No. I used to, but he ditched me about 8 months ago. Currently accepting applications for replacement. Have lots of really good friends, tho, which is nice (really nice, I love them all), but I miss having the bubble of it.
- Sarah G.
I guess so, I used to have a true one in high school, but then he just left one day and I haven't heard from him since. I have some that I consider really close friends, but no one I think I can put at best friend.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Want one but haven't had one since the early '90s.
- Spidra Webster
not really. my old one got tired of me and i sort of hate saying my partner is my best friend even though it's probably accurate.
- Kendra <3 Three Lions
I have in the past, but right now, there isn't one person in particular that I'd call my *best* friend. I have a lot of very very good friends, though.
- josh neff, geek at large
I don't think I do. I have a lot of friends whom I love dearly -- a lot of them through FF, etc. -- but no one is at the top of that list. I don't know if they makes me sad or not.
- Derrick
Ummm yeah - been married 13.5 years! :D
- Internet's Tad
Yeah Niels, he's been there always. Even if I'm crap at picking up the phone and calling he never ever lets me know. He just knows that that's me so he is there. He was there when my mother had cancer. When I went into the dumps for a bit, he pulled me up and helped me find a job and get going again. I really don't deserve such a great friend but I am super happy that I do have him.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Yes. My husband is truly my best friend. But I'll fill out an app to be Sarah's new female best friend.
- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
Yep - we've been best friends since early high school.
- Jennifer Dittrich
I guess not. A lot of lifelong friends though.
- Rodfather
I have one person I think I'd classify as a best friend outside of a relationship. My best friend Jameel has had the title since he moved in next door to me when I was 6 years old. We've been like peas and carrots for thirty years. Crazy. I still speak with him at least once a week.
- Cheryl
Okay maybe peas and carrots is little tame. We're more like...like...hot apple pie and ice cream? Cookies and cream? Chocolate cookies and milk? Great...now I'm hungry.
- Cheryl
Yep, maybe, I don't know. Do the ones in my head count?
- Jimminy
I don't know if I have a best friend or not. There's one guy that knows everything about me and my past, but he lives in Berlin most of the time. Then there's another guy that knows almost everything about me and my past, and we hang out a lot.
- Morgan Haley
So I guess it would depend on the definition really. does a best friend need to know EVERYthing about me and my past?
- Morgan Haley
No. My daughter has a problem understanding that. All people have best friends, she says.
- Baard @ Pixum
complicated... I have 3 very good friends from childhood on, but I won´t consider them as "best friends". there´s always someone closer for a period of 2 or 3 years. usually my life changes then, and I exchange my whole little universe and the bestest friend with it. (somehow creepy, I know..)
- esther ♥ ♫
@Baard, Freya seems like your best friend to me :)
- Michael W. May
if I enumerated all my friends (all 4 of them), and ranked them in some order, one of them would be better than the others. In that sense, yes, I have a best friend ;) In the colloquial "bff" sense, I don't really think so.
- DJF
First name "Tiny," second name "pants," although she goes by many other names. :)
- Jenny R.
I said "yes" before, but I have to admit I haven't had a best friend since I moved back from NYC. Rob mentions having a "hetero lifemate" and I suppose that's what Paul was. *feeling lonely*
- Jason Huebel
My mom passed way when I was 18 from ALS. Need I say more?
- Bill Scherer
I worked at the Houston Museum of Natural Science as a volunteer and then as a Teacher's Assistant for 3 years (volunteering over the summers) until a new head of the education department came in and we did not ... mesh well. I was the only T.A. let go. The volunteers and the other T.A.'s put together a petition to have me reinstated (this is back when I was interesting) and garnered 87...
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- Jeremy (cropmarks)
When I got divorced, I had a dog that I raised from a puppy...and had to give the dog up because I just wasn't home enough...it wouldn't have been fair to the dog. A lot of tears were shed over that dog.
- FF's Bubba of Arizona
The goodbye I never got to say, when my dad passed away unexpectedly (for me), and I didn't hear about it for a couple of weeks. That came the closest to destroying me... but my dad would have been peeved if it had, so I made it through, in the end.
- Bette Cooper
The hardest goodbye I have ever had to say looks to be in my very near future :(.
- Kamath (नमः)
I read that as rocks used for falling in love. Like cupid's arrow. Just hurl them at the one you want to fall in love with. This is how my mind works, people.
- Fleagle
Kol, use your connections and see if you can get in on the BFBC2 beta, the MP takes MW2 back to the drawing board.
- Carlos Ayala
BFBC2 does look good but a PC game for me. I've played the demo, very good.
- Kol Tregaskes
lol, oh dear. I thought you meant you had it already too.
- Amy
Hehe, it's only a matter of days I think. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Like most, if not all shooters, Kol, I agree. Nothing comes close to the accuracy and speed you get on the PC...maybe gaming with a mouse and keyboard on the console but i havent experienced that yet. But playing this on the console has no hardware implications and barely any networking implications either. I wouldn't say i am completely converted just yet, but I am embracing the PS3 more and more when it comes to gaming.
