keep up with the usage and need to take some pressure off their 3G network in heavy use locations.
- Thomas Hawk
I guess it doesn't help that the tech podcasts I listen to are all out of the SF area. I agree, it is very strange, but there are a proportionally large number of iPhone users there, it makes sense. Still, it gets a little old. Plus I'm feeling really grumpy right now, so hey. ;)
- Nate Pilling
I've honestly never had any problems in Orlando. The case for my iPhone (incase power slider) seems to cause some reception issues because of the extra battery, but it's always been snappy, even on edge.
- Ryan Massie
It's sucks in Seattle too.
- Amir
I love my iphone. There were a couple of things that we were disappointed with in the beginning such as downloading pictures I think from another phone or something and they said the app would not be available until August. We did get the 16G and at the time Wal-mart did not have them out on display because they said there were some things that were not ready but we wanted the 16g so it...
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- Tricia Edwards
Nate - In PA most of the time (all over). Stayed with Verizon and the so-called 'non-smart' (this cracks me up) LG Env Touch because AT&T doesn't come close to the coverage in the areas where I am. Not an iPhone but very cool and social apps built-in with a growing Verizon app store in the offing. AT&T was clearly not ready for this. LG makes a solid product in this space.
- Charlie Anzman
I've been whining about this for well over a year... (and Anika has been offering some great insight into what's really going on - lord knows, AT&T won't admit they have a problem or give any honest info). Here in coastal LA (Venice) I get 3G about 20% of the time; EDGE about 60%; GPRS about 20%. That'd be bad enough even without the crappy call quality/dropped calls, terrible...
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- Anthony Citrano
Maybe someone needs to map the "no service" areas... at least in the SF area... if there were an iPhone app, this could easily be done by all the users. Save the GPS data, then upload to the map when internet service is restored...
- Paula W
We had a lot of trouble in our old apartment fairly close in Chicago, but it was a solid brick building built around or before the turn of the 20th century. The building itself is practically a dead zone. In our new place in the Jefferson Park neighborhood, AT&T and 3G are stellar. Sometimes it's less about sheer network performance and more about the building materials you're buried under.
- David Chartier
I had HUGE problems with dropped calls in my suburban NJ location. I called AT&T weekly and finally got a callback from their networking department saying my problem was resolved. My bars went up and my number of dropped calls went down to almost none. In fact, I can even get calls in my basement which didn't happen at all before. My advice is to call often until you are satisfied. The squeaky wheel...
- sean808080
I wonder if there is an issue with the newer IPhones and the network. I rarely have an issue with my 1st generation IPhone. AT&T does need to do something to get people happy with our service again.
- ChiliMac
@ChiliMac Anika can probably answer that better, but it's not that complicated: AT&T simply does not have a national 3G network. They are far behind their competitors. Think of it in terms of supply vs. demand. Their core "supply" of 3G bandwidth is lower than probably any of their competitors (especially in big markets). Yet the demand is skyrocketing for several obvious reasons, not the least of which is market penetration of 3G devices such as the iPhone 3G and 3GS.
- Anthony Citrano
AT&T is pretty much the way to go in the middle of America. Verison is so-so and Sprint is about useless.
- Robert Hafer
from iPhone
Robert - I guess it depends on where you live. In the Minneapolis/St Paul area, all three networks are about even, and TMobile's not bad either.
- Bill Kinney
from email
We have Rogers and Fido, which is way better then at&t. Go Canada (sometimes)
- Zachary TG
@Zach, except that we have to pay thru the nose just to get a data plan at all. Ugh. We need another carrier (not just another rebadge like Koodo or a reseller like Virgin) up here to force Telus, Rogers and Bell to fight to the bottom.
- Matt Mastracci
If AT&T was able to support half of the phone that they have on their network it would be different, but I drive 52 miles on the interstate one way every day... and I drop calls at least 4 times on the road... Maybe one day AT&T will have some competition for the iPhone and will have to do something to the network to keep people happy. But if Verizon was to get any type of iPhone I would cancel my AT&T and pay my cancellation fee before the press release from Verizon could get cold.
