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A 10 minute taste from the total 7 hours long travel from Bergen to Oslo, Norway, by train. http://j.mp/8Anlla - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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"A 10 minute taste from the total 7 hours long travel from Bergen to Oslo by train, through some of the world´s most beautiful scenery. Download the entire trip in HD at http://nrkbeta.no/bergensbanen"
- Thomas Bøhm
from Bookmarklet
I´d like to see someone download 7 hours of HD ...
- Thomas Bøhm
Btw I took this train about 10 times a year for 7 years when I lived in Bergen, and it´s still a nice calming trip to take if you have the time.
- Thomas Bøhm
Just in a nostalgic mood I guess.
- Thomas Bøhm
The cooking shows Perfect Day and New Scandinavian Cooking feature Norway sometimes but only a few minutes of scenery. This 10 minutes is lovely. Would love to have to whole 7 hours showing on the TV during Christmas Day. Thanks for sharing this, Thomas.
- Polly Potter
I have another confession: I still cannot get out of the habit of using Google Reader over feedly, even though feedly has been available in Chrome for several weeks.
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I just find GReader quicker due to th way I've set up folders in it.
- Kol Tregaskes
I only read parts of my feeds/folders now (as I just don't have the time to read all of it) and find GReader itself much easier to navigate around.
- Kol Tregaskes
Someone entice me to use feedly over GReader. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
not gonna be me ;)
- Kim
Hehe, Kim. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Ain't gonna be me either. The folders in GR help greatly because the content of some folders can be skimmed in list view since several feeds have duplicates in them. I tried feedly but soon turned back to GR.
- Polly Potter
What I really like about feedly is that I feel a lot less "unread guilt". The item count is in an easily-ignorable light grey, and a single click marks everything read.
- invariant - farewell FF
@kol: a lot of existing Google Reader users prefer the GR UI because of the ability to scan articles, feeds and folders quickly. A few leverage the live sync and use both (scan the digest and finish the heavy reading in Google Reader). Others are looking for a slower, more fun experience and prefer the feedly magazine-like UI. People who are new to RSS are often in that third category and those are the people we are going after.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
I prefer GR over feedly more now too....Feedly was killing Firefox for me
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
OK I think I've done a good bit this semester: new job title, building relationships for a learning commons, new work computer, 2 presentations, more presentations submitted, presentation accepted for ALA, new ILL page, applied for promotion, helped build a new webserver, work on mobile webpage, new askus page, new hours page, facebook page for the
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library...other papers, projects, etc. and most importantly met lots of new people here (hi!!) both IRL and online :)
- Sir Shuping
You deserve a break, Double S!
- Derrick
*awards gold star*
- marthalib
Also, it sounds like your newly defined job has been really good for you :)
- marthalib
What is your ALA presentation?
- marthalib
Martha the new job has been good and it also helps that my boss for the mostpart has really tried to stay out of the way of things. Presentation...I'll have to look at my e-mail to remember which one got accepted :)
- Sir Shuping
Well done, Sir.
- Polly Potter
One up: Shopping at Target yesterday, was delighted to find an absence of holiday music. Even more delighted to find an absence of any music. (Might be peculiar to our Target.)
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Walt, could you please arrange for this to happen in other stores and eating places and .... Thanks.
- Polly Potter
Srsly. Dude. Patent your music-suppressing skillz. You could make a MINT.
- D0r0th34
I'm pretty sure the new supertarget near me doesn't play any music. Also, in the freezer & fridge sections of the grocery the lights in the cases are on motion sensors. I thought it was really neat when I first noticed it.
- ÉllbeeÇee
i think it's all targets they don't play music except in the tv/music area
- Sir Shuping
Polly: Around here, some casual eating places aren't too bad. EllbeeCee: I seem to remember the same from Mountain View, so maybe it is one of the reasons I view Target a lot more fondly than "big-box retailers" in general. Dunno if we could deal with a SuperTarget--VERY big stores give us the urge to go elsewhere. (There was a Safeway in Redwood City that neither of us could stand to shop in; it was just too darn big.)
- Walt Crawford
I've never heard any music in the last several Targets I've been in, in several states. One of many reasons I heart Target.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Google confirm 1 as the loneliest number - http://thenextweb.com/shareab...
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it's also the most expensive number
- Morgan Haley
Three Dog Night did pretty well with it http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Polly Potter
that's sad!
