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La Figa » Michael Jackson Memorial Will Cost L.A. Millions, Family Takes 9000 Tickets for Themselves - http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009...
Toni Zhang, Carlton Prest, Carolyn Chan and 18 other people liked this
"Los Angeles city councilman Dennis Zine thinks Jackson's family and AEG Live--the promoter of Jackson's now-canceled London concerts which owns the Staples Center where the service will be held and Nokia Center where it will be simulcast--should cover the costs, especially because LA is facing $530m budget deficit. Zine, who once tried to pass legislation against paparazzi chasing celebs, said: If the Jackson family's gonna spend $25,000 on a gold casket, I would think that AEG and the Jackson family could help defray the costs so it's a safe and secure environment for mourners that want to come. He's got that right. It's estimated that the cost to the city in police overtime, street services, sanitation, and related services will be over $2.5 million and rising by the hour, which is more than what the Lakers' championship parade would have cost the financially beleaguered city. Only the Lakers' picked up half the tab, and private donations covered almost all the rest. The Jacksons and AEG have not been so forthcoming."
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
Interesting. L.A. is hugely in the hole. $2.5 million on this seems a touch excessive. Maybe they should have considered charging for the tickets to this event to cover the city's costs.
- Thomas Hawk
I don't see how the family should be expected to pay directly for government services that are provided for free to every other citizen. Granted this event is bigger than the average funeral but I don't see how you can realistically bill the Jacksons for it.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I'm not sure that the family should necessarily pay except to the extent that they took 9,000 tickets for the event for themselves (who has 9,000 close personal friends?). Personally I think whoever gets the tickets should pay. If the family wants 9,000 tickets (roughly half of the tickets to the event) then they should be billed for that. If the general public wants the rest then they...
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- Thomas Hawk
I think the good thing the Jackson family should do is foot part of the bill. Yes, normally government services around a funeral are provided for free, but this memorial goes a bit above and beyond a normal funeral.
- Rene, Pro Button Pusher
Of course the Jackson family does have ample funds to pay for it and it would seem to be a good thing for them to do. Personally I don't think taxpayers should foot a dime for this. I think the family should have been told in the first place that if they wanted a memorial service of this magnitude that they'd either have to pay for costs of it, arrange for the donations for it, or not be allowed to have it.
- Thomas Hawk
And you know they're recording this and will be selling it shortly. Disgraceful.
- amygeek
Taxpayers should not fund this.
- TranceMist
It looks like MJ's family may be going the way of MLK's family. . trying to make a dime off their dead relative at every opportunity possible.
- Dave Roth
But LA will make more sales tax from all the people flocking there to the funeral.
- Dawn
maybe Dawn, but I doubt anywhere near to the costs. Certainly they could discount the cost by projected sales tax revenues. I bet a fair amount of the people at the memorial though are in the immediate area and did not fly in just for the event.
- Thomas Hawk
[OT] in italian, *la figa* mean *the pussy* :D [/OT]
- Roberto
from fftogo
Viva la figa.
- zio bonino
Good to know Roberto.
- Thomas Hawk
sempre viva
- azael عصير للمشيمة
from twhirl
nunc et semper et in saecula saeculorum
- zio bonino
Who knows if these numbers are accurate but here's an L.A. Times story claiming a $4 million boost to the L.A. economy because of this event. http://www.latimes.com/busines... From the article: "Hotels, restaurants, tourist destinations and airlines reported a massive jump over the weekend in business and reservations, and they foresee a continued surge that they hope will jolt the local economy -- at least for a few days."
- Mike Doeff
interesting, maybe the hotels should pick up part of the cost.
- Thomas Hawk
I guess a way they could have avoided this was to charge for the tickets and explicitly state that it will go towards the cost of the service.
- Cass
The Government will put you in a pine box and cover only 200 dollars of your burial. Then again that would have saved the California Taxpayers, (I used to be one of them) a whole lotta dough! All this nonsense over the death of an entertainer. Sorry folks, I just have a hard time with having the public foot the bill for what should be a private issue let them pay for it if they want a...
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- The Catz Meow
Isn't this bringing a large amount of money to the city as well? All these tourists, reporters, etc. have to pay for lodging, food, entertainment, etc..
- Angel Smith
Yes, the sales tax and service taxes collected during the last 2 weeks since his death far surpass whatever costs the city will incur for police staffing of the memorial. I wonder if the city will reimburse the Jackson family for any portion of those proceeds, since they could have easily transferred all of this to, oh Las Vegas for instance. Moreover, why all this grandstanding about a...
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- Cole Jolley
See What I Can Do - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
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Kol Tregaskes, Derrick, Mark Williamson and 30 other people liked this
awesome!
- obolonskyi
very cool
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Wow! This new GMail crashes three times less often now that the beta tag has been removed! (Oh, it didn't crash before either)
Keith Bourgoin, Rob Diana, sam b-r and 8 other people liked this
You must have some special A-lister Gmail. ;P My Gmail crashes 4 - 6 times a day. I have to check it on my phone.
- Anika
Ha. Anika, you are in my personal A-list....... (alphabetically)
- Louis Gray
*snort* You're my L-word.
