Wow, do they really taste like that? That's awesome. I'm not sure I could even imagine what a Dr. Pepper-flavored donut would be like. - ⓞnor
I didn't buy any because this plays into my wifes theory that American food companies are just inventing new ways to make people fat. Bacon and regular donuts are already doing a fine job on my body, why mess with fate. - Jason Shellen
food that tastes like some other food has always freaked me out. maybe i'm just weird... - chartreuse
That does suck when you use the nuclear option on something you you wanted to do as well. You do have the option as a parent to change your mind. I hope your move is going well though it sounds like there might have been a small toll. - Jason Shellen
Isn't the nuclear option where you hire a sitter and then go see it yourself alone? - Chris White
yeah...the packing (thanks for your thoughts btw!) may have just pushed him over the edge :) but, we can't back down now! - don loeb
In 10 years he'll find this in the next version of the wayback machine while searching for stuff about dad. He'll be amused and vaguely remember why he was upset except now, he'll be able o verbalize it like an adult and you'll both laugh and watch Wall-E together again for the 27th time since July 4, 2008. - Erica Baker
Adults can verbalize why they have temper tantrums? I thought we just rationalized our selfishness and used passive aggresive retaliation instead. - ⓞnor
we're paying the price for keeping everyone up for fireworks last night -and we haven't even taken anything away yet. - matt shobe
erica: like your in 10 yrs comment don: feeling your pain, my youngest (16 y/o now) was constantly "punished" when that age & we never could give in or back down else he would rule us - we figured he'd be a dictator when he grew up, time will tell ;) - mike "glemak" dunn
ok...so, he apologized to his mom this morning and was a very good boy all day, so we went tonight - yes jason, we (parents) can changed our minds! plus,.i neglected to mention that we're moving on thursday and tomorrow is his 6th bday. so, i gave him another chance. :) - don loeb
We use many forms of the nuclear option. The funny thing about missing out on Wall E is that the kid is probably going to see that movie 50 times over the next 3 years :) - Christian Burns
He's only 6, unless he committed a capital crime, perhaps forgiveness is in order. And a movie. - Steve Pribut
“Another Vegas heads up I heard today from a decent source: If you wanted to go to the Star Trek Experience at the Hilton, better make your plans soon because it's apparently closing for good by September...”
Bummer. Glad we're going to see it in August. Last time I saw it, it was looking quite run-down. - Cyrus Lendvay
The "backstage tour" of that ride is really awesome. Maybe five times more impressive than the ride itself, if you're at all interested in engineering, experience design, or general geekery. - ⓞnor
Looks kinda Star Trek Next Generation, which I never got into. - Chris White
It's a lot of fun, though like Sea World and Universal didn't hold up on repeat visits since with the exception to the Borg addition two years ago, hasn't really changed since opening. Still, it's going to be missed.. - Chris Reed
Shellen! let me know if you want help with this, as I feel I have finally mastered the art of craigslist using feeds and my hidden super powers :) - jenna
FF and Twitter are where I crowd-source all my design and shopping needs for my business. - Jason Shellen
I wonder, has anyone's flip-out USB connector snapped off yet? :-) - Slippy Lane
I've actually been using the 2GB version of these cards for a few years now. I've never had an issue with them. They are fantastic. I just saw the 2GBs are $22 on Amazon. Why would you buy any other SD card when these are available? I wish microSD had some similar innovation. - Jason Shellen
also 2GB has problems with old Windows PCs (W2K has no fix, and for XP there is need for patch) - silpol
and I prefer Sandisk's MicroMate as USB reader vs all this mechanically-less-reliable usb flips - silpol
Ah karma! What did I do to you?!? My 2gb SD card w/ flip out usb thingy broke(ish) this morning when I went to download some pictures. I've had the thing for almost 3 years... so I guess it was only a matter of time. And the card still works. It is like when escalators break down to become stairs. Sad... but still get the job done. - Michael Leggett
An escalator can never break. It can only become stairs. You would never see an "Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order" sign, just "Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience." -Mitch Hedberg - Michael Leggett
the Vista license that also includes the downgrade to XP? I've seen people ordering that way recently at work(mainly Dells I think) - Jeff Quinton
I haven't ever used Vista but kinda liked XP. That might work. - Jason Shellen
I have a dual boot Ubuntu/Vista laptop,Vista has way too many blue screens of death (the first one happened when it was a week old) - Jeff Quinton