- Ibrahim El Issaoui
Cittaslow - http://www.loe.org/shows...
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"A village in British Columbia has scored a North American first by becoming something called a Cittaslow, or Slow City. A Slow City is an offshoot of the Slow Food movement; it's a sort of quiet resistance to fast lane, drive-thru homogenization."
- Polly Potter
from Bookmarklet
"Cittaslow is an international network of 120 towns in 16 countries. It was founded a decade ago by mayors of some small historic towns in Italy, looking for a way to preserve their culture."
- Polly Potter
Hmm. That's the first I've heard of this. I've heard of Transition Towns, but not this.
- Spidra Webster
Has anyone here been through a home foreclosure? Has anyone declared bankruptcy? Would you be willing to talk with me about it privately? I'm there now.
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Among the property that you can keep in Texas: 2 horses, mules or donkeys and a saddle, blanket and bridle for each; 12 head of cattle; 60 head of other types of livestock; 120 fowl; and pets to $30,000 total
- Greg Guitarbuster
Greg, while I cannot help you with any advice on foreclosure or bankruptcy, perhaps others who are subbed to me will be able to share their perspective. Best wishes for strength and stamina for you and your family as you experience these challenges.
- Polly Potter
Bump
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
from iPod
Any help for Greg is apprieciated.
- Joe
Also soliciting help (through FoaF) for Greg.
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
Come on lawyers, don't be shy.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
from iPod
Greg, as I understand it, a bankruptcy often allows you to keep your house. Also, if you are in foreclosure, sell 1% to someone; it resets the clock. Your mileage may vary. I'm not an attorney and not a financial advisor.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
from iPod
Thanks everyone for your advice and support. I talked to my sister, the commercial real estate paralegal, last night and I've talked to the mortgage company's loss mitigation department this morning. They've sent a demand letter requiring 3 months payments. If I'm not current by the end of the year, the loan will enter foreclosure review. I'm not currently eligible for loan modification, but I can get my account current and they will re-evaluate.
- Greg Guitarbuster
I've launched my new blog!!! http://www.novaspivack.com/ -- still working out some kinks, but looks good. Thanks to @bjheinley
Is it just me or is the RSS feed hidden on Nova Spivack's new blog?
- Stephen Francoeur
Yup, Stephen. All the way to the bottom amongst the footer clutter. At least you don't have to search the About page to find it as I have seen on some sites. And if you click on the About page, nothing happens >:-(
- Polly Potter
Polly: I saw that RSS icon but there is not feed linked to it. If you plug the blog URL into Google Readers "Add a subscription" box, it too is unable to detect a feed.
- Stephen Francoeur
Blog. Home page doesn't show the orange RSS box in FF's address bar. Sorry, but that's a barrier to usage: Immediate assumption is that there isn't any RSS feed.
- Walt Crawford
Yep, Walt, I would think that would be one of the FIRST blog setup to-dos. Went into one of the articles and checked the RSS icon. Found this :http://mindingtheplanet.disqus.com/the_web...
- Polly Potter
Stephen, you are right - no link.
- Polly Potter
Odd Jobs that pay $100,000 - http://mona.posterous.com/odd-job...
Golf ball diver - not in FL, thank you, where the gators roam and the rattlesnakes float.
- Polly Potter
Oh jeez LOL I wonder if one would qualify for life insurance!
- Mona Nomura
Once the insurance company calculates the potential cost for replacing limbs, I doubt they would write a policy.
- Polly Potter
Ha... my grandfather used to do #2 on that list... back when it paid like 2 cents.
- SAM
SAM, if you are referring to cotton-mill operator, I was surprised about that one.
- Polly Potter
The Register has no taste for Google Kool-Aid: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009...
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"Google is even building its very own physical internet. We can safely say the company is building its own servers, its own Ethernet switches, its own underwater comms cables, its own worldwide collection of brick and mortar data centers, its own truck-em-anywhere-you-want-em mobile data centers, and perhaps even its own Data Center Navy."
- Polly Potter
"One of the great and strange elements of the Polonaise-Fantasie, one of its “themes,” is that the act of listening is woven into its fabric. Chopin wants you to listen–carefully! thoughtfully!–to certain sounds, certain pitches, certain moments; the structure of the story he is telling is utterly dependent upon this listening." - http://jeremydenk.net/blog...
