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
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" ..
- Petr Buben
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? :]
- Petr Buben
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)
- Joelle Nebbe (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?
- Kevin Pedraja
So we can put this post to rest now. :-) 505 likes final count, wow! :-D Good night all!
- Kol Tregaskes
My like is the last one so far :) - 509 afaik
- getalifejerk
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...
- sofarsoShawn
OMGosh 700+ likes now!! LOL. Thank you all 702 of you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
"The Volkswagen Microbus is a classic - even to those of us born after its time. Arguably unlike the newly remade Beetle, this remake of a VW classic is remarkably true to the original on the outside - but on the inside it is a bio-diesel hybrid stuffed full of high tech gadgetry and eco-friendly innovations."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
Super cool VW Bus making a comeback...
- Walt Ruppar
First of all, I'll cop to wanting one of these. That being said, Jason is right. This is for rich hippies (who probably aren't hippies at all). The VW microbus became the darling of the Flower Power crowd because it was cheap, easy to repair, and big. You could camp in it. Is there a car today that fits this bill?
- Chris Baskind
wow, you can buy an awful lot of pot with $129,000.
- Thomas Hawk
I don't know a self-respecting hippie that would prefer this over a really nice indoor greenhouse. ;-)
- Chris Baskind
@Chris, Most cars today aren't as simple, but with the wealth of knowledge online, it just takes more time. The minivan/SUV can become a camper van with a few mods. They'll never take the place of the VW, but they're an updated version of the 70s panelvan conversions (hopefully without shag carpeting & a disco-ball).
- Steven Cains
Nope: there will never be anything that simple again. That's not all bad: I can't imagine a 1960s VW Minibus would satisfy *any* federal safety standard these days. You're right. A used minivan might be the closest thing.
- Chris Baskind
Very Cool. You can't drive your house but, you can sleep in your Van !!!
- Eric Logan
Very intriguing. How much steel is in that thing? Chris, that would be my next question after fuel consumption: how safe is this thing? And I agree, when we can go back to making transportation that costs less than a small home, we may have achieved something amazing. ;)
- Melanie Reed
However, I have heard (and I'm not remembering where at the moment) that there has been a movement growing of people seeking alternative housing and substituting things like this as the new "mobile" home.
- Melanie Reed
Everyone is loving this! We should have an FF one and use it to travel to all the FFers around the World (like Pea seems to be doing ;-)). Hehe. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
cool idea, kol. the ff-stream of this tour would be alltheawe. just imagine the photos.
- esther ♥ ♫
I've owned 5 VWs, two of which were split window vans. I'd love to have another, this is awesome!
- Rick Bucich
from twhirl
I have had more VWs than other cars...starting with a 71 Superbeetle, and a Split Window Microbus. I would LOVE to have something like this.
- Kreg Steppe
Good for grandparents to visit grandchildren and children through the European continent (or another one as well)...nomadism-revival!
- Isabelle Ayel
wow i posted this a while back and now can't seem to find it for some reason. friendfeed's search function really sucks!
- Cee Bee
So after reading this article yesterday, I found myself this evening in front of a local place that specializes in reconditioning old VWs. It was closed, but there's an awesome red and white microbus out front with a For Sale sign on it. Ugly, underpowered -- and probably dangerous, by modern standards. Want. ;-)
- Chris Baskind
Cee, really? I find FF search is pretty good.
- Kol Tregaskes
I love this Mobile...owned a few Vdubs, lived in a VW camper, but this is off the hook..I would become a true nomad with this...
- bcultral
I'd like to have something like this, something small. What do you really need? A bed, perhaps a TV and room for your computer. Then you can live anywhere you like, in theory.
- Kol Tregaskes
Who is this Canadian designer Alexandre Verdier? Seems like he is on Facebook, Linked In but I can't seem to find anything else about him.
