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The Life and Works of A.K. Erlang - http://oldwww.com.dtu.dk/teletra...
By E. Brockmeyer, H.L. Halstrøm and Arne Jensen Transactions of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences, 1948 No. 2
- Kirk Kittell
randomly found Marissa Nadler on last.fm, http://www.last.fm/music... - good voice, good sound - damn, I wish I could sing (well)
wow...she is really good; thanks for bringing her to our attention.
- JA Castillo
I was really looking for Joanna Newsome, but they didn't have any playable songs of hers on last.fm and Marissa Nadler was in the similar artists column. I'm impressed -- fits my mood perfectly tonight.
- Kirk Kittell
I just found Marissa Nadler randomly on Flavorwire through Google Reader, and I felt like bumping your post from more than a year ago :) The video for "River of Dirt" is very nice. I need more sensitivity like that in my real life...
- Kamilah Gill
Notice: "If you could do [x], that would be great" will no longer be treated as a request for me to do something.
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Just answer "Yes it would, wouldn't it".
- Mellissa Jane
That's exactly what I was thinking. It's a value opinion about an idea. Just tell me what you want. I can make it happen. If you don't have the guts to tell me what you want... I have other things to do while you look for your spine.
- Kirk Kittell
Tips & Tricks | Drupal + FCKeditor - http://drupal.fckeditor.net/tricks
How to fix the missing background color of FCKeditor in Drupal
- Kirk Kittell
4000 Footers - http://www.amc4000footer.org/
Three lists of peaks: White Mountain Four Thousand Footers; New England Four Thousand Footers; the New England Hundred Highest
- Kirk Kittell
PHP: sprintf - Manual - http://us3.php.net/sprintf
lists type parameters for inputs
- Kirk Kittell
Ben & Jerry's Icecream in order of awesomeness: Chubby Hubby, Mint Chocolate Cookie, Americone Dream, Dublin Mudslide
Jennifer Van Grove, Kyle Hebert, Kirk Kittell and 2 other people liked this
Nu-uh, their cinnamon bun ice cream is at the very top of the list.
- Michelle Jones
I doubt that would even make my top 10
- Stefan Hayden
Neopolitan Dynamite's pretty great. Chocolate Fudge Brownie + Cherry Garcia in one container? Slobtastic.
- Kevin Hessel
I don't think I've seen the 2 in 1 containers
- Stefan Hayden
I completely agree with Chubby Hubby and Americone dream, not a mint fan myself. Never tried Dublin Mudslide.
- Will
The thing about Americone Dream is that you better polish that container in a matter of days or the cone gets soggy.
- Kevin Hessel
1. Cinnamon Buns 2. Creme Brulee 3. Rainforest Crunch (discontinued)
- Steve Isaacs
Chubby Hubby is great and I'll always go for the classic Cookie Dough.
- AJ Kohn
I miss Chocolate Cherry Garcia (discontinued). :(
- Danielle
*salivates* I must resist.
- Carolyn Chan
from twhirl
My favorite is the Chocolate Fudge Brownie, and my girlfriend likes it as well -- double bonus. Fossil Fuel is pretty good, too.
- Kirk Kittell
The oatmeal cookie and apple pie flavors are my faves. Sorry I don't know the cute, punny names.
- Kyle Hebert
I don't like any ice cream flavor that uses puns! All of my favs are pun free.
- Stefan Hayden
So maybe pun isn't the right word, but what do you call Americone Dream?
- Kyle Hebert
Chunky Monkey
- adam garrett
it just a funny compound word.... joke-y maybe but not pun-y
- Stefan Hayden
"Americone" is called a portmanteau, not a compound word. Close though.
- xero
thanks Xero! I had no idea
- Stefan Hayden
Nice call xero. Googling portmanteau now!
- Kyle Hebert
Everybody now! "Chunky Monkey, Chunky Monkey..."
- Scott Henry
Mint Chocolate Cookie is before Chubby Hubby. Assuming you're talking about descending awesomeness, of course.
- Justin Hileman
Al Gore at #Ted: "Clean coal is the new Joe Camel" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Andrei M. Marinescu, VC Freak, Christophe Pierret and 27 other people liked this
How can Al Gore still show his face in public? He's the Maddof of public policy.
- Robert Hafer
Robert: did Al Gore rip off thousands of people? I sure wish you'd back up such a ridiculous claim.
- Robert Scoble
Al Gore is trying to regulate millions with the fraud of Global Warming.
- Robert Hafer
Robert: most scientists I've talked with do not agree it is a fraud. Back that up please with URLs.
- Robert Scoble
@Hafer is the Maddof of hyperbole.
- MikeAmundsen
Scobez: Dogma requires no proof. What the thinker thinks, the prover proves.
- Internet's Tad
Damn, Tad, that was deep.
- Alex Scoble
I'll have to wait till I'm at a computer; damn no cut and paste on my iPhone
- Robert Hafer
Alex: :P
- Internet's Tad
So THAT's what happened to the Gulf Coast three years ago! They were run over by a MYTH!
- Steven Perez
I'll save Robert Hafer the trouble: http://www.cnn.com/2009...
