It seems as though lately everyone wants to remind me that I’m still single. They act like being 31 and single is a horrible thing, and so they are constantly bringing up my relationship status. It started around 30. People would look at me with sympathetic eyes and feel sorry for the [...]
- Shevonne
drives me nuts too (" you have never been married " - while they look at me like a have 2 heads)
- Tracy Benham
I guess I am getting more of it cause I'm over 30 now. No idea
- Shevonne
"You feel more alone when you are constantly battling with someone, who isn’t putting into the relationship as much as you are". Sooo right :)
- diletta
No idea my english teacher could have this much affect on me and my writing. Everything I write now on Pages Are Social and my paper that is due Friday I end up giving up on. I have never doubted my writing skills before, ever.
as a literature/creative writing grad, and former writing assistant, if you are feeling this way about it, they are not doing their job. :)
- T. Brent, technopeasant
babe, you are a great writer, dont let her get to you. she's psychotic. I'm a good writer, and she did the same thing to me. That is exactly what she is trying to do. I know its hard, but dont let her get to you. Try to turn it into a positive thing. prove her wrong. because you KNOW you are a good writer. and just do it because you like to. dont worry about she who shall not be named lol.
- Marissa
'Cause English teachers fucking rock, that's why! WHAT, SON?
- nakachi
from fftogo
no teacher that makes you doubt yourself rocks,
- Marissa
It is actually quite amazing how much of an affect this is having on me. I mean, the professor gave me a B+ on my paper, her giving me a C just proves she was wrong (a 12 point difference is huge) but damn, everything i type/write I tear up into shreads
- Holden Page
someone once told me that those rules english teachers engrave on our foreheads need to be the very first things we forget. I wholeheartedly agree. I wrote a whole post about how, 30-plus years later, I still have to do battle with the english teacher demons who put my creativity in a box and slammed the lid down.
- Karoli
babe, dont do that. i know, easier said than done. i went through it too....but by doing it, you allow her to win. shes getting exactly what she wants right now. =[ you;re a really good writer . dont let her tell you otherwise
- Marissa
Depressed now, going to bed. Night all. My paper is not done and yet another post is not up on PAS. Whatev, I suppose. I'll get over it eventually. night all
- Holden Page
Dont worry about any of it =D you're amazing, thats all that matters. things will work out, promise
- Marissa
there there...Shawny's here...overeducated I haz it
- sofarsoShawn
Take it from one more pro: Nothing wrong with your writing that I can see. Is she jealous that you're already getting paid for it while you're still in HS?
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
from iPhone
A thight: Clear this with your college counselor, but if she doesn't grade you fairly, you might consider having Louis and/or a bunch of folks you know in the blogosphere put a letter in your transcript explaining that as professonal evaluators of your writing they have a difference of opinion from this teacher's.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
from iPhone
Holden - my advice is to just write as best you can. Thats all you can do. Remember - we define ourselves by what we do, not by what other people think.
- Roberto Bonini
I'm a personality test junkie - here's a new one I just found: http://www.signalpatterns.com/persona.... It's got me fairly well, I think, though the questions are of the "are you like this or like this" variety, which I think aren't as accurate - too easy to game. Also, makes you sign up to get the results. But, pretty graph!
Introspective - You like your own company; you're a very interesting person. Tracking your own mental processes, knowing what you're thinking and why you do what you do, is important to you. Often, what's going on in your mind is more compelling than what's going on outside. For the most part, those with a high score on the "introspective" trait enjoy reading, taking long walks, learning new things, and other solitary activities. You are not someone who is constantly looking to be among a group of friends; you never feel bored when you are by yourself.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Aesthetic -You appreciate art, beauty, and design; you know that they are not superficial but absolutely crucial to living the good life. You have good taste, and you're proud of it. Those with a high score on the "aesthetic" trait are often employed in literary or artistic professions, enjoy domestic activities — doing things around the house — and are enthusiastic about the arts,...
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- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Intellectual - You are thoughtful, rational, and comfortable in the world of ideas. People find you interesting to talk to. You're the living embodiment of the saying "You learn something new every day." In general, those with a high score on the "intellectual" trait are employed in such fields as teaching and research, and are enthusiastic about reading, foreign films, and classical...
