I will be rockin' it as soon as I get home :)
- aden
Well, I've been relatively happy with the latest Safari (using the hell out of the Web Inspector to help troubleshoot some outgoing HTML-formatted email). That being said, I'm also anxious to check out all the fuss over Chrome.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
going to go a week on chrome just to see what all the fuzz is about :-)
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Yup, that's probably what I'm going to do, too! :-)
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from email
at first I think a handshake til I knew you better
- VAL D.
until i know a person really well, i don't hug unless they initiate. or we're both drunk.
- Joe Silence is not dead
I'm with Joe on the hugging front. (Hey joe, that sound a little strange to you too?)
- SAM
Handshake, most likely. I'm a big hugger, but out of respect, try to gauge people's "personal space" limitations when meeting in meatspace.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
I'm not a hugger, so probably a handshake.
- Katy S
(Well since I do not know you and ran across your page today) I would be professional. Say hello, introduce myself, compliment your Friendfeed postings and engage in socialization,
- H0llywoodWh0re
A head-nod. I am seriously uncomfortable touching other people or being touched unless we're REALLY close. Even shaking hands or fist bumping stresses me out and makes me uncomfortable. I generally dread that part of a typical business transaction points to an inevitable handshake. Every once in a while, I read or hear someone recommend just coming up to people and hugging them at...
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- J Wynia
I'll usually shake hands with a lady when we first meet, although I'll hug if they initiate. I've never actually done a chest bump with a lady. That I know of.
- ha3rvey (needs soup)
I would politely shake hands, and then reassure you that the boxers I'm wearing are button front (and thus, pants were unnecessary.)
- Mark Jepsen
Pffffffttt...Akiva wouldn't even look at me when we met.
- Alex Scoble
Depends. It ranges from an awkward hello, to stuffing you in a sack :)
- Mo Kargas
LOL I love the answers and I'd welcome the hugs although I usually have an issue with personal space. And if you're not into the physical contact, that's totally okay. I remember having a job interview once where the person who was to be my supervisor hugged me at the end of the process. It was very odd...yet I wasn't disturbed so much as touched by the gesture. I would definitely be hugging people good-bye!
- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
I'm in a foul enough mood as it is and I'm having to deal with code that's just poorly written: classes instead of structs, redundant casts, improperly implemented fields (whatever happened to encapsulation?), inconsistent naming (some fields are lowercase, some camel, some upper), and just oodles of noodles.
Of course, when I'm done with this, the resulting code is going to be so awesome, it's going to cause blindness if you look at it directly. Don't get me wrong: this stuff is frustrating only in the sense that I'm writing a second draft of a novel off of a first draft and you know how first drafts are. It's gold but now it needs to be cleaned up and polished. And, yes, as irritated as I am (at something having nothing to do with work), I'm still having a ball working with these stuff.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Write a standards doc; sounds like they need one
- RAPatton
from iPhone
I just need to vent a little bit to keep my sanity.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Eh, I'd feel like an ass doing that. I'm the newest one on the team and I'm a contractor. Besides, it makes my work look all that much better! Job security in full force here.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Oh, and while I'm bitching: do not document your code via your field names. I should never see suffixes like 'Count' and 'Array'.
- Akiva Moskovitz
DO ANYBODY NO WHY AKIVA HAS SO MANY RULES?!? I'M JUST TRYING TO GET STUFF DONE SO I CAN GO HOME!
- pea
Oh, did I fail to mention that there's a class called 'Global'? YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Akiva Moskovitz
Whee! I just found identical methods in two different classes!
- Akiva Moskovitz
Try this on for size. Some code I'm working to decomission over time has a class structure... but as you delve into it, you realize that the most important class has all static functions and variables. It's not really a class at all, just a wrapper around a bunch of global variables and functions.
- Wirehead
What, you expected me to never talk about work?
- Akiva Moskovitz
Lesson. Never code when you are tired. I just had a 12 round fight with the C++ compiler.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
Amen to that, Roberto. I've made some astronomically stupid mistakes when coding while tired that ended up burning hours of debug time later on.
- Akiva Moskovitz
This is AWESOME. Flying carpet ride over 1962 Los Angeles, and they get pulled over by CHP at the end of the song. Hell yeah Dave Brubeck.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
English speakers: there is no need to pronounce Copenhagen as "Copenhah-gen" It is not more authentically Danish if you pronounce it that way. You see, Danes call that city København. If you want to be more authentically Danish, call the city that. If you use the English name for the city, pronounce it "Copenhay-gen".