- Thomas
Symantec: it’s dangerous to rely on free antivirus - TECH.BLORGE.com
John E. Bredehoft, Walt Ruppar, Joe Silence is Dr. Teeth! and Lindsay is in 20-ten liked this
http://tech.blorge.com/Structu...: /2009/07/04/symantec-its-dangerous-to-rely-on-free-antivirus/#
- Jason, Incognito
from Bookmarklet
Ummmm, did someone break the bookmarklet? An excerpt from the article is supposed to be the first comment. But instead there's this weird link. I'll leave the link for the FF guys to see. Looks like spaces (%20) in URL's aren't being handled properly. Reported here: http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Jason, Incognito
FTA: "A top Symantec executive has hit out at free antivirus software, including Microsoft’s Microsoft Security Essentials, warning consumers that it won’t be enough to keep them safe. Speaking to BLORGE, David Hall, Symantec’s Product Manager Asia-Pacific Consumer Products and Solutions said that free antivirus software isn’t able to keep up with full-price suites like those offered by Symantec."
- Jason, Incognito
Roughly translated, Symantec isn't making as much money now that there are reliable, free alternatives to their bloated, buggy AV.
- Jason, Incognito
EXACTLY! this is a bit like the CEO of News Corporation going on about bloggers.
- Joe Silence is Dr. Teeth!
All taken with a grain of salt since Symantec wants you to use/buy their bloated software. AVG free is fine for most IMHO. If you feel that you need more, then upgrade to a paid version of AVG or something other than Symantec. I have never had fun removing a symantec product in the past. There's always something that doesn't want to uninstall cleanly and I'm not willing to sacrafice system performance for security software when I don't need to.
- Walt Ruppar
from iPhone
Walt, the free trial of Norton that came with my Vista computer is about to expire. I was about to renew, but am reconsidering. Thanks for warning about uninstalling.
- John E. Bredehoft
from fftogo
I am using a program called ClamWin which I saw on Lifehacker.org It is super light weight. I have never really had much of a problem with viruses though. Only had maybe 4 or 5 ever none of which were an issue to remove. I haven't found any yet with ClamWin.
- Geoff Schultz
I use Avast - which seems to work fine... run adaware and spybot S&D every so often, as well...
- Paula W
Gabrielle Reece
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خان دایی سیا, Iván Abrego, Hutch Carpenter and 17 other people liked this
This is a woman who is athletic without looking manly. She's statuesque, even.
- Jason, Incognito
Case in point (slightly NSFW): http://www.webfreepictures.com/IMG...
- Jason, Incognito
Possibly, the first woman you've posted who I agree is beautiful. Maybe the second. And she's smart and funny.
- Admiral Anika
Alek Wek was the other one, right? I think you commented on that one.
- Jason, Incognito
Oh wait, no. That was Kamilah.
- Jason, Incognito
She has no hips.
- Tad
She's just really tall and slim.
- Jason, Incognito
Another favorite GR pic (slightly NSFW): http://www.webfreepictures.com/IMG...
- Jason, Incognito
And this one is just fierce (nude): http://www.webfreepictures.com/IMG... RAWR.
- Jason, Incognito
Got girls on the mind, eh??
- Paula W
I'm straight and I have a penis. (Any more explanation needed?) ;-)
- Jason, Incognito
RAWR is right!
- Christopher Harley
Staff strip naked to improve morale - Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news...
HealingBrush, Baard @ Pixum, fbrunel and 45 other people liked this
"David Taylor, a business psychologist, told workers at design and marketing onebestway, in Newcastle upon Tyne, that a Naked Friday idea would boost their team spirit. He was called in to help the firm after six staff members were forced into taking redundancies at the start of the credit crunch. Mr Taylor told them that, by stripping off their clothes, staff could also strip away inhibitions and talk to each other more openly and honestly. He said: "Inviting an organisation to go naked is the most extreme technique I've used. It may seem weird but it works. It's the ultimate expression of trust in yourself and each other." Despite some initial reluctance, nearly all the staff took off all their clothes – except for one man, who wore a posing pouch, and one of two female workers, who kept on black underwear."
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
这能干活吗？
- K.D.
I predict an influx of new applicants to the company hoping to be a part of this tradition =P
- vijay
:-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
damn!!!! i wish i were part of this :P
- Gtp19
a small thought... With nudist beaches and colonies, have you ever met a blind nudist?
- alphaxion
I don't think working naked would help my morale: my office gets chilly.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
"The experiment in April was filmed for a one-off TV show, Naked Office, to be screened on July 9 on cable channel Virgin 1". Aaahh, marketing...
- Jérôme Flipo
Unfortunatly I got only bellied and bearded male colleages, seeing them buck naked definitely would not improve my moral...
- mr-mojo-risin
Um.
- felix
Think of the money they saved by not running the AC so much! ;)
- CAJ, somewhere else
I don't think I would want to share a seat with anyone after this free show Friday event.
- Janet
o_O
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
*thinks about workplace* OHH HELL NO
- Mo Kargas
No!
