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Observing my 19 year old cousin converse with her friends on Facebook is a whole new world. What language is it they are speaking? And when did I get so old? And why does no one know how to spell anymore? *facepalm*
Mike Fruchter, Kevin Mohr, Tsali, The Native of FF and 15 other people liked this
I do shpel teh gooder!
- Mo Kargas
IZ SPELLZ VR-E GUD THX MUCH!
- Alex Scoble
DO ANYBODY NO?
- Derrick
LOL Alex...FTW...
- Bill Heslin
Yeah - totally I know, why can't any won spell correctly anymore - arrgggh
- sofarsoShawn
LOL :D
- Penny
yes Sean we saw the typo... :)
- Bill Heslin
Saw yours too Bill, lol :D
- Penny
Dayum...you too quick Penny
- Bill Heslin
What is a typo? Hmmmm...it's so bumm f'cked anymore...with 140 characters...hehehhehehe
- Bill Heslin
Who carez? At teh end of d day its all Eng.US anywho
- Alex Scoble
agreedzzz...u go alex
- Bill Heslin
wot u tlkin bout
- WorldofHiglet
Wait until it's yr 19 yo kid you are watching speak like that on FB :-) Makes me want to rush off on my Zimmer frame and write a Letter to the Editor and then call John Fayne on 774
- Threepwood
I'm only 20 and I can't see how they speak like that, it takes more effort than typing correctly. KekKEklajfapjaslkdfjakldsjf PIODJFIO PJ@#irj15r
- Andrew Trinh
I'm with Andrew, also a 20 year old, and I can't handle txtspeak, I can parse it, but I don't like typing it, especially if I have access to a full keyboard, I don't see a point.
- Jimminy
Even using my old Nokia phones I'd use a T9 dictionary to type it all out instead of txt speak.
- Andrew Trinh
@bracco & I r strtng a nu lang http://twitter.com/sofarso... u in?
- sofarsoShawn
sofarsoShawn to sofarsoShawn's feed, Mozilla Firefox, Appetite, webdevelopers, Website Tools and Help, Design (Tasarım), Creative Design
Top 20 Essential Firefox Add-ons for Web Designers ~ these are indispensable for that - http://sixrevisions.com/tools...
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"Mozilla Firefox is a very popular browser, especially among web designers and developers. These days, with such a crowded field, staying at the top of the browser heap takes a lot of work. One of the factors that make Firefox so well-liked is the huge library of great extensions that enhance your browsing experience. Among the massive list of add-ons, many are vital to web designers and developers. If used, it will make your workflow quicker and more productive."
- sofarsoShawn
from Bookmarklet
Working without Firebug is unimaginable. But, an extension for resizing? I just keep a few bookmarklets handy.
- dario
Bookmarklets won't work to resize Firefox window.
- LouCypher
yeah the resize one was news to me, it's awesome
- sofarsoShawn
Quelqu'un aurait-il des statistiques récentes d'utilisation des réseaux sociaux en France ? Je souhaite comparer Facebook et Copainsdavant
utilisez http://siteanalytics.compete.com/ C'est super facile et ça marche
- sofarsoShawn
officially turning off the FriendFeed notifier once and for all. what's the point when most content (tweets) come in at least 30 mins late?
Roberto Bonini and Cliff Gerrish liked this
This is true. :( Is this an official goodbye?
- Holden Page
this one just ambled in at the 1 hr mark for me
- sofarsoShawn
You could ask why Twitter turned the fire hose off to FriendFeed...
- Johnny Worthington
we know why Johnny. They are owned by Facebook now.
- Holden Page
i guess to be fair though, we don't actually "know"
- Holden Page
That's my point.
- Johnny Worthington
it is a bummer... FriendFeed search has been crazy unreliable as of late too
- Holden Page
If Twitter is going to be the 'place' for real time communication, practices that delay or withhold distribution to other services is kinda important
- Johnny Worthington
Paul responded on Saturday about this; Twitter turned on birddog (their mythical API that was leaked a few months back), and turned off the firehose. FriendFeed had to switch to Birddog, and now they're just waiting for an OK from legal that should come this week: http://friendfeed.com/stevegi...
- Mark Trapp
Ok peoples in relationships: How do you share? And by share, I mean share items like iPods and laptops without messing each others' playlists and files. I needs the help.
Alex Scoble liked this
i dont share. if i have one and my better half is into it, she gets one. my home is so peaceful.
- Carlos Ayala
On shared computers, we have different logins. We don't share our mp3 players. Our only issue is things like Netflix, Xbox or Last.fm. He never signs out of my account, which means I have to delete a lot.
- Anika
Don't. Each person gets their own.
- CW™
We're not very good at sharing. We have our own computers.
- joey
Ditto what 'Los said
- Bren, Photophobe
from iPhone
Ok, I was worried I was being a bitch of a girlfriend. Went to gym today and was tired of hearing the same songs over and over. Turns out that hundreds of my songs were gone and only 27 left. But his stuff was on there. I was/am a bit pissed. But I wasn't sure if I need to learn to share or if we need separate things.
- Katie: Witch Of The West
Computers: private browsing in Firefox and GChrome. MP3 Player: Each one owns one.
- Miss Elle
We don't.
- Rochelle
I won't even let her touch me unless she fills out a 27B/6.
- Akiva Moskovitz
well back then we did not have such stuff.........
- VAL D.
It has to be included with the TPS reports.
- Rochelle
We have always had separate computers - been together a decade.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Sadly my SO is horrible at filling out and turning in the correct paperwork
- Katie: Witch Of The West
Oh, Katie...that would steam me up too. That's the #1 reason we don't share mp3 players, even though we have similar tastes in music.
- Anika
Whew! I was thinking I was overreacting. And all that was left was some British dude talking about technology and business ****yawn****
- Katie: Witch Of The West
I want my Spice Girls....errr....I mean Muse back..
- Katie: Witch Of The West
Prenup
- sofarsoShawn
One for YOU, one for ME. And yes. PRE-NUP!
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Hahahahah!!! Pre-nup....
- Katie: Witch Of The West
I'm not saying he's a gold digger.
- Katie: Witch Of The West
I wish I could link to the Glee ep where they did that but Fox has rather aggressively eliminated it from YouTube.
- Spidra Webster
"If you ain't no punk holla ..."
- sofarsoShawn
Confession: I find Nutella to be unsatisfying. The flavor is vaguely nut-like but not especially hazelnut-y, and it's not nearly as chocolaty as the color would suggest. Basically: I'd rather eat a Reese's cup any day of the week.
Amy Flynn, i ♥ derrick #bellymeme, Bonnie Foster and 12 other people liked this
*braces for the whirlwind of unsubs*
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
never had it
- Mike Nencetti
I like it, but I understand others might not. Anyway, this leaves more for me.
