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That was bizarre, I just got an email from myself from 2005 via FutureMe.org. Talk about a blast from the past!
Rob Haas, Daniel Rowley, Hutch Carpenter and 40 other people liked this
And what did you think you'd be doing now?
- Dave Friedel
What did it say? Become an Internet superstar? ;)
- Fee501st
Was it advice from the past? encouragement?
- Garmon Estes
What would have been a million times cooler is if you had received an email from your future self from 2010 via PastMe.org.
- Jeffrey Pia
I asked if I was still at CNET and some other random stuff.
- Veronica
Like for Jeffrey :D
- Flavio
Don't answer yourself or else it could cause a singularity.
- Dave Friedel
I got an email from 2005 Veronica too! She said she's going to give me advice on the best A2DP headphones by buds, over the ear, and full DJ style earcups - Analyzing both phone mic, and music quality, utilizing an HTC Dream running Cupcake in the next month on something called Teckjirra?
- Matthew DeVries
If you use the pay services, you get emails from the future to now. It helped my career a lot.
- Dave Friedel
it be freaky if it said don't forget your on twit this weekend
- Fee501st
Did it have this diary entry ... Idea: 1. Reinvent Pig Latin. 2. Riff on the reader submitted New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest. Theme: Cats. Later expand to other dometicated animals. 3. Profit?
- Micah Wittman
P.S. 4, Find a way to send funny cat videos to hundreds of thousands of people.
- Fee501st
BTW, Matt, one of the creators of futureme.org just joined FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/mattsly. He's an old friend of mine. Subscribe to him and embarrass him somehow. (His co-creator is on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jaypatr...)
- DeWitt Clinton
I want a message now from me in the future!
- Aaron
I just received a message from 2014 saying if I keep this thread going, the power's going to go out. I told myself to go screw! And now I'm writi-- *CLICK* ......... . . . . . . . . . . .
- Dave Friedel
You should go on BOL and talk about this. :)
- Kevin
Just sent myself a rambling email to arrive on my 40th birthday ...
- Timothy Griffin
i did that once! but i got it a year later in 06
- Paul Stamatiou
This is either everything wrong with the internet, or everything right. I can't decide. Cat Madness [VIDEO] - http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresi...
Kevin, David Peake, Carol Levesque and 22 other people liked this
That was crazy sick- lol
- Garmon Estes
Well I just had a seizure. Thanks.
- Louis Simoneau
Seizure, indeed!
- Alex Scoble
BEST.
- cecily
Good god.. I could only make it about 1:30 before I had to shut it off. Almost 3 and a half minutes of that?! XD
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
had to turn it off 30 seconds in, seems taking on a couple of Mechanical Turk project tasks would have been more productive for both the creator and the viewers
- Lou Paglia
All I have to say is. LOL.
- Fa La La La Lindsay
WTF is wrong with me. I just watched the whole thing. Help.
- Sparky
Lou, it gets pretty magical at 2 minutes.
- Veronica
It's everything wrong; I'm not epileptic and yet it induced a fit
- Nick Wade
Greatest video ever!
- Fee501st
wow really too early in the morning for that one LOL
- Moved to Facebook
I'm glad I'm not the only one who watched the whole thing.
- Michael McKean
I had to do without sound here at my work, but insane it was.
- Ton Zijp
ok fine, this is the best video of the day, narrowly beating out: http://friendfeed.com/sarahla...
- Sarah Lane
Demented. I agree with your headline, Veronica. The Buzzfeed comments show where we're headed. Entire conversations reduced to OMG WTF ORLY LOL. OMGWTF.
- Kamilah Gill
That's entirely too much cats for one video... LOL
- William McCamment
Whoops! Yelp recalls email. See the issue here? Original: http://twitpic.com/62udn Corrected: http://twitpic.com/62ufx LOL!! (via http://www.twitter.com/mcnitt)
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Snap!
- Veronica
Wonder how long it took them to realize their poor choice of words
- Fee501st
FAIL!
- Blackstare
oh wait, the time is in the email, so around 11 hours lol! (edit its 4am to 2pm)
- Fee501st
@jason - agreed, very poor choice of words.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
LOL. I noticed that too.
- Lloyd Doppler
When I got the first email, I looked around with a "are you seeing what I'm seeing" gaze. Unfortunately nobody is ever around me in the edit bay.
- Mauricio
DOH! TechCrunch picked up on it. http://bit.ly/6sYez
- Dave Friedel
Yeah -- Picked up on it and didn't credit Brian either. At least they took out his email address from the photos, I guess.
