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Google Chrome - Download a new browser - Now available for Mac - http://www.google.com/chrome
aden liked this
Anyone besides Mona rockin' the Chrome on Mac?
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
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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
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If I met you in person, how would you greet me? Hug, handshake, chest bump, awkward hello?
anjelina, Tsali, The Native of FF, edythe and 11 other people liked this
I'd likely hug you. Two reasons: 1) I love hugging people I like, 2) you definitely seem huggable.
- Cheryl
:) I'd love a hug! I'm hoping to have a chance sometime to start meeting people. Maybe this coming summer.
- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
Hmmm. I would have said "hug," but that was before I saw "chest bump" as an option. :)
- Laura Lou Who
i will kiss you , lots of kisses ...................
- vasilios palmas
at this point, an awkward hello. :-D
- Paulette Garcia Morris
I would give you a hug :)
- aden
HUGS!
- josh neff, geek at large
I'm a hugger.
- Mary Carmen
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
Ditto chris above.
- Jim Hearts FF
didn't we knock knitting needles or something?
- Katie
Hug, unless you looked frightened by the approach.
- Lo is a Quitter
Awkward hello - I'm shy. But if you hugged me, i wouldn't mind. :)
- Alix Whitmire
LOL Katie. @Lo, if you were running at me, I might be a bit taken aback, but not frightened. We could hug good-bye Alix. :)
- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
I'll try to contain myself, then :)
- Lo is a Quitter
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
How about a fist bump Katy? :-D That sounds good HW.
- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
Fist bump is fine! After that we can work out a secret handshake.
- Katy S
Handshake, I think. It really depends on how you greet me.
- Alex Scoble
Handshake...and if I knew you a bit more, perhaps a bit of a hug.
- JA Castillo
Alex, I'd probably give you a chaste kiss on the cheek. Secret handshakes are awesome!
- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
I tried to give Alex a kiss on the cheek and he rudely shoved me away. I'm still all sadified about it.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I would be too if I were you Akiva. I can't imagine!
- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
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
Slo-mo fist-bump, with explosion ;)
- Bren, Not Grinchy
from iPhone
Head-nod or an awkward hello wave. Might just skip past it to conversation. Depends on the day.
- Amber, Random Time Lord
Awkward hello. Sorry, that's just how I roll.
- Kendra <3 Three Lions
I would say "Yo"
- imabonehead
An awkward hug. I like hugging, but I'm terrible at "first hugs".
- Jason Huebel
Handshake and awkward hello.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
I'm a hugger type.
- jcunwired
Side-hug =)
- Micah Wittman
hug:-)
- anjelina
Dead-eyed stare
- sjjh
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)
@Mo "Stuffing you in a sack." I kine of like the sound of that. :-P
- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
Handshake yeterlidir abicin
- ★ Soner Gönül
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.
John (a.k.a. dendroica), Alex Scoble, Mike Nencetti and 3 other people liked this
more coffee!!
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
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
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
o.O
- joey
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
Akiva, no, that wasn't it at all.
- joey
Okay, I'll bite. What was it then?
- Akiva Moskovitz
Dave Brubeck Quartet Blue Rondo à la Turk - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Junebug (aka Sarah Jill), ha3rvey (needs soup), Christopher Harley and 2 other people liked this
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
Mezmerizing. What freeway are they following?
- Christopher Harley
I'm gonna guess it's I-10, and/or I-5.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five (1961) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Carlos Ayala, Captain Bubbles, ha3rvey (needs soup) and 2 other people liked this
Joe Morello is STILL the man.
- ha3rvey (needs soup)
Just heard the Kennedy Center Honors telecast will be 12/29 (my birthday!)
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
Huge tune!
- Carlos Ayala
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".
MVB (Curmudgeon of FF), Penguin It's Cold Outside, Thomas Bøhm and 7 other people liked this
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'm with LogEx
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I say Copenhay-gen.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
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
Holy dang! I love how I learn stuff on FF. I didn't know Beijing used to be called Peking by Westerners. Weirdness. http://www.logoi.com/notes...
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
"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
Have you ever flown in a helicopter?
edythe, Colide81 (James), rowlikeagirl and 25 other people liked this
Yes.
