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Andy Bakun
Programmer, Linux user, System Admin, San Francisco. That is all.
Ask HN: anybody bought droid? what has been your experience? - http://news.ycombinator.com/item...
"I wonder how different the voice recognition in Android 2.0 is from 1.6. Voice search was really crappy in 1.5, and I'm continuously surprised that it's able to read my voice accurately in 1.6. I'm only ever muttering two or three words for voice search, though."
- Andy Bakun
Anyone know what determines if Youtube shows the "lights out" lightbulb icon for a given video? I really want that on all videos, the white background often burns my brain.
Mitch liked this
I believe videos that get that are content providers like Viacom.
- Jon Ursenbach
"Bambi's mother had great tits" -- Bill Cosby as Mother in "Mother, Jugs, and Speed"
The Library of Chicago Children's TV -- Frazier Thomas - http://www.miksanek.com/chicago...
""Garfield Goose and Friends" was introduced in April of 1955 with Frazier Thomas as "Prime Minister" to Garfield Goose's "King of the United States." In 1976, Garfield Goose bought Bozo's Circus when Ringmaster Ned retired."
- Andy Bakun
from Bookmarklet
How'd that gradeschool joke go? Did you know Ringmaster Ned was murdered? They found his balls in bucket no. 6.
- Art Witczak
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 93 19:11:02 EST - http://simson.net/hacks...
Mo Kargas and Matt Mastracci liked this
""This is so NeXT," I told Sally. "Everything works great in the tests, then when you try to make it work for real, in the field, nothing works. They build a computer out of magnesium, and it doesn't even burn!""
- Andy Bakun
from Bookmarklet
Get up from the computer, and start searching the bookshelves for a specific tome. As I grab it, she says "Going to prove someone wrong on the Internet?" I respond "You don't use The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for that. You only quote Hitchhikers. And it's nearly impossible to search for on line because there are so many versions of it."
Katie B liked this
i have the handy four-in-one hardcover version (i consider "Mostly Harmless" to be non-canon).
- Joe Silence is not dead
I thought that some of the metaphysical imagery was really particularly effective. And interesting rhythmic devices too, which seemed to counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor of the humanity of the composer's compassionate soul which contrives through the medium of the verse structure to sublimate this, transcend that...
and come to terms with the dichotomies of the other and one is left with a profound and vivid insight into whatever it was that the music was about.
- Andy Bakun
Shuffleboard Legend Roadhouse Billy Mays - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Dude, there's a SHUFFLEBOARD LEGEND! WTF?!
- Andy Bakun
My computer has a window appear/disappear sound of a little "tink" or "dink". When I save a file, it goes "dink dink" and it reminds me of the Underalls commericals.
FFing Enigma (aka Tina), Katie B, Alix Whitmire and 4 other people liked this
LOL.
- Derrick
I have not thought about this in forever. Wow, that takes me back to childhood.
- Mary Carmen
Same here!
- josh neff, Fun Dip of FF
me three
- Kamilah Gill
4
- Holly Rae, FFer
HAH!
- holly
After the claim that http://friendfeed.com/rahshee... wouldn't start a meme, I had to at least give it a try. This is mildly better to look at than the original that the lickers came from (you know which image I'm talking about, I refuse to link to it).
Will Higgins™, Lo, Internet's Tad and 44 other people liked this
O_o
- Derrick
This is just evil
- Alex Scoble
I feel so dirty....
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
Pecs of Rah?
- LogEx
I stand corrected. Or, rather, I ROTFL corrected.
- Steve is older than ever
Those guys are getting sand all over your bathroom floor.
- Andy Bakun
yikes!!!
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Genius.
- Spidra Webster
......
- Alix Whitmire
ROFL
- Anika
Win.
- Bryce, Low in Sodium
either those dudes are 4 feet tall or Rah constantly bangs his head on the ceiling.
- Joe Silence is not dead
Gak!
- ronin
the scale makes it even funnier
- Josh Haley
oh my god
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
Uhm. Yeah...still feel dirty. And violated somehow. LOL.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
Damn, I should have pasted someone else's head on your shoulders, Rahsheen.
- Andy Bakun
Heh, I didn't even notice the scale when I was doing the cutting and pasting.
- Andy Bakun
paste on my zombie head. I DARE YOU!
- Joe Silence is not dead
Oh. My. Land.
- Rochelle
Giant Rah is Giant.
- Anika
OH. MY. G-D. IT'S FULL OF OH F:LKb. LGb-n
- Akiva Moskovitz
so many straight lines, so little energy.
- Joe Silence is not dead
I am speechless. I am without speech.
- Akiva Moskovitz
that guy needs a shave
- Ian May
I'll leave that for someone else to do, Dead Silence. We're trying to make this a meme, after all.