- Katy S
*blocked*
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I like it - but it's not all that. :)
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
I never tried it...have I not lived, Shey?
- Anna Haro
not a big fan either for the same reasons tastes faux chocolately/nutty & all too sugary
- sofarsoShawn
I'd rather have peanut M&Ms to either of them - crunchy, nutty, chocolatey goodness!
- WorldofHiglet
WoH, I personally don't care for peanut M&Ms. I propose we start an international peanut M&Ms for Reese's cup trading organization.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Blasphemy.
- Jeremy
I'm in the Reese's camp, but my husband swears by peanut M&Ms.
- Anne Bouey
*searches frantically for the Fainting Couch*
- vicster
I'm all for that, Tina!
- WorldofHiglet
I think it's the combo of chocolate and spreadability that I love. I could do without the whole hazlenut thing.
- Laura Norvig
I didn't know the magic of Nutella until I had it in a hot crepe in a Parisian subway. Some food is better camping, basically.
- anna sauce
adds nutella to bucket list....
- Mike Nencetti
if reese cup or skittles were the only two things in my house I would never eat candy
- VAL D.
I love Nutella, but I can see your point. They don't really set reasonable expectations.
- Bren, Photophobe
from iPhone
Nutella and peanut butter comes very close to the same flavour as a peanut butter cup. The chocolate Reese's uses isn't particularly great chocolate anyway.
- Kenton
That's true, Kenton, but the saving grace of a Reese's is the perfectly salted peanut butter... Dang, now I WANT ONE =(
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Yes TIna you're right there. Laura, have you tried chocolate sprinkles? No spreading and no hazelnuts. We have Dutch friends who snack on bread with butter and chocolate sprinkles.
- Kenton
agree
- William Harryman
Chocolate sprinkles are a pale, sad excuse for chocolate! If you want chocolate and spreadability, melt some chocolate with butter and a bit of milk and spread away... Now I want that too!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I got the stuff once, within 10 minutes of eating it, the entire epithelium of my mouth sloughed off and pealed away. There was an alarming amount of.....um.....hemorrhaging from....uhhhhhh......a place that lasted about a week. As far as I'm concerned the stuff is radioactive poison.
- Matthew DeVries
MDV: er...wow. Not good.
- WorldofHiglet
There are good chocolate sprinkles out there, but you usually can't find them at the grocery store. That stuff tends to be old and over-processed.
- Katy S
You are dead to me, Tina! Dead!!! ;)
- Carmen
Killjoy... I just discovered it like a month ago :(
- LogEx
Hey, if you like it more power to you! I'm going to wind up making chocolate peanut butter balls with mine...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
@Anna You owe it to yourself to try it just once. :)
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I've never had it either. I'm super curious now.
- Rodfather
I will forgive you for being completely wrong in this matter.
- Shannon Jiménez
What Shannon said.
- Steven Perez
*puts on grocery list* Shey, you can expect my review soon...I know you're super excited.
- Anna Haro
*squeals with excitement*
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
If I'm wrong about Nutella, I don't wanna be right! Moreover, my budget doesn't want me to be right either.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I find Nutella simply disgusting.
- Soup
You think you'd get out of that with just unsubs? BLOCK. BLOCKITY BLOCK BLOCK. :) I agree with anna, Nutella's best in a piping hot crepe, but I'll eat it any way it comes.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Never had Nutella....but now I'm curious.....however I want chocolatey!
- Bonnie Foster
from iPod
lol@Anna !
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
something about Nutella always attracts internet flies like it's honey.
- Peggy Dolane
oh my... not hatin', Tina. In fact, now I want to spread Nutella on a Reese's mmm... *drool*
- Michael W. May
Oh HAI!
Mike liked this
You think he'd feel a draft.
- Derrick
wow wait I can't 'like' this... I will get into trouble!!!
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Is it ok to post *clearly X-rated* photos in this room?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!? !!!!!
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
I don't think we've ever posted x-rated material in here before. I don't think I would post something like this as there are other rooms for those reasons. But I also hate censorship. I would prefer things be racy, but not porny. But that's just me.
- Derrick
next time... crop!!!
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
or do the MOSAIC thing -- it's in your photoshop menu! :)
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
sorry you should adjust the room description then, reading it this would be considered acceptable & encouraged
- sofarsoShawn
FriendFeed has more bacon than a pig.
Eric @ CS Techcast, Thomas Power, gioia ulderigo and 17 other people liked this
Oink! Somebody is enjoying too much wine! LOL :D
- Susan Beebe
Susan: I was sober when I wrote these. Just having fun!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Everything's better with bacon.
- dthree
did you know you can make a lot of money trading options, buying and selling stocks, buying foreclosed homes, using secrets to sell stuff online, ebay is a wonderland for making money, and then of course you can just get free money from the government
- Allen Stern
It's keeping me from getting the Swine flu from the rest of the family - keep it up! ;-)
- Jesse Stay
it is 3:23 am.
- Allen Stern
I wonder if Robert has seen me in the dress yet *sexy wink at Scoble*
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
more h1 than n1? :)
- sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq
Did someone say: B-A-C-O-N!!
- WarLord
I'm thinking of a Don Henley song. Can you guess which one?
- Donald C. Lindsay
You mean world peace right? <3 FWD: Bacon Brings World Peace and Why RSS is No Longer a Necessity - http://mona.posterous.com/bacon-b... (via http://ff.im/b7kGF)
- sofarsoShawn
Re: RSS, yet RSS/Atom are still the easiest ways to build a real-time content distribution system today
- Jesse Stay
Bacon is good. I like bacon.
- Jason Huebel
one can never have too much bacon. what's the problem?
- Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
We had Bacon Day for the second time this year: http://www.atalasoft.com/cs...
- Atalasoft, Inc.
Here's the big reveal of my new piercing! Almost the eyebrow but not quite. As you can see I photo shopped in all my wrinkles & huge pores, rather than present myself as too WeHo
new AVATAR!
- sofarsoShawn
CUTEEEEEE
- Shevonne
Thx Shevonne! Oh & not a hat but for #DERRIKmeme
- sofarsoShawn
- @mayhemstudios I hav to stop giving u a hard time about Tweeting. Look at what my wife captured - http://adamhelweh.posterous.com/-mayhem...
Johnny Worthington, Ron Bailey, mjc and 16 other people liked this
Posted via web from Adam Helweh's Posterous
- Adam Helweh
from Posterous
I am amazed I posted this for you guys. Glad there is no drool.
- Adam Helweh
Wife WIN. Adam FAIL.
- Louis Gray
Hahaha. Don't I get props for posting it Louis?
- Adam Helweh
Yes. Can I revise my comment to read... "Photoshopped!"?
- Louis Gray
Hahah.Yes. The 5 o'clock shadow is photoshopped.
- Adam Helweh
He's totally molesting it
- sofarsoShawn
wake up! it's got a flat battery :)
- Terry O'Fee
@solars haha. Thats bad.
