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What I do
Bruce Lewis, Eivind, Iván Abrego and 16 other people liked this
I say it with love.
- Stephen Mack
You direct... Operations!!
- Morton Fox
I think you just made that title up.
- Brian Johns
I want to see Kevin make one of these for UI designer.
- Stephen Mack
I want to see a website where you type in your occupation and then it appends "friends", "mom", "society" etc., takes the 1st google images search result, and pops that into the image. :)
- Steve and 3 other people
That's a great idea, Steve. Do eet!
- Stephen Mack
I tried by starting here: http://code.google.com/apis... but it got complicated fast (wasn't working as expected)
- Steve and 3 other people
Dear Toyota, Where's my 40MPG Hybrid Minivan? Prius V is "Prius with an actual trunk" which doesn't solve for seating. :)
Stephen Mack liked this
Yet it's a 7-Seater everywhere but North America: http://www.toyota.co.uk/cgi-bin...
- Neal Krummell
"seats 7 but only if you sacrifice the trunk" isn't an option for us. :)
- Steve and 3 other people
When I see an iPhone 4, the thing that impresses me the most is how the display surface is right up against the glass. How'd they do it?
Child labor.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
Did you listen to the TAL about it?
- Steve and 3 other people
No, link?
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
Should a library floorplan (featured in the catalog to highlight collection areas) contain relatively extraneous elements? (study tables, water fountains, copy machines, computers). This is the new map I just made and I put everything in to start with.
The tables make it look cluttered to me. Also, do y'all move tables back to the same spot every time they get shifted? We don't, which would also mean the map would quickly be less than 100% accurate.
- Kirsten
Can you put small dots (representing chairs) around the tables so it's clear that they are tables? Also, may depend on how you want people to use this - to find places with seating to study, or just to locate sections like periodicals and popular works.
- Rachel Walden
Kirsten: yeah I had that thought about the tables (as in what if we decide to change them altogether)
- Jason (not an Argonaut)
I would be ambivalent on the tables, but copy machines are not extraneous in my library!
- Megan F
After talking with staff I am going to take the lounge areas (fuschia) and tables (brown) out. I'll see if I can fit a "copy" into the copier section (dark grey)
- Jason (not an Argonaut)
I think the answer depends on what people are asking for. Are they saying "where's a good place for me to use my computer" or "where's the curriculum desk" You could even design 2 different maps -- one for more social spaces, and one specifically for book-related questions.
- Steve and 3 other people
Oh yeah I told them I'll keep this one for other purposes. But the driving need right now is for ?'s like: "Where are the Reference Books" Here is the current map for that http://library.barton.edu/screens...
- Jason (not an Argonaut)
I agree with the importance of copiers. Bathrooms might also be good to include? And labeling the entrance -- I've seen our students turning our maps and themselves around and around until they get oriented around the entrance.
- Amandadon't
We found we needed to note room numbers and call number ranges, office names and bathrooms, but not tables (we have TONS of different study spaces). I don't necessarily think our maps are perfection, but they have been focus-grouped and tweaked according to patron requests, if you want to see them. There are five floors with maps in the main lib and other branch maps on this page. http://www-lib.uwyo.edu/about...
- Kaijsa
p.s. People seem to like our call outs showing where to find help, and also the icons our web designer and graphic designer came up with.
- Kaijsa
Yes, take the tables out for sure. People don't need to know where every table is.
- Your Neighbor Steve
ours has lots listed (photocopiers, elevators, washrooms, etc) - check out http://catalogue.mcgill.ca and click on "map" in the results list.
- jambina
Here is the "final" version http://library.barton.edu/screens... Thanks everyone! (No public washrooms on this floor)
- Jason (not an Argonaut)
Bought new headphones. They sound so bad I'm left wondering if they intentionally crippled them to upsell more expensive models.
What kind?
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
Skull Candy ink'd. Should be skull candy skuck'd. Sounds worse than the free headphones that came with my phone (which broke after about 2 yrs)
- Steve and 3 other people
I wonder if something is wrong with yours? I have those, too, and love them.