- Andy Bakun
All Rasheen needs is a couple of nipple rings and he is TOTALLY the Persian from 300.
- Katie B
But how did the puppies get out?
- Sparky Crocker
This must keep live in the feed.
- Spidra Webster
hahahahahahhaha
- Holden Page
EYEBLEACH NOW ASAP
- johnpiercy
Well uh....but he's so...and the other guys ar...oh my.
- vicster
So is Kamilah going to draw this today?
- Rochelle
no she won't
- ffcode
learn your lessons don't ever pose shirtless and then say suck it people hahahahaha
- ffcode
Oh my! What is this Mo Kargas-èque scaled thing? And Akiva you're guilty.
- directeur
Um... How does Rahsheen feel about this, anyway? He seemed like he was being a good sport about it up above here...
- Kamilah Gill
This could possibly eclipse the original as the best post EVAR on FriendFeed.
- Jason Huebel
How did I miss this for 16 hours? EPIC! #SorryMeme
- Christopher Harley
LOL.
- Zee.
disgusting. pitiful.
- Petr Buben
Such talent......LOL.
- Bonnie Foster
Bwahahahaha!
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
I knew the "Remove It Permanently" Firefox addon would come in handy.
- SuezanneC Baskerville
Only about 1040 more comments to go until we overtake the original!
- Andy Bakun
scale disparity makes the hilarity.
- Joe Silence is not dead
Petr is no fun.
- Rochelle
Petr just needs to embrace this at full face, err full chest value.
- Sparky Crocker
Commenting on this just to make Robert Scoble sad.
- Rob H.
i think this graphical depiction is a bull's hit. ... i mean ... how low can you go ???
- Petr Buben
Ha! Forever immortalized in a Scoble screenshot. There's no stopping crazy beach guys licking Rahsheen's chest now!
- Andy Bakun
LOL!
- Steven Perez
Win win win...
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
LOL
- Parth Awasthi
:))
- آریـوبرزن
Bonnie, who has the talent? I hope you're not referring to me, this is the shittiest photoshopping (well, GIMPing), I've ever done. That being said, I spent way too much time on it when I did it.
- Andy Bakun
Andy, this did get reused. I think you missed it http://friendfeed.com/kmeelah...
- Kamilah Gill
Awesome. Immortalized in line art.
- Andy Bakun
badbanana: By my count, Jim Carrey only has one more iconic Christmas role to ruin. Two, if you include baby Jesus. - http://twitter.com/badbana...
GPappalardo: I always thought "getting served" was a good thing. I mean who wants to get things themselves. - http://twitter.com/GPappal...
Favorite sci-fi space ship names...
Victor Ganata, Tsali, The Native of FF, Roberto Bonini and 10 other people liked this
Heart of Gold from HHGTTG is a good name, but I always pictured it shaped like a running shoe, rather than a sphere.
- Andy Bakun
Just about every name in Iain M. Bank's Culture Novels. I'll BRB with some samples.
- Anika
Millennium Falcon, obviously. It's such a sports-car sounding name.
- Rob H.
I'm browsing Larry Niven and Known Space on wikipedia right now, and there are some really good ones there. The Long Shot and The Lying Bastard.
- Andy Bakun
Here's some for inspiration: http://conservationreport.file... Although admittedly, these aren't very individually interesting. Lexx is a pretty good name.
- Andy Bakun
The Halo series has some good ones as well; UNSC Pillar of Autumn, UNSC In Amber Clad, Truth and Reconciliation, Shadow of Intent and so on.
- Rob H.
Damn, those are good. Truth and Reconciliation reminds me of the weapon named Reason in Snow Crash ("I'm sure they'll listen to Reason").
- Andy Bakun
Okay, here's a few ship names: Size Isn't Everything, Hand Me That Gun And Ask Me Again, Youthful Indiscretion, No More Mr. Nice Guy, Just Read The Instructions, Problem Child, I Blame My Mother, I Blame Your Mother...there's a lot more.
- Anika
You almost can't go wrong. Serenity, Star Destroyer, USS Enterprise, Starship Bistromath...
- Vezquex: God of FF
Ah, the Bistromath. Damn, I should have thought of that one.
- Andy Bakun
i always wanted to see the Bistromath realised on screen. probly never happen, now.
- Joe Silence is not dead
Is the Hand Me that Gun And Ask Me Again referred to as just The Hand Me or The Ask Me Again?
- Andy Bakun
Those Banks names are pretty funny. Is there some reason they're like that (those aren't humor books, right)?
- Rob H.
I always liked the way The Defiant implied serious kickassitude.
- Andy Bakun
I always loved the Star Destroyer names on the XWing games http://www.theforce.net/swtc...
