"i've wanted to do this for a while. i'm not a good singer, and it's ok. and this is how i look when i'm doing the just-ok singing. this is part of me dealing with all my faces."
- edythe
from Bookmarklet
thank you, mark and nia and jlt-j. brent, the sky is supposed to be on fire, but i forgot and mumbled. :) jlt-j: it's a warron zevon song that Jill Sobule does a beautiful cover of.
- edythe
I love this song :D good job! I like your faces
- comix aka martha
[applauds] BENNY THE CAB: Hey Roger, what do you call the middle of a song? ROGER RABBIT: Gee, I don't kn -- [sees that he needs to duck] A BRIDGE!!!
- Karim
*birthday bump*... One of my most favorite Polly moments ever
- MoTO Bott
Awww. Heh, Barry. If they ever made this into a single, you'd push it into some platinum list. :) ;) this is the only song I have ever sung and made sound reasonably good.
- edythe
from iPhone
"Bridge..." JUST LIKE JAMES BROWN!... *sigh*
- MoTO Bott
Hee hee, Barry. Now you're just buttering me up like a roll. ;)
- edythe
from iPhone
If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don’t want to do it. - http://rowlikeagirl.tumblr.com/post...
I agree, but I disagree with those who say compassion is taking someone else's wealth by government force and using some of it to help the poor.
- Kevin L
So, what then. Private charity? As the comment notes, that is exactly what is not forthcoming. And where would tithing fit in?
- Pete
I have heartbreaking news. I've been asked to relay that the amazing person we know here as carlotta fancypants aka extra super cutie passed away in her sleep in the early morning of Friday, July 23, 2010. I do not have many details to pass along. I can say she was not physically well for some time. I do know this world lost something and grew a...
Sad, sad news. One of the bright stars of my friendfeed experience, as I'm sure she was to all who knew her in real life. I hope that final dream was peaceful. Rest in peace, carlotta super cutie.
- JCunwired
from Android
Oh my God... :( I don't even know what to say. My condolences.
- Penguin
from iPod
I am so sorry…. My most heartfelt condolences to her family and friends. We were the most casual of acquaintances, but I always knew she'd make for a best friend. She was a lovely person and will be sorely missed. Farewell, Carlotta.
- Moody (Sweet FA 4 Life)
I was just looking at her flickr pics. She looks like she was a lovely person. I'm sad I didn't get to know her other than a few threads I remember seeing her reply to. RIP :(
- Tamara
This is clearly not my cat. If this was my cat he's have one arm shoved down into the printer trying to tear up all the internal whirling bits with his bare claws.
- Soup in a TARDIS
Too Funny! Reminds me of the San Mateo Cat Shelter where one of the cats loves to sleep on top of the laster printer where the paper comes out...
- Greg Lato
1600+ to beat the FFundercats live chat thread. I think with this real time now on all threads we're going to see some truly epic comment numbers.
- Simon Wicks
Ivan, no the picture speaks for itself. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Petr, I have no idea what you mean, but thank you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
@Kol .. :] that, partially, might have been the purpose.... I don't know it exactly either. :] .. was I reflecting on a cat under the fax, and that it is hard to fax that way ... /?:] ... "underfaxing at its worst" ..
- pb:
there ya have me ! :] .... see, to be honest with you, i saw this pic couple days ago, but i let it go, without posting it ..... what does that make me? :]
- pb:
even a flat cat... faxes just can't handle the hair. You'd have to shave the cat first, else the hair will burn and stick to the drum... a mess! (I am extrapolating from transparencies, mind, i don't have access to a cat to test)
- Iphigenie
Hehe, Joelle. This is now tied for the 'likes' top stop. One more then, hehe. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Hehe, Greg. Blimey! Erm, is that not far from 500 likes now? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Bloody marvelous, Kol. Wish I could like it again... too cute (and help u to 500 likes).
- Roberto Bonini
I couldn't believe it when I logged on from the morning over posting it and saw it was at something 200 likes! You all have a strange fetish with cats and fax machines, hehe. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Am I the only one who saw this and their first thought was - My goodness did someone break that cats neck? It still freaks me out a little
- SteVe C
Steve, it does look a little out of place, but cats are pretty bendy. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
They fax much better if you flatten them first. What?
- The original Kevin
So we can put this post to rest now. :-) 505 likes final count, wow! :-D Good night all!
- Kol Tregaskes
did 3 people really un-like this? now at 506. wtf (edit: uh, oh, yeah, me and 2 + 506 others makes 509. dammit, jim, i'm an artist, not a mathematician)
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
One of the best funny cat pictures I've seen! :-)
- John Collis
Kristian, it appears to be. Hehe, John.
