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
“Testing on big new SmugMug feature going well. Looking solid for a release tonight (*knock on wood*). Don't have PR, so who wants to cover it? Robert? Mike? :)”
I've always felt that your users/customers should be your biggest evangelists - why not let us shout about it from the rooftops? Give us a nice blog post/screencast to point to, and you'll have saved all that money on the PR firm ;-) - David Sifry via twhirl
+1 to Mike Doeff. Post it on friendfeed. It will get around, no press needed. - Erica Baker
Any guesses what it could be!! Something BIG?? - Satya
Don, from now on, give it to Mark Bennett and he'll give it to me. :-) - Louis Gray
I vote Friendfeed too! Inject the news here and it can go viral through the conversations in the blogging community. - Larry Kless
Interesting idea. Wonder if it'll work? Won't everyone be asleep soon (or is already asleep), then we'll get lost in all the noise overnight? Hmmm... - Don MacAskill
@Shawn Nope, bigger than that. The logo, btw, is changing to be more a more typical subtle transparent grey logo ala broadcast TV. sorry about the green. think it's quite a bit smaller too. - Don MacAskill
@Shawn we can't get rid of the logo entirely because we believe it'll break our business model. Sorry about that, but it certainly shouldn't be intrusive like it is. That's our bad. - Don MacAskill
Sleep is for the weak. Gimmie features features features! ;) - Evan Sims
I'm looking for an excuse to move my 35,000 photos off of Flickr and onto something a bit more... not Yahoo. - Pat Hawks
@Don Sounds like fun, I'd take you up on the offer if I was in the valley. - Larry Kless
@Pat Just curious to see if our new feature will be of interest or not. dSLR helps. But a big dSLR, like a 1DS or 5D or something, would help even more. We'll see - hope you'll love it. - Don MacAskill
@Evan Sims, I found Migratr to work extremely well too. Smugglr didn't quite seem up to the task for me. Once you move over I reckon there is little moving back. I still put the best 1 or 2 shots each week on flickr as I still want more people to see my photos. That is the bit I miss at smugmug - the feeling that fewer people are seeing my shots - maybe that is just an imagined thing anyway.... - David Pascoe
Whew. Stupid legalese almost tanked the release tonight. We just deleted the offending passages. Hope that's ok. :) Testing resumes... last few bugs in sight, I hope? - Don MacAskill
Can I get an invite, please? mkoeneker@gmail.com Thanks in advance. :) - Mathew A. Koeneker
Robert is correct. I have sleep issues as in I forsake it all too often. :) - Mathew A. Koeneker
I need to get some sleep cause I have to be up early for our WorkFast.tv show in the morning. Hey, Don, I'll give you guys a shout-out on that show if the feature gets done tonight. - Robert Scoble
Hi Don, continuing our conversation from yesterday, who are your target audience for Smugmug? Any section in particular? - Palin Ningthoujam
@Palin Anyone who places value in the photos they take. Families, travelers, serious amateurs, Pros, etc. You name it - as long as they think their photos are worth paying something to save and keep. - Don MacAskill
@Don, and they should be internet users, not necessarily active internet users or social media users? - Palin Ningthoujam
@Don, all the best on the new feature release. I'll check out your FF room. - Larry Kless
@Palin They need an internet connection, sure, but other than that, nothing else is a requirement or a target for us. We're certainly not targeting social networking or hardcore geeks or anything like that, if that's what you're asking. - Don MacAskill
I liek Smugmug, and I liek the company, but I shoot a fair amount of glamour / nudes and the "big brother" aspect is too intrusive. - Soulhuntre via twhirl
@Soulhuntre I'm not sure what's "big brother" about requiring family-safe images. We're not spying on you or anything, we just want you to put them on some other service. - Don MacAskill
Man I love this company. California's still going strong at 2am, testing all the corner cases, and our European employees are just rolling in to help. Awesome. - Don MacAskill
What an interesting conversation! I know, a like sums up that sentiment, but a like and a similar comment do the trick better :) - Eric Florenzano
Dang, we're wiped out. California SmugMuggers dropping like flies. I'm next. We'll pick it up after we catch some Zzzzzs. Party at SmugMug HQ in a few hours? :) - Don MacAskill
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
Congrats and thanks for the fantastic app! - J. Phil
Amazing. Obviously the best first round of Google employees (gmail, reader) are moving on. It will be interesting to see how the company adapts / evolves. - Brandon Werner
Really bummed to see you go Chris, but congrats. - Mike Yang
Good luck and thanks for your work in making GReader so awesome. - Dana Franks via twhirl
Thanks for your work on GReader. It's an essential part of my daily workflow. Good luck! - Chris Baskind
Without Google Reader, I would be so much more productive. And also more boring and less knowledgeable since I'd read fewer feeds. Thanks for all the hard work and good luck for the future! - Tony Ruscoe
Wow, thanks a lot for your great work on Reader. It's really changed a lot of peoples' lives (including mine). - Jake
Definitely thanks for your work. It changed my life so much that I decided to build one. - Elias Torres
I wonder what Googlers realy mean when they congratulate other Googlers when they announce their plans to leave.... - Bindu Reddy
Bye Chris...THANK YOU... gReader is my friend and you made that possible :-) - Susan Beebe
@Bindu I suspect its "Take me with you!" ;) j/k - Erica Baker
Google Reader -- one of my top 5 favorite programs of all time. - Sean McBride
"I want to recognize all of you for the unbelievable commitment and energy that you have demonstrated over the last several months as we continue to fulfill our strategic objective..." How inspiring -- I've always dreamt of fulfilling strategic objectives :) - Paul Buchheit
Paul: my strategic objective is to do a killer interview of Salesforce.com's CEO tomorrow. :-) - Robert Scoble
"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
