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At the deli buying kitty food. Was gonna give a lady my place in line, then changed my mind when I saw she was reading Sarah Palin's book.
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O HAI
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Dave can never know that you have ballistics gel. EVER.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Well now the world and the ATF knows.
- Joe
haha, awesome :) is it going to be a test subject?
- Imabug
Oh, awesome! Looks like something from Mythbusters.
- Rochelle
Whoa. This makes me want to make lego fishing bait
- Rodfather
I would have loved this when I was 12 and playing w/ Legos.
- Joe
Took a little over 38 hours to make this.
- Josh Haley
Well Rome was not built in a day either.
- Joe
josh: how big is this thing? i assume it's a mold technique and not whittled down from a bar of Neutrogena.
- Morgan Haley
about 1 foot tall.
- Josh Haley
Ballistics gel? Is jello just not good enough for you, Mr. Haley? Hrmph.
- Ladybug Heather
Heather, homemade ballistics gel...aka a crap ton of Knox Gelatin. I can't afford the real stuff. So actually I could eat it.
- Josh Haley
I used to use knox gel to spike my hair. it turns rock hard and stays that way. punk rock FTW!
- Morgan Haley
I was just telling the kids that about their uncle, Morg. Those were some interesting hair days for you.
- Josh Haley
yep. crazy hair daze for sure.
- Morgan Haley
AWESOME!
- Joe Pierce
Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude
- Johnny Worthington
Too much Mythbusters for you.
- Roberto Bonini
Hi Johnny!
- Josh Haley
Don't let the Myth Busters see that..
- Uncle CW™
There are also these: http://ff.im/8hEXF
- Josh Haley
checking my soul. Nope, don't care any more about Kanye West than I did last week, which was approximately zero.
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I have no idea who these people are nor do I care.
- Kreg Steppe
I listen to 2 KCRW podcasts: Le Show and The Treatment. Both have fundraising announcements on recent shows stressing how much it costs them to provide the podcast version of the programs. I did the math and at the rack rate of CacheFly, it works out to under $0.02 per subscriber-month. Why not optimize on small contributions for podcasts?
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I like those two shows, but I'm not going to pop $100/year to KCRW for them. However, I might pay $5, which is still far in excess of the $0.50/year it costs them to provide the shows to me.
- Dave Slusher
Also, I'm guessing that KCRW has a better deal than CacheFly rack rate. This was the $300/month for 1200 GB transfer deal. I'm sure any organization using more could get a better rate per GB.
- Dave Slusher
I'm sick of hearing how apocalyptic it would be to have a government run health plan. We've had one for 75 years and 1 out of 6 people are already on it.
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An open letter to the sixties and its celebrants - http://entertheoctopus.wordpress.com/2009...
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Matt Staggs says exactly what I say about the 60s. Put another way "Baby boomers, how much 20's era flapper music did you have to listen to at the mall in 1969? If not much, why do I have to listen to the Beach Boys there in 2009?"
- Dave Slusher
In the US, African Americans constitute 15% of drug users, 37% of those arrested for drugs, 59% of the convicted, 74% of the imprisoned
I wish there was a way to "save" rather thank "like". I dislike that this fact is true, but want to save the stats.
- J Wynia
And something like 13% of the population. But are these stats factual?
- Admiral Anika
Energizer USB clip to charge camcorder / DSLR batteries via USB - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
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joffi: How Last.fm (for artists) Works: Tags The following is a paraphrasing of an artist on Last.fm “If an artists music is tagged say ‘Enya’ then that music stands a chance of getting played on Enya tag radio. The more times it is tagged with the same tag then the more frequently that artists gets played in the cycle of that radio station.... - http://furryrabbits.tumblr.com/post...
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I really prefer blip.fm for listening. I wish last.fm felt as simple and easy.
- Jason Nunnelley
Ecstatic Days » Blog Archive » The Fantastical Capybara: An Interview with Melanie Typaldos About Her Caplin Rous - http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2009...
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This guy is so cute! I want one! Make it so!
- Alex Scoble
from Bookmarklet
<333 - the pool picture looks so dignified. "Why, yes. I AM awesome. Good of you to notice."
- Jennifer Dittrich
these things rock. they're totally peaceful animals. didn't know people were keeping them as pets now
- Cee Bee
I feel the need for a LOLCapybara
- Geoff Schultz
First I saw the photo and thought, that's just like Caplin Rous!! He's on Twitter. :o)
- Paul Reynolds
caplin rous probably has more twitter followers than i do
- Cee Bee
I'm holding out for a wombat.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
I want one!