- Diego Barros
from iPhone
This is a dumb idea. Somebody just made this up so he could see one of the female co-workers naked. It's a plot.
- Jason, Incognito
Mission: Get publicity. Status: Accomplished.
- Stephen Mack
I'd rather keep my co-workers than have Naked Fridays, thanks.
- Andrew C
what is customer's opinion? :-D
- A.T.
Maybe that one man who wouldn't strip quite all the way had a change of heart once he was on this usair flight. :). http://wcbstv.com/local...
- edythe
from iPhone
Gosh, this so doesn't jive with all the stuff they were talking in that sexual harassment prevention training I had to take for work ;-)
- Paula W
I declare tomorrow Naked Friday on Friendfeed!
- Sparky
Yeah. Uh. No.
- Alix Whitmire
آخر زمان!!!! :OOOOOOOO
- pepella
I had heard this for building better relations with your spouce. This looks a rather too much
- Nitin Nanivadekar
I doubt we'll get anything done in such environment
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
getting naked is nothing much (except being silly), but losing all my pockets?? never! [-:
- 9000
This is an employment legislation minefield of course but it does have some merit.
- Kevin J Hatton
wow, what an extreme idea! cool shit man. more companies shld adopt such techniques to improve their working lifestyle and team work!
- Donovan Low
Some people must work with much younger and thinner folks than I do. This would be depressing around my office. I'll bet all the guys would "hang out" at one particular desk.
- Phil Boiarski
Gross Alert: In Texas we have "fire ants." This is what a bite looks like a few days later.
Danny Raines, Timo Heuer, Akiva Moskovitz and 20 other people liked this
So nasty.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
from email
PLAGUE OF ANTS!
- Christopher Harley
When they bite, it fuckin HURTS too. I've got about four more of these on my foot from the tubing campsite. :(
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Fire ants deserve no mercy. Nuke'em all!
- ha3rvey (wants confit)
Agreed Ha3rvey! They can take those nasty giant flying cockroaches with em.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
ouch
- johnpiercy
I've heard that the only good thing about fire ants is that they eat termites. Not sure which is the worse plague.
- ha3rvey (wants confit)
Bright side? Could have been a tick http://ff.im/4CbNk
- Christopher Harley
EEEK. This is true, Christopher.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
AAKKK!!
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Man that looks like it hurts :(
- martha
More annoying than anything else. It itches but I can't scratch it. Here's more on fire ants: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
"Unlike many other ants, which bite and then spray acid on the wound, fire ants only bite to get a grip and then sting (from the abdomen) and inject a toxic alkaloid venom called Solenopsin, a compound from the class of piperidines. For humans, this is a painful sting, it hurts, a sensation similar to what one feels when burned by fire—hence the name fire ant—and the aftereffects of the sting can be deadly to sensitive individuals."
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Grow some aloe vera. When you're bitten, break off a tip and rub the aloe juice on the bite. Works best on a fresh bite.
- Steve Lowe
Yep. I remember those little bastards only too well.
- Steven Perez
Pop it!
- Rodfather
Already did, Rod. Had to use a sterilized push pin. It was nasty.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Did you cry?
- Matthew DeVries
Nope. It wasn't THAT painful. I tear up more from trimming my nose hairs. :D
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
o_O
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
thing is, so-called "fire ants" aren't actually ants at all, they're a type of wingless wasp. so those are stings and not bites.
- Joe Silence is Dr. Teeth!
:-O
- Anna Haro
we have those here too
- mjc
They're primarily in the south, coming from Mexico. They're spreading north quickly though. Little mean ass bastards.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Ouch
- Tyson Key
When I get those I end up scratching myself to the bone. I just...can't...help..it.
- Josh Haley
Every time I see this I wanna scratch it sooo bad! That would probably hurt though huh?
- pea
I HATE FIRE ANTS!!!!! And there have been several reports of them here in Virginia so far this summer. :(
- Ladybug Heather
They are such hyper-agressive, fearsome buggers. Hate 'em.
- Patrick Jordan
Did you video the popping process? Juicy!
- Mellissa
Yikes
- BeeLing
And they seem to wait until they are all over your leg then start biting at once. Ack. :(
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Fire ants were in the top 20 reasons why I hated living in FL.
- April Russo (app103)
That's one thing I REALLY don't miss about living in Texas...
- Paula W
yikes.
- Thomas Hawk
Every Texas kid has at least one summer where they stumble into a fire ant bed.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Mississippi has those, that's one of the many reasons I left
- Sandra
ouchie... benadryl creme
- Yolanda
=O
- Shevonne
Women 'happiest at 28' - Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health...