- Brian Sullivan
We had a wesvalia built Micro when I was a kid. I loved that thing. It was a little flimsily built; but boy it was perfect for my family of campers and road-tripping warriors. Too bad this one is so pricey
- Bill Rawlinson
Yeah, i search my mail boxes for it a while back, marked it in my iphone calender, and it went off this morning :)
- Simon Wicks
Happy FFBD! I have no idea when I signed up!
- Janet
Is there any way of finding out apart from the email? I can't find mine.
- Martin Bryant
No idea. I cant even find the email now, maybe i trashed it :(
- Simon Wicks
I know it's my 4th birthday on Last.fm next week, but they display it on the profile. It not really important, but it makes you realise how fast time goes...
- Martin Bryant
my last.fm 4th year is in October, it actually seems more than that on there though.
- Simon Wicks
Happy FFbirthday, very glad to see you all
- Manuela
Just checked my Wakoopa stats on friendfeed, which i started using well after i signed up here, still interesting to see its this high though: '6 days, 22 hours, 58 minutes and 49 seconds' Tracking started: 21 October 2008. 3rd most used thing with Firefox and MSN Messenger beating it. Not including times like now when im not on my computer..
- Simon Wicks
Don't argue with Grampa (Louis) Gray. He started it back when iPods still had those circle dialy thingamabobs.
- Josh Haley
And don't forget the variation for the night crew with the N and C sign afterwards =) Josh, no lie, I was thinking of exactly this last night. Get outta my head!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Tina..I'M IN UR HEADZ, MAKNG U FEEDZ FRENZ
- Josh Haley
We throwing up signs now?!! It's Like That?!! hahahahaha!!!!!
- Anna Haro
I am SO not an expert on signs. My fingers can barely bend enough nowadays. Just trying to get some ideas out there. Let's see some more from everyone. Rahsheen's fault, he brought it up last night on a video.
- Josh Haley
Those first two will make people think you are throwing up "Bloods".
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
I think the only course to go here is to pick something directly from sign language.....I don't want anyone to bust a e-cap in my ass
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Monique - THANK YOU for that because I would never know. I too am not in need of a cap-busting.
- Josh Haley
If you want a real ASL sign, let me know what word/words and I'll find it!
- Rochelle
Rochelle, One for friend, feed and confess(ion)
- Josh Haley
That's nothing like the Blood sign (which is the coolest gang sign ever). Working from that, can anybody spell "feed" with their fingers? The night before the inauguration someone managed to spell "OBAMA," it was beyond awesome.
- Lo is not learning
And I think I'm going to rain Haggis.
- David HC Soul
It takes six cups of grains to make one cup of flour. That's good eatin!
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
- Mattb4rd
One time, when I was 11, I got 20 dollars in the mail for no reason at all. That was a good day.
- ♥patricia♥
There seemed to be a rainbow over her head, regardless of the weather. She never wondered why (she never knew why (she never wanted to know why (she never wanted to know anything (she never wanted anything (she never anything (and she never was))))).
- Doğaç Yavuz
melting in the dark, the sweet green icing flowing down, someone left the cake out in the rain, I don't think that I can take it. Space shuttle.
- David HC Soul
"And then," Ramses blurted, "blathering blatherskites!" The nervous crowd immediately burst into rambunctious laughter, mostly from fear of conflict with the sommeliers behind them.
- grant fox
And then turned to him and said "Just don't tell your mother, OK?"
- MikeAmundsen
The blue tree wimpered softly as the scarlet wind played with the speckled fruit on the knotted remnants of its once strong and proud branches.
- David HC Soul
This might come as a shock to you, but bananas are actually blue. The reason they appear to be yellow is that yellow isn't really yellow. It's actually blue. That is not to say that yellow doesn't exist. It is just that yellow and blue never really reached a consensus regarding who will be what.
- Vijayendra (V-Mo) Mohanty
Like you said, it looks better in pink, but still I'm not sure if the ball should be more square or does it matter if it rains in Austria. Definite maybe.