- Rochelle
Sounds great for calls, because the treble is so strong. There's absolutely no bass at all -- it really sounds like it has a high pass filter at about 200Hz
- Steve and 3 other people
I think the guy right in front of me is probably Mr. Khan. (of the Academy)
Stephen Mack and Micah liked this
Wasn't him, but was another executive.
- Steve and 3 other people
KHHHHHHAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNN!
- SteVe C
Scoble voted me up!
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So, pinterest. How do I? What do I?
Steven Perez, Lix, Thomas Page and 4 other people liked this
I just browse around a repin stuff. I guess it's like tumblr.
- Rodfather
Can I bring stuff into it easily? I would like to bring in other content. A bookmarklet perhaps?
- Eric
NM, I found it.
- Eric
Can you do it for me, too? I am lacking in pinterest.
- WoH: Minding her Steves
There's a reasonable "Pin It" bookmarklet that will fairly easily add images from other sites.
- Steve and 3 other people
OK, my first pin is pinned. Adding the RSS to FF.
- Eric
RSS comes with no image. Useless.
- Eric
I <3 Pinterest. The geek section is the best.
- <3Heather<3
A bit overwhelming at first, but I see the potential.
- Eric
What's the potential?
- Cristo
Hilarity concentrated down like a nice balsamic reduction.
- Eric
So, not really useful for anything then?
- Cristo
I dunno, I just started.
- Eric
It's like window shopping.
- Rodfather
I consider it window shopping as well, but it has been quite handy for dinner ideas for the wife-unit. It seems to be getting a lot of traction as of late (re: http://ff.im/QcU8p), too.
- JA Castillo
How can it be better?
- Cristo
Better than what?
- JA Castillo
Better than what it is now.
- Cristo
Thinking I already have too many social networking sites thanks to a certain person and I'm thinking of getting rid of most of them.
- Elena
I believe you're supposed to plant your pine seeds, then nurture until grown to everest proportions.
- Micah
Pinterest isn't necessarily useful. It doesn't have potential or need to get better. It is just very pretty to look at. It's lovely for looking at beautiful photographs, clothes, and food pr0n. Beautiful is nice.
- Laura Norvig
from iPhone
I find a lot of the food I'm interested in links to recipes and crafts link to tutorials, so I think that's useful. The rest not so much, but it's fun.
- <3Heather<3
I guess I'll just have to spend some time. I feel bad since I have a bunch of people subscribed to me and I have posted one thing.
- Eric
I have a bunch of followers and I haven't posted anything yet.
- John (bird whisperer)
I've just started using it, and it's interesting. But I'm not a crafter, and beyond that I'm not sure I see good uses forit. But I'm thinking about how the library can use it...
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
I didn't say it had to get better. I asked how could it be better.
- Cristo
dosbox says: "Using joystick Microsoft Microsoft® 2.4GHz Transceiver v7.0 with 37 axes, 57 buttons and 0 hat(s)" Wow, that's some joystick!
Stephen Mack liked this
Needs more hats?
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
I'm just trying to imagine a physical joystick with 37 physical axes and 57 buttons on it. (and of course, no hat)
- Steve and 3 other people
The 37 axes are hard to wrap one's mind around.
- Stephen Mack
I'm imagining a fullsize flight simulator, but "joystick"
- Steve and 3 other people
Even the Superbowl commercials have teaser campaigns. Click it. It'll only take 6 seconds: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Brian Johns liked this
Wow!
- Brian Johns
I'm going to be so mad if this sucks. I wonder who's writing & who's directing?
- Steve and 3 other people
Not John Hughes, I'm guessing.
- Brian Johns
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Deceased. :(
- Steve and 3 other people
That factored into my guess.
- Brian Johns
Let's all switch to Bing, ok?
imabonehead, Harold, Jimminy, CoG of FF and 2 other people liked this
Is Bing unbiased? Wasn't there some Facebook deal?
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
Even if there was a deal, it's a deal between two different companies, not internal self-promotion.
- Steve and 3 other people
That doesn't seem any better to me...
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
This is the major problem, of course. What are the real alternatives to Google?
- The original Kevin
DuckDuckgo, Blekko, and Bing for search.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Are they any more impartial? I mean, do we know for sure?
