Can you remind me again where to find those stats?
- Brian Johns
Brian, go to "Me" link (http://friendfeed.com/brianjo...) which defaults to the Feed tab. Look at the sidebar on the right, below Discussion.
- Micah
0.75 (926/1226) - still relatively new here
- mikepk
I only see my stats for the last week (17/14 = 1.21) Please tell me your 670 number is for more than just a week!
- Brian Johns
1.44 (566/391) for brianjohns (after week tally you should see a comma then 'all time' count - I can see it on your page)
- Micah
OK, sorry. I'm a total dumbass. I stopped reading after the weekly totals...
- Brian Johns
3.74, which seems way off of everybody else's. I wonder what that says. I comment a lot more than I like.
- Cyrus Lendvay
FFers use FF with their own strategy or simply default tendencies. The ratio is an interesting snapshot of behaviour. Thanks for joining in everyone, hope more keep flowing in.
- Micah
from twhirl
0.66 - I tend to 'like' things without needing to comment further, I guess, and I notice I usually like the things upon which I comment. Well, frequently.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
.39 (2457/6242) I guess I don't comment much. I do 'like' a lot of things, it would seem.
- Bren
0.62 then again i have over 11,000 comments
- Cee Bee
1.23 (5287/4229) - I am put to shame by Cee Bee's participation, good grief!
- Lindsay
So far: Average: 1.27 | Median: 0.81 ... (if you average 1 comment per like, you'd be 1.0 ... if you're 0.xx you might herd content more than discuss ... if you're whole numbers above 1 you may not 'like' much or discuss plenty or both)
- Micah
InPerpetualMotion(Gina k), I really liked this 'Like' of yours (in a series of pics, so I flickr fav'd it): http://friendfeed.com/e... and commented. Thanks!
- Micah
.68 6986/10194 Someone wrote a great article on the comment-like ratio a few months ago. Search on FriendFeed is crashing on me... I'll try to get the link.
- Mitchell Tsai
Thanks Mitchell (btw, search crashing on me too - lots)
- Micah
1316 comments/20221 likes (0.06), according to Windows Calculator, although I probably screwed up.
- Tyson Key
A recent change in FF: now the comment count shows total number of comments (previously multiple comments in one thread only counted as one) http://friendfeed.com/e... so all the numbers above are from the old methodology....
- David HC Soul
My new ratio: 0.76 all time (old methodology .52).... this week 1.39
- David HC Soul
Looks like my ratio as flipped again (comments back to dominating again). Seems to match my own awareness I've lately been commenting without Liking (commenting is my inherent recognition of value to me and the additional Like is when it merits an extra bump to help discovery by others).
- Micah
Rick, you mean that face with glasses I photoshopped tint into with an apparently disembodied arm which is actually very much attached to my eldest son? It's mostly just me :)
- Micah
Thanks, Michael. Yes, you have a rising tide of comment percentage (oh, wow, you were one of the originals from January - cool!)
- Micah
Yeah, that's a decent upward rise in comments, Nicholas.
- Micah
.6 (6,000/10,000) 3rd update - Now it's time to flip this on its head. My goal is to have (16,000/16,000) next time I post here. Regardless of what happens, I'm just looking forward to the next 10,000 comments, likes, posts, and new relationships I make here. It's all good!
- Michael Fidler
1.76 (7539/4290) My commenting habits haven't chanced much, but it felt like I clicked Like a lot less, and this ratio confirms that for me.
- Micah
.82 as of right now. edit: on January 8th it was 0.39 -- when I saw that, I decided to make more of an effort to comment. When I hit 10k "likes" I decided I wouldn't "like" anything else until I also had 10k comments.
- Bren
Jimminy, I'm copyrighting every single number. It's kind of a honeypot ;) Actually, it was curiosity mostly, but I also hope to build a sampling (small and self-selecting as it may be) for anyone who might want to analyze it.
- Micah
Wow I didn't realize I was so out of whack!! 12.23 that's got to be a record (and I don't even import my feeds with the summary as a comment)!!
- Chris Myles
Thanks JA, Chris (wow, 12+ is unusual :), Serkan and Nine!
- Micah
Micah.. I told you I take my likes seriously; ). You *might* want to ask (in a separate post) what percentage of likes were used to "bookmark" a post or save it for later VS actually "liking it". I NEVER used like for that.. but I did use a private group that if filled with my own topics (and comments)..
- Chris Myles
Likes are down relative to comments, which matches my much lower frequency of liking. I'm a more selective liker than ever.
- Micah
I don't think I could argue that any particular kind of ratio is "best", because if Lurkers like to Lurk and cultivate (via Likes) and the Chatty-ites love to chat, to pump out much many more comments than Likes, each can be happy and make for a great social experience.
- Micah
wow, what a difference time makes, when i 1st posted on this thread, 6.43%, now = 1.25%, for a 5.18% difference, :o (and this is the earliest post to date i've recovered of my activity on ff)
- chaz2b
chaz, I think there's been a big fluctuation for most people (maybe not that much). This is the oldest post on which you commented that you've recovered?
- Micah
that was my third post... It's interesting to see how the number has changed. of course, I manipulated the number to a degree, because I stopped "liking" things for a while...
- Bren
Bren, the other thing that can seriously throw off someone's stats is a feed that upon each item it imports adds a comment automatically.
- Micah
true. that can seriously inflate comment stats, of course. Then you have someone like RAPatton, who posts a gazillion comments, in part because of his playlist posts where he will list each song in a separate comment. I found, after this post in fact, that I tended to "like" things much more frequently than comment on them, that I was lurking instead of participating. I have changed the way I use ff rather considerably, and I think for the better.
- Bren
In 4 days it will be 1 year since my first recorded stat here. My comments/like were almost a 1:1 ratio then. Now comments are almost double likes for me.
- Micah
75,415 comments/1,286 likes = 58.64 - i wish the auto inserted comments didn't get counted... the true number is probably much much close ot my number of likes
- Chris Heath
1.97%. thanks again micah, this has been a great metric to measure my first year here on ff. As the year went (this being the first record of me being here that i've found): , 6.43%:1.25%:1.97%
- chaz2b
Chris, Bren, thank you. And chaz2b, thank you too - glad it's a special marker for you. :)
- Micah
63.58 (97,534/1,534) -- interesting that my last three digits are the same there, eh? (note, i already posted a month or two ago when i first saw this thread)
- Chris Heath
Last year my comments were around 7000 and likes around 2500, for a ratio of 2.80. I consciously chose to do more liking over the last year. As of today my comments number 10,782 and likes number 7,666, for a ratio of 1.41.
