The phrase "DAMN YOU, STEVEN PEREZ!" originated from the lips of Mark Wilson, formerly of the podcast Ffundercats, usually in response to some silliness perpetuated by Steven Perez in the uStream chat room associated with the live recordings that the Ffundercats do every Friday evening.
- Steven Perez
Damnit. I missed DYSP day. :-( I couldn't remember whether it was 7 or 14 days before DYLH day. Alas, I was driving back from Maryland after rescuing my parents. Is it too late to damn you, Steven Perez? Or just send wishes of a happy day that doesn't happen to be the anniversary of the day you entered the world?
- Ladyepiphanybug
It's never too late to say DYSP! :)
- Steven Perez
from IM
Hmm. I need them to cover at least one more knuckle joint, plskthx. That's much better for arthritis support.
- Ladyepiphanybug
@Kaia -- it is SO MUCH FUN to call a man's underwear 'panties.' They get so hung up on the manliness of their underthings. It's one of my favorite pastimes. :-D
- Ladyepiphanybug
Okay, I posted this to Facebook with the title, "My birthday's coming up...just sayin'." My friend responds: "First off, I'm pretty sure your birthday is in November, so, while it IS technically "coming up," it's not coming up for a while and it seems a bit premature to start giving everyone gift-giving ideas. Second, my birthday is right before yours, and, as it's "coming up" sooner, I prefer jewelry, people. :) Third...what the HELL is the fly for?" She just cracks me up.
- Anika
Interesting. Does the flap work? Because whipping your middle finger out of those would be hilarious!
- caj needs a haircut
I want them for derby to wear under my wrist guards: these would be much easier to toss in the washer than the guards.
- FFing Enigma
@Tina, good thinking! Since I own enough various braces, splints, and supports to stock a medical supply center (or perhaps a sports medicine clinic), I do get tired of the braces getting stanky and nasty and not having a good way to clean them... and they're too expensive to just throw out and replace.
- Ladyepiphanybug
And yes, @Curtis, that does sound hilarious! :-D
- Ladyepiphanybug
IMHO this is how men should do it. Let alone the saving, and money. It teachs you how to be calm, how to do things like men do: "avec classe". The fast-food... fast-everything mentality is ruining good ol' things :)
- directeur
Agreed. I've always used a brush and soap. It's my morning meditation.
- Rob H.
I shave with a brush and mug shaving soap but as far as razors, I'm sticking with a modern computer-aided design, vibrating triple-blade.
- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
I've been thinking about this a lot lately because I'm tired of giving Gillette all my money. Those quadruple blades are a rip off. I get a great shave, but it ain't cheap. Plus, I like the idea of creating a ritual and exploring and buying all the accoutrements.
- Graham English
I'm 32 and to be honnest I still have a very smooth and fragile skin, but I don't fear to cut myself. Sure I used to cut myself when I was 15-16, but now it's all zen :)
- directeur
always admire a man who actually shaves like this and doesn't have the gear in their bathroom for show.
- Anna Lynn M.
Matthew: It's true. Depilatory cream is another popular option. /Jews have 'fros too.
- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
Tis true. I used to use a depilatory until I just let my facial hair grow out. More often than not, I have a beard, but the commercial mass market razors have gotten better.
- Derrick
This is how I have shaved now for years. Could never go back to crap supermarket stuff now. Love my Merkur razor and Castle Forbes Cream!
- Jeff (Team マクダジ )
from iPhone
The article recommends against grain. No no no. With, even across, but never against. Asking for trouble.
- Jeff (Team マクダジ )
from iPhone
My alum block lasts years. Years I say. I have had it for 3 years and it is like new
- Jeff (Team マクダジ )
from iPhone
Matthew - maybe I have a wuss face , but if I do that my face is destroyed by a gazillion ingrown hairs. I go with grain, then across grain, and I get a baby butt smooth shave.
- Jeff (Team マクダジ )
from iPhone
That's how my late husband shaved - and he used his father's old safety razor, with a shaving mug and badger brush.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Anyone looking to start needs to check out Mantic59's videos on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user... --- I've been shaving this way for the last couple of years and the only downside is that it's somewhat time consuming. Fortunately, my boss doesn't care whether I'm clean-shaven every morning, so I shave every couple-few days and it works great.