- The original Kevin
Lousy Choices and Linear Dungeons - http://rampantgames.com/blog...
Private Sanjeev, Jennifer Dittrich, Morton Fox and Stephen Mack liked this
"I’ve been thinking about this a little bit lately with respect to RPGs. In particular, the linear dungeons of Skyrim come to mind (since that’s the RPG I’m playing right now), which are extremely linear. The comparison becomes pretty stark when you realize the Elder Scrolls games were directly inspired by Ultima Underworld, way back in the early 1990′s. The dungeons of The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall could get insane in their procedurally-generated three-dimensional complexity. To illustrate some differences in dungeon design in CRPGs over the last couple of decades:"
- Amit Patel
from Bookmarklet
Sadly, I think most players (not you and me, but the beer-swilling masses) prefer simple. And to be honest, if it's just some trivial side quest, I appreciate not having to expend a lot of mental energy remembering which passages I've explored already.
- Stephen Mack
I'm actually enjoying Skyrim quite a bit, even the dungeons. The linear nature hasn't bothered me at all. It's the world outside the dungeons that's so non-linear that I don't need dungeons to be linear.
- Amit Patel
The Skyrim dungeons remind me of text compression. When you compress ZZZZZZZZZXZZZZZZZXZZ you end up shrinking the Zs and keeping the Xs. The dungeons have removed most of the uninteresting parts but keep all the interesting/cool rooms.
- Amit Patel
Yeah, I had thought of this, and realized that "exploring a dungeon" is way less fun than "exploring the world". So, l'm glad I don't have to remember a maze of twisty passages, all alike, but that I do get to free-roam around finding fun stuff.
- Steve and 3 other people
I liked the balance they had in Dragon Age: Origins; you could go straight through some, while offshoots were often more twisty, and optional to the overall plot, but usually had a couple of extra quests that helped with world-building.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Mazes never made sense to me. Nobody designs buildings like that, except IKEA :)
- Private Sanjeev
It matters which dungeons you encounter. Any of the ones that have to do with the main plot or some of the bigger side quests, they're pretty diverse and interesting. It's the random 'hole in the roadside' that tends to be kind of boring. They're far better than the cookie-cutter dungeons from Oblivion.
- Akiva
My favorite part is this: "... will also impact Android mobile phone users, who are required to log in to Google accounts when they activate their phones."
Steve and 3 other people, imabonehead and Stephen Mack liked this
I say this as an iPhone user, of course.
- Brian Johns
Yeah, because Apple doesn't require you to sign in for their services. iTunes, iCloud, etc. ;)
- Ken Gidley
from iPhone
Thankfully, Google Apps users can still use their admin dashboard to disable Google Profile support. I suspect that they'll disable that someday and shove it down our throats as well.
- Steve and 3 other people
Stephen Mack liked this
Funniest sketch I've heard in a long, long time.
- Steve and 3 other people
For cloud storage to be faster than SSDs (seek time), your nearest storage datacenter needs to be no more than about 100 miles away.
Stephen Mack, Jimminy, CoG of FF and imabonehead liked this
100 miles / speed of light = 0.5ms
- Steve and 3 other people
How can I potty train my extreamly stubborn 3yo? - http://parentsguild.com/post...
Stephen Mack and Steve and 3 other people liked this
Wow, ouch.
- Steve and 3 other people
Why You Generally Shouldn’t Put Metals in the Microwave - http://www.todayifoundout.com/index...
Halil, Iván Abrego, mina_sydney and 14 other people liked this
"Today I found out why you generally shouldn’t put metals in a microwave. First, it should be noted that it is not unsafe to put all metals in the microwave. Indeed, you often put metals in the microwave anytime you put a hot pocket in the little pouch and place it in the microwave. The pouch has a thin layer of aluminum lining the inside that is designed to absorb the microwaves and heat up a bit so as to brown the outside of the hot pocket. On top of that, the inside walls of your microwave oven are made of metal. This forms something called a Faraday Cage which traps the microwaves inside the box, so that they cook the food and not things around the microwave oven, like you. If you look closely, you’ll also see that the window you look at the food through has metal mesh lining it. The holes in this mesh are smaller than the wavelengths of the electromagnetic radiation your microwave is producing. This makes it so the waves can’t pass through the holes. Visible light, however, is...