- Robert Scoble
LOL! pwnd
- Internet's Tad
You know, Hafer, you may have a point. After all, we can't have crazy ex-vice-presidents running around shooting their fool mouths off. *coughCheneycough*
- Steven Perez
Over 31,000 scientists disagree with Owl Gore http://www.petitionproject.org/
- Dave Roth
Dave: I'll go with CNN over some web site that has an active bias, thank you very much. http://www.cnn.com/2009...
- Robert Scoble
Ahh, the old "on my iPhone" excuse. Go figure. I have yet to see anything but websites with active bias attempt to belittle global warming facts. That alone is proof enough for me.
- jcunwired
And CNN isn't biased? What makes you think Global Warming is not a hoax? There's no science to prove it, and tons of left-wing agenda that use this non-crisis to further their agenda.
- Dave Roth
What makes you think it is a hoax? Show us the science. Umm, while you're at it, how does this fit in with anyone's agenda?
- jcunwired
"This whole global warming scam is nothing more than a front for wealth distribution and anti-capitalist activism. Democrats have come up with a great way to do accomplish those goals .. carbon credits. Charge companies and/or people for their carbon output and then let the government use that money to redistribute as it likes." (not my words)
- Dave Roth
Yeah, I've always viewed pollution reduction as an anti-capitalist front for redistribution of wealth. Oy!
- jcunwired
@Dave Roth: i can't believe you just quoted Neal Boortz [http://boortz.com/nealz_n...].
- MikeAmundsen
The sides are pretty convinced of the truth of their argument. The ice cores of the arctic have proven this is an unusual time in terms of the rapidity of melt and loss of ice coverage. True the earth has gone through cycles and ice ages before but none of this severity with this rapid onset. The extremes of weather is what you need to focus on, not just warming. Some warms will be warmer than ever, some colds, colder, moisture patterns climate will change and economies will suffer on a global scale.
- Phil Boiarski
@MikeAmundsen Yup. Neal's been right about this one for a long time.
- Dave Roth
I understand why many folks don't want to have severe restrictions on business to combat global climate change, and I understand why many folks are convinced that global climate change isn't caused by man, but what I don't get are people who refuse to believe that global climate change is happening right now or people who don't give a damn that hundreds of millions of us humans will be affected as ocean levels rise.
- Internet's Tad
Nice job getting all the crazy in one thread, should make for a nicer night tonight. Do we have to leave food for them, or can we must lock the door and leave them here?
- Matthew DeVries
It doesn't take a smart person to realize that *something* is going on and that maybe we ought to spend some time thinking about the consequences. I'm not thrilled at the far-left's attempts to use this as a smoke screen to dismantle global capitalism, but I'm also pretty unimpressed at the far-right's dogmatic and retarded response to what's going on.
- Internet's Tad
To me, it's irrelevant whether it's real or not, I support moving money toward fighting it, because it takes money out of rich people's pocket, and puts it in the hands of scientist who work on ways to control the weather, which is some seriously cool shit that will give us control of our planet, and help us understand how to do the same on different planets to serve humans. So, don't care if Global Warming is real or not, I want everyone else to believe in it so we can fund research into weather control.
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew, your point I agree with 100% percent.
- Anika
"because it takes money out of rich people's pocket"...and goodness knows they don't deserve the money they earned.
- Craig Eddy
@Dave Roth: "On numerous occasions, Boortz has cautioned his listeners to take no heed nor place any credence in anything he says, as he is merely an "entertainer."" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...]
- MikeAmundsen
Matthew, NOW your statement about all the crazy is true ;-)
- jcunwired
Sorry for the delay. One thing that bothers me is that climatologist relies heavily on satellite data that has only been available from the 70s, a time which coincides with the last low point in the cooling warming cycle. I have some urls to share. http://www.climateaudit.org/ http://www.junkscience.com/Greenho... http://icecap.us/index......
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- Robert Hafer
If you look far back at media coverage about climate, roughly every 30 years there is a rash of stories about climate disaster; and they alternate between warming and cooling. And another thing, what's with changing the name to Climate Change? If I post my theory of "Time Passes", does that make me right because, sure enough, it does?
- Robert Hafer
I don't get the global warming debate. Either you want more pollution or you want less pollution.
- Kirk Kittell
@Hafer: Stephen McIntyre (link #1) supports mining and has no climate standing. his sole credit is casting doubt on stats, not *proving* things. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...] Steven Milloy (link#2) lobbie[s|d] for tobacco and oil - again no climate science standing and (again) heavy on casting doubt, not proving a hypothesis....
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- MikeAmundsen
Wow, is Global Warming the new Gun Control. Godwin's law not yet invoked, so probably not.
- Shawn Thompson
Casting doubt is kind of the whole point. NASA has twice recently had to "revise" down data they had published on temperature increase. Every week there's a new factor discovered that wasn't included in climate models. You will notice that the famous Global Warming charts have not been updated to reflect the last five years. And, I am used to being called "pro-pollution" because I question junk science.
- Robert Hafer
@Robert Are you for more pollution? If not, no problem, wouldn't you say?