- Stephen Mack
Jason, Stephen - cool. Thanks for keeping updated here. :)
- Micah
Okay, Micah. <----I had to resist the urge not to post that because I know it's going to up my comment count. ;)
- Jenny R
But how many of those primordial, high interest posts are still active. Uh huh. :)
- Micah
Thanks, Morton. BTW, when you posted in February, it was exactly 0.13 also.
- Micah
Jenny, resistance is futile; embrace the rising tide of comments.
- Micah
Comments are more difficult and time consuming than Likes. I'd be happy about a high comment:likes ratio except that many are surely imported from feeds, while every Like is manual.
- Mike Chelen
it has changed to 2.2256 now as Sep, 6 2010.Labor Day. :) I added the date for future references.
- ۳۰ مرغ Loves Y'ALLLLL
Two years later and my ratio has climbed from 3.4 to 4.675. I've got a lot to say, apparently.
- Kevin Fox
Funnily, I didn't notice until after leaving that comment that when I reported my stat in 2009 I also followed it up with "I've got stuff to say." I didn't say it was *new* stuff...
- Kevin Fox
2.91; 6.43% (@ 2yrs ago) 2.33% (@ 1yr ago). for history's sake, this thread was started shortly after i found friendfeed, or friendfeed found me, so it holds a special place in my heart. thanks for keeping it around mr micah
- chaz2b
You're certainly welcome, chaz2b. In some way it feels like a living heirloom to me. :)
- Micah
3 (2.991) (and now the list has become too lengthy for me to track my progress, ;) [dumb me, i have a post not 10 lines ago in history, from 090711 2.91; 6.43% (@ 2yrs ago) 2.33% (@ 1yr ago) ;) ]
- chaz2b
Downloading CentOS DVD. Going to try to give myself more Linux experience. Going to be installing Snort IDS on it so I can study and get GCIA (GIAC Certified Intrusion detection system Analyst) certification.
Yeah you too? Well anyways, along with my project to teach myself php and refresh my apache knowledge.. I'd take more classes on linux but I'm busy teaching it at free geek during those times i have seen them available.
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
Installing now. Will also use the system as another World Community Grid client, thus further boosting the friendfeed WCG team scores, yay. :)
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
And this is why I never got in to Linux. Installing drivers for my USB wireless adapter is a real PITA. There's just no real intelligence built in to yum or rpm to ask the user to insert install CD x for various dependencies.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Having to uncompress the DVD iso (don't have DVD media to burn it to) to an external hard drive and use that to get stuff installed.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
And of course, there's no guarantee that the required libraries will be on the install DVD.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I bet it would be a little easier with Ubuntu or a variant, but most places use a Red Hat variant, which is why I chose CentOS.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I recommend searching on the web and see if your USB wireless adapter is supported. There's been problems with manufactures not wanting to release either code or driver support for Linux.
- imabonehead
It is. I have the RPM to install the drivers and the firmware, but yum is erroring out because it can't find rpmlib(Digests) and rpmlib(PayloadisXz)
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Edit /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo by changing "enabled=1" to "enabled=0".
- imabonehead
Cool, thanks, I'll try that in a bit and let you know if it worked...if it doesn't, I found something else to try
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
from YouFeed
Alex - I don't know about CentOS (I've never used it), but in Ubuntu and its related projects, there's actually a utility built in that allows you to use Windows drivers for things like your wifi adapter. It works really well.
- Curdy G
imabonehead, enabled already equals 0 in CentOS-Media.repo
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Is this CentOS 5.5? That rpm package might not be supported in CentOS, but Fedora. Check the vendor's website to see which distros are supported.
- imabonehead
Of course, now I need to figure out how to actually set it up.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
what are you trying to set up? CentOS isn't so bad...the only major hassle I have is that I have to grab yum libraries from other people, because CentOS is a bit slow at going to the latest version of PHP, etc. (or rather Fedora is slow at going to it)
- Sir Shuping is just sir
Trying to get my Raylink rt3070 based USB wireless adapter working and it's a complete pain in the ass
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
This is highly annoying. I have it loaded using ndiswrapper and using the linux drivers for the adapter, but it's still not showing up in ifconfig and I have no idea how to get it set up to show up there.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Never did get wireless adapter to work. Ended up using built in ethernet port and Internet Connection Sharing on my Windows desktop that has wireless installed
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I mean really: how can the nickel possibly be worth less than the dime? THE NICKEL IS BIGGER THAN THE DIME! And don't try to tell me that the dime is smaller but made out of more valuable metals, because they're both made out of completely worthless metals.
- DGentry
I can't sleep in the same room with a dog because when I was a kid, I went to a slumber party where they told a story about a dead woman coming back as a dog and at night while everyone was sleeping, the dog would stand up on its hind legs and walk around the house like that woman used to do. Even as an adult, I can't shake that image and won't let my dog sleep in the bedrooms.
- Trish R
Yes. Civil unrest, martial law, instability, utter breakdown of society and infrastructure accompanied by a high-speed reverse journey to feudalism with me as a serf. I'm hoping hard that my fear is irrational. Tell me why it is. Please. Anyone?
- Ellie K
My really weird one involves dozing off one summer day on the beach and waking up in a parallel universe 6 months later, winter in full swing, people having declared me dead, my girlfriend now seeing someone else, nobody believing my story..
- Guy
A paranoid is simple a person in full possession of all the facts.
- Steven Perez
It is. Doesn't prevent me from dozing off in the sun anyway.
- Guy
I have discovered that the root of my fears is loss of control. Insects, dead/decaying bodies (but not zombies), pitch black darkness, and heights. All completely irrational as I /know/ I shouldn't fear those things. Still.
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
Yes- even though taking Entomology and Invert Zoo really helped me, I am still afraid of a lot of non-toxic insects and inverts. I am afraid of heights, but it doesn't seem to apply to being high on a mountain. I am afraid of deep water even though I can swim. It just scares me for some reason. I'll second Mary Carmen in that I have a major irrational fear of aliens. It is très ridiculous.
- Jenny R
Oh I'm slightly afraid of swimming in water I can't see through but I've done it before.
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
opening my eyes under water - even with goggles. though I mostly got rid of that when I was in jamaica.