- Adam Helweh
Adam kind of looks like Johnny worthington in this pic. hehe
- Roberto Bonini
Hopefully my wife did not take a photo of Johnny sleeping!
- Adam Helweh
We have a marquee at our wedding that we can say something short....assuming the bottom says Cassie + Alex 12/12/09...what should the top say?
Mike Fruchter, Kol Tregaskes, Victor Ryden and 20 other people liked this
"We congregate to watch the Marriage of" Too Long?
- Jimminy
LOL @Todd Hoff. "Congratulations" would probably do just fine.
- Jim Hearts FF
<marquee>Cassie + Alex 12/12/2009</marquee>
- Curtiss Grymala
It should say "Holiday Congratulating," like a wonderful item I once spotted at a Walmart.
- DO ANYBODY NO Laura B.
lol @ Todd.............priceless
- VAL D.
GET RICH FAST http://alexandcassie.com
- Glen Campbell
"Achievement Unlocked:"
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
"YOU'RE MINE NOW!"
- Mo Kargas
+100 Johnny
- Glen Campbell
FFUNDERCATS HOOOOO!!!!!!
- Mathew™ one of a kind
I like Johnny's suggestion...doesn't pass the Cassie test, however. :(
- Alex Scoble
from IM
My idea is "OUR ADVENTURE BEGINS"
- Alex Scoble
"End Of Side 1, Please Turn Over The Cassette"
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Hmm, needs more...geekiness
- Mo Kargas
Needs less, Mo.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
"Marriage... The Final Frontier"
- Her Lindsay-ness
"All ABOARD!"
- Her Lindsay-ness
Chick-a-bow-wow
- Chris Greene
"We just saved a ton of money on car insurance by switching to Geico"
- Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)
from iPhone
Chico's Bail Bonds
- Christopher Harley
01010100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101001 01110100 00101110 00101110 00101110
- Mathew™ one of a kind
"Abandon all hope, Ye Who Enter Here."
- Her Lindsay-ness
*corn module engaged* "Together Forever"
- Mo Kargas
"Long live and prosper"
- Jesse Stay
"Alex + Cassie 4eva" written in the shape of a heart
- sofarsoShawn
"This Ceremony Proudly Sponsored by Monster Cable"
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
"<3"
- Jesse Stay
"No Spitting"
- Her Lindsay-ness
Congratulations
- sofarsoShawn
"To Our Glorious Future"
- Mo Kargas
"To Infinity, AND BEYOND!"
- Her Lindsay-ness
"She blinded me with science."
- Internet's Tad
DO ANYBODY NO
- Akiva Moskovitz
"Ooh, eeee, ooh, ahh-ahh, ting, tang, walla-walla bing-bang"
- Her Lindsay-ness
EXTREME TREPINATION
- Internet's Tad
Akiva WINS!
- Her Lindsay-ness
"Your message here"
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
1UP Akiva
- Derrick
Batteries Not Included
- Internet's Tad
"All ye who enter herein abandon all hope"
- sofarsoShawn
"Maywage, bwessed maywage. Maywage is what bwings us togevvuh today. Wove, Twue wove..."
- Christopher Harley
LOL, Akiva..."DO ANYBODY NO Y THESE 2 R GETTING MARRIED?"
- Alex Scoble
:P sofarsoShawn. I did that one ;)
- Her Lindsay-ness
WHOooops, long thread, missed it..great minds think a like :D
- sofarsoShawn
"MARRIED IN" *digital clock counting down to the moment*
- Mo Kargas
"Silica gel: do not eat"
- Her Lindsay-ness
Followed by Tractor Pulling
- Internet's Tad
OPEN BAR
- Internet's Tad
"CAUTION: WET FLOOR"
- Her Lindsay-ness
"You are probably being live-streamed by my brother"
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Proceed with Caution
- Internet's Tad
"CAUTION: SLOW CHILDREN AT PLAY"
- Her Lindsay-ness
"DING! Leveled up!"
- Her Lindsay-ness
<And Two Stealthed Rogues>
- Internet's Tad
"Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse. "
- Mo Kargas
"Now, let's get DRUuuunKKKK"
- sofarsoShawn
HELP! I'M STUCK IN THIS MARQUE!!
- Internet's Tad
"Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love"
- Mo Kargas
Live Laugh Love ~ all caps
- sofarsoShawn
Umm, yeah...it's a marquee...of course it will be all caps
- Alex Scoble
"Pew Pew Pew"
- sofarsoShawn
"Veni, vidi, vici"
- Mo Kargas
"@myformergirlfriends... SUCK IT!"
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
"Follow me on Twitter"
- sofarsoShawn
Comment || Like || Hide ?
- Karoli
"BELIEVE IT, OR NOT!"
- Her Lindsay-ness
Haha Karoli, that is the best.
- joey
"bodog.com"
- SAM
BLAMEDREWSCANCER
- Alex Scoble
"To be continued...in bed" (like a fortune cookie
- sofarsoShawn
VINI, VIDI, VICI
- Internet's Tad
TOO SLOW TADZILLA
- Mo Kargas
Livin' The Dream
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
I started a new thread in the Inappropriate Discussions room for the really good ones.
- Internet's Tad
Party On!
- Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
SQUEEEEEEEEE
- Rodfather
I'm a PC
- sofarsoShawn
"Brooks was here"
- Joe Pierce
ROFL
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Haha Joe
- Rodfather
My Wife Now (a la League of Gentlemen: http://www.youtube.com/watch...)
- WorldofHiglet
how about "DOMO!!!11!!!!!1!!!!"
- Joe Pierce
A VERY SPECIAL WEDDING EPISODE
- Steven Perez
MAWWAGE ...IS WHAT BWINGS US TOGEVA TODAY ... http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Bren, Photophobe
Hehe -Princess Bride + Peter Cook = WIN!
- WorldofHiglet
Now now, Cassie could never be a bridezilla :)
- Alex Scoble
Hey...say what now? I WANT MY WEDDING TO BE PERFECT AND NOBODY CAN STOP ME!
- Alex Scoble
from IM
How about "DO ANYBODY NO WHERE DA CAKE IS AT."
- Danny Minick
Oh...how about THE CAKE IS NOT A LIE
- Alex Scoble
from IM
or "Yo Scobles... I'm really happy for you, and I'mma let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best weddings of all time!"
- Danny Minick
Whoa. Your wedding day is the same as my parents. I'm kinda freaked out now.
- Kevin Pedraja
ROFL
- Alex Scoble
from IM
You better eat your brocolli, Kevin!
- Alex Scoble
from IM
"T41s W3dd1ng 1s 1337 n 1t pwn5 y0ur5."
- Danny Minick
"THIS IS SPARTAAAAAAAA"
- sofarsoShawn
Don't you wish your wedding was hot like this?
