i been down to the deep south from abouts where ms lb reckons from, i bet she sure do have a fine accent at that, ;)
- chaz2b
Having met her on several occasions, I can say that LB has a lovely Jawja lilt to her voice. It's not super strong, but it's nice.
- Ha3rvey (on hiatus)
Funny, I was asked in DC if I were originally from GA, since my accent was less pronounced than some.
- The LB: #TeamMonique
Psst: Derrick. The answer is Yes (and I've never talked to LB)--because everybody has an accent. Even if some of them (like mine) don't have really good names.
- Walt Crawford
Is this one of those, "I'm interested to see who actually reads my wall, so leave a one word comment about me and then post it to your wall so your friends can do the same thing for you" kind of things? Cause ... no.
- Kristin
I thought maybe it was one of those complete-the-sentence thingys. "if you're still on Friendfeed you're ... not too cool for school
- Laura Norvig
from iPod
Beyler it is time for you anglo-americans to embrace your Kurdish, Turkish and Italian fetfirint brethren. both the tire stopper and memişko keps giver kinds. Pliz.
- Alfonker Tapir
(Shabuya, sha, sha, shabuya, ROLL CALL!) My name is Chris (Yeah!). Chris of Spades (Yeah!). And I still lurk here (Yeah!). On Best of Day. (ROLL CALL! Shabuya, sha, sha, shabuya.)
- chrisofspades
Yay! The graphic has officially been flipped! No need for nostalgia.
- Louis Gray
Kenndy actually makes a good point here... :)
- Roberto Bonini
Merry Eggnog! ... and jeez, what's with the rude comments? It's the holidays. #relax
- Mona Nomura
I think everyone knew exactly what you meant jeremy :)
- Roberto Bonini
Jeremy, perhaps there's a misunderstanding. As a rule, FriendFeeders celebrate Festivus - maybe someone mistook this thread for the Airing of the Grievences ceremony. In any event, I got a lot of problems with you people! And now you're gonna hear about it!
- John Craft
Curtis Salgado, the blues player who Belushi met and jammed with while filming 'Animal House,' and who Cab Calloway's character is named after, played around the corner from our house last Friday. And I forgot to put it on my calendar. I am a bad Blues Brothers fan.
- John Craft
"We got two honkies out there dressed like Hasidic diamond merchants!"
- John Craft
Wood, Roy, it's all the same to me. But you're right, it is Elwood. Proving once again, that I have lost my mind.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
Ross and Dan made this video to illustrate the advanced technology we use behind the scenes at FriendFeed. (Ross and Dan, you are amazing - I can't believe how awesome this thing turned out)
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
How very creative. This is very fluid and cool.
- Louis Gray
OK, not exactly what I was expecting, but very cool.
- Kevin Arth
Anyone have the video somewhere other than Youtube? it's banned here in Turkey and I can't wait until we get home (next month) to watch it!!
- Chris Myles
This is superb. I just showed it to my 5 year old son who enjoys Lego and has already taken some great photos, including one or two of his toys. So now he has the seed of the idea that, in time, he could take multiple stills and put them together to make moving pictures. Thank you very much for posting it and giving me and him that opportunity. Maybe, he might use FriendFeed one day too!
- John W Lewis
I think they need to make a full stop-motion version of the Matrix in legos. Now THAT would be awesome. I wonder what bullet-time looks like in LEGO?
- Bret Taylor
i'd pay to see the stop animation lego matrix, but not the sequels
- patrick
"Equipment Generously Provided By Casey Muller" - hahaha!! THIS IS AWESOMESAUCE!!! I love the creative energy and vibe in this video... LOTS of work went into that one! Thanks guys!! :)
- Susan Beebe
Genius, how much time did that all take?
- Wayne Hornsey
Chris Myles: if you want ot - DM me an address and I'll mail you a copy.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Ethernet, a non-routable protocol, wasn't necessary for the creation of the internet (a 100% routable network), therefore has nothing to do with the creation of the internet.
Congratulations Bret on achieving all you have with Google, FriendFeed and Facebook. Looking forward to the news of the next journey. We're all proud of you. http://allthingsd.com/2012061...
What Rochelle said. And what Louis Gray said squared.
- John Craft
Pretty interesting development. Curious to see what Bret does next.
- Mark Krynsky
The startup I would like to see is a service where I can feed in all of my RSS feeds and things, and people can comment on them, and the most recent comment or like bumps it to the top. To make it marketable, maybe ads on the side of the page can be sold that matches the discussion that people are having. For example, a discussion like this would pull up adds for Google + and Facebook and Ground Coffee. Wait, that is like FriendFeed without the ads.
- OMG 404 Joe
I have 9 days off work starting Friday. I have a car & a driving partner. Where should I go? What's on your can't-miss list in the US? Anything within 2000 miles of Wisconsin is on the table.
