But the slow cooker had a removable insert that could be used on the stove to braise meat! And the mandolin can julienne, and cut waffle fries! That has to count for something! - Michelle Martinez
That depends on how much you like hamburgers I guess. But if its not, what was? - Russell Holliman
My $40 chef's knife on the board can do those fancy cutting things; my $30 rice cooker can slow cook, as can a big ass roast pan in the oven. Just sayin... ;) - Michael W. May via twhirl
Well, Williams Sonoma is the reason I am not rich, because if I was, I would buy out the whole store. They have every little kitchen gadget I never knew I needed. - Michelle Martinez
Family knows I love to cook and so tend to give me gifts of gadgets which always end up back in their hands a few months or years later to be sold at a yard sale or given to goodwill, used once or twice ;) - Michael W. May via twhirl
Ok, yes you got me there, most of my most needed kitchen gadgets have been sold at a yard sale or given to Goodwill. - Michelle Martinez via fftogo
I recently found out Tweets can be deleted from the timeline but not on my follower's clients. Therefore, all my drunk brain vomits are now on FF... HA - Mona N
You've got quite the following on Friendfeed now, Michelle! Should think about changing your blog title. - Mark Trapp
In order to blog it or FF it. I have to remember it. Some of last night is pretty blurry... - Michelle Miller
Thanks Michelle! Memories. Freshman year in college we had 40-50 keg parties. By senior year, only 5-10 kegs. Why? Between 1982-86, the drinking age in most states went back up from 18 to 21 (after being lowered for the Vietnam war. If you can die for your country, why can't you drink?) I still think the drinking age is a pile of crock. People age 21-25 are at high risk for driving accidents, and we don't raise the driving age to 25... Crazy gov't laws... - Mitchell Tsai
I didn't know it was called an Oxford comma either, thanks. Wikipedia tells me it's called an Oxford comma, a Harvard comma, or a serial comma :) - Michael C. Harris
Grammar humour? You guys are wonderful! ;) - Abby Martin
I can't wait for the next time at work when I ask someone, "Could you send me that file in Oxford comma delimited format?" - Kevin Shannon
One, of, the, many, things, i've, learnt, on, friendfeed. - Gordon Swaby
I didn't realize it had its own name, either. I always use it. In fact, I tend to list three items out of compulsion to use it... heh - Michael W. May
I will drop this quote and move on. The differences of opinion on the use of the serial comma are well characterized by Lynne Truss in her popularized style guide Eats, Shoots & Leaves: "There are people who embrace the Oxford comma, and people who don't, and I'll just say this, never get between these people when drink has been taken."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...http://snipurl.com/2u2sp - Russellreno
I'm with you Edythe, with a whole lot of reverence to the Comma, and; I also pay due obeisance to the Semicolon. - Parth Awasthi
The semicolon is, alas, woefully under-appreciated. - Joanmarie via NoiseRiver
I overuse the colon and semicolon; at least that is what I am told. ;) - Michael W. May via twhirl
Most punctuation doesn't get its proper due: people over-use the comma when they really should use a colon or a semicolon. Don't even get me started on the lack of em dashes and en dashes; they happen to be perfectly valid and useful punctuation marks that nobody uses anymore. - Mark Trapp
Michael, I want to say you should've used a colon instead of a semicolon there :) - Mark Trapp
I've seen those English dramas too
They're cruel
So if there's any other way
To spell the word
It's fine with me, with me - Joe Dawson
I am yepping this 100%. Although I allow myself little creative leeway with commas, colons, and semi-colons, I am otherwise mortally strict when it comes to proper, classic punctuation and grammar. Yep, I am the guy who has no problem with the em-dash and a semi-colon meeting. - Akiva Moskovitz
I'm a big fan of the semicolon and the serial comma. I suspect publishers wanting to save ink are responsible for dropping the serial comma :) - steplow
I actually kinda like it so far. Threaded convo + notification is kinda cool. I think the notification piece is what is noticeably missing from Plurk. - Jennifer Leggio
I'd be happy to come play on yet *another* new microblog... no really? ;) geekmommyblog at gmail. Speaking of which - you must agree that http://www.socbut.com wins the prize for WORST name of a new microblog site. :) - Lucretia Pruitt
Anyone got an invite for lil ole me? colin @ colinwalker dot me dot uk - Colin Walker via fftogo
Duncan, if there are any more can you send one to robdiana at gmail dot com? Thanks. - Rob Diana
What does one more microblogging service hurt, right? lol. OnkelSchark at gmail dot com please. Thanks Duncan! - Mark Douglass
I talked about it on Profy this week in the Workarounds post. I'm trying it out, so have invites if people want them. - Leslie
how 'bout kwippyinvite (at or near) kshep.net. kthxbye! :-) - Ken Sheppardson
invites sent. Anyone else wanting them I'm heading to bed (just back in from a night out), happily send more in the morning, alternatively everyone on this thread is in, so has invites as well. - Duncan Riley