- Kol Tregaskes
ای بابا این پیشول بی خیال نمی شود، بابا پاشو برو دنبال یه بازی دیگه ، از هفته پیش تا حالا تو فکس ولو شدی حوصله ات سر نرفته، پاشو اقلا بپر رو کیبوردی چیزی
- Maryaminaa
It's really only social convention which regards it as inappropriate, same with Xeroxing it, like one does with their b__tocks. Wait are we still talking about cats cats here or...
- sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!
OMGosh 700+ likes now!! LOL. Thank you all 702 of you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Just remember- this is not a competition, just an exhibition. @Kyle - ever been to Culver, IN? Grew up there before moving to Chicago.
- michael sean wright
Nice: I have been to Culver! You are in Chicago now? I will have to let you know next time I am up your way.
- Kyle Lacy
Not sure about that, but: "Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable." - Swatch, Always Now, 1997 (and yes my lunch, at 1:42am local, is consisting of a double martini so that actually makes some sense to me)
- David HC Soul
are you saying that time "now" has no meaning? i (obv.) reject this but toast your willingness to acknowledge the wisdom of a dean martin martini. now, for you sir, on to the work of most importance. focus on the permanent.
- michael sean wright
Well, I will grant that the sentiment of French Marshall Lyautey has some merit (he asked his gardener to plant a tree and when the gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years the Marshall was said to have replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!').... So I am off to plant some trees....
- David HC Soul
you, i like. and will point you to Hermann Hesse before he won the Nobel Prize for 'The Glass Bead Game' in which he wrote in in the idyllic poem "Hours in the Garden" (1936)- 'I hear music and see men of the past and future. I see wise men and poets and scholars and artists harmoniously building the hundred-gated cathedral of the Mind." - (forword to Glass Bead Game by by Hermann Hesse by Theodore Ziolkowski.)
- michael sean wright
Thanks for the pointer - I'll go search it out.
- David HC Soul
I hope so. The thought is consuming much of my waking hours these days.... But I have to be up in 5 hours... so will have to return to the 'nightcrew' tomorrow night. One thing about time is it does seem to age one....
- David HC Soul
sleep perchance to dream, a wise man said. Billy Shakespeare.
- michael sean wright
Then pause now to ask yourself the following question: "Am I dreaming or awake, right now?"
- David HC Soul
man, most of the ppl who liked this i haven't seen on FF in ages. maybe i'm doing it wrong.
- Joe The Sausage
for most of us we met here, stayed loyal here but the sun set long ago : ( what a rush of a time that was! now we find ourselves over at g+ telling stories of the good ol' days!
- michael sean wright
Meme-inless no more! always been an interesting world with you!
- michael sean wright
oh and... i do have some google+ invites left - email me nicefishfilms at g ma i l dot co m
- michael sean wright
I'm curious now - did google + make you come back to FF? Because that is v interesting.
- WoH: Minding her Steves
yes, we did the podcast when ff was acquired by the book of face.. watched them absorb the real-time elements and i check in from time to time usually through this post as it brings back very fond memories. google + reminds me of the early days of ff - haven't felt that way about any of the social nets that have come since the facedbooked swallow up. heaven knows we've been on them all and they seem so ancient now -- quora anyone? google got it right with +. think it marks the next era for them.
- michael sean wright
Google + right now does remind me of the FF glory days and I am curious to see what happens next.
- WoH: Minding her Steves
When I was in college, I took an expensive toll road to school (the toll was well worth the extra 20 minutes of sleep I could get). One day, the single-lane toll booth on the remote ramp to enter the road was jammed. #SaturdayFF
There must have been hundreds of coins piled in the catch bin, where people had tossed their coins in anyway. I sat there for a second, car idling, staring at the coins, mostly quarters.
- rowlikeagirl
Then, some primal, instinctive reflex took over my body, and I quickly reached over and scooped up as many coins as I could. And drove off.
- rowlikeagirl
I had never stolen anything before, and I haven't since. I cannot explain to myself or anyone why I did that. When I read about immature, teen criminals committing petty acts who say, "I don't know why I did that," I know how they feel. I do not condone their behavior, but I know what it's like to be taken over by a stupid, primal urge.
- rowlikeagirl
It was as though I had reverted to some caveman survival instinct. And it was completely out of character for me. I know it's not a terrible crime. But it was certainly a stupid one. I hadn't gotten up the ramp and onto the road before I thought, "WHAT DID I JUST DO?"
- rowlikeagirl
It was so dumb; there was a camera mounted on the toll booth. Again, it wasn't a serious crime, but I could have gone to jail.
- rowlikeagirl
A few years ago, I worked at a physical therapy clinic. One of the patients at the time was a young teen girl (I believe she ran track and was rehabbing a knee). At the time, we piled our purses and bags on the floor near a desk. My purse did not close, and my iPod was sitting near the top, where you could see it when you walked by.
