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Life on the List - http://dashes.com/anil...
Mark Essel, VAL D. Zone, Stuart Miniman and Robert Konigsberg liked this
very interesting write-up about how # followers not related to interaction, although I know that many lurkers do read (even with only 1300 followers, I'm still surprised when I bump into people IRL that don't interact online, but reference stuff from Twitter or blog)
- Stuart Miniman
FestivusFeed: Start Festivus right with the traditional Airing of Grievances.
Moses Kpetigo, Mathew A. Koeneker, guruvan (Rob Nelson) and 93 other people liked this
Image borrowed from a super old post. http://blog.louisgray.com/2007...
- Louis Gray
Grievance: There is no longer an official Festivus Feed.
- Louis Gray
Grievance: That we discussed this back in August as well. http://friendfeed.com/louisgr...
- Louis Gray
"I got a lot of problems with you people! And now, you're gonna hear about it."
- Louis Gray
Grievance: Sean Percival! Your hair is too straight and too long, and you are too thin.
- Louis Gray
Grievance: Rahsheen! All your topless pictures are posted and yet, it does not encourage any women to do the same!
- Louis Gray
Ha! Double Ha! in fact.
- sean percival
Grievance: Anne Bouey, you are too kind to everyone. I want to know what you really think about Facebook.
- Louis Gray
Grievance: Cecily, you carry on the stereotype of the stern librarian who does not approve of shenanigans! Live it up every once in a while.
- Louis Gray
Grievance: Friendfeed didn't buy Facebook and declare it *dead* :D
- Adrian
Grievance: Haggis! You are the lamest poker in the world I have ever seen. Pathetic.
- Louis Gray
Grievance: Adrian, you couldn't man up and get Anika to take your last name like a true patriarch!
- Louis Gray
Oh man... I lost the armwrestling match that was supposed to decide that. :(
- Adrian
I trained for weeks too!
- Adrian
OMG *gets out p-whip*
- Admiral Anika
Grievance: Spidra, your avatar looks like Rosie the Riveter meets Archie from Archie Comics. Let's see the real you!
- Louis Gray
Grievance: Anika, you have not told us all the dirt about Mark Krynsky that you really know. It's time you told us. Everything.
- Louis Gray
Jaime Hernandez was very influenced by Archie Comics. I doubt I'll change my avatar, but (and this gets to *my* grievance) I have posted quite a few pics of me in my feed - that so few of my subscribers read, like or comment on. :-P
- Spidra Webster
Grievance: we haven't seen enough of LG bragging that he's whipped someone in Scrabble or Mario Kart. Especially that he's mercilessly beaten his mother.
- Spidra Webster
lol
- T. Brent, technopeasant
Grievance: Jandy, if you were truly the ConcertMaven of FF, how come I have #1) never been invited to a concert you attended, and #2) you have not yet organized a concert made up of FriendFeed performers?
- Louis Gray
Spidra, I try to remain humble. I would never bore you with such triviality. :)
- Louis Gray
Grievance: Louis, your most fun posts are only seen by insomniacs.
- Bruce Lewis
Grievance: Bruce, OurDoings has not yet been acquired by FriendFeed or Facebook and is far too obscure, requiring much more visibility.
- Louis Gray
Obscure? The user group http://friendfeed.com/ourdoin... has 13 subscribers. That's gotta be about half the active FriendFeed user base, if the pundits are to be believed.
- Bruce Lewis
Louis, #1) Consider yourself invited to every concert I attend; all you gotta do is come down to LA! #2) I'm waiting for Spidra to move back down here, then I will organize said concert with her in the lead. And you're invited. :)
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Hmm. We can take over the Rose Bowl and have a huge festival. What will we call it? Ffunderstruck?
- Spidra Webster
Sounds awesome! I'll get started on the booking arrangements! :p
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Well, Louis, to tell you the truth, I've never been on Facebook!
- Anne Bouey
Anne, your truthfulness pleases everyone. :) Carry on.
- Louis Gray
Festivus used to be about grievances. All this cheerfulness is ruining it! ;-)
- Bruce Lewis
Where the hell did I put my pole?
- l0ckergn0me
Grievance: Chris Pirillo is not lifecasting in 3D, so I don't feel like I know him well enough.
- Louis Gray
Grievance: Mahendra's sharing preferences on Google Reader and Twitter are dramatically different than the posts he selects for Techmeme while on his shift.
- Louis Gray
LOL...is that a grievance?!
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Grievance: Atul Arora is remarkably mysterious about his full-time work life, and is seen as a full-time link sharer.
- Louis Gray
Grievance: Jim Norris complains often about struggles with attracting a date, yet he is cute enough and successful enough that I would be happy to pass his name along to potential partners. :)
- Louis Gray
Grievance: Louis Gray won't stop hitting on me.
- Jim Norris
In your dreams, Norris -- LG only fantasizes of RSS feeds ;)
- Mona Nomura
Grievance: Jim's and Mona's hilarious comments make mine look really lame by comparison.
- Bruce Lewis
Grievance: Not enough things have been declared Dead, Lame or Wrong...
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Grievance: I didn't follow the thread format, which probably leveled up LG's grievance. ;)
- Mona Nomura
Grievance: Bret Taylor hasn't publicized the fact Toby Gerhart lost the Heisman Trophy award after weeks of unrealistic hype.
- Louis Gray
from iPhone
Grievance: People post their mugs way too much up in here! #getaroom
- Mona Nomura
Grievance: Mona's everyday drinking behavior makes college students feel like underachievers both in the classroom and at their frat houses or sororities.
- Louis Gray
from iPhone
Grievance: WorldOfHiglet has not posted her novel to FriendFeed as a PDF to download.
- Louis Gray
from iPhone
Grievance: I live to far away from Louis Gray
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Grievance: Stephen Mack toils away at TiVo for a decade and hasn't ONCE posted promo codes for lower-cost units. He also won't tell us if there is anything beyond the TiVo XL.
