This is clearly not my cat. If this was my cat he's have one arm shoved down into the printer trying to tear up all the internal whirling bits with his bare claws.
- Soup
Too Funny! Reminds me of the San Mateo Cat Shelter where one of the cats loves to sleep on top of the laster printer where the paper comes out...
- Greg Lato
1600+ to beat the FFundercats live chat thread. I think with this real time now on all threads we're going to see some truly epic comment numbers.
- Simon Wicks
Ivan, no the picture speaks for itself. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Petr, I have no idea what you mean, but thank you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
@Kol .. :] that, partially, might have been the purpose.... I don't know it exactly either. :] .. was I reflecting on a cat under the fax, and that it is hard to fax that way ... /?:] ... "underfaxing at its worst" ..
- Petr Buben
there ya have me ! :] .... see, to be honest with you, i saw this pic couple days ago, but i let it go, without posting it ..... what does that make me? :]
- Petr Buben
even a flat cat... faxes just can't handle the hair. You'd have to shave the cat first, else the hair will burn and stick to the drum... a mess! (I am extrapolating from transparencies, mind, i don't have access to a cat to test)
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Hehe, Joelle. This is now tied for the 'likes' top stop. One more then, hehe. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Hehe, Greg. Blimey! Erm, is that not far from 500 likes now? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Bloody marvelous, Kol. Wish I could like it again... too cute (and help u to 500 likes).
- Roberto Bonini
I couldn't believe it when I logged on from the morning over posting it and saw it was at something 200 likes! You all have a strange fetish with cats and fax machines, hehe. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Am I the only one who saw this and their first thought was - My goodness did someone break that cats neck? It still freaks me out a little
- Steve C
Steve, it does look a little out of place, but cats are pretty bendy. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
They fax much better if you flatten them first. What?
- Kevin Pedraja
So we can put this post to rest now. :-) 505 likes final count, wow! :-D Good night all!
- Kol Tregaskes
My like is the last one so far :) - 509 afaik
- getalifejerk
did 3 people really un-like this? now at 506. wtf (edit: uh, oh, yeah, me and 2 + 506 others makes 509. dammit, jim, i'm an artist, not a mathematician)
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
One of the best funny cat pictures I've seen! :-)
- John Collis
Kristian, it appears to be. Hehe, John.
- Kol Tregaskes
ای بابا این پیشول بی خیال نمی شود، بابا پاشو برو دنبال یه بازی دیگه ، از هفته پیش تا حالا تو فکس ولو شدی حوصله ات سر نرفته، پاشو اقلا بپر رو کیبوردی چیزی
- Maryaminaa
It's really only social convention which regards it as inappropriate, same with Xeroxing it, like one does with their b__tocks. Wait are we still talking about cats cats here or...
- sofarsoShawn
OMGosh 700+ likes now!! LOL. Thank you all 702 of you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
"However Play is a very unique Java framework. It does not really rely on the so-called Java Enterprise standards. It uses Java but tries to push all the good things from the frameworks based on scripting languages like Ruby On Rails, Django, ... etc. to the Java world. We really tried to get the best of the Java platform without getting the pain of traditional Java web development: slow development cycle, too much abstraction, too much configuration..."
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
And Bret is probably the first reasonable evaluator of existing Java web frameworks I see. Because 95% of those are in fact unreasonable. Bret! I will appreciate if you also try to find some reasons in HybridJava - http://www.hybridserverpages.com/ Alex
- Alex Serov
Let's say FriendFeed IS dying... I would rather spend the last few days standing around the hospital bed spending quality time and being happy with the 'family' rather than poking it and talking about what's killing it over and over again. Wanting to pull the plug while it's still lively and conscious is just plain douche-baggery.
What could we do to save it though? Besides keeping on using it to show the powers that be that we are here and we like it and want it to stay.
- Mellissa
*conspirational tone* Interesting idea though isn't it, trumpet a service is dying, galvanize people into saving it, get more users...profit?
- Mo Kargas
Word. I'm going to use ff until the day I go to click in and get redirected somewhere else. Oh, and just so we're clear: I really dig the people here. I sincerely hope that if ff "dies" the cool folks I have had the honor of interacting with will still be around somewhere. <3
- Bren -- Making Contact
from iPhone
Hoping something to live by diagnosing it with a terminal disease is a kinda screwy way to go about it though.
- Johnny Worthington
from IM
Yes, we have. And that's my point. I was frustrated at people for bringing it up, and that was my failing. But I have accepted a few things... But those same people KEEP bringing it up and now it's just pissing me off...
- Johnny Worthington
from IM
No, I'm talking about people talking about it... It's a meta-meta thing :P
- Johnny Worthington
from IM
So I am suppose to stop talking about people talking about people calling things dead?