- Christopher Harley
No.
- Alex Scoble
Yes. And a blimp.
- Todd Hoff
Nope.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Yes
- Eric Logan
Nope. But I've been INSIDE a Chinook helicopter!
- Rochelle
No.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Yes, did a NYC tour.
- Roberto Bonini
Yes. The county fair had someone come out every year and a friend and I did it a couple years in a row. It was incredible!
- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
Yes.
- SAM
no. :( but i've flown in a sea plane and landed on the water! so that was cool.
- Call me Bronco
yes, and my favorite was a tour of the Mt. Rushmore area in South Dakota.
- Steve
Yes, a tourist ride in San Francisco.
- SuezanneC Baskerville
Yeah, the pilot of the helicopter was great! He answered all of my questions
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
from fftogo
I was impressed, especialy because I always crash when piloting helicopter in simulators :)
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
from fftogo
no
- Mike Nencetti
No.
- Derrick
Sorta. We probably got about 20 feet off the ground before I freaked out and said I'd rather take an F in the class.
- Captain Bubbles
no
- VAL D.
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
What class was that, Anika?!?
- Christopher Harley
Yes. In Northern Canada during a brief stint as a forest firefighter. The pilot was absolutely insane. :)
- T. Brent, technopeasant
No :-( Not for lack of want though
- Rasmus Lauridsen
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
Nope :(
- Amy
Yes. Seaside, OR
- Micah Wittman
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
Yes
- Alex Scrivener
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
Yes.
- Mona Nomura
Absolutely not.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
No, but I'd love to!
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Yes, over Victoria Falls.
- Anne Bouey
No...
- Kamilah Gill
Yes, and in a blimp as well... and had a blast skydiving, too...
- Harold
Yes, circling O'ahu. It was awesome.
- Josh Haley
Yes, along Cable Beach in Broome Western Australia at sunset. Magic!
- Penny
Nope. :/
- AJ Batac
Yep.
- Steven Perez
Yes! in Rotorua New Zealand. The area has dead volcanos as well as geothermal mud pools and hot springs. It was amazing!
- Rachel Lea Fox
No
- ★ Soner Gönül
not yet, on my to do list this morning :p
- Halil
Alan, what a chance! I suppose you took some great photos of the volcanoes from the helicopter
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
from email
Yes.
- April Buchheit
yep.
- Mycaptain
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 flew over the Hudson and around the Statue of L
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
Nope only in planes.
- Colide81 (James)
The front moves in
Well, they said it was coming. We need the rain, but why always the weekend?
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from email
Audrey Hepburn: Making 'Funny Face' by Bert Hardy - http://www.life.com/image...
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Creative Photography, Meltem Parlak, Will Higgins™ and 31 other people liked this
I need an Audrey Hepburn "auto-like" plugin :-D
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
If you promise to keep liking the posts that contain Audrey, I'll keep finding them ... it will be my pleasure! :D
- Emma
She is one of my all-time favorite actresses. The epitome of grace and elegance, imo.
- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
Hopelessly <3 <3 <3 <3
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
ha, you and mwm both, ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ.
- edythe
Such a beauty! :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
To create a page in Facebook, click "Advertising", then "Create a Page." Intuitive - NOT. #nten
ωαřмaiden, MFA'd poet, Captain Bubbles and Jason liked this
I find FB pages a bit difficult to use. I'm still having problems on the page I'm trying to work on for the nonprofit I sit on the board of.
- Jason
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.
Chatsohbet, VAL D., Rasmus Lauridsen and 10 other people liked this
Love the one you're with?
- Todd Hoff
Heh. Definitely part of it. Lazy chilly cloudy Saturday some of it, too.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from email
Captain Bubbles to Captain's feed, Los Angeles, Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF, Derrick, Amani, DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE, Melissa, Jess, ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ, Kisha, Well Conditioned, Morgan Haley, Lis Miller, Christi Nielsen, carlotta fancypants, edythe, mike fabio, Noah Belson, Jason Toney, Marie is merry.
I'm meeting up with friends on Dec. 4th, 8pm @ Moonlight Rollerway. If you're interested, it would great to see you there. http://www.moonlightrollerway.com/schedul...