- Nathalie
Yes. Getting ejected into space without a space suit. The earth suddenly ceasing to rotate. I think most of my other fears have some basis in rationality even if they are exaggerated (volcanos, earthquakes, being eaten by something). I apparently also have a 'recursive fear' of panic attacks.
- joey
Being afraid of ghosts is completely rational.
- Todd Hoff
Having my head underwater. Being in any water where I can't see the bottom.
- Rochelle
disembodied voices demanding attention by spontaneously setting off ringing devices.
- Sarah Slaven
All my fears are entirely 100% rational...yep! What? Why are you looking at me like that?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Im afraid to drive behind any van or truck with anything, like ladders, on top of it. This is due to that movie The Descent. It was the only part that scared the crap out of me.
- Shevonne
from Android
I often fear things poking or piercing my eyes. Sometimes the fear descends when there is no threat. Used to have nightmares aobut it, but they've subsided (thankfully).
- Brent
"My own long-term goal is to publish at least 1,000,000 photographs before I die." Good long term goal. My husband is a subway photographer and has nearly 18,000 photos of trains only on his website as accumulated over the last few years. I wonder if he'll get even close to 100k!
- Tamar Weinberg
My only photography goal is to start taking pictures again. I stopped for some reason as I started getting distracted by my other interests. :(
- James (@willia4)
Just to get better. I hope I'll have more time taking shots too.
- Chris Nixon
GET a real camera without my husband freaking out about the price tag!, learn how to use it, post fabulous photos on Flickr! which dump over here
- Susan Beebe
Sell my Leica Digilux 3, and just get the most out of my new Leica D-Lux 4 while documenting the first year of my daughter.
- ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ
Take tons of pictures of my kids and go to a photography show of some kind
- Shevonne
to finally pursue my lifelong dream of taking up photography lol
- Cardeen winedrunk
I want to break into the pornography industry ~ hear it's a big money maker!
- The Real sofarsoShawn
To try and round up some freelance work and get more involved in the local gallery scene...and always looking to refine, re-invent, and learn.
- Susan Dennis
Take less pictures, but with higher attention to quality.
- David Cook
Considering taking a photography class. I'd love to really learn how to work with film.
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My two photography goals for 2009 are 1) Actually learn the non-auto functions of my camera besides manual focus and "No! Don't Flash at distant things" and 2) Get better at low light and lunar photography.
- Daniel Cornwall
To be better than I was a year before, to hopefully have a proper dSLR, and to have made some spending money from my photos. And to have fun.
- Grant Bierman
To have a camera I could shoot a gnat from 100 yards with. and to take some classes so that I can use it. Ok, 50 yards...
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
take 4x the photos I took in 2008 and publish once a week to flickr
- Mark Interrante
To take enough photos in 2009 that I fill all the hard drives of my new Drobo.
- Bob Gannon
I have a new camera, so first learn how to use it properly. After that, remember to use it regularly and not just grab my iPhone.
- Rochelle
I want to shoot more with Thomas Hawk. I also want to edit more of my photos.
- Robert Scoble
Get geared up with my 5D, learn some good lighting skills and start taking my food pics to build my portfolio.
- Derrick
Build a Macro Studio and take better food photos for blog. Meet with the local photographer photo-walks. Play with my new UV filter.
- Heidi Jeffers Thibodeau
Getting a quality camera and developing my skill is one of my retirerment plans; a don't think that will happen in 2009.
- Robert Hafer
To meet more photographers in real life and go on adventures with them.
- Trey Ratcliff
I want to continue to get better with my camera. I've only been shooting really for a little over a year so I'm still learning. I also want to shoot some studio sessions as that is something very new and challenging for me.
- C.C. Chapman
Thanks to this thread, I took out my Canon Powershot S1 manual (three years old) and figured out how to 1) Take pictures in sepia, 2) Successfuly work the delay time to take a photo of myself and 3) Use the successive photo feature. I used the last on my cat, but I couldn't get him to move, so not worthwhile to see. I look forward to trying a few different things a month and seeing what happens. Thanks for starting this thread!
- Daniel Cornwall
happy bday Derrick, hope u get lucky!
- Thom Kennon
I didn't know who it was, but I sure knew it wasn't Derrick based on the pictures of himself he's posted. I mean, just compare the pic to the avatar and it's obvious.
- Katy S
Why is twitter a better platform? Most of your followers only have one tweet, which means they're _listeners_. Finally, you can get a word in edgewise, and your ideas will be heard.
No other platform has as many documented listeners on it. Other sites claim it, but you can get up to 6 emails per day, or more, showing you that someone else with just one tweet has started following, bringing another obvious hardcore listener into your flock.
- Andy Bakun
you know, I haven't paid much attention to twitter lately, because, as I was discussing with a friend earlier; I once wished I could read minds, then twitter came along and told me what people were really thinking... Now I'm just glad I can't read people's minds because listening to people talk about themselves is annoying at best....
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
I wonder how many one-tweet bots are subscribed to other one-tweet bots.
- Andy Bakun
gunz, youz haz dee brewz. nowz youz gotz two choicez of whatz youz can dooz. itz notz a tough decision az you can see, i canz blow you awayz or youz can ridez wif me.
- Morgan
So I am trying to figure out the best way for me to stream TV/Movies from my laptop to my TV wirelessly. How can I do this? I have a MacBook Pro, XBox 360 (wired to the router so far), PS3 (wired/wireless), Samsung TV (will get model # when I get home), as well as a Sharp Aquos TV in vicinity as well and a Wii. What can I do?? Help me. The most...
I heard on the podcast that apple TV isn't a good solution.
- Amani
from IM
hmm...perhaps a network hard drive that streams? such as this: http://www.wdc.com/en.... FYI I zero experience with these things but I've been looking for a solution myself and also have a macbook pro.
- chrisofspades
that is ok chris. we can learn together. Alex - any ideas?? Where is carlos or Josh??
- Amani
from IM
first I need a new TV hehe. but I have a few more requirements out of a settop box than you do. also I don't a gaming console.
- chrisofspades
Hi Amani..here are two very simple choices for the PS3 + Mac..one is free...the other costs money. Free: PMS...give is a shot : http://code.google.com/p... the other is to use the NAS that i am using...WD ShareSpace..i have the 4TB model: http://www.wdc.com/en...
- Carlos Ayala
If you are just streaming movies off your MBP and they are h.264, the AppleTV is fine and relatively cheap. Plus, it basically sets itself up. The podcast was wrong.