- Louis Gray
from iPhone
Track down Louis Gray using this http://www.phonedetective.com/PD...
- Thomas Power
Grievance: Johnny Worthington isn't Australian enough. Secondary grievance... the Skype connection to FFunderCats is complete rubbish.
- Louis Gray
from iPhone
Grievance: I can't quit you...
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Grievance: Thomas Power runs a successful social network and his three children somehow all still managed to become FarmVille addicts.
- Louis Gray
from iPhone
Grievance: I have no housemates to annoy with my loud cackling at this thread.
- Spidra Webster
bah humbug
- Thomas Power
Grievance: Louis Gray made me snort my tea when I read his comment about my novel...
- WorldofHiglet
Grievance: Akiva and Rochelle Moskovitz go to bed way too early.
- Louis Gray
from iPhone
Grievance: Louis Gray has not been listening to my audiobook podcast
- WorldofHiglet
Grievance: Kol has a last name that nobody can pronounce, and a first name that should be short for something, but nobody has any clue.
- Louis Gray
from iPhone
Trez-Gas-Ges ... I can
- Thomas Power
LG, it's short for "Koldkockya"
- Spidra Webster
Ouch that sounds painful Spidra. This is what LG stands for http://www.lgblog.co.uk/wp-cont...
- Thomas Power
LOL, Louis. Kol, short for Kolin, i.e. Colin. Tregaskes: say like Tree-Gas-Kes. Easy. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Grievance: I never get invited to all the great meatbag parties
- Mo Kargas
Grievance: I never go to bed. Wait...Another Grievance: I'm always late to these parties.
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
Grievance: All my network is on Twitter instead of FriendFeed. Bastards!
- Justin Whitaker
Grievance: this video won't edit itself.
- WorldofHiglet
Grievance: LG's not on FF right now. Which leads me to believe he could only be sleeping. I'm disillusioned.
- Spidra Webster
Grievance: FriendFeed got hijacked by Facebook - bah! I think they should switch places. I mean, declare FB dead and switch all those accounts over to FF --- now, that would be AWESOME!
- Susan Beebe
Grievance: Not enough chocolate over here, that's cuz I ate most of it already :P *sad santa*
- Susan Beebe
I'm glad you aired out these grievances, Louis, They were starting to stink before, all boxed up like that.
- Stephen Mack
I don't get a Grievance? Woo hoo! I win!
- Kamilah Gill
Grievance: Spidra does not recognize I can be off FriendFeed and still not asleep at the same time. A rarity, but true.
- Louis Gray
Grievance: Susan Beebe dutifully listens in to every Gillmor Gang, but has yet to be invited on as a participant.
- Louis Gray
Grievance: Kamilah Gill is still doing her daily sketches and has yet to switch to oil-based paints.
- Louis Gray
Grievance: Stephen Mack has no resemblance to the line of trucks which bear his name.
- Louis Gray
Grievance: Paul Buchheit has not yet singlehandedly made Facebook as cool as FriendFeed or GMail.
- Louis Gray
:P I'm going to! and I have done tons of oil painting. That's how I got my art degree. Ah, that's better. Happy Festivus.
- Kamilah Gill
Grievance: Stuart Miniman won't admit that the vast majority of people who interact with him don't really get the full benefits of Fibre Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE).
- Louis Gray
Greviance.... Apple not letting Google Voice on the iPhone
- Roberto Bonini
Grievance: It is still only Christmas Eve, so I cannot partake in the (completely made up by me) tradition of spending as much of the day as possible in my Christmas pajamas.
- joey
Grievance: It's Christmas Eve day and I'm at work :(
- T. Brent, technopeasant
Greviance: Jet lag is screwing up my sleeping patterns.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
Grievance: I wish you could all be eating Turkey here with me. Instead I have to type on a keyboard to try to feel close to you.
- Jorge Escobar
Greviance: Transporter tech hasn't been invented. See above.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
Roberto, I've got a prototype working. You stand beneath one circular shower curtain and jump into the space with another circular shower curtain. Now all I need is to work on the distance.
- Cristo
Cristo: You tried that on Alex yet??4 ;)
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
Grievance: No one on my FF feed or FoaF has yet made a YouTube video of their Feats of Strength
- Spidra Webster
Spidra: not even Rah??
- WorldofHiglet
Spidra, I may have a photo of mine a little later. No video, though.
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
WoH, got link? ha3rvey, I'm sure we all look forward to it!
- Spidra Webster
HA HA! I totally escaped the Airing of Grievances.
- Steven Perez
Grievance: DYSP.
- Kamilah Gill
TOO LATE. YOU MISSED THE CUTOFF.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Belated Grievance: I missed the cutoff.
- Kamilah Gill
Prediction for 2010: FriendFeed is going to see a resurgence.
ravi karandeekar, Adrian, Flavio and 80 other people liked this
What's the rationale?
- Pavan
Really?!
- Michael Liss
I think this prediction's outcome might fall into the hands of Facebook. We'll see what they do with the property this year.
- Andrew Dobrow
Funny that this comes from Twitter. =D
- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
ROFL.
- Derrick
So is RSS if we're going to follow Robert's logic.
- Jimminy Fuller
HOW TO SPOT COMMENT BAIT IN 100 EASY STEPS — STEP 1: DID IT COME FROM ROBERT SCOBLE? STEPS 2-100: REPEAT STEP 1.
- Akiva Moskovitz
already happening, yo
- Josh Haley
it started surging (again) after ppl let the knowledge of fb purchase fall into the bits of history pages
- chaz2b
Lets cross our fingers
- polou/indigo_bow
This is SO an experiment on Scoble's part.
- Jeremy (on vacation)
WTF is FriendFeed?
