Purchased 2 for $10.77 each (23.29 - 1.75 eBates) at Barnes & Noble http://bn.com using R9W7E4R (40% off 1 item with Mastercard, expires Mon 11/30/09 2:59 am ET) and eBates 8% off
- Mitchell Tsai
For some reason, Barnes & Noble charges tax (unlike Amazon http://ff.im/c5ID7 & Buy.com), so prices may vary for others. These coupons require $25 Barnes & Noble membership (which can be refunded within 30 days). Buy.com appears to be the best deal ($11.79, free shipping) without special discounts. They are undercutting Amazon by 10% on some books (for now). Buy.com has a $10 off $200 deal for new customers. eBates only gives 1% off Buy.com.
- Mitchell Tsai
I ordered this today. $20 with free shipping. Lost my Timex Ironman in Las Vegas (might have been in a bag which disappeared - either forgotten or stolen at the Las Vegas Hilton)
- Mitchell Tsai
Probably. I'm flying CLE-LAS the morning of the concert. Unfortunately, I'm going to miss Lady Gaga 12/17-12/18 unless I can change my LAS-CLE flight. :-(
- Mitchell Tsai
She was a Latin pop sensation b4 releasing a US album . So weird I remember the tranformatiob covered by Latin news ... When I was 16
- Caroline
from iPhone
3 definetely! others are so out of date... but for me in personally, it's 9
- ozztrojen
There will be leftovers for days! Come on over! :-)
- Robert Scoble
i would come over if i was closer :)
- Allen Stern
Happy Thanksgiving Friendfeeders,and Scoble.Happy Religious Festival for The Islams also...In Turkish it's 'Kurban Bayramı', in Arabic; Eid al Adha...Thank You...
- Dedegi
peachfront: The Harrah's computer had weaknesses in its programming, where if you went in and gambled in a certain manner, they would ID you as a whale and send you coupons for months even if you never gambled again -- in fact, you would get the coupons LONGER if you never gambled again than if you gambled only a small amount. Not just for the RFB but for shopping sprees/cash coupons also. These folks were getting coupons from each property for $500 to $2K in cash or gift cards EVERY SINGLE MONTH.
- Mitchell Tsai
from Bookmarklet
I myself never shop on black Fridays. It's generally not worth it. Do be careful with the crowds, being trampled and hot tempers.
- imabonehead
from Android
(1) Piedmonte Hazelnuts IGP and Pure Dark Chocolate combine to form a classic flavor. Net wt. 350g/12.3 oz. (2) Extra dark Cuor di Cacao chocolate is blended with Hazelnuts to make an intense gianduja spread with a stronger chocolate taste than the “Crema di Cioccolato” spread shown above. Net wt. 200g/7.04 oz.
- Mitchell Tsai
from Bookmarklet
Creamy Giandjua. Arriba cocoa in powder. Piedmont nuts, no milk. A pure pleasure for the palate that even satisfies anyone with an intolerance to dairy products. Net wt. 200g/7.0oz.
- Mitchell Tsai
from Bookmarklet
More than just a chocolate cream, it is a symposium of flavor that brings together prestigious guests: outstanding cacao from the Tessieri family's plantations, and the finest hazelnuts, selected and toasted in-house by Amedei, to release all the intense sweetness of their aroma. And then there's brown sugar, milk and top-quality vanilla. All of this is blended together with the love, experitse, and unique touch of skill the only Amedei can impart to its creations. 200g/7oz net wt. per jar.
- Mitchell Tsai
from Bookmarklet
Andrew: My brother Eric (a foodie) sent me three chocolate spreads for my birthday 11/12. Amedei, Domori http://ff.im/c444q, and Venchi http://ff.im/c43UK All three are wonderful! (...and much better tasting than Nutella). Good presents for girlfriends IMO...
- Mitchell Tsai
I was talking to someone about this. How the Twilight series seems to be teaching girls to be with a controlling guy. I never thought about it that way til she pointed it out.
- Shevonne
Right? As an adult and having been in and understanding love, it's a sweet sweet story but UNREALISTIC. The more I think about it, the more I see how it encourages low self esteem - it's not sexy to be the whiny unsure girl who waits for a prince charming to fulfill basic needs.
- Mona Nomura
"In the spirit of speaking truth to diamond-skinned power, enjoy this list of unfortunate lessons girls learn from Twilight. (The list operates under the principle that any grownup female who embraces Twilight’s junior-high dreck temporarily sacrifices her 'woman card.')"