- Veronica
ouch, that's gonna sting the old reputation
- Mark Bockenstedt
yea figures, not a big fan of Techcrunch
- Fee501st
HAH! Even Valleywag credited Brian, but not Techcrunch. http://gawker.com/5271706...
- Veronica
where's keyboard cat?
- Giancarlo Caparo
but the body text still contains the wording. 1 star :)
- Jordan Brock
Who are we playing off?
- Veronica
Veronica, Yelp i think lol
- Fee501st
Just wondering if TC deserves one....
- Veronica
yea, got showed by Vallywag, i say Play Techcrunch off, Keyboard cat - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Fee501st
Aww, who cares about TC. Mostly, I want to buy the poor guy at Yelp who wrote that headline a beer. Hope everyone at Yelp is laughing it off. Either way, it generated a lot of awareness for the sponsor and that's a good thing. :)
- Brian McNitt
Nice hat. - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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hasan, Jason Wong, Kevin and 5 other people liked this
the flickr comments are great too (with more photos)
- Alejandro
I am now switching over to make friendfeed my official twitter client.
Thierry R. Andriamirado, Neurario, KyNam Doan and 109 other people liked this
Why?
- Tadhg Kelly
because friendfeed rocks!!! thats why :)
- (jeff)isageek
seriously though...I am using friendfeed more and more and now with saved searches I can create friends lists and pull just their twitter messages and follow them like i would with tweetdeck or whatever. once saved searches go real time that will be awesome!
- (jeff)isageek
plus if someone is not signed up for friendfeed or not streaming their twitter posts...no problem...just create an imaginary friend and there you go!
- (jeff)isageek
I'll join you this week, when I start back Twitter-ing. been on friendfeed only since sat. yes it rocks!
- Wayne Sutton
from BuddyFeed
jeff what about mobile/iphone updates that you want to post on friendfeed then to twitter ? I'm using buddyfeed now and don't think there is a way...
- Wayne Sutton
from BuddyFeed
wayne yeah that would be one mobile limitation of using friendfeed as your twitter client at this time that I can think of. without saying every posted message via friendfeed goes to twitter I dont think that is possible.
- (jeff)isageek
what would be kool is if friendfeed would add like a switch command like say #tw or something that tells the system. ok post this via my mobile to friendfeed but also post it to twitter.
- (jeff)isageek
as a matter of fact i think i will add that to the friendfeed feedback as an option i would like to see
- (jeff)isageek
Yeah, it already is half way there for me as well. I don't have too many imaginary friends though, but I'm with you on this.
- Parth Awasthi
the other issue with twitter messages is obviously to get the @ replies they would have to be one of your friends. so you might have to check twitter.com from time to time to see if someone you are not following @ messaged you. you could grab the rss feed of twitter search but it doesnt show you the name of the person who sent the message in the rss feed.
- (jeff)isageek
Today, I unfollowed anyone on twitter who had an FF account, and subscribed to them here. Down to 100 people. One of them joined FF, but he made a good point when he said FF needed more effort than twitter (initially, at least). People need to setup a personal "system" (lists + filters) before they can reap the advantages FF has over twitter.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Ahsan yes...I think people who say friendfeed sucks or dont understand how it can help them have not found the saved searches. those things are really key to getting so much more out of friendfeed then watching your home stream fly by.
- (jeff)isageek
Do you think it would be a good idea for FF to provide a "template" of sort ? I think they provided some default lists in the old site, perhaps they should provide some group subscriptions, some default, common filters ?
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
i think really the main thing is just us the friendfeed junkies blogging and just talking about how awesome the saved searches are and how powerful they can be.
- (jeff)isageek
i think if your average user or even power user who is not familiar with them see's and hears about them in action they will be like wow that is a great feature and a reason to use friendfeed other then to create a stream of all your activities
- (jeff)isageek
Hmm. Is there a useful guide anywhere that explains how to set this up? I'd be interested to try it out but find a lot of how friendfeed works kind of complicated and I don't usually have the time to dig into it.
- Tadhg Kelly
Tadhg if you are looking for info on the saved search stuff i recommend checking out the FF saved searches group http://friendfeed.com/ffss as well as bwana did a great show on the power of them http://sn.im/gdmxs
- (jeff)isageek
In fact, if you think about it FF doesn't have one killer feature as such. Lists, Discussions, Searches, Likes - they're all subtle tools that can be used in diverse ways. I guess we just need to demonstrate them to our friends.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
I think this whole discussion is a prime example of how much communicating with a large group is so much better on friendfeed then twitter. can you imagine coming in 5 messages ago and getting what has all been said by following @ replies and we could never have the threaded conversation and long responses.