- Kirk Kittell
@Hafer: the 31,000 scientists link took a bit of digging - it's a Fred Sietz project! [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...] i remember his work for RJ Reynolds when he was debunking the cancer/smoking links. again (sadly) no science standing on climate and again (predictably) all about 'doubt' (need i add fear and uncertainty to the list?).
- MikeAmundsen
Ah, so Hafer, you are just a pedantic person? You see the problems with pollution but you don't want to call it global warming because you don't accept the science? OK. But in the meantime the quality of the air around the world gets worse. The ice caps are melting at a rapid (and visible) rate. Maybe the scientists and Al Gore are onto something? What is the price if you are wrong? Seems to me I'd rather be on the side of asking for cleaner air.
- Robert Scoble
@Hafer: 'casting doubt' is the whole point if you're a debunker. it's not the point at all if you're a scientist. doubt is not a proof. doubt is not a moral position, doubt is not a fact. doubt *is* an opinion. you're welcome to your doubt. you have every reason to hold to it. on any subject. i have no right to take it from you. you need not prove it. you *can* cite others who share it, tho. as you've done quite well.
- MikeAmundsen
Casting doubt surely is something scientists seek to do. Ultimately, you cast doubt on hypotheses, until you're left with just one -- hopefully, the correct one.
- Andrew Leahey
The price is spending the time, research and money on the wrong "solution" to the real problem of climate change.
- Andrew Leahey
It's just like the Ethanol debacle. Yes, I'm for alternate fuels, but burning ethanol from corn in your gas tank is just plain stupid. Less pollution is great; but carbon dioxide is not the enemy. We need good science, not junk. The Clean Air Act of 1963 caused acid rain because it mandated the removal of alkaline particulates and not acidic gasses. We have to wary of the "DO SOMETHING! ANYTHING!!!" attitude.
- Robert Hafer
@andrew: casting doubt? well, maybe. *having* doubt - i think yes. and it's that *start* of science, not the end. i might doubt the theory of relativity, might even find like-minded folks to meet with, pay folks to collect a set of statistics that support this doubt - even post a web site about it. that doesn't raise the standing of my doubts to a plausible (or provable) theory.
- MikeAmundsen
I used to be a scientist and have respect for the scientific method. Cherry picking your data and labeling your doubters as "blasphemers" isn't science. there are serious doubts about methodology. Why has NASA made raw METAR data harder to access? If the temperature on Mars is also rising, how can that be man-made? Why start your climate baseline in the 1800s when half of that century was still in the 'little ice age'?
- Robert Hafer
@Hafer: "labeling your doubters as "blasphemers" " - you talkin' to me?
- MikeAmundsen
@Hafer: RealClimate.org looks interesting. i've not read this before, but recognize some names. i've added it to my reader - thanks. John Everett and Ocean Associates is a slightly diff story. i see he's participated in IPCC and offered testimony re:fisheries. i'll read more, but i have my (wait for it.....) doubts about him<g>.
- MikeAmundsen
@MikeAmundsen no, sorry, I was talking about the Church of Global Warming and its Hierophant Al Gore
- Robert Hafer
What piece of evidence would you like to see that would prove to you that this is real or will you just dismiss everything from our 'church' out of hand.
- Johnny Worthington
I would like to see a climate model accurately predict future weather for one. More transparency from NASA and NOAA would help too.
- Robert Hafer
It never fails to amaze me how some people will dismiss a concept out of hand, no matter the preponderance of evidence before them, simply because of a distaste of the messenger.
- Steven Perez
Part of my skepticism stems from the fact that I'm old enough to remember the Global Cooling scare of the 70s; much of the rhetoric was the same as today, ' scientific concensus', the urgent need for action.
- Robert Hafer
In the 70s, scientist proposed covering the Artic with black soot to prevent the icecap from spreading.
- Robert Hafer
I think its hard piecing together a puzzle in a dark room with only a flashlight
- Melanie Reed
@Hafer - In Al Gore's movie, he shows a plot taken from Antarctic ice core samples that goes back 200,000 years. There are fluctuations, but we are currently way beyond any of those fluctuations. That convinced me. But also, reducing energy use overall will SAVE money, right? Who doesn't want to save money? If everyone were to just live closer to work in smaller homes and drive their cars less, we would save money and have less pollution. That's why a carbon tax is a good idea. It is technology neutral.
- Robert Felty
Until someone looks at the ice core samples it is easy to dismiss the notion. Once that evidence stares you in the face, you realize these people don't care what happens to our grandchildren. They intend not to reproduce.
- Phil Boiarski
“Spend hundreds of millions of dollars on contraceptives?” Boehner asked. “How does that stimulate the economy?” http://www.politico.com/news...
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Next line was worth a snigger: "Boehner said congressional Republicans are also concerned about the size of the package."
- Kirk Kittell
So much re-tweeting going on and talking about re-tweeting -- what Twitter really needs is the equiv of "like" in FriendFeed.
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So tempted to retweet this...
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
I never thought I would see Dave Winer promoting a feature of FriendFeed for Twitter. That is fantastic.
- Rob Diana
I'll get it, Mark. ;-)
- Chris Baskind
Follow the logic when they added @ following the users... they'll just add a button that puts RT at the front of your update.