I remember - I was 7. I remember an awesome series Kaptain Kangaroo did about the founding fathers and the constitution, etc. I remember patriotic displays at the grocery store and I remember how the city of Vicksburg painted all the fire hydrants to look like revolutionary war soldiers. Up until then it was relatively rare for the 4th to be a big deal in Vicksburg since the city surrendered on the 4th of July back during the Civil War... - Tad Donaghe
I spent the Bicentennial in Pascagoula. But I wasn't seven. ;-) - Chris Baskind
I was 14. I had a Johnny Horizon sticker on my bedroom door - "Let's clean up America for our 200th birthday." My friend (the one I visited in Knoxville in June) provided some illustrations for our junior high yearbook. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
Also, that may have been the year that I played flute in a "fife" & drum unit in a neighborhood parade. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
The signing was right here in PA. For that matter, so was the first capitol. Tad, your right, I was there - Charlie Anzman
i was 4 1/2 and i was given a t-shirt with a cake and candles on it that said "Happy Birthday, America" and it was my favorite shirt for as long as i could fit into it. - edythe
I remember. I was 6. We had this big program at school and had to wear blue shirts with a red bandana and sing America the Beautiful. A boy peed on the floor in the front row and our teacher had a meltdown because we all started laughing in the middle of the song. - Trish Robinson
I was 6.. I remember hanging out with my best friend Keith and throwing pine cones at girls during recess. - J. Phil
I was 22, in the Army, in D.C. I remember going to see the Queen during her visit. - Jack Carlson
I was 6. If memory serves (although I do experience memory leaks these days) I seem to recall tall-mast ships on the water in NYC. We lived near there back then. - Kevin C. Tofel
I was 6 and I remember my dad taking the family to the railroad station in town to see the Bicentenial Train. That reminds me, we have pictures somewhere... - Bryan Hunter via twhirl
26. We watched the NYC fireworks on TV in Modesto, CA - - Russellreno
I was 23. I was living in Ithaca. We watched the tall ships on tv and then saw the lights around Lake Cayuga. Afterwards we went home and watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail on television - K Welch
I was seven, and was supporting Howard the Duck for president. I was forced to be in a bicentennial pageant, but for the life of me, I can't remember how it went. - Roger Benningfield
I was 17... That's the year I learned the truth. That love was meant for beauty queens. - Kevin Shannon
Age 10. Loved the bicentennial coins (as a coin collector) and the $2 bill (1st one since 1963). My sister was born that year (11/12/76). Same day as me, 10 years later. It was the 110th anniversary of Sun Yat-Sen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S..., the guy who brought democracy to China. - Mitchell Tsai
funny stuff ... but I wanted to get off at FF as well ... identi.ca is a station half-built :) or else at least let me off at Kwippy since I just wrote about LOL - Steven Hodson
well you have to pull the cord or something to get off Steven! - Allen Stern
Very creative dialogue. I think I'll just continue a mad hop between the various stations. - possible248
"The newest version of Mozilla's experimental browser-syncing tool, Weave, just hit the net, and it's seen a few marked improvements since it was first available. Going beyond bookmarks, Weave can match up your Firefox 3 settings, cookies, browsing history, and even tabs between browsers, with experimental support for passwords and form data—in other words, just about everything except extensions, themes, and plug-ins. There's a lot more to come, and it's still a pretty rough around the edges—this is, after all, just version 0.2—but follow along after the jump to see some of what Weave can do, or at least one day will do, to keep your Firefox browsing consistent and convenient." - Russellreno via Bookmarklet
Gee, do you think the graphic is big enough. - Russellreno
One of the great understated male perfomances. And Scarlett was much more than just a pretty face. Acted brilliantly by both. - Michael W. May via twhirl
Great movie. Just finished watching it. Was running FF in a firefox sidebar to keep up here during the flick. - Hao Chen
I got out of bed, ran a comb across my head --- at 5 this morning. Picked up a buddy and headed to Marta then on the the Peachtree Road Race. - Russellreno
Jeremy, I never would. It shouldn't be a one or the other proposition anyway...indeed, that's how the story in that direction happened. - Duncan Riley
Duncan is so talented on many fronts. Re: Excluding Techcrunch (or running out of space). Controversy sells. Mike Arrington is a master of the headline tweak, jab pull. It takes many forms. - Alex Hammer
thanks for including WinExtra duncan - I appreciate that - Steven Hodson
no probs Steve. As I mention in the post, if anyone has more ideas for page/ content let me know. Surely there must be a combination out there that will offer a quick look at a given topic that isn't being served by an existing service (the memes page here meets that for me...very handy) - Duncan Riley