- Jemm
Hold on a sec - my keys are in here somewhere.
- Kevin Johnson
I'm looking for a different internet service provider. I have DSL, having problems with it, checking out cable or wireless... Anyone have any insight on this??
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Not quite, according to one Emmet, and I quote: "Lest the impedance rises up to unmanageable levels the capacitor flux must be discharged periodically by rubbing a gray, green-eyed cat. Why? Because other colors of cat are forbidden by Quantum Chromodynamics."
- Andrés David Aparicio
from email
I'm beginning to think there's something wrong here.
- s t e v e
been watching for almost 9 hours and it still hasnt loaded make it stop somethings broken ctrl-alt-delete cmd-shift-w ctrl-y crtl-z
- ha3rvey (doesn't dance)
this is starting to really piss me off, wtf like how fuck'n big is this son of a bitch file? Fuck this ctrl+alt+del adios MOTHERFUCKER!!!!!
- sofarsoShawn
HEEHEEHEE!!!! I got my partner with it!! HEEHEEHEEEEE!!!
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
r u sure , they are done in pencil ?? The jpeg has some strange watermarks within.. need to scan the raw exifr data within the jpeg. I am doubting that this is pencil only !~
- Peter Dawson
searcing for a specialist to decide that those are fake or real drawings :)
- Burçak Çubukçu
Peter can I send you some of the originals? We might as well find out the truth. I'm curious about a couple of them.
- Michael Fidler
I'am a sceptic. If those are real drawings. Somebody has to prove it. Is there a video link that some one actualy draw one of these for instance?
- Burçak Çubukçu
Just to show you Burçak, that I'm curious about the truth also, I've done a little investigating myself. I found the original picture from which the Jesica Alba drawing is copied. http://bit.ly/gAXX
- Michael Fidler
how'd you get Johnny Depp to sit still for so long?
- Nathan Rein
Michael, I do belive in "PHOTOSHOP". Anyway thank you for your efforts.
- Burçak Çubukçu
Burçak Çubukçu I think I'm leaning a little in your direction now. After overlaying the two images, they're practically identical. There is a tiny difference on the ruffle of her dress, but otherwise they are the same. To be honest, they "could" be photoshopped!
- Michael Fidler
ok Jessica Alba's could be a drawing...
- Burçak Çubukçu
drawing photo-realistically isn't hard when you're copying a photograph. they're probably real but not really art. Just great artistic skillz.
- JoEllen
Naturally the celebrities had to come from some type of original work, and a photo is the most likely candidate. I am starting to notice some small texture differences, especially in the one with Johnny Depp. BTW, I found the original for that too. It's on the cover of the DVD for the movie.
- Michael Fidler
@The Other Brian (Norwood), You cold be right, and perhaps that explains why some of the detailed work was left out on the Johnny Depp piece. Here's a link to a few more, which are more obvious, but still came from the same set http://bit.ly/tklrX
- Michael Fidler
I own a book called "How to Draw Lifelike Portraits from Photographs" by Lee Hammond. It shows all the techniques and phases of creating something like this in pencil and graphite. So... Yes, it is possible. If you ask me, though, this is an artform best left to the ADD set.
- Angela
Kol, I can't thank you enough! Kol found a different posting, which proves these are all pencil drawings. I had my doubts about a few of them, because they were collected from several locations. The site Kol found has done a wonderful job pulling together an even more impressive collection .Take a look. http://www.flickzzz.com/2009...
- Michael Fidler
No worries, Michael. :-) Shame we couldn't find all the artists.
- Kol Tregaskes
Thank's James!!! Actually I've been waiting for two month's for someone to bring these back up. Since I posted them in March, I've not only discovered who all three of the artists are, but found some new one's as well. I'm going to look for info on the artists, and post it. Could you please pop-up the other one as well? I would prefer to post it there. It's the one with a bear, lion, and I believe a tiger on it. Thanks again!