- Ben Hedrington
Thank-you, Chris. Validation is my life...
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
How could I not? ;-)
- Chris Baskind
Sort of glad there isn't a re-tweet button for easy access -- my timeline would be a huge echo chamber
- Kirk Kittell
Potentially Embarrassing Question: What was your first concert? - http://furryrabbits.tumblr.com/post...
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I saw a very young James Taylor make his solo debut at the Troubadour in LA in 1969. Does that count as a concert? I think it was a pretty decent first live music experience. :)
- Kevin Gamble
George Jones and he showed up, but my mom insisted that I be home by 10pm, so I only got to see a little of his performance. It must have been somewhere between 93 and 95. My first non country music was Live in 1995.
- Heather Solos
Simple Minds; though, with my family I saw many a country and bluegrass concert, Simple Minds was the first I bought tickets for and drove to myself.
- Michael W. May
My first proper concert was going to Weezer at the Astoria when I was 16. Cast and Coast were supporting. The gig was rescheduled from a few weeks earlier, can't remember why though
- Rory
.38 Special
- Jeff Quinton
Kiss, 1978 or so, in Huntington, WV....I was in 8th grade and my mother took me, one of my classmates, my younger brother (5th grader I think), and his friend.
- Craig Eddy
Jodeci and MC Hammer. My mom took us, and she was mortified when she saw them grindin on the floor.
- Shevonne
Ozzy Osbourne "No More Tours" Tour outside Springfield, MO.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
Marillion, at the "Olympia" (not the classic French house for concerts in Paris of course), in 1992. Yes, I was 14, and in theory I couldn't be there, because I was with a friend with the same age :D I probably was in some other concert with my parents before, but I don't really remember of it.
- Bibi
Tears For Fear--1985, Jacksonville, FL
- Kelly W.
America, 1975
- Floyd Davenport
The Jackson 5 back in the 70s, when dinosaurs walked the earth. My mom took me and my sister.
- Ha3rvey (not Akiva)
@ha3rvey how did you have time to go to a concert with the civil war raging on?
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
Crosby, Stills, and Nash when I was 11.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
truly it was Ladysmith Black Mambazo - 5th grade... but my first rock concert was Janet Jackson during the janet. era.
- JoEllen
Meat Loaf and bunch of other bands at an outdoor (in a park type thing) show. Girl I brought (first date) was not impressed when we got right up close to the stage and ML was huge and sweaty and apparently his spit was flying :(
- Patrick Jordan
They Might Be Giants - awesome concert, led to a college concert addiction.
- Steve C
New Kids On The Block in '89. The Fat Boys opened up for them. KILLER SHOW.
- Brad Williamson
Gordon Lightfoot '67
- Brian Sullivan
I saw John Denver in the mid 1970s. I think that was my first concert of a name pop artist.
- Ontario Emperor
Van Halen's "1984" is the first concert that I bought a ticket and attended. I went to plenty of concerts with my folks prior.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
My first pop concert was Lionel Ritchie. His opening act? Some woman called Tina Turner trying to make a comeback. I'd never heard of her before that concert..
- Kenton
Never been to one.
- Morton Fox
The Dead Milkmen - Summer of 1992
- Sam Harmon
AC/DC
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Less Than Jake.
- Alex Wilhelm (FF BLOWS)
The B52's Love Shack Tour Baby!!!!!!!!!!!
- Martha
Skid Row / Dangerous Toys / Bonham - late '80s, Long Island NY, yes !!
- Eric Berlin
I saw a Beatles cover band a couple years ago. Haven't been to any "professional" concerts.
- James Ferguson
Greg Khin Band/Tawny Cain, Redding Civic Auditorium, Redding, CA, 1982
- Helen Sventitsky
RATT, Speedway and Bronze
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
They Might Be Giant at The Vatican on their Apollo 18 Tour (a club in Houston, TX; not the one in Rome)
- Christian (Simply X)
It was Live's "Throwing Copper" tour. Opening acts: PJ Harvey and Veruca Salt.
- Lon Harris
from twhirl
Bow Wow Wow, at Magic Mountain.
- Thomas Hawk
Honestly, Cheap Trick at Six Flags in Eureka, MO (suburb of St. Louis). The first one I enjoyed was U2 at the St. Louis Arena in '87 (Joshua Tree tour)
- cjmart
Bryan Adams "Waking Up The Neighbors Tour" - 1992
- Jared B. Luther
My first concert was The Statler Bros. They were great. I was quite young then. Since then, I have probabaly seen hundreds of different acts in concert and I am only 21. Concerts FTW!
- pcnerd37
alice cooper killer, and he lost the snake...
- maidel
The Wallflowers at the Illinois State Fair, 1997ish
- Kirk Kittell
Duran Duran on the Seven and the Ragged Tiger tour at the Gamecock arena, Columbia, South Carolina in.... 1984?
- Luke Robinson
the first i went to on my own or the first with the family or school?
- Dave Winer
Kool and the Gang on their 'Celebration' tour. With my older brother and 2 girls from church. I was 12. My first concert with just me and a friend was Missing Persons on their 'Spring Session M' tour. I've seen a bunch of shows since them, some rocked, some sucked. But they were all enjoyable.
