“Lily Sutton Sjogreen was born at 5:05pm on July 4th. She is 9 pounds 8 ounces and 21.5 inches long. She is of course the cutest little girl in the world. Pics to come!”
"Looking for a new design element to tie a room together? Ever thought about spicing things up with a theme? These Lightpipes will give any space that swanky post- meltdown Chernobyl look that is so popular with all of the interior designers these days. And the best part is that no installation is required—just set it up wherever you need some spooky illumination. Just don't expect to get them for bargain price—each lamp will set you back around $612." - Chris White
I had a friend who speaks Farsi translate the comments. 1) The pink, bloody bear is called Gloomy Bear. He's a 2m tall, violent, pink bear that eats humans and is supposed to be the antithesis to cute, cuddly characters like Hello Kitty. 2) I work at Polyvore, not FriendFeed. - Jess Lee
You mean the cute cuddly bear isn't supposed to be? - Jim Norris
Nubbles: a puppy who was born with only her two hind legs and nubs for front legs. A prosthesis was made for her, using model airplane wheels and shoulder joints, natch. - Jess Lee via Bookmarklet
"The Puzzle Alarm Clock is here to add to your woes, featuring a 4-piece puzzle that pops out randomly whenever the alarm goes off, forcing you to either get a pair of earplugs or find all the missing pieces and placing them back in the correct place in order to shut the alarm" - Victor Ryden via Bookmarklet
That's how Lego trains children to choke. - minus3
Turns out they suck: http://www.flakmag.com/misc/le...: "Legos are geometrically shaped. They have little nubs. They come in different colors. But the thing that makes them fun is that YOU CAN STACK THEM IN ORDER TO BUILD THINGS. So these are not really Lego Fun Snacks. They are Lego Snacks." - ⓞnor
The trick is to stack them together in your belly. - minus3
"Fruit snacks are terrible. Their insipid, gelatinous, uninspired candy-sweet fruit flavors appeal only to children and idiots." I resent being called a child. - Jim Norris
I just made a Death Star complete wiith X-Wing fighters approaching out of them in my belly. I do not have many friends. - Steve Craft
It's also missing that modal 'death from above' version. :-) - Kevin Fox
Google Talk is the worst product Google has created so far. It's product managers should be fired. - sebmos
It skips one interesting step. The idea for chat moles (named after 'whack-a-mole') came from notifications. We had little yellow notifications that would show up in the bottom corner of Gmail when you got a new IM. We wanted to be able to reply from the notification without having to open a big chat window. So inline reply was added to the notification and then that led to the first mole (3rd screenshot on that page). But then the bright yellow color didn't make as much sense...hence the 4th screenshot. - Keith Coleman
I like Gmail chat a lot... Would be nice to have something like that on Friendfeed - Bindu Reddy
Sebmos' note: Grammar, tact, and usefulness FAIL. - Adam Lasnik
Anything that requires me to press ENTER is too inconvenient to use on my tablet. All UIs should give me the option to press a button. - Kenneth LeFebvre
"Kilim is a message-passing framwork for Java that provides ultra-lightweight threads and facilities for fast, safe, zero-copy messaging between these threads.
It consists of a bytecode postprocessor (a "weaver"), a run time library with buffered mailboxes (multi-producer, single consumer queues) and a user-level scheduler and a type system that puts certain constraints on pointer aliasing within messages to ensure interference-freedom between threads." - Gary Burd
Do you think it's... good? We could all use something like that, but I'm afraid of overarching frameworks you have to sell your soul to. - ⓞnor
+1 to @e3r and "I'm afraid of overarching frameworks you have to sell your soul to". - DeWitt Clinton
bytecode postprocessor + concurrent programming.. I'm assuming that everyone else is a little scared by debugging stuff running with this, too? - Nick Lothian
The vs Erlang microbenchmarks look impressive (at 25 min point in video) - Nick Lothian
Due to the girl's smaller size, under 2 KG, she'll be in the NICU, but the boy is already with mom, getting acquainted. Kristine is in recovery from the C-section, but I expect will do well. On with a new stage! - Louis Gray
Yeaaaaahhhhhh!!!! Funny, Milan spent the first three days of his life in that same NICU. They are really great there, so your daughter is in good hands. Names? - Robert Scoble
Lisa: you should open a day care for FriendFeed'ers. Heheh. - Robert Scoble
YAHOO! (the word not the company). Big congrats to Louis & wife. Now the fun REALLY begins. Thanks so much for sharing the experience on Friendfeed. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
That's awesome. Congrats to you and your wife! - John McCrea
Congratulations! We look forward to chatting with them online as soon as you can prop them in front of the computer. ;-) - Chris Baskind
Hmmm.... day care for friendfeeders = new biz model. I gotta got get some VC @now :) - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Congrats Louis! And hat's off to Kristine for the long labor followed by the c-section! Glad to hear things are good with the li'l ones. They'll be home before you know it. Fantastic! - Hutch Carpenter