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- Kelli H.
from Bookmarklet
"Metals, on the other hand, are great conductors of electricity, being packed with electrons that can move freely. Depending on the shape/type/thickness/distribution/etc. of metal, you may observe some heating of the metal itself in the microwave or none at all. You may also observe some arcing of electricity or none at all. In any event, when these microwaves hit the metal, free...
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- Kelli H.
"On a more mundane level, something like a spoon or a metal plate or the like, positioned correctly, will simply make your food potentially not cook normally. On that note, it is once again, actually acceptable to put metal in a microwave under the proper conditions. Some microwaves even have metal grates inside for setting food on, such as is often the case with certain convection...
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- Kelli H.
(We're having an ongoing debate/discussion at work about whether you should or should not microwave metal.)
- Kelli H.
Good to know. :^)
- Friar Will (:^)
I've always been confused about how the interior of the microwave is clearly made of metal, and yet we can't put metal in. Is it specially grounded or something? They should just include a "ground clip" that you can put on your metal TV dinner trays. :)
- Steve and 3 other people
Alton Brown's microwave popcorn recipe involves two staples on a paper bag. He writes that the staples are too small to be dangerous.
- Andrew C (✓)
I owned a Panasonic microwave. The manual clearly recommended a metal spoon when boiling liquids in a cup to prevent sudden spills. Mind you, that oven was huge.
- Stephan Planken
from iPhone
Out of over 800 shots taken at last weekend's wedding, I like only about 100 of them.
John (bird whisperer), ronin and Stephen Mack liked this
8:1 seems like a pretty good ratio to me! :-)
- Steve and 3 other people
from Android
Agree.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
I would hate for that to be my job, where you have to get every shot. A number of shots came out blurred and a few that are too underexposed.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Even the pros don't have to get every shot. I think our guy took about 2,100 shots at our wedding.
- Brian Johns
8:1 is a pretty good ratio. If you take a lot of images, not every shot needs to be perfect.
- John (bird whisperer)
Wow, 2100? That's a lot!
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Every grouping of people got a few tries, so there would be one good one. Then he just shot a ton of everything else. He showed us a few hundreds proofs.
- Brian Johns
If Android handset sales outstrip iPhone sales and the unit prices are comparable, who is it that's getting rich off of Android?
!lker yoldas. )°(, denis, Stephen Mack and Jeff (Team マクダジ ) liked this
Google Ads sales rep
- Jeff (Team マクダジ )
Microsoft.
- Neal Krummell
Carriers. The "who's getting rich" answer in mobile is always: The Carriers.
- Steve and 3 other people
Android Super Delegates?
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
You mean, Samsung, HTC and others don't do well?
- 9000
New Google Accounts Require Gmail and Google+ - http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2012...
edythe, John (bird whisperer), Steve and 3 other people and Stephen Mack liked this
"If you try to create a Google account from Google's homepage, you'll notice that Google redesigned the page, but that's not all. You'll now have to create a Gmail account, a Google Profile and you'll automatically join Google+."
- Amit Patel
from Bookmarklet
Ways to circumvent the Wikipedia blackout -- let's be creative! - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki...
mina_sydney, CW✔, Georgia and 2 other people liked this
This technical FAQ from Wikipedia lists 5 circumvention methods (below) -- how many more can we come up with?
- Stephen Mack
from Bookmarklet
1. Disabling JavaScript in your browser (from their FAQ).
- Stephen Mack
2. Using bookmarklets or other tools to unhide the content (from their FAQ).
- Stephen Mack
4. Accessing site content via the API (from their FAQ).
- Stephen Mack
3. Visiting the mobile site at http://en.m.wikipedia.org/ (from their FAQ).
- Stephen Mack
5. Appending ?banner=none to the end of page URLs. (from their FAQ).
- Stephen Mack
6. View Source, Ctrl+U on most browsers (from Kevin Fox, http://friendfeed.com/kfury...).
- Stephen Mack
7. Google Cache, look up the search term in Google, then click the grey arrows on the right, then click "cached" under the URL (from Johnny W.) (also from Victor G, http://friendfeed.com/aswang...).