- (jeff)isageek
1up jeff
- BEX
I would be 100% on FriendFeed now if I weren't running a service that had Twitter support. It's a much more cozy environment.
- Jesse Stay
i hear ya jesse I really liked your blog post about using twitter with gmail and started using it. great way to do it...but it all came back to me wanting to get as much as I can into friendfeed and staying at this great place :)
- (jeff)isageek
Next step, turn off Twitter on FriendFeed! Weaning yourself from the tit - er twitter - is painful but strangely satisfying.
- Leo Laporte
Twitter is the worst part of friendfeed! As people have said, it's the little differences that make ff what it is!
- Chris Lloyd
that would be a big step leo. I dont know if i am ready to go that far yet. I still have a lot of friends who use twitter that i want to keep in touch with so for now I will stick around there :) but i am slowly making the move towards what you are saying for sure.
- (jeff)isageek
Jeff, you could post from here, turn off your Twitter stream (since it would be duplicate content anyway), and use TweetBeep to track mentions of your name. No more Twitter. :-)
- Jesse Stay
If you use PeopleBrowsr you don't need to switch. Just open a stack with your friendfeed. You can make combined lists from both twitter and friendfeed in PeopleBrowsr
- Svartling
some good thoughts there jesse!! hmmm
- (jeff)isageek
svartling i have started playing around with PeopleBrowsr a bit. need to check it out some more.
- (jeff)isageek
There are just _too_ many tools now, seesmic, peoplebrowsr, tons of websites that do things atop twitter....
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
And I mean that in a negative sense.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Ahsan yeah there are a few tools out there :) plus with different services out there it can make for an interesting plan of attack to keep up with everyone.
- (jeff)isageek
wow this has really turned into a big discussion :)
- (jeff)isageek
I'm with Jeff on this one. And probably the biggest reason is the quality of the content and users on FF. I over followed a ton of people on Twitter, and it's kinda too much work do go in and unfollow a bunch of people. So, I'm finding myself more in FF. And, it's easier to find good users via the comments they leave and the rooms they belong to. (However, I will admit that I could do some of that in Twitter via searches. But I'd still have to do all that unfollowing)
- Bill Bittner
my only thing about peoplebrowsr is I am trying to get away from things like tweetdeck or whatever. and just have friendfeed as my base of social web operations.
- (jeff)isageek
Jesse, can you point TweetBeep directly to FF via the email feed or does it need to verify the address?
- CAJ, somewhere else
jesse back to your thought of killing my twitter stream on friendfeed...I feel like that should be up to people who follow me. if they dont want my twitter posts or want to get rid of the duplication then they can hide those entries. but I feel like I should supply all my streams here and let everyone do with it what they want.
- (jeff)isageek
i think with tweetbeep you can grab an rss feed cant you jesse?
- (jeff)isageek
i grabbed the rss feed from tweetbeep and basically since it just uses twitter search to get its data it never shows who the tweet was from without clicking it. so i couldnt pull that rss feed in here and see oh hey so and so just @ replied me without taking extra steps. now the email funtionality does show you the user you @ replied you.
- (jeff)isageek
interesting idea there about the email feed though alan but yeah i think when i signed up for tweetbeep i had to verify the email address
- (jeff)isageek
Well, the Twitter search rss gives you a direct link to the tweet, which contains the person's nick: http://twitter.com/persons...
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Jeff, I'm testing it out now. Stand by!
- CAJ, somewhere else
yeah but Ahsan it would be nice to just see it in your friendfeed stream or whatever and just know who it was from rather then having to click away from the service
- (jeff)isageek
Jeff, but if your Twitter stream is exactly the same as your FriendFeed stream is there really reason to keep it?
- Jesse Stay
point taken Jesse
- (jeff)isageek
Alan, you can add the RSS I think - haven't tried. I prefer e-mail because it ensures I don't miss anything.
- Jesse Stay
ah forget it I think I am just gonna move everything back to myspace :)
- (jeff)isageek
jesse and thinking about your idea of just pulling your twitter feed if someone really wanted to have my twitter feed for filtering purposes they could just create and imaginary me and pull the data that way.
