The first hint this was going to suck is putting pasta in a bread bowl. Excess carbs, anyone? ;-) . Reminds me of the Ads v. Reality fast food meme (which has been on FF in the past): http://www.thewvsr.com/adsvsre...
- Chris Baskind
ah, but did it sate your hunger? This is what I call "matter" as the only thing it's good for is getting matter into your stomach.
- veo
Don't order the bread bowl - order the no-bread version. it's a dollar cheaper and contains 3x the pasta :D
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
I ordered lasanga for the crew at Pizza Hut , last yr .. was a HUGE disappointment .. I hate being ripped off ,, biggie size the portions ,, or I aint coming back
- johnpiercy
During depressive times in 2008, I had relied on Domino's pasta delivery so I don't need to go out, and don't need to pick up the phone to call anyone because the last thing I wanted is to talk to anyone. I dropped out of all social networks, and these disappointing bread bowl is what kept me alive. So I can't complain. But as I said, the pasta is not that bad, just don't order the...
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- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Me too - every time it reappears I imagine it colder and more congealed and....*shudder*
- WorldofHiglet
Weirdly, I like their pasta "primavera" but I ordered it without the bowl part. That looks infinitely nastier.
- Jennifer Dittrich
@Jennifer.Dittrich Oh yes totally forgotten. The primavera was pretty good. But *always* order without the bowl. $7 is actually a very good deal for pasta delivery. You can't compete with that, whether it's preprocessed or not
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Can you imagine what would happen if left out overnight? Err, actually, it probably wouldn't look much different.
- Jordan Hofker
"Yesterday the extraordinary photographer and stylist Karen Mordechai from Sunday Suppers went all out to share an amazingly butternut squash and pomegranate galette recipe with us and today she’s back with a delicious recipe for Olive Oil Loaf Cake + Citrus Rosemary Compote. If you haven’t decided on your holiday dinner yet, these two dishes together would make for an elegant and tasty meal. Thank you again to Karen and Sunday Suppers for sharing amazing sweet and savory recipes with us this week!"
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
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@TrafficBug Not sure if that's a real question or you being funny.. but while in most cases it means super user, apparently it was intended to mean 'switch user' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... :)
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Ah ! Thanks, it was a real question, It never occurred to me to check wikipedia! I have seen sudo make me a sandwich in another cartoon video before, and I didnt understand it either... Now I know.. :)
- TrafficBug
np - maybe you don't use Linux? In Linux you use it everyday. Want to play with Linux? check out http://wubi-installer.org/ - or if you want to be super duper safe, try installing http://virtualbox.org then download a copy of http://ubuntu.com desktop edition and play with it. you'll be surprised how usable Linux is as a desktop these days - it spots many innovations that eclipse the default user experience of either Windows or the Mac.
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Sudo is at the top of my list for poorly named commands. There's nothing self-explanatory about it.
- Michael Fidler
"It seems to me getting good at writing comments is an under-appreciated part of a Programmer's development. However, I feel that this is a part of programming that's almost as important as writing code itself. So, here are some of the biggest misconception about comments:"
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
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"Jason Baker gives his take on the biggest misconceptions about code comments: 1) Comments are free ('When you update the code that the comment references, you usually have to update the comment as well'). 2) Comments make code more readable ('by far the most pervasive myth that I've encountered'). 3) You should comment every function, method, class, and module ('documenting something...
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- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Great share! I too agree with him 'comments do not make code more readable' as we all have been taught to believe in. Comments distract the reader from the true purpose of the code, comments should be kept as short and sweet as possible, contrary to what we have been told - 'make comments descriptive and long'
- TrafficBug
Agree. But I do think that the principals of commenting myth roots from people simply not commenting - in those cases, commenting is better than no comments what-so-ever. In many code with detailed comments I find them more noisy then they're worth. - those comments however are useful for reference generation. usually it's more helpful if the programmer spend some time doing high level documentation + wiki their architecture. The README files are helpful that way when they're well written :)
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
"Using classical Greek pottery as its starting point, I continue to create erotica on eggshells. After a period of copying figures from classical pottery, I began by the late 1990’s to create new eggs from mixing these ancient images in ways that fit my own personal fantasies. During this time I started developing techniques for working on eggshells (scratching, brush painting with dyes and painting with bleach on a dyed shell) that allowed me a new visual vocabulary for representing the human figure. In the past few years I have moved from using pottery imagery to my own erotic photography for references in creating a new body of Contemporary erotica. Eggshells are a wonderful medium to manifest erotica – for they connote (in themselves) not only new life, new beginnings, but the sexual union necessary for their very existence. Within each shell lies the balance of female and male sexual energies, a perfect metaphor for an essential human struggle – how to balance the various...