- imabonehead
The atack of the giant capybara
- Bogdan Costea
Any recipes?
- LANjackal
Holy hell. All these 3rd party services are trying to turn Twitter into Facebook. I let it slide when I got a couple game auto-invites via DM, but I draw the line at getting auto-DM's on how you did on some stupid ass quiz.
J Wynia liked this
Reminds me of a favorite Mitch Hedberg bit: "There's turkey ham, turkey bologna, turkey pastrami. Some one needs to tell the turkey: man, just be yourself. I already like you, little brother. You do not need to emulate the other animals."
- Paul Reynolds
My favorite bit of his is still where he goes over to someone's house to help them stay put instead of move. That and the escalator that doesn't break, it just turns into stairs.
- J Wynia
Teen Outsmarts Doctors In Science Class - http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news...
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What's great about this story is that she didn't use some quack pseudo science like chiropractic or reflexology as her diagnostic tool. She actually did the hard work the doctors should have done!
- Edward Zwart
from Bookmarklet
Here's how I would have written this headline: Licensed physicians less competent than teenager. Seriously. I know exactly how she feels.
- Lo
Well, doctors do make mistakes! They're just not superseded by woo is all... :) Part of getting rid of the doctor god complex is being okay with their being human beings!
- Edward Zwart
No doubt, I don't think doctors should be held to a standard of perfection. I do think that if a patient arrives with a complaint, you diagnose the problem and provide treatment, but the complaint is not resolved... then it's time for YOU to go back to the drawing board and try something else. Not just insist that you are correct, and that the patient's insistence that the problem has...
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- Lo
Did you solve it with a microscope too?
- Edward Zwart
But you have to trust them. They're doctors! ;)
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
I'm still kind of wondering about the details of the missed diagnosis. If they were able to get intestinal lining to look at under the microscope, that means they must have done endoscopy and biopsied her. And while it's possible not to see visible lesions while looking at the intestine with endoscopy, I wonder what made them biopsy that particular area that ended up containing the granuloma. It makes me think that at least someone had some clinical suspicion.
- Victor Ganata
Victor, the fact remains that someone prepared those slides and, theoretically, looked at them. And found nothing. Then a teenager looked at them, and clearly saw a problem. The article is not very clear about the details, but it does state that her doctors had examined the slides and told her nothing was wrong.
- Lo
I kind of wonder about whether anyone else really looked at the slides. Not many primary care physicians are in the habit of actually looking at the slides themselves. They end up relying on specialist reports, which is unfortunate, but probably inevitable given the way the system works.
- Victor Ganata
Did anyone else wonder what kind of school she's at that a "local pathologist" came to visit?
- Heather
The article says "Eastside Catholic School" ... that explains the pathologist visit. ;) bwahahaha I kill me! I really do!
- Edward Zwart
Oh good, they diagnosed her without even looking at the evidence because they're Catholics. Now I fee... no, wait, that doesn't make me feel better. She lives in my area! No wonder I can't seem to find a competent & compassionate physician...
- Lo
Macbeth, now there was some good pathos...
- Edward Zwart
I am all in favor of homeopathic awareness week. We should use it to make the public aware of the fact that homeopathy is rubbish. - http://www.reddit.com/r...
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Dear world: When you are asking me to do something for you but you choose to withhold information crucial to do the doing of that favor for you, it's pretty ineffective. Why not just tell me in enough detail to let me do the thing? Unless this is all a game to make me go on a scavenger hunt so that I can interrupt my days to help you.
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Note this isn't a single incident from a single person. Many people do this to me, pretty much every day of my life.
- Dave Slusher
You mean life isn't like a role-playing game with subquests to get random objects to help you with the major quests? :P
- CAJ, somewhere else
The classic, canonical example: "Please install a previous version of application X" without ever specifying what version that would be, and then not being available to answer the question. If you told me the version in the request it would already be done but now we are playing info tag.
- Dave Slusher
Yeah, I'm familiar with "info tag"; not one of my favorite games.
- Ken Kennedy
People who claim that they are speaking out against "political correctness" and defying it are 99 times out of 100 just looking to rationalize the fact that they are being a dick.