- Michael Fidler
James, I just saw the post you left on the other set. Sorry I missed it. For the record, I always knew that these were copies of photographs. I ran them through TinEye before posting anything in the hopes of discovering the artists. In the comments, several people correctly pointed this out as well. However, it still doesn’t diminish the quality of the work.
- Michael Fidler
Thanks Eren and muratkgirgin! Please feel free to recommend more to me ; I'm exploring your culture and language and I'm eager to know more :)
- directeur
@directeur - Yeah, that's all me. And a whole lot of FX. I wanted to create something aleatoric but cyclical and rhythmic all the same.
- Christopher Harley
like like. one of the greatest composers ...
- Onur Gündüz
I found this video : http://www.youtube.com/watch... while searching for Erkan ogur on youtube. this is not exactly folk but they are both great musicians. It is great to listen Erkan Ogur with Yavuz Cetin: one of the greatest guitarists in turkey. btw yavuz Cetin jumped off bosphorus bridge few years ago.
- Onur Gündüz
Christopher, you really can be proud! I loved it! :)
- directeur
Erkin, Burak and Onur, Thanks a bunch for all these information! I feel at home with you guys! Really thanks! :)
- directeur
have you listened to baba zula, I l dig these guys, looking forward to the next month gig
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
[art]attack is a weekly show featuring some of Hong Kong’s local artists’ specialising in painting, sculpture, photography, installation and mixed-media.
- Kimber Scott
Really Thanks for sharing ! We're New Company in Hong Kong ! Thanks for support! ~!
- art_attack
You're welcome. Your site looks very interesting!
- Kimber Scott
from email
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- پـرستووو
from email
People say I'm an extremely picky eater. They confuse my strong revulsion and opinions about certain items as being "picky". That is not my problem. These are the things I won't eat:
Chocolate items I don't make. Total snob about where I get my chocolate from. I won't eat brownies, fudge, chocolate cake or chocolate frosting.
- Admiral Anika
Peanut butter. I'll eat a PayDay, but PB sauces or peanuts in my food = GAG.
- Admiral Anika
Fruity meat dishes. I don't like sweet meats.
- Admiral Anika
Pancakes. This actually is a childhood block. We had to eat them so often when my brother was little because it was the only thing he would eat.
- Admiral Anika
I guess Anika will be taken to a restaurant if she ever visits my home.o_0 Peanut butter is closest thing to heaven!
- Janet
Coconut. It smells like suntan lotion. I will use a little coconut oil in some dishes, but if it's not Thai or Malaysian food, I won't eat it.
- Admiral Anika
How else do I describe that? Orange chicken is wrong. Raisins in food is wrong. I used to cry picking raisins out of my biryani when I was a kid.
- Admiral Anika
Now I want oatmeal with walnuts and coconut and raisins.
- Christopher Harley
Yeah. This certainly isn't picky. I can't believe anyone could ever make this mistake.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I won't eat cole slaw unless I make it. No one else does it right.
- Admiral Anika
Just curious Anika, how many times as an adult have you retried these things? Sometimes it takes a mature palate to appreciate.
- Janet
Alfredo will be glad you've spared his white sauce.
- Christopher Harley
I just don't like guacamole. Everything else I eat with the abandon of a man released from prison due to his conviction being overturned on DNA analysis.
- Derrick
And the reason I say I'm not a picky eater is that with the exception of Vietnamese food, I'll eat food from anywhere on the planet. I have friends who think it's strange that I eat sushi, Middle Eastern or African food. They can not get their heads around the fact that Cuban food is not the same as Mexican food. They say that I'm "inventive" when it comes to my dishes because I use fresh veggies/herbs instead of canned or dried ones.
- Admiral Anika
Janet, with the except of oatmeal, everything I've listed above has been served or offered to me within the last week. Still nasty.
- Admiral Anika
Okay, you are not 'picky' but per se a food snob? j/k
- Janet
Calling Anika a food snob is not fair to REAL food snobs!!!