- Jered Hofker
Yeah, Jared. I spent a good hour watching most of his videos. Great stuff.
- Graham English
Graham, at any point did you start to feel like a creep for spending so much time watching a dude shave? =)
- Jered Hofker
LOL I definitely laughed at myself for watching a dude shave for so long. Laughed at him too. He's pretty corny but made me laugh out loud a few times. :) He's like the David Pogue of shaving.
- Graham English
Thanks for posting this Graham! I usually have a full beard but have been experienting w/ a clean shave lately. I bought an electric razor month ago and it just hacks my face up. My shave seems to better w/ disposable razors. I'm going to try out this method to how this works. How long does one razor last? Black guys generally do have more issues w/ ingrown hairs and I'm no exception.
- Vaughn
from BuddyFeed
Razor life depends a lot on how coarse your facial hair is, from what I understand -- think I usually get 3-5 shaves out of a blade. When you can get good blades for $0.20 each, that's not so bad. =) http://www.amazon.com/Derby-E...
- Jered Hofker
Never thought of it that way, but I can definitely see the David Pogue there. lol
- Jered Hofker
haha thats awesome!! High five rachael! :)
- (jeff)isageek
Yay! Laura got it! I just adore "The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things..." That stanza is definitely in my top ten favorite stanzas of poetry ever. :-)
- Ladyepiphanybug
We nixed Gopher access at the last minute because we found our gopher servers couldn't handle the load.
- Kevin Fox
Ha! I saved a copy of the Trojan Room Coffee Cam page, complete with captured picture (which I then had to view offline, as I could not configure the Lynx to display in parallel ;-))
- ianf ⌘
Speaking of which, I always wondered at the default gray background choice of the first Netscape browser(s). It looked too sophisticated to have been accidental. In hindsight, however, someone there must've misunderstood basic usability, e.g. optimal contrast ratios? [And then a year later someone had that unbright idea of turning homepages black for a day's web protest against some...
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- ianf ⌘
ianf: The gray background was the default in Mosaic, so Netscape was just keeping the status quo. The black background protest was against the Communications Decency Act, which would have made lots of innocent speech illegal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Gabe
Obviously fake. :) The menu bar entries are anti-aliased.
- Andy Bakun
Ray Cromwell, with the pixels being so much bigger back then, I suspect that the continued need for button bars was the impetus behind increasing screen resolutions.
- Andy Bakun
If this was supposed to be March 5, 1995, that was before Sun announced Java, so the coffee pot needing Java joke wouldn't have made sense yet.
- Gabe
Damn, just by me "viewing" the image that mentioned Java, I got a "Java Update Available" window. I'm not kidding, it popped up the second the image loaded... I hate Java. This is a great parody though, good work.
- Joel Strellner
It seems very possible that she's receiving absolutely no counsel on these speeches.
- Graham English
Thank god the other side didn't win. Geesh.
- Joshua Schnell
Well, the least she could have done was edit her own speech, then! Or ask her husband or a friend or SOMEONE to get a second set of eyes on it. Lord.
- Ladyepiphanybug
You're right. And that's the point. She's insular.
- Graham English
I'm confused. Did they edit a transcript or an actual draft of the speech? This looks like someone at the Federal News Service transcribed what she said. Not saying it was a good speech (it wasn't), but that does make a difference. Also, Vanity Fair's floating-in-your-face ads suck!
- Jered Hofker
Jared, it was a transcript. But generally, people read speeches. So I doubt she said anything different from the written speech except for maybe the intro and some nervous transitions.
- Graham English
I so enjoyed this, though it's shocking to think this was Palin's final version of the speech, considering how painfully awkward it was. It's clear that the highly paid operatives that came along w/ the McCain team are now long gone. The sheer rambling incoherence of this speech—and all that it unintentionally reveals about her—oy. I wanted to be even harder on this than the Vanity Fair eds were. (Must be nice to have a team of eds, griped the entire lit/copyedit/rsch dept.) :)
- Ayşe E.