- Jeremy
"Dropping Love Since"
- CW™
"DO ANYONE NO WHY WE DIDN'T DO THIS SOONER?"
- CW™
"All your wedding days belong to us"
- CW™
"Too Love and Beyond... "
- CW™
"A fatal exception OE has occurred at..."
- Jeremy
"Windows needs your permission to continue."
- Danny Minick
"TURN LEFT"
- Steven Perez
"BAD WOLF"
- Steven Perez
"EXTERMINATE"
- Steven Perez
Sponsored by FUBU!
- Carlos Ayala
"PLAY THEM OUT, KEYBOARD CAT"
- Sarah is Novembery
BROUGHT TO YOU BY BOSE.
- Steven Perez
LCD Vs PLASMA: THE ULTIMATE FACE/OFF!
- WorldofHiglet
This wedding is brought to you by the letter "S".
- Kevin Pedraja
Solve this equation:
- Cristo
YOU CAN DIVIDE BY ZERO
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Cassie > Alex 12/13/09
- Otto
WELCOME TO THE HOTEL CALIFORNIA.
- Steven Perez
from IM
"Who has four thumbs and just got married? These guys... "
- CW™
"Blackberry Developer Conference: It's All about the Apps" ~ at least the GUI looks promising - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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winckel, Pavlo Zahozhenko, Mike Nencetti and Alex Scoble liked this
"At yesterday's Blackberry Developer Conference, several companies announced major updates to their applications and services designed for Blackberry smartphones. From Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) came new geolocation, advertising and push services in addition to other developer tools. Meanwhile, companies like Loopt, eBay, Xobni, and others took the opportunity to show off their latest Blackberry applications as well. RIM Woos Developers With all the news from the event, one thing was clear: RIM desperately wants developers to build for Blackberry and is now actively enticing them with a slew of new offerings designed to win them over. One of the biggest announcements made yesterday involved the launch of new APIs (application programming interfaces) for third-party developers. The APIs offered include a new advertising service, a payments service, location services, and the general availability of Blackberry's own Push service, which had never before been made available...
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- sofarsoShawn
from Bookmarklet
Thinking about going out to #SXSW this year. Anyone else planning to attend?
Anna Haro, i ♥ derrick #bellymeme, sofarsoShawn and Michael W. May liked this
yeah, but that's a loooooonnnnng time from now
- sofarsoShawn
I won't be attending the conferences, but I'll come into town for any/all FF meetups. :D
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
March is less than 4 months away. Will be here before you know it.
- Nathan Chase
I wish. :(
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Robot and I are thinking about going
- Anna Haro
just tweeted this to you but for et al: "I checked out http://sxsw.com & the next reg deadline is Nov. 13 ~ in 3 days & my travel agent says hotels bookings are SCARCE" ~ like next to impossible during SXSW dates
- sofarsoShawn
I just looked at hotels.com and most of the major hotels in the downtown area still have rooms available, at least for sxswi.
- Dragon Goldmaple
Nicholas Kreidberg, Kol Tregaskes, pea ♥ fierce as a woozle and 24 other people liked this
From September 2009.
- Louis Gray
I love the expressive hand gestures on the pic 7th from the end...
- Andrew Terry
Louis, I'll never get tired of seeing photos of your twins! They're so adorable!!! :)
- Beau "Slick Foot" Liening
from iPhone
Thanks, Beau. We'll stop sharing when the community asks us to stop. :)
- Louis Gray
The FFmob will go after them if they do!
- Beau "Slick Foot" Liening
from iPhone
Which is never, right guys? Of course
- Mo Kargas
OK boss. October coming up then. :)
- Louis Gray
Keep posting!
- Anne Bouey
they're awesome! :D beautiful pics, thank you...
- sedef tenim
hey buddies how are you two doing?
- ffcode
Thing 1 and Thing 2? *dead* <3
- Derrick
Oh HAI!
- sofarsoShawn
cute babies! yay. I *heart* them.
- pea ♥ fierce as a woozle
Bindu Reddy ---> http://friendfeed.com/bindu - http://likaholix.com/sofarso...
Holly Rae, FFer, Peter Dawson, Todd Hoff and 2 other people liked this
Cuz she's a sweet heart :o)
- sofarsoShawn
from Likaholix
he he...thanks :)
- Bindu Reddy
Is this an Internet crush brewing?
- Cristo
"The High Price of Being a Gay Couple" ~ due largely to not being eligible for large federal tax benefits http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
"Much of the debate over legalizing gay marriage has focused on God and Scripture, the Constitution and equal protection. But we see the world through the prism of money. And for years, we’ve heard from gay couples about all the extra health, legal and other costs they bear. So we set out to determine what they were and to come up with a round number — a couple’s lifetime cost of being gay. It was much more complicated than we initially imagined, and that’s probably why we’ve never seen similar efforts. We looked at benefits that routinely go to married heterosexual couples but not to gay couples, like certain Social Security payments. We plotted out the cost of health insurance for couples whose employers don’t offer it to domestic partners. Even tax preparation can cost more, since gay couples have to file two sets of returns. Still, many couples may come out ahead in one area: they owe less in income taxes because they’re not hit with the so-called marriage penalty. Our goal was to...
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- sofarsoShawn
Yeah the graph's a bit misleading but nonetheless, it's a huge differential
- sofarsoShawn
It's not argyle, but I still look tres bien, no?
Billy Warhol, rowlikeagirl, Baard @ Pixum and 49 other people liked this
Oui
- Glen Campbell
Oui, hottie
- Shevonne
MAIS OUI, super beau!
- sofarsoShawn
Mais WOW!
- vicster
Derrick, you look like Felix The Housecat. :)
- Smeerch
Hawt
- Anna Haro
The cap is houndstooth, no? Impossible to go wrong with houndstooth.
- Steve is older than ever
Adorable.
- josh neff, Fun Dip of FF
Love the cap!
- Mary Carmen
Magnifique!
- Sarah is Novembery
Oui! Tres tres!
- Bren, Photophobe
from iPhone
well of course..................
- VAL D.
Ooh. I'm kind of in love with that sweater.
- cecily
Muy macho!
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
You look like you are ready for a sunday drive. :) Simply smashing bro...oh and pardon me, but do you happen to have any Grey Poupon?
- Alex Scoble
Dammit, Alex! You took my line! :P
- JA Castillo
Aw shucks. *drags tip of chukka boot in the sand with hands wedged deep in pockets*
- Derrick
ow!
- Holly Rae, FFer
oui
- Melissa
Smoove.
- Mark Krynsky
:)
- Joe
swanky jacket!
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Burberry a Go Go ol' Chap! simply Shagadelic!!
- Billy Warhol
‘What if You're Gay?’ The Times Wants to Peek at Your Checkbook - http://nymag.com/daily...
