read phonetically and think like a 2nd grader - Michael W. May
A school teacher asks little Johnny to make sentences with the words detail, deduct, defeat and defense. He responds that he can do it in one sentence. "Defeat of deduct went over defense before detail." - Scott Cropper
huh, that's odd, I was under the impression that you were the Senior Executive Vice *Group* Director of VP Coordination & Vision... did you not allocate your synergies properly and get demoted?? - felix
"Senior Executive Vice Director of VP Coordination & Vision" and "Deputy Senior VP of Strategic Synergy" Fantastic! SEVP of VPCP and DSVP of SS... - Mitchell Tsai
Ah! Interesting :) The funniest is that these guys don't even wear shoes at work, and play with thier bicycles in the office - directeur via NoiseRiver
ok pauls title is really wacky - "Sr. Executive Vice Director of VP Coordination & Vision" - like wtf does that mean ? SERIOUSLY !! btw what does "VP" stand for ? - Peter Dawson
Scott Adams (?): "If it's more than two words, it's not a career" - Philipp Lenssen
I want Senior Fetchit Boy reporting the Staff Photographer. - Russellreno
These are beyond fantastic. Can I be your Human Branding Liaison? - Ginger Makela
I know a guy who runs a 600-person company, and walks around the offices barefoot! Not even sandals. My brother works there - Rhythm & Hues Studios - http://rhythm.com - Mitchell Tsai
Another company I helped rented a house at the beach - rather than a traditional office. Lot of fun having meetings there. They took surfing breaks for lunch. - Mitchell Tsai
I think i need to include those in full in all posts from now on - MG Siegler
longest title i've ever seen - you could have thrown in an acronym! - Allen Stern
You need a staff librarian. No, really, you do. I'm available, and like most librarians, I work cheap. - Cecily Walker
Did you guys steal these titles from Yahoo? - Eric Eldon
Is Ana still the "Chief Miscellaneous Officer" or does she go by a different title these days? Also, I'd like to know the other FFers' titles. - April Buchheit
Did you get to make up your own? The coolest title I've seen has been for a Microsoft employee - Professional Geek (before he worked there his title was Amateur Geek) - Craig Thomler
I actually have an outstanding diplomatic relations issue with wyoming. Who would I talk to about that? - J. Phil
So Bret, what's your title ? (This kind of culture is the kind that spawns neat stuff. Always has, always will. Keep it up!) - Charlie Anzman
Mine is "Supreme Allied Commander." I was always jealous of NATO. - Bret Taylor
I'm a little scared that some people don't seem to realize it's a joke. - Alan Cheslow
And here I was soo confused thinking Bret was the CEO! hehehe (ok he really is guys!!) - Susan Beebe
I just noticed Casey has Asian strategy in Wyoming? yo what?! - that's funny! - Susan Beebe
Do you have any Master Squirrel Hearders (project mgrs) yet?? that's my specialty - Susan Beebe
I really want a title too. If I bring all the Mommybloggers over...I better get one dammit - Erin Kotecki Vest
So is Casey's job to reach out to those parts of the world that twitter works? - Nancy Babyak
I got mine this morning: "Kevin Fox - Comptroller Third-Class, Tiger Team V" We are so going to kick Tiger Team III's ass at this year's interoffolympics!!! - Kevin Fox
haha! I wish more work places were like this. - Tsega D
I'd like to be the senior vice associate president of all things that the senior executive vice director of vp coordination and vision doesn't see. - Robert Scoble
Nice job title Paul! Did you try to max out the characters that would fit? :) - Alex Barbara
way to go guys, onwards and upwards! good luck! you haven't worked at a real startup unless there is a foozball table or a pool table. looks like you are legit :) - Ivan Stegic
a malmo chair from ikea! the very same colour as mine! - Giovanni De Stefano
I like that office, I wish mine was that nice!! - Paul
It seems you bought more tables and chairs to hire more hackers. I like how open your office is. - seman
We actually didn't buy any tables or chairs - they were left here by the last company. We have a table/chair graveyard in the back as a consequence :) - Bret Taylor
It looks exactly the same as the old office... - Jini
The red chair is still my favorite, but it looks like I have more seats to try out. - Amit Patel
On first thought - great Place! I like the open air about it... but on second thought I don't think I can work in such an open space. I just need my personal space. - Parth Awasthi
sweet, but I'd put those pool cues in a cue holder or they will bend stored leaning against a wall...causing bad shots. also sunlight on pool table will cause fading, but you probably will just get a new table eventually w/ all the success! :) - Pokai
sacrilege to say I think it looks pretty ugly? - Adam
Ross! This live video feed rocks! Only problem with living vicariously through you is that I have much less time to live vicariously through myself. Mini golf and organic yogurt through your eyes is just too entertaining ... - Tom