- Anika
My gmail has now been down for the last 2 hours :((
- Iain Baker
Pick your line, Play your game. - http://www.taylordavidson.com/writing...
sam b-r liked this
"You’ve got to pick your own line, create your own desire path, find your own vision. People can copy your content, copy your tactics, but they can’t copy you."
- Taylor Davidson
I respect this photographer for getting the shot. I want to see the shot 5 seconds later.
Figbar, Daniel Dulitz, Michael Sheldon Reed and 123 other people liked this
I wouldn't like to be on that ride, even if Monica Belluci is waiting for me in a corset at the end of it. No way!
- Rajtilak Bhattacharjee
Question. Do elephants smoke?
- William
What are the 2 in the far left doing?
- ThinkEzy
Oh. My. Gosh.
- Dane Findley
Whoa ! :D
- Faraz Mullick
Technical question: Do you really want to be hitting the elephant over the head if you find yourself in that situtation?
- Chris Kenton
from twhirl
یا حضرت فیل!!
- آدمیرال
NSFW
- ThinkEzy
When you got to go, you got to go!
- Pedro Fonseca
Wow. That elephant's hung like a horse.
- John Craft
THAT is why you always march the male ahead of the female elephants. Lesson learned I guess... I'd rather not see the shot 5 seconds later.
- Rafael Robayna
Dear Google, If I wanted you to keep resetting my "results per page" back to 10 results every so often, I never would have set it to 100 results in the first place. How about we just keep mine at 100 results from now on out. Paging sucks. Love, Me.
Richard Walker, Rob Schieber, Raoul Pop and 17 other people liked this
true say Thomas
- Shey
At least I'm not the only one with that problem...
- Holger Eilhard
I get this all the time, I thought it was the browser (FFox or Chrome) doing this.
- Kol Tregaskes
I have the same problem.
- Justin Yost
theoretically what browser you are in should not matter as long as you are signed into Google.
- Thomas Hawk
Whoa. Illinois Governor tried to sell Obama's seat? Damn.
Bill Sanders, RAPatton, Ontario Emperor and 10 other people liked this
Illinois is almost as corrupt as Louisiana, the difference being Illinois is able to function pretty well even with the corruption
- RAPatton
Haven't been paying attention to the news all morning, so not sure how breaking it is, but he was arrested on corruption charges some time today. There's supposed to be a news conference about the arrest at noon.
- Mark Trapp
"Fitzgerald's office said the 76-page FBI affidavit alleges that Blagojevich was taped conspiring to sell or trade Obama's vacated U.S. Senate seat for financial and other personal benefits for himself and his wife, including an annual salary of $250,000-$300,000 at a nonprofit foundation or an organization affiliated with labor unions." http://www.foxnews.com/politic...
- Daniel J. Pritchett
USAToday is doing regular updates on the breaking story here: http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadl... "Update at 11:40 a.m. ET: Federal agents searched the governor's office in Chicago, according to the Tribune. Update at 11:20 a.m. ET: At noon, you can click on this link to watch a live feed of the news conference that federal prosecutors are scheduled to hold...
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- Daniel J. Pritchett
sell??? are you kidding me! that's simply evil... whoa!
- Susan Beebe
I bet you this crap happens all.the.time. Right under our noses.
- Josh Haley
What's the bid at? Where do I sign up?
- Jered Hofker
talk about STOOOpid! Busted
- Morgan
If I was this guy's brother, I'd be SO 'i'm telling mom'
- Morgan
"Grant noted that Blagojevich was elected in 2002 after Illinois Gov. George Ryan retired in the face of looming federal corruption charges. Ryan was convicted and sentenced in 2006 to six and a half years in prison."
- RAPatton
In his history book Dave Barry Slept Here, Barry points out that Nixon and Agnew ran on a campaign theme of "Law and Order." Hubris indeed.
- Ontario Emperor
"A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree." - http://furryrabbits.tumblr.com/post...
sam b-r, Chris Weige, Rodfather and 5 other people liked this
Oh I get it. True statement. I've taken a few cruises and I would make a terrible sailor.
- Russellreno
new tumblr theme?
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
drummond buckley photography - http://www.imagefixation.com/#
Andy Denmark, Jeff P. Henderson, jho and 11 other people liked this
Drummond has some great images of San Francisco -- one of the better photographers out there shooting our city right now.
- Thomas Hawk
Admire the simplicity. It takes a keen eye to render cityscapes without clutter.
- Thomas Brox Røst
Some gorgeous photos there. Pity there is no RSS feed.
- Roberto Bonini
I've been a contact of Buckaroo on flickr for years, and have met him on one of his SoCal visits. He hasn't posted any photos on flickr in 10 months, I check his stream at least 2-3 times a month to see if he's back on flickr. I love his SF images and have been jonesin' to see more of his work. Any idea why the hiatus from flickr?
- Neil Bernhart
@Neil: Whats his Fliker username?
- Roberto Bonini
SF buckaroo (http://www.flickr.com/photos...)
- Neil Bernhart
Thanks Neil!
- Roberto Bonini
Buckaroo's still around shooting but hasn't been publishing to Flickr for a while. Justin, Jeremy and I ran into him shooting with Patrick a few weeks back shooting out on Treasure Island.