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- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Accessible - You're comfortable expressing yourself in words and actions, with no self-censorship. You believe that if someone doesn't like what they see it's not your problem, but theirs. A high score on the "accessible" trait suggests that you have a lot of friends, socialize often, and enjoy rap/hip-hop music [NOT TRUE]. You don't see the need to keep your thoughts to yourself, or to have a zone of privacy that encompasses only yourself and a small circle of friends and relatives.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Unflappable - You are not a slave to your emotions. It takes a lot to upset or unnerve you. That's why you're a good person to have around in a crisis. You don't let it all hang out, which means that those around you often don't know the pressures you're under or what you're going through. You're not the kind of person people run from in a crisis.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Creative - You are good at solving problems, coming up with original ideas, and seeing connections between things, connections that most other people miss. People with a high score on the "creative" trait often are employed in such fields as finance and scientific research, and enjoy avant garde and classical music as well as literary fiction and scholarly non-fiction. You do not shun abstractions and concepts in favor of the concrete and tangible.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I stay away from personality tests. They all tell me I'm just waiting for the moment my inner-tyrant can break out. :(
- Anika
I figure that second and third sentence of the Introspective trait (i.e., my most pronounced trait according to this test) is why I like personality tests so much: "Tracking your own mental processes, knowing what you're thinking and why you do what you do, is important to you. Often, what's going on in your mind is more compelling than what's going on outside." Heh. In other words, I'm totally egocentric. Yeah!
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Interesting! We share some traits and I'm envious of some of the others that we don't share!
- joey
my result was like more than ninety percent like you. :D
- Mahmood Padura
"We asked technology journalist Robert Scoble what he thought of the dilemma and his opinion was pretty clear. "If Twitter wants to be a platform they have to behave like a platform," he said. "Don't be king-makers, let the marketplace choose the winners. If they are going to say nobody should study the data because we're going to sell that, that's not being a platform. Twitter tries to pick the winners and it pisses me off. They admit that they are king-makers. All that does is make everyone vote against them and hope a competitor comes around."
- Micah Wittman
Yeah. I mean, I guess I was feeling like the depressed, out of sorts, cranky version of myself earlier. I wasn't feeling like Henry Kissinger or anything.
- Steve is older than ever
Glad to hear you're feeling better. I was worried about you.
- Derrick
Thanks, D. I have been a moody bastard for months. I mean, really for like, the last 300 months or so, but especially the last 10 or 12.
- Steve is older than ever
well, give yourself credit for how much you accomplished in spite of that, 'k?
- D0r0th34
Glad you're feeling better, Steve. *Especially* glad you're not feeling like Henry Kissinger. :)
- Ayşe E.
Thanks, all. I don't want to put myself on the couch too publicly, but when I get down, it's usually more Existential angst than low self-esteem.
- Steve is older than ever
Just check out prism which I've had on my system since sometime in '07, but just started using.
- Jimminy
Really? Proof? edit: I thought you meant FF
- Maxamad
I wonder why Mozilla didn't merge it with Firefox. Google has obviously don't that with chrome but Prism was functional back then. Also the equivalent of Fluid. http://mozillalabs.com/blog...
- Jimminy
Is it because technology wasn't as powerful back then that the overhead of creating a new process was still considered onerous?
- Victor Ganata
Prism is not multiprocess, it is multiple instance.
- mjc
from iPhone
Saying prism is multiprocess is like saying notepad is multiprocess
- mjc
from iPhone
Your correct, but I wonder if the Mozilla guys ever thought about creating an envelope process to handle all of the Prism processes in one location. Probably not, as they were trying to implement Site-Specific Browsers, if they had they would have ended up with a Chrome like browser, it's obvious that instead of running multiple implementations of the browser engine as Prism does, they could use one like Chrome does, making the over-all footprint of the instances smaller.
- Jimminy
It's decided: I'll leave friendfeed soon due to the outsell to facebook. To all my subscribers: I would love to keep in touch with you. You can find the my places on: http://www.google.com/profile... . Posterous, Twitter, Google Reader shared items, will cover most of this.
I think it was a good time here, despite some little fights :). I liked every minute. So I will leave this account for a week or so, because I care of my subscribers. I always did. It's very sad that it has come to this, and I hope some of you will keep in touch with me. Thanks!
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Sorry to see that you will be leaving, Ryo. I just subscribed to your Reader items and hope to find you out and abouts in the future. :)
- JA Castillo
friendfeed is suggesting you as a "Recommended friend." Slightly ironic, don't you think?
- (Garin Kilpatrick)
'Member CeeBee? One of the most prolific & most enjoyable FFer has completely disappeared due to the big sell
- sofarsoShawn
I'll think about leaving when or if it dies in here, or if this main site is closed, and access is only via Facebook. They can stuff that. Until then though, I'll stay. I'm still having some fun.