It's a bit silly that every language has to rewrite the names for other countries' places. Why can't we all call places by what the locals call them? But in the absence of that, yeah, might as well not be a poseur.
- LogEx
Is it really officially "Copenhay-gen" in English? I feel like I've heard it "Copenhah-gen" as a matter of course, not as a way to be more elite/authentic. Both sound equally acceptable to me, neither sounds more pretentious or anything than the other.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Jandy, maybe you just hang out with more high-brow types than we do ;)
- LogEx
I just call it "Buying Haven" and be done with it!
- Mark Jepsen
I was just trying to figure out which I'd naturally say if I weren't thinking about, and I have no idea. Probably because I'm thinking about it.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I tried four times to correct my above comment, changing the "I" to "I'll" but was foiled each time! Anyway, for what it's worth, København literally translates as "Buying Port" or "Buying Harbor" because of its origins as a trading center...
- Mark Jepsen
+LogEx. Once I was old enough to learn for myself that foreign places had their own localized designations (or at least pronounciation) I thought it pretty stupidly ego-centric to keep using the Western/Anglo version we made up for them.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
The worst part of it is that we're not even consistent! When I was a kid it was Peking and Bombay. Now it's Beijing and Mumbai, which is fine, but why didn't we get it right in the first place. Maybe we'll just rotate the "preferred" name on a bi-decennial basis?
- Mark Jepsen
But yeah, generally I agree with LogEx. Is it that hard to say "Italia" or "Praha" or "Firenze" instead of Italy, Prague, and Florence? No. But if you actually used those names in English, it'd be way pretentious. You'd have to get everyone to do it first, like Mark's examples.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Grand prize to anyone who can say Göteborg. Or any town in Finland.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
"It's a bit silly that every language has to rewrite the names for other countries' places." - not really, it makes sense to re-write the name to a rough phonetic equiv. in the target language. That's what people are getting at, I think, having it sound similar. On the other hand, we'd have to learn where the heck Suomi is :) http://translate.google.com/#en|fi|...
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
So funny how this post was just lying here quietly then suddenly got discovered! a) I have no problem pronouncing Göteborg albeit with a slight American accent. (b) Even the Swedes call København Köpenhamn but that's a direct translation over to Swedish of "Buying Harbor" while Copenhagen doesn't mean anything in English (c) The Chinese themselves have changed the name of their capital...
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- Spidra Webster
Ahhh, but then say you try to say the local version and pronounce it wrong when asking for directions or something...suddenly you're heading in entirely the wrong direction and you don't even know it. I once tried to order a beer at a bar in Switzerland and ended up drinking Ovaltine! At least if you pronounce the Westernised version CORRECTLY then...it's a start. :)
- Amy
I've always said HAY not HAH, and that had the approval of a one-time Danish friend.
- Ian May
If you wanted to be cool (at least in Norway) you would just call it "Køben" (with a "ch" sound at the beginning) :)
- Thomas Bøhm
"ch"? Kinda like how Swedes pronounce, "att köpa" then?
- Spidra Webster
I always pronounce it "Copenhäagen-Dazs"
- Jim Norris
Spidra: Exactomundo. Swedes do that too. Whilst the Danish use a normal "k" sound (as you´re probably familiar with)
- Thomas Bøhm
I had a flight with a 206B3 ride. Just over a bridge and right over Bosphorus. An amazing experience with adapting yourself to leaning heli and jump takeoff and landing like an elevator
- Acharad Sami vanJoulee
A broadcasting class where we had to learn to do reports from the sky.
- Captain Bubbles
No, but as often as they're overhead here in Venice, they oughta give us rides :-/
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
A broadcasting class. Interesting. How'd you make out in the end?
- Christopher Harley
Yes. We took a helicopter ride over the volcanoes in Hawaii on our honeymoon
- Alan Simpson
I took the F in that class because it was too late to drop. I hadn't realized we really had to do 9 - 12 hours a week in the sky for the last half of the course. I had to do some fancy footwork to avoid that class as it was required for my degree, but I did it.
- Captain Bubbles
Yes, a tourist helicopter when I was a kid, then a UH-1 Huey, a Ch-46 Sea Knight, an UH-60 Blackhawk and an CH-53 Stallion. I think that's about it.