This also looks like a "Battleship" tournament... Kevin, in fact, appears to be making the "you sank my battleship!" gesture. - Chris Reed
Great to see a company firing on all cylinders - Mike Doeff
Josh: the key is extremely large screens so you can't actually see the person in front of you. - Bret Taylor
Man, do people get sent to sit by the bathroom and public writeboard as punishment? - Stepan Mazurov
I brought a t-shirt to change into after biking to work, but I didn't bother. I might have made a different choice if I'd known it would be blogged... :-) - Kevin Fox
@Kevin: You match the rug and lamp so it's working. :) - Tsega D
Awesome window into FF Bret. Really like the transparency and willingness to speak openly with the community and those who are critical of FF. Enjoyed that Qik inteview by what's his name... - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Wow you guys have really grown and your office looks more colorful than the "garden variety" Google office space! - Bindu Reddy
Keep up the good work. You'll all have corner offices soon :) - Andrew Smith
i hope one of those people is working on the "page 11" bug! - Nick
I'm with Josh - I'd probably go crazy, no matter how large the screen. - Ontario Emperor
Wait, there's somebody on the other side of my monitor? - Casey Muller
im all up in paul's code now! and that guy in the orange really sits up straight - Allen Stern
I want to go and meet Bret, Paul, Dave, and the gang!! - Susan Beebe
I see nobody will finish off that Old Time Candy. As your mothers likely told you, you can't have more until you finish what you already have! - Louis Gray
Louis: we ate all of our favorites. Apparently no one wants to eat the wax lips. That was the best gift we have ever gotten, by the way. You rock, Louis. - Bret Taylor
Bret, but shouldn't the interns _have_ to wear the wax lips as some form of initiation? - Louis Gray
So that's where all my attention went! :-) - Robert Scoble
"This year, however, proponents of same-sex marriage have found encouragement in both the California Supreme Court decision and in a subsequent order by Gov. David A. Paterson of New York, instructing agencies in his state to recognize same-sex marriages performed legally elsewhere. The California court has also rebuffed several challenges to its May 15 decision, made by two conservative legal groups and by Republican attorneys general who fear that the California marriages will lead to legal challenges brought in their own states." - Bret Taylor
The current UK administration defused the issue of same sex unions by the introduction of Civil Partnerships in 2005 linked to an across the board change of relevant laws to provide parity with married couples - with the exception of those with religiious objections (who should really know better) this has gone smoothly and been introduced across the UK. Its not called a marriage but has all the advantages (and responsibilities!) of the mixed sex varaint. - Jican
It makes me very happy to see gay folks entering the light in California. I'm also very amused at how frustrating it must be to the Right. Well, I guess in a few years one of us will be proven right. Either a small percentage of the population of California will be happily married and gay or the country will lay in smouldering ruins and people will be having sex with box turtles. - Tad Donaghe
Tad: I feel a box turtle urge coming on! Hah. - Robert Scoble
@Tad - I had box turtles as pets when I was kid. Never considered that activity with them though... - Hutch Carpenter
"It does not affect your daily life very much if your neighbor marries a box turtle. But that does not mean it is right. Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife." - Rick Santorum (Idiot) ex-Senator from Virginia - Tad Donaghe
Dude in the pic with "Bruce Willis" is freakin HYOOOGE! I wonder how many opponents of gay marriage have been pwned by his hand...LOL - Rahsheen Porter
Whoa, don't push Santorum on us Virginians! hehe - Jody Carbone
Oh crap - sorry to pollute Virginia with Santorum! Oops. I wouldn't wish that on anyone... - Tad Donaghe
I hope it "sticks". My boyfriend and I are waiting until after November. To have the rug pulled from under us after enjoying a few months of wedded bliss would be too much for the heart to bear. - Jason Menayan
Congrats to all the new couples, with wishes for many happy years. - Chris Baskind
In my home town in Austria, we had a case of a black man and a white woman wanting to marry, they ended up being refused by the marriage registrar. Of course, we also haven't got gay marriage legalized here. The US have problems, but in some cases, law is way more progressive than in Europe. - sebmos
@Phil: LOL! This has certainly been a momentous (and good) development. But it would be nice to see these kinds of decisions made through the legislative process. The fact that this decided in the courts will make the outcome more contentious than it would have been had the population been forced to have a legitimate conversation about the issue. The more bigoted corners of our society now have a victim card to play - and play it they shall... - Forrest Cox