"If you grow zucchini in your garden, and you're the kind of wonderful person who brings your neighbors a share of your bounty, and such bounty includes foot-long several pound zucchinis, might I suggest that you include a recipe to accompany such a welcome gift? I'm not kidding! Seriously, we have such a wonderful neighbor, Pat, who not only brings over freshly picked, glorious produce, but tried and true recipes as well. The following stuffed zucchini recipe is adapted from one that Pat brought us last week, along with a 2-pound zucchini, and we loved it. It tastes like it is stuffed with Italian pork sausage, but the stuffing is actually lean ground turkey with garlic, herbs, and mushrooms. Enjoy."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
the bigger the zucchini the more of a bitter taste, is there something to put directly on it to stop the bitterness
- wanda rawlins (lou)
Wanda - just cover it (lightly) in Salt, let that draw out the bitterness. Wash off the salt after 10 minutes or so, that should sort it out.
- Iain Baker
thank you i will I have 5 large ones on my counter as we speak, i use the little ones for jam,jelly and bread
- wanda rawlins (lou)
I do notice a dip in activity when the weather is nice. It picks back up on hot or rainy days.
- Heather Solos
With portable computing, perhaps that'swhy geeks are going outdoors now
- Keith Barrett
Can't comment, literally stepping out the door for a hike, laters!
- James Watters
I started jogging after being inspired by Loic and lost 3 stone. With a young child I was worried about the statistic that if you are fat, your kid is more likely to grow up fat. Feels good to be less fat.
- Mark
Yaniel: surfing is a lot harder than it looks, especially for a geek that doesn't get much exercise.
- Robert Scoble
you have to go there to write about it. life is hard. sic luceat lux
- paulie 2.0
The sun is good for geeks. I am now offering surfing lessons for other geeks, send me a DM if you want to go out. I give a I know you from friendfeed discount :)
- Luke Kilpatrick
Luke: would love to take you up on that .... In Biarritz, France ? ;)
- Nicholas Paul Gordon
from iPhone
I'm pretty sure I've gotten sunburn on my face from riding my cycle. I think that's what caused the flaking skin. I dunno about this outdoors thing. Maybe camping?
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
Your picture looks all weird and mostly green? I give up
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Jered, Helvetica, baby. It is one of the choices for a theme here at FF. I love it because it is minimal and yes it is white. One thing I have found out about FF is that it is not boring.
- Brent - Yes I am
Rasmus, My picture is green, or at least a lot of it. Excuse me, but I don't have Photoshop, so I swapped colors with a jet black background with the lime green. The green is for those poor souls in Iran, those seeking and giving up their lives for freedom.How long it is going to stay like that I don't know.
- Brent - Yes I am
nothing is wrong - not every tool is right for every user - ff is satisfying it's original intent for those ~7k subs - as a presence aggregation environment...
- mike "glemak" dunn
Apparently, they're making a sequel?
- Jered Hofker
Buying the DVD kinda ruined my childhood. I watched the "how they made it" and realized how all of the cool computerish effects I thought were there were just optical printing tricks and a lot of hand-painting.... although the computer effects that were there were still damn cool.
- Wirehead
"Master Control here, put him to work on the game bridge"
- BryanSchuetz
from iPhone
Rochelle and my 'first date' was the infamous Tron night: when Tron finally came out on DVD, I invited apparently 50 people to come over and watch it. Rochelle just never left.
- Akiva
Is Mr. Boxleitner in the sequel? If not- no deal.
- Noah Belson
BTW if you guys decide to get a DVD version of Tron, get the 20th anniversary one. It's not much more expensive and they gave it the works, it's cleaned up, no jitter, effects pop more, everything. Plus they remastered the sound. http://www.amazon.com/Tron-20...
- Phil Glockner
I'll admit to still having the laserdisc version of this movie. *sigh*
- Phil Glockner
You know what would be great? The ability to strip out @replies from Twitter that get fed into our FF streams with no context or easy links to the original tweet. This works well in the Facebook Twitter app, which strips out anything I tweet starting with '@'.
I agree, @replies do not need to be fed into the FF stream. I would love to see FF fix this. It is rather annoying to see them...
- Randy Shapiro
I like the idea. Would this include retweets or just tweets where @username is first in the tweet?
- Tony Miller
Probably just @reply tweets. I'd love to at least see an option to turn them off.