Alix Whitmire, vicster and sofarsoShawn liked this
"At the beginning of October, the Times ran the numbers and reported that if you’re gay, the cost of settling down and raising a family will be somewhere between $28,595 and $211,993 more expensive than if you went the regular Dick and Jane route. Everything from preparing one’s taxes to having a child to getting health insurance for you and yours is more expensive if you’re gay. A hot mess to be sure. In the interest of drilling down further, the Times has launched a series on its blog to peel back the financial realities of being gay, starting with the high price of … gay divorce."
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
o_O.... it must be the caffiene, but this doesn't make sense somehow.
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
Glad that this is no longer the case in Washington State.
- Sparky Crocker
from iPhone
But think of the wardrobe savings! And, uh, yeah. I got nuthin.
- Steve is older than ever
Unfortunately almost all of these cost are federal - nation wide, so still in place
- sofarsoShawn
Makes perfect sense! If you're gay and cannot get married or have a Civil Union. Everything is doubled (health care, financial preparations, you file single, taxes, etc.) You have no benefits compared to a married or unioned couple. There are costs associated with legally protecting assets as a gay couple - it goes on and on and on. Then if you adopt a child? Wow...that's VERY expensive and lengthy for a gay couple if you can even adopt! Then add the legal fees for that!
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Can someone tell me is there a limit to how many characters you can type here in the box when you update??
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260 I believe sorry for the moron comment, ummm, however if you type over, it will just show a "more" which you click on to see the rest example here: ---> http://friendfeed.com/mikerob... his feed the dubai post
- sofarsoShawn
oh ok thank you very much...this seems alot better then twitter, how long has it been around?
- bbheaven
Shawn - There is a hard limit when typing the initial message (not 100% certain what it is, though). The "more" link only applies to comments.
- Curtiss Grymala
oh wow that is cool!!! and you don't refresh any comments just come up?? Thats really saawweeet!!
- bbheaven
oh yes sorry I misread, yup there is a hard limit for a post, been around four 4ish years i believe. & no refresh real time baby
- sofarsoShawn
I am very impressed LOVING IT!!!
- bbheaven
ur kidding me 4 years!!! where have I been?? and why are there no other like Big Brother spots here?
- bbheaven
or am I just not finding them??
- bbheaven
LOL check out this search of rooms http://friendfeed.com/groups... it may help you find similar stuff [or groups as they're now called]
- sofarsoShawn
Thank you!! I am a little lost here but hoping to get the hang of it...:)
- bbheaven
You can also make your own Big Brother group, very simple, check out the FAQs
- sofarsoShawn
I think I did make one but just not sure on how to get my fanbase of BB over here.
- bbheaven
So how many members are on this friend feed? I just can't get over that I have never heard of it!!
- bbheaven
Yeah it's supposedly dead, according to Scoble the madman, ahhh, to attract peeps list the room address on your site/tweet it as per the room, you can import video clips, pictures, audio, articels, etc etc it's hot shit
- sofarsoShawn
How can this be dead!! This is da shit!! In my opinion much BETTER then twitter!
- bbheaven
There's differing opinions this dude Robert Scoble --> http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... will give you the down lo on that, not to be mistaken with Alex the wise, his brother. All joking truly I love both Scobles
- sofarsoShawn
here is a nice summary of friendfeed's character limits: http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Mike Chelen
POUR SOME SUGARR ON MEHHH!!
Nicholas Kreidberg, Kol Tregaskes, Daniel J. Pritchett and 15 other people liked this
No. You didn't ask nicely.
- Abstinence-only works!
YOU'LL DO AS YOU'RE TOLD!
- Mo Kargas
Somehow I have a shiny metal Eric Cartman in my head now...
- Spidra Webster
*radiates disdain and gamma rays*
- Mo Kargas
Gamma rays? Is that all you got? NO SUGAR FOR YOU!
- Abstinence-only works!
*hurls a bag of Splenda*
- Joe Pierce
*zaps Splenda* Are you trying to give me cancer?!
- Mo Kargas
Actually I used you to rid the world of the Splenda. You played right into my plans.
- Joe Pierce
*shrug*
- Mo Kargas
Mo, are you stripping right now? o_O
- Anna Haro
@Anna Not right now, maybe later when the chocolate sauce arrives
- Mo Kargas
*licks Mo*... Your move, sir
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
*briefly considers slicing Johnny with a rusty blade*
- Mo Kargas
You know, getting my pirate on as it were
- Mo Kargas
*knows the thought was only brief cause Mo liked it*
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Yeah, I slice the ones I like, the ones I hate, get vaped :D
- Mo Kargas
Wouldn't sugar and chocolate sauce damage your circuitry?
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
*dumps a truckload of Stevia on Mo*
- MiniMage, sheeple of FF
Pff, killing machines always have anti-organic insulation, what, with all that blood splattering everywhere
- Mo Kargas
Lol MiniMage!
- Micah Wittman
Ooh...herby
- Mo Kargas
waitaminit...you have insulation against Stevia, but not sugar? Or you just wanted to demonstrate your capabilities?
- MiniMage, sheeple of FF
It FEELS SOOO GOOOD
- Mo Kargas
yeahhh so hawwwt stickeee sweeet
- sofarsoShawn
So what's the best way to extend the life of the battery on my MBP? Charge to full, let it drain completely, repeat? I heard keeping it plugged into the wall all the time has negative effects.
Alex Scoble liked this
best thing is to minimise the power used on your laptop. So, turn down the screen as much as possible, turn off wifi/bluetooth if possible, and turn off cpu-intensive apps. Many people don't realise this, but having a browser open with 10+ tabs and especially if using flash, are running the equivalent of a game on their computer. So try to stick to a max. of a few apps at a time and no more than 2-3 tabs in your browser. My Macbook (not pro) runs an average of 4+ hours when I do all of this.
- Vincent van Wylick
you normally have to callibrate your battery only once every few months, no more. The more you charge & recharge, the more you kill your battery as it has a limited amount of cycles it can do that. Also, having a second battery and using them on alternate weeks helps a LOT (doesn't work with the new Macbooks of course…)
- Vincent van Wylick
Vincent has said everything I would've said! I do the complete discharge thing once a month, though, but I guess it's down to how often you part-use part-charge it, which, for me, is everyday.
- Timothy Griffin
~ to note now that it's fall & winter approaches, cold saps battery life quickly so don't leave it out in the car or exposed to the cold because you will not get the same performance & this is exacerbated by the colder the temperature is. (goes with cell phones, iPod's & really almost any electronic device)
- sofarsoShawn
Thanks for the input everyone... I am a little worried that I can't swap the battery out of this machine, but hopefully it will last me long enough to make it worth it. The advice I got from you all will help me out with that.
- Frankie Warren
FYI I've got a non-swappable battery and am on 81 cycles with 99% battery health remaining.