- (jeff)isageek
Hmmm, so tweetbeep notification made it into FF okay by changing my email in tweetbeep to iphwin@friendfeed.com (http://friendfeed.com/iphwin...). However, it didn't show any information about who it came from. Well, unless because *I* sent it, it shows from me. lol, that make any sense?
- CAJ, somewhere else
ok i went ahead and pulled my twitter posts from my friendfeed profile.
- (jeff)isageek
PeopleBrowser can be overwhelming in the beginning, but when you get it, you will never use anything else. I'm both a Twitter and FriendFeed freak and this tool is perfect for both. Plus much more. You can even get blogsearch streams and other RSS Feeds in realtime!
- Svartling
Svartling that is pretty kool but I still think going that route means I have to give up time on the actual friendfeed site which is what I am striving to do with the changes I am making and bringing both twitter and friendfeed together the best I can here at FriendFeed.com
- (jeff)isageek
Ok. I understand but you can do that in PeopleBrowsr too ;) But I know what you mean. Good luck.
- Svartling
but I will keep playing around with PeopleBrowsr too though. I might find it to be a better fit after a few days :) I am all about trying new things and new ideas. that is what is great about this whole conversation...bouncing ideas off of each other...talking about our thoughts and ideas on this little subject, ect.
- (jeff)isageek
Yeah that's true. I just want to let you know that PeopleBrowsr exists as an Adobe AIR app too if you prefer that. I prefer the web version.
- Svartling
Jeff just got 4 stars in my book. :-)
- Jesse Stay
from email
haha well good to know Jesse :)
- (jeff)isageek
If it werent for friendfeed, my twitter account would still be rotting away.
- Ron Wening
My experiments with tweetbeep ended in a wash. There didn't seem to be any advantage to using that service (feeding into FF via email) and using a custom RSS feed from Twitter Search. So, I'll keep the RSS feed going to my Twitter Friends group and continue with my regularly scheduled program, already in progess.
- CAJ, somewhere else
just checking out www.flock.com
- Dominik Schneider
with some development and add ons this could be a great alternative to friendfeed (or friendfeed will be integrated into flock)
- Dominik Schneider
FWIW: We are adding additional FriendFeed functionality into PeopleBrowsr this week "Home" feed and "My Discussions" were added last night, and live-testing today. We expect to have even more functionality (Lists and Rooms) coming in the very near future. Please let us know what you think when you try it :-)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I recently made the switch too
- Johnny
I'm just not sure you can really make FriendFeed into a full featured twitter client. You don't see everything. I even bring in a feed of my @replies from search.twitter, but those are of limited use since I can't actually use them to communicate with people who aren't FriendFeed users. or am I just missing something?
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Good move - congratulations -
- LPH™ and his dog P™
Rob, if you check "Include entry description as a comment" on that custom RSS feed it'll show who it's from. You could then start a new post with a @reply to that person. Very kludgey, eh?
- CAJ, somewhere else
Never got really in love with Twitter, but i grow to like FriendFeed more and more each day.
- Ralph
Alan: yes I could go through a bunch of hoops to do it, just seems too much trouble
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Rob, since we as users can manage a workaround, I'm hoping that the FriendFeed folks could figure something more streamlined and automatic.
- CAJ, somewhere else
While at one point I might have agreed with you Alan, I've since become a heavy believer in the multi-network "social-desktop" client, and prefer all my data to come in through a single window. To effectively FriendFeed requires more screens than I have. I find the FF web site basically insufficient for this reason. With access to my Lists and the Rooms I'm subscribed to, I'll get more...
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- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
yeah, good call - i switched to only ff awhile ago and ignored twitter but now the two tools are mostly seamless together
- mike "glemak" dunn
i love using friendfeed more, too!
- Egyirba
Nice move!
- Nicholas James
Most of my friends on Twitter are not on FF so I have them as Imaginary Friends. This is OK for reading their tweets. Also it gets round the recent @reply changes by Twitter. I can again see their @replies to other people I don't follow. BUT, I can't have FF conversations involving them because they are not on FF. Also I can't see who my twitter friends replies are directed to and then...
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- By_tor
try setting up an rss feed of your @name_twitter
- mike "glemak" dunn
Very interesting discussion over here about making FriendFeed your Twitter client. While I've thought about it in the past, there are some serious drawbacks. I'd much rather be able to import my full "with friends" RSS feed from Twitter and do some serious keyword filtering on it (have played around with using Thunderbird - Mozilla's Email client - for that purpose using the message...