- The original Kevin
Carlos - wow, that is a nice looking machine. It doubles as a hard drive as well? Does it matter if I don't have a PC and just laptops? Also, what if I wanted to stream something to my TV upstairs (A Sharp Aquos TV) what else would I need? I am wondering if I have Direct TV DVR in my living room, can I stream something to my TV upstairs?
- Amani
from IM
careful with those external hard drives / "Home Network Storage " devices, even from WD...if they dont say DLNA certified..dont bother.
- Carlos Ayala
yes,,its a much more than a hard drive. its smart. its a true network storage device....it will automatically backup files...it comes RAID 5 out of the box for true redundancy...which means if a drive fails....put in another and it will rebuild itself.you mark a folder or folders on your computer and it will automatically back it up 24 hours a day. all your devices on your network can talk to it.
- Carlos Ayala
What is UpnP? (I am learning on the fly here). Carlos - Could my 360 and PS3 read things off the same device?
- Amani
@chrisofspades i plugged my WD into the network...ran the cd for the backup program....mark one folder for backups...turned on my PS3...and there it was. 5 minutes total. only because i decided to run the cd.
- Carlos Ayala
i can speak about the 360. i dont have one.
- Carlos Ayala
Upnp is Universal Plug and Play. Its designed to do what DLNA does. PlayON, for instance, is a upnp server. ive had issues with upnp. never with dlna.
- Carlos Ayala
sounds like WD has a couple of options: Sharespace that Carlos linked to and My Book World edition that I linked. only difference seems to be capacity.
- chrisofspades
@chrisofspades see my note above about DLNA and "Home Network Storage " devices
- Carlos Ayala
$800 for that device Carlos posted. Hmmm ... Seems like a nice one. I would love if this one could stream stuff to all my TV's in my home. Is that possible?
- Amani
from IM
Amani....give PMS a shot...its tricky to setup..but once its going its good. i stream stuff wirelessly from my macbook and mbp to it when i dont feel like turning on my windows workstation and running playon or tversity.
- Carlos Ayala
shop around for it Amani. i paid 450 for it.
- Carlos Ayala
@chrisofspades "TwonkyMedia" is just that twonky. i did not like it at all. the other two are $20 and $40 respectively. PMS works and its free. your mileage may vary
- Carlos Ayala
as far as streaming to all your TVs Amani, if you have a game console attached to each one, then conceivably it would work since they all seem to support DLNA/UPnP. except maybe the wii.
- chrisofspades
@Carlos haha. I'm just using google here. no personal experience with any of this.
- chrisofspades
$450 ... hmm... that is pretty good. Carlos - can it help me with all my TV's?
- Amani
from IM
only if you have a ps3 connected to it as far as i know Amani
- Carlos Ayala
@chrisofspades i know i am just putting it out there. not dissing you or anything. its all good man.
- Carlos Ayala
i need to go take care of a few things..i will try to make it to tonights show..we can chat then if not DM me whenever you want or just post here and i will follow up. Good luck fellas.
- Carlos Ayala
who said anything about dissing? *looks around* I just mentioned that cuz your view is more valid since you have experience w/ it
- chrisofspades
thanks carlos. i will do more research and get back to you. Anyone else other there with ideas/tips.? this is great so far
- Amani
from IM
Amani, video of the WD My Book World Edition working on the 360: http://www.wdc.com/global.... I *think* that you would get the same thing out of the ShareSpace.
- chrisofspades
and Carlos says it works flawlessly on the PS3. sounds good to me.
- chrisofspades
so in addition to this, it sounds like I need to have a device hooked up to each TV to stream to it, right? Can a device be something else besides a gaming device?
- Amani
from IM
yes, you would need some type of device, and I assume any device that supports DNLA or UPnP would work. not sure what other devices do, though.
- chrisofspades
gotta run but I'll be back in here later.
- chrisofspades
I have Connect360 installed but haven't tested it out with the 360 yet, But both EyeConnect (have had it installed a long time) and PS3 Media Server (just installed and tested it) run fine on the Mac and access is clean from the PS3. You'll get better quality going direct from your laptop to TV (and less software and protocol hassles). With the little testing I've done, PS3 Media Server (free) is more configurable and less finicky than EyeConnect ($).
- Tinfoil 2.0
In general, the PS3 will be more friendly to the Mac due to the emphasis on MPEG4 / h.264 support on both platforms. But you do need to consider where your content is coming from, i.e., what format(s) are your movies in? Mac Handbrake is great for converting movies into h.264, with settings for AppleTV, PS3, etc. One drawback to a network disk is that you'll presumably process movies on...
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- Tinfoil 2.0
I don't know about TV. But to stream movies to the TV, I stream movies/music to my PS3 through Vuze. Works like a dream. Sorry if somebody already suggested this.
- The Fat Oracle
My older macbook came with an adapter that I use for my projector and my TV. Did they stop including this? It works for streaming and anything on my mac. I just went through this for a friend I sold my monitor and tv to, I'll see if I can dig up the links.
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
Here is a link to the TV I have. http://www.samsung.com/us... Samsung LN 52B750. Says the tv is DNLA certified if that helps. Any other ideas?
- Amani
An AppleTV will work with all kinds of content if you add Boxee
- Robert Hafer
So Robert if I get an Apple TV say for my TV in the bedroom(upstairs), could I stream stuff that is on my Network (Direct TV DVR, or my MacBook Pro, PS3 or Xbox 360) that is all downstairs? And Josh - sweet TV, no? Do you stream any stuff to it?
- Amani
Yes, the Boxee hack (a very easy hackhttp://forum.boxee.tv/forumdi... ) lets you identify where your media is and the play it. A fast wireless connection is required for smooth playback of HD content.
- Robert Hafer
Yeah the tv is amazing. I have been playing with DLNA options recently and the first thing I noticed is that the tv doesn't like to playback files hosted by anything but it's own Samsung dlna host software (on the disc I'd downloadable for free). Once I had that installed the treaming was not bad at all. BUT the whole playback interface and system that is built into the tv is pretty mediocre compared to the likes of xbmc. BUT it is a quick way to get things up and running, for sure.
- Josh Haley
unless Apple tv has changed to be able to display full 1080p, I don't think our podcast was wrong about it.