- Timothy Griffin
Install smcfancontrol 2.2.2 - http://www.eidac.de/?p=134 - and set up 3 profiles: one for the lowest fan speed, one for around 4000 rpm and one for maximum. Set up the prefs so when you are on battery the fan drops to low. When you're on AC power, shift your fan to medium or high.
- Bill Sodeman
It's a Lithium Ion battery...your best bet is to let it go to about 40% charge and then charge it...You never want to let a Lithium Ion battery get to empty as it reduces their lifespan, or so I've read.
- Alex Scoble
pretty interesting trick, that smcfancontrol. What I also noticed makes a massive difference is using Flux (http://www.stereopsis.com/flux...), which you can set to change the colour temperature of your screen. When it runs, I get like 20% more battery life. However… there's no way to make it run all the time, unfortunately, just when it thinks it's night.
- Vincent van Wylick
Question for GEEKS - Is there a way to REMOTELY cut off access to the internet in the entire house? [Background - I have 2 rebellious teens that want to do nothing but gaming].
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You could get a router that supports remote login and control it that way. WRT54G with an open source firmware would do it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Alternately I think most routers have some sort of built-in web-based external admin option. If you set up a list of allowed/disallowed MAC addresses then you could toggle the Xbox (or whatever) on/off at will.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Agreed. Logging in to a routers admin via the web would be the easiest way. Linksys router firmware has parental type options available.
- Spencer
If the kids are really rebellious they'll soon figure out they can do a hard reset on the router to bypass you though. Press and hold the little plastic button on the back for five seconds. That's a bit of a scorched earth retaliation on their part though - there's no way they'd be able to hide that other than feigned ignorance.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I'll bet Alex Scoble would have a good answer to this - he's big on console gaming and on network penetration IIRC.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
There are things like this for TV: http://www.familysafemedia.com/token_t..., maybe they have them for games too?
- Todd Hoff
Non-geek answer: take it away.
- The Archangel ωαřмaiden
Yeah, the best way that I can think of would be to enable external management of your router, but this also opens you up to increased risks as anyone on the internet can now attempt to take control of your router. But it's usually a feature that you have to turn on while at home. You can't do it remotely the first time.
- Alex Scoble
When you leave the house, take your router with you.
- sofarsoShawn
sofar++
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
If they're dedicated, they could always just drop their own router in. To really lock things down you'd literally have to lock things down, i.e. put the router in a locked cabinet, and secure the cable run upstream of the router.
- Ken Sheppardson
I'd actually take the primary connection device if you want to prevent them from accessing the internet all day. Cable modem or whatever router,modem, etc. is provided by your service. Much harder to replace. :)
- Alex Scoble
And of course none of this helps you if you have a neighbor near you with an unprotected or poorly protected wireless router.
- Alex Scoble
Some sort of active jamming device, perhaps, Alex?
- Ken Sheppardson
Wi-fi-blocking paint? https://friendfeed.com/logical...
- LogEx
LogEx, wow.
- Micah Wittman
pull the plug
- VAL D.
Sssshhh... my oldest one gets on FriendFeed sometimes and knows how to do stuff with routers... :-| - but usually it's not him that's as much trouble (although he is right now) - it's the 16-yr old who is the worst and with him I try to avoid doing something physical like pulling the plug (I've done that before) because he can spin out of control and start breaking things in the house. :-|
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Even with all this done, couldn't they just connect to another open connection in the vicinity or crack a protected one?
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
It worries me that he is violent. :( Good luck
- Dragon Goldmaple
Your post is public as is your account. He could be reading this as we speak...
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
One of our neighbors has an internet connection that even we can access without a password or anything (although it's a weak signal)... I was thinking along the lines of cutting off the power that goes to the router..
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Well, if there are others routers around, it's kind of futile. If it's a laptop mehbe take computer away or power cord for desktop? Srsly though, some kind of agreement or discipline is best
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
Maxamad: He's sleeping right now... Plus, even if he does read it, he might get a clue the trouble he causes when he participates or assists in his 16-yr old brother's behaviors...
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
How about simple port blocking???Block everything except port 80. Or you could stick in a meter and have then pay by the megabyte. :)
- Roberto Bonini
Use the internet for something intensive yourself? If you eg torrent old films to watch (find something legal carefully) then you can pick when you're going to set that going & it'll make online gaming rather painful due to lag. Definitely recommend trying to negotiate some 'gaming times' first though - it may make them happier if they get some input & you could always use the...
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- immaterial
Maxamad - I've taken away the powercord and when I do something physical like that he can escalate out of control & I try to avoid that because the dad's out of town most of the time working. If the dad reacts too strongly, they run away. It truly is a lose/lose situation.
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Maybe some time limits... during certain hours only, or for certain durations per day. Many routers have that capability. But again, you are at the mercy of alternative connections (wi-fi) or factory-reset of the router.
- LogEx
immaterial - the 16-yr old does not follow any rules or respect parental authority.. I'm going to have to activate the state "juvenile outside of control" laws on him before he turns 17.
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
immaterial - I like the torrent film idea, but if there's a lag in the internet or the router has problems, he has taken the router before and thrown it across the room & broke it. :-|
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Is there a specific game they're playing? If you disabled it would they start playing something else or give up?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Well it sounds like he is going to get physical no matter what you do.
- Dragon Goldmaple
Daniel - yes, the specific game is Gild Wars - the 16 yr. old is addicted to it.
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
I'd definitely make him replace it himself if he did that (or just deny access completely), although I can get rather passive-aggressive. It just doesn't sound like acceptable behaviour, but if he is actually scaring you that's probably worse & more important to sort out than the gaming addiction. Do you have neighbours who could help?
- immaterial
Yeah, it sounds like you have a problem that isn't going to be solved through technical methods.
- Alex Scoble
Yup.
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
Have you considered Net Nanny? Let's you set a purportedly unhackable timer. (BTW, yes I've been MIA!)
- Peggy Dolane
Do anybody no who this is?!? This guy appeared on my Facebook suggested friends list ~ "X'ed" ~ no joking... he'd never accept anyways :o( soOOO000ooo COOOL!!!
Michael Ehline, See-ming Lee 李思明 SML, Mahendra (SkepticGeek) and 3 other people liked this
Of course I would accept. Why wouldn't I? :)
- Louis Gray
I hear he likes poking.
- Spidra Webster
Spidra, unfortunately I can confirm that
- Jesse Stay
Really Louis!!! OMG!!! *SCREAMS*
- sofarsoShawn
ok who is Louis Gray?!?!?!!?!?! *confused*
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
hihihihi...
- zʍıɔ
Casque intra mobile Bose // Bose mobile in-ear headset - http://likaholix.com/sofarso...
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Best sounding in the business; I thought I'd be thrifty and cheaped out on a Skull Candy set. Big mistake. They also work with most mobiles.