the version called leopard? Ooops, I mean the tiger one. Yeah, thats the ticket. - Micah Baldwin
no one __needs__ a Vista liscense, Ubuntu is ready - Nathan Eckenrode
My account needs a machine to run Quickbooks on so this machine needs to kill a few birds with one Vista license. Yes, Leopards all around for product/eng people or Ubuntu depending on personal choice. - Jason Shellen
Fantastic walk-thru of change and some development screenshot in the Wells Fargo ATM interface. An improvement I am thankful for often. - Jason Shellen
"blue monday" seems like strange colour choice for an office. I mean, my Monday's are hard enough without the paint as a reminder;) - Dylan Parker
I was thinking more the positive association of New Order with Blue Monday. - Jason Shellen
New Order's Blue Monday is not exactly up lifting! - RAPatton
At least it's not the color of my sons' new rooms: Sheer Romance! I can only imagine what would happen in the Plinky offices with that shade... - Jeff Eddings
thanks, we're really bummed, but big sur will still be there and we can rebuild...i hope nobody reading this EVER has loses a place near to their heart like this - Peter Fenton
Peter, I'm so sorry... I hope you can manage to have a happy birthday in the midst of the challenge. - Bradley Horowitz
Ai!! That is truly awful. I am so sorry. And not just the house, but the gardens too, all those roses ... is it all black all around there? Anything salvageable? - Stewart
will know more tomorrow, but it looks like a total loss... - Peter Fenton
Sorry to hear this, it looks like such a beautiful area. - Jim Norris
My husband and I were greatly saddened and distressed to hear about the destruction of the Stone House and so much of the surrounding area that was dear to my husband's father, Harry Lafler, who-- as you know-- built the Stone House in 1925 and homesteaded Lafler Canyon in 1909. We are following the story on the Internet but would also appreciate hearing from you when you know the extent of the damage. - Joanne Lafler
Joanne, amazing you found me! i'm heading down today, hoping to see what's there, hoping to the high heavens that the stone work remains....will send an update once i know more - Peter Fenton
Thanks for your reply, Peter. I found you through Denise Sallee, who was the first to inform us about the ravages of the fire. The house has not been in the Lafler family since the early 1960s, when John's mother was in a bad financial way and had to sell the remaining Lafler property in Big Sur, but John and I had spent our honeymoon there some years earlier and we still feel a strong attachment to it. More than strong! John hardly remembers his father, who died when John was only five, so the house was a tangible connection. We have not been up there for about 25 years, when we had permission of the then owner to scatter his mother's ashes. I am in the final stages of writing a biography of Harry Lafler, and I never imagined that it would end this way. So yes, please, let us know how much of the structure survived. I suppose that at some time we might wish to pay our last respects, if that is all right with you. you are ever interested in seeing photographs of the early history of the house-- - Joanne Lafler
.just back from the remains of house, hill still on fire we had helicopters above us dumping water as we climbed up the smokey hillside. heartbroken, but also still felt the magic of the place. i'll post photos tonight. needless to say i shed more than a tear. joanne. pls email me at pfenton@benchmark.com. would love to share photos, etc - Peter Fenton
yep...i have no idea how to really ferberize...we just can't stand having the little monster in our bed anymore, so i'm letting him cry in the crib :) - don loeb
nothing wrong with letting them cry. I've been through four of them now. Maybe console him every 20 minutes or so but he'll eventually cry himself to sleep. Whatever you do don't give in and put him in your bed. You'll set a precedent that will be much harder to break later. Good luck. - Thomas Hawk
thx thomas...we made that mistake with our first :( - don loeb
@Thomas: Great advice. Don't give in. And console, then leave. Repeat. Repeat. We didn't do ferber, instead went Baby Whisperer route. - AJ Kohn
still nothing was better than letting my first born Jackson fall asleep on my chest, those days are long gone. I can't believe he's 7 now. - Thomas Hawk
No ferber for us. Wife doesn't have the nerves. Our 16mo is at least now out of our bed in his own bed in the same room. Baby steps. - Dylan Parker
i guess we are hard asses. we had our kids sleeping in their own rooms from day 1. and at age 1 they all had jobs and were living on their own. - peter
this is an entertaining thread...so, 1039pm and he's asleep :) - don loeb
Just gets easier from here. Stay strong! - Stephen Mack
"In addition, Yahoo! and Google agreed to enable interoperability between their respective instant messaging services, bringing easier and broader communication to users.
