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Mitchell Tsai
Szandora LaVey-Partridge - 28 - Female - Las Vegas, Nevada [MySpace] - http://www.myspace.com/mizzsza...
Szandora LaVey-Partridge - 28 - Female - Las Vegas, Nevada [MySpace]
hula-hooper - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet
a strong looking set of abs if ever i saw one. - edythe
Mitchell Tsai
In Memory of Andrea Lewis [KPFA 94.1 FM Berkeley] - http://www.kpfa.org/memory-...
In Memory of Andrea Lewis [KPFA 94.1 FM Berkeley]
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 from Bookmarklet
Mitchell Tsai
PURE Dance: Public Urban Ritual Experiment - http://www.puredancelv.org/purelas...
PURE Dance: Public Urban Ritual Experiment
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 from Bookmarklet
Mitchell Tsai
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...
DJ Beelzebozo and Szandora the Hula Hoop Chick at the Double Down - Wednesday nights 10 pm - 4 am [Las Vegas Weekly : Events Calendar]
4640 Paradise Rd - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet
Mitchell Tsai
Chaco Sandals Z/1 Unaweep Performance Sandals 54.95 + free shipping [Rock Creek] - http://www.rockcreek.com/chaco-s...
Chaco Sandals Z/1 Unaweep Performance Sandals 54.95 + free  shipping [Rock Creek]
Ordered last two Men's 8 in Blue - Mitchell Tsai
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
Backcountry had black 8 for $68.22 http://backcountry.com/outdoor... ZB Sports had riptide 9 for $69.49 (inc $2.99 shipping) (Sale ends today Wed 11/18/09) https://www.zbsports.com/Store... Prices vary by the colors. Cactus seems to be the cheapest color. - Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell Tsai
Chaco Z/1 Unaweep Sandal $66-76 [Backcountry] - http://www.backcountry.com/outdoor...
Chaco Z/1 Unaweep Sandal $66-76 [Backcountry]
Many sizes still available - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet
Mitchell Tsai
Chaco Men's Z/1 Unaweep Sandals $59.99 + free shipping [Moosejaw] - http://www.moosejaw.com/mooseja...
Chaco Men's Z/1 Unaweep Sandals $59.99 + free shipping [Moosejaw]
Men's 7 - only size in stock - Mitchell Tsai
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...
Complete travel by Dec 27-09 MUST stay a MIN. of 5 nights Works all over the world. - Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell Tsai
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
Micah Wittman
What is your FF Comments/Likes Ratio? (Comments divided by Likes to 2nd decimal place - as of now) - http://flickr.com/photos...
What is your FF Comments/Likes Ratio? (Comments divided by Likes to 2nd decimal place - as of now)
1.05 (670/633) - Micah Wittman from Bookmarklet
Can you remind me again where to find those stats? - Brian Johns
Brian, go to "Me" link (http://friendfeed.com/brianjo...) which defaults to the Feed tab. Look at the sidebar on the right, below Discussion. - Micah Wittman
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
0.79 - Brian Roy
0.67 - Nine
1.39. - Rochelle
1.61 - I only 'like' when I want to throw my support behind a topic but don't have anything constructive to add. - Bjorn Stromberg
1.12 - LogEx
1.41 - WorldofHiglet
5.08 (3181/626) ! - ◄ani625Ξ
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
@Cee Bee I think you meant 0.62 - ◄ani625Ξ
1.27 (902/705) - Leandro Ardissone ⍨
yes, thanks for the correction. lindsay, you're making me feel bad. lol - Cee Bee
0.8576, I only like mostly when I'm going to comment - Mol, Time Warping
1.55 endlessly repeating. This Like/Comment included. - Dana D
before this comment: .69 I kid you not. - InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
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
CSV_A: 1.05,0.75,1.44,0.81,3.74,0.79,0.77,0.67,0.77,0.76,1.39,1.8,1.61,1.12,0.141,5.08,2.41,0.66,.39,0.62,.62,1.27,0.8576,1.551,0.69 - Micah Wittman
1.83 - Grant Bierman