- Christopher Harley
You must have been frequenting a LOT of potlucks if you've been served or offered all of the above within the last 7 days.
- Rochelle
I've met toddlers less fussy when it comes to food.
- Akiva Moskovitz
The only food I avoid is one prepared by minimum wage employees.
- Christopher Harley
When I first met Adrian 10 years ago, I would not eat fish. In my world fish was served two ways: fried to death or grilled with butter. He got me to try it again and I'm glad he did. Now, I eat all kinds of fish, even sushi. He could even tell you how when he first introduced me to sushi, I would eat albacore and unagi. Now, I eat just about everything except for uni & tako. Oh and mackerel...too fishy.
- Admiral Anika
Anika, that's not so bad. I think I have some acquaintances who could give you a real run for your money when it comes to "pickiness".
- ha3rvey (doesn't dance)
How about "only eats fried chicken and hamburgers"? Every. Stinkin'. Day. Won't eat anything green. Has two kids.
- ha3rvey (doesn't dance)
Potlucks, Rochelle? What? Anyway, thank you Harvey. I feel the same way. One of my friends who makes a huge production out of "let's cater the menu to Anika" even though I have no problem picking stuff out of my food and NEVER say anything rude when it's served, is acting all dramatic because I told her the yak at the Tibetan place is really good. She can't believe that anyone would eat yak on purpose. Whatever.
- Admiral Anika
Can you eat paella? If I couldn't, I'd have to kill myself.
- Christopher Harley
To be honest, this really sounds like more an OCD condition than anything else, Anika.
- Ben Parr
Janet, I don't think I'm a total food snob at least not to the extent of feeling the need to brag about organic this and that. I do prefer fresh over canned. I prefer new recipes over the pedestrian. If someone serves me something that seems lifted from the back of a can, I get a little sad.
- Admiral Anika
Anika, you listed off about 20 food items that you said you've been offered or served in the past week. So, given that, I would assume you're going to a lot of potlucks or other similar events with a lot of food present.
- Rochelle
Christopher, I can only eat paella when it doesn't have pork in it. Anything else in it varies drastically depending on who is making it. I find that my Spanish friends make it way different than my Brazilian ones. In mixed foods like that I can usually eat something I prefer not to as long as it's not a strong taste. One of the Cuban restaurants we go to will not use certain items if I ask.
- Admiral Anika
Like even though I don't like cooked carrots or peas, I will eat them in fried rice because they're supposed to be in there. But don't ask me to eat a German chocolate cake. That's just completely foul since it's made of everything that makes me gag.
- Admiral Anika
Well, on the bright-side, there's still a lot out there that you will eat.
- Christopher Harley
I should do a list like this. People say I'm picky. I say "I only eat real food."
- ha3rvey (doesn't dance)
The thing that's funny is that several months ago I did a list like this of foods I liked and people were saying, "OMG, you eat that? That's nasty!"
- Admiral Anika
Yay, I never thought I'd meet someone with as strong convictions about what they eat as myself.
- Penguin It's Cold Outside
I dunno Anika. I would say you're definitely particular about what you won't eat. some people are particular about *everything* and others don't seem to be particular about anything at all. most of us fall in the middle somewhere.
- jbrotherlove
And some last ones: milk, kettlecorn, syrup, papaya and banana-flavored stuff (except banana bread). :)
- Admiral Anika
So what is being picky, if not having "strong revulsion and opinions about certain items" ?
- Andrew C
Anika, you're picky. :-D There's no way around it.
- Jason Huebel
No internal organs? Ohh come now, what's wrong with a good squishy brain?
- Mo Kargas
I've not yet received my zombie card.
- Admiral Anika
I'm with you on everything but the nuts, pancakes, and oatmeal. Oh, and milk. I'll eat kettlecorn but it's meh, mostly. I'm a lot pickier, though.