- sofarsoShawn
from Likaholix
Hmm... My favorite is the Shure SE530. http://store.shure.com/store... - this is what I use to drive everything. For audio mastering I use AKG K701
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Bose is ok but their material is not that top notch. Just IMHO!
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Just googled "cum" as in lawyer-cum-politician to see if I could find out which noun was supposed to come first, the thing something turned into or the thing it was before. Shoulda known that would turn out badly... Anyone know the answer to my actual question? (Does lawyer-cum-politician mean a lawyer who became a politician or vice versa?)
Andrew Trinh, Kol Tregaskes, Brook White and 11 other people liked this
no it means something NSFW
- sofarsoShawn
It does NOW, shawn, that's the reason googling didn't work. It's originally Latin and means something that was one thing and turned into something else.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
must... resist... puns...
- Michael W. May
Actually, I'm thinking I won't use that construction after all anyway. Seems highly likely to draw the wrong sort of Googlers. (Or at least, Googlers who would be less than interested in a review of a Czech stop-motion film.)
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
And I believe, though am not sure, that the former is former and the latter is latter.
- Michael W. May
The thing after is the thing it became.
- The Archangel ωαřмaiden
I don't use the phrase because I find it awkward.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
I thought it just meant 'with.' Reminds me of when my dad wanted a sports store and googled 'dicks.' True story! LOL
- Herb Hernandez
from iPhone
preposition [usu. in combination ] combined with; also used as (used to describe things with a dual nature or function) : a study-cum-bedroom.
- Ed Millard
"with" is "con," I think, Herb. We used to have a Dick's in the mall by us. Always struck me as a poor choice of name for a sports store! And that's what I thought, MWM and ωαřмaiden. I just wasn't sure if it would be translated "lawyer turned politician" or "lawyer used-to-be politician." I guess the former does make more sense. EDIT: Oh, with Ed's comment, I guess it can mean "with" in that sense. That's a good definition, Ed. Thanks.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
And to find it I googled "Latin Cum" and you don't want the rest of the results.
- Matthew DeVries
con-, com-, and cor- all derive from cum
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
I thought it was derived from a joint venture between Princess Leia in Return of the Jedi Jabba Outfit and Alyssa Milano of season 3 of Who's The Boss.
- Matthew DeVries
LOL okay already it's a latin preposition meaning "with" or "both"
- sofarsoShawn
I think the word cum with just the Latin word for with, plain and simple - no transformations required - as sofarsoshawn has beaten me to saying
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
This is interesting; I didn't realize it had so much of a sense that the thing is both things at once. I thought it meant more of a changing from one thing into another. See how much you learn when you post blatant comment-bait posts? :)
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
so I've always read those lawyer-cum-politician phrases as the two things simultaneously. Yay for seventh-grade Latin!
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
Doh! I show up once everything has been figured out? My 2 years of latin in college has yet to be used once. *grumbes* "one of these days"
- SAM
The definition I posted is out of the OSX dictionary. This thread is interesting commentary on the Internet age, no one seems to use a dictionary any more. Its like I Googled it... and Wikipedia says... If only someone had done a real-time search on Twitter too.
- Ed Millard
Latin "cum" means "with" or "against" (usually "with"). As an English phrase, it usually means "combined with" or "and also".
- Glen Campbell
Heh, it's like the wave-particle duality.
- Victor Ganata
To answer your question (as many people have forgot), it means the person is both a lawyer and a politician; simultaneously, with no transition implied. As in, "Glen is an asshole-cum-jerk," meaning that I'm BOTH an asshole and a jerk.
- Glen Campbell
"cum" mostlly means "with" as in "cum laude" -"with praise".
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Ed, I would've sought out a Latin dictionary before long, too - I have a physical one, even! I just thought the googling "cum" thing was funny, so wanted to post it, and then figured while I was posting anyway, I might as well ask.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I just think its an interesting insight on our times, where we go to get every answer, I do it too. I'm wondering if the dictionary business is in the same bad shape as newspapers and printed encyclopedias.
- Ed Millard
Vote here for "LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE" on our marquee
Bill Heslin liked this
Wash.Rinse.Repeat?;)
- Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)
from iPhone
Live, Laugh, Love
- Glen Campbell
Thanks, Glen
- Alex Scoble
Don't like it.
- Rochelle
Don't say that so loudly, Rochelle...*looks over shoulders* She's watching
- Alex Scoble
The middle one needs to start with an "O" so subliminally it can say "LOL"
- Jesse Stay
"Live, Laugh, Love" is on an iPod Mini I gave to my wife one Christmas.
- Glen Campbell
Like Like Like...Words to live by
- Bill Heslin
I like it, but I see it everywhere :)
- R1CC1
Do Re Mi - nope
- sofarsoShawn
lame
- Internet's Tad
Apparently my iPhone called my roomie's office phone while I was singing in the car Saturday. Am now being forced to listen to the 5min msg.
J. Abdul-Qahhar, FFing Enigma (aka Tina), Jeff P. Henderson and 5 other people liked this
My phone likes to call people too.
- Yolanda
This is the first time I've had it happen, and it's hilarious actually. Hilarious yet mortifying. Because he's forwarded it to like five of our coworkers. o.O On the plus side, I sound pretty good...
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Woah, doesn't that eat up your cell phone minutes? Or do you have unlimited? If you lost time I would make a complaint to your phone company.
- Ken
Like a young Susan Boyle: "Dream a dream..."
- sofarsoShawn
No, actually it was "Bittersweet" by Apocalyptica followed by "Cry Little Sister" by Aiden....*sigh*
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
AT&T sucks about a lot of things, but with rollover minutes, it's like having unlimited minutes. We have two teens and my father, who until a year ago was measuring kitchens at job sites all over the St. Louis area and as far into Illinois as Jerseyville - with occasional trips to Peoria and farther out in MO, and calls to my mother two and three times a DAY! We still have 4K rollover...
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- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
Not the first president to break promises -- baltimoresun.com - http://www.baltimoresun.com/news...
PIREYRE LAETITIA, R1CC1, Sean McBride and 8 other people liked this
"Barack Obama set some kind of record in the number (said to be 515) of campaign promises he made. As a natural result of this over-promising, he's probably established the record for promises broken. There's a video online lasting less than two minutes of a speech candidate Obama made, in which he promised the following things of his presidency: 1) making government open and transparent; 2) making it "impossible" for congressmen to slip in pork barrel projects; 3) making meetings where laws are written open to the public; 4) promising "no more secrecy"; 5) that the public would have five days to look at any bill before he signed it into law; and 6) saying "We will put every pork barrel project online." As you have observed, none of these promises has been kept. If we're to believe Goethe, we shouldn't be surprised."
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
While it is true that all politicians lie, I had HOPEd for more from Barack Obama for some reason. It's disappointing. I'm pretty sure I won't be voting for him the next time around. There is a whole lot to like about him, his politics and his programs -- and he's certainly better than Bush. But one thing he is not, is a man of his word.