I tend to like allot of photos which really don't need comments. - InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
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
.37 1002/2708 - Michael Fidler
this is what scobes walls would like if he didnt have FF - sean percival
I haven't seen Marc Canter's fabled fence (just heard about it), but I imagine this but on wood pickets :) - Micah Wittman
This week: 2.48 (1162:467) but this is not the norm, my likes usually match or are higher than comments, overall: 0.95 (14228:14846). - Kol Tregaskes
Thanks Michael, Kol! I'll recalculate average/median when we build up some more data points here. - Micah Wittman
1.03 748/723 - Keith - @tsudo
.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
*bump* - Micah Wittman
Thanks, Mark! - Micah Wittman
Thanks Spidra! - Micah Wittman
0.95 (1520/1604) - it's 2+ months later, and my ratio flipped (more Likes by .05) - Micah Wittman
.7 (1204/1724) - before this comment at least. - Rachel Lea Fox
Thanks, Rachel! - Micah Wittman
3.46 (3665/1057) before this comment and like. - Kevin Fox
Thanks, Kevin. 3+ is quite the comment on your commenting activities :) - Micah Wittman
I've got stuff to say. - Kevin Fox
3.98 (900/226) - Richard Lawler
1.02 (3538/3484) for sofarsofarshaun - Micah Wittman
.34 (600/1747, not counting this comment) - Michael Hocter
Thank you, Siavash and Michael - Micah Wittman
.52 overall, but .68 this week. - Rebecca
Nice, thanks Rebecca. - Micah Wittman
0.56 - imabonehead
Rah and imabonehead - rock on! (Richard too!) - Micah Wittman
0.16 - Anne Bouey
1.39 - jcunwired
4.62 (287/62) -- Yikes! I'm chatty. - Ted Roden
Thank you kindly, Anne, jcunwired and Ted. - Micah Wittman
Thanks for joining in, Bryce. - Micah Wittman
.15 all time, .13 this week. - Alix Whitmire
Thank you, Alix and David! (and Alix, you're tied with Siavash for the Highest Like ratio. Wow). - Micah Wittman
2.94 - j1m
Thank you, j1m. Ok, I'm gonna roll this up into a csv and call it a night. - Micah Wittman
CSV_B: 0.95,0.7,3.46,3.98,1.02,0.15,0.34,0.52,1.31,0.56,0.16,1.39,4.62,2.63,0.15,0.52,2.94 - Micah Wittman
this week = 0.45%, alltime = 6.43% - chaz2b
CSV_B Mean: 1.49 (previous mean for CVS_A: 1.27) - Micah Wittman
Of course the numbers can easily lie, but I'm gonna say it anyway: "We're getting more conversational, people!" - Micah Wittman
0.49 (493/988) - Bluesun 2600
816 / 2502 = 0.326139089 overall | 50 / 233 = 0.214592275 this week I like much more than I comment. (maths via google) - Chris Loft
3026/5013 = 0.6036 - Roger Chen
0.107 probably the lowest here - Nicholas James
chaz2b, Bluesun 2600, Roger, Nicholas — thank you! - Micah Wittman
.76 - jamar78
5.25 but I don't know what this *means, yet. maybe I'm just stingy with my "likes" compared to others? - Marg Uerite
Thanks jamar78 and Marg! - Micah Wittman
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
*bump* - Micah Wittman
1.26 (2965/2346) - Micah Wittman
Thanks, Glen and pea! - Micah Wittman
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
.38 - Ryan Dadey
Ryan, I have to say, that's one high caliber ratio ;) - Micah Wittman
An update it's .44 which is an improvement from .36 - Michael Fidler
1.5 exactly - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
2.94 1040/354 I have likes set to post to twitter automatically, so I'm careful with them. :) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)
0.85 - Steven Perez
0.73 up from 0.66 on Jan 08 - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
0.37 for the week past, 0.45 on the whole. - Parth Awasthi
Michael, Anthony, Ahsan, guruvan Steven, sıɹɥɔ and Parth - thanks for dropping in your stats! - Micah Wittman
5.81 i'm not using it as does everyone else here. that is fer sure. - Marg Uerite
But remember, the comment counts also includes comments imported from other services. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Ahsan, huh, I'd never considered that. - Micah Wittman