Morgan Haley, edythe, Parth Awasthi and 5 other people liked this
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
*wish I were there bump*
- Michael W. May
me too, MwM :-/
- Anna Haro
Aw, me too you guys!
- Captain Bubbles
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
thanks anyway..............
- VAL D.
oooh that sounds fun! Haven't been skating in years... If I'm over the crud, we'll be there!
- Christi Nielsen
Yay! I hope you guys feel better.
- Captain Bubbles
Request Celebration for me :)
- Michael W. May
^ No. =) Though my daughter does love that song now. So...maybe.
- Captain Bubbles
Meanie :P It's the one song that was played at the rink every bloody weekend and I will ever associate with skating.
- Michael W. May
Really? I always associate it with weddings and graduations.
- Captain Bubbles
that sounds fun. it's open to all ages right?
- Morgan Haley
danged water pump went out on the conveyance -- if I'm reliably vehicular by Friday... sounds like fun!
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
Yes, Morgan it's all ages. If you want to bring your kid, there'll be about 4 or 5 girls there her age.
- Captain Bubbles
how many girls in my target demographic (ages 18-84)? :-) hee hee...
- Morgan Haley
LOL 8 I think. 2 are married, though. =)
- Captain Bubbles
well, to quote a 70's tv show: 8 is enough!
- Morgan Haley
is this still on?
- Morgan Haley
Of course.
- Captain Bubbles
then i'm there with my little one. looking forward to it!
- Morgan Haley
sorry not to be skating with y'all. hope you post pictures!
- Marie is merry.
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.
Beau Liening, vicster, Michael R. Bernstein and 4 other people liked this
Of course, it sounds better than "chattle" or "fodder". Or "chum".
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
wow... just, wow.
- Jim Hearts FF
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
Human capital maybe?
- Brian Sullivan
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
Come on, caffeine. You are not doing your job.
Alex Scoble, Katie: Whelmed Overly, Roberto Bonini and 7 other people liked this
I hate when that happens.
- Jim Hearts FF
You didn't give it a chance with those eggies!
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
careful not too overshoot your caffeinated mark
- JSNFLMNG
Just had my first dose.... (I can stop at any time... really!)
- mikepk
Aliens vs. Predator vs. Classification Board | GamePolitics - http://gamepolitics.com/2009...
lol, scary pic!
- Anthony Farrior
from Bookmarklet
If you were Cindy Crawford, you'd be under investigation for child endangerment.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
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
Screw this. I give up today. I'm sick of my best efforts amounting to sweet fuck all, because some wankers feel threatened.
Kol Tregaskes, edythe, sam and 6 other people liked this
:(
- Captain Bubbles
My efforts today ended up meaning not much as well, but it wasn't anyone else's fault. :(
- Josh Haley
I keep posting here anyways, Mo. ;-D
- 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
My grampa still says "Say again?"
- Josh Haley
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
You looking at me?
- CW™
Not unless you morphed into a sexy dame when I wasn't looking...
- Mo Kargas
My grandpa used to feed me frozen waffles and then tell me I needed to go on a diet. :/
- Alix Whitmire
Ahhhahaha, cruel!
- Mo Kargas
:D
- Alix Whitmire
DO ANYBODY NO WHY JAMES CAMERON DECIDE TO REMADE FERN GULLY?
Kol Tregaskes, Jon, the Beartato of FF, Helen Sventitsky and 6 other people liked this
Rumor has it people are already referring to it as the 21st Century "Cleopatra" as far as fiscal impact on the studio.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
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
Oh come ON
- Kamilah Gill
Yeah, The Abyss was his Waterworld and it did well enough for him to turn around and do T2.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Oh come ON yourself, Kamilah - dude has an upside-down font. :-D
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
haha
- Shevonne
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
But it's 3D!
- Rob Haas
Watch the director's cut.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
I haven't the faintest clue what Fern Gully is... sorry, I'm just ramblin on Avatar.
- Adrian
Check
- 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
Oh, I see, my bad. #buttingout
- Adrian
DO ANYBODY NO WHERE KAMILAH GOT TO?