The agreement allows either party to terminate the agreement in the event of a change in control of either party. The agreement also requires Yahoo! to pay a termination fee if the agreement is terminated as a result of a change in control that occurs within 24 months. The termination fee is $250 million, subject to reduction by 50 percent of revenues earned by Google under the agreement." - Paul Buchheit
I wonder if that will happen any faster than the Google/AIM integration, which took years. - Paul Buchheit
If you don't know who Julia Allison is then it's way less funny, however the unfortunate camera angle is funny in it's own right. She seriously brought this dog to a club. WTF? - Jason Shellen
She's the Paris Hilton of the tech world. Sad. - Duncan Riley
Ugh. Please, please, please stop calling it a "bump." It is a pound or some dap but not a bump. - Erica Baker
They're all good as terms - known it as a bump since the 70s so I'm ok with it. 'Course it's all really just dignity and pride by any name, no? - Chris Wetherell
I cannot BELIEVE the amount of attn this simple gesture has received...LOL. And Chris come to the new millenium [even if I can't spell it] it is DAP! - Ruth Ferguson
as the token Australian, can someone explain to me what it is they are doing? - Duncan Riley
@Duncan Riley: ha! that's the problem. no one can decide. - edythe
@duncan, its american blackeze for "whats up my N!@^ER?" - Tyler
That's a fist bump. I'm sure we could get the worlds foremost expert on fistbumping and lolcats to weigh in on the subject. Paging Anil Dash, paging Anil Dash. - Jason Shellen
And according to urbandictionary it looks like dap is also an acronym for "double anal penetration." Damn, uncool. Makes it WAY more confusing given the term I'd prefer as an appellation for a gesture. I guess "bump" it is. :) - Chris Wetherell
"Fist Bump" is ok. Not just "Bump" though. - David Cook
Ha. Can't say I didn't attempt to educate the masses. :) - Erica Baker
Oh good lord. Someone hire Aaron Sorkin to write lines and direction for politicians.. this is getting more painful to watch every day. Gah! - Jason Shellen
For you west coasters: it's not New York City or NYC or the Big Apple or any other literary flourish you want to use: it's either "the City" or the specific boro (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, the Bronx). - Mark Trapp
I've grew up in LA...it's not a city. Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, the Bronx are not neighborhoods of SF. :) SFO is the airport. If you are at the airport, that works great. San Francisco is 'The City" on the west coast. - Chris White
The airport is several miles south of the city proper...kinda like the New York Giants or the Los Angeles Angels. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
Mark - Thanks for the info on your 'the city'. I will cease use of NYC immediately. - Jason Shellen
Glad to be of service :-) Bonus points if you refer to the actual neighborhood (Tribeca, SoHo, Midtown, Alphabet City, Astoria, Flatbush, Washington Heights, etc.) - Mark Trapp
Last time I visited New York, I learned how to pronounce "Houston" correctly. - Ontario Emperor
I like to think that there are Manhattanites visiting Texas calling Houston "Howzten". - Jason Shellen
Hahaha! what a nice surprise! Were you all just watching the everyone friendfeed roll by? As for Scoble, I have a feeling that he actually is the machine ourselves ;-) - Andy Sternberg
I think Scobes is just gonna be the first of us to transcend into posthumanity. And then we'll get a blog post with a title like, "Woah! This is SOOOO cool! I'm crying!" - Tad Donaghe
I was told there would be free cake here... - Brett Kelly
@Tad - too funny. I really think Scoble helps set a positive tone in this space. - Andy Sternberg
@Julian it's true -- FF is the ultimate test of: can you leave a comment on a blog (or aggregator) AND remember to responsibly track it / come back to it in good time? I've failed many times in the past by leaving moderately provocative comments on blogs and then fading into the ether. - Andy Sternberg