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"Researchers discovered women feel most confident and happy with their love life and body shape shortly before they reach 30. It is also the period in their life when they enjoy the best sex – but the happiness is relatively shortlived.Because by the time they have turned 30 they start worrying about growing old and developing grey hair and wrinkles. A spokesman for home hair colour brand Clairol Perfect 10, which carried out the study of 4,000 women, said: "Everything in life hits its peak at some point, and nearly reaching your thirties isn't so bad now. "The age of 28 has been pinpointed as the time in a woman's life their hair looks the best, body shape is at its peak and confidence is at an all-time high.
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
"According to the results, women are happiest in their career at 29 and most content with their relationships one year later at 30, despite having the best sex at 28. But all is not lost for the over 30s, as women feel most content with their financial situation at 33 and at ease with their home and family life at 32. The research found two thirds of women feel they age more quickly...
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- RAPatton
Man, I'm screwed. It's all downhill from here. (wife just turned 30) :->
- Bill Kinney
It's all over, then.
- Paula W
Screw that; my 30s are much more awesome than my 20s. Plus my grey hair is pretty.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Prefect smiles, how boring..........Hey Tina how does 40's grab you?
- Kevin J Hatton
I wonder what the reliability rating from a survey from Clairol Perfect 10 is?
- Pete Delucchi
40's BABY!!!
- BEX
What BEX said...and we're still in our 30's. :)
- Josh Haley
Won't know till I get there, Kevin, but I have high hopes =) You know what grinds me about this article? They're saying ladies are happiest at 28 and all their reasonings have to do with how they look. Forget that...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
ffenigma: of course they are, it's a survey by a beauty products company.
- Bill Kinney
Meh to the article. My 30s were way better than my 20s, which were just fine. And I plan on rocking the shit out of my 40s.
- Ayşe E.
You are right Tina. It is all a load of bollocks!. True happiness can happen at any time, if you have your health and a good state of mind. Look at all the 'beautiful people' who end up so unhappy because they chased so called 'perfection'.
- Kevin J Hatton
un-thanks and un-like.
- edythe
Yes, but look at who did the survey...nuff said.
- WorldofHiglet
Ha! I was in Iraq at 28!
- Michelle Martinez
28 actually was one of my worst years. Try again, Telegraph.
- Melissa
Yeah, not so much. Gained 75lbs that year. I think I could have lived my whole life without that year.
- Jennifer Dittrich
28 was stupid. And sorry folks, but I'm not thinking the surveyed any black women. Black women don't worry about wrinkles too much. But other than that just in general -- I think If the research was done in UK there's a totally different attitude than in the U.S. anyway.
- Lynne d Johnson
I will never understand how these papers can publish another silly survey every single day and get the same outrageous reaction.
- Richard Lawler
Then they marry and it's downhill happiness from there?
- Diego Barros
The 30's have been the best years of my life :)
- Penny
Ok, so if I listen to this. I have one year to look Fantastic, and one other year to be incredibly productive, and then I'm screwed?! Yes, and next you'll try to sell me the Brooklyn Bridge for a dollar.
- Nimabeckie
perhaps i am unique, but i find this most definitely untrue.... at 52.5 yrs i am happier than ever. happiness from within grows with us in years. women who say that they were/are happier at 28 may be looking from a shallower reserve. the mention of hair care could be true...for i have been continually caring for my hair at home from about 28.
- Magdalena Bailleres
It didn't work for me. I was more depressed with 28. And I'm worry with grey hair and wrinkles since ever! :|
- Bibi
Hey, I'm 28. So.....is this it? Hope not. I'm fairly content, but I'm not where I ultimately want to be.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
[Loren's Brain Scan]: This was taken on the 25th. You can see Loren's "small lemon sized" tumor in the frontal lobe as well as the edema (swelling). He said he doesn't have a headache but just feels pressure. The steroids are helping reduce the swelling.
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Goodness gracious.
- DGentry
Rob - Doctors are taking the approach that this is related to the colon cancer. My conjecture: It is a slow growing cancer - and so this was going on for awhile. Regardless, he has excellent care. The surgery team is prepping Loren now (his IV now has vitamin K dripping) but are doing their best to get the swelling down first. This is an urgent case but not an emergency. Therefore,...
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- LPH™ and his dog P™
Wishing Loren the best. Keep us up to date!
- Kevin C. Tofel
Of course Rob - He knows and so does the family.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
Good thoughts headed yoru way
- Erin @queenofspain
I posted a colorized version here: http://friendfeed.com/lph...
