Had an accident today, I'm fine, but here are the details that I have in hi-definition slowmotion except for the last second. I got called by grandfather to help set up a printer for his brother-in-law.On my way I lost control of my vehicle on some loose gravel on a curvy one-lane road, rock embankment on oneside, 500-600 foot drop on the other.
I managed to avoid hitting the bank in the first turn, then ended up preparing to go over the edge on the next turn. However, I saved myself yet again, but rear wheels were still sliding out over the edge, so I nailed the gas to keep from slipping backwards. As the rear wheels hit the lip the immediately accelerated me and further exaggerated my over-steer, propelling me into the bank going sideways. Car ended up facing about 150 degrees from the direction I was initially heading, on impact at which point airbags deployed, passenger bag cracked windshield, and rearview detached and gashed my ear.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Thank God, noone was coming around that second turn, most likely we would both be dead, or at least me, the angle of the vehicle means the driver side section would have been crushed.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Yeah, I don't know if I want to deal with any tech call's anymore, lol. Totalled my car and my left arm is a bit sore, in the wrist area, WoW'ing will be decreased as will time on the net in general, I need to live in the real world for a while.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Thanks guys. ( Gus ), the amazing part is I was only going about 25mph when it occured, GRAVEL IS EVIL. ( Anika ), yeah all bruising except for my left arm I'm missing about 6-7 layers of skin over about a 2in x 2in spot right below my wrist, the gash on my ear, and a very peculiar friction burn on my right pec, caused presumably from the seat belt, but left no damage to my shirt.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
James I'm not tired this happened an hour and a half after I got up, and I feel energetic I'm kind of afraid to go to sleep because of the stiffness I'll feel tomorrow.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Here are some images that show the majority of the damage outside of my arm. http://ff.im/7diAZ It's all pretty minor to some of the stuff I've seen in the past.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Wow, that's intense. I would've been petrified. Glad you came out of it with as little injury as you did!
- Jandy
Jandy, I got out and continued up the hill for about 5 minutes before I realized I could call someone. I was dazed. Finally called my mom and she made me go back and make sure noone else hit it.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Sounds like your good driving saved you man. I don't know whether to say you were lucky (to not be badly injured) or unlucky (that it happened) either way I am glad to hear that you are ok.
- Matt G
A buddy of mine got pulled over in his Porsche 911 many years ago doing somewhere around 130mph and was amazingly let off with a warning. A week later he totaled it doing 27mph when he chose the wrong time to try to shift, spun on gravel and off the road he went. gravel=evil.
- Robert DeBord
Holden, WV isn't that scary to drive through, I'm really thankful for my job now though, have plenty of experience driving. What part do you go through?
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
That's terrifying. I'm so glad you're okay.
- joey
Yikes, Jimminy! Very glad to hear you're OK. It's amazing the clarity w/ which you can remember those details in slo-mo, isn't it? Try to take it easy for a couple of days. Give yourself a chance to really recover.
- Ayşe E.
Ayse, I have a very strong visualization and memory ability, seeing someone in real-life I can occasionaly get a very accurate image of what they look like when they were younger, when compared to images, also have been able to enter and memorize lucid states for several years. The slo-mo was very different though.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Thanks everybody. Micah, I am too, changes your perspective a bit. I was really close to losing it.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
I'm so glad you came out of that alive. Sounds incredibly scary and harrowing.
- Spidra Webster
Yikes. Could have been a lot worse, glad it wasn't
- LANjackal
Thinking about it it's kind of like the story of Friendfeed, going along smoothly then it lost control when it was acquired by FB, and it regained a little bit of control but we still don't know if it's going to be able to make it around the next turn. No one has a clue yet.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
I’m inclined to think that using web services as omens for your life is a poor idea, lol
- LANjackal
from IM
It's not an omen, just noticed a similarity, though exaggerated. Also, the last line is great. "We still don't know if it's going to make it around the next turn.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
LOL, Ahsan, I guess I got a raw deal then. No I lost about $7000. Dammit, I screwed up somewhere I guess.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Sheesh, that is pretty steep...
- Ahsan Ali
from IM
Yeah, It goes up to about 1200-1400 at the top of the hill, I was just about half way up. Oh, the price, I totalled my car and have to pay medical bills, out of pocket.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Hope you're not too sore in the morning!