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"One of the great and strange elements of the Polonaise-Fantasie, one of its “themes,” is that the act of listening is woven into its fabric. Chopin wants you to listen–carefully! thoughtfully!–to certain sounds, certain pitches, certain moments; the structure of the story he is telling is utterly dependent upon this listening."
- Polly Potter
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"So Chopin writes “enforced” listening moments into the piece–"
- Polly Potter
Found via http://bit.ly/8XkLD7
- Polly Potter
Welcome to Tennessee Truffle - http://www.tennesseetruffle.com/
1-3 ounces at $90
- Polly Potter
The Art of Science, the Science of Art - http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009...
"Recreating Nature in Glass - Looking Through a Glass, Darkly"
- Polly Potter
Living In Australia: 4 inch spider sitting on my driver's side window...
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Has it killed anyone yet?
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
No.
- Laura Lou Who
GAH!
- Mellissa Claus
FIRE LASERS!
- Mo Kargas
That is horrible!!! *runs away screaming*
- Rachel Lea Fox
from iPhone
It's good that it's on the outside.
- Ken Morley
That's what I've been saying.. AU equals DANGER!! Spider buh! Kill with fire!
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Where is your flame thrower?
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Fire quantumn torpedos!!
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
How dreadful.
- Derrick
They taste like chicken.
- Mellissa Claus
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *rapid footsteps, then a thump, as I run away and trip over my feet in my haste to escape*
- Bette Cooper
*cue looming spider shadow behind Bette* "YOU CANNOT ESCAPE, HUMAN"
- Mo Kargas
NNNNNOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mo, you are evil, and you must be destroyed. If I have spider dreams tonight because of you, I will use all the powers at my disposal and hunt. you. down. :-p
- Bette Cooper
*smokes cigar* Well, you're welcome to try. *rides giant spider into the night*
- Mo Kargas
OH NO WAY! I'm never coming there! :(((
- Rochelle
*sighs* Foiled by giant spiders and cigar smoke... for now...
- Bette Cooper
Objects in mirror may be larger than they appear...
- Ken Morley
@Rochelle Ohh you must. That's nothing! Wait to you see the other delightful creatures, like Australians themselves
- Mo Kargas
Nawwww, that's just a baby one :P
- Penny
With the exception of Jonney and his wife, Mo.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
Also, you guys drive on the other side of the road? I thought you drove on the American side. Huh.
- Rochelle
Right hand drive. The proper side to drive on.
- Mo Kargas
NOOOO. I'd have to go buy a new car. WHAT IF IT HAD BABIES IN THERE?
- Archangel ωαřмaiden
@Warmaiden Nonsense, they lay their eggs in your brain while you sleep. That spider is merely mocking us
- Mo Kargas
**dies** I hate you a little for that, Mo ;)
- Archangel ωαřмaiden
*bows*
- Mo Kargas
Dude...that's the passenger side...duh *ducks*
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
@Rah Can't you see the steering wheel ? ;D
- Mo Kargas
O_O OH HELLS NO. Getting my shotgun (Screams: "YOU EIGHT-LEGGED FREAKS!!!")
- Danny Minick
Nice - a huntsman perhaps? http://www.squidoo.com/huntsma...
- Ken Gidley
Ken, yep. That's them
- Johnny Worthington
I would literally....shit my pants.
- Charlotte M
I think I'd call Animal Control.
- Rochelle
@Rochelle I dunno, Animal Control here are actually the army. You wouldn't want your car shelled would you?
- Mo Kargas
When it involves a spider that big, hell yeah!! That's what insurance is for!!!
- Bette Cooper
It's that spider's face only Johnny can love.
- imabonehead
from Android
I mean seriously, are you sure there's even a car under all that spider... really? It's a monster!!
- Bette Cooper
Mo, if that spider was on my car, then YES!
- Rochelle
BURN IT WITH FIRE!
- Mary Carmen
damn i always thought florida was gangsta when it came to bugs, then i remembered you guys have them all. jeez
- Carlos Ayala
@Mo That's obviously some type of reflection of an optical illusion or something. LOL
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Looks a garden spider like we have around here. Just be glad it wasn't a wolf spider: those things will make you pee where you stand...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Did you tell him that unless he is chipping in for gas he has to hoof it?
- Joe Pierce
I'm never coming to Australia.