- Thomas Hawk
Going to Neil Young's house to interview his audio engineer and see his new digital studio. Pinching myself to make sure I'm not dreaming.
Mathew A. Koeneker, Ontario Emperor, Susan Beebe and 36 other people liked this
WHAT? Of all the cool things you do...this one is really making me jealous. Enjoy and learn much. Then post it all!
- Josh Haley
Beware of the Cinnamon Girls?,lol
- Scot Duke
Just don't get him started on the Bush Administration and I think you'll get out of there alive.
- Akiva
Lucky you !!!
- Nir Ben Yona
coudl u ask him why he doest want to stay in canada ? This is a torontian askin ..after all he has never given up his canadian citizenship , but stays in the states like for 30plus yrs
- Peter Dawson
yeah while at my fav song of his "The Needle and the Damage Done,"
- Peter Dawson
Robert, please keep all the cameras rolling! You'll want every moment!
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
I hate you, hate you , hate you!
- James Kendrick
he's working on electric car stuff now, I'm sure he'd like to talk about that too
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
Very nice gig to get. What is the interview for?
- Dale Adams
Please ask him his stand on DRM. I'm really curious to know if he shares Neil's vision on that one...
- Marcos Marado
from fftogo
How lucky can you get??
- Steve
Do me a favor and check out how much storage he's got.
- Brian Ziel
Cool!
- Dread Pirate PJ
from Alert Thingy
how do you get so lucky?
- Lee Kent
and bring an Alabama flag to give to Neil. He'll like that.
- Josh Haley
You have the BEST neighbors, Scoble...
- Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™
holy crap, I envy you
- Sheraz Mahmood
from twhirl
Holy Moly That Is Cool! @Josh: A Southern man don't need him around anyhow!
- Mattb4rd
See if he'll dish on who will be at this year's bridge concert. Inquiring ticket buyers want to know!
- Bill Sanders
Matthew: we hung out in his old mobile recording rig. What a hoot. Bill: Neil wasn't there, he's on tour in Europe. We'll have a separate interview with Neil someday, this was mostly to see the technical aspects of making music. Hearing his stuff straight off of his two-inch-tape was freaking awesome.
- Robert Scoble
You have an amazing life Robert with the people you get to interact with!
- Joe Dawson
Dale: my producer, Rocky helped build his studio when he was 12-years-old. His dad built it, which is one reason we got in, but the real reason was to talk to his audio engineer about how much quality of his music is lost at CD-quality (Neil wants people to be able to listen to music recorded at 192 khz per second -- CD's are recorded at 44.1 khz). We listened to his music recorded at 192 and then on CD and it's not even close. The quality difference is so extreme.
- Robert Scoble
ask him about his new car :)
- Kingsley Joseph
from twhirl
I learned that Neil was one of the first artists to try digital, but that he went back to analog tape recording (the tapes cost about $1,000 per hour, by the way) because he didn't like the emotion that he could capture on analog.
- Robert Scoble
Kingsley: we'll talk about his electric car project when we do a real interview later in the year.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, vinyl purists have been saying that for years: digital can't capture the heart between 0 and 1.
- Akiva
Digital captures exactly what the heart is, cold and calculated!
- Geoff Schultz {TF}
The Beatles – You've Got to Hide Your Love Away - http://www.last.fm/music...
David Worrell, Mark Trapp, RAPatton and 3 other people liked this
amen
- RAPatton
Some of these off-take versions from the Anthology set are better than the known recording. Could be because they seem 'new' and most have a live quality.
- Michael W. May
Ironic Sans: Idea: How I would do iPhone cut and paste - http://www.ironicsans.com/2008...
sam b-r and Glenn Slaven liked this
Pediatrician's update: Matthew is now 6 pounds, 8 oz, and gained 17 oz in 14 days. Sarah is 5 pounds, 3 oz, and gained 10 oz in 14 days.
Franklin Pettit, Hutch Carpenter, Marco(aureliusmaximus) and 13 other people liked this
Great news! +1 on the congrats.
- Mike Fruchter
congrats to all concerned!
- Prolific Programmer
WOW Congratulations!
- Mona Nomura
twins rock... I've got two girls....
- David Parmet
from twhirl
Louis..Congrats..gotta love healthy babies. My daughter is 10 weeks today and just broke 14 lbs. Needless to say, she's taken to nursing. Here's a great photo I snapped last weekend of all the babies from our birthing class ranging from 5-10 weeks: http://twitpic.com/59hu
- Mike Kelly
congrats louis!
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
sam b-r liked this
matt, liz and madeline - what happened? - http://www.mattlogelin.com/archive...
AJ Kohn, Susan Beebe, carlotta fancypants and 18 other people liked this
"matt, liz and madeline life and death. all in a 27-hour period. what you read here is what follows."
- edythe
from Bookmarklet
tragic
- RAPatton
that's so horrible.
- lisa-k
but he has been working his way through it so admirably.
- edythe
Wow. Thanks for sharing this. Now I'm going to kiss my husband and kids.
- MLx
my gosh. i can't even begin to know how that would affect me
- Cee Bee
cee bee, I know.
- edythe
I can't even imagine. I'm not the only one needing a kleenex, am I?