- Josh Haley
I am also wondering if I get the NAS Carlos described above and then use my old Acer laptop for upstairs with my bedroom TV, could that take care of streaming to that TV. That would avoid me having to purchase apple TV. Then I could use the PS3 to stream to the main Samsung TV and the X360 to stream to the Sharp TV in the adjacent room. Hmmm ... and now for the TV in the kitchen.......
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- Amani
Any dedicated computer directly attached to a TV will give you the best results / most options. Many free open source options are available.
- Robert Hafer
Chris (or anyone else), any other ideas? I have a Laptop I am getting reformatted to use with my upstairs TV. I am going to get the WD Sharespace for my entire network. Then I have PS3 for one TV, Xbox 360 for another TV and laptop for the 3rd tv. Makes sense right?
- Amani
Part 1 is complete. I have the laptop that has been successfully reformatted. Now I have to get the NAS (for cheap) and then tie everything together. Also need to figure out how to get my HD Direct TV DVR on this network.
- Amani
PS3 will give you the best HD picture of the equipment you mentioned above. I use it with a Buffalo NAS to stream to Samsung TV. It works great. Buffalo NAS also has direct BT download capability and I can stream movies from my NAS to my iPhone.
- Todd Bouey
Todd- How much space does your NAS have? I am trying to find a good deal on a 4TB one but have had bad luck so far ...
- Amani
I got the 4TB Linkstation Quad and although I bought it on sale at Fry's, out the door it cost about the same as it would have online. Ease of return however was a good thing since the 1st model I brought home was faulty. It works fine as a server and has an interface for both PC and Mac, some of the "features" don't work as well as one might like, but then I guess these are not core server functions so I'm not overly disappointed in this respect. Customer service is pretty spotty though.
- Todd Bouey
Looks like I am going to have to break down and pay $700 for mine. Can't find it online anywhere for cheaper. Maybe I can find a 10% off best buy coupon.
- Amani
It has arrived. I will be installing it shortly. Wish me luck.
- Amani
Kamillah - I remember playing those games. Youre NOT OLD. :P
- iTad
Sorry. I guess old is remembering when you played Tennis for Two on the oscilloscope back in nineteen hundred and fifty eight. THAT'S old. My parents were young children. Tonight, Kamilah de-evolves video games before your very eyes!
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
OMG I so remember this! Finding those keys! LOL
- Adam Turetzky
I think I might have played that. I don't quite remember. I do remember playing Pong (I'm older than you).
- Katy S
This makes me think of Temple of Apshai. (Introduced to me by Homestar Runner). I think I did play something on an Apple IIe that used Greek symbols or something for the characters. I do remember my uncle's IntelliVision that we weren't allowed to touch, that had graphics akin to these and controllers that looked like remote controls.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
I used to play Temple of Apshai a lot on a Commodore 64.
- Akiva
This is basically a shortcut recipe that still delivers all the great samoas flavor without some of the more tedious parts of cooking making. These bars have a buttery shortbread base that is topped with the caramel-coconut samoas topping and chocolate. It is made in three stages. First, the shortbread is baked and cooled. Then, the coconut topping is applied. Put the coconut on while it is hot, so it will be fairly easy to push it around. It’s a thick mixture, but a spatula is all you need to press it into an even layer. The bars should be cut after the topping has been applied, and even though the shortbread has a melt-in-your mouth quality to it, the topping holds the bars together well. I recommend using a large knife or a pizza cutter to slice up the bars easily and neatly; small knives don’t work quite as well.
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
from Bookmarklet
Thank you, Gina. I am glad to be your hero :)
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
Let's put those little bitches out of business.
- James Ferguson
@James - hey, they only sell those cookies for like 2 mo. out of the year. I'm happy to buy from them then, but where am I going to get my cookie fix for the other 10 months? Right here, I tell you. Those look awesome.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Mona, I am all for learning new things, but constitutional law seems like a stretch. Or are you actually a closet law geek?
- Rob Diana
LOL I'm turning into an American history geek and fascinated by the Constitution, especially with the various ways it is interpreted. This book is is apparently the best hornbook around. :)
- Mona Nomura
from IM
I studied a ton of this in my Undergrad (Us Politics course) and in particular the constitution
- The Real sofarsoShawn
Con law is fascinating -- if I win the lotto, I'd go to law school.
- Mona Nomura
Enough to get me through law school + living expenses. Scotch included. :)
- Mona Nomura
from fftogo
Ok I'm coming out of the closet, I love two subjects; Anthropology and Law. You Go Mona.
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
Oh and PS, in washington state, you don't have to go to law school to sit for the bar exam, or practice law, though you DO have to have 3 years working in the legal field.
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
Mona, now I am confused. You are a geek who likes shoes, music AND scotch? It sounds like you are my twin :)
- Rob Diana
You forgot waffle fries! This is hilarious because we actually had a very heated office debate on Friday about which was better waffle fries or tater tots. Waffle fries won out.
- James Poling
Fries, with Onion Rings a close second.
- Michael Fidler
I would have to say oldskool fries (done properly), which are called "Pommes Frites" here (and in France I presume). Especially since I haven´t seen "Tater Tots" before, but they look somewhat like our round "Pommes Noisettes" or maybe like a miniature "Rösti". Anyone know ?
- ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ
Tots > Onion rings > Waffle fries > Regular fries. The thin/short tots are especially good.
- Lix
Yes please. :) But usually Fries > Tots > Onion Rings.
- Jandy
Texas toothpicks may trump them all, but it's hard for me to get them (and no, I will NOT try to make them, myself!). Potato wedges are also nice.
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
Depends on which fries and which onion rings. But hardly ever tatertots.
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
Tater tots would never win with me. Tough call between fries & onion rings, depends where they're from. Tony Roma's brick onion rings FTW above all other fries, but typical fries vs typical rings I'd go with the fries.
- Robert DeBord
I like all of them. Bring them on. :-)
- Raoul Pop
McD's fries, or Arby's curly fries. Onion rings are good, too, but most fast food places have crappy ones (Sonic's are pretty good). I hardly ever have tater tots even though I like stuff like hash browns.
- Cheryl Jones
Fries > Tots > nothing > Onion rings [OK, that doesn't parse right. I mean that I'd rather have nothing than have onion rings, but one could read that in part as "nothing is better than onion rings". What a crazy language.]
- Fred Yankowski
Sweet Potato Fries. If that breaks the rules, onion rings.
- Jeanine W.
Bleh, I hate this post. I'm broke ... and I want some onion rings! Lovely, batter that melts in your mouth, nice and hot onion rings. :-P
- Matthew Horton
Jeanine W, I was about to say that sweet potato fries are the bomb!!! especially with a little butter.