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- Alex Schleber
I've done this for a few months, although sometimes I get sucked into a discussion (sometimes local folks, sometimes a customer, or potenial customer) back on Twitter. (But this starts with Twitter searches aggregated by FriendFeed.) Having a conversation is more important than choice of software, especially when the software costs nothing.
- Wade Dorrell
Mark not sure about the limitations thing. guess i have been lucky and everyone I follow pretty much is setup on friendfeed so i only had to create a handful of imaginary ones.
- (jeff)isageek
yeah protected accounts can cause an issue as well. as you know already :)
- (jeff)isageek
Yes Mark I agree, one thing FF could do to help people migrate from Twitter is a one-step process to turn all your Twitter followers who are not also on FF into Imaginary friends. A solution to the locked twitter accounts would also be useful although I don't have any of them. It also slightly annoys me that when you post on FF the copy sent to twitter has a FF link at the end. Anyway of disabling that?
- By_tor
Kids Singing Evanescence "Bring Me To Life" - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Sylvain Nadeau, Nesta Campbell, Alan Le and 32 other people liked this
that is beyond cuteness
- Fee501st
Cute alert!
- Robert Scoble
hahaha danger! extreme cuteness!
- David Alfaro
from twhirl
Why would you subject your children to that horrible music?
- Fleagle
That's too cute. :)
- Tom Small
the editing on that video was great, too!
- Veronica
if i have kids... they'll be like this :)
- Amber A.
Even Simon would have to love that :-)
- Todd Hoff
There's something especially touching given the words of the song to hear it sung by kids with their whole lives ahead of them. Hopefully they won't need to sing it later.
- Todd Hoff
The little guy in the back seat busts me up.
- mrsha
that was fantastic. i laughed from start to finish!
- Alejandro
Laughing out loud at 0:57. that kids face is priceless.
- Aaron Bronander
Cutebomb has been dropped! *KABOOM* :)
- Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu
HAHAHA! Oh David... you have not yet been soiled by the Internet.
Kol Tregaskes, Jim Goldstein, Kevin and 7 other people liked this
wow that's amazing!
- Fee501st
HA HA David lives in a cave.
- Srujan Ameda
or no one sends him links on AIM, lol
- Fee501st
I linked Pogue to the video of Melinda Gates jonesing for Apple from Funny or Die, and he retweeted it. I am a Pogue fan, to be sure.
- Mike Nayyar
Also he was stalking TZ at CES
- Fee501st
But he even gave his phone on a TED, c'mon internet, how's that possible? you're jumping the shark!!!
- Ramón FSM
How can anyone as "connected" as David not have been Rickrolled? Veronica caught me with her interview link to the man who wears black T-shirts.
- Sgt Ret
I'm usually pretty good with constructive criticism, but when someone says they just can't stand the sound of your voice... well, shit! What the heck can I do about that? Hah!
Josh Haley, Charlie Anzman, John Seiferth and 69 other people liked this
Yeah, that sucks. Been there.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Nothing you can't change who you are! They say this in person? or online?
- Fee501st
Online, of course. All I can pretty much say is "Sorry!" Can't please all of the people all of the time, right? ;)
- Veronica
I've experienced not being able to stand certain voices, but your voice has a very pleasant pitch and timbre.
- Christopher A Carr
Just fake a Russian accent like Leo. ;)
- Chris Luckhardt
Yea I figure online, I doubt that person would tell that to you personally. I think your voice is fine!
- Fee501st
Whoever said that has 'issues'. Your voice is congenial and pleasant to listen to. Perhaps they are more comfortable with someone who sounds like Beverly D'Angelo. The one from Entourage not National Lampoon's Vacation.
- Gregg Scott
You were not on American Idol, I guess, so why is somebody complaining about your voice? Which is not unpleasant, if I remember correctly.
- Oliver Bouchard
Thanks guys, now I feel like I was fishing for compliments! It was more meant like "can't sweat the stuff you can't change." well, I suppose I could do some voice coaching, but who has time for that?? hehe.
- Veronica
@Chris Leo gets emails about his accents, people saying he making fun of people! Like Veronica said you can't make everyone happy
- Fee501st
I heard Celine Dion had to face the same obnoxious comments and we all know where she is. I guess the best thing to do is - carry on.
- Nir Ben Yona
@Fee501st: People need to chill, yes? :)
- Chris Luckhardt
That's funny... You started off just a voice on "Buzz Out Loud". I would say you progressed pretty well from there.
- Greg Layman
Some people (myself included) over 30 find "High Rising Terminal" (upspeak) rather annoying. But you really don't do that.