- David Cohn
Rational, Twitter usage is flattening, people are finally figuring out that Twitter sucks for having a conversation. People though Friendfeed was hard to use, try having to install several software 'crutches' to be able to use Twitter productively without even half the functionality as Freindfeed.
- Jeff P. Henderson
if you say so...
- MobilAdam
Either this is tounge in cheek or Robert really hasn't gotten over our breakup... Robert, I hope we can still be friends but we have to move on and grow... FriendFeed will always love you, but we need some 'us' time to find out who 'we' are... *cues The Bodygaurd soundtrack*... *walks out into the rain, adjusts collar, walks off down the road*... *fade to black, credits*
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
LOL Johnny!
- Jeff P. Henderson
Best Christmas present ever!
- Jemm
Comment bait. Even Robert can't generate interest these days.
- Russellreno
I agree. Friendfeed is for those who need more from a 2d interface. Until there spatial interface is there, Friendfeed is on top of the pyramid (especially when one knows how to use it best).
- Kirill Bolgarov
Up
- Luca Perugini
from iPhone
*slow-mo head shake*
- Micah Wittman
from iPhone
Too funny! Johnny and Akiva -- you guys crack me up.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
I would agree with a few here and say that FriendFeed is already resurging, Robert. #friendfeed
- Kol Tregaskes
AMEN!
- zʍıɔ
The stats don't agree though: http://thenextweb.com/2009...
- Kol Tregaskes
it's like drunk dialing an ex-girlfriend...
- Aron Michalski
from BuddyFeed
i guess so too..
- Daniele - Viralavatar
so too :)
- ★ Soner Gönül
Agreed wholeheartedly Robert
- Roberto Bonini
Akiva: lol, Kol: that article only looks at unique visitors, and doesn't consider user hours.
- Mike Chelen
:) @ Aron - sums it up perfectly...
- 1x29
Lets hope so ... Miss some of my old peeps :)
- Charlie Anzman
I'm surprised Robert made this statement but I find it very interesting in the change of view and wonder what has changed his mind or if he knows more info.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
The unpredictably erratic Scobot is at it again...
- Ciro
Well, after glancing at his Twitter timeline, he's just making a bunch of joke predictions. I'd like to think that there's some truth in this one though...
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Sniffs... Do you smell that? It's what we used to call a troll. Robert is getting dangerously close to becoming irrelevent.
- Jason Williams
from iPhone
Robert is waiting until 2010 to respond to this thread. :)
- Louis Gray
I told you so
- Jesse Stay
Kol: the *stat* doesn't agree (note the singular)
- Jesse Stay
Well, since I'm ready organizing the elections for the best Dutch blogs I can say the resurgence already started last week. ;-)
- Ton Zijp
Kol: Here are many more stats that imply the contrary: http://staynalive.com/article...
- Jesse Stay
Excellent idea.
- Richard A.
from FreshFeed
Scoble - I disagree ONLY because I think that FriendFeed activity is already migrating to Facebook via deeper integration over there but I'm wiling to hear you out (as are the other 40+ people commenting here). Do share why you think this is true?
- Aaron Strout
I wrote this tweet for Twitter, not for FriendFeed. But nice to see you all! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Jason: I'm definitely irrelevant if the people calling me irrelevant don't even have 1,000 subscribers. Sigh.
- Robert Scoble
I actually see FriendFeed growing instead of slowing and there will also be new enhancements. A testing ground for Facebook. Just to expand, Robert's still the man!
- amarquart
Akiva wins the internets with this mathematical formula for spotting comment bait.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
You think we're fighting, I think we're finally talking! -all in one page
- Tim Jones
Funny, when I write, I write for everyone, everywhere
- Johnny Worthington
Beat ya to it Robert: http://friendfeed.com/jhuebel... And the resurgence is already happening.
- Jason Huebel
@Jason Williams, wow that's the pot calling the kettle black, doncha think? Robert's not a troll.
- Jason Huebel
@Kol, somebody mentioned that those stats often only consider US visitors (why that would be, I don't know). FF's non-US contingent has grown tremendously, so that graph may not show the whole picture.
- Jason Huebel
Akiva wins the thread.
- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
let's hope so - I love the darn thing
- Arthur Coleman
I'm finding that FriendFeed is fiendishly sticky. On Twitter lists do help, they make twitter better and all but but but-but I think a lot of users are getting more sophisticated in their web usage faster than Twitter can evolve their tech. Louis Grey recently postulated that even if there is no interaction on FriendFeed it makes complete sense to stay riding this horse. That got me...
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- JSLeFanu
Dude..... I totally hope you're right, but not too sure about this! LOL Explain your rationale please :)
- Susan Beebe
i agree with the original prediction. by the way, what's a resurgence? is it different than insurgents? :-)
- Morgan Haley
Morgan - the insurgents never left ... ;-p
- Robyn Hawk
Jason, OK. Good. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I'll stay one faithful user, for those "outside the US" stats. Still feature plenty, still enjoyable. Still effective. Thanks for rallying the troops again Robert. Bring the hopes, and forget the ropes! 8)
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
like Elijah
- maxilprof
I like this whole thread. ++Akiva, Johnny, JSLeFanu, Jason Heubel, Mike Chelen . . . Robert, Twitter may have geeks and famous people, but you can actually do things here. Oh, wait - I'm not here. I'm in a widget on a blog in someone's Posterous whom I don't even know, that I'm searching through to find FF peeps to subscribe to over here. Now, that's just mind-blowing!
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
Happy Festivus... Please donate generously to The Human Fund. Let's get the Money For People flowing...
T. Brent, technopeasant, Louis Gray, carlotta fancypants and 7 other people liked this
let the airing of grievances begin!
- Stuart Miniman
RSS is dead? @stu reminds me. Oh, you forget that when bloggers say something is dead they just mean it's not interesting to talk about.
Stuart Miniman, Mark, Alex Scrivener and Roberto Bonini liked this
Stereotyping people by their favorite author - http://kottke.org/09...