- WorldofHiglet
I don't know. I think the Culture novels are pretty funny. There's an underlying satirical look at wealth's role in society. The droid/human relationship is humorous, as the droids seem to be the Voice of Conscious/Mom. And considering the heavy violence, in which most of the ships are introduced to you, it's nice to have a moment of levity.
- Anika
Also keep in mind that some of the ships are sentient beings and play heavy roles in the stories.
- Anika
I liked "Nostalgia for Infinity" from Revelation Space (Alastair Reynolds). In the epilogue for Galactic North, he admits that his ship names have been inspired by the culture novels and other sources.
- Matt Mastracci
Ah, yes...Reynolds did have some great ship names. I totally assumed he was inspired by Banks. We named our daughter after a character in Revelation Space.
- Anika
Anika, that's awesome. :) Just pulled the book to confirm: he actually said that "he bows to noone in his admiration of Ian M Banks", but "his ship names were a direct pinch from M. John Harrison's The Centauri Device, not the Culture".
- Matt Mastracci
Nice. I've never read any of John Harrison's work. If I had read that in the book, I would have searched it out. I have a bad habit of not reading the author blurbs.
- Anika
I couldn't stop reading after that book ended, so I plowed right through the epilogue hoping to hear that he's planning on continuing the series, picking up some interesting tidbits. It's hard to reach the end of a deep series like that.
- Matt Mastracci
Good list, WorldofHiglet. Accuser, Thunderflare, Inflexible and Death's Head.
- Andy Bakun
That ship-size comparison reminded me of another I really liked: Agamemnon from Babylon 5. Greek heros make good ship names.
- Matt Mastracci
Nostromo.
- andrei_c
Reynold's Revelation Space naming convention used by the Ultras, transhuman spacefarers: Nostalgia For Infinity , Gnostic Ascension
- Ken Chen
Matt, those books are good. I'm currently re-reading Ilium, soon to be followed by Olympos, but It think after I'm done with Simmons I'll revisit the Revelation Space world.
- Anika
Ilium and Olympos were such a good read (read them recently after a re-read of the Hyperion Cantos). Loved the Mahnmut and Orphu storyline. I'm just about to start my first read-through of Culture tonight.
- Matt Mastracci
Serenity and Millenium Falcon are my favorites. Of course, I don't watch a lot of sci-fi with space ships (I watch more of the supernatural sci-fi).
- Curtiss Grymala
Anika++ Ian Banks. My favorite was "Very Little Gravitas Indeed"
- mikepk
or maybe "Xenophobe"
- mikepk
I really like the Culture names here. Maybe I should read the series. The Halo names are great too.
- Andrew C
It's a really fun series to read, Andrew.
- Anika
Highly recommend Banks. My recommendation is usually to start with "Consider Phlebas", I think it's his first culture book and in my opinion, it's the most 'space operatic' of them. I think it's a good intro to the Culture.
- mikepk
Anika, have you ever read Bank's non sci-fi stuff?
- mikepk
LEGO portal - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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California to withhold a bigger chunk of paychecks - http://news.ycombinator.com/item...
"How long before the state IRS auditors need to start, and then stop, accepting IOUs as payment for their work?"
- Andy Bakun
The power of "no"; Last week, I wrote on Twitter ... Much interesting discussion did ensue - http://jacobian.org/writing...
Holly Rae, FFer and Micah Wittman liked this
"Last week, I wrote on Twitter: Closed-source software gets worse with each release (Microsoft, Adobe, …). Open-source software gets better (OOo, Ubuntu, …). Discuss. Much interesting discussion did ensue — mostly around the exceptions (Apple, Google)."
- Andy Bakun
from Bookmarklet
Someone wanna clue me in on how to find these interesting discussions that ensued? The link to the tweet provides no method or clue as to what to do to find replies. And twitter is better?
- Andy Bakun
Twitter search? I agree it's a clunky way of retrieving a conversation. Perhaps this is a rhetorical question.
- Holly Rae, FFer
Perhaps there should be a link to a search that will find entries which are related to that tweet then.
- Andy Bakun
And you'd still need to read them in reverse order.
- Andy Bakun
Gee, thanks Amazon. No idea what this book was, so I can't look for it elsewhere. They should have just removed it from the list all together, I would have never missed it.
Hitler reacts to the bay bridge being closed Halloween weekend - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Mehmet Ali Akyol and Maxamad (Amazigh) liked this
LMAO
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
Why do we have an IMG element? - http://news.ycombinator.com/item...
Maxamad (Amazigh) liked this
"application/octet-stream (because your webserver doesn't know any better) application/octet-stream has had to be used for things like .zip files because Internet Explorer insisted on opening up application/octet stream even the browser was configured to save it. And to make matters worse, there were some configurations where Quake3 .pk3 files, which are actually zips, wouldn't save by Internet Explorer, so you actually needed to rename them to .pk3.zip, which would sufficiently confuse the browser and prompt to save it. On the client-side, mouthbreathing open-source developers are always paying ultimate fealty to Content-Types that were naively sniffed on the server -- text/x-python? how could I possibly display that? Using a text/* renderer."