- Christopher A Carr
People who give feedback that say you suck and you suck at suck so you suck are not saying much. THEY are the annoying ones.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
your voice is very pleasing
- steve mellott
Yeah but, you're hot.
- Jonathan Tatham
Kindly point them to the mute switch, and privately flip them off. :)
- jcunwired
Jonathan... ugh. Go away.
- Veronica
high rising terminal...would be a good star trek episode
- steve mellott
Haven't you ever watched "My Fair Lady"? There's plenty you can do. "The rain in Spain..."
- Fleagle
Kick him in the balls and ask him how he likes his voice now? :D
- ChiliMac
I was thinking during yesterday's TWiT that you had a great voice. I would rack this up with the"everyone has a sense of style but not everyone has good taste" sentiments.
- Jude
nah, you have a great voice.
- Thomas Hawk
Ask if he/she prefers the sound of your middle finger instead
- Shevonne
I'm more interested in the words and information rather than the pitch of the delivery... which, btw, I have no problem with. Heck, I do a podcast and I sound like a hobo eating a chicken...
- Johnny Worthington
Just let it go and just realize there are many more of us out here that don't feel that way.
- Robert Lee
Whoever said that is clueless - you have a lovely voice.
- Leo Laporte
Could be that they need a hearing aid. My Dad did and it made a world of difference. :)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
I'd have to agree with Leo on this...by the way your TZ bloopers are funnier then Patrick's
- John Blanton
from twhirl
one more "I like your voice" vote here ;)
- Alejandro
I am the most nasally sounding person on earth. Ever. You have a steady, rhythmic voice. Whoever said that to you probably don't sound none too good him/herself, I guar-on-tee.
- Mike Lewis
off note, i like how you use Shit but then use the word heck
- Long Vo
You could spend the rest of your life in that Darth Vader voice changing mask. :D
- Jason Wong
The correct answer to that kinda comment is 'Well, I don't like your face.' :) Are you expected to speak like a BBC presenter in the 50s? (Actually, that'd be hilarious!)
- Amy
thats why i use friendfeed, ;/
- chaz2b
Use a bit of helium.
- Morton Fox
You could vaderize your voice! Get a mike and voice sythersiser. You could do Steve hawkings, darth vader, or @leolaporte.
- Darryl Adams
from Nambu
Long, I'm cracking up at your comment! Goes to show how comfortable I am swearing online ;)
- Veronica
Tell the truth, it was Scoble that said it, wasn't it? :)
- Mattb4rd
Maybe you should get a voice synthesizer , like Dr. Hawking. Then they'll like ya
- Srujan Ameda
I believe the end of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back has the most satisfying way to handle the haters. Maybe not the most feasible but, you know.
- Joe Pierce
Veronica - I'm in the liking of your voice column, but I (sincere) never saw you as someone who'd troll for compliments, so you must be looking for real solution ideas. Mine - Try a jaunty accent, maybe that horrible attempt at British that Princess Leia used for the first 1/4 of A New Hope, or Canadian.
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew, see my above comment where I said "this wasn't meant to be a fishing for compliments post."
- Veronica
they can't stand the sound of their heart. they're just projecting that b.s. on you...
- Scott Colley
Veronica, you know I'm too lazy to expand this thread to see the other comments.
- Mike Nayyar
Hence my reaffirmation of such. As in, you do need to say cause it goes without saying.
- Matthew DeVries
I think you flip them off... silently
- mikepk
You should ask for a sound file of that person's dulcet tones, post the file here and let us do the rest :)
- Thomas
I haven't heard your voice and apparently it is just fine, but anyone who does a lot of speaking might benefit from a voice coach consultation...or even listening to a recording of themself if they haven't already. We all sound very different to others than we do to ourselves. As a for instance, if a woman has a high, little girl voice (and they are out there) just tucking her chin a...
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- Ginger Kenney
Simply tell 'em, "Luke, I am your mother"
- Jim Espinoza
Veronica, might I suggest you just call Mike, Bill or Kevin from Rifftrax to do some voice overs for you, maybe all three for a special Tekzilla: Riffed episode? Maybe that'll make your critic happy ;-)
- Bob M. Montgomery
That's pretty damn harsh
- Mo Kargas
It's worse when you can't stand the sound of your own voice. In the end, what you have to say is what that really matters.