17942/30571=.59 - Alex Scoble
Alex, thank you, sir. - Micah Wittman
ALmost 2:1 exactly. - Amani
Much obliged, Amani. - Micah Wittman
3062/5777 you do the maths. - Will Higgins™
.53 (3062/5777) for Will Higgins #math-on-demand-services - Micah Wittman
Thank you, amin/gnu - Micah Wittman
2671/12333=.21 - Darren Heydon
1.45 (4374/3026) - Micah Wittman
0.92 now. I think the movie reviews have been getting me closer to a 1 to 1 ratio. - Steven Perez
Steven, yep, you were a 0.85 in April. - Micah Wittman
2.10 now ... - Amani
0.97 now. - Eric Johnson
Amani, so your comments have climbed a bit. - Micah Wittman
Thanks, Eric. - Micah Wittman
yes, but i am not consciously "not liking" things - Amani from IM
Probably, just chattier then :) - Micah Wittman
I'm down from 7.16 to 6.94 :-) - Ken Sheppardson
the live NBA playoff threads have ALOT to do with it. - Amani from IM
Ken, the FCC may be interested to explore how your "I'm down" may be offensively self-deprecating ;) - Micah Wittman
.56 eeep, must try harder - Threepwood
4.52. I don't bother to like things I've commented on, since commenting already flags it as interesting. - Andy Bakun
0.46 (1698/3638) - Glenn Slaven
Threepwood, Andy, Glenn - thanks (Andy, that's my mo too; then I'll Like if it warrants a "double vote"). - Micah Wittman
1.31 (4,471/3,401) - Karoli
Thanks, Karoli. And the both of us have a _very_ similar ratio and absolute numbers. wow. - Micah Wittman
1.15 ! Noisy... need more liking, I guess. - Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Thanks, Ryo! - 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
In March the Mean was: 1.49 - Micah Wittman
1.021276595744680851063829787234042553191489361702127659... via Wolfram Alpha - tom murphy
Thanks, tom. And though a bit verbose, your friend Wolfram is resourceful :D - Micah Wittman
0.55 (254/444) - Willem (@wim66) ☠
Thank you, Willem. - Micah Wittman
In April you were 0.97, so you're liking more / commenting less. - Micah Wittman
1.88 (779/414) - Ton Zijp
Thanks, Ton. - Micah Wittman
0.43 (3597/8305). - Parth Awasthi
0.74 (1970/2667) - Scott of Two Countries
And thank you Parth, Scott. - Micah Wittman
Parth, compared to your April numbers, you've been consistent. - Micah Wittman
2.12 is my ratio. - Rick Cogley
Thanks, Rick! - Micah Wittman
Np Micah. What is that photo? - Rick Cogley
.54 (4148/7674) Updated! - Michael Fidler
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
1.82 from 798 comments / 438 likes - David Damore
Thanks, nivé and David! - Micah Wittman
2027/1594 = 1.27 - Brome
0.58 - Marc Dong
2.9 (3,242/1,116) mhhh.. time to straighten my use of FF a bit.. thanks for this entry - Thierry R. Andriamirado
Brome, Marc and Thierry - thank you! - Micah Wittman
Thierry - yeah, 2.9 is fairly high - got to pick the pace on like side :) [but hey, whatever works for you is fine] - Micah Wittman
Stats Update: Last time I commented here my comment to like ratio was 0.107 it's increased to 0.645 ;) - Nicholas James
Thank you Nicholas and MiniMage! - 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
It's that time again. - Micah Wittman
Thanks, Laura! (you're a 50-caliber gal!) - Micah Wittman
0.64 - Imabug
Thank you, Imabug. - Micah Wittman
4.67 (I'm greedy :p) - directeur
0.99 - Steven Perez
About 1:2 comment to likes at this time - RAPatton from iPod
1.06 - Jim Hearts FF
.63 - metalerik
Thanks Imabug, directeur, Steven, RAPatton, Jim, Brent and metalerik! - Micah Wittman
.83 - Jimminy
0.78 - Pete Delucchi
.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
And thank you Jimminy, Pete, Bren and Penguin! - Micah Wittman
2.47 as of right now. - Jonas, Leper of FF
Micah, are you doing something with these numbers? If so sounds interesting. - Jimminy
0.58 - James (!?)
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
Jonas, James and Kurt - thanks you! - Micah Wittman
You're welcome. I hope the results do some good. :-) - James (!?)
