+102 for Bill Waterson references in picture Kevin or words Sinterclas
- Steve C
cute but what happened to festivus this year?
- Laura Norvig
Merry Christmas to the FriendFeed team. You guys rock! FriendFeed reacts quickly and you're adding wonderful features all the time (Thanks soooo much for the "edit" feature.)
- Mitchell Tsai
Happy Holidays FF crue -- you've made this an excellent and memorable year for many of us. Facebook couldn't have done it without you! :)
- Christopher Galtenberg
w00t you gave me the best online year in 15 years!!! ;p Thanks a lot, everyone, for what you've done here XD
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Sigh. Sometimes it is the little touches, like seasonal logos or easter eggs, that mark a site as a living project, and that you really miss when the developers have all moved on to something else.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Cool pic, but I would have demanded a refund if our wedding photographer had tried to shoot like this, hehe. But my brother, can do whatever he wants with his 5D Mark II.
- Alex Scoble
I used to have such a nice smile. Maybe it was because I was so thrilled to be in Jamaica (there was drama leading up to the trip), but now it's seems I just settle on a smirk.
- Admiral Anika
Ok whew... a shirt on me. Oh wait... grrrrr.
- Adrian
Adrian, considering you were only awake for half our trip, I took what I could grab. Besides, remember the fat English dudes in Speedos? You look 10000% better. Trust.
- Admiral Anika
Oh, I was awake... but in another dimension, man! Oh I miss those brits, they were a blast at the bar. :D
- Adrian
They were insane. They would come to breakfast all grumbly hungover, then proceed to get drunk during breakfast. I still laugh at you and the Jersey cop and his hippie wife.
- Admiral Anika
Ah yes... the stories that cop told. HOLY SHIT. Now I believe the WIRE.
- Adrian
Man, wish I was at your house;) I have... trail mix.
- Lis Miller
My holiday cards look like your centerpiece: silver and blue decorations in a white bowl. And I would totally eat everything you served there,
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
It looks wonderful - and the food....! NOM NOM NOM!!! Lucky you! :)
- WorldofHiglet
WoH, most of those recipes/suggestions were from you! :P
- Rochelle
"It has been the stuff of science fiction for decades. Now scientists have found a way to wipe out painful memories. They have shown that if we are forced to recall something negative very shortly after the experience, it can be 'rewritten' for the better. The finding could one day be used to help soldiers traumatised by the horrors of battle. Researchers gave a group of volunteers mild electric shocks while they looked at a picture of a coloured square. The next day they were subjected to the same combination, to bring back the painful memory, before repeatedly being shown the picture alone. They were again shown the image alone the day after that - and when their levels of anxiety were measured their fear had all but gone, the journal Nature reports. Being shown the picture without the shock within ten minutes after their second exposure to the picture with the shock seemed to rewire the brain's response. Dr Daniela Schiller, from New York University, said: 'This suggests that...
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- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
I don't know if this is good and is actually kind of worrying. And reminds me of Dollhouse which definitely means it can't be a good thing.
- Araceli
Araceli, the research done doesn't seem to support that the bad memory itself can be erased. Rather, it's the anxiety associated with the memory. If this works it could help avoid Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder which messes up people's lives for decades.
- Ruchira S. Datta
You have the cutest smirk expression in many of your pictures. Very awesome. Good luck finding food in the snow. Follow the squirrels, they know where the foods are.
- Morgan Haley
lol which smirk do you speak of? link me to the photo of which you are talking hahaha The caf is right across from my dorm.. i was there and back already
- Marissa
Thin bedding and cinderblock walls ... are you at NMU or a Siberian prison complex?
- LANjackal
It's been a while since I've seen Sam Rubin, but he never impressed me as a grumpy old curmudgeon. Regardless, seems that Perez got both barrels because of Perez, not because Sam's old.
- FF's Bubba of Arizona
I wasn't saying it was *because* he's old. I've seen Rubin maybe 20 times in the last 3 or 4 years go off on people. He's certainly got cattier in the mid-90s and he doesn't suffer fools or hacks. That's all.