- LPH™ and his dog P™
I hope this all goes well - I have two friends who both had brain tumors (married to each other!)...
- Paula W
Lindsay Lohan posts topless picture on Twitter
Oh good lord, I don’t know which is worse, Lohan for doing it or The Daily News for reporting it, but either way, this ain’t exactly topless!!!
Seriously, you could see more if she was wearing a bikini top… yet this is risque? Grow up America. - http://wolfman-k.com/post...
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I do feel sorry 4 her, but thats it! 4 exposure! :(
- polou/indigo_bow
yeah total pub stunt, and it freaking worked... lame.
- Wolfman-K
We all agree that she is hot thought, right?
- Andrew
yeah, even from a female pt of view lol
- polou/indigo_bow
If you think hot is a bony girl who looks like she has a drug habit. That shot looks photoshopped, actually...
- Paula W
paula I was teasing those guys, knowing guys r guys!
- polou/indigo_bow
So I keep reading (even tonight on FF) about Allergy Induced Autism. My wife buys a LOT of whole wheat stuff. For a normal person, that might be okay. But wheat is a trigger of AIA, right?
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I don't know enough about gluten-free eating, I guess. Other than the little bit I learned in SC at the street market. #ignoranceisnotbliss
- Jason, Incognito
There's a ton of information about celiac online (which is what my sister has) and food as related to autistic symptoms, but whether the two lines of symptoms are somehow related remains to be seen. It's really hard to go gluten free when you're getting started (for instance: can't have normal soy sauce) but it can be done.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Putting too much faith in scientists at this point when you start throwing around definitive words like "trigger". At best these things are loosely correlative with zero mechanism posited. The best research to start following and funding is the group who has finally been able to put a true biomarker on Autism (heretofore it was "your kid is acting autistic best we can tell") with the...
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- Matthew DeVries
@MDV, I won't argue that point. But it doesn't hurt to try. What if gluten *is* the problem. My oldest son does have behavioral issues that could be diet-related. If we don't tell him we've changed his diet and his behavior changes, isn't that enough anecdotal evidence to make the change permanent?
- Jason, Incognito
As for biological proof that my son is autistic, my oldest son is the clinical definition of that. Finding a biomarker is all fine and good, but that doesn't treat the problem.
- Jason, Incognito
But it can be valuable to know it's Autism vs. Aspergers or other similar symptoms with vastly different treatments and outcome expectations, let you know if you need to think about whole life care or not. As far as the diet-induced behavior issues, it could be that without being anything under that austims umbrella at all and by all means should be looked into.
- Matthew DeVries
Oh, well, I admit I've been using the broad term "autism". My son is an Aspie. Clinically diagnosed.
- Jason, Incognito
I'd imagine an Atkins cookbook, using induction phase recipes would be an easy way to prep a month of diets, to test it out.
- Matthew DeVries
I'm just imagining though
- Matthew DeVries
Yeah, I'm thinking of going that direction. I was considering doing it myself (I'm an Aspie, too, actually), then seeing if it does anything for my son.
- Jason, Incognito
from IM
Do what you can to make the transition or trial period as normal as possible: you'd be amazing how stressful it can be trying to find GF food on the fly. My sister can't eat out on a whim, can't order the daily special, can't use the condiments provided on the table... GF alternatives like the nut based crackers, corn pasta, and GF baking mix will make it easier to eat like 'normal' people and not feel so deprived. Like the cobblers I made yesterday: those had a GF crust.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I once treated a kid with Asperperger's really badly, at an age where I should have known better. I didn't realize yet the lack of ability to read mood, affect, prying, and personal space - which is a button for me otherwise, so I reacted coldly, not meanly I guess, by most people's definition not mean, but colder than I should have.
- Matthew DeVries
I did Atkins induction phase ages ago for PCOS and felt so much better (if starving), and then moved into phase 2 and got sick again -- took me years to make the gluten connection there. That said, I wouldn't do Atkins again. It was way restrictive for me since I don't like meat (I was eating like a cup of lettuce and 2 tablespoons of sour cream every day or something.)
- Alix Whitmire
Jason, my son was diagnosed with ADHD at 6 years old and we chose not to medicate him. I did not try the gluten-free diet but I know people who have and were successful. We chose to cut out processed and refined sugar and refined carbs. It made a huge difference in his sleeping habits and his ability to focus and concentrate. This was one of the books recommended to me: http://www.amazon.com/Kid-Fri...