- Andrew Leyden
We rented helicoptors for our wedding and flew up with a small party to a small mountain meadow. Had glass bubbles in the front: fun experience.
- Matt Mastracci
from iPhone
no but I so want to!!! I have skydived though so that beats helicopter I think :)
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Yes, to exit the Grand Canyon. A few short minutes. I didn't have vertigo or anything...
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
Brent, It was 5 years ago, and I'm not sure that I'll fly in a helicopter again: I guess that all helicopter pilots are insane. When I asked why did he fly so close to the ground, he answered "if we have a problem, we don't have wings!" ;-)
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
from email
well, I was in an adrenaline-junkie environment... he had that bush-pilot gleam in his eye. then again, that was, oh, 15 years ago... I'm considerably more tame, myself. :)
- T. Brent, technopeasant
Only once, tagging along on an emergency transport that thankfully ended up being not so emergent.
- Victor Ganata
A couple of times. Recent experience was much better with noise-canceling headphones.
- LogEx
Yup. Over the Grand Canyon. It was awesome.
- Jason Huebel
yes! I was about 13 years old. went with a group. I was last in line to get in and the back was full. so I got to sit in the front with the pilot! it was awesome!! (in Yellowknife for a Student Exchange Trip)
- Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
Yes, we had to fly to all of our roadless control sites in NE Alberta near the Athabasca River. Jumping out of a helicopter into waist-deep snow is an interesting experience. :-) Loved seeing all the wildlife from the chopper, though!
- Jenny R.
Yes. And hated it. Nothing has ever made me more motion sick. It was in Hawaii over Kauai, so it should have been wonderful.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
I also attended the session on Facebook given by some of the CCI folks. Similar tips. Facebook can be a lot of work for little payoff sometimes.
- Laura Norvig
from iPod
Oh great. Just what I wanted to hear. I've got to set up a couple company pages this next week.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
It's easy to set up a basic one, just hard to customize it and tricky to choose the right add-on apps, since the reliability of those changes constantly. I would say the trickiest thing about pages is that you have to work pretty hard to get engagement there, unless you offer some kind of contest or, if you're a retail company, special discounts on merchandise. Basically, you need a full-time community manager to get engagement going!
- Laura Norvig
Okay, I've got 9 computers. 8 of them work. 5 of them are plugged in. 3 are turned on. 2 are actively connected to the interwebtubes. Yet for the past hour and a half, I've been squinting and pecking on my iPhone. Sheesh.
Ooh, that could be fun. Oh, but that 4th is that Friday, right? I already have plans. :( I'll definitely keep this in mind though, should the other plans fall through or something. I haven't been skating in ages.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
It's getting down to the wire for us at work, but will see. Cause skating > work EVERY TIME.
- Derrick
Understood, Jandy and Derrick. It would be nice if you can come. I figured if I can get enough people there, we can flood the requests with good music. =)
- Captain Bubbles
Of course, the problem with that is that you and I have absolutely no agreement whatsoever on what constitutes "good music." :p
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
LOL And then there's that. But it's okay. I can tell you want to say. And considering some of the music she played, I think we'll both agree it was bad. Thankfully, it was interspersed with skatable music.
- Captain Bubbles
A good friend works for a giant, multinational manufacturing, sales & service corporation. He told me they just recently changed the dept named "human resources" to "human capitol". Sounds like business is either getting ugly or honest. Probably both, but it's gone by with nary a mention anywhere.
LOL That would make me think twice. I remember at the last corp. I worked at, they had a companywide conf. call and they called us workers "investments". There was MUCH eyerolling in that call.
- Captain Bubbles
It kind of creeps me out when people say "children are our greatest resource"
- Victor Ganata
Victor -- do you think "soylent green"?
- Brian Sullivan
Soylent green lite? It's made out of children! 35% less fat! Just 1 calorie!
- Victor Ganata
Yes, capitAl. My bad. My homophonia isn't aided at all by the iPhone.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from email
Are you sure? I believe that it's not the giant, multinational manufacturing, sales & service corporation but rather the company that places people at the giant, multinational manufacturing, sales & service company's Human Capital Department. And yes, I feel just above "chattel", er ah, that is to say, if it was the company I work for.
- M McElhone
Well you know how support companies usually position themselves alongside trends in the industry(ies) they support.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
Human Capital Management is not a new term but really, let's be honest, how many of those departments were "resourceful"?