- Ian May
via news.bbc.co.uk A survey of stars known to possess planets shows the vast majority to be severely depleted in lithium. To date, scientists have detected just over 420 worlds circling other stars using a range of techniques. Garik Israelian and colleagues tell the journal Nature that future pl ...
- Helen Sventitsky
from Posterous
"The Internet is not about technology; it's about communication. The Internet connects people who have shared interests, ideas and needs, regardless of geography." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
I like it, but I think it doesn't go far enough. The telephone allows you to communicate. But when you hang up the phone the call is gone. The internet has persistent objects that can be manipulated, so it is also about cooperation and collaboration.
- Neil Kandalgaonkar
Technology sure makes that communication much easier, though. Long live Friendfeed!
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
I always thought the Internet was for porn. At least that's what I learned one year at SXSW.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, you still owe us (me and Joge) $5000, btw ;-)
- directeur
I think porn falls under the connecting people with shared interests and needs. ;-)
- Brian Sullivan
Hmmm -- I think saying the" internet is not about technology, it's about the communication" is like saying driving is not about the car, it's about the journey. I like John Dupuis' way of putting it -- the communication part was an emergent property -- Michael Neilson has interesting things to say on this topic, too, but I've gotta dash so I'll link later.
- Mickey Schafer
YAY, I love the internet. Couldn't agree more. GLOBAL unfettered communication amongst all peoples, socio-economic class, philosophy, etc. is what it's all about; whereas, the technology is there to support the communication layer. THAT is very important in the DESIGN of Information Systems.
- Susan Beebe
The following (wild) question just dawned on me: If in 1440—the approx. year of Gutenberg's press—a global electronic network had magically emerged instead, A) What purpose would the power structure at the time deem for it, and B) How would it actually be used within the first few decades? Hundred years?
- Micah Wittman
Neil: different communication formats have varying values for similar properties, such as bandwidth, delay, and rate of decay
- Mike Chelen
Neil: Good point about persistence, except that Twitter has objects called tweets that last only about 7 days ;)
- Alex Schleber
Alex: one compensating strength is that posts are publicly web accessible, allowing them to be independently mirrored
- Mike Chelen
High communication: words. Medium communication: pictures. Low communication: grunt, poke.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Internet = TV + Radio + Books + Newspapers + Magazines + Telephone + Soapbox + [add your medium] = Media melting pot
- Ciro
Actually, the Internet may be about the incarnation of cosmic consciousness, and may not be primarily about anthropocentric intraspecies communication. I only half jest -- sometimes species are only vehicles that don't necessarily understand their function in the big picture, or what they are birthing. With the Internet, one senses something trying to pull itself together that is bigger than human.
- Sean McBride
let's say it again: it's. com. mu. ni. ca. tion. :)
- Alberto D'Ottavi
+1 Mike Chelen; to Ciro, Alberto -- conflating function, social value, and technology diminishes the ability to understand what the "internet" is/does/could be, etc. The internet is not portable; certain technological devices are. The infrastructure that supports portability is inconsistent; radio rarely is. It's very difficult to "listen" to books using the internet; the internet is...
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- Mickey Schafer
I agree with you 100% - The connections made here can't be made anywhere else! The transparency and accessibility of people, good people, is prevalent!
- Angels In Action
I didn't read all the comments above, but I don't think it's just communication. It's also about knowledge, data, availability of knowledge and data. creativity, etc... I'm afraid with this situation of lots of social networks people are a bit too preoccupied by the community-factor. Internet is more than that. Please don't forget that.
- Ton Zijp
To Mickey: 1. "The Internet is not portable; certain technological devices are." splitting hair...Give me the Internet without the "technological devices" as you call them. 2. "The infrastructure is inconsistent..." Video is video, audio is audio...otherwise the TV is also inconsistent and so is the radio and books, I digress on this one. 3. " And I believe it is actually important to...
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- Ciro
Ton, I agree! Ciro -- As someone who teaches undergrads who have to use technology and the net, I can't afford to be blithe about "they can if they want to". One of my interests is the relationship between discourse and behavior, so for kicks, I conducted a survey last year to get a feel for how students related to tech developmentally. One overwhelming result was that sometime during...
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- Mickey Schafer
I don't agree. Technology IS COMMUNICATION. Please consider W.J. Ong's Orality & Literacy or Pierre Levy's essays. Our literacy is still evolving and that's possible just because we can write (and communicate) with different technologies. So... Nice quote indeed, but wrong.