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- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
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"http://www.mikecelona.net - Dreamlike ride through Rochester, NY during a heavy rain storm. Features an original soundtrack consisting of multiple layers of electric bass and keyboards fed through tremolo and stereo delay pedals and recorded to analog tape. The video was shot with an (relatively) old Sony TRV-27 standard def mini-DV camcorder and was upconverted to HD for YouTube so that they would allow it to retain more of it's image/sound quality."
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
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happy new year Bret! But please, can you kill that pretty f***in' duck? Thank you so much :) I love you
- v per vitzbank
A good idea,relaxing.Let's be fair, and thank Bret .Biraz olumlu olsak bir şey kaybetmeyiz...Bardak doluyken de,boşken de kırılabilir.Önemli olan kırmamaktır.Sevgi-Saygılarımla...
- Dedegi
i dont love your present actually i hate it and i wanna kill it but it doesnt work. İts immortal. So could you please remove your fucking duck? And also its not lovely. By the way, Happy new year Bret, may it be the best for you
- özge gürçay
conan mutlu yıllar diler!! (kafamda cenk tutuyor şu an kendisi.. bu kadar içmenin, bu kadar karıştırmanın, bu kadar eğlenmenin üstüne bir de sabah 11 gibi uyumanın hiç mi hiç gereği yoktu!)
yok be pinkom.. nedense kusmam ben pek alkol aldığımda.. 2 kere kustum hayatimda birisinde eve kiz atmistim (allahin sopasi yok) diğerinde de garip bi şekilde sabah uyandigimda kustum..
- uur "azuth" parıldak
karistirmak bana da iyi gelmedi- once bira, ustune sampanya onun da ustune kirmizi sarap...ve gece 12 yi goremedim! sabah 10:30 da kalktim- basagrisi ve koccaman sis gozlerle...neyse agri kesici, kahve spor kendime yeni yeni geliyorum...bir daha icmiycem bir sure!
- Petek(UCB)_
“My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones.” - Paul Klee, 1901 diary entry.
- Adriano
I didn't realize that Paul Klee is so sexy!!! :D Oh I wish that I was born in the decade so I can go friend him :)
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
My favorite artist. I remember writing a freshman English biography of him in 1959
- Alan Morris
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I know what you mean... Been considering to remove it for some time. But then theres the surprise aspect to it that can be kind of fun. Thanks for the tip about RescueTime, seems useful.
- Jesper Lind
Well I do use it - just not on Friendfeed - it's interesting to see the charts go up and down for sure - but not suitable for lifestreaming (I don't want people to know just how distracted I can be) :D
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
RescueTime is cool - and it compares your productivity averages with other people - it used to be all free but I guess it now has a pricing structure if you want deeper analytics - but it's nice overall.
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
You are right, Wakoopa are too noisy for lifestreaming. I removed my stream now. Was tempted to "Also delete imported entries" but some of them has comments in Friendfeed so I kept old entries. 2010 = cleanup time.
- Jesper Lind
oh just so you know though - I am not complaining. I just commented on behalf of myself - simply because I feed FF to Facebook and I just don't want it to be too crazy. What I do instead (so that I will still continue to index and collect data) is I just set up FF groups with settings: only admin can post, anyone can comment then let them index its way and do its own thing. eg:...
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- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Don't worry. Been thinking to do this for a while. I have added it to my private ego-room instead. Wakoopa items where cluttering my lifestream: http://jesperlind.se I have been thinking to add a noise filter thingy with jQuery, but it's gonna take a while, so Wakoopa has to go for now.
- Jesper Lind
btw, what do you use to transform your lifestream on your site? Custom built / lib / what is it?
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Great advise ablut clustering. I have removed my Friendfeed stream from Facebook. Felt sorry for my fiends having the data storm in there. But with clustering like you suggested I might add some stuff again.