.31. I have almost 4 times as many likes as comments. - edythe
.86 - Eric Logan
Thank you edythe and Eric! - Micah Wittman
195/245 makes 0.8 rounded not including this one which would be 196/245 making 0.8 unrounded, - tom murphy
Thanks, Tom. - Micah Wittman
1.98 (588/297) - Bryan Zirkel
1.67 (19,550/11,684) - Mitchell Tsai
Bryan, Mitchell and Jeff P. - thanks, guys! - Micah Wittman
1.18 - it's always been close to 1, since day one, for some reason. - Laura Norvig
Wow, Penguin is a prolific liker! - Laura Norvig
2.67 (875/328) - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
Thank you, Nathalie! - Micah Wittman
1.29 - Mark Jepsen
Thanks, Spidra and Mark! - Micah Wittman
0.49 - Jammy Lee
Jammy and Mathew, thank you very much. - Micah Wittman
I don't know I just like that picture - Brian Hendrickson
.40 - Ben Hanten
Mine was exactly 2:1 about a week ago. Did a screenshot when I had 2,000 comments and 1,000 likes. - joe is not going rogue... from iPod
SuezanneC, Brian, B E N and Joe - thank you all very much! - Micah Wittman
Joe, it's like see the odometer click through a nice round number - it's just inexplicably engaging. :) - Micah Wittman
1.40, nearly the square root of two. - Vezquex: God of FF
0.58 - Andy Bold
Thanks, Raphael and Andy! - Micah Wittman
1.15 (6777/5873) - JA Castillo
12.23 (844 / 69 ) I guess I take my likes seriously ;) - Chris Myles
1.63 - Serkan Mutlu
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
.87 - Nine
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
1.78 (8529/4782) - Micah Wittman
Likes are down relative to comments, which matches my much lower frequency of liking. I'm a more selective liker than ever. - Micah Wittman
0.9009 (6055/6721) - Jason Huebel
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
383/372 - ashish
'Just clicking "Like" seems too easy' — Jason, that's because you're from the Chatty-ite tribe :) - Micah Wittman
Thanks, ashish. - Micah Wittman
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
When I first saw this: 1.91 Sept 28: 1.94 - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
536 comments in the last month has me at .8736...still creeping toward 1.00 - Bren, Photophobe
Thanks, MiniMage (2x participant!), Bren (3x!) and Shannon (your inaugural visit!) - Micah Wittman
Thank you, SustainedEuphoria. - Micah Wittman
I 'liked" this to change my ratio! (1.22 1040/850) - Mark Jepsen
Thanks, Mark. - Micah Wittman
1.45 - Brett Kelly
Thanks, Brett :) - Micah Wittman
5.67 all time. Second highest ratio on here. Woot! I love to talk. - Kevin L
0.125, I need to talk more ;) - mridul
Thank you both, Kevin and mridul (the two of you balance it each well :) - Micah Wittman
1.80 (10,189 / 5,666) [compared to Likes, my Comments still continue to rise] - Micah Wittman
1.02 (10323/10161) - Bren, Photophobe
.5666 currently (30,084/53,093) - Alex Scoble
Thanks, Bren. - Micah Wittman
Thank you, Alex :) - 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, Sarah, Tutivillus. - Micah Wittman
1.19 - Joe Bonner
Micah this is like 11 months ago, I see you have almost doubled your rate. lets make a graph for everybody now, :) - Mahmood Padura
Quick, someone write a greasemonkey script to inline some google charts! (tap-tap-tap...wut? don't look at me ;) - Micah Wittman
Thanks, Joe. And you thank you, Mahmood :) - Micah Wittman
Thanks, Glen! Your comments in the ratio have gone up too. - Micah Wittman
1.70 (it was 1.41 on Jan 8) - WorldofHiglet
WorldofHiglet, thank you :) The comments are strong in this one. - Micah Wittman
0.64 (2,589/4,051) - Chieze Okoye
0.58 - Thomas Page
Chieze and Thomas - thank you! - Micah Wittman
*bumpage* - Micah Wittman
So, Micah, we never did find out what you were doing with this info.... - WorldofHiglet
2.21 (2,812/1,275) - Rene Wirtz
0.27 (5637/20234) - I only see a couple people lower than me. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)
4.06 (747/184) - Jan Ole Peek
WoH, World Domination. - Micah Wittman
Rene, John and Jan - thank you, all three! :) - Micah Wittman
2.74 (4,446 / 12,204) - J. Abdul-Qahhar
0.97 (6,694/6,929) - Jimminy
Thank you J., Jimminy and آقای تلخک :) - Micah Wittman
2.23 - Paola Bonomo
0.71 (8,200/11,551) updated - Michael Fidler
0.67 - Artemko
J. Abdul-Qahhar LOL 4,446 / 12,204 = 0.36 - Artemko
0.03 (284 / 10378)! - Daniel Rowley
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
*thanks Christopher thoroughly* - Micah Wittman
Anthony Citrano
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.
Now bring on the vodka. - Anthony Citrano from BuddyFeed
Cool, tell us more. - jcunwired
I'll drink to that! - Michael McKean
@jc that's about all there is to tell... so far, anyway. (still at the dinner) - Anthony Citrano from BuddyFeed
Give him a fistbump for me. :) - Yolanda
Okay, I'll give you that one. That is pretty effin' cool. :) - WorldofHiglet
Cool. :-) - Håkan Dahlström
Sweetness! Very neat indeed, Anthony! :) - Mathew A. Koeneker
pretty cool! - Josh Haley
Very Cool! - Michael Fidler
Nice ! Details man, details. Where was this ? - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Cool! - Nicholas James
sweet! - Jenny Morman
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
P.S.: I promised nuthin’ dude - 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
You're the coolest! - Shevonne
@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
Coolness, man, coolness :) - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Where can we read about it Anthony? - Charlie Anzman
@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
holy sylvia pawjoli (sp?) - anna sauce
You can shower, but only use your left hand. No, wait, that sounds wrong..... - WorldofHiglet
Awesome! Haven't yet met Obama, but meeting presidents is cool. He's one I hope to meet in the future. - Mitchell Tsai
key question - did you ask him about crotch grabbing? - Richard Lawler
@richard: working for Clinton taught me, at a fairly young age, to never ask Presidents crotch questions. - Anthony Citrano
where's the openness and transparency in that? - Richard Lawler
@richard: i'll try to do better. i let pragmatism get in the way. - Anthony Citrano
Clinton taught you about crotch etiquette? Wow... - WorldofHiglet
total Marcia Brady and Davy Jones experience! - metalerik
Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
I liked it, so I finally put a ring on it. - http://pikchur.com/Fz2
I liked it, so I finally put a ring on it.