I'm in the same boat...actually you've one upped me with this post and all the comments here :) - Jennifer Van Grove via Alert Thingy
Funny, I was following Jennifer too (both before I saw this post), but she doesn't tell me anything about Google's new Android, so she isn't interesting either. Hope that helps. - Robert Scoble
it's always a competition with you isn't it, @jbruin ;-p Try me in Scrabulous sometime. - Andy Sternberg
weakness intended. like Julian said above -- it would only pan out on FF and in this stage of the rollout. I was surprised. Then again, I left a summize search open set to friendfeed when I left work and there were a couple hundred new results when I returned, so the buzz is only picking up among the broader microblogging community. Whore-fu that ;-) - Andy Sternberg
Scoble: when people get all iPhone/Android-crazy it really tempts me to start-up the Face-fone rumor. You know, the handset that comes with a multi-touch super-poke proboscis. - Andy Sternberg
[wipes trace of blood from lip] You win THIS round of Attention Whore-fu, Andy. But next time... next time I will link to ARRINGTON. [dramatic music] - Karim
oh man it's harsh times here on FF, I didn't realize I needed to talk about Android to be interesting :), oh and @netzoo I'll take you down at Scrabulous...it's on...just not now @jbruin needs to finish a business spec for a top secret project - Jennifer Van Grove via Alert Thingy
Andy, now you're getting more interesting. Keep it up! :-) - Robert Scoble
well, thanks. I did set the bar pretty low there. This is a very vacant call to arms though -- what if a microblogger SERIOUSLY needed to flag a tweet/post for urgency. should there be standards? I do hate those urgent flags in Outlook, etc, but still... - Andy Sternberg via Alert Thingy
Hi Andy. I "liked" 3 of your items. I'm sure as I have time to go through your FriendFeed stuff that I'll "like" more. Welcome to FriendFeed! ;-) - Mitchell Tsai
you're not alone. then again, i've just recently become a "fan" of friendfeed. there's too much going on at times to capture meaningful content or contributions, but you have to start somewhere i guess. - Cee Bee
JetBlue's A320-200s hold 150 passengers and 6-7 crew. Jet fuel is running $5.50/gal. That's roughly 3,363 gallons of fuel. (Capacity is 6,300 plus an auxiliary tank.) Assuming a full plane, that is 21.5 gallons per passenger. I assume you are leaving from Boston? Seems like high efficiency to me. ;) (before anyone berates me, yes, I agree that planes spew all kinds of filth into the atmosphere and that Shellen should stick to videoconferencing with all those funny talking people in Massachusetts.) - Sacca
wow, that could pay rent for like 3 months in San Francisco. - Thomas Hawk
Assuming that 3,363 gallons are used for the 3,098 miles, that's 0.92 MPG. However, translating it into more practical terms: to travel that many miles in a car, assuming there were 4 passengers and each passenger was allotted 21.5 gallons of fuel for the journey, you would need to get 36 MPG to break even. Makes the $18,500 seem reasonable to me. - Jeremy Brooks
This is why we need solar electric planes! :) - Jason Shellen
Solar produces nowhere near enough power for airplanes. :( @Sacca: the filth that planes spew into the atmosphere might slow global warming! - Amit Patel
Amit - I was *totally* kidding. I do have some solar flashlights I would like to sell you though. ;) - Jason Shellen
I just shared a couple of solar powered airplane videos. - Paul Buchheit
There are other issues such as the chemistry used to create batteries, drain on current inefficient power grids, battery life and longevity, but I like the direction. - Jason Shellen
I like the direction too. One thing to consider is how long it takes to recharge and where the recharging is done. Not everyone has their own garage with an outlet to recharge their electric car. We need to make this more available in city parking and apartment garages. Another thing is coal and natural gas produce CO2 and are also limited natural resources. We definitely should be building a lot more nuclear plants now. - Chris White