- Anne Bouey
Going 25mph and your car is totaled? Wow! That is some wicked gravel! Good that you're okay!
- Fajar Nurdiansyah
Fajar, I don't know how fast I was going when I hit, I was going 25 when I hit the gravel and had to accelerate to get my rear wheels back on the ground in the second turn, unfortunately I wasn't think as I did this that the car was All wheel drive, as soon as the rear wheels hit the ground, It fired me right into the embankment, so I hit at about 35-40mph, I guess.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
So your doing it rally style? Good thing that can instinctively drive yourself out of the 500 foot drop.
- Fajar Nurdiansyah
Fajar, yeah rally style, with out the jumps, and flipping when I hit the bank, though it was a near perfectly vertical rock where the road was carved in the side of the mountain. I was actually in an Impreza.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Good grief! Sounds like you were very lucky to walk away from that one. Glad you're ok!
- Andrew Terry
This is the closest thing I've found to my accident, everything over the dotted line was the drop off though, and the road wasn't quite that straight, so that turn back he does I was entering the second turn. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Wow! You've got my respect brother! Make sure you keep the scar, chicks digg scar -- or so they say lol
- Fajar Nurdiansyah
I have plenty of scars, there just in places you can't normally see. Armpit(fish-hook), head(triple-cracked skull), abdomen(hernia), the only one I think may stick with me is the damage to my ear and that won't impress anyone, or maybe the deep friction burns on my chest.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Holly shit! I'm glad you're ok man! That's one hell of an accident!!!
- David Cook
You can now get a daily or weekly email digest for anybody's feed on FriendFeed. You'll get a daily or weekly email with the most popular posts from that person's feed. To get the email, click the "Email/IM" link at the top of anyone's feed, and select the "Best of day" or "Best of week" email option.
Thanks to Kevin for doing a great design for what turned out to be a more complex set of UI options than we had originally anticipated, and thanks to Tudor for implementing the email backend.
- Bret Taylor
I now get the FriendFeed Feedback posts as a Best of Day email so it doesn't fill up my feed, but I don't miss feedback. I also set up a "Best of Day" email for my "Technology people" friend list so I get a pretty good overview of tech news every day via email.
- Bret Taylor
This is a really cool idea Bret, I wish you can make that an RSS feed option as well. I'd be much more likely to read summaries in RSS than in email.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Casey: Thanks for the tip. What's the 7 before the "?" mean in the URL? The number of likes or replies needed to be included?
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
this is killer, the random influx of email during the day was kinda getting fail-ish. I love the daily digest.
- Drew Lucas
Very cool! Any way to get archives of previous months? (especially helpful for those of us who leave the internet for weeks at a time...)
- Mitchell Tsai
Just curious - at what time of the day will we get these emails ? Midnight US-Time, or will it respect our timezones ?
- Ahsan Ali
Ahsan: it is somewhat random right now when the emails are sent, but we built in the backend capability to control what time they are sent, and we plan on exposing that control to users in the future. Right now, it is kind of random - sorry!
- Bret Taylor
But what exactly is "Best"? Is it anything that has a certain number of likes/comments?
- Laura Norvig
@Bret LOL THAT WAS MY PROJECT! I will release it tomorrow. But you've also did it and killed my friendfeed application **sigh** But mine has multi-reporting weekly-daily-monthly at the same time and adjustable entry count!
- Alp
@Bret please consolidate me or I won't code new apps with you api! :-)
- Alp
Alp: we were not trying to withhold data. Later today the documentation will be updated to reflect the ability to obtain "Best of" for users. The feed id will be USERNAME/summary/N (similar to "Best of" for lists)
- Benjamin Golub
Hi Ben, that is pretty funny, I tried that URL earlier today to see if it has been secretly released :)
- Paul Kinlan
Bret: While Twitter struggle to keep their fail whale under control, you guys are developing stuff like this. Amazing - Thanks!
- Jim Connolly
awesome feature, this will be highly useful for my corporate group ideas / content sharing; projects, etc.... THANK YOU :)
- Susan Beebe
Great work. I especially like that it works on lists too.