Congratulations!! (if I am interpreting this correctly) - joey
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
Congrats!! - Internet's Tad
Congratulations Sheen. - Tsega Dinka
Congratulations to you both! - WorldofHiglet
Congrats!!! - RAPatton from iPhone
Very good, my dear Rah! - Derrick
Super wonderful congrats to you both!!1 - Helen Sventitsky
Congrats, Rah! - Pete Delucchi
Congrats to both of you, Rah! - Ha3rvey (Free hugs!)
Congratulations! - Spidra Webster
Congratulations!!! - Michael Fidler
Congratulations, Rah! - Micah Wittman
Congrats Rahsheen! - Hutch Carpenter
Congrats to both of you! - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Way to go Rah! Congratulations! - Steve
Nice work. - Louis Gray
Awesome... don't know her from Eve... But from what I've gleaned from you online. She's got a good guy. Congrats! - SAM
Congrats! - imabonehead
congrats then :) - webosapien (Burcu Tüzün)
Congratulations man :) - LANjackal
Congratulations, Rah! :-D - Kol Tregaskes
Congratulations! - Anne Bouey
Congratulations! ^__^ - अभिषेक(Abhishek) Das
"it" ? ;) Congratulations though ! - Thomas Bøhm
*wonders if he should put on leotards, a metallic hand and run up the wall...* Congrats man! - Johnny Worthington
Congrats man!!! - Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Congratulations!! :) - Emma
ویدا بیا برات حلقه ازدواج خریده دوستت :)) - Mil∂d
congratulations to you and, um, "it" ;) - Sarah's Got Talent
Congrats! - jbrotherlove
Congratulations, dude! - Daniel B. Honigman
Woohoo! Congratulations! - Ladybug Heather
Congratulations !!! - Eric Logan
Congrats! - Shevonne
Congratulations! :) - JA Castillo
Congrats. :) - Kevin Winn
Congrats! - MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
میلاد :)))))))))))) انگشترش رو دوست نداشتم نامزدی رو به هم زدم :دی - Viva Vida
Oh that's awesome!! Congrats! - Katie: Whelmed Overly
Congrats! - anna sauce
buahahaa!! you stoopid. - Baroness Von Cut-A-Bitch
Yay! Congratulations!! - Yolanda
Congrats, happy for you Rahsheen!!! - YoYo_P
Congrats, Rahsheen!!! - Live4Emma (L4S) from iPhone
Congrats :) - Rodfather
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
Woot! Congrats. :) - Jen (SquirrelGirl) from iPhone
Congrats! That's fantastic news...! - sean808080
Congratulations! Welcome to the ranks of those of us promised and intended to the love of our lives =) Aloha! - Arleen Anderson
woohoo! congrats! - Leslie Poston
Congrats, Young Sheen! - Bryan R. Adams
CONGRATULATIONS!!!! :) - Susan Beebe
congrats and good luck! :) - Tim Hoeck
Alright, Rah! Happiest best wishes to you both! - Ayşe E.
Congrats! - xero
Congratulations, Rahsheen and Trail! - Anika
Congrats Rah! - Justin Korn
woooooo hooooo! - metalerik
CONGRATS MAN! - AJ Batac
So very nice. Congratulations! - Martha
Hey, I just now saw this! Congrats to both!!! - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Congrats! - Nicholas James
Congratulations!! - Erica Thompson Briggs
CONGRATS!!! - David Cook
Congratulations!! - Harold
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
Congratulations! - Tracy Benham
Way to go... May you have a wonderful life together. - Mitchell Tsai
bump^2 - imabonehead
Mitchell Tsai
Yay! My astigmatism is gone. Went to my annual eye exam. For the 1st in 22 years, I have no astigmatism - just regular near-sightedness.