- Alix Whitmire
I'd say the only thing I won't knowingly eat is organs. Particularly filtering/digestive organs. The only exception to that is liver and I'll only eat it in boudain.
- Jason Huebel
I am so happy to read all of this b/c I no longer feel like I'm the only particular person on the planet.
- Katy S
I ate too much water melon when I was 10 and become very sick. After that my family said I was too lazy to pick out the seeds. Jerks all of them, but I do love them still.
- Russellreno
Russell, you just reminded me. I also don't eat watermelon, though I'll eat watermelon flavored candies.
- Admiral Anika
OK, not liking watermelon is just weird. You can't survive the heat here in Texas without watermelon. :-P
- Jason Huebel
But it's grainy! And then the seeds...all that spitting. *shudder*
- Admiral Anika
I'm with you on watermelon! I've actually never once had a piece of watermelon, I just know I won't like it. I don't eat strawberries for much the same reason, but love anything and everything strawberry flavoured. I think my pickiness comes from food texture issues.
- Penguin It's Cold Outside
Yes, I'm huge on texture, Penguin, but it's weird. Like I won't eat pudding or yogurt for that reason. I can eat raw oysters, scallops (raw or cooked) and steamed mussels with mental preparedness, yet I can't eat smoked clams. I can eat cooked, raw and heat-smoked salmon, but lox makes me gag unless it's smothered in something.
- Admiral Anika
Disowning for not liking CARAMEL. I will take caramel every time over chocolate. LOVE it. It's my favorite non-fruity sweetness. MMMMMMMMmmmmmmm. Golden sweet buttery gooey wonderfulness.
- Fa La La La Lindsay
You can have mine, Lindsay. More for you. You may even like the caramel I make. Apparently it's good stuff.
- Admiral Anika
Wow, won't even eat the stuff you make?? I couldn't deal!
- Fa La La La Lindsay
I make a lot of things I won't eat because everyone else likes it. Food is to be enjoyed by everyone. I think it would suck if I held everyone hostage to my whims.
- Admiral Anika
German Chocolate Cake = the. best. cake. ever.
- Laura Norvig
Sounds to me like you could use a good long trip to the real world, where people are hungry and eat what they can afford.
- Will Higgins™
Wow Will, what a useful suggestion as always. =)
- Admiral Anika
Will wanted to sneak that one in. Who's lookin'? EVERYBODY.
- Christopher Harley
LOL @Christopher & Akiva I'm used to Will spouting off from his high horse. It's amusing to me.
- Admiral Anika
I have a friend who's about as picky as you. Whenever she visits she always finds time to eat my treats but turn her nose up at anything I'm cooking. I don't regard fussiness as admirable, that's all. I've seen people who are doing it rough. Maybe if you did too, you might change.
- Will Higgins™
I'm just as picky and I've never once thought it was an admirable thing. My question to you, Will, is why do I have to change? I'm generally polite and if presented with something at someone's home that I don't particularly care for, I'll try it and endure it if I have to, but when I'm on my own, who am I hurting by giving in to my silly whims?
- pea
I'm not saying anyone has to change! I'm just stating my opinion and clarifying why I feel the way I do about the matter.
- Will Higgins™
I apologize for being uncouth. Perhaps I could have tried starting a discussion about the merits of fussiness in a more respectful and mature manner.
- Will Higgins™
Not eating something because you dislike the taste, texture in the mouth, smell all seem legitimate. But having a revulsion, opinion about foods based on colour does seem a bit out there don't you think?
- Brian Sullivan
=) Will, like I said, I'm used to it now. It's just how you are. Last year it used to annoy me, but I know (hope?) that you mean well. But your comment was such a parental moment.
- Admiral Anika
I'm about as couth as Rush Limbaugh. And an egoist, and I always think I'm right. Funny you say that I'm parenty 'coz it's totally like that with my picky friend. People look to me and say 'she needs to do this and this, don't you agree?' and I always say 'I don't care what she does, she's a big girl now' EXCEPT with the eating thing. Then I'm always on her case.