- Alex Scoble
from IM
GOT TO HERE??
- Kamilah Gill
+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
Where is The Abyss on blu-ray?
- Derrick
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
i think The Abyss is the best film Cameron has made.
- Joe Silence is not dead
Voice activated coffee maker by Hamilton Beach | Appliancist - http://www.appliancist.com/coffee_...
"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
will it respond to this? "go clean yourself in the sink, fill yourself up with water and coffee grounds, and brew. now."
- Call me Bronco
Sarah, If it doesn't, it should!
- Michelle Martinez
But will it respond to, "Tea. Earl Grey. Hot."??
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
Oh, this reminds me. Does Tina still have that obnoxiously loud coffee maker?
- Rochelle
I think what I'm looking for is a maid. for Christmas.
- Call me Bronco
Sarah: me too!
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
Third woman claims having affair with Tiger Woods - http://www.thedailyinquirer.net/third-w...
Damn, Tiger.
- Derrick
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
Wait, were they all in the car together?
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
Fwd: Merry Christmas Toilet (par http://friendfeed.com/koltreg...)
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martha and Kol Tregaskes liked this
I WANT A PLUNGER SHOT.
- Joe Silence is not dead
Is there a Rudolf the Red-Nosed bidet wrap as well?
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
Official Google Blog: Spread some holiday cheer, one card at a time - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
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
Whee! We're under a tornado watch until 6pm.
Jim Hearts FF liked this
where are you?
- Joe Silence is not dead
Macon, GA. Preparing to hoof it to the stairwell if I hear the siren.
- Laura Lou Who
Thought I'd traded tornados for earthquakes when I moved to CA, then we started getting them here (rare, but true). Be safe!
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
dang. stay safe!
- Joe Silence is not dead
you spin me right round baby right round like a record baby right round round round.
- Jim Hearts FF
I've seen waterspouts off the coast of LA, but never heard of any tornadoes.
- Derrick
At LAX and you'd be surprised how few people there are traveling. The security line was miniscule
ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ and Anthony Citrano liked this
Even street traffic looks light this morning. Is there a secret holiday I'm missing out on?
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
This morning's "The Simpsons" clouds
aden, Yolanda and Junebug (aka Sarah Jill) liked this
For a moment, I almost expected them to part and reveal the title, but the music cue never came in.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from email
My new Xbox avatar is wearing Handerpants - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Yolanda, Michael Hocter, VAL D. and 3 other people liked this
I know that avatar!
- Captain Bubbles
LOL. On Twitter, it loses the Flickr fave attribution. This'll really confuse 'em over on the Facebook.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
Touché to FB for bringing the attribution with it from FF.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
LOL Twitter strips the important parts, eh?
- Captain Bubbles
Yay! Tow on the way! While I'm loathe to give them credit for it, AT&T's Roadside Assistance, at $2.99 a month has worked out for me.
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
It’s Time to Free the Twitter Client - http://staynalive.com/article...
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Thomas Power, Louis Gray and Allen Stern liked this
Wow - that image is bigger than hoped.
- Jesse Stay
what did you feed it? Purina Twitter Chow?
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
http://twitpic.com/rdkql - McRib addict is happy
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esther ♥ ♫, Mona Nomura, Mark Krynsky and 17 other people liked this
ooh, what's in a McRib?
- Bryce Roney
Nothing of nutritional value. :D
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Isn't that a given :P I'm more of a Grand Angus fan anyway
- Bryce Roney
Is McRib a new item?
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
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
I've wondered that myself Bryce. It's probably best not to know.
- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
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
Well, he can't smell, so it's all good.
- Captain Bubbles
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
+ ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
- Adrian
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
^ ROFL at that last line.
- Captain Bubbles
McRib Lovers Unite!
- Mark Krynsky
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...
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DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE and tiffany liked this
On a side note, I've heard that she's much older than what is publicized about her. I heard she's closer to our age group.
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
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
...and gave us SASHA FIERCE
- Anna Haro
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
HELL YEAH SASHA FIERCE
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
Sasha Fierce and Foxy Cleopatra!!! In gold lamé hotpants!!!
- Mark Jepsen
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