- Stephen Mack
Your turn!
- Stephen Mack
Read a book?
- Todd Hoff
Do these circumvention methods run afoul of the DMCA anti-circumvent provisions?
- Andy Bakun
8. Microsoft Encarta 2009 CD-ROM
- Steve and 3 other people
Andy, I know you're being facetious, but from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... they do say this: "Our purpose here isn't to make it completely impossible for people to read Wikipedia, and it's okay for you to circumvent the blackout. We just want to make sure you see our message."
- Stephen Mack
Heh heh, Steve.
- Stephen Mack
9. View the wiki entry in a language other than English, translating with Google Translate if necessary.
- Stephen Mack
Clearly, these methods are beyond the comprehension of the morons collected @herpderpedia.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Too bad I didn't work at Britannica long enough to get the complimentary (hard)copy of their product. I could *really* use it today. It was "lugable".
- Andy Bakun
Kamilah, clearly!
- Stephen Mack
10. If you use Firefox and Greasemonkey, install this user script written by FFer Samet Atdaq (http://friendfeed.com/samet00): http://userscripts.org/scripts... (from a comment he posted on http://friendfeed.com/kfury...).
- Stephen Mack
11. Ask Jeeves.
- Josh Haley
from Android
I'm told that even the people at Ask Jeeves use something else.
- Andy Bakun
Andy, what year would that EB hardcopy have been?
- Stephen Mack
lol
- Josh Haley
from Android
circa 2001. But just try to go to the britannica.com website and find something topical.
- Andy Bakun
In fact, http://www.britannica.com/bps... returns nothing. And their "Year in Review" link shows nothing for SOPA too. It's only 18 days into the year, and they're already (barely) phoning it in.
- Andy Bakun
Andy, do you consider http://www.britannica.com/EBcheck... to be NOTHING? They got this!
- Stephen Mack
I was going to list "12. Use the wayback machine at http://www.archive.org/" but they're dark today too.
- Stephen Mack
So instead: 12. Go to the page you want, and read it VERY QUICKLY in the second or so you have before the banner covers over the page, using Ctrl+R to reload the page a bunch of times.
- Stephen Mack
That last one might work for the herpderpedians.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Heh!
- Stephen Mack
12. Google Knol. Heh.
- Steve and 3 other people
13. If you use ██████, you can ███████████████████████████, but only if ████████████ and ██████.
- Stephen Mack
14. "Phone a friend"
- Steve and 3 other people
Download Wikipedia yesterday onto floppies.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
15. Wait until today.
- Stephen Mack
Hello, ________________
You lost signal there.
- Todd Hoff
is it me you're looking for?
- Stephen Mack
You killed my father, prepare to die!
- Ken Gidley
from iPhone
Heh. I see you guys found my notes. ;-)
- Kevin Fox
again hello......a little Neil Diamond
- just ZONED
http://friendfeed.com/kfury... I see -- I presume this relates to http://friendfeed.com/xian... ?
- Stephen Mack
hello, hello, how low
- ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)
Stephen, maybe only in an earworm kind of way. Also this: http://boingboing.net/2011... and "Hello (Turn Your Radio On)" by Shakespear's Sister.
- Kevin Fox
I love you, won't you tell me your name?
- Steve and 3 other people
Newman.
- Stephen Mack
...Can u hear me now ??
- Peter Dawson
it's me . . .
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
Sunshine <3
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
*knock, knock* is anyone out there?!
- CarlC
Dear gazelle, what were you thinking?
Kelli H., Iván Abrego, John (bird whisperer) and 3 other people liked this
:(
- Kristin
The Circle of Life.
- Derrick
Haha
- Rodfather
Uh...was that a baby gazelle because where the hell were the parents? lol
- caj needs a haircut
Great example of Natural Selection breeding in "stranger anxiety". :)
- Steve and 3 other people
Dear AJ, I'd love to tell you what I was thinking, but I can't, because I'm dead. Love, Gazelle P.S. Thanks Derrick, now I have "Hakuna Matata" running through my head.