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lol - Chuck's a big Ayn Rand fan. They don't have Malcolm Gladwell, but some of my favorite old ones are Huxley and Orwell, but I don't think I'm big into conspiracies :)
- Stuart Miniman
These are all done in Pencil.
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Baard @ Pixum, Tyson Key, ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0, and 259 other people liked this
Impressive
- M F
Great work!
- Nia
I reshare this to Ideas & Inspiration room :) These are so realistic!
- Kristian Salonen
I'm sorry but this is unbelievable:) I'll give credit to the artist upon more convincing proof! The photogenic look of the tiger and lion really helps the artist's case though:)
- Roney Smith
I'm with Roney... I find this hard to believe... or maybe I'm just jealous that I can't even get stick people right!
- Jasmin Smith
I don't believe it. Too amazing.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I'm with Rah
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Only the lion looks like its drawn
- embee
The bear and rhino look drawn, too.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
very very talented. Wow they look like B&W pics you know photography.
- Gabriella Sannino
These are amazing, were they done by you?
- Angelo Rodrigues
Nice photographs
- Rafael Robayna
@michael, if they weren't drawn by you, at least tell us who the artist is and the link
- LouCypher
Link please?
- Jason Wehmhoener
wow
- Carolyn Chan
being slightly skeptical, i'm going to say these were done with pencil by a printer of some sorts... #justsayin
- Enrique Gutierrez
they're beautiful, but skeptical as well
- Jennifer Van Grove
Would need to see higher quality images to see if they are pencil or not - too many jpg artifacts to tell.
- Luke Addison
from twhirl
Stupefied.
- Parth Awasthi
want proof
- Jérôme Flipo
Wow!! Yeah it's pretty amazing what they can draw with a pencil nowadays, deviantART has lots of great pencil art.
- Kol Tregaskes
Michael, who is the artist?
- Kol Tregaskes
wow, cool!
- Sarah Perez
you cannot win on the interwebs. draw some crap it doesn't get noticed. draw something amazing in pencil and people say it's not real.
- Joe Breen
I'm really happy everyone liked these. They're my most liked entry to date, Thanks! There also seems to be some question about whether these are actually Pencil Drawings.I can assure you that they are.When I get home, I should have the links. I have more drawings, too.
- Michael Fidler
from fftogo
O_O WOW...Stunning
- Anna Haro
Wow, these are stunning!!
- Susan Beebe
Yes, especially the tiger. Reminds me of that "Tiger, tiger burning bright."
- Melanie Reed
Alright, Mike - I believe you. These are awesome. Good job!
- Enrique Gutierrez
HOLY CRAP.
- Chieze Okoye
no way!
- Mister Groonk
Thanks Enrique, I'll post some more soon. They are a little more obvious than these ones. As Luke points out; without being able to look closely it's impossible to tell. He's right; but up close it's more obvious. I'll upload the originals to Picasa later, and then you'll be able to zoom in with any photo viewer and see for yourselves. I can't believe how many people liked these. A few people have reposted them already. Thanks!
- Michael Fidler
Absolutely awesome, Michael. You are extremely talented. Everyone should repost these pix and help to make you famous. You should be doing this full time - you obviously have some passion for this. Bravo.
- Chris Loft
These are really beautiful, Michael. Do you sell them?
- Shannon Jiménez
Chris, I would love to say they're mine, but it's not true. I've had them for a while, but I'll find the artists names. It will just require a little backtracking. Besides, they deserve the credit; all I did was find them:-)
- Michael Fidler
Cut the bullshit! :) Photos are very good.
- Burçak Çubukçu
I draw alot in pencil, but they are amazing, the best for me is the girl, that is the most photo-like one. :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
I agree Rob, the girl is amazing. My favorite by far! Wait until you see it close up! It's really had to tell, even up close!
- Michael Fidler
Burçak Çubukçu If these were photographs, they would be very good. As Pencil Drawings,(which they are), they're amazing.
- Michael Fidler
Wow, amazingly realistic
- Threepwood
@Michael Fidler did you draw them? How can you so sure?
- Burçak Çubukçu
That is my pencil drawing :) http://picasaweb.google.com/Burcak...
- Burçak Çubukçu
dont look like it
- Prakash
@ Michael Fidler don't push so hard :)
- Burçak Çubukçu
@Burçak Çubukçu I can't tell if your serious now or just kidding around. I hope your just having fun! If you are serious, I've never given you a reason to question my integrity, nor do I ever intend to. However, the second set is up now, so judge them for yourself, but don't judge me! http://ff.im/1BJh5 BTW, I messed up and reposted the shot of the women again. Oh well. Hope you like them:-)
- Michael Fidler
@Michael: try deviantART, not Picasa, to submit your artworks
- LouCypher
WOW "I can't believe it's in pencil"
- sofarsoShawn
LouCypher, I know it well, but I don't see why I would want to do that. I hope everyone knows by now that they're not mine? I'm sorry, but I can't say it any clearer than that.
- Michael Fidler
nah, i don't believe it is done in pencil. i am sure it is photoshopped :)
- hasin hayder
These would be great even for photos.
- tomit
i'm not able to comprehend
- Varun Shenoy
More comments here: http://www.bannination.com/comment...
- donato
I'm finding this both interesting and humorous at the same time. There's a separate message board where this post is being discussed and it has another forty comments on it already. I think its great how this has created some lively discussion, considering that when I posted this I was doubtful if anyone would even like it. When I went to sleep last night there was only had 3 or 4 likes...
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- Michael Fidler
Very interesting. I would like to see them up close and in person...just to make sure. Bill said it's real and possible. Your 2nd set of picts look like pencil. Nice work in finding these!
- LaFern Cusack
Kol, I can't thank you enough! Kol found another post which helps to prove that these are done in pencil. I had my doubts about a few of them because I collected them from several different sites over time, but the site Kol found has done a great job pulling together an impressive collection of these drawings and more. Take a look - http://www.flickzzz.com/2009...