- Morgan Haley
Starship. Rushed the stage and stood on front row chairs. Couldn't remember my home phone number afterwards thnx to second hand pot smoke.
- Josh Haley
I'm pretty sure it was KISS. If not KISS, it was Motley Crue
- Alan Simpson
Blood, Sweat & Tears - I was 4, and we had front row seats.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Can't remember, I was stoned.
- jcunwired
I know I went to one but I can't remember who was playing .. that period of time is shrouded in smo .. errrr fog
- Steven Hodson
Kenny Rogers. With my grandmother. ;)
- Cyndy
Embarrassing because it was so recent. Snow Patrol, Austin, spring 2008. I was a sheltered child. I'm trying to make up for lost time, really I am!
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Peter, Paul, and Mary 1966
- Greg GuitarBuster
Ummm Guster I think
- Alex Carpenter
Yay Austin :)
- Patrick Jordan
My first concert was those guys that sang that song "I wanna be a Cowboy and you can be my cow girl..." The concert didn't matter to me (can't even remember the band's name)... it was getting to go to the big city (Spokane, WA) with my girlfriends. After that, I moved to Orange County and saw Depeche Mode at the Colliseum, David Bowie, U2, and one of those concerts was opened by Siouxsie and the Banshees. So I guess I made up for my first concert experience.
- Trish Haley
Somehow I won tickets to see Dizzy Gilespie at the Toledo Masonic Auditorium. A friend had to drive me because I was only 15. The first concert I paid for myself was Stevie Ray Vaughan at the Ft. Wayne Coliseum.
- Tödd Nëmët
May 10th 1985 - Julian Lennon - Honolulu Hawaii. Next was Jefferson Starship/Airplane (what ever they were calling them selves at the time).The 1st tickets that I ever bought though were for Club Nouveau and Yellowman.
- Miranda
Mine was Joe Walsh at Pine Knob in MI, around 1980. David Lindley opened with stuff from El-Rayo X. Awesome show! @BrianNorwood : I was at that show! Was just talking about that concert the other night with another friend that was there with us.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
First "Big" concert was Guns and Roses in Buenos Aires (92').
- Martin Añazco
The Waitresses at some small venue in Pasadena I think...
- Just Ken
The Fall - Hazel Grove Youth Club (1979)
- Andy C
Aerosmith - 1976, Hershey PA
- Janet
1988: Chicago with the Beach Boys. Loved it. :)
- Ladybug Heather
@eunice007 Working in the defense industry, I've found it's good for a few laughs to drop inshallah or bismillah here and there.
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My moms works in a black box as well. She would freak if I uttered certain phrases such as that while chatting.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Ah ha -- someone knows that I really meant "painful grimaces" when I said "laughs." The other thing that gets coworkers is that I sometimes accidentally alt+shift my language settings (lazy fingers) to Hindi or Arabic when demonstrating things to them. Every WTF expression is priceless. I love Texas.
- Kirk Kittell
Painful grimace is right. She takes the clearance to heart. I still haven't been vetted enough to even know exactly what she does.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
If your LAN stops working, turn everything off, then one by one turn them back on, each time with a prayer. Often fixes the problem.
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- Kevin Johnson
That was our advice at D-Link. Unplug router, then modem, wait 30 secs. then plug in modem, wait 30, plug in router. Run ipconfig to see if you get an IP address if still not working.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
For some people, it's an even better idea for them to turn everything off, then one by one not turn them on, each time with a prayer. Often fixes the problem.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I find a voodoo chicken also helps
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Coincidentally this is Bush's plan for fixing the economy
- Bastard Operator From FF
LOL! Does Paulson have an on/off switch?
- Bill Sodeman
Sounds like a windows user.
- Colby Olson
Nope they're all Macs.
- Dave Winer
I aint turning everything off. I check and see if any of the other machines have connectivity first, then reset the router if they don't. The cable modem is downstairs, so it's the last thing I try.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Anymore, I just exclaim, "Damn you, Comcast!" and wander off to do something else until they come back online.
- Kirk Kittell
I think this is the essential difference between home networking hardware and business hardware -- The former is simplified to the point of making it difficult to near-impossible to determine how routing got effed up. The latter maintains an exportable log, does sanity checks and has more granular control over what each port is doing.
- Phil G
How to Write With Style by Kurt Vonnegut - http://literature.sdsu.edu/onWRITI...
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"The writing style which is most natural for you is bound to echo the speech you heard when a child. English was Conrad's third language, and much that seems piquant in his use of English was no doubt colored by his first language, which was Polish. And lucky indeed is the writer who has grown up in Ireland, for the English spoken there is so amusing and musical. I myself grew up in Indianapolis, where common speech sounds like a band saw cutting galvanized tin, and employs a vocabulary as unornamental as a monkey wrench."
- Dave Winer
from Bookmarklet
KV drives my writing more than anyone else I've ever read. His prose is like an advancing series of jabs to the nose (maybe _Galapagos_ was like a series of gut punches). The first time I read _Cat's Cradle_, I got to the last paragraph, flipped the page expecting more, flipped back, again, about a half dozen times, not believing that he had ended it like that.