- Stephen Mack
what a wonderful phrase.
- Joe The Sausage
Looking for the best pencil sharpener. Amazon's list of 'highest-rated sharpeners range from $4 to $150. http://www.amazon.com/gp...
Stephen Mack liked this
I really don't believe that the most expensive one (http://www.amazon.com/Panason...) is 405 times better than this one: http://www.amazon.com/OIC3023...
- Stephen Mack
Drive up to Flax and ask them. :) (http://flaxart.com/)
- Steve and 3 other people
BTW, this is exactly the kind of thing that would go on jig.com
- Steve and 3 other people
I've never seen "Dune".
<3Heather<3, Jeff (Team マクダジ ), Michael W. May and 12 other people liked this
Which one?
- Tinfoil 2.0
I've seen a dune.
- John (bird whisperer)
I haven't even read it. (Bad idea to admit that here but true.)
- Uli- #10
Haven't read any of them, nor seen any of them.
- Derrick
Get. Out.
- Mo Kargas
So, clearly people love it, and people hate it. This still puts me in a quandary.
- Derrick
I remember loving the politics in the book. I also remember seeing the film with my dad when it came out, and I think we were both a little WTF about the whole thing. Made so much more sense after seeing Blue Velvet.
- Your Neighbor Steve
:o
- chaz2b
It's worth reading. I even see why some folks are fond of it. But it's one of those things where you have to take "how to be a fan of problematic things" rly rly seriously, because it has some pretty glaring faults.
- RepoRat
(I also think it's incompetently written, but that's a total YMMV.)
- RepoRat
There's the David Lynch factor which is what I'm drawn to more than anything. If someone else directed it, I'm not sure if I'd be as interested. I'm also not much of a sci-fi lit fan, FWIW. I doubt I'd read it.
- Derrick
*double facepalm*
- Mo Kargas
It's mostly terrible. The best thing about it is the set design. Even Lynch's touch couldn't save it (and its only really evident when the Harkonnens/bad guys are around).
- Akiva
I will agree it hasn't aged very well
- Mo Kargas
Wow a couple of major and influential firsts for me with Dune. It was my first space opera novel and first David Lynch film. BTW, it was assigned reading for my freshman year high school English class AND got extra credit for going to see the movie, since it came out at the same time. I loved both. Not sure how I'd feel watching or reading it for the first time right now though.
- TINY REPTILIAN PYROMANIAC
I'm with you D. Haven't seen or read it. Probably won't. But, I'd watch the movie before reading the book too.
- SAM
Prefers the book(s) than the movie(s) --->
- CarlC
The first two books I loved. The third was okay. The stuff afterwards . . . blah. The David Lynch movie - way over the top for me. The syfy miniseries - okay adaption.
- Friar Will (:^)
I thought it was aight. Never read the books. It may seem a bit dated now. I mean, watching Star Wars today makes it seem a lot more cheesy than I thought back then.
- Rodfather
I've never read the books. Didn't know they existed until after I'd seen the movie as a child. Loved the movie and the story around it, but not interested in the books for some reason. I was also extremely hooked on the Dune PC game for a while. Damn...now I want to play it.
- Rah-PM 2012
The movie gave me phobia of worms. Since I watched the David Lynch movie when I was a little kid, I totally got the impression that it was a "Star Wars" rip off. I didn't read the book until after college, but I found it entertaining, But the basic premise has been kind of done to death now, and it was hard to keep the obvious allusions and allegorical symbology from present-day (or at least 1960s) earth and my tendency to try to deconstruct its colonial trappings from ruining my immersion.
- Victor Ganata
never seen dune or read book
- SteVe C
You haven't missed much.
- MoTO Bott
I started to read it, I think I was in jr high, but never finished it. Never been interested in the movie. So much better sci fi out there, I'd say don't bother.
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
I hated the Lynch adaptation. Akiva claims it was just bad editing and the extended cut is much better than the theatrical release (I can't vouch for that). In any event, the book has some issues, but it's an important part of the genre.
- The original Kevin
I've never read the books, but though the SciFi channel mini-series was fantastic: http://nyquil.org/uploads...