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
@Anika - I've been called an "asset" so many times it's not funny... I hadn't heard "investments". At least that implies that they're interested in making their investment grow... an asset is just... an asset....
- Lindsay
Speculation has been for quite a while that the water market will exceed the petroleum market. Wonder if it'll be in our time?
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
What my grand pappy always used to say "Hit 'em with the eye lasers".
- mikepk
My grand pappy always used to tuck me in at nights. He'd make sure I was comfy, he'd kiss me on the forehead, and then he'd stare me dead in the eye and say, 'You can't go up against city hall!'
- Akiva Moskovitz
My grandpa used to say, "well, at least they can't eat you."
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
Never mind me, just disillusioned. I used to think very hard work for reduced pay equals reward but in reality it's all about nepotism and covering ones arse. Another one of my naive idealisms shot down.
- Mo Kargas
Yeah, but he's been there before...They were referring to Titanic the same way
- Alex Scoble
from IM
How much of the movie have you seen? I caught a big bunch of it at Adobe MAX and I think it looks to be the best movie of the year.
- Luke Kilpatrick
So you think it will be better than Up or The Blind Side or Inglourious Basterds?
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Personally, I've been using the Waterworld comparison, but Mr Cameron is well entrenched in many august fields these days. I'm sure he'll do well. The picture looks different than I'd hoped, and I'm simply dubious. I'm not a good mainstream guesser, I just make art.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
not a response to the guy directly above me, a response to the post in general...
- Kamilah Gill
The Abyss is his best movie. At least to me, and in terms of making a real narrative feature film.
- Derrick
It doesn't look like what I expected either, but I'm still hopeful. I really like the concept of the movie, but all the clips I've seen kinda look like video game intro CGI. Granted it looks great, but I was expecting something revolutionary.
- Adrian
I'm not sure what your response is supposed to mean though...are you disagreeing that he is in fact doing a live/CGI action remake of Fern Gully? Because that's exactly what Avatar is.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Ooh, I've only seen the Abyss once. I think it's high time to watch again sometime soon.
- Adrian
Yeah, that was pointed towards Kamilah. And Fern Gully is about a guy who's hired to rape and pillage a pristine landscape for its resources, but falls in love with one of the locals and realizes the harm he's doing...which is what Avatar is also about.
- Alex Scoble
+Adrian. That's pretty close to my take from what I've seen, too. Alex: I've not seen Fern Gully, so I don't really have a thought on that, but most films are remakes of something mixed around (or not) anyway. Blah. High-concept sci-fi can't be groundbreaking and popular at the same time, apparently.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
ok, so now I get it. I thought you meant there would be another movie coming up that was a remake of Fern Gully. I didn't make the connection.
- Kamilah Gill
Ahh, hehe, that makes sense. Sorry it wasn't more clear.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
the drowning scene in The Abyss really gets to me, very upsetting.
- Joe Silence is not dead
Yeah, James Cameron and Mary Mastrantonio aren't on speaking terms because of that scene
- Alex Scoble
from IM
i remember that's covered in a sort of mealy-mouthed way in one of the documentaries on the multi-disc set i have. she was very not happy about how they did the resuscitation scene.
- Joe Silence is not dead
You guys are making me want to see what you're talking about. In brief, what happened in those Abyss scenes?
- Kamilah Gill
also, the safety diver putting Ed Harris' scuba mouthpiece in upside down and nearly killing him probly added to the unhappiness in that production.
- Joe Silence is not dead
@Kamilah: it's really best if you watch it yourself. be sure to get the director's cut with the 20 minutes added back in that the studio chopped for distribution, cos it makes the film MUCH better.
- Joe Silence is not dead
most of this revolves around a scene where the mini-sub Harris and Mastrantonio is dead in the water and leaking quickly and there's only one scuba tank. Mastrantonio convinces Harris' character that he is the stronger swimmer and she should drown so he can drag her body back to the underwater base and revive her there.
- Joe Silence is not dead
I'm confused. Fern Gully == Kids' movie. Just because they share some plot, they're the same?
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
OK thanks for the summary. I wasn't sure when, if ever, I'd get around to seeing that particular movie. Soooo many movies on the list to see. For example, I haven't even seen Karate Kid yet. I just saw Back to the Future for the first time earlier this year. I'm way behind.
- Kamilah Gill
there were alot of...problems...while making this part of the film.