- Richard Lawler
First the kangaroo tried to drown a dog, then the camels took over town, and now a spider claims Johnny's car. I agree with Lawler - not going to Australia
- Polly Potter
*squeaks*
- Alix Whitmire
Actually the spider didn't bother me, it's the prospect of right hand drive vehicles that's unnerving.
- Richard Lawler
I once briefly thought about moving to AU, but your spiders quickly changed my mind. I'll stay in NJ, USA where they are much smaller and most are completely harmless. (I think we have only 1 rarely found poisonous spider here...brown recluse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...)
- April Russo (app103)
Hey cool - wonder if he is friends with the cockatoo I saw driving a car on Thanksgiving?
- Martha
Ella Fitzgerald, Rediscovered - ‘Twelve Nights in Hollywood’ - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
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"Verve has just released “Twelve Nights in Hollywood,” a four-CD boxed set of Ella Fitzgerald singing 76 songs at the Crescendo, a small jazz club in Los Angeles, in 1961 and ’62 — and none of it has ever been released until now."
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from Bookmarklet
The article includes full streams of 3 cuts from the release, too!
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
"There’s nothing rare about a joyous Ella Fitzgerald recording; the woman exuded joy in nearly every note she sang." Thanks for sharing this.
- Polly Potter
Be honest, do I post too much game-related stuff, too much GReader shares? Too much photography stuff? Or maybe not enough?
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The GReader shares are a little annoying for me, I wish I could pick and choose which ones come to FF.
- Kol Tregaskes
Nope, on all accounts. Keep it comin'
- Andrew Terry
I've been tempted to turn off GReader shares as I try and share my favourite articles directly to FF anyway. Any other improvements needed on my FF feed are most welcome. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
You can. Unlink the gReader from FF and just use the "send to" option.
- Jeremy (cropmarks)
Confession: I skim your FF postings inside GReader so I can skip the games-related stuff which has become too much for me. List view in GReader helps me find your FF posts I want to respond to or follow links you provide.
- Polly Potter
Jeremy, too much work. I just want a tickbox when I share on GReader to toggle posting to FF or not.
- Kol Tregaskes
Write a chrome extension.
- Jeremy (cropmarks)
Love both of them (photos&games) so they can never be too much:) The toggle option on GReader sounds nice, though I don't mind reading the shares twice.
- Citronella
Polly, that's fair enough, I share a lot on GReader, less so on FF but the FF shares won't decrease. I might drop GReader on FF. List view in GReader?
- Kol Tregaskes
Not on FF, Facebook? perhaps
- Matthew DeVries
Some of your posts are dupes of some of your pvs posts, but I don't mind. Let's just say you are very prolific!
- rowlikeagirl
List view: GReader gives a choice of seeing entries in List view or in Expanded view. Some folders I use List view so I can skim while in other folders I change to Expanded because I want to see more than the title line. BTW, I use Firefox, not Chrome, with the Better GReader extension.
- Polly Potter
Polly, oh I know what you mean.
- Kol Tregaskes
I have the Better GReader scripts/plugins in Chrome. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
rowlikeagirl, yeah I don't like the dupes. I wish I could avoid them.
- Kol Tregaskes
I don't mind anyone sharing a lot of anything. It's the long individual items ( usually multiple photos photos ) that taking so long to load that makes reading difficult. Keep the items coming KOL.
- Wallace Lockhart
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Information obesity - http://www.starchamber.com/2009...
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"It occurred to me that I was suffering from information obesity. Prosperity has caused most of us to go from problems associated too little food to problems associated with too much food. Until you adjust to the change, hoarding and binging can make you fat, sick, and miserable. Once I started thinking about information the same way, I could just picture the greasy fat folds in my brain."
- Michael Nielsen
"... greasy fat folds in my brain." Yes.
- Polly Potter
Incidentally, there are strong developmental links between fatty acid supply and brain folding - e.g. http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/ftp... .
- Daniel Mietchen
Google Reader Embraces Favicons. My Eyes Scream For Mercy. - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
This is actually kinda helpful.
- Jeremy (cropmarks)
from Bookmarklet
What do favicons do for you, Jeremy?
- Polly Potter
On my reader, if I'm in a hurry, I'll just glance at a particular publishing site and the favicon will speed that up.
- Jeremy (cropmarks)
Why American Consumers Will Spend Lavishly Again - http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/cs...
$425 for a handbag? "But what makes it valuable for Susan is that it contains the idea of who she wants to be." Accessories are where you get your ideas of who you want to be?