@Forrest: The genius of our system of government lies in its checks and balances. In particular, an unfettered democracy would be subject to the problem of the "tyranny of the majority". Fortunately this is offset by our Constitution and our courts, whose job is to ensure that individual rights are not trampled on, no matter how unpopular that individual may be, for whatever reason. Any bigots playing the victim card are ignorant of basic civics. - Ruchira S. Datta
@Ruchira I agree. The Cali court is playing exactly its Constitutional role, and it's essentially a conservative and Federalist approach to reconciling changing societal mores and the demands of a minority. As I've commented elsewhere, we are winning this argument, and we're doing it state by state, rather than through a Federal fiat, which simply is not feasible at this time. All good things... - Rick Powell
I hate morning radio talk shows, I listen mostly to music, but when I listen to talk it's either comedy or news(npr, bbc, cnbc) - clarke thomas
monsters in the morning (http://monsters.fm) is good for when I don't feel like listening to the news on the way to work - acedanger via twhirl
I HATE talk shows. Especially when random people call in to comment on something stupid. - Sheila Taylor
I haven't listed to music on the radio for years. I love talk radio and news - WFPL in Louisville is my favorite, most of the time in the morning is spent listening to: http://friendfeed.com/toddmund... - Vince DeGeorge
This absolutely looks like one of the commercials the Taylor family made years ago when we were all together at Thanksgiving. We did commercials and game shows. Never did wine, though! - Sheila Taylor
computer scientists aim to create stuff...like gods do :P ...those guys above just try to analyze last things with language...which is a failure from the beginning. - krz9000
@krz9000: computer scientists are engineers, who create practical things for people to play with. Everything above doesn't try to create so much as understand the universe, thus, way more pure ;) - Shannon Jiménez
Hey, I had an emphasis in biology! Soooo, I guess I'm purer than myself... - Amber
I don't understand why the girl on the right doesn't see the guy a few feet to her right? You know, the logician? After all, mathematics is just applied logic. - Kevin Fox
and Art tries to visually represent the universe in all these ways and from all these points of view (and more). In this comic, Art isn't on the graph, Art is the graph! ;) - Rachel L Fisher
"Nicholas Carrasco, a 29-year-old software programmer in Arlington, Va., uses FriendFeed to keep his friends up to date on everything he's done lately online, like uploading a photo to Flickr, writing a blog post on Google's Blogger site or sending a message on Twitter. He doesn't have to do this manually; FriendFeed tracks his activity automatically and his friends can see his "feed" by using FriendFeed or by looking at a special area of his page on Facebook. Previously, these friends would have had to separately visit Flickr, Blogger and Twitter to see Mr. Carrasco's updates on those sites." - Bret Taylor
very cool to see you guys getting such great mainstream press coverage already. - Robert Seidman
"The Australian researchers did detect trace quantities of a peppery molecule in shiraz wine, but not enough to analyze it. So they looked for the same molecule in ground white pepper, and found it at levels of a few parts per million — enough to positively identify it as a chemical called rotundone.... The Australian scientists may also have discovered how these highly spiced potatoes were allowed to leave the kitchen: they tested 49 people and found that about 20 percent of them could not detect rotundone at all, even at concentrations far above what’s found in white pepper. The scientists say this shows the different experiences two people can have of the same wine, or of the same pepper-seasoned food." - Shannon Jiménez
Does this mean I can get Weez to stop talking about my pepper soup? - Sheila Taylor
No, it just means that Dad isn't one of the 20% that can't taste it! - Shannon Jiménez
"Look in particular at squares A and B. A appears to be dark grey, B appears to be white or whitish. But in fact, they are the same exact color.
Don' t believe it? Me neither! Or at least, I didn't until I went ahead and deleted most everything that is not A or B from this picture."
- Shannon Jiménez
Yep. I didn't believe it either, so I copied the pic and edited it myself. Way cool. - Shannon Jiménez
Erick just watched as I erased the edges and says it is so weird that it doesn't seem possible :) - Shannon Jiménez
It's all because shadows are really dark, as measured physically, but you still need to be able to see white things in the shadows and know they're white. Put another way, you judge the darkness of something by inferring the darkness of the pigment that covers it, not by whether it's in a shadow or not. - j1m