- Trish R
Yeah, i just threw Atkins induction out there, because from a novice stand point, you can pick up the book and walk into the grocery store and know everything to buy for week/month, and run a good test. Once you know what you're dealing with, become an expert in where gluten hides.
- Matthew DeVries
Thanks Trish! Yeah, our son was diagnosed just before he turned 4. We haven't ever medicated him either. He's a fairly mild case, but it would be nice if we could improve his moodiness, hyperactivity and concentration.
- Jason, Incognito
Having done Atkins induction on purpose: it's tired and emotionally draining. Thinking about your food is a good think: obsessing about it isn't. There's no real way to do a covert clinical trial with anyone if you're doing induction...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
@MDV, no worries. It's actually a great place to start, it appears (I'm googling like a mad man right now). I'll try it out.
- Jason, Incognito
Simple sugars and over-processed foods aren't good for any kid. As someone who has taught kids, and seen the effects of sugar on their ability to concentrate and behave, I can tell you, they are better off without soda, candy, sugary cereals, and other american junk foods (except on special occasions).
- Paula W
@Tina, good point. Although I think he probably wouldn't notice if I didn't draw attention to it. One of the great things about Aspies-- they're easily distracted. ;-)
- Jason, Incognito
Watch my feed, I'll post some of my favorite GF staples. I try to keep them on hand for when my sister visits for dinner.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
@PaulaW, couldn't agree more. America is a pre-packaged meal society. And that's a bad thing in general.
- Jason, Incognito
I've been screaming about Michael Pollan everywhere I go for the last month now. "In Defense of Food" and "The Omnivore's Dilema" every human should read these.
- Matthew DeVries
'Could just go whole foods diet for a while - fruit, veggies, meat, rice. If you're avoiding casein, too, skip the milk and dairy. If you need a sandwich-type base, try Corn Thins.
- Alix Whitmire
Wow, Michael Pollan is a truth-sayer... "Instead of food, we're consuming "edible foodlike substances" -- no longer the products of nature but of food science." Wonder if his books are available in audio format?
- Jason, Incognito
There's a lot of freaking out about gluten. I know folks who avoid wheat, etc. Any food to excess is bad- but it itself isn't bad. Whole wheat products are great, just don't let them over-represent your diet. Just finished up reading the rest of the thread- I so need to stop posting before doing that! - thing about flagging specific foods as good/bad, that I object to, is that whole...
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- anna sauce
Sweet. Once again, my Audible subscription comes through.
- Jason, Incognito
from IM
There's a good argument for more moderation in cakes/cookies/breads/pasta in that they are quick metabolizing, vs. slow-metabolizing foods, and send us into sugar induced highs, that creates a moodswing craziness. Eating slower-releasing foods like whole grains, vegetables, small amounts of protein, etc. and smaller portions- helps our metabolism manage the sugar release.
- anna sauce
Anna, that depends. My sister is a celiac, so even if she has plain rolled oats she gets ill. The gluten in the oats destroys the lining of her intestines, even when it's minimally processed.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I'm getting this all from Jungle Effect, of which I am a blatant convert. http://www.amazon.com/Jungle-... favorite dishes so far- fish hash, black bean salad, caraway rye bread
- anna sauce
Right, Tina, not talking about your sister. Just talking about folks who villainize gluten to detox/manage moods.
- anna sauce
Well, my son and I don't have celiac, I'm sure of that. But as one might expect, our diet can effect you one way or another. I just know that my diet is extremely poor right now, so any change is going to be a positive change.
- Jason, Incognito
from IM
@anna, I've been asking my wife to cook more fish, have fewer starches in our diet, etc. She's made some changes for the good, so I can't complain. But being in the South (I know Tina, we're not the "real" South :-P) makes it hard.
- Jason, Incognito
Anna, I'm a big proponent of as unprocessed a diet as possible (at least, within the constraints of other medical conditions). I fail at it often but I always keep it in my mind to try and make better choices. For certain medical conditions (like my sister's celiac or my FIL's diabetes), we make concessions on including processed foods (nut based crackers, Splenda, etc) for an improved emotional quality of life.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Yeah, we made concerted effort to use fewer processed foods over the past few months. We grew our own garden (which the Texas heat has taken from us at this point), we're cooking more meals rather than getting take-out, etc. As for myself, I really just need to get off my lazy ass and exercise, but it's more than that for my son. I'll keep you guys posted on how it goes.
- Jason, Incognito
Anna, I think the "freaking out" is mostly due to researchers finding the Celiac is much more common than once thought, and that there are a lot of people out there undiagnosed because of it. I don't like to label foods good or bad universally, but certain foods for certain individuals really are bad for them. Today's wheat is engineered to have a lot more gluten than yesterday's wheat, and maybe some bodies just can't handle that.