- Mike Beck
You could always consider inhaling Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF6) http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Jay Cuthrell
I can't find any videos of girls doing SF6 :(
- Matthew DeVries
To be clear... don't play around with this alone http://www.youtube.com/watch... seriously... the last thing I want to be associated with is promoting the huffing of something that will displace oxygen and put you into hypoxia
- Jay Cuthrell
@dariusmdev - you just needed to search a bit more -- girls doing SF6 http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Jay Cuthrell
I recommended reviewing Ear Plugs on Tekzilla so they don't have to listen to you...
- Brian Wagner
I don't know what that means...
- Veronica
*nods*
- Jay Cuthrell
I was told I sounded like an AM radio once...will never forget it.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
@Rah - someone told me I sounded like a female impersonator once... yeah, that made me feel pretty good about myself!
- Fa La La La Lindsay
Yeah, that hurt me for a while, then I realized that nobody else felt the same and many enjoyed my singing voice. That's what I get for wasting time worrying about what a respected adult thought. Will have to make sure my kids don't listen to anyone's opinion but mine....LOL
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
They must have bad hearing.
- Garin Kilpatrick
If someone said they can't stand the sound of your voice, that's not constructive criticism. It's just being rude. I'd say to just ignore the entire thing. Nothing you can do about that.
- Candace
Veronica, heard you on the last TWiT, couldn't disagree more with whomever said that. I agree with Candace, just ignore it.
- J.F. Brissette
Wow - that's pretty harsh whoever said that and as others have said has nothing to do with constructive criticism. For whomever the hater is, I mean, it's not rocket science, right? They can turn you off, mute you, ignore you or whatever. Life is too short to be worried about pleasing people, but most especially those who are rude and totally tactless.
- Dennis Higgins
I could agree with the person on the subject of my voice. I can't stand the sound of it, either.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
People can be so insensitive.
- Jeff Warren
Or the message that is integral to one's soul?
- Gary Walter (gwalter)
Outtake from Mailbag: I rant about printers, and the cameras were rolling. D'oh. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Molly rants. Always entertaining.
- Garry Manning
I love Molly Rants. :)
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
my mantra in my computer literacy classes - "Printing is Evil"
- Robert Anstett
So, after 1.5 hours of washing, chopping, and mincing, we have pico de gallo. Tomato, purple onion, poblano, jalapeno, bell pepper, fresh garlic, lime juice, sea salt, fresh ground pepper. Oh, and of course: CILANTRO =D This is the biggest bowl we own, about a foot in diameter. It was so full we had to mix it by hand.
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Oh, and click through to pic #3. There's a surprise there for you.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
So, when can I bathe in this? EDIT: HOLY CRAP HE HAS A FACE
- Mike Nayyar
I HAZ A DAVE PIC.
- Derrick
Wow that looks amazingly delish!
- BEX
I wish I liked cilantro. I'm a supertaster and to me it tastes like soap :(
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
Take a bite of cilantro by itself and tell me it doesn't taste like soap.
- Dawn
Ha! Gunny beat me to it. You're so right, Gunny!
- Dawn
We made it tonight because it's better once it marries in the fridge for a while. I'm planning on setting aside a bunch and we'll have it with shrimp mixed in for dinner later this week.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
DAVE EXISTS. HAI DAVE!
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
LOL! He's a cutie, ain't he?
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
That looks great, Tina (and Dave, Hi Dave!).
- Trish R
OMG that looks SO GOOD!
- Fa La La La Lindsay
We couldn't resist: we ate about a cup of it right of the bat. Dave almost drooled into the big vat of pico... In hindsight, perhaps he should have, then we wouldn't have to share it!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
DAVE!
- Michelle Martinez
tee hee
- BEX
nom nom!
- BeeLing
NOM...LOVE IT
- Anna Haro
LOVE the pico. I can taste it all the way from here! And HI DAVE!
- Josh Haley
Thus falls dead the rumor that I was married to a figment of my imagination...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
cilantro rocks.
- j1m
Dave looks like one of those morphs, of me and Worthington... you sure can pick em! ;) Yummy. The salsa, that is. I'm so confused...
- Michael W. May
That looks phenomenal, Tina!
- Mona Nomura
Hi Dave, mind if I help myself to some of that pico? :D
- Helen Sventitsky
Nom!!
- Ian May
If we ask nicely will Dave come say hello?
- DGentry
Cilantro is apparently one of those things you either love or hate. I don't find it tastes soapy, but it's definitely a peculiar herbal flavor. And Denton, I'll ask him =)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
awesome! i need a chopping block just like that built into my counter.
- Carlos Ayala
Looks delicious.
- Christian (Simply X)
whoa, that looks good!