- Kirk Kittell
I can't disagree with this enough. My writing style is entirely alien to the speech I heard as a child.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Exposure to different styles helps the fledging writer learn their own way
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
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Thanks, Mahdi. Just a week or two ago I rediscovered a simple blog I had kept while in Europe in summer 2006 on wordpress.com and moved them to my current site. So I'm uploading the photos to Flickr and correcting the links in the blog posts. Stepping back in time two years is weird.
- Kirk Kittell
As told to me, and I agree: Safety and Mission Assurance is the Land of Misfit Toys.
Good ole' S&MA...
- Far
I'm still utterly baffled about how I let myself get hired into S&MA. I thought I was getting into systems engineering. That makes me a big dope.
- Kirk Kittell
Arranged marriages: a new trend for Western women to find Mr Right? - Times Online - http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol...
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"In an age of uncertainty, women need an alternative to the Western style of selecting a marriage partner, the author Reva Seth argues. Reva Seth knows that the story of her marriage sounds horribly calculating, but it wasn't at all, she insists. What? Even though she identified the characteristics of her prospective husband, meticulously attended every one of a colleague's parties until she found someone who matched, and got engaged at their seventh meeting? “I wanted someone who had a similar education background to me and who was interested in politics,” she explains. “It was more a recognition that this girl I knew tended to have a large network of friends that would fit.”"
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
It's sort of a step back to the way things tended to be. An interesting book to read is _Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage_ - http://www.librarything.com/work...
- Kirk Kittell
FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right - http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/
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West Virginia is white. Arkansas is pink.
- Dave Winer
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IN coming close to the middle doesn't surprise me much, but AR does.
- Kirk Kittell
Go Blue!
- Mike Reynolds
AUDI R8 Inspires A Raceboat - http://inventorspot.com/article...
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"The Audi R8 has been hailed as one of the best supercars ever made since hitting the streets in 2007, which is most likely why someone wanted to have a custom racing boat designed around it. The best part? The company may put the design into limited production."
- Corie
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Looks straight out of a James Bond movie
- Kirk Kittell
Nice. Corie, when are you buying me one of these? :)
- imabonehead
I am SOOOO bummed! My workplace has blocked Gmail. They had "discouraged it before but if I needed to use it for an "emergency" it was there (which I have minor one now and needed to use). Now it's officially blocked. I feel so cut off from my life. Very unhappy right now. Not happy at all.
Mitchell Tsai, Mahdi Ebrahimi, Russellreno and 23 other people liked this
That sucks. My office did that when I was there but it was because they wanted a record of all of our emails.
- Trish R
DO NOT LIKE. I'm waiting for them to pull that chit here.
- Yolanda
Booo! Booo!
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Oh, I'd lose my mind for sure. Between email and gchat, I am able to maintain some semblance of sanity.
- ♥patricia♥
IM is already off limits, pea. Gmail was my connection otherwise. If they get rid of FF I may go nuts since it's my last connection to the outside world besides my phone (which I hate using at work).
- Her Lindsay-ness
You'll manage as long as they don't cut you out of FriendF ... NO CARRIER
- Jemm
Try https://mail.google.com instead of http://mail.google.com -- that's how I get around it at my office (where the latter is blocked and the former works A-OK)
- Kirk Kittell
Coming to a workplace near you, Compliance of the Damned: SOX, JSOX, ISO 140001, GLB. The heavy hitters of corporate scare!
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
That really is a bummer. Your company's behavior is silly. What do they want to archive with this ?
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Ryo, have you ever heard of information theft at 35 pages per minute? Similar philosophy to the Chinese government ;-)
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
I realize this may be a very, very low-tech opinion, but for emergencies I rely on a telephone. Call me a luddite, I guess...
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Hey Mark, iPhone man.
- Roberto Bonini
Mark, it's one of those emergencies that is the kind that I need to take care of today but don't need to leave the office for... I could shoot off a 5 minute message and maybe have a couple of quick followups without interrupting my workflow by email or get up from my desk walk all the way outside to find a semi-private spot to have a phone conversation that will ultimately take a lot more out of my workday. I think it's ridiculous, but that's just me, I guess.
- Her Lindsay-ness
ugh that sucks Lindsay!
- Carmen
Actually the saving grace is that hopefully by the end of next week I will have my Google Android phone and I'll be able to have my email and IM too. It will be nice not to feel like I'm trapped in a box for 8-10 hours a day.
- Her Lindsay-ness
That's unbelievable Lindsay. What's up with that?
- Hutch Carpenter
That sucks. Employers now a days are getting too strict IMHO. They are punishing those who only use Gmail and other things on their breaks. Thank goodness the place I work for doesn't do that, or I'd be totally insane. They block Flash, so I can't watch Youtube, but I can handle that.
- Mol, Time Warping
I figured so, Lindsay. Just trying to lighten the mood a little. I do have email, etc... on my phone for such times, though. $5.00 at Verizon FWIW.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
damn i call bullshit on your employer. what kind of fascism is that?
- Cee Bee
That's just bizarre. Are you an employee or a prisoner?
- Jason Wehmhoener
That's horrible.