Never knew astigmatism can come and go. Good to know. And congrats! =) - ronin
Wow - Rodfather
Do you miss it? Do you want mine? (Just diagnosed with one this year after 19 years of just being near-sighted.) And this is how the universe keeps it balance? - SAM
Ronin: For the past 23 years, my right eye has been floating between -3.25 & -4.75, and my left eye between -2.75 and -3.75. The astigmatism ranges from -0.25 to -1.0 (Don't remember if it ever went over -1.0). Wish I were better organized. I don't know how much the astigmatism rotated over the years. Astigmatism started when I had a bad bout of manic depression in 1986. - Mitchell Tsai
SAM: How much is your astigmatism? - Mitchell Tsai
Just got 2 pairs of new glasses for $105.44 ($99 + tax) at Eyemasters. New lenses would have been the same price or more (so I got two $59.95 frames for free). - Mitchell Tsai
My friend Rani got her glasses for $5 in India. Wish I could get those prices. :-) Of course, $5 in India is one week's salary... - Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell, I had detectable astigmatism for about 4 years in my 30s, but it went away. - Ha3rvey (Free hugs!)
Ha3rvey: Did anything in particular help your astigmatism go away? In my case, it might have been weeks of scanning slot machines in the distance looking for 100+% machines. :-) - Mitchell Tsai
I have no idea what happened. Each exam, it went down. My optometrist just shrugged shoulders and said "it happens" - Ha3rvey (Free hugs!) from fftogo
I have astigatism as well, but I have no idea what state it's at right now - Shey, Jamaican of FF
wow i never knew it could go away! - Liz
Mitchell Tsai
As hotel room prices sink, quality of casino guests also takes dive [Jane Ann Morrison, Las Vegas Review Journal - 11/2/09] - http://www.lvrj.com/news...
As hotel room prices sink, quality of casino guests also takes dive [Jane Ann Morrison, Las Vegas Review Journal - 11/2/09]
The recession officially began in December 2007, and he noticed the change early in 2008, as room rates sank. "There are more cigarette burns on the carpet, more flat screen TVs broken, more holes in the walls." People are throwing things and breaking televisions that cost $2,000 to $3,000. Plus, there are more cases where security responds to domestic violence in the rooms. - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet
In March 2003, bemoaning that with war looming in the Middle East, the average Strip midweek room rate was down 24 percent to $104 and the average weekend rate was down 11 percent ... to $249. By the end of 2007, the average daily rate was more than $132. - Mitchell Tsai
Fast-forward to last Fourth of July, a three-day weekend, when the average room rate was just over $94, barely higher than the most recent average rates. This August, the average daily room rate was not quite $93, a year-to-date drop of 25 percent from last August, when it was $124. - Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell Tsai
Golden Nugget parent company agrees to buyout deal [Arnold Knightly, Las Vegas Review Journal - 11/3/09] - http://www.lvrj.com/news...
Landry’s Restaurants Tuesday reached a buyout deal with its top executive to take the parent company of the Golden Nugget private in a transaction valued at $1.2 billion including debt. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Tilman Fertitta had his offer of $14.75 per share in cash accepted by the company’s board of directors, a 37 percent premium on Monday’s closing price of $10.76 per share. - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet
Fertitta, who owns nearly 55.1 percent of the company’s stock, would acquire all shares of Landry’s that he does not own. The transaction is subject to Landry’s refinancing a portion of its $915.3 million debt load. Bond analyst Barbara Cappaert of KDP Investment Advisors priced Fertitta’s out-of-pocket expense to acquire the stock he does not already own at $108 million. - Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell Tsai
Their valuables gone, like their ladies of the night [Abigail Goldman, Las Vegas Sun - 11/4/09] - http://www.lasvegassun.com/news...
Their valuables gone, like their ladies of the night [Abigail Goldman, Las Vegas Sun - 11/4/09]
People in the company of Clark County prostitutes collectively reported having $1.4 million in cash and goods stolen from them during the first nine months of this year — dupes of a larceny genre better known to police as the “trick roll.” - Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell Tsai
Ohio casinos will mean competition for Pa., W.Va. [Gary Rotstein, Post-Gazette - 11/5/09] - http://www.post-gazette.com/pg...
Passage of Issue 3, as it was called in Ohio, is expected to lead to opening as early as 2012 of casinos providing both table games and slot machines in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus and Toledo. - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet
More affected than the southwestern Pennsylvania casinos, however, is MTR Gaming Group, the West Virginia-based firm that owns Mountaineer Casino Racetrack & Resort in Chester; Presque Isle Downs, an Erie County racetrack-casino just over an hour from Cleveland; and Scioto Downs, a Columbus harness track still denied the right to have slot machines or table games. - Mitchell Tsai
When Presque Isle Downs opened, officials said they were counting on Ohioans to make up at least one-fifth of their customers. The casino, which generated $13 million in revenue last month, already places eighth of the nine Pennsylvania casinos in revenue. - Mitchell Tsai
And at Mountaineer, where more than half of the customers come from Ohio, revenue was off 11 percent in the third quarter of 2009 from a year ago. - Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell Tsai
Red Hawk Casino manager cites results 'below expectations' [Sacramento Bee - 11/6/09] - http://www.sacbee.com/busines...