- Johnny Worthington
from IM
ah, FF is just getting ready for Halloween! FF is going as a zombie. Can't die and feeds off of brains. Makes perfect sense now.
- Josh Haley
Johnny, it's a conundrum. It's either "beating a dead horse" or "the elephant in the room" - seems like it's either one or the other. :(
- Micah Wittman
My point is, let's ride the horse and get the elephant pissed...
- Johnny Worthington
from IM
They will have to pry FF from my cold dead hands! LoL
- Bryan Lee
from iPhone
Mo THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS HOPING TO SEE!!! If you want to save the patient you must go out into the world and tell them what is great about FriendFeed. You must write blog posts about why FriendFeed isn't dead. Why the community here has value. Etc. I've been poking the community to see if there's any life here. So far the only life here is to call me names. Yeah, THAT will really convince Mashable we're not dead.
- Robert Scoble
@Robert - so the plan is revealed! The problem is that a lot of us that use FriendFeed gave up on blogging a while ago... What's the point when the community we want is here? /why try to bring it to our blog instead? So you've gotten pushback but it's been here, not outside. The thing is, I kind of LIKE it now that all the fair-weather people are gone... we can get back to the real...
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- Lindsay is in 20-ten
So let me get this straight... You wanted us to mount a spirited campaign to save FriendFeed.... by declaring it dead? No, seriously man... That's f'ed up. A true leader inspires, not berates.
- Johnny Worthington
from IM
Just curious to Robert's point when the last time anybody dropped by Twitter and invited folks to stop by? Seems sort of an automatic place to take the story of friendfeed... #justsayin
- WarLord
Its conversations like this "more than 140 characters and shorter than a blog post" that I love most about friendfeed. On top of that its easier to follow the flow of the conversation.
- Bryan Lee
from iPhone
WarLord, Louis and I were there 2 weeks ago
- Jesse Stay
@WarLord - I don't think FF is a stranger to Twitter... I think that Twitter people prefer Twitter, probably for the same reasons I don't prefer it to FF.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
Johnny: part of why I am fighting with you all is I need someone else to be the leader and get me to believe again. Unfortunately I know too much and it's going to be hard to convince me that there's a long term future here. Lindsay: OK, but I get more value out of four people in a conference room, if that's the kind of thing you want. The problem is that that isn't what we all hoped for and so part of all of these conversations is we're grieving over the death of a dream. Like I said in ...
- Robert Scoble
Lindsay I regularly invite my twitter followers to my BLOG and to my FF stream and I respond with that info to DMs....
- WarLord
...my blog post, I think there's a Second Life for FriendFeed coming after all this calms down. It just isn't going to be what I thought it would be and it requires you to find that new life. But it also requires Facebook to give the service a future. Right now it doesn't have one. Despite what the Walrus is saying.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, there are few people as big a cheerleader as me about this place... But I don't get talked about in TechCrunch or Mashable... I don't get booked on other podcasts and I don't have credibility. It is hard to get heard when the simple Scoble Said It's Dead gets fired back at me. Your word means something, and I fear we now live so far down the curve that people don't have time to read past the headline...
- Johnny Worthington
from IM
@WarLord - There's a difference between visiting someone's blog and becoming a user of a service. Just because people who have their network on Twitter and are comfortable with that come to FF to visit doesn't mean they'll become part of the community. And the last time we had a bunch of people from Twitter coming over it diluted the community a good deal and mostly they just complained about how it wasn't like Twitter and eventually went back to Twitter....
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
@Robert - I have to agree with Johnny on his point. Your opinion carries about 100x more weight than any of us others who are loyal FriendFeeders. When you say it's dead it basically becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy unless there is another big name arguing with you. I think Louis Gray is the closest luminary we have to being able to combat the message you're promoting but even though...
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- Lindsay is in 20-ten
But DAMN YOU SCOBLE... I feel a long winded and tear jerking Save Blog Post coming on... It worked... but I don't like it :P
- Johnny Worthington
from IM
Lindsay is right. But that's all part of the game. It's stage 5. See: http://blog.louisgray.com/2008... "The adopter will use their blog and both the new and old service to call followers to migrate as a group, both helping the new shiny toy, and in turn, damaging the old one, out of spite and frustration."
- Louis Gray
On FriendFeed Not Being Dead, I wrote that a week after the acquisition. "FriendFeed's Not Dead. While Not Clear, Its Future Could Be Very Big." http://blog.louisgray.com/2009... To do so again, I would need more data. Being patient is hard.
- Louis Gray
Louis, you're a man of restraint, yet filled with passion. It's so good to have met you here.
- Micah Wittman
Well said Johnny! You have put into words exactly what I think!