- Michael Fidler
Actually there are more than what this site shows. There's an entire set with the cats(little cats), which I have, and there's a new portrait set.
- Michael Fidler
Found your post here, Michael. :-) I tried my best to find the artists.
- Kol Tregaskes
Amazing and very very very good.... Very impressive ...
- Linda Zeek-Bobinski
fake. http://lenscratch.blogspot.com/2009... Even if your not claiming to be the artist, these are photographs, well except the woman, thats pencil
- james foor
Yeah we know, thanks though, James. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Excellent pictures - how long did it take you to scan the photographs into Photoshop and then edit them? The only pencil that has come into contact with these "drawings" is the Photoshop pencil. A tip - stop trying to fool people into thinking you are a "real" artist, because all you are doing is cheapening proper artist's works whom have spent hours creating real pictures as opposed to a few minutes on a graphics editing package.
- The Wimp
A bell does ring here. And I am remembering why I was so attracted to the tiger...and the lion for that matter. These are exact replicas of prints I had in our bedroom when I lived in Dallas. I had bought the prints (in color) at a department store,
- Melanie Reed
Actually, I have learned quite a bit about these drawing since I made this post. Not only have I discovered all of the artists, but I've learned more about how they are created. They are always copied from a photograph or painting, but usually a photograph. It is extremely time consuming and detail orientated work. There are many other artists besides the ones featured here who practice...
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- Michael Fidler
Most of them have portfolio's on deviantart.com and their work is truly amazing even if they are copies of other artists work. I suppose with this level of detail, they have to start with something. Nevertheless, I'm still in awe of their talent. Melanie, the animal prints you refer to are from a very well renowned photographer. The originals are B&W I'll look it up later but I do have...
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- Michael Fidler
wow; they're unbelieavably beautiful.
- liladreams
Cinch Puts Mini Podcasts In Your Pocket - http://blog.louisgray.com/2009...
metalerik, brainno722 (Peter), Micah Wittman and 7 other people liked this
...Is using the 'I thought you were just pleased to see me!" line too coarse? Thought so.
- WorldofHiglet
Would you recommend using Cinch instead of Evernote for interviews? If so, why?
- Amani
Amani, Cinch is a bit more social than Evernote - you can comment on each post, share it to Twitter, Facebook, etc. Evernote, from what I understand, is just for archival purposes. That said, you can save the MP3 and upload to Evernote.
- Jesse Stay
Amani (disclosure: Cinch is a client of mine), I'm finding it fits well in short message situations where you want a little more personality than just text can provide. For instance, at Blog World I went around and asked people one question, and had them answer that question as briefly as possible, but it was people like Robert Scoble and Louis Gray, and Nick Halstead (of TweetMeme). It is the occasions where you'd normally use the tape recorder to do the interview that Cinch makes sense.
- Jesse Stay
In a sense, Cinch makes everyone a journalist by giving them that tape recorder and allowing them to promote it to their own audience.
- Jesse Stay
I get it Jesse. And how will this change how you use Evernote?
- Amani
Amani, it doesn't change how I use Evernote at all. I never used Evernote for audio in the first place, but even so, Evernote has always been a place to braindump. It hasn't been built around anything social so there's no way to promote that braindump in Evernote.
- Jesse Stay
And not sure I want my braindump public :-)
- Jesse Stay
Also, Cinch doesn't require the internet to run. Just call their number, record your Cinch, and you're done. Just a landline is necessary.
- Jesse Stay
Amani, yes, via 2-way calling you could call Cinch, then transfer over the other caller into your recording. I did that with Louis Gray back after the FriendFeed acquisition while I was at Niagara Falls. I was standing on top of the falls, doing a phone interview on Cinch - pretty cool, eh?
- Jesse Stay
that is totally awesome. I have to test that out but that actually REALLY makes my day. So flexible. have the app on my phone already. no more need for those free conference call #'s and recording from a phone. How was the sound quality? And do you use evernote to just keep that interview in an the archives?
- Amani
from IM
We need an Android app for it!
- Jorge Escobar
Amani, you could use Evernote for that, yes - just save the MP3 and upload to Evernote. However, the audio files are all stored on BlogTalkRadio's servers so I'm sure they're pretty safe (probably more so than even on Evernote's servers). Sound quality will always be better if you use the iPhone app, but even by phone it's not bad.
- Jesse Stay
Jorge, technically you do - just add 1-646-200-0000 to your address book, title it "Cinch", and call it any time you want to make a new Cinch. :-)
- Jesse Stay
Jorge, Cinch has a great API though - you should be the first to create one! :-)
- Jesse Stay
Oh really? That's interesting!
- Jorge Escobar
from IM
Amani, yes, I suggest using the iPhone app if you're able to and need quality.
- Jesse Stay
Jorge - look through the docs here: http://www.cinchcast.com/api... - you can do almost anything via the API that you can do in Cinch.
- Jesse Stay
I meant interesting that you can just call them and they tag you. I don't develop for Android, and I do know the API is very flexible, thanks for that Jesse
- Jorge Escobar
So I tried to test this out but it wouldn't work well for me. I had this running in the background. Someone called me and I hit record but I can listen to the recording. It seems as if it didn't record. Hmmm ... any ideas? This is on an iphone 3G. I have someone calling me in 1.5 hours to do an interview and I need to be sure this works.
- Amani
Amani, I'm not sure if it works that way (never tried that). What I normally do to record a phone call is call the number (above), and set up 2-way calling with the individual and Cinch.
- Jesse Stay
OK, thanks for your help jesse. So I would call the 646 number and then call the person? Or could I wait for them to call me and then call the #? Just a few last minute logistics. LOL.