- Yolanda
life
- Mitchell Tsai
There just isn't words. I hope sharing helped you.
- Victor Ryden 美久太阿
no way, Yolanda...I'm right there with you.
- lisa-k
wow. speechless. numb. tears.
- sam b-r
This is the first time FriendFeed has made me come close to crying
- Dan Kaplan
choking back tears. This is an amazing thing to read and the husband writes very well, I'm sure the blog will be a wonderful healing aid for him. I watched Bergman's Wild Strawberries yesterday and, combined with reading this blog, I'm stuck lying in bed contemplating how to make the most of the precious time with those I love.
- Zach Landes
This is tear jerker-- wow . This is such a sad story. I book marked his blog !
- Peter Dawson
yeah, the blog has really been vital for him. he is also a really great photographer. i love his pics of downtown L.A. http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- edythe
I've just been going back through the archives: it's impossible to not be moved by this. The record from before and after, and that he kept writing... this is heavy stuff. Have to stop reading every few minutes to prevent myself from bawling.
- Mark Trapp
Another lesson in 'suck up every day .. we never know what life will bring next'. I don't know him (thanks for the info edythe). This is really, really sad. From the ultimate high to the lowest low in 1 minute. Rough.
- Charlie Anzman
Can't really like this, so I'll [appreciate].
- Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™
+1 Lisa
- Parth Awasthi
Such a sad story. I'm glad that the father seems to be coping as well as can be expected. +1 to Lisa and Parth.
- Cheryl Jones
aie
- anna sauce
:(
- Dread Pirate PJ
How truly sad and moving. I can't say anything more.
- Steve Lowe
John: expecting to hear the BEST news from you later today!! Stay positive... :-)
- Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™
OMG. Y'all are going to need to give me a warning. I can't deal with sad stories about babies or mamas. Also, I hope that he sued the pants off the hospital. They have these nifty little compression things that they put on your legs when you are on bedrest for any significant period of time to PREVENT that.
- Cyndy
This needs some kind of WARNING. I wish him luck, I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy.
- Toby Graham
He's wearing her wedding rings in the pictures. That just really got to me.
- CJ
wow
- Aprille
Can someone keep bumping to the bottom and make sure April doesn't read this one. April... do not read!!!
- Cyndy
unreal...OMG how sad!! :-(
- Susan Beebe
f@$k!
- AJ Kohn
@Corie, yes, I spied her ring too. I was trying to tell my friend about the story this morning and I got all watery eyed again.
- Yolanda
That's great, John! Phew... :-) Corie, I noticed her rings in the pictures as well. TOTALLY made me bawl like a little girly girl. :-(
- Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™
Mott the Hoople – All The Young Dudes - http://www.last.fm/music...
vicster, sam b-r, Nathan Rein and 3 other people liked this
Written by David Bowie. Classic!
- George Smith
i just realized he says "I got T. Rex'd"
- edythe
Two clear things about being a dad. #1) I need a new camera. #2) I need to join SmugMug.
Mitchell Tsai, Sam Dodge, Kenichi Matsumoto and 17 other people liked this
Both good calls. I also keep meaning to get an Eye-Fi card for easy sync to both PC and sharing sites
- Patrick Jordan
#3) Keep the spit rags handy.
- Ontario Emperor
what's the benefit of smugmug vs. flickr for family pics?
- Morgan
Wait...what does SmugMug have to do with being a dad? They must have forgot to send me the memo. Can someone get me a copy of that memo?!
- Rah-PM 2012
Morgan and Rahsheen, I'll let other SmugMuggers answer. My belief is there are fewer limits, more options, security, etc.
- Louis Gray
Yeah, cause dads need NO LIMITS. :D
- iTad
@Louis Ah! I just got it after re-reading what you said for the 10th time. Must be sleepy time now.
- Rah-PM 2012
ditto the smugmug question. I'd be interested in seeing the case
- Duncan Riley
I just joined SmugMug last week - love it! My favorite part is that I can upload RAW images and use it as a pure archive for my photos. Flickr then can serve as my social distribution.
- Jesse Stay
I've now got a SmugMug account. The recommendation is to get a Canon 40D. I am sure there are an array of opinions on this as well?
- Louis Gray
Curious too: why smugmug?
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
Take a look at the public SmugMug photos on FriendFeed. http://friendfeed.com/public... SmugMug offers unlimited storage capacity, full-screen high resolution for photos, customized galleries, and outstanding Mac support, from what I understand. So far, Flickr is not as strong. http://friendfeed.com/public...
- Louis Gray
fwiw, i'm a flickr user and a mac user and i'm very pleased. appletv hooks right in. not complaints here.
- sean808080
@Louis - I own the Canon 40D and you can't go wrong. The thing makes me look like a pro. You won't be disappointed. Good luck!
- Ron Emrick
40D works well unless you want to spring for a 5D. Make sure you get a good lens too!
- jho
I'm in the minority, but my feeling is that the higher-end point and shoots end up better. No, you wont' get the amazing portraits. But in the time it takes to get everything out and set up JUST right, you've missed the moment.
- Cyndy
40d is nice but the canon g9 is a good walk a round point and shoot. I like Flickr over smug, though I have yet to really dive into it.