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Just deposited for the first time ever in my own business account! :D
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Su-weet!
- Janice
What a fantastic feeling! ...and highly overdue. :)
- Edward Zwart
Locally grown food for thought is hard to come by, at least the good stuff is harder to find these days as thousands of amateur gastro-nauts take to the internet in hopes of becoming the next cross between Ruhlman, Ed Levine and Google. But no matter where you live, you should check out www.heavytable.com. It’s one of my fave online distractions... - http://tumblelog.s4xton.com/post...
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I still don't give a shit about the iPhone.
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Nothing against those of you who like it. I just don't care.
- Dave Slusher
I would like it to get my Apple shares back up to 180, since my portfolio is overbalanced with AAPL right now.
- Dave Slusher
Would the iPhone be more attractive to you if you could get it on multiple wireless networks?
- John E. Bredehoft
from fftogo
No.
- Dave Slusher
Of all the things I want to change about my life, spending more time connected to the internet is not one of them. Lately I've been spending less and it has made me happier.
- Dave Slusher
I've got both a G1 and the iPod Touch (because clients are asking about mobile app work) and am not terribly impressed with either. Other than the problem of missing a call, I could leave either one at home for several days and my days wouldn't be diminished in any real way. Maybe I'm just not easily impressed. I tend not to "love" any of my technology, no matter how useful or neat it is.
- J Wynia
AT&T makes it *less* appealing, but removing them doesn't make it appealing.
- J Wynia
For absolute emergencies when I absolutely must look something up on the web, I can use the Kindle. That's actually great for me - it's a safety net if I absolutely have to look up a hotel confirmation number from Gmail but so unpleasant I'm not going to do it casually. I watch my friends and coworkers with these devices and nothing about what they do makes me want to get in that world.
- Dave Slusher
I carry a Blackberry for work. I have to admit..there are times it is convenient and other times I would just rather chunk it out the window of a moving car.
- Kreg Steppe
National Do Not Call Registry - https://donotcall.gov/
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Cell phone numbers go public next month. all cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sales calls. To prevent this, call the following number from your cell phone: 888-382-1222. It is the National DO NOT CALL list. It will only take a minute of your time. It blocks your number for five (5) years. You must call from the cell phone number you want to have blocked. You cannot call from a different phone number. YOU CAN ALSO CALL THIS NUMBER FROM YOUR HOME PHONE AND ADD IT TO THE LIST. HELP OTHERS BY PASSING THIS ON TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS... It takes about 20 seconds.
- Andre Pope
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It happened again. I was browsing a forum and started reading a post that seemed might answer a question I'm researching ... and then I realize I WROTE THIS POST one and a half years ago.
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btw, it didn't answer my question o_o
- Micah Wittman
dejá surf?
- mikepk
At least it wasn't a "What kind of an idiot writes crap like thi... oh!" -moment ;)
- Jemm
autobiographic reconstitution?
- Micah Wittman
I do that on image search - "oh, this is a great screenshot for this post...wait, that's from my site." At least my taste in images/screenshots hasn't changed a whole lot, I guess.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
ha.
- edythe
In hindsight, the plan to make an action movie about three Bassett hounds was ill conceived. - http://ihasahotdog.com/2009...
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We have that particular action movie (minus one of the stars) every day around here.
- J Wynia
the sleeper hit of the summer!
- Jim Addz No Value
Badabing!
- Ladybug Heather
Product v. process journalism: The myth of perfection v. beta culture « BuzzMachine - http://www.buzzmachine.com/2009...
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Excellent take on the ever-returning 'journalism vs. bloggers' meme. Good point (FTA): 'Ah, but there’s the problem: journalism’s myth of perfection. And it’s not just journalism that holds this myth. It is the byproduct of the means and requirements of mass production: If you have just one chance to put out a product and it has to serve everyone the same, you come to believe it’s perfect because it has to be,...'
- Ken Kennedy
from Bookmarklet
Yeah, if you get one shot at it and you dwell on the stuff you got wrong, you'll go insane. Just ask people who work in software :).
- J Wynia
Software Engineering ≠ Computer Science - http://www.ddj.com/archite...
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"... But software engineering is where the rubber meets the road. Few people care whether P equals NP just for the beauty of the question. The computer field is about doing things with computers. This means writing software to solve human problems, and running that software on real machines."
- Alp
from Bookmarklet
So, I don't know which one I am.