- Amani
Amani, either way
- Jesse Stay
Yep, I just tested it out and it worked. You are right about the quality. I hope there is no time limit. I read the FAQ and they said none. I am going to give it a whirl and post up my results. If it works like I think it will be a life saver. Thanks for your help Jesse.
- Amani
Oh, I like Cinch. I just tested it again and now that I use evernote it is even more valuable.
- Amani
I made it! Most influential British Twitter users revealed - Telegraph (UPDATE: wow - thanks so so much guys. Can't believe the love i have on here.) - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technol...
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Congrats Zee!
- Mark Layton
You're the only person I follow on that list.
- Judy Jones
Where are you on the most influential British Twitter users of Iraqi decent list Zee?!
- Matthew DeVries
lol, i'm speaking to the Baghdad Times about that as we speak Matthew :)
- Zee.
Well, you did have a NextWeb article featured on Diggnation this week too... if that's not influential I guess nothing is... :-)
- Chris Heath
Congrats my friend!
- Jorge Escobar
congrats zee -- side note, no mention of gifted followers...
- Allen Stern
lol, gifted followers?? you've lost me
- Zee.
Woohoo! #3!
- Shevonne
Awesome, congrats Zee!
- Mark Douglass
well done, Zee! Glad you're ahead of Peter Andre....:)
- WorldofHiglet
Hi, Zee ! je vais de ce pas jeter un coup d'oeil chez les Britons ;-)
- Desirade
zee - gifted followers = default list/suggested user list - when a media outlet reports on "x account has y followers" it's almost like there needs to be a notation that they were given the followers as a freebie.
- Allen Stern
Strange enough, the link to the PM's wife's Twitter page isn't direct; it's <http://go.telegraph.co.uk/...>...is this done to possibly track the number of clicks or something? All the other Twitter accounts listed are direct links
- Itachi
i thought that everyone has agreed to used "listed" as the new 'count that matters' -- there's more of a meaning to listing someone and there never was a suggested list... however... the more followers you have the more chances to be listed there are ( i guess )
- Chris Heath
Heh, nvm, seems it was a bug on my end. The link does take you to her Twitter page, but while I was mousing over the links I saw the go.telegraph.co.uk link and was a little perplexed why they had that there. It's gone now after a refresh
- Itachi
Congrats!
- John Craft
Congrats, Zee!!!
- Carmen - Happy 2010!
grats, Zee!
- Arlan Koizumi
congrats Zee!
- John Wang
CONGRATS ZEE!
- AJ Batac
luck number 7
- Raphael, Raphael
WELL deserved, Zee!! Congratulations!
- Mona Nomura
Congrats Zee!
- Alejandro
woot. gratz Zee.
- Carolyn Chan
Congrats on making the list, Zee!
- TrafficBug
Hooray, Zee! You ooze awesomesauce.
- Jolie O'Dell
Congrats!
- अभिषेक(Abhishek) Das
wow - thanks so so much guys. Can't believe the love i have on here.
- Zee.
Mazel tov, Zee! You're one of my tech favorites on here.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Big Congrats Zee ,, all your HArdwork is paying off
- johnpiercy
Now don't let it go to your head and start thinking that services need to bend the way they function to your will and don't start ripping services when they can't perform to insane, unrealistic, and just plane silly standards. "WTF GReader's interface starts breaking down and failing when ever I try to display 1 million individual RSS feeds on 15 inch screen at one time, this is entirely unusable!"
- Matthew DeVries
Congratulations!
- Dimitar Vesselinov
Congrats Zee. ; )
- Erhan Erdogan
Toy Story 3 in IMAX - http://www.slashfilm.com/2009...
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Disney has announced that Pixar’s Toy Story 3 will be released in IMAX 3D on June 18, 2010, simultaneously with its wide release. This would be the first Pixar film released in IMAX. I’m not usually a fan of films blown up from 35mm to IMAX, but 3D films are a bit different. The brightness of the IMAX projection means little to no loss in color and brightness, a big complaint about the smaller screen 3D systems like Reel D and Dolby. Any with Pixar films, you don’t want the colors to be dim or any less bright than they were intended. Also, for me, the large IMAX screen created a more immersive 3D experience than the normal sized-screen presentations. Full press release after the jump.
- Shevonne
So what's up with Twitter today? Is the API completely down or just rocky?
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Sports Illustrated puts Stephen Colbert on cover - Yahoo! News - http://news.yahoo.com/s...
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Yay! I love how he's used his show for causes like this and donorschoose.org
- Spidra Webster
This is the only thing about the Olympics coming to Vancouver that I'm excited about. I even gave money to the US Speedskating Federation because of Colbert's involvement.
- cecily
Marvel and Disney Characters Attempt Corporate Synergy - Marvel disney - io9 - http://misterjt.tumblr.com/post...
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Beauty and The Beast - nice :)
- Stuart Miniman
Companies that Win Set the Agenda - http://blog.louisgray.com/2009...
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Video: LeWeb Twitter Apps Panel via UStream - http://blog.louisgray.com/2009...
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Hey @drew, we are flying through Philly on the way to Paris for LeWeb. Should we wave at you or will you be at our gate with roses?
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2 times out of the country this year - hope you get some time to enjoy Paris!
- Stuart Miniman
hey Louis you're getting adventurous
- Thomas Power
FTC Disclosures Made Simple For Bloggers With Conflicts (Collect and Use the Entire Pack!) :) - http://blog.louisgray.com/2009...
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What I don't understand is why no one is talking about StumbleUpon. Nowhere do they tell their users that they are slipping in ads, but one out five pages smell an awful lot like payola. No where on the page does it say that company X is sponsoring that hit, they just try and pretend like it social content that's been recommended by people with similar interests. This seems a lot more deceptive to me than most conflicts of interest
- Davis Freeberg
Cool. Would be awesome if we could dynamically add them to a post based on tags :)
- Roberto Bonini
BTW - The best ones are behind the link. :)
- Louis Gray
I've gotten a free book before but I want to level up to "some sweet gadgets"!