- Admiral Anika
Sam's just hungry after losing all that weight. Now he has attitude and a tiny bit of self-confidence. And that's a dangerous thing.
- Morgan Haley
"People here are also worried about the future. They fret that Bangalore, and India more broadly, will remain a low-cost satellite office of the West for the foreseeable future — more Scranton, Pa., in the American television series “The Office,” than Silicon Valley. Even as the rest of the world has come to admire, envy and fear India’s outsourcing business and its technological prowess, many Indians are disappointed that the country has not quickly moved up to more ambitious and lucrative work from answering phones or writing software. Why, they worry, hasn’t India produced a Google or an Apple? Innovation is hard to measure, but academics who study it say India has the potential to create trend-setting products but is not yet doing so. Indians are granted about half as many American patents for inventions as people and firms in Israel and China. The country’s corporate and government spending on research and development significantly lags behind that of other nations. And venture capitalists finance far fewer companies here than they do elsewhere."
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
“To start a services company it really takes you just two or three days to get going,” said Mr. Krishnan, whose book, “From Jugaad to Systematic Innovation: The Challenge for India,” is to be published next year. “The moment you are looking at manufacturing, there are hundreds of inspectors and regulations.” - pain faced & reported by several of my friends and acquaintances.
- Kamath (नमः)
"Oh dear dad, can you see me now? I am myself, like you somehow" kills me. My dad died when I was 10, and I often wonder what he would think of the man I've become.
- Bren -- Not Grinchy
for my money, you really can't beat 10 and Vs. ... after those two, I sort of lost interest
- Bren -- Not Grinchy
those two are definitely the best. I just lasted a little longer than you and lost interest after Vitalogy :)
- holly
When they started to hit big, I was so impressed with their energy...they seemed to really lose that after Vs. and even more so after Vitalogy.
- Bren -- Not Grinchy
The joy of eating street food is rooted not only in the flavors, but also in the experience. Sometimes it's more about the latter than the former. This curious establishment was on the 'hit list' that a friend passed to us before we drove to Hat Yai and Songkhla last June. It resides under a stage erected in the courtyard of a temple smack in the middle of the city's Chinatown. The place is an institution; if you were to ask anyone on the street about 'noodles under the stage' they'd point you here.
- BeeLing
from Bookmarklet
My mom passed way when I was 18 from ALS. Need I say more?
- Bill Scherer
I worked at the Houston Museum of Natural Science as a volunteer and then as a Teacher's Assistant for 3 years (volunteering over the summers) until a new head of the education department came in and we did not ... mesh well. I was the only T.A. let go. The volunteers and the other T.A.'s put together a petition to have me reinstated (this is back when I was interesting) and garnered 87...
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- Jeremy (cropmarks)
When I got divorced, I had a dog that I raised from a puppy...and had to give the dog up because I just wasn't home enough...it wouldn't have been fair to the dog. A lot of tears were shed over that dog.
- FF's Bubba of Arizona
The goodbye I never got to say, when my dad passed away unexpectedly (for me), and I didn't hear about it for a couple of weeks. That came the closest to destroying me... but my dad would have been peeved if it had, so I made it through, in the end.
- Bette Cooper
The hardest goodbye I have ever had to say looks to be in my very near future :(.
- Kamath (नमः)
ya ben Michael Buble'i dinlemeyi cok cok seviyorum, ama o boyband elemani tipine bakmadan :) kliplerini ilk kez post etmek icin actim, bilgisayarim bozuk olmasa sarkiyi yuklerdim :) sesine, muzik tarzina ve yorumuna cok zit bi tipi var :)
- Eda Demir
Ben epeydir dinlememistim, sayende dinlemis oldum. Tam bir babyface ama severek dinlerim. edit: Bu arada bu mesaji sana dakikalar evvelce yazmistim, gondermeyi unutmusum. Sigh.