- Andy Bakun
I really wish wikipedia did it's mobile redirects with an HTTP status code and a Location: header rather than via javascript. It screws up the history on my phone, making it difficult to navigate backward.
thwarted started watching darrellsilver/norc - http://github.com/darrell...
NSA to store yottabytes of surveillance data in Utah megarepository - http://news.ycombinator.com/item...
"Nah, they're thinking of the CIA. ...it approached the point where there was no substantive difference between the Library of Congress and the Central Intelligence Agency. Fortuitously, this happened just as the government was falling apart anyway. So they merged and kicked out a big fat stock offering."
- Andy Bakun
Materials science in science fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
"In William Craig's Cold War novel, einsteinium-119 is used to build a nuclear warhead into the casing of a Colt .45 pistol." -- that sounds motherfucking awesome.
- Andy Bakun
from Bookmarklet
"Let us say the Pimp's Prayer. Lord, bless this bitch's soul. And guide my Pimp Hand and make it strong, Lord, so that she may learn a ho's place." -- A Pimp Named Slickback.
Rob H. and Maxamad (Amazigh) liked this
" *sigh* My name ain't Slickback. My name is 'A Pimp Named Slickback' "
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
*amen*
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
A Pimp Named Slickback was voiced by Kat Williams.
- Andy Bakun
Lots of activity tonight. Friendfeed is HAWT on Saturdays!
The Bohemian Penguin, Vezquex: God of FF, Harold and 7 other people liked this
Haha, saw you delete that original post with the winnie the pooh. Realtime is too fast to stop ;)
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
I had a few to post, but the others were animated, and the resizing by FF fucked 'em up. This one was the best though, 'cause I hand edited it (no, Travolta didn't really star in a movie called "Saturday Night Friendfeed").
- Andy Bakun
It was also Halloween. That could help or hurt traffic; not sure.
- Vezquex: God of FF
Well, stay tuned throughout the week and next Saturday to find out if Friendfeed truly is Saturday Night Friendfeed!
- Andy Bakun
it'll pick up ALOT once i'm airborne.
- Joe Silence is not dead
Google: We're not making Android hardware - http://news.ycombinator.com/item...
"The base OS, libraries, and functionality is GPL, but Google's apps (gmail, maps, youtube, gtalk) are not, as was made clear with the the alternative android install that included a copy of these apps. Also, I suspect there is some kind of revenue sharing agrement with the use of these apps, so carriers that provide the google branded apps get a cut of related search revenue. This could help keep licensees in line and discourage things like forks or going it on their own with the pure GPL version."
- Andy Bakun
When it comes to females, Cosmo ain't got nuttin' to do with my selection.
My current desktop.
J. Abdul-Qahhar, Beau "Slick Foot" Liening, Mike Nencetti and 7 other people liked this
Uh, I guess I could have checked the file size and compressed it better. Took forever to upload.
- Andy Bakun
Simba!
- Jimminy
Damn, Andy, I think you may have won.
- Mary Carmen
Mary, it's the default desktop with the latest release of Fedora, Leonidas. Interestingly enough, you don't see the lion unless you have a widescreen desktop. I was really surprised when, after first installing it on my laptop (this image is from my desktop) without an external monitor, I hooked up the other monitor and saw this. Fedora has support for background images that are...
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- Andy Bakun
It's a pretty solid background image, consider it is the default, so I kept it.
- Andy Bakun
Notice the lack of icons? I always turn that shit off, I don't usually use a graphical file manager, and I save all downloads in /tmp, so I don't need to clean anything up, like ever.
- Andy Bakun
aslan!!!
- chaz2b
Very, very nice.
- Mary Carmen
Probably the widest view we'll see in this meme. Unless someone is rocking *three* monitors.
- Julian
The other day, I was running xmatrix and glmatrix in the background, which was neat, but kind of distracting when trying to read text on a terminal all day. Actually, I rarely even look at the desktop, it is usually completely covered with terminals and a web browser. I should consider a tiling window manager, rather than an overlapping one for that reason.
- Andy Bakun
Julian, I am tempted to get rid of the 1600x1200 and get two more 1920x1200, and go totally widescreen.
- Andy Bakun
Bump. Witness my desktop again, you small desktop plebs!
- Andy Bakun
aslan!!!
- chaz2b
Heh, this wide desktop is kind of an easter egg, the Wikipedia entry for Fedora just shows a sample desktop that just features the "birds" on the left side. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Andy Bakun
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