- Thomas
Tony- people retweet several different ways: RT, "retweeting:", or sometimes (via @user), so that might be a little trickier. Losing replies would help a lot, though! In fact, I started @replying a lot more when Twitter stripped them out of others' feeds when both parties were not being followed, since I felt like I was bugging people less. Here, it's still contributing to noise.
- Sarah Lane
It's especially messy if you comment here and elect to also send it as an @reply via the FF option...
- Thomas
How about an option to strip out @ replies UNLESS they are addressed to you?
- George Brickner
What you don't want all 5+ thousand knowing all you business... Hmm go figure... lol Kevin
- Kevin
from email
I like it the way it is. Find lots of people I should be following by following the @ trail.
- Justin Whitaker
As an experiment I tried hiding ALL Twitter traffic on Friendfeed - and I've left it that way. I don't miss it at all. From time to time I'll check what I'm missing (there's a "show hidden entries" link at the bottom of the page) and there's very rarely anything worth noting.
- Leo Laporte
Funny how I find this exact same thing desirable on the Twitter side, but completely agree with you in the context of FF.
- Jered Hofker
There is a link to the original tweet, it's just not obvious. On a FF post that came from Twitter, click on the word "Twitter" and you'll find it's a link to the original tweet (the URL has statuses/big_number in it). From there, you can click on "in reply to whoever" to see what the reply was actually to.
- Otto
That is a good idea. Add a way to filter out #FollowFriday and I am a very happy man
- Asgeir
I agree with Leo though. I hid all twitter entries from my stream (unless they have comments or likes), and this definitely cut down the noise. I figure if they had likes or comments on them, then they might contain something of interest.
- Otto
If everyone did that, would any tweets get comments or likes? :) If I can get rid of just the @reply's, I'll be a happy man...
- Thomas
Though there are many versions of the re-tweet, it'd be nice to at least filter out anything starting with RT.
- mark
Racism is not over because we have a black President. However (and I mean this as a genuine question), at what point are we no longer benefited by acknowledging its presence or treating it as a special form of hatred? I live in Nebraska and I can tell you that we've encountered bigotry, but I can also tell you that the vast majority of the people here won't tolerate it, even as a joke.
- Jered Hofker
Not sure I understand the question, Jered.
- Rah-PM 2012
Not long ago, I watched a white man scream at a hispanic man so many racial things I wanted to cry on the spot for this person. It was broad daylight outside. It's not a black/white issue but a human issue and I agree -- it has not stopped.
- Patricia
I can't believe how many times I've seen that line of argument, that minorities have no right to call out racism now that we have a black president.
- Victor Ganata
Rahsheen, I guess I was thinking more in terms of government acknowledgment of race when I typed that. I don't really want to get into an Affirmative Action discussion, but things like that and hate crime legislation don't seem potent anymore? Sorta feels like it's time for the government to set an example by treating everyone the same (stop asking me my race on forms) and passing the responsibility on to the people. As a society, maybe we're ready to take on the responsibility to call out racists?
- Jered Hofker
I'll freely admit that where I live could be playing a huge part in my opinion on the matter.
- Jered Hofker
I think Jered means, at a certain point, we're going to collectively have to move past the issue of racism and just declare victory. We're not going to end racism until we stop sorting people by the artificial construct that we call "race". It's an antiquated model and that model is the source of racism. There will always be prejudice, but racism doesn't have to exist. The biggest...
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- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
"The human body literally glows, emitting a visible light in extremely small quantities at levels that rise and fall with the day, scientists now reveal."
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
from Bookmarklet
It's beautiful and incredible until it grows for another year or so and eats all the butternut squash in yer garden! Just ask my grandpa. ;-) But really, they are adorable.
- Jered Hofker
That's reindeer right? Haven't really seen them in real life.
- charles
"Are you tired of hearing it yet? I sure am. It seems Twitter has fostered an extreme steroid fed bacterial growth of social media experts, social media gurus and super follower magnates. Unfortunately there isn’t much of an antibiotic floating around to separate the experts from the idiots. If you weren’t aware already, most of these experts are just idiots that have found a stool to stand on and shout their garbled rehashed crap they read from TwiTips.com and rewrote it on their own “pretty” blog."
- Internet Strategist
from Bookmarklet