- Mine Ekim
:) diger sarkiylariyla da devam etseydin. ben de simdi gordum bu arada seninkini, gevezelik etmekten :)
- Eda Demir
I just disable the whole thing. Go to the "Security Center" control panel and click "Change the way Security Center notifies me" on the left. Or disable the "Security Center" service (wscsvc).
- Gabe
Open Regedit >> Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced >> Create a REG_DWORD named EnableBalloonTips >> Set the value data to 0 >> Close Regedit >> Reboot
- AJ Batac
other than not using windows which is the best thing to do, you can disable the messages by clicking on something like "change the way windows notifies me"
- w43l
In the 'Windows Security Center' window click on the link that says 'Change the way the Security Center alerts me'. Select the way that you prefer to be alerted about security issues.
- Erdëm [virtus] GULTEKIN
You could get a Mac, but you might have to sell everything else you own to afford one. Instead try changing your Firewall settings. That way you can keep using a machine people still create programs for.
- Ciaoenrico
Thanks. It's so hard to find and kill all of these annoying settings. This is for my windows vm :)
- Paul Buchheit
What's with all the douchebags spamming the comments with "Don't use Windows"? Do they think they're being funny? Do they really think you don't already have a Mac and/or Linux? Do they not see the VMWare icon sitting RIGHT NEXT to the damn arrow?
- Gabe
Paul, you have a talent for asking all the questions I've always wanted to ask but forgot to.
- Gabor Cselle
Gabe, yes I think I'm being funny - welcome to Friendfeed :-)
- Jesse Stay
Easiest way to make it go away. Turn on Windows Firewall, and install Microsoft Security Essentials.
- Wizetux
OSX is also good target for viral stuff nowadays - viral distribution needs head-less (stupid) material for propagation... use Linux, chances to catch anything next to zero, And Ubuntu will give you (almost) same environment you had in Windows (and better system under hood)
- A.T.
I installed Ubuntu. I haven't seen this pop-up since then.
- Matt Cutts
Matt, that consistently works like a charm.
- Kamath (नमः)
@Paul - I installed Microsoft Security Essentials (http://www.microsoft.com/Securit...) on my wife's laptop. So far it has been a big improvement (i.e., seems to work and doesn't trash or slow down the machine) over the several other antivirus products, both commercial and free, we tried before. I'd run it even in a VM'ed instance of Windows, as just booting into a network with other Windows boxes or hitting a few websites can put the VM image at risk (and be a risk to the rest of the network).
- DeWitt Clinton
Dewitt. I am definately installing Microsoft Security Essentials once my Nortons subscription is up. People: PAUL IS RUNNING A VIRTUAL MACHINE. End of public service announcent.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
First comment is the right one. Have a nice journey with a Virtualized XP (and disable themes! :) )
- Assimo
it's somehow relieving to see that even pro's sometimes struggle with easy things like that :)
- Johannan Edelman
start>run>services.msc then disable windows security center service. it will go to the cyber space.
- Ali Sözkesen
Ali, BlackViper says that you have to do more than just disable the service: http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP... - "If you do not want the Security Center to monitor these functions for you, disabling this service is not enough. After rebooting the system, this service will again be placed into Automatic and started. While the service is in the started state, go...
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- Chris Heath
I watch it on mute. Obviously I don't care much for the dialogue.
- Derrick
The dialogue was the funniest part. Especially when they Auto-Tuned everyone's voice.
- Steven Perez
from IM
It is bloody ridiculous. I've watched it about 5 times just to remind myself how ridiculous it is.
- Kamath (नमः)
I take that last part back. The REALLY funny part of 300 is Frank Miller. Dude seems to believe that this movie was a rallying call to stop all of the brown people from invading civilization: http://www.theatlasphere.com/metablo.... I think I just found out how THE SPIRIT got made.