- Will Higgins™
I agree with many of those dislikes. Exceptions are mushrooms, peppers, and white sauces. The others I either hate or could easily do without.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
from iPhone
Wow - that recipe is almost word-for-word the same as the first fried rice recipe I ever made a long long time ago.
- Katy S
Katy, lobster wouldn't be bad replacing the shrimp. I would take either.
- Myrna
Well, the one I made had chicken. That would be a better choice for me since I'm allergic to shellfish. However, I think it is a pretty flexible recipe and would work with all sorts of proteins.
- Katy S
Katy, how do you prepare soybeans, if you do?
- Myrna
Oooh...Mark's got me. Plus I was a little kid when I had it. First computer I coded on was an Apple 2 when I was 10 years old. Good old Apple BASIC.
- Neal Jansons
386sx33, 4mb RAM, and an upgraded 480mb hdd, not too long after which I acquired a 14.4bps modem.
- Matthew Horton
Acorn Electron (from the makers of the BBC computer).
- Kol Tregaskes
Commodore 64, goldstar 286 12Mhz, 4mb RAM, 40Mb HDD...
- Lee
from iPod
My best friend had an Acorn Electron, good memories.
- Amit Morson
a casio 702 P (with basic inside ! and a ABC keyboard), and a ZX 81 (with a 16 ko memomry extension)...that was a lot of fun !!!!
- Olivier
My first Computer was a Micron pc with a blistering 200 MGHZ. I'm afraid to admit how much I paid for that puppy. It started out with the 14.4 bps Modem, then when it went out some 2 years later I up graded to the 28.8 bps.
- Brent - Loving Life
Commodore Vic-20, with a blazing fast 300 baud modem. Or maybe 110 baud, I don't recall clearly.
- DGentry
Pravec 16, it would run Prince of Persia though :-D
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
VIC-20 with tape drive in 1983. first REAL computer was a 286/16 turbo i built from parts. i think i used DOS 5 as the OS. 20MB MFM hard drive and Trident SVGA video card. whee.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
TRS-80 Model II here. Props to metageoff for having a Model I. :-) I had four 8" floppy drives for data storage and a cassette tape drive for my games.
- Jason Huebel
I just pulled my trs-80 out of the closet and it still works, old tech is good tech, still have the manual and everything!
- Tsali, The Native of FF
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The first one I ever used was an Imsai 8080 in high school in 1977. The first one I ever owned was an Osborne Executive that I bought when I was in collage in 1983.
- Jeff P. Henderson
I cut my teeth on a VIC-20 (we had a light pen for it), but spent most of my proto-hacker days on the Commodore 64.
- Andy Bakun
IBM PC i8088 with 256k of ram. DOS 3.2
- Mike Nencetti
Atari 800 - still have it, still works! :)
- timepilot
Apple IIgs, 1987. I was 6. The first computer that was mine and mine alone to use was an IBM PS/1, 386sx/25mhz with 2MB RAM and a 170MB HDD. It had a 2400 baud modem. Fun times.
- Tamar Weinberg
Radio Shack Color Computer 2 with associated crappy cassette tape player. Real first computer was my Apple //e with extended 128K RAM and 80 column card, duo floppy drive, color monitor, and Image Writer II. Sweet setup.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Our first family computer was a ZX Spectrum 16K. My first computer was an Atari 520ST.
- Andrew Roche
The rubber keys were great, especially for playing Daley Thompson's Decathlon.
- Andrew Roche
I did not own it, but the TRS-80 was the first computer I really dove into. [And to the specific language of the question (“the one that made you fall in love with programming”) - sorry, but I don't think I ever “fell in love with programming.”] I did program, though, and quite a bit in subsequent years. On the TRS-80, I wrote a program called “The Oracle” with a dude named Chico Trowbridge. It is still highly classified code... ;)
- Anthony Citrano
Tandy 100 pre-notebook. 8k ram. No drive I wrote stories for Computer People Monthly and would have to dump to casette deck twice to complete an article. $1000 then.