- Harold
Funny list... It took me years to separate "me" from cultures (Chinese, American, academic, music, corporate) and family. "role models" and their impact on self-discovery & outward-behaviors....tough issues.
- Mitchell Tsai
"# Boys who leave you always come back. # Because they come back, you should hold out, waiting for them for months, even when completely acceptable and less-abusive alternative males present themselves. # Even though you have no intention of dating an alternative male who expresses interest in you, it is fine to string the young man along for months. Also, you should use him to fix things for you. Maybe he’ll even buy you something."
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
"Vampires — once among the great villains of literature and motion pictures — are no longer scary. In fact, they’re every bit as whiny, self-absorbed and impotent as any human being." <-- Not sure this lesson is really unfortunate.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Turkish Airlines - TK: ORD-IST-TIP/IKA (Tripoli/Tehran) RT from $715 ai. Also seeing ORD-TUNIS,TUNISIA $752. ORD-ALGIERS,ALGERIA $750.
- Mitchell Tsai
sipes23: "TK has been having quite competitive pricing out of ORD lately. I think, but could be wrong, they're trying to make a go of the ORD > IST route."
- Mitchell Tsai
ReTweet Melanie Bell: On Friday, Facebook will start using your photos in ads that will appear on the profile page of your contacts. It's legal and is mentioned in the fine print when you create your account. If you want to prevent this, do the following: Settings, Privacy Settings, News Feed and Wall. Then click the Facebook Ads... tab, choose...
On Friday, Facebook will start using your photos in ads that will appear on the profile page of your contacts. It's legal and is mentioned in the fine print when you create your account. If you want to prevent this, do the following: Settings, Privacy Settings, News Feed and Wall. Then click the Facebook Ads... tab, choose "No one" and save changes. Please feel free to copy this and share the privacy.
- Mitchell Tsai
Sooooo glad I'm not on facebook. My photos are mine not facebooks
- Roberto Bonini
It is with deep sadness that we bring you the news of the death of our own Andrea Lewis. She died this weekend of an apparent heart attack at her San Francisco home. She was just 52. Andrea's parents are on their way from Florida. We are planning a memorial service and will let you know as soon as we have details.
- Mitchell Tsai
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PURE is collective of dancers and drummers who take music and dance out into the streets for the purposes of healing and peace. Movements from ancient sacred world traditions including Middle Eastern, Chinese, Romani gypsy, Israeli folk, Flamenco, Indian dance and drumming will be incorporated into the PURE experience.
- Mitchell Tsai
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DJ Beelzebozo and Szandora the Hula Hoop Chick at the Double Down - Wednesday nights 10 pm - 4 am [Las Vegas Weekly : Events Calendar] - http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/events...
Ordered two Men's Cactus (They throw in a free $13.95 belt). Three left (but the quantity popped up from 1 to 5 as I was shopping). I've been wearing Chaco's for 5-10 years, and they rarely have sales unless they are changing models. Regular price is $94.95, so I stocked up on 4 pairs.
- Mitchell Tsai
Airline Deal (w 5 nights hotel): SFO-LAS for $139, SFO-FLL (Florida) for $227, SFO/LAX/SEA-NYC/MCO for $275 (Prices include all taxes) See FlyerTalk thread http://flyertalk.com/forum...
is having a great time in Las Vegas. 2X Four 6s on $1 Video Poker ($250 x 2 = $500) on Sunday. My best video poker payout so far... Held two 6s for Four 6s ($500), Full House ($45), and Three 6s ($15). $50 -> $560 (+$510 profit).
I hadn't gotten a four-of-a-kind in a week. Then two hands after the Four 6s, I got Four 7s (again holding two cards). Four 7s was on $0.25 though (10-play $0.25) for $62.50. $12.50 -> $62.50 (+$50.00 profit).
- Mitchell Tsai
Someone cleared $3 million in Video Poker from the Bellagio this last weekend. Friday, he got a dealt royal on 3-play $100s for $1.2 million. $800,000 other jackpots for $2 million in 2 hours. Then the day he left, he got $200,000 five times, for a total $3 million payout. He might have been the same person who received $400,000 for a royal at Caesar's on Friday. Might have been $3.4 million for the same person. I've never heard of a video poker payout so high...
- Mitchell Tsai
0.75 (926/1226) - still relatively new here
- mikepk
I only see my stats for the last week (17/14 = 1.21) Please tell me your 670 number is for more than just a week!
- Brian Johns
1.44 (566/391) for brianjohns (after week tally you should see a comma then 'all time' count - I can see it on your page)
- Micah Wittman
OK, sorry. I'm a total dumbass. I stopped reading after the weekly totals...