Where haven't you been that you've always been curious to see?
- Kelli H.
from Android
I was thinking of Canada, but what's cool in the middle? I don't think we'll have time to make Vancouver. There are really cool things I want to see, but I'm always looking for new ones I haven't heard of yet!
- Lo
from Android
"I was thinking of Canada, but what's cool in the middle?" - Can't go wrong with the Alberta/BC border area. Glacier / Waterton Banff / Jasper national parks, Crowsnest Pass . . . gorgeous area.
- John Craft
True - but it's within 2000 miles of Wisconsin, so . . .
- John Craft
Grand canyon is pretty awesome. As is the whole glacier route of course.
- Todd Hoff
The Grand Canyon keeps coming up, we may have to do that!
- Lo
from Android
That's not much more than a mile from here. I used to stay at the Days Inn next door (originally built as the York Hotel, now Hotel Indigo) when I was in meetings in the building behind you.
- John Craft
oh baby, the Grand Canyon is Awesome. Isaac Hayes's Black Moses was awesome. This is a young man so hung over it hurts to inhale. There is a lot of vodka in that glass with a smidge of orange juice for coloring. They tell me I had a ball on that vacation. I don't remember much. I do remember leading a crowd of people from McDaniel (Techwood) Dorm onto Tech's Main Campus. We had a boom...
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- MoTO #TeamMonique
Hahaha. "I recall sticking my head into a dorm lobby and asking - "Blazing Saddles" style - "Where the white women at?" See ... this *is* awesome.
- Kristin
Yup. I had no fear (or shame) back then. I had this whole Bill Murray goofy/cracking wisely/court jester thing going for me. When people got angry, or in my face, I disarmed them with "goofy hedonistic logic". At least, that's what I called it.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
from Android
I know more closet survivalists than you can possibly imagine. They're some of my favorite people. Congrats on yours. :P
- Jenica
Are you afraid? Are you petrified? Don't worry. As long as you know how to love I know you'll stay alive. You've got all your life to live. You've got all your love to give. You will survive. Hey HEY!
- John Craft
LOLOLOLOLOL! That totally earned John a new subscriber.
- Mary Carmen
* curtsies * - and congratulations ;)
- John Craft
At least you know this beforehand. My sister-in-law's sister didn't realize it until she got pregnant.
- Katie
Heat transfer. The insulation a) prevents heat from escaping (stays hot) or b) heat from absorbing and returning the liquid to room tempature (cold)
- Johnny
from iPhone
Don't worry, I'm not stupid. I'll put them in bags before I put them in my thermos. Don't want them getting mixed together.
- Slippy like shiny things.
There were like 35? 40 apps (and I must have turned something off or flipped some switch) because the bulk of them were dormant. Spotify was the most recent.
- Derrick
Ha ha, I just deleted a bunch of apps yesterday, too; some I didn't even know were there. Annoying.
- rowlikeagirl
The only FB app I ever authorized was . . . Friendfeed ;)
- John Craft
I have a crap load linked to phone apps & web apps.
- Rodfather
haha, I deleted my Friendfeed authorization too. I'M A WILD MAN.
- Derrick
I've been taking the meh approach to Facebook login. Still doesn't creep me out more than any other tracking going on around the web.
- Eric - Too Hot
I will be judged when I become part of the Facebook zombie army.
- Eric - Too Hot
People are free to do what they want, obviously, so I hear you Eric. And I don't I'm not paranoid about it. Privacy might be dead, but when it comes to me, I'd like to have some say so in it.
- Derrick
Since I'm a physician, not a physicist, I could be completely wrong, but AFAICT, there actually isn't anything in Special Relativity that prevents faster-than-light travel.
But the equations can actually accomodate particles that are already traveling superluminally. You just can't make them travel slower-than-light.
- Victor Ganata
sort of. The mathematical model, which has proven very accurate, breaks down at the speed of light because you end up dividing by zero, which is mathematically not possible. So, it would be more accurate to say that we don't know what happens when you hit, or try to surpass the speed of light.
- DJF
So, what you're really saying is: "I'm a Doctor, Jim, not a physicist! But even so I have a pretty firm grasp of the basics. Carry on."
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
Right, there's a mathematical singularity if v = c. But the equations also imply that the closer v gets to c, the more energy is required to accelerate the mass. It would take an infinite amount of energy to accelerate a slower-than-light mass to c.
- Victor Ganata
LOL "In the latest Star Trek film, 2009's Star Trek, McCoy says to Spock 'I'm a doctor, not a physicist.' The phrase was first coined in the 1933 film 'The Kennel Murder Case' [45]." [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikiped...]