- Rosalee Grable
Lol Anthony... I sold a couple of my first Commodore PET programs to 'Cursor Magazine' for a whopping $200! I discovered them a while back on YouTube...I hadn't seen them for 30 years! Dig the cool PET graphics :o) http://www.youtube.com/watch...http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Ken Morley
My first computer was a tiny Oric-1 with a giant monitor, which I inherited from my father. I learned to program it, good enough to run adventure games in BASIC on it. Later I jumped to the Amstrad CPC, which was my favourite computer for a long long time. I later made the shift to the Amiga 500, mostly for playing the many wonderful games for it - and some word processing. It was only...
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- Morten Blaabjerg
There's so many. I used an Apple in 2nd grade to do something, but can't remember what it was (Cupertino, sigh). I remember hacking the screens of the Apple IIe. First time I got truly interested in computers.
- anna sauce
A Dick Smith Wizard, massive 1k of RAM, speedy 2Mhz processor.
- Peter Tonoli
@Ken - very cool, that's early digital film-making! ;) @Ahsan - I know, funky name, pretty sure the first name was a nickname...
- Anthony Citrano
too young to remember... probably a 286 of some sort
- Chris Heath
After all, the company that makes it is called "Organix." And they have a "No junk promise." And they say that there's "reduced salt" and "reduced fat." Wait, what? I didn't know carrots had fat or salt. In fact, they don't. That's because "Carrot Stix" are not, in fact, carrot sticks. They're cheezy-poofs: deep fried powdered corn/potato snacks, dusted with "powdered carrots." They are not, in fact, carrots. They're not even food.
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
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i like weheartit.com -- mainly because i pipe an RSS feed of my favorited images into my Tumblr, and i like the format of their RSS better than vi.sualize.us. but weheartit has been very unreliable lately and i've almost stopped using it. as for ffffound, well, i've been begging for an invite for over a year.
- Nathan Rein
It can yet surprise, but we are big enough now that the major trends effect the group. But they are worldwide trends and with a few surprises.
- Michael W. May
"I grilled eggplant slices, and they looked perfect when they were beautifully browned and pulled off the grill. I then nestled my wok right onto the coals, quickly sauteed some garlic, ginger, scallions, and chiles, and tossed in the eggplant and sauce, letting it cook until thickened. It looked so mouthwatering, and I eagerly took a first taste. It had a deep ginger flavor that I love, along with the type of sauce that makes good Chinese food."
- Derrick
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Susan McKay meets the Liberian women for whom rape has become a common and terrifying part of their lives | Society | The Observer - http://www.guardian.co.uk/society...
"As ex-president Charles Taylor stands trial in The Hague, Susan McKay meets the girls for whom rape has become a common and terrifying part of their poverty-stricken lives"
- M F
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"Catherine Brown has discovered references to the dish in a recipe book dated 1615, The English Hus-wife by Gervase Markham. This was published at least 171 years before Robert Burns penned his poem Address to a Haggis, which made the delicacy famous."
- M F
from Bookmarklet
Meh. The Scots still made better things though. TV, Telephone! :) We Rule!!!
- Giraffes Up In The AIr
I heard that the English didn't invent the rose. It was just "appropriated by nationalists as a symbol of their nationhood."....stupid article.
- Chris Nixon
"The first comprehensive effort to identify and catalog every species in the world's oceans, from microbes to blue whales, is a year from completion. But early discoveries have profoundly altered understanding of life beneath the sea, senior scientists say. New tracking tools, for example, show that some bluefin tuna migrate between Los Angeles and Yokohama, Japan; one tagged tuna crossed the Pacific three times in a year. White sharks forage even farther for food, commuting between Australia and South Africa."
- Jason Toney
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