- Steve and 3 other people
Haven't read or seen - what's the last line?
- Rachel Walden
"Do you know so little of my son?" Jessica whispered. "See that princess standing there so haughty and confident. They say she has pretensions of a literary nature. Let us hope she finds solace in such things; she'll have little else." A bitter laugh escaped Jessica. "Think of it Chani: that princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine -- never to know a moment...
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- Steve and 3 other people
Personally the first book is one of my all time favorites, but to each thier own.
- Scott (Honey Boo-Boo!)
from iPhone
I do like Dune a whole hell of a lot more than I like Star Wars.
- Victor Ganata
Watched my first episode of Portlandia on Netflix streaming last night. Absolutely hilarious. Funniest show I've seen in ages.
imabonehead, Todd Hoff, Derrick and 2 other people liked this
I liked the show at first, but after a bit the sameyness of it (and the fact that I've spent very little time in Portland personally) stopped me from watching more. But I heard Fred and Carrie on Fresh Air on NPR recently (http://www.npr.org/2012...) and I decided I'd give season 2 a chance. I love them both.
- Stephen Mack
They only have Season 1 on Netflix so far. Is season 2 airing now?
- Steve and 3 other people
Yes, Season 2 started airing on January 6 on IFC -- the first episode has one more airing this week, then episode 2 of season 2 will begin airing Friday. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...)
- Stephen Mack
FYI Watched a couple more episodes last night. They felt a lot more mean and a bit less funny, but still better than lots of what's currently airing these days.
- Steve and 3 other people
I'm gonna have to check this out via netflix.
- imabonehead
Some people really don’t like Google getting better at social. - http://fury.com/2012...
!lker yoldas. )°(, Stephen Mack, SAM and 2 other people liked this
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- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Some people don't like Google full stop.
- Mo Kargas
I read the post in Google Reader, but I can't see it on your site.
- Amit Patel
Yeah, I removed it after 4 minutes because I realized I was talking about personal search results while the rest of the internet was talking about promotion of Google+ brand pages in standard search results. Or something. I like standing on a soapbox and I don't mind being wrong, but ideally not at the same time. :-)
- Kevin Fox
Will you rewrite, or is it gone for good?
- Stephen Mack
I would like to hear why you think Google is doing better at Social as oppose to them just force/funnel all their current users into something they didn't sign up for. :D
- CW✔
I don't mind if Google gets good at social, but they *must* allow me to fully separate my "private, social" life from my "work" life. For example, having the big red notification thing in the corner distracts me away from my work and pulls me into "social" which is a leisure activity. I use google.com for work-related searches all day, and this was the main reason I nuked my G+ account.
- Steve and 3 other people
I'm not interested in a Google image search that only searches Picasaweb. Not interested in a Google news search that only searches AP news. Not interested in a Google blog search that only searches Blogspot. Might be acceptable to use a Google video search that only searches Youtube. Not interested in a Google social search that only searches Google+.
- Amit Patel
Are you seriously serious?
Private Sanjeev, DvD, smilingface and 33 other people liked this
Hahaha!
- Anne Bouey
TYOP
- Shannon - GlassMistress
All you have to do is copy that sign over there. x_x
- AJ Batac :)
Shut The People Off
- Steve and 3 other people
whats the location ?
- Peter Dawson
ok Area code is 201- so it Jersey - hmmmmmm jersey shores ..no wonder !
- Peter Dawson
It's here, in Texas: http://g.co/maps/6ssxf But you can't get any closer than that. (Why they have "New York Smoothie" in Texas is beyond me)
- Steve and 3 other people
@Steve, are you sure.. I exploded the pix and saw 201- area code on the sign board
- Peter Dawson
I think the area code of this part of texas is 281. Check the matching of the signs in the Google Street view with the above photo. No Kroger (anymore) but everything else matches exactly.
- Steve and 3 other people
There are lots of typos on 'SHCOOL' too. :) just search google images for shcool ;)
- Oğuz Demirkapı ☮
from FreshFeed
Yeah, in the original photo here, you can just barely make out "The Woodwinds" at the top of the sign. It matches the sign in the street view Steve found. Looking at that BofA building it's definitely the same place. I don't know which is more recent, the OP photo or street view, but in the street view photo, it looks like the stop sign painting on the ground faces the opposite...