- Steven Perez
DYSP's First Rule of Movies: If a movie pays more attention to SFX or soundtrack than to plot or dialogue, AVOID. If I want to look at something pretty, I'll go to an art gallery. If I want SFX, I'll play a video game.
- Steven Perez
from IM
This is the "watching terrible movies" weekend, right Steven??
- Roberto Bonini
A few weekends ago this was on with Gladiator and Troy. The amount of masculinity I absorbed that weekend was enough to make me want to dine in hell. *leonidas face*
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
maybe you should Steven. they animated the comic. in that context, this is a great movie. its not trying to be accurate in anyway. its supposed to be over the top and exaggerated. this is a bluray/hd must have for anyone that has the slightest interest in hi-def. check out the comic at your LCS and see for yourself.
- Carlos Ayala
thats a good way of putting it Sparky, yes.
- Carlos Ayala
I'll read it, Carlos, but if this is a faithful adaptation of the book, then the book should also be ridiculous. As in "OMGWTFBBQ redonkulous", Sparky.
- Steven Perez
I thought the movie was good, but I was only in it for the action.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
well considering they only used one or two actual set pieces and the entire thing was cg'd and greenscreened, i thought it was pretty amazing...in an entertaining sort of way. ;)
- Carlos Ayala
Visually, very impressive. Otherwise, ridiculous.
- Steven Perez
Still hasn't coerced me into working out more, but whatever. It is a beautiful looking blu-ray.
- Derrick
Oh, I loved this movie. I always compare it like watching ballet. Well I guess people looking at ballet pay attention to the same things I was liking in 300. I still like to show myself my favourite scenes. Maybe the same scenes you laugh about, but I think the action scenes in this movie are so stylistically attractive, it's making it one of the best films of the last few years.
- Ton Zijp
I liked the movie. Although most of it were over the top, fantasy-esque, I did enjoy the few bits that were relatively faithful of the Spartans. For example, their laconic wit (although I can see how it dampens most view of the dialogue) and the lambda on their shields. Nice portayal of the phalanx and their warrior spirit. Being able to capture the comic frames and translate them to a movie was also pretty awesome.
- Arlan Koizumi
from FreshFeed
HAAAAAAPPPPPYYYYY BIIIIRRRRTTTHHHHHHHHDDAAAAAAYYYYY!!!!!!?!!!!!!!!!1!1!1!!!111
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Spidra, Sarah has to approve the photos I post of her and then she rarely will consent to the taking of the picture. Zoe has no choice. Going to chill the 'cake overnight, so we did Blue Bell ice cream with the turtle topping.
- Trish Haley
from iPhone
I'll try to hang more sugar, but the demands of meat space keep ramping up (I'm supposed being doing other stuff even now). Have a safe trip. AND WHERE'S MAH FOOTWEAR???
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
Laguardia airport has better net access than my parent's house. Sad, but true. I'm getting them wireless for Christmas.
- Mary Carmen
I hear ya, Barry. I have no footwear today. It is raining like crazy and my shoes are all wet. I promise to do better next week.
- Mary Carmen
#oohgirl at least your parents *have* access. My mother still has the bargain basic cable. $19.99/month. She doesn't even get Sportscenter
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
I dont think I could live without Sportscenter.
- Mary Carmen
and that ^^^^ is one of the reasons I like Mary C.
- Steve
Thanks, Steve. I start my morning and end my day with it. And I like to put it on as background noise if I'm not listening to music.
- Mary Carmen
Oh yeah! Well, I'm here now. How long are you in NYC for?
- Mary Carmen
I'm already back in Dallas, MC. I wish we'd had a chance to meet. I was working in Middletown, NY this week, and I flew into and out of Laguardia.
- ha3rvey (just a friend)
Awwww....well, the next time you are headed to NYC, lemme know. It may coincide with a trip. Do you ever come to NC?
- Mary Carmen
I've got a trip to Albany later this month, and I'll be in NYC for two weeks in January. I've been to Charlotte twice in the last year, but that's it.
- ha3rvey (just a friend)