- Rochelle
Awesome. But where is "writer is friends on FriendFeed"?
- DeWitt Clinton
DeWitt, I assume we could have made 20 of these. But Jeannine is too good to be free! She got Mad Scrilla for this work. :) I would have added advisory roles and social networking buds, real life buds, friends of a friend, blah blah blah.
- Louis Gray
Louis++ for "Mad Scrilla" LOL!
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Davis - there's an icon for sponsored links on the FF and IE toolbars that looks like a dollar sign (at least the last time I used it). Disclosure: I worked on the IE toolbar and put that feature in (to reach feature parity with the Firefox toolbar).
- Matt Mastracci
Louis, these are fabulous. Although, Full Disclosure: The FTC has no jurisdiction where I live :)
- Micah Wittman
LOL. ... love "mad scrilla" heee!
- Jenna Bilotta
These are great but there is one missing for when you are promoting your own products or services in a review.
- April Russo (app103)
LOVE those graphics -- funny!! :D
- Susan Beebe
Where is the "Writer got CRAP and is willing to accept bribes." badge.
- Uncle CW™
Get off my lawn, CW. :)
- Louis Gray
Wheres the "I've got my own consulting company" one ;)
- Roberto Bonini
Roberto, I wanted one for "I'm an advisor", but Jeannine and I stopped at these eight for now.
- Louis Gray
Thanks to @Jamiepappas for creating lists of #EMC Tweeters... Now #Tweetdeck supports too! Thanks so much.
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Awesome full-sized droid replica at The Outer Limits in Waltham! http://twitpic.com/rvevf
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Fail Factors – Why Startups Die – The Zealot | The Bigger Truth (via @stevedupe) - http://www.thebiggertruth.com/2009...
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"Fail Factor #1 – Zealotry A zealot is someone who believes so strongly in what it is they are doing that it is all consuming for them, and it becomes contagious. In a world dominated by followers, a zealot stands out. Anyone who believes anything so strongly will stand apart from the wishy washy masses – be they religious, political, technological, or any other kind of zealot."
- Louis Gray
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Wolfram|Alpha Blog : Step-by-Step Math - http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2009...
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"Have you ever given up working on a math problem because you couldn’t figure out the next step? Wolfram|Alpha can guide you step by step through the process of solving many mathematical problems, from solving a simple quadratic equation to taking the integral of a complex function."
- AJ Batac
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Those are questions only you can answer my friend...
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if anyone in the Boston area is interested in an implementation specialist position, DM me....I've got a job lead for you.
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Cola binary. http://yfrog.com/aulz6j
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Hahaha!
- Spidra Webster
HAHAHAHAAHHAHA!. You know, they say that there are only 1 in 1 0 people can read binary
- Morgan Haley
When Disaster Strikes - A MOZY Story - http://lensblog.typepad.com/ebiz...
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Sweet Potato Pie Pancakes - http://closetcooking.blogspot.com/2009...
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"The basic idea was a pancake with all of the flavours of a sweet potato pie or a sweet potato casserole. I pretty much just took my basic pancake recipe with some of the flour replaced with whole wheat flour and added some pureed sweet potato long with some spices like cinnamon and nutmeg. For the sweet potato puree, you just need to cook a sweet potato until it is nice and soft and mash it up. I like to slow roast sweet potatoes as they caramelize and that adds a ton of flavour. The Sweet potato pie pancakes turned out great! They were nice and light and fluffy and moist and good. I really enjoyed the sweet potato flavour in the pancakes. I served the sweet potato pancakes with maple syrup, toasted pecans and topped them off with a slice of melting butter."
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
Courtesy of @niczak!! :)
- Derrick
ROFL See! Pecans! BOO!!!
- Admiral Anika
I want to go to there. *pats empty seat next to me* COME ON ANIKA!!!!
- Derrick
Yeah, right! I don't like sweet potato, pie, pancakes OR pecans. It's like a plate of hate! ROFL I'll keep the syrup warm for you. =)
- Admiral Anika
And damn you! You're making me realize I haven't held a brunch in forever. I know my friends would love this.
- Admiral Anika
I'd eat that.
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
nom - reminds me of Pumpkin Pancakes w/ Raisenettes at the Friendly Toast in Portsmouth, NH http://thefriendlytoast.net/
- Stuart Miniman
woot! :)
- Nicholas Kreidberg
What You’ve Tweeted about the Past Year via Tweet Cloud - http://bhc3.wordpress.com/2009...
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Keep A Close Eye on Chris Messina for the Web's Future - http://blog.louisgray.com/2009...
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It's sad but I think Google is helping facilitate the death of the URL using site hierarchy search results. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
- Andrew Smith
Innovators always come before early adopters - many of those you list are the innovators whose technology early adopters will be trying later on.
- Jesse Stay
BTW, 2 names I would add to your list: Craig Burton and Phil Windley
- Jesse Stay
Nice! Seriously, that was in the roadmap in 2005. RT @googlereader: We're listening: favicons for your subscriptions, http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2009...
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Shellen? Must you always go back to the "hey I thought of that 4-5 years ago"? :) Just publish the 2005 roadmap and we can take a look.
- Louis Gray
Louis ! I'm glad you said it and not me :P
- Jenna Bilotta
Good point. I wonder what the statue of limitations are on that. (I'm also not really a cocky bastard, nor the sole author of that roadmap).
- Jason Shellen
All of the above is true. I rib Jason because I care. :)
- Louis Gray
Do we at least have the option to turn it off??
- Roberto Bonini
I dug up the "PM To-Do list - Stuff for Jason to do!" wiki page. One of the items is "pick a name", which has the brilliant suggestions "Google XMLSuckandBlow" and "Google BagItandTagIt"
- Mihai Parparita
Shellen++
- Kevin Fox
@roberto it's off by default.
