The Confed Cup just passed really captured the imagination of everyone here. There was a buzz in the host cities. The 2010 World Cup is going to be amazing...
- Peter du Toit
I've had some weird pets. What was your weirdest pet? I can't choose between my black widow, the scorpions I used to have, or the potato bug that ate all the scorpions... Rules: You have to have maintained it for more than a week for it to count.
I/My parents had a pet brown skunk when I was around 2, he was descented: http://i.friendfeed.com/8c15dc5... . I also had a pet pot belly pig for about a month before I had to give him up because of the horribly high vet bills, but I still got to visit him. I think those are the oddest.
- Rachel Lea Fox
We had a turtle (australian freshwater) for 9 years. Alfie was part of the family.
- Matt G
Do the animals in the Palo Alto Jr. Museum & Zoo I cared for during the summer of 2003 count? They were pretty much my pets...of all the animals there, I think I enjoyed Tule & Rufus the bobcats and Indigo the blue-tongued skink the most. :)
- April Buchheit
April: They definitely count. You got to take care of a bobcat? I'm so jealous!
- Ross Miller
Ha, everything counts... If you only had one pet and it were a kitten, it would qualify as your weirdest pet in my book. I was just wondering what kind of pets people have had. Poison dart frogs are high on my list of to-get :)
- Ross Miller
Well, if April's "pets" count, then the hyenas, warthogs, and vervet monkeys I cared for in the Oakland Zoo as an intern one summer count too! The hyenas were the sweetest-- they had been raised by hand by a nut in Berkeley before arriving at the zoo and loved being petted (behind closed doors-- couldn't let the public know they were tame!). You didn't want to get between them and their food, though. They crunched bones like they were french fries!
- Shannon Jiménez
Totally forgot that your worked at the Oakland Zoo Shannon! How were the vervet monkeys?
- Ross Miller
The monkeys loved to play but could be really mean in their quest to maintain their hierarchy. They were fun to watch, though, and loved any new games and toys we put out for them. Oh, and I forgot to mention the meercats. They had babies that summer and there is nothing cuter in the universe than a baby meercat!
- Shannon Jiménez
I loved Meercat Manor on Discovery Chanel! Must have been fun to interact with them on a daily basis.
- Ross Miller
Ok, this is weird. I can see your response to my comment but I can't see my last comment. Edit: nevermind, it showed up, but was really delayed.
- Shannon Jiménez
I saw Zoey!!!!! Awesome Ross. Love the roar!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Little do you know... That was Zoey's roar :)
- Ross Miller
I wish I could say that I was the voice talent for this video as well :)
- Ana
Ross, wow, I need you to get her to do that again for me! I do have a photo of her that looks like that might be coming out of her mouth: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Rachel Lea Fox
Ana, you need to keep the roar on a recording in your pocket and when the boys leave too much of a mess in the kitchen whip out the roar to get them to go clean it up! ;-)
- Rachel Lea Fox
Ross, can't you just hear that roar coming out of that little zoey mouth. But seriously, adorable kitten aside, your video is great, I love it!!!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
So, how much would a 5 second commercial be during the Superbowl?
- Joe Kraus
Um... did YouTube really just loose the second half of a 5 second clip? Does this end with a friendfeed logo and friendfeed.com to you or with a shot of a random feed with an article about google?
- Ross Miller
I started getting like 5 emails a day from facebook saying that the same two "friends" of mine said I should get on facebook. I don't have a facebook account, but I could go and acknowledge my presence to facebook by attempting to unsubscribing from their mailings.
- Andy Bakun
I feel you, Ross. I was in Lafayette yesterday and it was just about that hot. Drove back to the West Bay and it was 15 degrees cooler.
- April Buchheit
I vote for a re-release. These cans are just too cool :)
- Ross Miller
They'd have to do something with the drinking straw iconography, it looks like cigarettes at first blush. I once found an old soda, I think RC, can buried behind the shelves of a stock room I worked in. It had a pull-tab and the metal was really thick and heavy.
- Andy Bakun
Well the feedback group can vouch for how productive I am... Last I heard, Ana and I get three cheers :)
- Ross Miller
Yes Rachel, *thank you*! Everybody is so self congratulatory, like "look at me, I've had three martinis and I still have all my clothes on!" That wasn't the challenge. I defy Paul to push some code! :)
- Ana
Although, giving credit where credit is due... Ross did have the most of all of us, w/ 4 martinis :)
- Ana
Properly, he had three martinis and a vodkatini.
- Casey Muller
Sort of... one of them was an espresso martini.
- Jim Norris
3 martinis and an "espresso martini", which isn't really a martini, as it lacked gin.
- Tudor Bosman
Notice, I didn't post a #4, I don't like to boast.
- Ross Miller
so...you have a shrink-ray and you're all gonna fit in there?!? 'Cos I would hold out for something a little more likely to pass building regs if I were you!
- WorldofHiglet
Note the Google Wave t-shirt too. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Don't upgrade for the outside. Upgrade for the speeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed.
- Amit Patel
I'm afraid if I upgrade this time I won't be eligible for the next release... I'd rather wait, 3G gets the job done for me :)
- Frankie Warren
You can get the full subsidy ever 2 years or half a subsidy every year. For ultimate cheapness, wait until 2034 and pull an iPhone 3G S out of the radioactive landfill that was nuked in World War 4.
- Amit Patel
I feel guilty saying this, but you have a really nice body and every time I see this picture i think it.
- Patricia
Guess I can leave the office now that its 1am... This job is just way too much fun :P