- Alp
FYI, if you are going for a Microsoft interview, they are going to ask the top half. On the other hand, you have to know the both of the halves if you want a dev job at Google. Just another perspective.
- Burcu Dogan
I'd like to add Computer Architecture and Microprocessors to the bottom.
- Burcu Dogan
Yay, it seems many topics should be added to the bottom half.
- Alp
I think that there must be another red line before adding Computer Architecture and Microprocessors to the bottom.
- Fatih Arslan
Fatih, exactly!
- Burcu Dogan
Very good read! Made me realize that creating new software is a mental process between the project participants. Just like it will not be possible to estimate how long, or the output of other mental processes it will not be possible to predict that for software engineering. I am thinking of writers, artitists, lawyers preparing and prosecuting their cases among other things.
- Dag Blakstad
The Kindle Criticism I Reject Out Of Hand - http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpre...
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Heck, I've been buying Kindle versions of books *that I already have paper copies of* just so I can use the Kindle "clipping" and notetaking features to extract the valuable content into .txt files for use elsewhere. Quoting a book in a Powerpoint is now no longer a giant pain in the ass.
- J Wynia
It didn't occur to me until this morning, and I'll probably append this to the post, but that if your love is of the physical object to the exclusion of the words on it, you aren't a lover of the reading so much as a paper fetishist.
- Dave Slusher
I went on a rant about something similar a couple of years ago. It strikes me odd that people would be offended by a book burning, even if the contents of those books was simultaneously beamed to a digital device in the hands of 6+ billion people. Links: (http://www.wynia.org/wordpre...),...
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- J Wynia
"if your love is of the physical object to the exclusion of the words on it, you aren't a lover of the reading so much as a paper fetishist." -- that statement kicks ass.
- felix
Looking at buying a goat in the Greenville, SC area this Saturday. Let me know if know of a good place. Please RT.
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I hate cults of personality. I also hate superlatives and absolutisms. I just hit skip on a SF fannish podcast because they were referring to some character with "Surely everybody knows who XYZ is! If not, you must find out immediately." I had never heard of said character but I no longer wanted to listen to chiding about it.
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I'm still boggling at yesterday's (deleted) blog comment, where the guy responded to a post about SC stimulus money about how "lazy people need to stop doing drugs and having babies and get a job." The stimulus money has nothing to do with that, but when the only tool you have is the anti-welfare hammer, all government spending is a nail.
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It's like how people on The Sun News website can turn ANY article into a bike week debate. It's almost comical.
- Paul Reynolds
I'm willing to be pointed to sources that prove me wrong, but I haven't seen any anti-welfare types bringing that level of heat to the ONE TRILLION US government dollars that we GAVE AWAY with no strings to businesses that FUCKED UP THE ECONOMY WITH THEIR OWN GREEDY MALFEASANCE. When you are as bothered by that, come see me.
- Dave Slusher
And wouldn't you be getting people OFF OF WELFARE by spending more educating them, which exactly what Mark Sanford is KEEPING THE MONEY FROM!
- Dave Slusher
I agree Dave - Tell it!
- martha
Here's how it works: Give tax money to poor people == mouth foaming anger and moral outrage. Give tax money to rich people who game the system and cook their own books and pay themselves really well for their own failures == OK, cool
- Dave Slusher
You forgot the third rule, Dave: give tax money to me and it's ok no matter what. Give tax money to someone else and then the two rules above come into play.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I'd rather see an America with not one single person on welfare. I think that's possible but it requires investment in infrastucture and education to get there. The whole "Make them do right" argument is cartoonishly simplistic. It's like saying Rush Limbaugh should get no treatment for his drug problems because "he didn't just say no."
- Dave Slusher
Said more simply - "Addressing structural problems as if they were moral failings doesn't move the ball down the field for anyone."
- Dave Slusher
Podcast water skiiers, this is your shark. Let's hit that ramp hard so we can clear it! http://twitter.com/martind...
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Ha ha ha ha ha. Sort of like 90% of the podfaded shows? Or sort of like that one Podcast company with all the Shows that seems to not even want to be associated with Podcasting anymore?
- Derek Coward
This is why I have completely broken off from that wing of the medium. They are creepy and make my skin crawl.
- Dave Slusher
I'm going to work this in my talk tomorrow.
- Dave Slusher
Sad.
- Ken Kennedy
Funny, but sad.
- Ken Kennedy
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