Owned by the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians. Red Hawk has underperformed since opening last December. Red Hawk cut staffing to around 1,500 full-time equivalent employees, down from 1,750 on opening day. - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet
Lakes Entertainment, based in Minnetonka, Minn., said operating earnings in the third quarter came to $723,000, compared with a $484,000 loss the year before. Net income totaled $2.3 million, or 9 cents a share, compared with last year's loss of $5.7 million, or 23 cents a share. Revenue fell to $6.6 million from $8.4 million, mainly because of a one-time gain in revenue last year of $1.8 million. - Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell Tsai
ChexSystems Consumer Assistance The Chex Systems, Inc. network is comprised of member Financial Institutions that regularly contribute information on mishandled checking and savings accounts to a central location. ChexSystems shares this information among member institutions to help them assess the risk of opening new accounts. - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet
Mitchell Tsai
Just got 2 pairs of new glasses for $105.44 ($99 + tax) at Eyemasters. NO Astigmatism for the 1st time since 1986.
I really wonder, sometimes... - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) from iPod
...about what? - Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell Tsai
What Are the Odds of Being Dealt a Royal Flush? [JOhn Robison, Casino City Times - 8/23/08] - http://robison.casinocitytimes.com/article...
What Are the Odds of Being Dealt a Royal Flush? [JOhn Robison, Casino City Times - 8/23/08]
How are video poker hands dealt? - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet
In Video Poker Mania, Dwight Crevelt says that all 10 cards that might be used for a video poker hand are selected when you press the Deal button. Five cards are displayed. The remaining five cards are used in one of two ways. One way is to keep them in a stack and cards are dealt from the stack to replace discards. This is called "serial draw." "Parallel draw" is the other method, the... more... - Mitchell Tsai
Video Poker Mania was published in 1991 and things have changed since then. - Mitchell Tsai
Fast forward to the late 1990s. In a presentation at a day-long seminar for slot operators at the World Gaming Congress, James Maida of Gaming Labs International (GLI) described a group of RNG cheats in the midwest. One of the people in the group was the son of a slot distributor, so he had access to the game EPROM and disassembled the code to figure out the RNG algorithm. With the algorithm, he was able to write an RNG simulator program. - Mitchell Tsai
When a video poker machine selects all 10 cards at once, a cheat has all the time in the world until he presses the Draw button to figure out what the five replacement cards are. The cheats played a few hands and entered them into the RNG simulator program, which had the RNG algorithm and was able to determine where the RNG was in its cycle. Once the program knew that, they were able to enter the five cards they were dealt and have the program tell them the five cards that would be used to replace discards. - Mitchell Tsai
Because of this incident, Nevada changed its video poker regulations to require that machines select five cards on the draw, continue cycling the RNG, and then select replacement cards only after the Draw button is pressed. - Mitchell Tsai
The Standards for Gaming Devices document on GLI's site implies that they prefer that video poker machines select replacement cards only after the Draw button is pressed, but that it is not required. The method used depends on the regulations in your jurisdiction. - Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell Tsai
3rd picture is a 10-Play Dealt Royal in hearts ( Video Poker ) The odds of a dealt royal flush are 1 in 649,740. I've seen two. Saw a 3-play dealt royal at the Orleans ($6,609.00 for a $3.75 bet) a few months ago. - Mitchell Tsai
Picasa Album is http://picasaweb.google.com/MitchTs... Slideshow http://picasaweb.google.com/MitchTs... This collection is of other people's hands that I saw during my last trip to Las Vegas (10/21/09-11/2/09). None of these hands are mine. - Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell Tsai
Contact improvisation - Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Contact improvisation - Wikipedia
Contact improvisation (CI) is a dance technique in which points of physical contact provide the starting point for exploration through movement improvisation. Contact Improvisation is a form of dance improvisation and is one of the best-known and most characteristic forms of postmodern dance. - Mitchell Tsai
The first performance work recognized as Contact Improvisation is Steve Paxton's Magnesium (1972) which was performed by Paxton and dance students at Oberlin College. Five months after Magnesium Paxton led the first Contact Improvisation performance series at the John Weber Art Gallery in New York City where dancers performed Contact Improvisation in marathon fashion on mats. - Mitchell Tsai
Job Offer [One project]: Lisa at Contact Quarterly (CQ) is looking for a web programmer for a project. http://ff.im/b6H9k - Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell Tsai
Any one looking for website work (Javascript maybe)?