- Polly Potter
I hope this isn't true, and I'm not convinced by the argument, but... if it is true, then we're in for another bust & credit crisis just down the road.
- Walt Crawford
The deprivations experienced in the 1930s and 1940s did not put any brakes on the spending sprees in the 1950s and beyond so I suspect as soon as people get over the scare, many will start back down the road of big debt.
- Polly Potter
What was the last movie you can remember seeing in the theater?
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new moon!
- Jenna Bilotta
Precious, 2 nights ago.
- Benjamin Golub
ditto Jenna
- Kevin Fox
Calypso Dreams at the Oakland Film Festival. Prior to that nothing since Harry Potter and the Half Blood Price.
- Spidra Webster
Men Who Stare at Goats
- John Wang
The Fourth Kind
- Yolanda
Transformers
- Mo Kargas
Sweeney Todd.
- Rochelle
new moon.
- Rachel Lea Fox
A Serious Man, two weeks ago.
- Stephen Mack
Yep, Rochelle and I went to see Sweeney Todd. Before that I saw There Will Be Blood with some friends. Going to the cinema is such a painful experience that I rarely ever go anymore. I do plan on going to see Avatar if I can get my friends to do all of the hard work of making it happen.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Julie & Julia. Wow, I could've sworn I've been to the movies more recently.
- Penguin It's Cold Outside
Yeah, I'd go to films in the theaters more often if people had manners anymore.
- Spidra Webster
bugs life
- VAL D. Zone
I pretty much go to every big blockbuster...
- Bindu Reddy
Up.
- ha3rvey (just a friend)
X Games 3D
- tab thinks you're awesome
Batman
- Davis Freeberg
Hm, I don't remember.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Transformers 2.
- jcunwired
I got this one. We took our kid to see Monsters vs. Aliens for her birthday. Before that it was Spiderman or Dreamcatcher. Both were a waste of money.
- Admiral Anika
I think District 9
- Rodfather
Transformers 2
- Kenton
Wolverine I think. (man I got to get to the theater more)
- Dario Gomez
i remember district 9 - it was a première and i got a cool tee!
- barbarars
Titanic
- ashish
planet 51: revenge of the predictable animated crap sacks
- Morgan Haley
The Fantastic Mr. Fox.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Transformers.
- Mona Nomura
Men who stare at goats.......... not good memory.
- Pokai
Uncertainty, a week ago. It wasn't /bad/, but not great.... I mean, the second best thing I can say about is, is that it rarely seems like the dialogue was improvised. (The best thing I can say is that the cinematography is terrific.)
- Andrew C
Where the Wild Things Are
- Ken Sheppardson
This is It
- Richard Lawler
The third movie in the Bourne trilogy. It was awful.
- Polly Potter
Star Trek (this past summer)
- Molly, "sorry"
Star Trek.
- Michelle Martinez
Where the Wild things Are. Before that... uh... Moon. (The sam rockwell indie sci-fi film, not the new moon twilight thingie)
- veo
Drag Me to Hell. (at least until Thursday)
- aden
Star Trek. And my roommates had to force me to go. The moviegoing audience is so awful anymore that I refuse to go unless a film really grabs me. I'm content to wait for things to hit my premium satellite channels instead. :-/
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Hannah Montana The Movie. AND I LIKED IT! LIKED IT, I SAY! ^_^
- Ron Bailey
Star Trek (the newest one)
- April Russo (app103)
We went to the Toy Story & Toy Story 2 3-D double feature. Before that, Ponyo. Next will probably be The Princess and the Frog. All our base are belong to Disney.
- Alix Whitmire
UP
- Rasmus Lauridsen
2012
- Jemm
Zombieland
- Amber, Random Time Lord
Swing Time, just 73 short years ago.
- j1m
Ninja Assassin! Before that was Inglorious Basterds.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Toy Story 1 and 2 in 3D.
- Derrick
ditto Jenna and Kevin.
- EricaJoy
Inglourious Basterds, in October. Christoph Waltz better win an Oscar.
- John Craft
New Moon... My wife dragged me to go see it and even though it was really cheesy in a few places I don't feel like I wasted my money.
- Jason Williams
Definition: Wabbit - http://sianthom.blogspot.com/2009...
"Some days I'm feeling better, then seem to relapse into feeling "wabbit" (a wonderful Scottish term for feeling exhausted and unwell and nothing to do with Bugs Bunny, nor indeed Jonathan Ross)."