- Tinfoil 2.0
Hawking has been saying for a while now that the Big Bang (a point of infinite density) is one solution to the equations, but not the only one. This could be something similar. But when you think about it, you shouldn't be surprised. One hundred years ago today, we still thought time was absolute - Einstein still hadn't ruined that for us by publishing on General Relativity. Hubble...
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- John Craft
Every time you walk on to the elevator the Ghost takes in a breath? Must either like you, or think you stink and holds its breathe until you get off.
- Me
Next time it happens, strike up a conversation. Who knows they could just be starved for conversation...
- Bluesun 2600
Then again, that just might cause them to follow you home. That could be a problem. :/
- Bluesun 2600
Even though I've fallen away from the Catholic Church, I do still find myself aspiring to a lot of the Ignatian ideals.
- Victor Ganata
their interest in working toward a just society is especially poignant these days.
- Marie
It's incredible, and amazing and I really respect the Jesuits call to service and for social justice. At my orientation this morning, we had to share something that might be indicative of why we might have been called to Loyola and as I started to share my story, I started tearing up...it really took me by surprise. EDIT: And there's the arms wide open to each and all, without judgment, without hatred to people of all faiths, all walks of life, and who can't love that?
- Derrick
The loudest depiction of Christianity in this country today is that of the so-called 'religious right.' It's easy to forget that there are millions of 'Christians' in this country who, instead of going on talk radio and cable to preach divisiveness and selfishness, go out every day and try to make someone else's life a little better. And it can be moving to be reminded that a lot of 'them' are a lot like a lot of 'us.'
- John Craft
I'm going to like John's comment :) a LOT
- Caitlin
++ John !! As for the "Jesuits" , they are the ones that actaully educated /created some of the worlds best learning insitiutues .. Many of the top Notch Collegues in India are Jesuit based !!
- Peter Dawson
And did blow off of an overturned oil drum. And may have slept with her husband's business partner. Northern Exposure, indeed.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
Wait...we all knew +Louis Gray was with the Googs team already, no? Yes. :D Congratulations Louis!! All the best to you!!!
- sofarsoShawn
You can be like the guy in the Dilbert comic. Instead of telling them to make it more "webbish", just tell the team to make it more "friendfeedish."
- Laura Norvig
Well congratulations to you!. All the very best from this died in the wool Mac Guy. I hope you can find the time, sometime, to make that My6Sense available in other apps and contexts outside the My6Sense app itself.
- JSLeFanu
Sounds like a great fit. Congratulations!
- Benjamin Golub
I might have to make Louis a t-shirt that says "Google Apps users are people too!" Do you think he would wear it to work?
- Skyler Call
Congratulations! wow, being all poker-faced about it last Tuesday... :)
- Tudor Bosman
Congrats, Louis. Though I suspect we should all be posting on Google+ now since you're the Product Marketing Manager for the Google+ team. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
congratulations Louis don't forget us mortals! we know you are a robot!
- testbeta
Congratulations! I'm looking forward to watching your progress there.
- Anne Bouey
Batuhan, I have a hard time imagining not using FriendFeed? But you've already seen me using it less, in favor of Google+. I think the best solution is for those of us interested in making the move to do so, and/or Google+ learning from the best FriendFeed has to offer.
- Louis Gray
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Congrats, Louis. Of course, this means even less sleep, right?
- Friar Will
Can I use your employee discount for some Android toys?
- Rodfather
most surprising thing for me is that TNW didn't wrote anything about this.
- batuhan icoz
Strange that I found out about this on Twitter and not G+ or FriendFeed... (Louis, you're now in my Google People circle. Just sayin'...)
- Dennis Jernberg
Congrats - but... but... - it means now I will ignore anything you say about google+ or it's perceived competitors... well, not ignore, but strongly pinch-of-salt it... Anyway, here's to you kicking ass there and making google+ better!!!
- Iphigenie
I LOVE this move. Congratulations. +1 to you!!
- Harold Cabezas
Louis, agree on your comment about Google+ and FF. G+ needs to learn from FF and hopefully everyone here will move over there... then I don't have to jump form one service to the other all the time. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
... there goes the neighborhood ...
- Laura Norvig
WHAT. I completely missed this. Processing...
- Josh Haley
posted as comment on blog: "Dude..... DUDE! Wow. Congrats! Next post has to be something negative about Google, so we know you're keeping it real. Kidding. You're the standard of keeping it real. All the others could learn a ton from watching you. Best of luck and please wear your FFundercats shirt to Google one day and send me a pic of you in it with some amazing Google backdrop. Your assignment is before you. Go and do. ;)"
- Josh Haley
They want someone to manage their social networks - I know how to do that! I'm thinking the fan base would be a bit different than what I'm working with now. But C.R.E.A.M. so I could do it :P
- Tamara
Seems perfectly reasonable to me... I haven't read the link but you know, diversify those bonds!
- Mark Davidson