- Don Martelli
Is there a reason for smugmug over flickr or picasa?
- Bryan Clark
IMO, the SmugMug interface wins hands-down over flickr. Gorgeous, AJAXy, user-selectable resolution, etc. You definitely get what you pay for.
- Brian Pharris
The Canon G9 camera falls between the point and shoot and the digital SLR, a great choice for the new dad. Congratulation by the way.
- Bob Gannon
@Louis firstly although not a Dad I have a very large family and all my sisters have at least 2-3 kids. Lots of Nieces and nephews. So I have some experience of every kind of parent, from camera crazy to camera+camcorder to just a picture here and there. All survived without HD, and even digital until a couple years ago. So this is my experience to you. There will be lots of things you will enjoy, taking pictures, making videos, post-production etc, but most of all you.....
- Roger Kondrat
@Louis continued you are likely to be like most parents (99%) and that is you won't have time to make many DVDs of trips or birthdays because there will always be some event, location, or sport you will need to attend. And the list goes on. You will be busy. Also you will have to carry diapers, bottles of milk, carriages, etc, and when you are done with the diapers it will be bottles of water and sport bags.......
- Roger Kondrat
@Louise.. Where am I going with this? Buy a point and shoot my friend a good one like a Sony or a Canon. I buy Canon's by my gf's brother also a gadget guy buys Sony's and loves them. Samsung is making amazing camera's too, in fact they just released an HD capable point and shoot. Buy a point and shoot and you will have more memories and you will enjoy those memories as they happen because won't be digging around for the right tool and complaining when it wasn't available.... Good luck! :)
- Roger Kondrat
PS. I like Flickr and have never seen the reason for SmugMug (yet). What is your reasoning? ;)
- Roger Kondrat
Roger, I like SmugMug because I can store the full sized, original images I took, in RAW format even. It's a great archival tool. Flickr's social capabilities are much better though, so I end up using both.
- Jesse Stay
from twhirl
Louis, yes you have to join SmugMug. I use Flickr for public photos and SmugMug for private. Great for archiving too, no worries about the hard drive crashing or house burning down.
- Elliott Ng
The G9 still has slow shutter response. If you are looking to save some money, you could look at the Canon XSi which is pretty darn nice. Just a tad small for my hands. Re: SmugMug, I'll say that they have awesome customer service. Besides, they offered free tickets to see Batman on IMAX last Friday! (Disclaimer: I did take advantage of this offer but am still impressed with how they engage with their customer base)
- jho
@Jesse Stay I had no idea that Flickr was not storing the full originals I thought that was part of the paid service.. I will check that out and if that is the case I will be very upset. Cool about the RAWs though as my gf and I were talking about SM for that reason, nice to have confirmation of that feature.
- Roger Kondrat
Personally I'd try to wait for the new Canon 5D probably due out at Photokina in Germany in Sept. In the meantime I'd probably buy a used Canon 10D or 20D on eBay with a 50mm f/1.4 lens or the 28-135 image stabilized zoom. You could probably buy this for a lot less than the 40D and wait until the new 5D drops into your price range. The full frame sensor of the 5D is a huge jump up over the 40D. Even if you didn't want to pay up for the new 5D, the old 5D prices will drop when the new model is released.
- Thomas Hawk
Flickr recently increased their photo size limit to 20MB for Pro accounts. Free accounts get 10MB. I've noticed lately though that Flickr has still been accepting my images over 20MB. My guess is that they decided to increase file size and not actually block images over 20MB because they realize that they will need larger images that can be sold through their new partnership with Getty. Flickr doesn't support RAW.
- Thomas Hawk
Re: Edythe - Rules for the Naked Girls Eating Cum group on Flickr - http://furryrabbits.tumblr.com/post...
Parth Awasthi, Carlos Ayala, sam b-r and RAPatton liked this
"It's good to see standards enforced."
- Michael W. May
lol, mwm!
- edythe
*snicker*
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
*snort*
- Mona Nomura
sorry, cecil. :)
- edythe
ex...cuse me?
- Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
LOL mate.
- Parth Awasthi
This one has more comments than the original post!~
- Yuvi
NSFW ;)
- Tyler Gillies
Mitchell Tsai, michael sean wright, oliver gassner and 84 other people liked this
Congrats Louis. Nothing in the world better than this.
- Tac Anderson
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
- Dave Winer
Well Hello, [Dolly] Sarah, It's so nice to have you back where you belong... :)
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
Cute! With all that pink and purple it must be Sarah ;)
- Sally Church
Cute overload!!! Nooooooooo!!!
- Bwana ☠
Wow. Thats adorable.
- DGentry
Congrats...ours is 3 weeks old today! Get ready!
- Jay Martin
How sweet!
- ravi karandeekar
So cute I've banned my wife from even looking at these from a distance,,, Hard to believe any of my 3 were ever that small. dang.. it's even got me going mushy and broody..great photo's
- Chris Wright
from twhirl
The cuteness! It's too much. :)
- ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)
What a litle darling. I know it's hard work but it's worth those quiet precious moments. ;)
- Larry Kless
from twhirl
got enough pink there? you'd hate for some one to mistake it for a boy.