- Alix Whitmire
Alix, while we're talking about whole wheat & white flour- both of which I'm sure we agree are highly processed and very dissimilar to the food they used to be, ha- whey is basically in almost every processed cookie and cake. I think the world is going to realize they have a sensitivity to lactose because they consume the biproduct in every other thing. Oh, and don't get me started on pasteurization of US milk and all of the way our population is f-ed up in that regard.
- anna sauce
I'm a hippie-sf-foodie, if you couldn't tell by now. OK off to the gym.
- anna sauce
I <3 anna. Even though I'm not a hipie-sf-foodie, I agree with you 100%. I really wish our area was more organic/unprocessed-friendly.
- Jason, Incognito
Anna - they're talking about Celiac disease, a well characterized disease with an identified receptor defect, an identified trigger, and well defined biochemical cascade with known causes, and genetic suscebtibility. You're talking about it like it's one of these new age diseases that people claim to have but no scientist has ever been able to define a symptom or DDX for like chronic...
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- Matthew DeVries
Matthew, in a way you and Anna are both right. Low gluten food still irritates my sister, but not as badly as high gluten food (which results in spewing from both ends...). So yeah, her body can't process gluten properly and it eats away the lining of her intestines. Higher processed flour that has higher gluten content will affect her more. And to that point, people can develop celiac...
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- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
And over-exposure to an antigen, especially at an early age, would drive tolerance of the immune system, not hypersensitivity. Allergies arise because the body has paired antigen exposure and cell death and thus set itself up surveillance for that antigen and clears it when seen.
- Matthew DeVries
Jason Huebel - "I really wish our area was more organic/unprocessed-friendly." - What part of Texas do you live in?
- Christopher Harley
Orange, TX. It's about 10 minutes from the Louisiana border and 20 minutes from the Gulf of Mexico. It's 30 minutes to the only Basic Foods grocery store within 100 miles.
- Jason, Incognito
I see. Basic Foods is a chain I take it?
- Christopher Harley
Yeah, kind of our version of Whole Foods. It's a good store. It's just not conveniently located.
- Jason, Incognito
A couple of thoughts on options: buy a bread maker and make that fresh at home (it'll be tastier and cheaper, plus you can buy better ingredients in bulk once every couple of months), and see if there are any local veggie growers that will sell you some of their crop (ditto anyone with some laying hens for eggs). You'll be able to get fresher items for less without traveling the extra distance.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Jason, have you been to Pure Foods in Lake Charles? http://www.purefoodsandhealth.com
- Rochelle
Have you ever heard of Azure Standard http://www.azurestandard.com/ or considered using Amazon Prime for bulk items of the less processed sort? http://www.amazon.com/Natural...
- Christopher Harley
@Rochelle, first I've heard of it, actually. It's 45 minutes away though, so Basic Foods is closer.
- Jason, Incognito
@Chris, great suggestions. I'm not an Amazon Prime member (at the moment), but that's a great idea.
- Jason, Incognito
$75 per year.
- Christopher Harley
Hey Jason, for children who have autism the younger the diagnosis the better obviously many nutritionists and doctors recommend a gluten free diet. We know of one family who did this with their autistic child and the results were dramatic. We know another child with autism who's had dramatic improvements through speech and behavioral therapy. I don't think they've established a causation between gluten and autism but it can be a factor.
- Steve C
PS as you can see there's lots of people on FF with gluten free advice, Alix Whitmore is very good, and our household is gluten free due to celiac disease ping with any questions. And yes gluten is in everything it seems until you get used to shopping that way. Best wishes.
- Steve C
Jason, well, on the chance you feel like driving east instead of west to Beaumont, go check it out. I've not been, but the website makes it sound nice! :)
- Rochelle
Thank you EVERYONE for all the suggestions. I think with ongoing advice from people here I could at least reduce the gluten in our diet. I'll keep you posted.
- Jason, Incognito
I didn't see RAPatton chime in here, but IIRC, his wife and one son eat gluten-free, so I bet he'd have some ideas, too.
- Rochelle
I get a lot of stuff from Amazon's Subscribe and Save. 15% off plus free shipping. Last thing was 4 pounds of buckwheat groats for $11 vs $6 a pound at the local co-op.
- Alix Whitmire
"Web 2.0 was created so that people could publish cute photos of their cats. But this same cat dissemination technology has proved extremely helpful for activists, who’ve turned these tools to their own purposes." - Ethan Zuckerman (http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog...)