Mike - agree that Facebook has more... but FriendFeed doesn't need that stuff. Photos, discussions, blogs, events, etc all are "in" FriendFeed in the sense that you can see them and then go interact with the direct source (Upcoming, Flickr, etc). I prefer the distributed model myself, since the individual apps are of higher quality. - Patrick Lightbody
And...FriendFeed doesn't need those things because FriendFeed shouldn't be trying to *be Facebook*! :) - Mike Keliher via twhirl
Facebook without the embarassing pics. Well, unless you have them in Flickr... - Mark Dykeman
Good question Steve - it's emerging as my favorite social network. And I like geeks...hmmm. - Hutch Carpenter
I'd say info-junkies or convo-junkies over geek - Marco
still having difficulties moving people over to ff but once they do... they stay. info over visual- startling to some. - Nice Fish Films
Facebook is not an information mediium, Friendfeed is, so comparing the two doesn't make any sense - Deepak
I'm surprised that when people talk about FF, they don't mention Digg should be afraid. Right now FF provides more relevant links & info than Digg does and the comments are much better too. I would much rather spend my time here than Facebook or Digg. - Otto R. Radke
@Deepak - I guess it depends on how you are defining "information" - I think you could argue that both Facebook and FriendFeed are information mediums but Facebook is a parking lot to FriendFeed's freeway (or Nascar track I suppose, depending on your perspective on noise) - Marco
Two are for the most part different vehicles, just like FF and Twitter - Charlie Anzman
I would call FriendFeed IRC for Web 2.0 - J. Phil via fftogo
Nah, its kind of like Google Reader on Steroids with Twitter for comments???? - Roberto Bonini
Marco, if the information is people's birthday's yes Facebook is information, but I only use it to communicate (almost entirely with people I know), never to find new or interesting material. Friendfeed on the other hand is all about information. - Deepak
Great insight, Steve. I've been thinking for some time that FriendFeed is the stripped-down-for-performance version of Facebook. The Facebook news feed is, for me, its most appealing feature, and FriendFeed is a turbocharged news feed. However, I like facebook too -- it puts me in touch with a different group of people than Friendfeed does. - Mitch Wagner
Oooh! Yes it is!! The valley of links, the river of comments, the gathering services, etc makes FF Our blended Facebook... - George The Writer
we always want it to be black and white but it almost never is. Deepak, you're engaged enough here to communicate with people you don't know (as am I) so it can't be 100% about the information. I agree with both you and Marco because I think you both can be right in this case. - Robert Seidman
Tough for me to say. I could never stand Facebook. - Chris Baskind
That'll be more or less true until (if & when) it get's broader based adoption at which point all the geeks will bitch about it being too mainstream ... of course that assumes they haven't already jumped ship to some other service. - Clay Newton
geeks, nurds they can feel home with friendfeed, facebook is for the masses - Dobromir Hadzhiev
I am disappointed I have never been poked on FF. - Russellreno
If we can't separate ourselves from the proles with technology then what is the point? - Andy Wibbels
Robert, of course. Primary use would be a better choice of words. Of course, that's how I use it. I still can't see how anyone would use Facebook as a primary information resource - Deepak
FB is good for entertainement. FF not. We're not poked on FF. I think they are very different. On FB you see what people write on their superwall, on FF you see what people doing on the web. And what they doing for us is much interesting than what they want to show of us. - Hubert Guillaud via Alert Thingy
Facebook is heading in the direction of FriendFeed, slowly but surely. In combining the Wall and Mini-Feed with the tabbed profile update it will be a definite clone. Increase the number of stories/comments from ten and also the amount of imports and what have you got... - Joe Dawson
That presumes that FF content is all geek related, I'm finding that it's not, but I'm also following 1000+ people from a diverse range of backgrounds - Duncan Riley
FF is for geeks who sit all day with browser tabs open - the TechCrunch 53651 - Sean Kelly
I dont understand people who are saying they are using FF as their Main News Source...I tried hard..for weeks....and realized that 90% of the stuff really hapenning in the world is no covered in FF. FF is really completely focused on geek stuff. Take FF and social network related content out...you get 90% of the content out. - PF Thaler
For further clarification, geeks come in many flavors, I'd say these are social media geeks - Jeremiah Owyang
i want to block threads with the word facebook in it! - Dieter Schwarz
Yeah, it's in the API though not yet officially released ;-) Benjamin Golub has discovered the sharing to a room before its release too - directeur via NoiseRiver
All photos by my buddy Mr Wombat. Photo 4 - My daughter Danielle and our friend Gudron, 5 Two new friends I met at the Atlanta Peachtree Road Race. All other photos are from earlier events. No 7 I am the Walrus, coo coo ca choo. - Russellreno