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Matt, right there with you. It keeps popping up and making me NEED to go get some chili cheese fries. But I'm being strong!
- Jandy
I've gotten no end to the grief from various girlfriends about my love of tater tots. Apparently, I am not alone!
- Seth Blank
I think Ms. Tinypants posted a recipe a while back with cheese and bacon wrapped tater tots. They were yum.
- Lix
Hold up now. CHEESE AND BACON WRAPPED TATER TOTS? I must find this. *goes searching*
- Jandy
i have slowly moved from fries at most places and gone rings or tots.
- (jeff)isageek
To clarify on everyone's request to add chips, we must keep our British friends in mind here... I think everyone is referencing "potato chips" not what we Americans call "french fries"...
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Ooh, love this question. I'd want to learn book conservation/restoration. That just seems so damn awesome. Wish I'd known that existed when I was little.
- Ayşe E.
Learn Japanese - in Japan. Full immersion course. Set us up in a small Japanese town with no English speaking people and provide us with the Pimsleur course and a good course for reading Japanese characters. In a year, we'd all be close to conversationally fluent.
- iTad
I'd go intensive into novel writing, with hired editors, writing coaches, and a research staff at my disposal. I'd need quite a bit of classes to do it, though, Anthropology, psychology, astronomy, Mythology, and of course writing.
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
At this point, I probably want to hone my photography skills and become a fulltime professional photographer, for a magazine like Wallpaper. (Then again, I also want to finally get a book published, so I may try that instead ...)
- Rene, Pro Button Pusher
Hmmm, maybe cooking school, or a language, or photography. Digital technology has changed the work flow SO much.
- Derrick
Xeriscape gardening and farming. I figure that'll be useful in the coming years, and I like gardening anyway.
- Amy℠
Definitely music theory. I can pretty much bang away at any instrument and make it sound kinda good, but I would be a beast if I actually learned scales, modes, etc.
- Rah-PM 2012
Architecture. No question about it. What I should have done the first time around. But nooo, "You should go with business and economics".. My ass. EDIT: Ah..only one year.. a crash course in sailboat design (if not proper naval architecture) then.
- ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ
from BuddyFeed
I like to learn how to live off the original funding giving me the means to learn any and everything I wanted at my leisure.
- The Amber
skill? I'll have to go with piano as well.
- Alejandro
It's a tie between learning to be a top chef, and spending a year doing strength and stamina training so I can finally hike the full length of the Pacific Crest Trail. :)
- Hookuh Tinypants
I think B-boying. DJing would last me longer -- I'm 32 and my knees know it -- but my heart is with breaking first.
- Andrew C (✓)
Paradox-correcting time travel, that way I could go back to the beginning of the year and learn something new. EDIT: Seriously, linguistics.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Monkeylectric is a system of LEDs that attaches to your spokes and displays patterns and even words as you ride. If you hadn't guessed its target market, the FAQ includes an assurance that yes, it will work at Burning Man. It's essentially a AA battery-powered 256 RGB system that straps to a bike's spokes and has a sweet spot of between 8 and 20 mph: At 8, you'll just start to see the patterns in the center, and at 20 the light show will have taken over your entire wheel. It's customizable, but only to a point, as you have to use the on-board buttons to alter the patterns rather than loading images via USB or whatever. Monkeylectric is available now for $60, which seems a fair price to have the best bike at your acid-tripping festival of choice. [Monkeylectric via Boing Boing Gadgets]
- Bluesun 2600
Tomorrow I'm going to wake up at a reasonable hour and create an evil concoction of boiling water, a bit of soap, and something plant unfriendly. I'm then going to take said concoction outside and pour it on some English ivy and listen for little plant screams as it dies an agonizingly painful death.
Ian, it's invasive here. I think I'm going to add vinegar to the mix, and possibly a bit of bleach. I don't want to use ammonia because that provides available nitrogen which is actually a good thing (GAH!). If I use bleach I'll keep it at 10% and will have to be careful to apply only to the leaves and not get any on the ground.
- FFing Enigma
that's all wayyyyyy too confusing for me.....if it wasn't near the house I'd just say torch it :P
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
LOL! Mike, it's near EVERYTHING. The thing with ivy is it has a wax coating on the leaves, so I'm thinking boiling hot water + soap + vinegar = dissolves the wax coating. Sensible, no? Oh, I know! I'll pour the boiling surfactant mix on them willy nilly and then spray them with the 10% bleach solution I keep for sanitizing. Do it in the morning and then let the sun bake it in.
- FFing Enigma
I only asked as it looks so pretty growing up the side of old English cottages. Actually though it's not always a good thing there either, as it promotes dampness into the walls.
- Ian May
Before I moved into this house, I loved the stuff. Evergreen, low growing, cute leaves. But I've got it everywhere and if left unchecked it'll choke out shrubs, kill full grown trees, and cause damage to houses it climbs upon. Actually, there's a dead and ivied tree that straddles the property line here: perhaps I'll brave the snakes and take a picture of it tomorrow.
- FFing Enigma
Trish: do you have any left in the trees? You should be able to cut the vines at the base and the tendrils in the trees will die off.
- FFing Enigma
http://www.nps.gov/plants... I spent about a half an hour looking for a natural way to kill it to no avail. I'm wondering if a black ground-cover cloth might work? After all doesn't it need light to live, that would seem to be the least chemical way to attack it, though prob the most expensive.
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
Between the ivy and the periwinkle, I'm up to my eyeballs in 'quick spreading groundcovers'. My fingers are crossed that tomorrow's experiment will prove fruitful.
- FFing Enigma
BWaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahha!!! I've just posted something about using alcohol to stunt plant growth, and concentrations over 10% are supposed to be toxic. So tomorrow's tonic is a bath of boiling water + soap + vinegar to dissolve the wax coating with a follow-up spray of a bleach and alcohol mix.
- FFing Enigma
Tina, be careful, that by the time you finish, you don't end up with a mixture that's explosive... literally. LOL
- Ian May
Dave just said the same thing! As long as I'm not putting ammonia in with my bleach, I should be safe.
- FFing Enigma
The results page I'm getting just shows the properties of the two and doesn't show the resulting compound. And I'm seeing where bleach disinfection is often directly followed by ethanol disinfection in hospital environments in order to prevent corrosion of the stainless steel.