- Stefan Hayden
awwwwww
- the_IT_factor
Hi Sarah!!!!!!
- Charlie Anzman
CUTE BABY PICTURES!!!!! yeah!! Sarah looks sooo cute! love the pink!! :-)
- Susan Beebe
I have 2 daughters myself and there are many points in the day I wish they were that tiny again ... treasure these moments Louis they won't last long at all .. congrats on the new addition to the family
- John Blanton
from twhirl
hello, my little namesake! i love the color pink too - we're so alike! :)
- Sarah Perez
Congrats Louis! Very cute! Best wishes to the mom and the little ones.
- Mark Douglass
Beautiful
- LPH™ and his dog P™
I've got a job waiting for Sarah since Allen 'stole' Matthew (I'll even print stickers if I have to!)
- Charlie Anzman
Aww... So cute. :)
- Zach Flauaus
Congratulations Louis. We're at #4 as of June 10. Go ahead & lap me. I double dog dare you. :)
- Gerald Buckley
what a sweetie-pie. :)
- Lindsay
I see Sarah's got the extra-small pacifier. I remember when even that was too big for Camilla.
- April Buchheit
The Clash - London Calling - http://www.last.fm/music...
Michael W. May, RAPatton, sam b-r and 2 other people liked this
I'm looking for interesting but perhaps more obscure people to follow on FF. Anyone have suggestions (post profile links with your suggestions too)
Czar, Franklin Naval, sam b-r and edythe liked this
What are your interests?
- RAPatton
I'm pretty awesome. And smart.
- Zach Landes
@RAPatton Useful Tech, Social Media, Sci-fi, writing, blogging, American Football. Honestly, I want a diverse range of ideas from a diverse group of people.
- Ben Parr
Any particular football teams? Or just football in general?
- Patrick Veverka
hmm... perhaps this could be statistically derived based on the data that's available now.
- Franklin Naval
Try joining more rooms.
- Hao Chen
For your American football needs: http://friendfeed.com/rooms...
- Shey
Ben, check out: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Mark Trapp
suggestion http://is.gd/Rp3
- Hao Chen
This is not going to turn into a reality TV show is it? like the Bachelor?
- Tony C (Unrated)
from fftogo
Tony: That would be hilarious. The FriendFeed Survivor? Sounds like an online hit to me. Hao: I'm flattered. :)
- Ben Parr
just take the "friend of"
- NoahDavidSimon
me? j/k
- Matt Baron
I'm incredibly interesting, ridiculously obscure and Swedish!
- Eiwe Lingefors
Built to Spill – Randy Described Eternity - http://www.last.fm/music...
stop the presses. my search for companionship is over! (via my flickr e-mail)
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Your profile has made my day: You've really made my day and I feel we can establish a nice friendship!!! What attracted me to your profile was that scarce combination of hot sexy outlook with an obviously high IQ (one can't hide it when it's there!) Anyone on this planet would die for such a female partner ... and I am not an exception!!! Please, contact me at: boro_d@yahoo.com or give me your e-mail address so we could exchange more info, thoughts and pics to get to know each other better. Hugs and kisses, Boro xoxoxo
- edythe
ha!
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
wow. I've been doing it wrong all this time.
- ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)
Boro Rhymes with Zorro. Maybe he is a bulgarian Antonio Banderas. http://360.yahoo.com/profile...
- RAPatton
sigh, my search continues. ha!
- Cee Bee
Man, I need to update my profile to get some responses like that! :-)
- Justin Korn
So its official, even your Photos Exude IQ. Hmmm... I lack that charisma, maybe i"ll just add a visible watermark to my pictures.
- Parth Awasthi
Ha! Reminds me of the guy who left those awful voice mails. Maybe it's the same guy? http://www.holytaco.com/2008...
- Mike Doeff
match.com 2.0
- Hao Chen
Dang, someone has stolen my mack game. Need to come up with new tricks.
- Jason Toney
hee, Hao Chen. Indeed. Yeah, Jason, better switch up your tactics. :p
- edythe
i have to say, the lack of spelling errors and the decent grammar almost make me wonder if this is someone I know playing a little joke on me... i love how he refers specifically to my profile. all my profile on flickr says is "I'm female." Perhaps that is enough for him. :p
- edythe
boro is orob backwards. Not significant, just noting the facts.
- lisa-k
I was thinking the same thing about your flickr profile. It is pretty spartan, just a list of bands and your photo groups really. He is correct in saying that you are bright, no matter how he divined it.
- RAPatton
well, according to him, when one is that "scarce combination" of IQ and "hot sexy Outlook" (which makes me think of the MS program), it just can't be hidden!!
- edythe
You've got to give it to Boro, boy's got game.
- DYKC?™
LOL - Boro's groups on Flickr include "**eat my pussy**" and "I can't believe she did that!"
- edythe
wow. can we get a link edythe? i want to see that which she did so unbelievably!
- Nicķ
no way.
- Nicķ
not the same boro.
- edythe
yeah, i figured... pictures too believable...
- Nicķ
i think if you do a search on flickr for the group name, nick. you'll find the it easily enough.
- edythe
believe me, i already did some searching. couldn't find it.