My friend Nita Little is looking for her friend Lisa....She is trying to "struggling to bring CQ [Contact Quarterly] website into a new existence while getting ready to leave [on tour] ... etc. i may as well ask you: DO YOU KNOW a javascript programmer--web maker who knows advanced programming? if you do, please send a name...." anyone know of help for her? I will pass it on. Help will be greatly appreciated. Hope this note finds you all well. Thanks, Nita Nita Little (Nelson) nitalittle@me.com nlnel@ucdavis.edu nita@nitalittle.com www.nitalittle.com - Mitchell Tsai
Contact Quarterly is about modern dance...specifically the form called "Contact Improvisation" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... See http://ff.im/b6Hmg - Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell Tsai
Best Savings Accounts Up To 2.50% APY [Bankaholic - 7/10/09] - http://www.bankaholic.com/best-sa...
Bank of Internet USA jumped to the top of our rankings of nationally-available accounts by paying 2.50% APY on its Advantage Savings, with a $100 minimum deposit. - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet
Mitchell Tsai
Earn 2.25% With A Top Savings Account - http://www.bankaholic.com/earn-2-...
Earn 2.25% With A Top Savings Account
SFGI Direct, the online division of Summit Community Bank in Moorefield, W. Va., is paying 2.25% APY with a minimum deposit of only $500. - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet
Mitchell Tsai
Frontier Alone At Top Of 2-Year CD Rates - http://www.bankaholic.com/frontie...
Frontier Alone At Top Of  2-Year CD Rates
It did that by raising the best rate on its “Silver CDs” to 2.55% APY from 2.50% APY at a time most banks are lowering their returns. - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet
Mitchell Tsai
Secured credit cards with decent fees ($18-36/yr). Most charge $50-200/yr.
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Bank of America ($29 annual fee) http://www.financeglobe.com/Finance... $300-10,000 - Mitchell Tsai
National City Bank ($3/month = $36/year) heard about it in a branch. - Mitchell Tsai
Bankrate.com and creditcards.com are usually pretty good, but they are lousy at rating credit cards for people who need to rebuild credit. Fees to watch out for are (1) sign-up fee (2) monthly/annual fee (3) credit limit increase fee (4) closing fee - Some good info http://askmrcreditcard.com/secured... http://www.creditscoring.com/credits... - Mitchell Tsai
US Bank ($35 annual fee) http://usbank.com/cgi_w... 0% interest - Mitchell Tsai
Wells Fargo ($18 annual fee) https://wellsfargo.com/credit_... - Mitchell Tsai
Citibank ($29 annual fee) https://citicards.com/cards... http://www.bankaholic.com/finance... Only for people who've never had a credit card before. The CD has a 4.07% APY for 18-months. - Mitchell Tsai
Fifth Third Bank ($24 annual fee) https://www.53.com/wps... 0.15% interest ($1,000 = $22.50 cost) - Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell Tsai
National City Bank has a 3.25% + 0.15% Savings account for Ohio residents
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Read http://fatwallet.com/forums... and https://libertysavingsbank.com/savenow... While there are no minimum deposit requirements or fees for the use of the account, participants are limited to $5,000 in the average daily balance that may be credited the three percent interest rate incentive at the end of the program period." Therefore, on $5000 at 3.25%, that's a free $162.50 in interest. - Mitchell Tsai
National City Bank also offers $75 to people who open a bank account on-line ($150 offer requires that you have received a targeted promotional letter). https://www.nationalcity.com/persona... - Mitchell Tsai
The Treasurer is limited by section 135.63 of the Revised Code to investing no more than twelve percent of the state’s total average investment portfolio in all linked deposit programs, including SaveNOW. This program would be available initially on a first-come, first-served basis until $25 million of deposits are spoken for by participants. * While there are no minimum deposit... more... - Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell Tsai
iHome iH16 Portable Speaker System for iPod - $44.99 [Amazon] - http://www.amazon.com/iHome-i...
iHome iH16 Portable Speaker System for iPod - $44.99 [Amazon]
Some good reviews on this. Anyone tried it? MGM is offering this for 17,750 pts ($59.17) in their 2009 holiday shopping. http://holidaygiftshoppecatalog.com/catalog... - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet
Sold for $48.99 on eBay http://cgi.ebay.com/SDI-iHo... - Mitchell Tsai
The color, form and design looks cool to me. - TrafficBug
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