- FFing Enigma
Tina, another great place to check mixture. The msds page is required by all healthcare facilites for their workers exposure information as well as other things: http://hazard.com/msds/
- Janet-The Bottley Crue
just put any qualms to one side and use Round Up on it.
- John Hardy
Sounds fun, I suggest a Nine Inch Nails soundtrack to enhance the experience
- Ryan Miller
from Nambu
@John Hardy, I can attest to the fact Round Up feeds ivy, makes it stronger and harder to kill. I even injected the stuff in the main root system and the stuff didn't die.
- Janet-The Bottley Crue
wow. I've only used it on out of control bamboo and it did the job but I'll defer to your experience there, Janet.
- John Hardy
For the last time interwebz, FTW! means "For the win!"...It usually connotates that something is good/great (cheesecake FTW!)...can also be used to mean the opposite in a sarcastic manner (unemployment FTW!)...That is all...
If you have to explain, it's just not as fun. Defining FTL!
- caj needs a haircut
I love PSAs! Service that is Public and Announcer-y and not just a test of the emergency broadcast system are fine indeed. Alex FTW! (not Brian's version mind you)
- Micah
WHAT! Cheesecake not FTW?!?!?!?! Oh man you are so not invited to my next party Wirehead...
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
Interesting. According to the 1970's pre-disco party-trippin' Book of Beginnings, FTW is "F**k The World" as in "F" the status quo zombie herd conventional empire group think of the day. E.g., "cheesecake while high. FTW!" or, as you indicate, the sardonic inverse literal form, "cell phone carrier cartel 100X price-per-bit sippy-straw speed splinternets, FTW!" So I'd submit, "1970's retro-trip-hop FTW ... FTW!"
- michael silverton
Wow I though for sure, sharing that my dad was in a science fiction movie, aboard the USS Nimitz, and had movie stars barbecue over at our house would get *some* kind of reaction FriendFeed.... I mean family, personal stuff, sci fi, jets, the navy, and the USS Nimitz... it's got all sorts of WIN no?
I declared today anti-drama day in honor of Tina, so I won't say what I would like to, but instead I bring you visions of sugarplums dancing in you head (bump).
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
It doesn't have catz in it though, that would have totally kept it at the top of the feed for a week.
- Kenton
Damn, true, if there was a LOL cat and a picture of some food it would have reached FriendFeed Critical mass. Maybe that should be a meme? A post with as much win as possible?
- mikepk
sci-fi LOL cat, eating something with a delicious looking picture of the food, and then a DYSP thrown in for fun?
- mikepk
"Many of the real-life stories are intensely painful to read because war, violence, poverty or abuse in the home turns childhood into a battle for survival. And then novels - such as The Wasp Factory, Flowers in the Attic and The Cement Garden - have been criticized almost as much as they have been praised because they challenge taboos about how youngsters should behave. Enjoy, or endure, our selection of 20 books about shattered childhoods."
- edythe
from Bookmarklet
Of course, hopefully you're having these comments sent to your e-mail so you know when people are commenting on your posts. :-)
- Jesse Stay
Wasn't before, but now subscribed on ff :)
- Micah
if i set it to email notification, doesn't my inbox spam up? oh wait, i only wish i had that many comments. lol.
- Christine Lu
Christine, you ought to set it to notify you at least on people that comment on your posts. Do you want to miss responses to your own posts at all? You can probably afford to miss other stuff though.
- Jesse Stay
oh i get it. maybe that's why. i don't set the notifications on. hold on. lemme test.
- Christine Lu
reposting what I just sent via DM... I'm trying to use it... trying real hard.. but having a hard time really getting into it..
- MarkHirsch
Thanks Jesse! Really appreciate it. Reading it now
- MarkHirsch
I may not be in your network, but I have allot of reasons why I use FF over twitter. In fact I hardly ever hit twitter, it just seems like so much noise to me. Where as I get a bigger view of the topics listed here on FF and can take time to chose which post and conversation I want to be a part of. Twitter is too disjointed for my tastes. But then, I'm a product of gen x and am used to less noise in general.
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
i'm a product of gen x too! i think it all depends on where your network is. my social network is nothing without the core group of people i interact with and keep in touch with. going to give friendfeed more of a try. we'll see!
- Christine Lu
from email
I read a fair percentage of the posts of yours that I see, Christine. I doubt, though, that I qualify as being in your network. I removed 250 people from my home feed in the past few days, but not yours.
- Chuck Baggett
Thanks for reading Chuck. Glad to hear my stuff is interesting enough to make your list! :) It's not a matter of qualifying in my network or not. It's really more about non-early adopters maybe finding FriendFeed too complicated to adopt. Thereby making the experience not so fun when you don't have folks to engage with. Cheers!
- Christine Lu
from email
hi Christine :) -- thought, hook up FF to your blog as a commenting engine.
- τorƍue
gina, if you do, i hope you'll take some pictures and post them here. :)
- edythe
Of course. I think they are so adorable, and I've been looking for a more travel-able substitute for my kitty addiction. I've done a bit of research on care and socializing and such, and they seem a decent fit.
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
they are almost beyond adorable and into... unspeakably darling!!!!!!!!!! :)
- edythe
"I'd like to think I'm gay not because I had a domineering mother and a fairly passive non-communicative father, but because I like having sex with men." - Me
If you study psychology and Anthropology, for humanity (and many other species) Bisexuality is considered the norm. So every time I hear someone say some ridiculous thing about gender/sexuality I feel free telling them "Actually, Its all the straight people that are deviating, perhaps you need to get some help getting set back on the right path?" Usually shuts them the hell up.
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
Derrick, you and I (and most people who actually *know* gay people) know that your parental situation doesn't determine your sexual orientation. I know tons of non-heterosexuals and their parental upbringing is as varied as anyone else.
- jbrotherlove
Just curious Derrick (and you are under no obligation to answer if it's too personal), do you remember the point when you realized you were gay? Was there a particular phase or event in your childhood where it just became obvious to you? If so, if you hadn't gone through that particular experience at that particular time in your life do you think anything would be different today? My...
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- Lindsay
Well, Lindsey, for me, in hindsight, looking back I was always gay. I look at my behavior when I was four, five and six years old and I liked boys. Of course, I was conditioned as such to do the boy thing, play with trucks, run, kick, smash, etc. but even in puberty, I remember being different. People used to always talk about how when you start liking girls you'll do this and that to...