- Brian Johns
3.74, which seems way off of everybody else's. I wonder what that says. I comment a lot more than I like.
- Cyrus Lendvay
FFers use FF with their own strategy or simply default tendencies. The ratio is an interesting snapshot of behaviour. Thanks for joining in everyone, hope more keep flowing in.
- Micah Wittman
from twhirl
0.66 - I tend to 'like' things without needing to comment further, I guess, and I notice I usually like the things upon which I comment. Well, frequently.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
.39 (2457/6242) I guess I don't comment much. I do 'like' a lot of things, it would seem.
- Bren, Photophobe
0.62 then again i have over 11,000 comments
- Cee Bee
1.23 (5287/4229) - I am put to shame by Cee Bee's participation, good grief!
- Her Lindsay-ness
So far: Average: 1.27 | Median: 0.81 ... (if you average 1 comment per like, you'd be 1.0 ... if you're 0.xx you might herd content more than discuss ... if you're whole numbers above 1 you may not 'like' much or discuss plenty or both)
- Micah Wittman
InPerpetualMotion(Gina k), I really liked this 'Like' of yours (in a series of pics, so I flickr fav'd it): http://friendfeed.com/e... and commented. Thanks!
- Micah Wittman
.68 6986/10194 Someone wrote a great article on the comment-like ratio a few months ago. Search on FriendFeed is crashing on me... I'll try to get the link.
- Mitchell Tsai
Thanks Mitchell (btw, search crashing on me too - lots)
- Micah Wittman
1316 comments/20221 likes (0.06), according to Windows Calculator, although I probably screwed up.
- Tyson Key
A recent change in FF: now the comment count shows total number of comments (previously multiple comments in one thread only counted as one) http://friendfeed.com/e... so all the numbers above are from the old methodology....
- David HC Soul
My new ratio: 0.76 all time (old methodology .52).... this week 1.39
- David HC Soul
Looks like my ratio as flipped again (comments back to dominating again). Seems to match my own awareness I've lately been commenting without Liking (commenting is my inherent recognition of value to me and the additional Like is when it merits an extra bump to help discovery by others).
- Micah Wittman
Darn - 0.52. I guess I need to say why I like something a little more often :-) Liking this thread because I was wondering the same thing recently. Has anybody worked out the average from the numbers here? </islazy>
- Andy Bold
Andy, scroll upward and you'll see a couple calculations from before (January: Average: 1.27 | Median: 0.81)
- Micah Wittman
Rick, you mean that face with glasses I photoshopped tint into with an apparently disembodied arm which is actually very much attached to my eldest son? It's mostly just me :)
- Micah Wittman
Thanks, Michael. Yes, you have a rising tide of comment percentage (oh, wow, you were one of the originals from January - cool!)
- Micah Wittman
Yeah, that's a decent upward rise in comments, Nicholas.
- Micah Wittman
.6 (6,000/10,000) 3rd update - Now it's time to flip this on its head. My goal is to have (16,000/16,000) next time I post here. Regardless of what happens, I'm just looking forward to the next 10,000 comments, likes, posts, and new relationships I make here. It's all good!
- Michael Fidler
1.76 (7539/4290) My commenting habits haven't chanced much, but it felt like I clicked Like a lot less, and this ratio confirms that for me.
- Micah Wittman
.82 as of right now. edit: on January 8th it was 0.39 -- when I saw that, I decided to make more of an effort to comment. When I hit 10k "likes" I decided I wouldn't "like" anything else until I also had 10k comments.
- Bren, Photophobe
Jimminy, I'm copyrighting every single number. It's kind of a honeypot ;) Actually, it was curiosity mostly, but I also hope to build a sampling (small and self-selecting as it may be) for anyone who might want to analyze it.
- Micah Wittman
Wow I didn't realize I was so out of whack!! 12.23 that's got to be a record (and I don't even import my feeds with the summary as a comment)!!
- Chris Myles
Thanks JA, Chris (wow, 12+ is unusual :), Serkan and Nine!
- Micah Wittman
0.89 (17818/19913) (Somebody better make a cool ass graph of all this data!)
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Micah.. I told you I take my likes seriously; ). You *might* want to ask (in a separate post) what percentage of likes were used to "bookmark" a post or save it for later VS actually "liking it". I NEVER used like for that.. but I did use a private group that if filled with my own topics (and comments)..
- Chris Myles
OK, so statistically, what ratio results in better interaction on FF?
- Jason Huebel
I don't think I could argue that any particular kind of ratio is "best", because if Lurkers like to Lurk and cultivate (via Likes) and the Chatty-ites love to chat, to pump out much many more comments than Likes, each can be happy and make for a great social experience.