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- Stephen Mack
So, possibilities: (1) This is a photoshop photo. (2) This photo is more recent than street view, and the good folks at The Woodwinds center added red fire lane paint to the curb, changed the direction of the stop sign, and added a misspelling. (3) This photo is less recent than street view, and the Woodwinders removed the red paint, and removed the misspelling when they changed the stop sign to face the other way.
- Stephen Mack
They once paved a road near my house and painted "SOPT" by mistake. It took two months before they fixed it. you try writing the same word every day for months and it stops making sense. This shit happens.
- Kevin Fox
Next one we'll see... TOPS.
- AJ Batac :)
IYIEDL
- Micah
WHY YU NO YU TURN?!
- Micah
A little yellow paint can turn the S into a g, and some grey can turn the P to an F. that would be much funnier.
- Kevin Fox
Be easier to do P->F and O->U. :)
- Steve and 3 other people
Vegetarians are people who don't eat meat. What new term would you use for a person who has shunned all technology? (i.e. no cellphone, no e-mail, no TV)
Kelli H., Rochelle, Jimminy, CoG of FF and 2 other people liked this
Lowtecharians.
- Stephen Mack
Luddite? Not so new but fits
- CW✔
luddite?
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
Lots'o'freetime-arians.
- Stephen Mack
Yeah luddite, I tend to describe myself as a a tech lover with Luddian emotions. I honestly hate technology, but simultaneously love working with it. I refuse to adopt mobile devices, they distract us from the real world, also cellphones allow anyone to invade my daily life. I love the ability to be unreachable.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
I miss being unreachable. Didn't get a cell phone until 2006. I don't even use my cell phone really. As a phone at least. I could really do without it.
- DB - Just DB
from Android
Luddites destroyed technological devices, though, and not everyone who shuns technology is interested in destroying it. Does society need to create a new definition for the term, then?
- Corinne L
I vote for something like "low tech" too
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
Atechnist? Atechnical?
- <3Heather<3
Unless they're growing their own cotton and hemp and weaving their own cloth by hand, they're probably relying on *some* level of technology. It's all relative. I bet even the Luddites wove cloth from fibers obtained via machinery.
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
Hmm. I'd say "hypotechnological" but that sounds like a medical condition.
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
It needs to fit in a sentance like: "Sorry, I can't call you on my way over because I'm a _____atarian" or "No, I didn't see that episode of Dancing With The Stars because I'm a ____ologist" etc.
- Steve and 3 other people
smart
- just ZONED
Weird.
- Bubba Botts
Is it bad that my first thought was "Amish"?
- Jyl Bit
no microwave ovens. no synthetic fibres. no antibiotics.
- Joe The Sausage
It needs to be self-deprecating and not pretentious. I'm thinking something like Tangivore,
- Steve and 3 other people
Whatever word wouldn't catch on if it's new. I think you have to say, "Sorry, I can't call you on my way over because I don't have a cell phone" or "No, I didn't see that episode because I don't watch TV." Then when they ask why, you say, "Because I'm a total technophobe."
- Stephen Mack
antidigistablishmentarianists
- Todd Hoff
douchebag?
- Steve and 3 other people
RT @JohnMacIntyre: http://pinterest.com looks interesting, but based on the main page, it seems a little too feminine for my tastes.
Stephen Mack liked this
Hmm.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
I RT'd just b/c this is their biggest problem. I find the site kind of fascinating. http://pinterest.com/slacy/
- Steve and 3 other people
Do you like it? Should I use it? And what's with all the missing images on your page?
- Stephen Mack
I like it!
- Anne Bouey
I love Pinterest. Yes, it can be a bit weighted to the feminine side of things, but it also depends on the people and boards you are following.
- JA Castillo
It's fine. I wouldn't go out of your way to use it. I'm mostly just following it to see how they overcome the femimine content issue. I don't know why there are all those missing images. I think their CDN sucks or something.
- Steve and 3 other people
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