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haha awesome quote.
- Geoff Schultz
Nice. The Cute Cat Theory. From @EthanZ in 2007. Reading old blogs? Great find!
- thinkQuick
I thought Web 2.0 was created to more efficiently deliver Porn
- Bastard Operator From FF
Bizarre. I was under the impression Web 2.0 was created for people to publish cute (and not so cute) photos of themselves. :)
- Mona Nomura
Web 2.0 was created *for cats* to publish cute photos of themselves.
- Amit Patel
Heck, a cat can program a robot, why not? http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Paula W
: ) - "Twitter lets Robert Scoble tell me what he’s doing 200 freaking times a day… but it also lets me know whether Egyptian activists have been released from the police station when they go in for questioning."
- Sarah Miller
Cat dissemination technology. LOL. :)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Simon Pegg is deadly serious about his Hollywood ambitions - Times Online - http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol...
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"Far from the hapless image he portrays on screen, Simon Pegg is deadly serious about his Hollywood ambitions. Here he may be best known for his roles as an uptight cop or zombie chaser, but in LA he’s a friend to A-list stars and hotly sought after by directors from Tarantino to Spielberg."
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
"Pegg talks happily about looking forward to the baby’s arrival, and the admission is a surprise. Pegg is well known for being tight-lipped about his private life. For many years, he wouldn’t even confirm in interviews that Maureen once worked as a PR in the music industry. Now she makes a brief appearance, wandering out in her dressing gown, looking serenely pregnant, and offering to...
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- RAPatton
"Writing his own gigs remains as important to him as acting. Pegg tries to write for five months of the year, because, “You can be lured by the fun of acting. But I love writing with Nick and Edgar.” When the shooting for Paul has finished, he will be back writing with Edgar Wright. There is to be a third in what he calls his “blood and ice-cream trilogy”. But before that, he will have...
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- RAPatton
“The way I see it is that Maureen hasn’t chosen to do this job. I have. And I know how taxing it is to endure scrutiny. At no point did she sign up for that, so I like to keep things separate.” Class act. Be up front like that and it is surprising how much the press respects it too.
- Michael W. May
I Heart Simon Pegg. Just saying.
- David Cook - 2010!!!
reminds me, I need to see Sean Of The Dead again soon
- BEX
I am a big fan of him and his movies...
- Paula W
Big Nothing was one of the worst movies ever made.
- Richard Lawler
Point of fact: Simon Pegg didn't write or produce Big Nothing ;)
- Michael W. May
Which is a good thing, but just hearing he was in it was enough for me to queue it up on Netflix and omg that is two hours Ican't get back. I implore everyone not to watch.
- Richard Lawler
Fashion Reaches Out to Heavier Young Women - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
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- Caroline
I love this pic in the grocery aisle. The guy in the back is simultaneously terrified and aroused.
- Christopher Harley
"“Up to now it’s been difficult to provide adequate fashion content to a large-sized customer,” said Jeff Van Sinderen, a retail analyst at B. Riley, a research and investment firm." <-- ain't that the damn truth. "The woman of size, as she is euphemistically known, “still wants to wear the same clothes as her slimmer counterparts,” he added." <-- but this proves they still don't get...
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- Lindsay is in 20-ten
I mostly just want to be able to find skirts that don't go down to my ankles.
- Alix Whitmire
I find it interesting that clothing for larger women usually means either the same clothing meant for boobless sticks, only bigger, or really loose baggy sacks that they can hide in, often with horrible patterns. Frankly, there are cuts of fabric, choices in pattern and shapes, that will really accentuate a larger woman's best features, and flatter her curves. And larger women often need the fabrics to be doubled, or lined. Which is more expensive in terms of fabric, so many companies just don't do it.
- Paula W
@Paula - totally agree. And even if they do make the clothes most of the time they still have skinny models modeling it (skinny being size 6-8 instead of the standard emaciated size 0) when it should be 14+ sized models to show off the actual fit of the clothes because they have to alter them to fit the skinnier girls. That has always annoyed me. Like "we make clothes for large women but we're too embarrassed to show them on women they actually fit!".
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
I hate that word, "heavier". Just call me fat, dammit. That's what I am.
- B. Hatin
You come sit on my lap and I'll call you She-Ra Princess of Power if you like.
- B. Hatin
I like 'em "heavy". Not boney twigs. Curves FTW!
- Danny Minick
I can only think that calling a plus-size dress "Maxi" was a mistake.
- Paula W
*snort* LOL! a maxi dress mostly refers to the length, FWIH
- B. Hatin
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