- Clay Newton
Try https:// or chat through Google Docs. That's what I did at my old job when they blocked it
- Shevonne
Blackberry time!!!
- Susan Beebe
Time to tunnel! :P
- donato
I don't know if it is morally true or not but u can use thishttp://127.0.0.1:8580/loc...
- Arash
Lindsay, try using a proxy site like megaproxy.com/freesurf, or if you have admin rights on your PC change your DNS servers to OpenDNS, that way you don't have to go through their hall monitor. OpenDNS site (https://www.opendns.com/smb...)
- Aaron Krug
If you're a knowledge worker, it's your obligation to stay informed and connected. Do they expect you to keep up with the industry on your own time?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Why block gmail?
- Mattb4rd
Its just another way that companies try to manage what it is that you do every second they can. In reality, all companies are paying you to do a job, and as long as you are performing said job they should have no reason to do anything of the sort, and if you aren't performing said job you should be let go. Corporations just can't trust their employees, that would be asking too much.
- Aaron Krug
Lindsay, let me know if either one of those solutions worked for you.
- Aaron Krug
I tried https and it works (phew!). I use GMail for domains and so I set up a shorter redirect url to go to mail which points to http. I'll need to fix that... but the http wasn't blocked till today. It was hard but I gave up the temptation to use gChat a while ago because of the IM policy, but at least I can check my mail once a day if I need to. Thanks for making me think about https!
- Her Lindsay-ness
wifi + netbook = g'bye corporate control freaks
- A.T.
@Daniel - I don't think they're interested at all in keeping us informed in connected... pretty much the opposite. Everything else is a distraction from doing your work. There are even major roadblocks to internal communication here (teams are very siloed). I think they just don't understand the benefits of letting us stay in-the-know.
- Her Lindsay-ness
I hear ya, Lindsey! A lot of old time firms still don't trust the internet, and see every external app as an employee distraction. Fortunately, I don't work for one of those. At least, not right now. Also, what silpol said.
- Helen Sventitsky
We can't bring personal netbooks or laptops to work. I'm surprised that they haven't told people they can't bring web enabled mobile phones... but glad they haven't because I will be using the heck out of my Android.
- Her Lindsay-ness
What? That's completely ridiculous.
- Cheryl Jones
When IT tries to control workers, workers get around the blockage. This has been happening for 30 years or more. The PC was a way to get around these idiots. Love that now it's the Android! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Mobile Phone freedom FTW!
- Susan Beebe
I'm in this kind of spot all the time. As soon as I can afford it I'm getting mobile internet access (or as soon as they block FriendFeed O_o heavens)
- Kamilah Gill
This should do nicely (and fit in with the Halloween season): http://g.ho.st
- bill giltner
they block that at my job too, Bill
- Kamilah Gill
Does anyone still use their local and/or public libraries?
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Yes - a little something from me on 12seconds on last night, if you like, http://12seconds.tv/channel...
- Kirk Kittell
lol, this is friendfeed... librarians rule friendfeed ;)
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
I do.
- Michelle Martinez
Absolutely!
- josh neff, Fun Dip of FF
Yes. I still use libraries.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
all the time
- RAPatton
lincoln center has the most amazing music/dance library. i totally nerd out there. not often, but when i do, it's on!
- Melissa Maskevich
Good question...I haven't been recently, but with recent economic downturn, I bet libraries start to get a lot more activity. Who doesn't want free resources like books, music, movies, etc?
- Pete Delucchi
yes
- CW™
Yes. That way I don't have to figure out how to pass the book along (or whether I should) when I'm done.
- Jeanine W.
from Alert Thingy
Aw, this thread warmed my little public librarian's heart. :)
- cecily
heck yeah!
- lisa-k
I couldn't even tell you where my local library was :-)
- Duncan Riley
Yes. Beside books - especially for my 5-yo - it has a reasonable selection of music CDs. I use this to try out music that I wouldn't buy straight away.
- Warren Butler
My library has a barrel for disposing of old batteries.
- Michael Markman
Haven't used one since I got out of college. There are very few good libraries in India. The British Library in Pune is the best there and that sucks bigtime. On a completely different note, I like keeping books - irrespective of whether I liked or disliked them; if I read it, I should keep it. But yes, I would like to *have* a library, by the time I am 50.
- Parth Awasthi
I use libraries quite often. Best place for research ever is a library with a quite room and a high speed internet connection. Every type or reference you could ever want right at your fingertips.
- Aaron Krug
Absolutely. I just got home from the library, in fact.
- Wendy
It's great for the public wifi and general hanging out. For research, not so much.
- Sid Yadav
Sid, it depends on what you're researching and whether you're in a large city. However, whatever you can't find in your own library can usually be borrowed from another library thanks to the magic of a little thing called "interlibrary loans". And don't forget - librarians are there to help you with research. We don't just keep people from talking loud. :)
- cecily
Yes.
- Nine
My local library allows you to "borrow" digital copies of books. They also have the cheapest DVD rentals in town ($1/ 3 days) And libraries are still the best and cheapest way to get a hold of a copy of an older, out of print, and hard to find book.
- April Russo (app103)
yes
- Arash
Yes. We do and a new study (look in my feed, it's there somewhere) shows that library usage is up and something like 83% of Americans have a library card.