- rowlikeagirl
Later that afternoon, I noticed my iPod was gone.
- rowlikeagirl
I recalled the last time I saw it, and my coworkers and I identified the patients who were in the office after the last time I saw it to the time I noticed it missing.
- rowlikeagirl
There were four to six suspects, but sadly, we all put the girl high on the list (a couple of the others were elderly).
- rowlikeagirl
The supervisor called her parents and asked if they had perhaps noticed their daughter with an iPod. The mom was a little put off that we would accuse her daughter of "accidentally" coming home with an iPod, but she said she would look around.
- rowlikeagirl
Sure enough, the mom found my iPod in her daughter's bedroom when she'd gone out with a friend. The mom called our office right away and said she was going to bring the girl in the next day to apologize to me to my face.
- rowlikeagirl
Long story long, they came in the next day, and we all gathered in a conference room: Me and my supervisor on one end of the table, mom and her daughter on the other. The girl bawled the entire time. When she was asked why she stole my iPod, she just kept shaking her head and saying, "I don't know, I don't know."
- rowlikeagirl
I cried for her. She was a good girl otherwise. I saw myself in her.
- rowlikeagirl
And you never got caught for taking the quarters?
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
Well, (small confession here) if this happened to be in Chicagoland, some of those quarters were probably actually Korean coins worth about 2 cents. I'm not admitting to anything, mind you... just speaking in terms of statistical probabilities. (They worked great, by the way.)
- Mark J
Stephen, I never got a call, ticket, anything. Perhaps the toll-booth camera wasn't working (which was very likely). I was very lucky. But you can imagine the stress and fear I went through the few days after!
- rowlikeagirl
OMG you were a little cutie! (sorry, wife and I are a little baby-crazy right now...pagans in spring who have to wait till after grad school to spawn and all that)
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
beersage, that seems like an unfriendly comment. is it?
- edythe
Yes we are, @beersage, and you bumped the post so everyone can look at us some more. Thanks. We love the attention. BTW, @beersage, you may not be aware but the reason this is "news" here is because we met through Friend Feed. Those photos are from the first time we met IRL.
- ·[▪_▪]·
These pictures were taken a year ago today. After meeting on ff and chatting for *many* months, we had our first "real" date on May 24, 2009. Happy Anniversary, baby. You've changed my life in the most positive and beautiful ways. Thank You and I love You. and again, many thanks to edythe for putting this pic and post together. :-))
- Anna Haro
"The new health care reform legislation is not perfect. Nothing that complex could be. But I have no doubt that the system is broken and reform is absolutely essential. If we are not going to have universal coverage but are going to rely on employer plans, then we must offer individuals, self-employed people and small businesses a place to purchase insurance at a reasonable price. If members of Congress feel so strongly about undoing this important legislation, perhaps we should stop providing them with health insurance. Let’s credit their pay for the amount that has been paid by the taxpayers, and let them try to buy health insurance in the individual market. My bet is that they all would be denied. Health insurance reform might suddenly not seem to them like such a bad idea."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Everyone in my family who's self-employed (including myself, my dad, and my mom, among others) has been denied, multiple times, for individual health insurance. We all want and can afford good health insurance, but we've had to rely on government-mandated high-risk pools to get coverage. I'd love to see congressmen to have to go through the same annoying process.
- Mark Trapp
Re: "uninsured patients are billed more than the rates that insurers negotiate with doctors and hospitals, and we wanted to pay those lower rates" -- the real data, as it pertained to Violet's birth, is quite stunning. http://friendfeed.com/tudor...
- Tudor Bosman
"While we usually think of gift tags simply as labels for the outside of Christmas packages, vintage style shipping and hang tags can play many a role in your holiday decor as well. Requiring little cash and even littler effort, hang tag decor is a quick fix for all you harried holiday-ers seeking something creative and festive on the fly."
- Anna Haro
from Bookmarklet
Bruce, I use faves sort of the way I use likes on FriendFeed – a way to show that I like a photo and a way to share it with followers here who might be interested in it. Even among my faves, there are some photos that I like more than others.
- John (bird whisperer)
Anna, I know it's an odd question. I have an unusually strong interest in the dynamics of photo sharing. John, thanks.
- Bruce Lewis
How can you not be a Charlie Brown fan? That's like saying: 'Oxygen? Eh, whatever.'
- Akiva
@Akiva... I grew up with "Mafalda" instead. Charlie Brown has never been really big in Colombia. I'm not saying I hate it though.
- Juan Pablo González
Mafalda! "So-sopita So-sopita!" (channeling my inner Guille)
- Betsy