- Nicķ
at least in all known to me Slavonic languages 'scarce combination' is stable expression
- A. T.
Damn!
- Mark Trapp
@RAPatton Boro-Zorro is expert in entertainment industry, btw, and lived in USA according to his remarks ;)
- A. T.
Wow, I found him! He's a looker, Polly. Like a 70 year old Loren Feldman.
- Mark Trapp
well, mark t, perhaps I am being too hasty in dismissing his attentions. Look at Les. Not even married and still happy. And Silpol points out that not only are his expressions stable (in the Slavonic languages he knows about) but that he is an entertainment industry expert who lives right here in the U.S. :) Why am I so picky when perfection presents itself to me, unbidden?
- edythe
Are you sure he's not some sort of lost African prince just waiting to transfer his millions of dollars to America? You would be fully paid of course.
- James Ferguson
Polly, because that dude's creepy as sin. No amount of facetiousness can cover that up!
- Mark Trapp
i can't believe she did that!: http://www.flickr.com/photos... ...but then again, i'm a vegetarian...
- Nicķ
This reminds me of when I was in college in Tucson and some recent emigres(region left out to be PC) would approach women at bar and ask,"Excuse me, can we go somewhere we can touch?" Just sayin.
- Mark Forman
nick: ... oh my god. just when i thought people had exhausted all of bacon's possibilities. :D
- edythe
@nick looks like fetish can be pushed to new level, only imagination is necessary... where we can order rest of costume? :)
- A. T.
Kaia, Amen.
- DYKC?™
I am working on my version of this message, though I will be modifying a sentence to test the response rates of different words. "What attracted me to your profile was that scarce combination of [ADJECTIVE1] [ADJECTIVE2] [NAME_OF_MICROSOFT_PROGRAM] with an obviously [ADJECTIVE3] [NOUN2] (one can't hide it when it's there!)"
- Karim
karim... words can't express how cool you are.
- edythe
lol *blush* "You've really made my day and I feel we can establish a nice friendship!!!" :-D
- Karim
Karim, what attracted me to you was that scarce combination of unbridled, nearly extinct Access with an obviously heavy key chain (one can't hide it when it's there!)
- edythe
edythe - lol! bonus points awarded. :-)
- Karim
@MikeLangford Not a huge fan of video content in general because I fee
l like my time is held hostage and have to watch rather just skim
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Mates Of State - California - http://www.last.fm/music...
Mitchell Tsai, Roger Chen, Alejandro and 9 other people liked this
I love Mates of State -- seen them twice in Minneapolis and once in San Francisco -- what an awesome band!!
- Nicholas Kreidberg
yeah, saw them for the first time last month here in L.A. Love their onstage married banter.
- edythe
Agreed, they are such an inspiration to me as a couple, as performers and as parents.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
by using an awesome Yahoo! Pipes thingy that blends a whole bunch of stuff with songs that i "love" on last.fm. (and people say Yahoo! is finished. ha.) i import the feed here (as a "blog"). http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes...
- edythe
I just wrote a post about it here along with more info http://lifestreamblog.com/share-s...
- Mark Krynsky
cool, mark k. thanks!
- edythe
Trying to order some full-sized Moo cards but keep getting the error message "Oops, sorry, something untoward has occurred!" when I try to link up to my Flickr account. Probably have to place an order another day.
Eric P, Bryan Landers, Johnny and 6 other people liked this
i managed to get an order in. but it took a few tries and i ended up uploading pix i had resized specifically for the cards. can't wait to see them
- sam b-r
it worked fine for me - but then i didn't get to tthe checkout
- Phill Price
I love my little Moo cards. Full size now too, cool.
- Andrew Smith
I was about to re-order the mini cards and learned about the new size. Now I'm conflicted about what ones to get. I love the mini's since everyone comments about them. I will probably get both sizes. Maybe fun pix for mini and more serious stuff for full size?
- Mark Anderson
Oops, sorry, something untoward has occurred! An email has been sent to our hardworking developer bees. It would be very helpful if you could tell us what you were doing when this error occurred?
- Thomas Hawk
ummm... trying to order Moo cards?
- Thomas Hawk
I don't think moo cards are meant for people with large photostreams on Flickr.
- Thomas Hawk
nope, doesn't work with Safari either. Let's try another computer.
- Thomas Hawk
nope, doesn't work on another computer. I'm pretty sure moo.com wasn't made for photographers like me.
- Thomas Hawk
Has to be the size of the photostream IMO. I just linked my account with no issue... I only have 50-odd photos. When you link, they suck in all of the photos, so I think it's choking for you at that point. Too bad you can't link to a set in lieu of the whole stream. Moo folks?
- Kevin C. Tofel
Ah... I see that once you're linked, you can click the My Sets or My Tags. You've just got to get past the linking to get there... ugh. :(
- Kevin C. Tofel
Moo cards are fun. I might just reorder.
- Russellreno
yeah, I'm pretty sure it's the size of my photostream. It's too bad though because I ordered from them once before and did actually want to buy some. I've even blogged about them alot. Seems like Moo.com doesn't want business from people with large photostreams.
- Thomas Hawk
I know you shouldn't have to do this, but could pull down some images directly from Flickr and the upload to Moo? It would be a pain, but...