- AJ Kohn
yes, from time to time I do. Since I started at the age of 4, I've always read a lot.
- Ian May
Absolutely not.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
No need.:)
- Igor Poltavskiy
Yes indeed. If I see a new book I like, I check it out. If I like it, I return the library book and buy the book from B & N. That way I can read it at my own pace.
- Jimmy Walker
no. The classics are available for free, I can gets technical stuff off ebookshare.net and get my fiction from Amazon
- Ernie Oporto
Oh yes, are you mad? The library rocks!
- Bwana ☠
no, haven't been to any library for 8 years at least
- Kirill Bolgarov
Always. Can't afford to buy all the books my family wants to read.
- Carleen
Cool. I thought that the interest in libraries was waning. True that the FF deck is stacked with smart people. :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Sugar 'makes you sweeter' - Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news...
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"Sugar can help make you a sweeter person, researchers claim."
- RAPatton
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Well now I know why I am so damn nice now! Guess I need to cut back on the sugar!
- Brandy Lea
i must increase my sugar consumption :)
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
Same with me Brandy Lea! I have a mean sweet tooth..always have.
- Anna Lynn M.
I never eat sugar. Guess that explains something.
- Akiva Moskovitz
my cookies have a fair amount of sugar in them, more brown than white
- RAPatton
I'm not buying it . . . I eat tons of sugar and I'm as sour as a handful of lemons
- Lindsey is Fierce!
@Lindsey Wow, imagine how sour you'd be w/o the sugar ;-)
- Kirk Kittell
This research is false and the reason is me.
- Arash
[KATU]: Pair arrested after large McCain sign torched in Sellwood yard - http://x.techwheat.com/2R3
Alexander Carlill, Tommy Williams and Dave Winer liked this
"Authorities have arrested two men after a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a 4-foot by 8-foot campaign sign for Republican presidential candidate John McCain in a southeast Portland yard."
- newsjunk.com
Hmm... So why would an uneducated, right-wing, neo-Nazi fundie nut torch a McCain sign?
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Possibly because arson isn't a rational behavior. I suspect they like fire more than Obama.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
proof: idiot supporters on both sides of the aisle.
- R. Ferguson
Glad people like that get caught -- it's a petty way to disagree with someone.
- Kirk Kittell
McCain surrogate raises Obama’s past drug use - http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008...
Duncan Riley, Steven Perez and CW™ liked this
A prominent surrogate for John McCain on Thursday raised Barack Obama's admitted cocaine use as a teenager and said the Illinois senator should speak candidly about it to the American people.
- Dave Winer
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So that's what flop sweat smells like.
- Steven Perez
Issues? We don't need no stinkin' issues!!
- Internet's Tad
I think he should write a book and maybe discuss it in the book...
- Kirk Kittell
Talk about throwing stones in glass houses. Maybe Bush, Cindy and Sarah should all speak candidly, yet again, again...
- dbcohen
At this point I don't see how the press can avoid informing the public about Cindy McCain's drug use and legal troubles esp given that she gave a speech today trashing Obama..
- Dave Winer
anything to attempt smear --- the talk of high minded civil discourse from their campaign never materialized
- Michael Maranda
What a great goal to teach our kids: You're successful if you don't totally screw up.
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I have so much work to do. And by "so much" I mean "absolutely nothing and trying to restrain self from leaping through window"
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If you need some aerospace engineering work done at your home or office, gimme a call. I'm free for the week, it appears...
- Kirk Kittell
Unanswered Questions Answered - http://kirkkittell.com/2008...
Or: Lies I Told to High School Students
- Kirk Kittell
where's weirdo? on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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The name is EYE-gore.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Are you threatening me?!
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
LOL@Rahsheen
- Johnny Worthington
I need TP for my bunghole! My village has but one bunghole...
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
What hump?
- Josh Haley
There, wolf. There, castle.
- Kirk Kittell
LOL@Josh
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
Abby...something. Abby Normal. Yes, Abby Normal.
- Josh Haley
Ninja Nuns
- Johnny Worthington
Oh man, I haven't seen that movie since freshman year
- Kevin L
hilarious !!
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
My own-personal-weirdo is sitting in the other room tormenting poor Yuvi by withholding access to pictures of naughty-bits (not his own!). Though I agree on the principle of not corrupting our youth, it's still kinda mean. :)
- Her Lindsay-ness
Ha ha, I knew a guy in the army who'd pull his shirt up like that in bars when he was drunk and do the Feldman impression perfectly all night. Strangely enough, he scored quite often.
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
walk this way ... no, this way ...
- Andre Maltais
Having a hurricane party with myself. The ratio of guys to girls is NaN.
Cheers!
- Far
You know, after writing this, it sounds a little creepier than intended... I was just happy that I was the last customer at the Nassau Bay Liquor Store before they put a sheet of plywood over the door.
- Kirk Kittell
The President is Not a Role Model - http://www.blogmaverick.com/2008...
"Maybe it's time we finally admit that Presidents specifically, and politicians unilaterally are not role models, and stick to the issues and their ability to lead."
- Kirk Kittell
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