- Jenna Bilotta
oooh mihai! send me the link!
- Jenna Bilotta
nevermind! found it.
- Jenna Bilotta
LOLZ that list is hilarious!
- Jenna Bilotta
Wait! What's on my list?
- Kevin Fox
I'm pretty sure Fusion was pretty high on this list. :)
- Jason Shellen
Mihai, you are legally required to post that via FriendFeed or to a Google Spreadsheet/Doc. (waits)
- Louis Gray
Other excellent options: "FeedBagz.com (available!)", "rss.shellen.com" and "Google XMLSpot" (vs. Blogspot).
- Mihai Parparita
I'm well into ten years for "we tried that once". Four years is an eyeblink. :)
- Michael Herf
from iPhone
FriendFeed: All The Cool Kids Are Using It… And You Wanna Be Cool, Right? - http://www.johnnyworthington.com/...
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Hi, my name is Johnny. I’m here to tell you about a social networking site so good, Facebook bought the people who designed it. What is that service you ask? It’s called FriendFeed. That’s right, you may have heard of us before. We have been called a rival to Twitter or Facebook etc but that’s not really [...]
- Johnny Worthington
Hi there, Johnny! And hello everyone. I'm internet star Chris Charabaruk. You may remember me from such sites as Twitter, reddit, and my new service Taskerrific. And I'm here to say that Johnny is absolutely right. FriendFeed really is a great place to hang out and be cool. But don't take my word for it! We have super internet specialists who can explain it all in detail for you.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
(Sorry, Johnny. That crooked muse of my just took hold and wouldn't let go. No promises it won't happen again, the damn thing chooses when to make me strange. Great article, though!)
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Chris... it was EPIC
- Johnny Worthington
YAY! :D
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Now that I think about it... I should have gone with Troy McClure
- Johnny Worthington
Hrm...I smell a meme
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Great post Johnny, one that should have been done before but you got it now :)
- Russell G
Thanks Russell :)
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Great post, Johnny! I will be sharing it. One thing, though - shouldn't my "friends" be pulling their heads out of their butts instead of the other way around (right after you discuss imaginary friends)?
- Curtiss Grymala
Noticed that... Decided to leave it in cause it made me giggle :)
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Mission accomplished, then. It made me chuckle a bit, too, picturing someone trying to pull their butt out of their head. :)
- Curtiss Grymala
Johnny, (and Chris, great co-hosting) this takes high concept yet practical to a new place. You leveled up, sir. Wow. Don't care if I look like I'm fawning right now, because it's so good at several levels. Sincerely, Me.
- Micah Wittman
I'm gonna send this to my friend who doesn't get friendfeed yet.
- Amani
Very well written post!
- April Russo (app103)
Very well witten Johnny. Well said.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
Nicely done, Johnny!
- Anne Bouey
Well done Johnny.. maybe now they'll get it!!
- Chris Myles
That is a handsome man! (And well written too) :)
- Louis Gray
this is badass :)
- mjc
Johnny - You are like the brother I never had! (except for Sean and Josh that is....) But YOU ROCK!
- Morgan Haley
Morgan. You're like the brother of the brother I always wanted :)
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Nice, Johnny. Maybe you could do a Part II -- "But didn't Facebook buy FriendFeed? Doesn't that mean FriendFeed is dead? Why should I start using a dead service?"
- Ken Sheppardson
Because it freakin' works.
- Jeremy (on vacation)
What Jeremy said.
- Roberto Bonini
Great post Johnny :)
- Penny
Ken, I was going to address this but my objective is to get more users. I'm confident that FriendFeed will be around for a significant amount of time and it's our job to build a user base to a point where we're 'to big to fail'.
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Yeah, I suppose that makes sense... you don't really hear people talking about how FF's "dead" until you start using it.
- Ken Sheppardson
It's only dead if we let it die. Facebook has given no indication that they will do so. FriendFeed is only dead to those who sought to be on the cutting edge. The early adopter wave has crashed over the beach of FriendFeed and we're all now just enjoying a day out paddling in the water.
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
I <3 Johnny.
- Alex Scoble
Twitter is slowly but surely catching up to Friendfeed in features. Re-tweets stand in for FoaF aggregration. There have been many attempts by 3rd parties at threading and displaying images and videos inline. Search is going the outsourced route, to Bing and Google. The character limit is still an obstacle, though. But luckily we don't have to wait and use a bunch of hacks, because all of this is built into Friendfeed already.
- Raphael, Raphael
Vezquex; My major issue with Twitter is the infrastructure has to be built into the message. Until I can use the full 140 characters, I don't see much hardcore use outside of the occasional message.
- Johnny Worthington
Not only that, but the threaded messages is far and away a better way to view a conversation.
- Jeremy (on vacation)
We're the cool kids? Really?? ummm.. did the definition of cool change? :D
- Uncle CW™
johnny rocks the hizzouse
- Morgan Haley
like rock and roll, friendfeed will never die. i hope. but if i had to choose between rock and roll and friendfeed....well...it's been nice
- Morgan Haley
That pic is the buisness (if a bit Chopper-like)
- Mo Kargas
To me, this picture says two things: "Suck it, world" and "Eeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyy"
- Mike Nayyar
Mike. I almost put on my leather jacket..
- Johnny Worthington
You should have Johnny.
- Roberto Bonini
Cool :-)
- ★ Soner Gönül
It was fabulous. And I did post it to FB. I figure they're my best shot at new peeps - especially the ones from AdGabber, the first socnet I was ever on.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
from iPhone
YO JOHNNY, IMMA LET YOU FINISH BUT...BUT...BUT, N-MIND YOU GOTZ DA BADDEST-ASS SHADES OF ALL TIME. OF ALL TIME!!!
- Josh Haley
josh wins
- Morgan Haley
I'll remember that post for a long time, seeing it for the 3rd time on display... ~ ~~ O'2
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
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