- Joe Silence is not dead
"If you consider a traditional programmable coffee maker too difficult to operate, the new voice activated coffee maker by Hamilton Beach could be the answer. The Coffee 2.0 is the next generation coffee maker that responds to voice commands. Just like modern cars, computers, GPS devices, phones or toys. Simply press the button, listen and verbally respond to preprogrammed questions. Options include setting the time of day or just telling it when you want that wake-up pot of hot coffee."
- Michelle Martinez
from Bookmarklet
Yup, I think he needs to change his statement to "I made a whole hell of a lot of mistakes, and deserve being beat with every club in the bag"
- H0llywoodWh0re
Google will send a holiday postcard via snail mail for you to that special offline someone. [thanks Mona, for the heads-up]
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from Bookmarklet
Worth it, as in, it's not AAA, but they do show up (eventually) and I've not had any out-of-pocket expenses once the service has actually been performed. [::sigh::] However, almost an hour-and-a-half later, I'm still waiting for the "within 45 min" guy to show.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
Granted, both times I've needed tow service, I was in a pretty difficult to find/navigate area (surprise, it's L.A. -- and Venice). But even so... couldn't they just ask my permission to grab the GPS coordinate from my present location?
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
See? I knew as soon as I bitched about it, they'd show. Heh.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
No McRib isn't new. They bring it back every once in a while and Adrian loses his mind gorging himself on it. Then he gets sad when they go away again.
- Captain Bubbles
Anything that is pressed into the shape of something vaguely resembling something real in nature and then given a McName I steer clear of.
- Michael W. May
McRib's stench is unbearable. *gags*
- Danny Minick
Danny, relax, no one is going to force-feed you a McRib, and no one is under the delusion that it's good for you, but if you grew up poor, with McDonald's as your once-a-week-eat-out-treat, like I did, then it holds quite a bit of sentimental value.
- Adrian
Adrian, I also enjoy the McRib when they are available. Even if I don't think about what's in it. :-D
- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
We saw a commercial for it when we were in San Antonio, but they haven't been spotted in Killeen yet. I am sure Joel is keeping his fingers crossed, though.
- Michelle Martinez
Adrian: There are other choices on a the menu. Why the McRib? Just curious.
- Danny Minick
For real, Danny? ROFL You clearly haven't been paying attention. The McRib just came back to our local stores . It's been gone for nearly 2 years. That's the entire point of my comment above. HAHAHA
- Captain Bubbles
<_< I totally knew that.... >_> swearz...
- Danny Minick
DID YOU KNOW THE MCRIB IS BAD FOR YOU WHY ARE YOU EATING IT
- Andrizzle Gizzle
I believe the McRib was first test-marketed in the suburban Kansas City area back in '79-'80. The fake rib slab-shaped pork-based sandwich wasn't all that bad in small doses. Must be why they only bring it 'round once and a while.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
Danny, I am mostly a Filet-O-Fish and Chicken McNuggets kinda guy... except when McRib is available. These were the first things I ever had at McDonalds as a 10 year old kid new to the USA, so I've stuck with them out of habit and comfort. I don't like the other stuff at McDonalds, especially the burgers. PSA: I've been known to also eat salads, veggies, fruits and real fish... just not at McDonalds. NEXT TOPIC PLEASE
- Adrian
It was 10 years ago that Beyoncé Knowles announced herself to the world, with the Destiny’s Child hit Independent Women. Since then the 28-year-old singerhas made the decade’s best single, delivered the greatest live show on earth, sung for President Obama and emerged as our last true star. (via Beyoncé: artist of the decade | Music | The... - http://misterjt.tumblr.com/post...
i've heard that too. wouldn't surprise me either. i remember seeing her on a "soul train" performance back when D.C. had its original 4 members and wore tina's homemade outfits. she was supposedly 16 or 17, but her body was more like a 20-something.
- tiffany
Plus she was awesome in Austin Powers! And HOT!!!
- Mark Jepsen
The age rumor seems doubtful. She was 9 years old on star search in 1990 (with Kelly and LaToya) and all their old homemade videos on youtube don't suggest she's any older than them other chicks -- just bodied -- http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Jason Toney
I think the age rumor is gaining traction, because that woman works out like crazy and is built like an Amazon. Just sayin'... And +110 to Anna H. for the Sasha Fierce ref! :D
- Helen Sventitsky