- Micah Wittman
So I'm fairly balanced, it appears. I would imagine it's because I try to comment on every post I like. That's not always true, obviously. But mostly it is.
- Jason Huebel
Just clicking "Like" seems too easy. I feel like I should say something, too.
- Jason Huebel
wow, what a difference time makes, when i 1st posted on this thread, 6.43%, now = 1.25%, for a 5.18% difference, :o (and this is the earliest post to date i've recovered of my activity on ff)
- chaz2b
chaz, I think there's been a big fluctuation for most people (maybe not that much). This is the oldest post on which you commented that you've recovered?
- Micah Wittman
that was my third post... It's interesting to see how the number has changed. of course, I manipulated the number to a degree, because I stopped "liking" things for a while...
- Bren, Photophobe
Bren, the other thing that can seriously throw off someone's stats is a feed that upon each item it imports adds a comment automatically.
- Micah Wittman
true. that can seriously inflate comment stats, of course. Then you have someone like RAPatton, who posts a gazillion comments, in part because of his playlist posts where he will list each song in a separate comment. I found, after this post in fact, that I tended to "like" things much more frequently than comment on them, that I was lurking instead of participating. I have changed the way I use ff rather considerably, and I think for the better.
- Bren, Photophobe
Thanks Paola, Michael, Artemko, J. and Daniel!
- Micah Wittman
1.09 (9990/9105) From and including: Saturday, April 26, 2008 To and including: Thursday, November 12, 2009 It is 566 days from the start date to the end date, end date included Or 1 year, 6 months, 18 days including the end date to reach 10,000 comments.
- Christopher Harley
Anthony is honored to have just met - and exchanged courtesies with - the President of the United States. And that was, as the kids say, pretty effin’ cool.
you promised us you'd say some dramatic line to him, did ya panic and go with "wussup?"
- Steve C
@Steve: actually no, I cried like a little girl and peed myself, as is my longstanding personal tradition whenever meeting current or former Heads of State. It's simply good protocol; they seem to love it...
- Anthony Citrano
from BuddyFeed
Somehow I believe you, Anthony but still - pics or it didn't happen!
- WorldofHiglet
@WoH: "somehow?" ha, gee thanks! There are no pics of this one, I'm afraid (although there are almost surely pool pics of me at the ropeline early in the night) and believe me it bugs me more than the rest o' yaz. Hopefully @ the next one I get a proper photo op.
- Anthony Citrano
from BuddyFeed
@ahsan: dinner at the Beverly Hilton last night. (sorry, overlooked your q.)
- Anthony Citrano
:) You LA folk have personal photographers documenting your every move don't you?!? Don't tell me that not true because I saw it on the tv....Anyway, it must have been a very special moment. I hope you didn't cry and pee too much o_O
- WorldofHiglet
Cooler than that Best of Day thread about jock itch?
- Matthew DeVries
@charlie: about my personal moment (A: right here), or about the President coming to LA? (A: just about anywhere; pick your media poison.)
- Anthony Citrano
SO, can you tell us a little more about other than the wetting/crying?
- WorldofHiglet
Even though I can't stand Obama, I have to admit, your getting to meet the president is pretty cool.
- Joey Gibson
@WoH - I don't think I'll get into the blow-by-blow here (there's absolutely nothing of substance anyway.) However, I will almost surely draw on the experience for a future article.
- Anthony Citrano
Well I hope you do deign to share some little details with us sometime. When you can be bothered. In other news, did you see the new YouTube video from the WhiteHouseTV entitled "OMG!!!!! I met Anthony Citrano!!!!! For REALS!!!!!! SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I hear it's going viral....
- WorldofHiglet
WoH: don't make fun o' me! we've already determined I cry easily. ;)
- Anthony Citrano
Ooopsie - my bad. I forgot you were such a delicate little flower :)
- WorldofHiglet
If you shook his hand, you have been changed. : )
- Phil Boiarski
@Phil - I did twice. Should I not have showered? ;)
- Anthony Citrano
Yeah. LOL. I just made it official, like in the Thriller video...except that I didn't turn into a werewolf and chase her through the woods....
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
Not fair that the lady gets to wear a fancy ring before we even do the church thing. What's the point of being engaged if you can't flaunt it? LOL. Thanks everyone :)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
Congratulations, Rahsheen! I had a similar thought for Harold when he gave me my ring: "Gee, kind of unfair the guy doesn't get to wear something too until the wedding."
- Kamilah Gill