I promise photos soon. Names too. I'm tired and so is Kristine. Thanks for being part of a very real community here on FriendFeed and indulging me. - Louis Gray
Lisa: our house is child proofed just for you. Or is it for the kids? I don't know, but either way, we're ready for the influx of FriendFeeding babies! :-) - Robert Scoble
Louis: if you think you're tired now, just wait a couple of weeks!!! Enjoy your sleep when you can get it. We'll be here when the kids wake you up again. ;-) - Robert Scoble
Congratulations Louis and family! All this twittering / FF'ing on the excitement of babies being born is reminding me of my own sons' births inspiring my proto-social-web baby pool project (admittedly it's Web 1.5 - not all shiny/ajaxy but hey, it debuted in 2004 which is like a lifetime ago in web-years). Anyway, thus ends my shameless plug: http://bebepool.com/ - Micah Wittman
Congrats, Louis. I was (and am) a twin, 2lbs, 6oz though. 4mos premature. - Andrew Feinberg
Louis - you are one of the anchors here on Friendfeed! It's been an honor sharing this experience with you, and your family. Wishing you, Kristine, and the twins the sweetest of dreams. Sleep well. You deserve it! - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Wholehearted congrats. Our first was in the NICU after being born premature and those folks do wonders. Dylan is now a tall, healthy, 48-inch-tall five year old towering above the rest... - Chris Reed
Luis fantastic duded. Congratulations to you and your wife!! - Alexander van Elsas
Congratulations Louis & Kristine, & welcome to your son & daughter! You're tired now? Wait 19 years...I have twin daughters that age; I can barely type ;-) ! Twins are special, all enjoy your new life together. - David Peacock via twhirl
Congratulations to you and Kristine on your new arrivals, really proud for you both! - Joe Dawson
Well done - the hard work starts now! Our youngest was in NICU for three weeks (he was 4 10 and had to be delivered seven weeks early as my wife had a life threatening condition), but the great thing about NICU baby's (well in the UK anyway) is that they get trained to sleep!!! - Andy Davies
Mazal Tov to the new parents! Congrats!!! - Mike Fruchter
Congrats Louis and glad to hear mother and twins are fine and enjoy your rest you'll need it! Only 12 weeks before our new one arrives and I'll be going through the same thing :) - Russ G
Congratulations Louis. Brilliant news! - Chris Nixon
Congrats! Hope everything goes really well! - Matt Cutts
there are so many comments here i can't possibly read them all, but that's awesome louis, congrats to you and your wife. do the babies have names yet? - MG Siegler
Congratulations! All our best wishes to mum, babies and your good self! - John Samuelson
Congratulations! As a life-long end user of parenting, I know that you will require the best of luck. And here's a towel, just in case. The towel will be with you... always. - Cyvros/fyc
I think I teared up there a little bit. Congratulations Louis! I know how exhausted you guys are and hope you're getting some much deserved rest right now. You're all in my thoughts this weekend. - Carla Thompson
~~~B~A~B~I~E~S~~~A~R~E~~H~E~R~E~~!!~~Y~E~A~H!!!!! Congratulations Louis & Kristine!!! So happy for you guys and your family!! (Sorry I feel asleep after 1AM EST... long week) - Susan Beebe
Congratulations Grey family. "Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind." - Clare Dibble
Hal Varian: "Marketing is the new finance," Varian said. "Just as finance has become more quantitative because of what happened in the 1970s, you'll see marketing do that." - Trisha Okubo
"Since we launched our API, avid FriendFeed users and developers have built all sorts of cool applications. One of our favorites is Mail2FF, which lets you easily post pictures to FriendFeed via email. Built by Gary Burd, it lets you post messages directly to FriendFeed using a special email address that consists of your FriendFeed nickname and your FriendFeed Remote Key." - Bret Taylor
I support the Burd-clan... even those I didn't previously know were part of the clan. - Andrew Burd
And for all you mischievous people out there, Ross changed his remote key after he filmed, so need to try sending stuff to Ross's feed :) - Bret Taylor
Never thought of a remote key having the same value as a social security number. Just imagine if Igorthetroll got Scobles. Hehe - Mark Krynsky
Nice post.. (And no, I didn't click on it just because of the headline. Nope, not me.... Hey! Stop pointing that finger at me!) - Chris Reed
I read every word, not that I feel cheated or anything... for some reason a margarita sounds really good now. Second-hand marketing can be hazardous to your health? - Robert Seidman
From post: "All of them fancy ways of saying: 'Now that we’ve got your attention with boobs, here’s a word from our sponsor…a domain registrar that has nothing to do with boobs.'” - Hutch Carpenter
It has been going on longer the Amelia Earhart. Essentially the patronage of the arts during the renaissance is the same as the Amelia Earhartand NASCAR sponsorship; the patrons hoped to increase their own glory through sponsorship. - RAPatton
of course sometimes it's all boobs all the time. - edythe
Yeah, way earlier than Amelia. Indian Kings were known for this kinda stuff... - Yuvi