- Polly Potter
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You can use a frying pan as a snow shovel but it's really just designed for bacon #socialmediamusings
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Cast iron frying pans make good hammers for flattening chicken. Of course, you have to learn how much whop equals the right width.
- Polly Potter
:)
- Johnny Worthington
Or eggs
- Mo Kargas
Google Reader needs filters, particularly for shared items. For example, I subscribe to both Louis and Jesse so I really don't need to see when they share each others' posts. Every. Single. Post....
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NTTAWWT
- Ken Sheppardson
... or is there? ...
- Chris Heath
That feature would help a lot with duplicate shares from Rob Diana and Louis.
- Polly Potter
I Always Push Clients "Completing A Disagreeable Job Today Replaces 24 Hours Of Dread And Worry Into 24 Hours of Relief And Accomplishment."
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Hi Polly. Yes this is a great regular realization isn't it? :-)
- Alexander Kitingan
So, Alexander, why do we have to learn it and then relearn it? We know the sense of relief and accomplishment ... and forget that sense later when we return to "dread and worry" mode.
- Polly Potter
As The Present Is Always Perfect Then One Must Dig Into What It Means To Always Return To Dread And Worry Mode. Without Sufficient Support Structures In Place To Alter Patterns Of Behavior It Is Easy To Stifle Ones Progress. Some Times A Strategic Kick Up The Backside Regularly Tweaks Progress. This Combined With Actual Paying Of Money To Generate The Feeling Of Serious Commitment Can Work Wonders. Commitment Without Cash Signals There Is An Easy Way Out.
- Alexander Kitingan
have accepted the job
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Where will you be working?
- Greg Guitarbuster
London! I didnt really want to move to London but after months and months I must admit that a)i dont want to just freelance, i cant be motivated by that - I want a team and to do something big b)i dont have my own idea so better work for a while for someone else's idea c)i wont find a good job for my profile outside London, I'm either "too big for the job" or "not the right profile"...
more...
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
awesome!!!! Lucky you - congratulations!!
- sofarsoShawn
Congrats, Joelle!
- Micah Wittman
Thanks everyone - it will be a change of pace!
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Congrats, Joelle!
- Andrew Terry
Cool. At what company? And when will you start there? Change of pace -> less friendfeeding probably. ;)
- Meryn Stol
actually I havent been online much this month, with a trip to London and a trip to Switzerland, so it wont be much less than that :)
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Yay!!! congratulations, wish you success!!!
- A.T.
Congrats
- Rodfather
great! having a good team around is like nothing else.
- 9000
congrats!!
- imabonehead
Congratulations, Joelle :)
- Baard @ Pixum
Hooray, Joelle. Best wishes.
- Polly Potter
finding a place to live will be a challenge it seems - people already tried to scam me!
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
I'll wait for the contract to be checked and signed before i give too much info
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
all signed, so no risk of jinxing things I hope. I'm joining Optaros (optaros.com) - somewhere where I can keep my open source hat instead of having to focus on a particular proprietary product.
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Welcome to Optaros! (Sorry if this comment double posts - not sure why it failed the first time). I'm based in Boston but often in the UK - look forward to meeting you at some point.
- John Eckman
Hello John, nice to meet you and thanks for the welcome
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Ok I have now created an Opteros list on FriendFeed. :) Is there a Opteros employee list on Twitter?
- Meryn Stol
Five reasons why you shouldn't leave XP just yet - http://broadstuff.com/archive...
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"1. XP does the job. It ain't broke, and you know how to use it. 2. You've already paid for it, its fully amortised 3. You just know that Windows 7 will release Service Packs 1 and 2 in the next few months, why be part of the free test cycle? 4. It will come bundled cheaper in the next tin you buy"
- Polly Potter
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meh...i would say that would have been the case with vista, but windows 7 i think is going to take off pretty fast. companies that didn't upgrade to vista i get the feeling may do so with windows 7
- Sir Shuping
If their computer hardware is strong enough for Win7's demands, Sir Shuping. If the companies have a strong scheduled replacement plan they've been following, then I agree with you. So many are trying to make do with what they have because upgrading means dollars for hardware and software.
- Polly Potter
We have already budgeted going from XP to 7 for our whole firm next quarter.
- Alex Scrivener
Impressed, Alex.
