Gotta love the comment by Francis Burdett: "All I really learned from that series of images is that Gmail Labs, product manager Keith Coleman is _seriously_ cute. I mean LOOK at the boy." - Ocean
Can't believe this "evolution" was so diverse and less evolutionary (in the conventional sense). There's little resemblance in UI between the several snapshots. Seems to me that several mini-revolutions took place in Google Labs :) - Jagtesh Chadha
The photography is pretty good, but I think you've got to hand it to whoever was driving... - Brad
Haha. Yeah, I was really trying to capture the excellent skills of the driver in the photograph ... but I guess the reflections of the sunset and palm trees kind of got in the way of that. ;) - Ocean
Kevin: I was thinking a concept similar to this would be great just today. (Yeah, that's the ticket) Great work! Another thought is a tab where you can see only the comments and likes made by your friendfeed subscriptions. Not their posts, just their likes and comments. (I'm sure this may already exist, and I expect Lewis Gray at any time to bring me down to size and enlighten me :-) ) - Chris Reed
Kevin, will there be a directory of public rooms? - Mike Doeff
This is awesome! How do I change the icon for the room? I can't seem to find that under "Edit room settings." - Jason Chen
I was just thinking this AM that friendfeed needed something analogous to Flickr Groups and pools. cool. - bernie
Woohoo! I'd love to be able to specify where my imported items show up ... like my personal photos and Gmail status updates to these particular rooms, and my blog to my public feed, etc. - Ocean
<?php echo "Jason Chen's question about the icon and Mike Doeff's query about a directory..."; ?> - Voyagerfan5761
Darick, that's on our wishlist too :) - Paul Buchheit
I wish items in rooms were shared as usual unless specifically hidden (unless the room is private). The rooms mostly correspond to topics, and that's great for active content discovery, but without the usual sharing my friends don't get to discuss the content with me. Passive content discovery is one of FF's big strengths, but the current opt-in model of rooms doesn't help. And, you know, while discussing Obama with the enthusiasts in Obamamania is nice, I want to discuss stuff with my friends. - j1m
+1 for that, pretty please. (Super-Hide should have a "everything in this room" option, naturally.) I think that's a much bigger deal than a room browser. A room browser will have trouble scaling, but "which rooms are my friends active in" would be a very friendfeedy way to navigate the space. - ⓞnor
Interestingly, while Satoru swears by "八分目", Nori says that it's "七分目". The latter is closer to the Chinese proverb, "七分飽" . A Google search for both shows that there are about twice as many results for 七分目. But I guess it all depends on your own internal gauge of fullness anyway. ;o) - Ocean
Of course less than a day after this post I went to Brazilian BBQ with my gf. Yet we both ate more vegetables than meat, and left decidedly not stuffed. Imagine going to all-you-can-eat Brazilian BBQ and getting hungry again a couple hours later, with no stomach-aches or "I'm so stuffed I want to die" feelings. It's quite nice. - darren
No way! That must not have been Brazilian BBQ. Can't trust those Chinese people ... ;o) - Ocean
Admittedly, it wasn't very tasty, and this played a large part in the non-stuffing. =P - darren
She just had finals last weekend. Now that school's out, I find her humming the tune that use to drive her nuts because they played it over and over at the cafe she used to study at ... - Ocean
Really tasty ... a little sweeter and smoother than the usual. But it's really the thrill of ingesting something that's already been ingested by a weasel that's cool. - Ocean
Yum. I've yet to find a place in SF that I like more than Los Charros. - Ocean
ha, i've heard about the burrito pipeline. :) - edythe
If you are ever in Salt Lake, check out Lone Star Taqueria. Everyone else will tell you to go to Red Iguana but they are all so very wrong. Lone Star also has the advantage of being just a drunken stagger from my house. - Kevin D. White
“Got myself out of a speeding ticket tonight... going twice the speed limit. Didn't need to cry, whine, or even try. Cop just let me off with a warning!”
Nice job Ana. I used to get out of speeding tickets fairly often by politely asking for the most expensive non-moving violation ticket. I wouldn't often get the most expensive, usually something like a seat belt ticket. - Robert Konigsberg
In response to all the people giving me flack about how I must have flirted my way out of it, it's not true! The cop was female, and I admitted to driving too fast :) She was very nice about it all... even told me to not keep my car's title in the glove box. Now, I must go get that title before some FriendFeed user decides to steal my car! Then again, has anyone ever *seen* my car?... no one would want to steal that thing... - Ana
John: I don't think Ana even has Obama stickers on her car. Something about not wanting to tarnish his image by associating it with her driving style. :-) - Kevin Fox
I've gotten out of at least 3 speeding tickets, and I'm not at all cute like Ana. It helps to be honest and admit upfront that you were speeding when the cop walks up to your window. I think they're mainly looking to catch drunk drivers. - Thai Tran
"Masataka Kinashi, the head of the tourism association in Usuki and a fugu dealer himself, suddenly stared down at his desk when asked about the widespread sale of fugu liver.
“Officially, you can never eat it here,” Mr. Kinashi said. “Well, it’s not that you can’t eat it, but, no, you can’t eat it. That’s the only answer I can give you.”" - darren
I tried fugu once in Japan. It was overcooked and extremely salty. Total letdown. I intend to go to a fugu-speciality restaurant next time I'm in Tokyo. - darren
"A few paddleboarders ignored posted signs warning that a great white shark still could be lurking below the surface Saturday, just a day after a swimmer was killed in a rare attack near San Diego." I guarantee you the word "dude" was used at least 10 times as they were paddling out. - darren
"Gatorade is Major League Baseball's "official sports drink." So instructions were sent that no player could be seen drinking anything but Gatorade in the dugout. Not even Aquafina, which is the "official water" of MLB. Not even bottles of water with the labels removed." - darren
I can't believe someone else saw that movie! It was indeed incredibly dumb. The article also reminds me of a different movie/documentary we saw recently: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt03... - Ocean
Oh _that's_ what Brawndo is! I must have totally wiped that from my memory. I'm getting thirsty ... - Ocean
Okay Paul, I admit I am going through some serious culture shock here, and the movie's pure, unbridled stupidity was very welcome and at times hilarious. Yay American culture. =) - darren
Drinking Darick's 3rd attempt. It's good! I'm going to have to think of revising my "List of things I can do better than Darick".... but nothing beats someone waking you up in the morning with the aroma of good coffee.... mmm... - Noriko Yatsunami Tong
Haha. It'll be a while before you can take cappuccino-making off of that list, but I'll keep trying. :o) - Ocean