- technogran
Welcome Baby Ryan!!! My baby Ryan (17 years!) and I are honored to welcome another superstar to our planet! Love, hugs, and lots of kisses to Baby Ryan, Mommy Maryam, Dad Robert and big brothers Milan & Patrick and of course Grandma!!! My guess on Ryan's arrival (predication) was only 23 hours off. I thought he would arrive on Friday, Sept. 18th at 11:45 pm. Love to all, Kelly & Ryan Kim
- Kelly S. Kim
What a moment, eh? I remember when my daughter came into this world, it was so exciting there were no words for it. Congrats on your wonderful baby boy!
- Michael J. Carrasquillo
Congratulations! Welcome to the world, Ryan. :-)
- Yvette Ferry
Congratulations Robert and Maryam! And welcome Ryan. If I was having a baby today, I'd begin a blog for him/her straight away as an online diary they could look back on when grown up.
- Sandra Large
الهــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــی چقده ناز نازیه.اینو فارسی نوشتم مریم جان بخونن ....راستی به باباش که نرفته:)) خوشگلتره:)) پس به شما رفته
- joupy
I was a c-section six week preemie in an era when that was seriously life-threatening, they didn't know if I would make for the first week. It always gets me a see a c-section / preemie come howling into the world. Welcome, little guy!
- Bob Morris (polizeros)
from iPhone
Beautiful baby! Congratulations daddy man :)
- Gary
:) Congrats Robert... best wishes to your family! Get her name in twitter and ff!
- Business Blogger【ツ】™
Right ON! I am so happy for you. I have 4 kids of my own and they are my greatest joys. Take care and I hope all goes so smooth for him and mom.
- Robert Anderson
Congrats! I wish a long and healthy life.
- Muammer Okumuş
Robert, you newest addition is too freaking adorable. I hope you and Maryam are doing well. Congratulations! Here's to a long, prosperous future!
- Mike Nayyar
"Tyrese Gibson’s Mayhem is the first digital book for sale on iTunes 9 – perhaps an early sign of Apple’s (AAPL) desire to take on Amazon’s (AMZN) Kindle and Sony’s (SNE) Reader in the digital book market."
- Christopher Galtenberg
from Bookmarklet
I purchased this and looked forward to experiencing it - but after downloading the 400+MB download, iTunes gives "err = -19" when trying to process the download so no joy for me :( And as I'm not really into dance music the audio track kinda sucks too.
- Mark Derricutt
"Scala supports overloading primarily so it can call Java; you might say overloading is a contagious disease, transmitted from one language to another through close contact."
- Dmitry Lomov
Tangent: People tend to think that the language design and implementation teams at large companies like Sun or Microsoft command vast resources. In reality, the resources are spread pretty thin considering the scope of the task at hand. :)
- Dmitry Lomov
"Now, for the sake of balance, I should say that overloading, and language complexity in general, do have one advantage I haven’t yet mentioned. They open up great opportunities for training, support and consulting. You can even write some really cool books full of language puzzlers." Or... inspections! :)
- Dmitry Lomov
My shares already come to FriendFeed, as you know, and I won't be sending them to any other network (until forced). But appreciate the how-to.
- Louis Gray
Is there a keyboard shortcut for the new "send to" feature in Google Reader?
- Jesse Stay
Does this speed up the transfer? I've noticed the past 2 days have been a little laggy getting here.
- Courtney Engle
So when I using this method try to "send to" Ff - It takes me to FF and just pastes the URL of that feed item into a posting box. Is that proper behavior?
- Matthew DeVries
Yep. Similar to the behavior with other engines. You can then add other rooms etc (something not possible with regular sharing AFAIK)
- Deepak Singh
Wonder if there is a way to get it to open and drop it into the bookmarklet instead of Ff proper.
- Matthew DeVries
So what is the code to send it to a particular room? If I wanted it to flow in the public FF I would just click 'share'.
- Paul Arterburn
Whoa, sharing to a particular room would be epic :) Would probably have to create a shortcut code for each room instead of multiple rooms...
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Ya, I really just have one group for this - public share or private share among close friends (private FF room). That would also let me DM the link to a FF user if I wanted a *really* private share.
- Paul Arterburn
AFAIK sending to a Room is a bit painful. I tag the item in GReader. Then subscribe to that tag's RSS in the FreindFeed Room. A little laborious to set up, but quick when sending - you just tag. And wtih GReader's pubsubhubhub they show up in Room immediately.
- Nick in Manila
In the third part we get to see Clojure in action running on some very cool technology - a unique opportunity! Azul Systems (www.azulsystems.com) has promised to make available one of their large Vega 3 compute appliances (864 core, 368 GB memory, let’s go concurrent). We will explore how the Clojure concurrency model fares in practice, scaling a demo of a parallel Traveling Sales Problem algorithm. We will also push the implementation to its limits in a high-contention demo. Great fun!
- dulanov