- Carlos Ayala
For me it was college and in particular Business Studies. Why? A very good teacher.
- Kol Tregaskes
College. Went to a small, liberal arts school. Great environment, and I learned how to learn, if that makes sense.
- Alex Scrivener
Tough one, I liked both primary and high school (our whole year pretty much all got along), uni 1st time around was 4 years of drunken insanity with awesome people, and 2nd time around was shedloads of work with yet more really awesome people. I wouldn't change any of them given the choice.
- Amy
High school. It was wild and you didn't need to think about anything :D
- LouCypher
the current phase.. learning anything I want, and dont need to sit for an exam :)-
- Peter Dawson
@amy, you pretty much describe what most uni students go thru :)-
- Peter Dawson
dude....the spice girls? greatest hits? are there any songs on that album? more like 'greatest tits'....that makes sense....but dude, the spice girls? did you step on a 'i love shitty pop music' landmine or something? somethings are just wrong, and this is one of them. but that's only my opinion... spice girls.....oh man...this is just so very wrong.....
- Morgan Haley
Dude, you have no idea how harshly I have judged you. *RE-BLOCKED*
- ha3rvey (needs soup)
CAN'T EVEN HEAR ANY OF YOU BITCHES OVER THE SOUND OF HOW AWESOME THE SPICE GIRLS ARE.
- Steven Perez
Funny how when they emerged, they were mocked for being a talentless, manufactured group, but now, their campiness has become somewhat cult-like, a la Buckaroo Bonzai.
- rowlikeagirl
YOU MEAN THAT SCREECHING, CAT-IN-A-MICROWAVE SOUND? THAT'S NOT WHAT AWESOME SOUNDS LIKE TO ME.
- ha3rvey (needs soup)
DIDN'T SAY THAT I WAS LISTENING TO TRENT REZNOR.
- Steven Perez
from IM
WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR OVER THE SHOUTING! :D
- rowlikeagirl
I SAID, LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA ... LA LA LA LA LA LA LAAAAAAAAA ....
- Steven Perez
So number 2 is out, will check that out... had good impact on most of my gaming friends, a LAN party is in the works then for the Christmas holidays. 8)
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
It's brilliant. I played the demo on Steam a while ago, very long demo, excellent! I've now got all versions of DoW.
- Kol Tregaskes
"News of a Sony Computer Entertainment patent filing could give more details on its PlayStation 3 motion controller. While not being a new product announcement, the filing does show some of the ideas Sony might be considering."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
Sony's answer to Project Natal and the Wii remote?
- Kol Tregaskes
Oh no :( *hugs* I've been there; there are no words. I am so sorry. By all means make use of your employee assistance program if you have one.
- Nikki D.
Yep, that makes you a nerd, not a hippie.
- Alex Scoble
I only photoshop for the good of the earth
- Chris Greene
What does it make you if you want to go to Burning Man but think it is too hot and dusty and can't deal with that level of dirty without modern comforts like a shower?
- Rachel Lea Fox
Woohoo lazy hippies unite! (not rich enough to qualify as 'yuppie')
- Lo is a Quitter
I was thinking yuppie, but there is nothing professional about "wanting" to go to burning man or being too attached to the shower to really want to go. Maybe lazy hippie. Or hippie princess! ;)
- Rachel Lea Fox
Burning Man hasn't been around nearly as long as hippies. Are you saying all hippies ceased to remain hippies when they didn't go to the first Burning Man?
- Kenton
I have to say though, I think you also have to be a nerd to be the kind of hippie who wants to go to Burning Man!
- Rachel Lea Fox
No one born after 1969 can be a hippie. That is all.
- Kevin Pedraja
I never have enough money for Burning Man or Birkenstocks. :/ I prefer Crocs anyway. :P
- Alix Whitmire
Well I want to attend Burning Man. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
"Liverpool's hopes of a top-four finish suffered a further setback as Blackburn produced a resolute defensive display to hold the Reds to a goalless draw."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
"Gears of War film producer Wyck Godfrey wants to be like JJ Abrams and create a Cloverfield-like story about survival in the immediate aftermath of a catastrophic event. He could even use big dinosaur monsters if he wanted: they're canon."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
"Locals may tell you that one third of the world’s construction cranes currently reside within Shanghai, piecing together an unlikely muddle of mega-structures and monuments, rewriting the complex clusters of streets and neighbourhoods on a seemingly annual basis. Regardless of whether you believe that or not, this is undeniably a city in which capitalism has turned seismic – where days and nights alike ring with the sound of drilling, where luxury brands compete for your attention with bundles of knock-off Blu-ray DVDs, and where the glinting baubles of the provocative skyline are largely obscured by the yellow smoke from the factories that paid for them."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
Yes, and that's the point of treadmill mode.
- Ethan Gahng
I wish I could put the boxes in some sort of order. It's all a bit random atm. Also the refresh rate is too high. And I would like to be more specific in the tags, with excludes too.
