Yeah. LOL. I just made it official, like in the Thriller video...except that I didn't turn into a werewolf and chase her through the woods....
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
Not fair that the lady gets to wear a fancy ring before we even do the church thing. What's the point of being engaged if you can't flaunt it? LOL. Thanks everyone :)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
Congratulations, Rahsheen! I had a similar thought for Harold when he gave me my ring: "Gee, kind of unfair the guy doesn't get to wear something too until the wedding."
- Kamilah Gill
I haven't checked the NaNoWriMo site for a couple of days. I guess it's safe to assume that you're still totally kicking butt on the word count?
- vicster
*whistles*.... DID I MENTION THAT I HAVE NOT WRITTEN ANY???... *wonders if he should dial back the coffee for the afternoon*... *twitch*
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
Am I a loser or what? I don't even know what Nanowhatchacallit is.
- Jason Huebel
You are not a loser! Don't go talking like that. NanoWrimo is National Novel Writing Month where a million crazy people try to write a 50 thousand word novel in one month. :)
- A. (Girl Entropy)
1. Google Dashboard launches http://www.informationweek.com/news... Google introduced Google Dashboard, a Web page that provides a summary of the information Google users have stored online and a set of links for modifying data storage settings.
- Leo Laporte
Audible Pick: The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything UNABRIDGED By Guy Kawasaki Narrated by Paul Boehmer
- Leo Laporte
I finally got rid of the huge scanner on my desk I was not using. I am so in love with my desk set up right now. AND I finally have a name plate at work. (Jena is my legal name...you might not want to give me crap about that.)
- A. (Girl Entropy)
from email
Live now: This Week In Tech 220 with Leo Laporte, the LA Times Mark Milian, Frank Barnako, Tom Merritt, and Wil Harris. http://live.twit.tv. Discuss here....
Although it sucks, isn't the RIAA just doing it's job by protecting it's members. Our beef should be with the studios that support the RIAA. RIAA exists as an easy scapegoat and take heat from the studio's door
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
http://eff.org/action and pick the ACTA petition (some congresscritters require you to contact them via their site directly, make sure the eff sends to all three of your congresscitters, mine only sent to two) i then had to go and copy/paste the message into the third's contact form
- Chris Heath
Tease: Tom Merritt explains net neutrality using potato salad, the elusive Higgs Boson vs. the LHC, and these are the droids you're looking for.
- Leo Laporte
good show from a rainy day in georgia and what about hulu copy write lae\w issues
- daveccorey
this episode is curiously missing from the TWiT AAC iTunes feed.
- Chris Spiller
"A survey of male college students finds they prefer women of average weight and build. The 18-to-26-year-old men who participated in a study at Scotland's St. Andrews University came to that conclusion by looking only at pictures of faces. When looking at an array of head shots, the gents consistently singled out those that paired with either underweight or overweight body types as being both less attractive and less healthy than those that topped normal frames . There has long been a correlation between the perceived health of a face and its attractiveness, but this is the first study to tie a gaunt or plump visage to a negative impression of overall build. Will this finding finally encourage the fashion industry to move away from heroin chic and toward plus-size models? Don't bet your dinner of grapefruit and cigarettes on it."
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
This isn't about size in general, cause everybody has the right to his or her own body, but grapefruit and cigarettes? *dead*
- Ha3rvey (Free hugs!)
I like a woman with meat. Anyone skinnier than me = pass
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that would be nice, if i didnt watch guys pick the skinny girls over the average ones, every time i go out. lol
- Marissa
If I was straight, I can tell you right now, I wouldn't be going after Keira Knightley. I'm not knocking her, or her naturally skinny frame, if that's the case, but I hate that women are bombarded with pencil thin bones as if that's something to shoot for. I LIKES EM THICK.
- Derrick
I remember seeing this study before and it's hardly a definitive sampling. I think it's good to have some articles that counter the constant bombardment women/girls get that that no matter what - they're fat. OTOH, I think it's being just as bad to slam women/girls who are naturally very thin for being who they are. Let's just get to a point where we can accept that humanity comes in a...
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- Spidra Webster
Can I offer a weird and somewhat bubbling point... Does the stereotype that 'skinny girls are best' also effect men? Does it set a culture that the 'skinny girl' is a trophy to be obtained? Not justifying, just asking
- Johnny Worthington
What I mean is that girls like Megan Fox etc are held in such high worship that if one was NOT to find them attractive, it would somehow call that person's manhood into question?
- Johnny Worthington
1UP Spidra. Johnny, I also think you're on to something. It's as if a man's partner and her beauty are used to indicate something about him and his status.
- Derrick
It's like a spiral. Girls are told that THIS is the way you should look but boys also pick up on this. With surf magazines and sporting events with skinny girls in next to nothing, boys are imprinted with the idea that this is what is beautiful and what is to be desired. The idea of having your manhood or sexuality questioned in your teenage years would push you towards fitting into the...
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- Johnny Worthington
Johnny, I think you have a good theory. In older men, it's called having the 'trophy wife'; after chucking their older, possibly weightier first wife to the curb. I'm thinking that mid-life crises bring many men back to adolescence!
- Victoria Plautia
Everyone makes stupid choices based on emotional impulses. Eventually everyone wises up and realizes what they had, and how damn good it was. (as always after the choice) I wasn't born with 20/20 hindsight, so I am having to make this up as I go along.
Today is our 6-month anniversary! I just picked up the flower bouquet that I ordered and it's beautiful! I asked her what her favorite flowers were when we first started dating and waited until now to get them for her. A mix of daisys and tulips!
that is so thoughtful and beautiful! happy anniversary.