- Meryn Stol
my inbox might say different, but I like that :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Wow, this is really neat! And it links into the idea I expressed earlier, re: reducing signup friction / enabling limited guest privileges. Imagine if I could embed one of my FF rooms on my personal web site, and enable people to subscribe to that feed by e-mail with just a couple of clicks... rather than saying "you can get e-mail notifications but you have to sign up for Friendfeed first." "sign up" -- though admirably lightweight on FF -- is still a huge barrier.
- Adam Lasnik
is there a love button cause I dont like this option I LOVE this option..great work guys
- (jeff)isageek
Three options I would like (1) Can I select "top 100" instead of "top 30"? (2) Could I select both "best of day" and "best of week"? (3) How about older timeperiods? I'd love to get an e-mail with stuff from last week or Mar 2009? Start & end dates? Anything to help me read FriendFeed off-line would be great since I spend long periods off-line at festivals (especially during summer time) or overseas. - Awesome job guys!
- Mitchell Tsai
So this works on groups too, cool! But we still cannot see Best of for groups on the site on friends lists. :-( I have several friends lists that include just groups and when I select to view the best of the page it's empty (even though if I got to the individual best of for those groups there are entries there).
- Kol Tregaskes
does anyone know of a web service that can do this? (I'm thinking weekly email updates of my favorite feeds/people) I don't think there's anything like friendfeed ..
- Friendfeed's Francisco
Stephen, very happy to see new features like this, but I think the "death" part is the major users reducing their activity. I'd love to see some support from Facebook in promoting FriendFeed more to encourage those users to go back. Or maybe they don't want to? Regardless, bonus for me! Thanks Benjamin - you're awesome!
- Jesse Stay
Jesse, fair enough but major users always did come and go. Some of the departees who left said they were doing so because there was no new development. Clearly not all development is halted. Last week Paul hinted that FF may receive a major new feature, and characterized his participation as "20% time" -- I'll take that.
- Stephen Mack
I backed down off the all caps. The group "best of" is really useful, love it.
- Stephen Mack
Stephen, I agree - I'd just like some confirmation that Facebook cares about all this so I can know whether to focus my efforts on Facebook or FriendFeed or both.
- Jesse Stay
I noticed the best of on the iPhone the other day, wrote it out on a cake and then ated it.
- Josh Haley
Jesse, I think you should focus where your users are focused. What do SocialToo users want? But if they want Facebook focus, you should still keep an eye on FriendFeed, since the future Facebook will look a lot more like FriendFeed.
- Bruce Lewis
Paul Buchheit said the FB acquisition was attractive because of shared vision/direction. I would be surprised if a lot of that vision wasn't already embodied in this product right here.
- Bruce Lewis
not enough, best of day should be like a stream that can be traced back
- ffcode
We've known for some time that "Glee" diva Rachel (Lea Michelle) was raised by an adoptive, interracial, same-sex couple named Hiram and LeRoy. - http://social.entertainment.msn.com/tv...
That will all change on Feb. 14. TV Line reports that Jeff Goldblum and musical-theater vet Brian Stokes Mitchell have been cast as Hiram and LeRoy and will make their debut appearance during the show's Valentine's Day episode.
- SteVe C
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I still think it is odd that you met her surrogate mother two years before you meet her dads, but I'm a little psyched about the casting.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Are Goldblum and Stokes-Mitchell the ones who featured in the flashback/photo of her dads early on (episode one or two I think)?
- Soup in a TARDIS
I doubt it, Soup. I'd love to see those images though.
- Derrick
Can You Guess What McDonald’s Food Item This Is? Say hello to mechanically separated chicken. It’s what all fast-food chicken is made – things like chicken nuggets and patties. Also, the processed frozen chicken in the stores is made from it. Basically, the entire chicken is smashed and pressed through a sieve — bones, eyes, guts, and all. it comes out looking like this. There’s more: because it’s crawling with bacteria, it will be washed with ammonia, soaked in it, actually. Then, because it tastes gross, it will be reflavored artificially. Then, because it is weirdly pink, it will be dyed with artificial color. But, hey, at least it tastes good, right?
- Houston®
Obama bans ‘downer’ cows from food supply - Health - Food safety - msnbc.com / The recall also raised concerns about the treatment of cattle and came after an investigator for the Humane Society of the United States videotaped workers abusing downer cows to force them to slaughter. - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id...
"WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Saturday permanently banned the slaughter of cows too sick or weak to stand on their own, seeking to further minimize the chance that mad cow disease could enter the food supply. The Agriculture Department proposed the ban last year after the biggest beef recall in U.S. history. The recall involved a Chino, Calif., slaughterhouse and "downer" cows. The Obama administration finalized the ban on Saturday. "As part of our commitment to public health, our Agriculture Department is closing a loophole in the system to ensure that diseased cows don't find their way into the food supply," President Barack Obama said in his weekly radio and video address. Those kind of cows pose a higher risk"
- Friendfeed's Francisco
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"Sexual pleasure among young adults (ages 18-26) is linked to healthy psychological and social development, according to a new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The study is the first to use a representative population sample of heterosexuals to find a relationship between key developmental assets and sexual pleasure."
- Lit
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Then somebody should research for people aged 26 & above!
- Avinash
Tanıştırayım, Bulgaristan'dan hemşehrim... Dünyanın en büyük toplarından birisi benim memleketimden çıkmasa şaşardım zaten. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
aynı zamanda tarik mengücün de idoludur kendisi.. ben seviorum sarkilarini aslinda yahu. ayrica gelin itiraf edelim, poposu da güzel.
- azuth winchester
Fatih Ürek ile Tarık Mengüç çifleşirse böyle bir şey çıkar ortaya sanırım :D
- ~Gaykedi~
fatih ürek'i bilmiorum ama tarik mengüc ciddi ciddi idolum diyor..
- azuth winchester
bi tane bulgar arkadaşıma dedim ki bak bu sizin ordan çıkmış..adam benle kavga ediodu nerdeyse kaçtım ordan direk!! (poposu güzel evet...)
- depphavok
bir kadın olarak azisten ogreneceim turlu bastan cıkarma numaraları olduunu sezdım bu sagdakı fotodaki popoyu yukarı kaldırmadan hahahaha
- senem
Dinleyelim bari. Bu arada yukarıda sayılan isimlerin hiçbirisini Azis kadar başarılı bulmuyorum yaptıkları işlerde. Kendisiyle tanıştım yakından o kadar da korkunç değil merak etmeyin ((:
- iwfx!
şu şarkısı çok hoş: http://www.youtube.com/watch... ama tipten kaybediyor :D ve sanırım evet eminim rol yapıyor adam bu sayede meşhur oldu, demekki dikkat çekmek için böyle garip garip şekillere girmek gerek :)
- Efe Dincer
"And your pronunciation’s OK When you correctly say croquet, Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve, Friend and fiend, alive and live."
- Friendfeed's Francisco
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enséñale cómo se pueden hacer Max Steels con resina ;) co$to aproximado: 400 pesos por todas las formas que imagines.
- Friendfeed's Francisco
from Bookmarklet
"When I saw for the first time a photo on the barracks suburb of Taichung in Taiwan, I thought it was founded by the members of the native tribes descending into the city from the mountains of central Taiwan, and they filled the walls and streets of the neighborhood, resembling the recently demolished Beijing hutong’s, with their traditional tribal motifs. Although already at the first glance some of the patterns showed signs of a peculiar acculturation."
- Maitani
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"Just later I learned that the village was built on the then outskirts of Taichung for the soldiers of the National Army saved from China over to the island in the late 1940s. In recent decades the city embraced it all around, and some years ago it was doomed to demolition by the city council. The protests of the local families were given a peculiar shape by one of the first...
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- Maitani
"To make your own fizzing sidewalk chalk you need: A container of baking soda 1/2 cup of cornstarch Warm (almost hot) Water Food coloring Mix the dry ingredients and then add water stirring until its not too thick. I think we used about a cup, but I am not sure. This paint dries very quickly – but washes off with ease!"
- Friendfeed's Francisco
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This is an early preview of our new website. You are seeing only some of the planned features and content. New things will continue to roll out—and your opinion matters! Learn more about our redesign. Check back often to see what's new! Featured Reference & News The Khyber Pass Cuts through a War Zone Photo Painting the Golden Gate Photo Mount Fuji: Symbol of Japan Photo
- Friendfeed's Francisco
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