- Thomas Hawk
TH, isn't it a little early to write him off as not a man of his word? Does he not have another three years to prove he is a man of his word?
- Travis Koger
Are the campaign promises really "broken" when his term is not over or even nearly over yet? It's not even 25% over yet! I think even Bush's approval rating at the end of his term was higher than the percent of Obama's term is done with!
- Robin
This makes me sad, because it means that the right-wing smear campaign machine is succeeding in "proving" Obama is a failure. Give him a little more time, please.
- Rene Wirtz
My question would go along with what Travis, Robin and Rene have said so far... Was all of that supposed to happen at 12:01 pm on January 20th? Did he promise that any of those things would take effect immediately, or would they take time to implement, time which no one really seems willing to give him? And as far as I know, you can find the behemoth of a health care bill online,...
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- Bette Cooper
Obama promised transparency and then gave us anything *but*. Why can't I get anyone from his staff to respond to my multiple emails about their censoring their flickr account or even respond to a formal FOIA request over the matter? There is more pork running through Congress right now than perhaps at any time in history. He allows it to happen. I thought GITMO was going to be shut down within 120 days or whatever the deal was. I thought Govt. suppressed photos of detainee abuse were going to be released.
- Thomas Hawk
Obama promised that *no one* who made less than $250,000 would see *any* increase in *any* of their taxes and the first thing he does is pass one of the most regressive taxes ever on an easy target, smokers -- who are statistically much more likely to be poor. He cites "national security" as a reason to hide secret laws being negotiated to strip away our rights to pander to Hollywood fatcats who have bankrolled him. http://boingboing.net/2009...
- Thomas Hawk
I'm not sure why anybody believed in him in the first place. Anybody who looked into his limited background could have seen it coming. This so-called health care bill is un-Constitutional to say the least.
- Spencer
Supposedly raids on medicinal marijuana clinics in California were going to stop and then, not really. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin...
- Thomas Hawk
@TH: just like with every other president he is going to fail on (a few of) his promises and surely you must see how much noise, static and friction the fringe is producing. As to him or the WH not replying to your inquiries about their Flickr account, I can only hope that that will not be your benchmark for Obama's performance.
- Rene Wirtz
Rene, the fact that they censor their flickr account (in violation at least of what would appear to another GAO Govt/Flickr agreement that I've seen that Sherpherd Johnson was able to obtain through another FOIA request) is just a more personal example of his lack of transparency to me. Obama promised us transparency in Govt and yet he fails to deliver that, not just in my own personal...
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- Thomas Hawk
Boing Boing is hardly the right wing fringe noise, static and friction machine. And when you read things like "The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama's administration refused to disclose due to "national security" concerns, has leaked. It's bad." That just shows how much out of step Obama is with his promise of transparency. I had HOPEd for more from him.
- Thomas Hawk
@TH: You cannot expect him to turn around and do a full 180 on everything that has been progressing since the previous administration and fulfil all his campaign promises. Obama took on a large job and I don't see him succeed in 4 years, but what he will achieve in 4 years is that he may swing the US onto the course upwards, out of the spiraling drop it is in. Undermining all this so...
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- Rene Wirtz
WAAAA.... a politician told me something then didn't follow through fast enough. Wait until Year 3 then give me the list. Until then.. don't go whining about anything about him unless he starts WW3 or enslaves all the Republicans.
- CW™
Obama said that he wouldn't appoint anyone who had lobbied Congress in the past two years and then went and appointed William J. Lin an active Ratheon defense lobbyist to Deputy Secretary of Defense. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/washing... Further the administration won't provide a list of the people that they've given waivers to to violate this campaign promise. Nice transparency there.
- Thomas Hawk
From the Washington Post: "Lynn, however, lobbied the Pentagon on so many Raytheon projects -- acquisitions policy, space, intelligence and command and control, among others -- that it might be hard to find an area within the department that was untouched by his previous work." Was there really nobody else for the job but a lobbyist?
- Thomas Hawk
CW, why do you have to wait three years before talking about the promises that Obama is breaking? Is it less of a promise to break if he hires lobbyists to come work for him in the third year instead of the first year? How does that have to do with following through "fast enough"?
- Thomas Hawk
Why is the Obama administration keeping the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement secret? Is that what transparency looks like? Or is it more that the Hollywood fatcats who bankrolled him don't want people knowing what's in it so that we can organize and fight it effectively?
- Thomas Hawk
how depressing; my respect/regard for him has fallen from "yes we can" to, based on his time in office, " yeah you may be better than the alternative but UGhhh GAWD get it together!" cuz I still have hope, as lil as there may be
- sofarsoShawn
and hell yeah, where'd those mysterious record number of $500 donations come from which you can arguably say led to him winning the primary & ultimately the presidency
- sofarsoShawn
Things that don't fly with me. 1. Well of course he's breaking his promises *all* politicians break their promises. Obama was supposed to be different. He was supposed to represent HOPE in a better way to govern that included keeping your promises and transparency. 2, He's only been in office 1 year, it's too early to talk about the promises he's breaking. Either you break promises or...
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- Thomas Hawk
You know what the real problem is? There is no law that punishes politicians for failing to keep their campaign promises if they are elected. If there was, then politicians wouldn't make any promises that they didn't intend or couldn't keep.
- April Russo (app103)
April, if that was the case then nothing would be done.. also what politician would make such a law then work their ass off to get the others to vote for it?
- CW™
Our founding forefathers should have shoved that in the constitution and spelled it all out way back then.
- April Russo (app103)
@TH you had hoped or you used to hope? wrt to current president of US, obviously
- A.T.
I had hoped that he'd be a different sort of president, a man of his word. It's not that hard a thing to do. If you say that you won't hire lobbyists in your administration, then just don't do it. If you say you are about transparency, then be transparent. Even if your opponents having information about your secret copyright treaty might do it in. Don't be beholden to Hollywood fat...
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- Thomas Hawk
Well I'm off to go collect money for that exiled Nigerian princess who emailed me so she can return home & claim her rightful throne
Jeff P. Henderson, i ♥ derrick #bellymeme, Helen Sventitsky and 3 other people liked this
Good for you!
- Louis Gray
Let me know how that works out for you…
- Glen Campbell
roflol Yes, I was debating on that one, too. ;)
- Melanie Reed
I think it might be a scam...but anyways, I got this tweet about a hot stock tip regarding time travel & so I invested all my money in that
- sofarsoShawn
Sometimes Twitter Accounts About Sh*t Your Dad Says Get You TV Deals - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Luis Barrueto, Glen Campbell, Jim Hearts FF and 3 other people liked this
Hmmm...I wonder if Sh*t My Mom Says is taken? ~ yup
- sofarsoShawn
I'm truly happy for him, but I hope the show is funnier than his tweets.
- Jim Hearts FF
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