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- Derrick
I'm sure there are lots of factors that go into it... we're all defined by our experiences, and sometimes by things we don't even acknowledge consciously. There are definitely personality traits that are influenced by genetics as well, we're all born with the potential to end up several ways, and what actually gets locked in is based on our experiences that reinforce one possibility and...
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- Lindsay
I'm straight because at the time of sexual imprint vulnerability society shepherded me into accepting a heterosexual role. Most people imprint straight for similar reasons. I believe it's the path of least resistance. Gay people probably have some genes to thank, but may also have a critical experience during puberty (height of sexual imprint vulnerability) that leads them in whatever direction.
- iTad
I think the sexual imprint idea is interesting but difficult to trace or prove. there are some whose *appear* to have been affected by incest or other traumatic experience (which is a whole 'nother ball of wax). outside of those obvious situations, how can an imprint be identified?
- jbrotherlove
Like I said in that other thread, me and my bro had such similar lives to a point, but he turned out gay. I have thought about it a lot and have really done some soul-searching to see if I'm kidding myself...but, nah....I like women.
- Rah-PM 2012
Interesting conversation. I've always personally leaned more towards people being predisposed genetically to being either gay or hetero. My parents were divorced when I was 4 and my mother was a hairstylist. My mother brought my brother and I up to be very open minded and devoid of prejudice. I was around gay men often for most of my childhood growing up spending much time at the hair...
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- Mark Krynsky
The category "men who like to have sex with men" is both more particular, and more broad, than anyone really knows. At least, that has been my experience of the world. There's identity, there's orientation and there's behavior and opportunity. Those aren't identical spaces. But, more to the point, as a long-term boyfriend used to say to me, and now I am saying to Derrick: I'm so glad you're gay!
- Rick Powell
I'm honestly flattered by people's attitudes in this thread. While I don't like to necessarily use FF as my big gay platform in life, it is certainly part of what makes me who I am. Rick, I'm so glad we're gay. :)
- Derrick
I've said it before... I just think of you as Derrick.
- Johnny
What do you feel about the fact that the gay organizations in Norway wanted people to use homophily ("homofili") rather than homosexuality ("homoseksualitet") ? I guess the reasoning being that it isn´t all about sex. I practically never hear anything other than "homofil" anymore (often lesbian ("lesbisk") for gay women though). Of course I´m also aware that there may be differences in...
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- ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ
That's interesting Thomas, I didn't know that. So they want to use a word that suggests a culture rather than a sexual orientation? In which case, I would have to decline.
- Rick Powell
@Rick: I hear you. It may just be language though as "homofili" is defined in the dictionary here as "sexual attraction to the same sex, homosexuality" (it looks like there´s a much broader definition in English dictionaries). Looks like we just prefer the word without "sex" of the two meaning about the same.
- ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ
I'll probably get shot down in flames for saying this, but I think very few (if any) people are 100% straight or 100% gay... just my $0.02
- Ian May
Thinking about sexuality in terms of percentages really makes no sense anyway.
- Rick Powell
@Rick - True, but I can't think of a better way of putting my point over at 2,30am...
- Ian May
I kissed a girl, and I liked it. In that moment, aren't I 100% straight? :-) Or not?
- Rick Powell
I knew I would regret my statement. :) Ok, what about if you kissed a guy the next day and liked that too?
- Ian May
Tonight - Going to support my transguy friend at his first event, which is going to kick of DC Pride, Tomorrow - Soccer, Soccer After Party, Nephew's bday party, Wedding cake testing with my sis, and then party with my friend (leaving the kids at her house!!!) Sunday - Bike ride and Brunch =D
- Shevonne
I´m cleaning and fixing our apartment this weekend because the photographer and the technical appraiser come monday. (We´ve bought a new house and are selling).
- ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ
bike ride, running stairs, dinner out, work, house-stuff... should be a full weekend
- Bren
Hanging out with my kids, launching a new product and not catching up on sleep the way I should :)
- Brett Kelly
code. code then probably code again. :(
- AJ Batac :)
@Bren Mountain or road? @Brett New product launch sounds exciting!
- Shevonne
Checking out a Cancer Benefit art show tonight, checking out a new breakfast spot tomorrow morning with the BFFs..that's all I got going so far. :)
- Melissa
Hoping that at least one of the models I booked for a shoot will show. Going for bike ride. Making yummy noms. Spending time with wife.
- Wirehead
@Wirehead Sounds like an awesome weekend. Are you a full-time photographer?
- Shevonne
At home tonight; doing the Komen Race for the Cure 5K tomorrow morning; three friends' birthday party tomorrow afternoon starting at 2 p.m.; time to self rest of weekend. Hubby is going to his parents' house tomorrow mid-morning, so it's my solitude time.
- Heather
Processing and uploading pics to my Flickr acct, playing tennis, watching more tennis, drinking some, having an old friend over for the weekend so there will be a lot of lazing around and talking. Oh, and Star Trek released here today, so watching that. Rest, improvisation.
- Parth Awasthi
Saturday I'll be doing bread maker and rice cooker demonstrations at a store in Westlake Village. With the whole backstreet boys/please drive thru microphone / headset thingee, and the big, strategically angled mirror that allows the audience to see what I'm doing. Sunday I'll probably take my daughter to see UP in 3D IMAX over at Universal City Walk. Or maybe I'll hook up with Pinky and Brain and try to take over the world. I'll have to check the weather....
- Morgan
I'm camping in the rocky mountain foothills! It's going to be cold and wet, but that's what fires are for, right?
- Mitch
going out on the town tonight with friends and to catch a zombie walk :) probably some yard work tomorrow and then maybe some mls soccer and not sure what else
- (jeff)isageek
My daughter has a recital on Saturday and then Mrs. Krynsky and I volunteered to man a booth at the school carnival on Sunday. Crossing my fingers I don't end up in a dunk tank.
- Mark Krynsky
For sure Belmont Stakes watching. Going to see up in 3-d hopefully. A little barbeque action, a nap, a visit to the dog park, some quick shopping and I WISH i was going to brunch too. ;-) ... maybe a visit to the beach if it is sunny ... and perhaps I will go to my hotel to observe this swingers party that is rumored to be at our location. LOL ... no lie!!
- Amani
Broccoli, pasta, garlic and parmesan is an oooold peasant dish in Italy, though trenne pasta is used in my family (and more broccoli than just pesto).
- JCunwired
Looks good! I think a spicy sausage might be good with this.
- Katy S