- Kol Tregaskes
OK, Ethan. That's more than enough for me. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Peter, yeah it's all very pretty and a different way to look at things but the results are random and it's a little impractical. :-) If you are after new feeds or random news then use Lazyfeed. If you already have all your favourite feeds then use Google Reader.
- Kol Tregaskes
It doesn't seem to work that well though... In any case Lazyfeed is the perfect distraction to sit on my secondary monitor and look cool.
- Jan Ole Peek
Jan Ole, could you tell me which part doesn't work well, so that we can fix it? Would appreciate it!
- Ethan Gahng
"Kicking off Gamasutra's 2009 retrospective, Chris Remo reflects on the year in PC gaming and selects his top five titles -- including Torchlight and Empire: Total War -- plus several honorable mentions"
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
Go for TweetDeck, dude. The latest version is so much better than Seesmic.
- Jorge Escobar
Mike, it's not Twitter as I can post via TweetDeck. Jorge, I can't see how TweetDeck is *much* better than Seesmic. They are almost identical from what I can see but at least TweetDeck works. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Believe me, I had big hopes for Seesmic Desktop. Random little bugs made me abandon it. Tweetdeck is 100% reliable, its only problem is the memory leak; but you can close and start in the middle of the day and you should be set.
- Jorge Escobar
I really want Seesmic Desktop to work, it's just a nicer UI. But yes it's really buggy. I've given up on it for now. Digsby is for IMing. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I haven't had any problems with Seesmic desktop, but I just started using it
- Shevonne
that's too bad it's not working for you. :( works great for me! though I do miss some of the features twhirl had.
- holly
"In 2006, Steelcase created a number of conceptual cubicles that were displayed at the company's Chicago showroom during NeoCon, an annual furniture industry trade show. This design, called Studio 53—the name is a reference to the 1970s Manhattan disco, Studio 54—was such a hit with visitors that some companies asked to purchase it as it was. The idea was to remake the standard-size cubicle into a stylish and comfortable meeting place within an office, where workers could gather to find privacy in today's increasingly open-plan working environments. Leo Burnett, the advertising agency, is one company that asked to buy a Studio 53 cubicle on the spot, turning this conceptual design into an instant product. It's in use today. (Link)"
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
Real but starting to get tempted by the catalogues with those pics of the prelit artificial. Might wait till kids are out of the house - five to ten years or so.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
I have one of each. We have a little fake one we put up late Nov, and then we get an ENORMOUS real one (which we got yesterday). Can't beat that Christmas smell :)
- Penny
Real; refer to a Charlie Brown Christmas
- RAPatton
from iPhone
Artificial. I'd really like to have a real tree, but I'm not sure with dogs in the house how they would be. Maybe next year I'll try it.
- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
We have an artificial "winter forest". Artificial because it's easier and a forest because it's more winter/seasonal than Christmas, because we're Jewish! :)
- Rochelle
Artificial. The one time we had a real tree when I was a kid I was still vacuuming up needles in February. I swore NEVER AGAIN!!!
- Give 'Em DBizness
We've had an artificial tree for the last four or five years. This year, my wife decided she wanted a real tree. It's up and decorated already. Hopefully it will survive until New Year's. It's been a while since we've had a real tree (we had to go out and buy a stand and everything).
- Curtiss Grymala
Fake, I have allergies and having a tree in the house for month really messes me up. I basically can't breath through my nose the whole time the tree is in the house. Plus real trees are messy and a significant fire hazard.
- Jeff P. Henderson
We have an artificial tree that we bought for $19.99 when we couldn't afford a real one. It looks surprisingly decent. Now I reuse it every year. I had thought about getting a real (live) tree this year and then planting it outside after Christmas, but I was scared away by stories of huge spiders.
- joey
Fake I'm too hyper about a real pine tree drying out into tinder in my front room
- WarLord
Unmistakably fake. 24" tall and Hawt Pank. And I got it for 50% off last X-mas Eve. My ideal tree!
- vicster
I've never had a real one, even as a kid (my mom hates the mess that pine needles can make). I have been tempted to get a big planter and plant a hardy rosemary bush in it. I could decorate it a little in the winter, then, but I could also use it for culinary purposes.
- Katy S
Fake...been that way for a few years now ever since tree prices went through the roof. The pre-lit ones are pretty nice too. Can't do that with a real tree.
- Chad McCoskey
Growing up, we always had real. Mr. B and I have had a pretty nice fake one for several years now.
- Laura Lou Who
Artificial. I am the frugal type and I like a tree that I only have to pay for once and it lasts 25+ years. It's not one of those "toilet bowl brush" types. This one looks pretty real and if I hang pine potpourri in small net bags in the interior near the pole, it fools most people, because then it even smells real.
- April Russo (app103)
Fake, prelit. It's really pretty (to me). Sure it doesn't look real, but I don't see that. Plus my kitties go wild with real ones. Bad enough with fake ones. But maybe next year I'll try a real one (if they can come skinny mini style, we're cramped!).
- βℜ∀ñÐi
If you factor in that I have multiple gmail accounts (on Google Apps for Domains, in particular), my percentage is probably a lot lower.
- Jason Huebel