- Jesper Lind
Yes my lifestream is custom build with the API. I actually has a brand new API a friend made against version 2. But we lost steam when the Facebook buy out happened. I will try to give it a test run when I get the time and build something.
- Jesper Lind
FF API? Open source? I asked because I noticed some people using a similar design _somewhere_ but I don't remember where I saw it (and it's definitely someone from FF so they might be your friends) anyhow. Why did Facebook buying it change anything?
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
wow I just noticed that every single comment I made here will get indexed with high visibility on your lifestream! Is it server-based or client-based? want to know how index'able those things are :) - not that I mindtoo much... but just want to know
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
btw one thing that I've noticed that you might want to look into is that there is no way from your current stream to link back to the discussion - it seems to me that it would make more sense to link to this discussion - right now everything on your stream link to either the users participated in the discussion or the link to the item - so a time stamp of the original post perhaps should link to the permalink of the feed item perhaps? just a thought...
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
My friend who made the API never used it in public. Must have been some other implementation you seen that looks like mine. I was insppired by a few but can't remember which now. The API we got is just a data access layer but it's very cool. Can do all sorts of query's against the Friendfeed data.
- Jesper Lind
Facebook buyout changed things in a way that at the time it felt unsure if Friendfeed was gonna continue so it didn't feel so fun to develop extensions on top of it. But I guess we know now that is gonna stay. I would love to dig around in the data and firgure out fun stuff to do with it, but at the moment I have to do customers projects and.
- Jesper Lind
You are how ever giving my very nice ideas. Links back to the discussion should of couse be there. Perhaps also have perma links on my site. Then it would be more indexable for search engines. At the moment content never stays on the same "page" so search engines always find new stuff.
- Jesper Lind
well content doesn't have to be on the same 'page' to be indexable - I ask these questions though as I am trying to build a personal history search engine. And I thought that friendfeed pretty much saved me a ton of time trying to build something from scratch :)
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
True. I use it as mine as a search engine all the time so Friendfeed is perfect for that. Sort of same as searching in in FF web client though.
- Jesper Lind
i see - but it does let you go all the way back to page 1 yes? I ask because Twitter only allow you access up to 3200 tweets - everything else is not accessible. This is why it prompted a friend of mine to try to find a tweet indexing service - but I noticed that since Friendfeed indexed all the tweets, it makes it possible to find them. I haven't tingled with its api yet so i have zero...
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- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
btw, I just realize what your twitter username codeod meant. Smart + witty!
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
The artists list is really, really close to my overall top artists list, which probably says more about how much more heavily I've been using last.fm this year. I didn't realize I'd listened to Middle Cyclone that much! But apparently it's mostly due to People Got a Lotta Nerve on repeat? Huh. I know that's why the Initial Friend EP is there - many repeats of Papillon. :) Interesting that I've listened to Grow Up and Blow Away more than Fantasies.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
That could because Grow Up and Blow Away has the only two people who ever really lived in Las Vegas ;)
- Michael W. May
That is VERY possible, MWM. Actually, looks like a lot of Grow Up songs are higher than Fantasies songs - I wonder if it's just because I listened to Fantasies a lot on disc, so they weren't tracked.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Jandy, I've noticed my annual list is very similar to my overall list: http://ff.im/dE9tZ. Thanks for the idea. I'm wondering what other sites gave out yearly stats, Twitter? It would be a good idea to capture them today. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
"In both the Google and Facebook examples, going to the “next” page is metaphor by an arrow facing right. Neither of these examples is dealing with chronological content, but it still sets a fairly strong standard that the “next” page is directionally “right”. If you look a Google Blog Search, which is chronological, they use the next/right standard. So in implementing pagination on a blog’s front page, the only pagination button that makes sense is “older posts”, because the newest is shown first. Do we use the next/right standard?"
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
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Yogurt and computer screen energy can keep you alive for surprisingly long time ;) But not for ever.. Take care of you self. And happy new years!
- Jesper Lind
@Jesper.Lind No go with the yogurt anymore. Apparently they were staled... Now found a pack of instant noodle and full 70 servings (15 calories each) of bottled whipped cream! No take out in neighborhood open. what a drag!
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
At least numerous noodle is better than no noodle but I wouldn't want to risk any creamy noodle! Ooer!
- Simon Curran