- Polly Potter
There are probably five reasons not to do any new thing. I'm sure there are more than five reasons to stick with CRT displays, five reasons to use IE rather than FireFox (and five reasons to use IE6, not 7), five reasons to use Lotus 123 rather than Excel or OpenOffice. I'll take Vista over XP any day of the week (and have been using it happily for more than a year on a cheapo notebook PC)--and I'll move to W7 real soon now.
- Walt Crawford
+1 Walt
- Curtiss Grymala
Jiminy. I'm wondering in which universe an 8 year old heavily patched OS is better than anything. How did we get here? How did our expectations of technology fall so low? Sure, we should no doubt use XP rather than 7, but let's realise our catastrophic impoverishment. [end of rant]
- winckel
Power and Money: IGCC and the myths about “clean coal” « It’s Getting Hot In Here - http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2006...
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There is nothing redeeming or sustainable about IGCC “clean coal” technologies. Imagine if we had an economy based on clean renewables – what kind of “environmental” group would support a fossil fuel-burning industry? We need to stop letting corporations rule the frame and the rhetoric. It isn’t “cleaner,” it’s “less filthy/deadly.” Also, we are running full speed ahead towards peak coal! And coal-burning is invariably poisoning our air and water, and adding to serious and immediate global warming problems. The money and resources being directed towards “clean coal” are squandered. If we hope to really slow global warming, we have got to get these (dare I say it) anti-youth folks to get their heads around solutions: conservation, efficiency, and wind and solar. Otherwise, what a waste of valuable time and money! There is no clean, safe way to mine coal. There is no clean, safe way to burn coal. There is no clean coal. There is only filthy coal, and filthier coal.
- Meryn Stol
And the cleanup from coal ash spills is costly and very difficult: http://bit.ly/1aaMFi
- Polly Potter
Seeking a little motivation.
come watch my cats for a few minutes, that'll motivate you...or make you tired that they have that much freaking energy
- Sir Shuping
Here ya go: http://bit.ly/4goo4N Hope it helps.
- Polly Potter
Cool, Polly. :)
- Laura Lou Who
Not pumpkin. Not apple. Not even blueberry. Chocolate Chunk Pecan Pie, anyone? | King Arthur Flour - Bakers’ Banter - http://blog.kingarthurflour.com/2009...
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Elli, M F, Rasmus Lauridsen and 11 other people liked this
"Wait a minute. It’s less than 2 weeks till Thanksgiving. Shouldn’t I be seeing a pumpkin pie here? Well… yeah, if you’re totally wedded to tradition. And admittedly, this is the time of year when many of us are. Grandma always made pumpkin pie. Or Mom always bought Mrs. Smith’s frozen apple pie (and passed it off as homemade by “distressing” the edges). Whatever. If it’s your family tradition, it’s a comfortable raft to cling to. Then again, as Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” Which to me, translates as “Let someone else bring the darned pumpkin pie. I’M making Chocolate Chunk Pecan.” And I have, for the past five Thanksgivings at my brother-in-law’s. And you know what? It leaves those other Thanksgiving regulars in the dust. Especially when I set the Ben & Jerry’s Vanilla Bean ice cream alongside. Have I convinced you? DARE you go beyond pumpkin? If so, have at it: Chocolate Chunk Pecan Pie may just become your new Thanksgiving must-have."
- Katy S
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My mom used to make a chocolate pecan pie. Honestly, it was kind of heavy and not that great.
- D0r0th34
I've made one in the past that was heavy, too. This recipe is a lot different from that one, though, so I'm willing to give it another try. EDITED TO ADD: The main difference is that this one doesn't include corn syrup. I think every other fudge pecan pie recipe I've seen uses it.
- Katy S
My mom makes these in a bar every christmas. They are my favorite, but I can't eat more than one at a time!
- Mickey Schafer
Okay -- grammatically ambiguous. My mother does not bake in bars; rather, she bakes in the form of bars, a kind of pressed cookie (according to Betty Crocker).
- Mickey Schafer
Had to laugh at this in the post - "DARN, forgot the melted butter! Back goes the filling, into the bowl. ADD the melted butter." And the pie crust looks like I made it :-) Thanks for sharing Katy S.
- Polly Potter
i have one from southern living that is chocolate pecan bourbon... mmmmm... more pecan-like, only a small amount of chocolate chips... mmmm
- Christina Pikas
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library does something similar - http://www.dollysimaginationli...
- Polly Potter
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