- Kevin C. Tofel
@sam b-r What size did you make your photos that you re-sized specifically for the moo cards? I ordered a set from my Zooomr account a while back and some how moo used the very small version of my images and the cards looked all pixelated. Have been meaning to re-order, looks like I'll try the full sized cards this time.
- Jeff P. Henderson
@jeff - i resized them to be 1500 on the long side at 300 ppi and some sharpening. they did a great job making the mini cards from my low res flickr images but they did an even better job printing from higher res files. i don't know if this is optimal but i figured a larger file would help out here.
- sam b-r
Does anyone know if moo is honoring the color space tag on our photos? Last time I ordered, they had no color management, I had to e-mail them to find out, so it was pot luck if your cards looked like the original image. The color on mine was somewhat off. (I use a color managed work flow, profiled monitor and printer.)
- Jeff P. Henderson
Damn you Mr Hawk... Why did you have to remind me about Moocards! I went just to test if it was working and somehow I now have 3 sets of minicards and a sticker book on the way... :P
- Johnny
I had postcards made that I use as business cards, they look great and are huge
- Squid
Huh, just noticed that mousing over comments gives the time it was posted. Nice!
Czar, Alejandro, sam b-r and 60 other people liked this
cool, was that a wednesday fix?
- Rob Diana
and if you subscribe to the person it says "your friend ..." otherwise, no friend designation. cool.
- Rob Diana
Cool! That's new right?
- Hutch Carpenter
Yeah. That is new and I like!
- RAPatton
I noticed that in the last 30 minutes.
- Russellreno
epic win, imo
- Chris Hollander
Been wanting something like that. Thanks! Noticed it even adds "your friend xx post this" for people you subscribe to.
- Tom Landini
FriendFeed & Flock both continue to just rock my little world
- Craig Eddy
cool!!
- edythe
neat!!
- Susan Beebe
Unfortunately, the tooltip often obscures the user info pop-up.
- Akiva
Finally! YES!
- Shey
NICE!!
- Mike Fruchter
cool!
- Noah Carter
Friendfeed just gets cooler every day.
- ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)
Yeah, there are so many little things. It's great to find new features every day.
- Aaron Myers
@Akiva: just move your mouse a touch and the tooltip will disappear (at least it does on Flock)
- Craig Eddy
Craig, I'm American. You ask too much of me.
- Akiva
Time doesn't update if you've edited the comment... :-(
- Mitchell Tsai
Great addition to the site! @Mitchell I agree although how would they work it? Maybe replacing the comment time with the word edited as well with the new time!
- Joe Dawson
that is cool ;)
- john conroy
Great tip thanks!!!Now we get to see who's not operating on a good nights sleep...
- Mrsth
Wow, never noticed, is this new?
- Jeff P. Henderson
Officialy down 15 pounds since March. I have a ton more energy and need less sleep.
Mitchell Tsai, Igor Poltavskiy, Grant Bierman and 22 other people liked this
Congrats on your weight loss, Steve!
- Mark Dykeman
congrats - what's your secret?
- Allen Stern
I use Weight Watchers Online and then shoot for three points below what they recommend. My weight tends to swing over the years. I hope to get it to stay here now. I don't exercise so I overcompensate by not eating!
- Steve Rubel
Well done chief..
- john conroy
Congratulations Steve, well done!! I feel really lethargic lately and want to get motivated through exercise, need to find time!
- Joe Dawson
Grats Steve - I'm down ten kilos in about the same time. At a happy weight now
- Craig Thomler
You just motivated me to make that trip to the gym tomorrow morning.
- Parth Awasthi
from twhirl
Awesome news on the weight loss - that's great (jealous!!)
- Susan Beebe
ive always thought you were a perfect size weight-wise
- Allen Stern
way to go!
- Orli Yakuel
Steve how did you lose 15 pounds??? You were thin to begin with!
- Michael Wiley
I lost it via WW online. I want to lose a chin or two!
- Steve Rubel
I am jealous. Need to do much the same
- Deepak Singh
twenty pounds in two months by cutting the size of meals and having a veggie/fruit shake for lunch. Benefits: cloth fit, cholesterol down to lowest level in three years.
- Joe Buhler
So as of this morning I've lost 35lbs this year. http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdie... and http://www.sparkpeople.com/ have been my daily online friends. No exercise, just plain ol' calorie reduction. Well done - dropping the pounds is incredibly rewarding.
- Daniel Swan
Congrats Steve...I lost several pounds just by eliminating evening snacks--bare minimum after 7:30..
- mark ivey
Congrats Steve. I've lost 13 pounds since early May by refraining from overeating. Wanted to lose weight to help with the Walt Disney World Marathon I'll run in January.
- Mike Reynolds
Stick to it, man.
- RAPatton
Congrats! I'm down 6 lbs in 3 weeks--no more alcohol, or chips (Hi My name's Matt, I'm a chip-a-holic. "Hi Matt" <applause>) plus I'm working with a trainer. Ugh!
- MattKelly
Awesome! I lost about 8 pounds of my "New CEO 15"
- Mitchell Tsai
wow, congrats!
- Sarah Perez
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