- Rachael Depp
Rachael: Thank you on both counts :) -- We aren't doing anything too crazy tonight just staying home having a bottle of wine, making a delicious dinner and watching How I Met Your Mother!
- Nicholas Kreidberg
PS - I like a girl who lists daisies as one of her favorite flowers. :) They're such a simple, happy flower that get overlooked way too often. It sounds like you chose wisely. :D
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
tinypants: You are so right, appreciating the small, happy things in life is so important! Oh and I agree, I think I chose well too :)
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Sooo...what was her reaction to the flowers? :D I'm betting she loved them to bits. :)
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
I see a number of concert and music related ones that fit me well, but usually it's for something I already know about or already own.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Facebook has started taunting me with cheap ways to call India and subscriptions to Linux Format. It knows me well.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Louis, it wasn't cross-marketed with a time machine? Weird.
- Micah Wittman
Anthony is honored to have just met - and exchanged courtesies with - the President of the United States. And that was, as the kids say, pretty effin’ cool.
you promised us you'd say some dramatic line to him, did ya panic and go with "wussup?"
- Steve C
@Steve: actually no, I cried like a little girl and peed myself, as is my longstanding personal tradition whenever meeting current or former Heads of State. It's simply good protocol; they seem to love it...
- Anthony Citrano
from BuddyFeed
Somehow I believe you, Anthony but still - pics or it didn't happen!
- WorldofHiglet
@WoH: "somehow?" ha, gee thanks! There are no pics of this one, I'm afraid (although there are almost surely pool pics of me at the ropeline early in the night) and believe me it bugs me more than the rest o' yaz. Hopefully @ the next one I get a proper photo op.
- Anthony Citrano
from BuddyFeed
@ahsan: dinner at the Beverly Hilton last night. (sorry, overlooked your q.)
- Anthony Citrano
:) You LA folk have personal photographers documenting your every move don't you?!? Don't tell me that not true because I saw it on the tv....Anyway, it must have been a very special moment. I hope you didn't cry and pee too much o_O
- WorldofHiglet
Cooler than that Best of Day thread about jock itch?
- Matthew DeVries
@charlie: about my personal moment (A: right here), or about the President coming to LA? (A: just about anywhere; pick your media poison.)
- Anthony Citrano
SO, can you tell us a little more about other than the wetting/crying?
- WorldofHiglet
Even though I can't stand Obama, I have to admit, your getting to meet the president is pretty cool.
- Joey Gibson
@WoH - I don't think I'll get into the blow-by-blow here (there's absolutely nothing of substance anyway.) However, I will almost surely draw on the experience for a future article.
- Anthony Citrano
Well I hope you do deign to share some little details with us sometime. When you can be bothered. In other news, did you see the new YouTube video from the WhiteHouseTV entitled "OMG!!!!! I met Anthony Citrano!!!!! For REALS!!!!!! SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I hear it's going viral....
- WorldofHiglet
WoH: don't make fun o' me! we've already determined I cry easily. ;)
- Anthony Citrano
Ooopsie - my bad. I forgot you were such a delicate little flower :)
- WorldofHiglet
If you shook his hand, you have been changed. : )
- Phil Boiarski
@Phil - I did twice. Should I not have showered? ;)
- Anthony Citrano
We just wore whatever clothes we had on for school picture day.
- Rochelle
Once, I had the idea of using my high school pic for a Facebook profile pic. I took one look and felt ill. I dismissed that idea.
- MiniMage, sheeple of FF
Once, I had the idea of using my high school pic for a Facebook profile pic. I took one look and felt ill. I dismissed that idea. For senior pics, females had to wear these stupid drape-thingies which showed our shoulders and made us look like we had no arms. What kind of warped brain thinks up this stuff?
- MiniMage, sheeple of FF
And the funny thing is, it's not really a tux. It was just something that looked like a tux from the shoulders up. And yes, everyone wore the same thing. The girls had the drape thing which they all thought was really stupid. This was only for the seniors pics. Everyone else just wore whatever they had on at school.
- Internet's Tad
OMG! I swear this is how I looked like, about 15 years ago!!! Exactly the same. Good that I'll probably look like you in some years.
- directeur
You look like a young Kurt Russell...NERD FAIL!
- Alex Scoble
I have never once had a pic taken, high school, drivers license etc that looked remotely good. So I sympathise with poor poor tad :) *sniggers* :)
- Roberto Bonini
"Somebody has made the dreamy floating wonderworld from the Oscar-nominated Hayao Miyazaki film Howl's Moving Castle out of Lego. The details are quite impressive, and blogging about this is making me want to watch the movie again."
- Jennifer Dittrich
from Bookmarklet
Garmon, I totally made this my pick of the week on our podcast. We just finished about an hour ago. I reposted yesterday, but gave you credit tonight. :)
- Josh Haley
Would this have anything to do with the Google Chrome OS? Could they be doing this open sauciness to make the technology read for third party developers?
- Johnny Worthington
agreed... this is the first i'm hearing of this since i have been afk for a few days... good work louis
- Chris Heath
Love posts like this - getting uber-geeks in the loop with each other pushes the web forward maybe more than anything else
- Christopher Galtenberg
Thanks, Christopher and Jenna. I know this is not destined to be a high-traffic post, but it's the right thing to do, to help understand it a bit more. There are enough other blogs writing "10 Tips for Twitter Lists" already. :)
- Louis Gray
Johnny, I doubt the 2 are correlated, but it is interesting that both Google and Facebook released big Javascript APIs as open source in the same week. Regardless, it's always nice to see companies opening up more, something Google has been known for doing quite awhile now.
- Jesse Stay