- Matteo Balocco
Bruce: language, art, and gestures are all forms of communication technology, each of which can be used to greater or lesser effect
- Mike Chelen
Internet is technology, great and simple technologies which work well and so you can focus on communications stuff
- Luca Zappa
Mickey: internet access may not yet be a universal commodity like paper, yet this property can shift rapidly in degree, redefining its qualities. regarding user expectations, to some extent this may be addressed through improved software design, for example google docs automatically save every few seconds
- Mike Chelen
Matteo: is that different from saying that all communication is a form of technology?
- Mike Chelen
Mike, I'm afraid it is different. While communication is a natural competence shared by all the living beings, technology is just an optional layer for just a niche of them. So we may say that all the technologies carry some informations (and we must consider them communication) but certainly not all communication is a form of technology.
- Matteo Balocco
However we agree that this is nothing more than an academic discussion. The quote by Taylor is still really good for some slideshows. :)
- Matteo Balocco
Mickey, thanks for your feedback. I don't disagree with any of your latest observations regarding the importance of keeping machine (medium) and internet (content) separate and the dangers of not doing so...My point was simply directed at the idea that in the context of pure content utilization, the hardware such as the cables (or airwaves) as transport media and content presentation...
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- Ciro
"The first episode of the fourth season of Friday Night Lights, which premiered two weeks ago on DirecTV (the show won’t return to NBC until late spring at the earliest), could pass as a spinoff. The adult actors are intact, including Kyle Chandler as Coach Eric Taylor and Connie Britton as his wife, Tami, but the younger generation is full of newbies. With the exception of a misguided murder arc in season two, the show favors reality: Most of the students hightail it out of town after graduation. “It’s about Texas high-school football, and once I’m no longer playing high-school football, it’s like, well, what do I do?” says Gilford, who stuck around longer than other actors he started with."
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
When I lived in Austin, I had a friend who was a manager at the local Steak & Ale restaurant. One of their perks was a free meal. He got tired of steak every night, so he started putting the 20+oz. prime rib on a burger bun and slathering it with mustard and ketchup (catsup?)
- Glen Campbell
The UBoard is a raised platform upon which you can place your at hand things like your iPhone, notes, books, while the keyboard rests underneath. You can even keep your notebook on the platform while using a full keyboard underneath. The sides hold three USB ports, and the swivel reveals a cup holder and a place for memos & business cards. Most of all, it’s clean, white, and ultra-minimalist!
- Praveen Vasudev
from Bookmarklet
I'd like to see some computer setups that include a graphics tablet that are convenient and don't take up an excess amount of space or make you stretch awkwardly. I've considered using a split keyboard, one half on one side of the table and the other half on the other side. When drawing, one would mostly be using the keyboard for typing filenames and whatever menu selections and so on that one can't do with the tablet. Does that seem reasonable?
- SuezanneC Baskerville
Clean and white is the main point. :D Still tiresome when the edge of the table is so short your elbow would be hanging mid-air (that's the table's problem though, not the platform).
- Natsuki Seika
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
HRMPH. I'm sorta at work. I have a bunch of emails to take care of and the cellular connections are pretty bad at the data center, so I'm at Panera. They're still working on the power, so I'm kinda done for today anyway. This would better if I could ditch my pants, but you can't have everything.
- Ha3rvey (more more more)
"Congress voted Monday to cut federal funding for the superconducting monkey collider, a controversial experiment which has cost taxpayers an estimated $7.6 billion a year since its creation in 1983. The collider, which was to be built within a 45-mile-long circular tunnel, would accelerate monkeys to near-light speeds before smashing them together. Scientists insist the collider is an important step toward understanding the universe, because no one can yet say for certain what kind of noises monkeys would make if collided at those high speeds. "It could be a thump, a splat, or maybe even a sound that hasn't yet been heard by human ears," said project head Dr. Eric Reed Friday, in an impassioned plea to Congress. "How are we supposed to understand things like the atom or the nature of gravity if we don't even know what colliding monkeys sound like?" "
- William Harryman
from Bookmarklet
Whenever these come through my feed, as they do, consistently like clock work, I just want to reach into the screen and punch you in the face. But like in a good way, I'm jealous at the depth of your routine & the fact that you have one ~ so in short good for you!!!! :)
- sofarsoShawn
hey Shawn - to be fair, I am a personal trainer, so working in a gym makes it easy to get my workouts in - although, even before becoming a trainer, I have only missed more than three or four days without a workout a couple of times in 12+ years
- William Harryman