- vijay
Carlos, I really want butcher block counter tops (REALLY WANT). However, now I'm making do with this 2ft by 2ft rolling island with a butcher block top. Actual end grain wood, and the little hopper where you scrape the trimmings is amazing. We got it at Home Depot and they still carry something similar.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
That would have been good with the carne asada I grilled last night.
- Jeremy Brooks
oh that looks yummy!
- (jeff)isageek
What a good use of plant based material in your diet! (Looks yummy)
- susan mernit
When I get home tonight it'll be time to make guacamole. Mine is rather easy: smash up some avocados and stir in some pico de gallo. Done *drool* I'm not going to have room for the actual dinner we're cooking...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
mmmm guacamole!!!! my wife makes some good guac...now I want some :)
- (jeff)isageek
looks delicious
- mikepk
Butcher block ain't cheap. And they take a lot of maintenance. Hello? Lazy?
- Josh Haley
Actually, it's not all that bad, Josh. I priced it out and I can get 2.5 inch thick butcher block counters for less than granite. Apply tung oil on a schedule to keep it clean and stain resistant. If it gets burned/scratched/stained you just sand it a bit, apply more tung oil, and you're good to go. But this particular island? Less than $200 at Home Depot and it has a drawer, 2 shelves, and a rack on the side. Worth every penny.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
O hai Dave! The Pico looks beautiful. So beautiful that I wouldn't want to eat it... for about a second. Awesome!
- Jim: Dead Like FF
Appetizing !!
- Praveen Vasudev
Mm.. Yummy!
- Nia
want some
- Manuela
Yum!
- David Cook
I see why this was so big now. Great photos!
- Kamilah Gill
That's looks good :-)
- YoYo_P
YUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!
- Susan Beebe
Oh my!!! Pico de gallo ... yes please :D
- Brandon
Oh and HAI Dave!! *waves and steals the salsa!*
- Susan Beebe
Your pico de gallo looks awesome! I've never made this much at home.
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
That looks fantastically tasty! That's a lot of pico. We probably make fresh pico de gallo 3 - 5 times a week and we'd still never make that much of it. Will you guys eat all of it this week.
- Admiral Anika
We made this for the cook out we had tonight. After sitting in the fridge overnight it decreased in volume by about a third, which is expected. The flavor is better too. Between the party and the guac I made, about a third of that is now gone. We're going to add cold shrimp to the rest and have that for dinner tomorrow: just a big bowl of it.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Show off! :D
- sofarsoShawn
Can you utilize a food processor, or is this a chopping only situation?
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
:O what are you gringos doing? pico de gallo is not a salad! you're supposed to put it on your tacos...
- Mario Romero
poor laowai
- ocde.cn
Mario, we'll just call this gringa salad then =) And like Sean said, you can use a food processor for the onion and cilantro, but the tomatoes turn into mush in my experience. We like ours very chunky (as evidenced by the picture), so the smooth texture from the food processor doesn't work.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
What does it taste like with the bell pepper in it? I've never had bell pepper in mine before.
- Admiral Anika
I like adding them more for the crunch than for the flavor, actually. They hold up well to the lime juice and don't get mushy. A good flavorful bell pepper, though, adds a nice sweetness that offsets the tart and hot really well.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
We don't normally use garlic in our pico, I think I will try it next time, though.
- Michelle Martinez
Normally we just do garlic powder because I'm lazy. But after all that chopping,what's a few garlic cloves? And truth be told, I put garlic in everything that's not a dessert or breakfast item.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Pico rocks
- mjc
Tina, et. al. - Here's a good salsa recipe for you: Drain and blend a can of pineapple chunks with a couple of canned chipotle peppers in adobo sauce. Sweet, smoky and hot at the same time. Rocks with chips or on any kind of grilled chicken or fish.
- Kevin Pedraja
tweenbots | kacie kinzer - http://www.tweenbots.com/
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people sure do love to help cute things!
- Veronica
from Bookmarklet
Only in America. Next Japan.
- W. Kirk Crawford
More confirmation that people are basically good.
- Chris Poulson
People do like cute things...until they steal their identity! Beware the evil tweenbot!
- Joey
"Let's Pizza" Vending Machine - http://75.101.183.223/rd...
Darren Heydon, Kevin, Amy and Fee501st liked this
I would love to have one of those!
- Fee501st
He didn't like my answer.
Darren Heydon, Kevin, Michael and 20 other people liked this
Something tells me if he knew he was talking to Veronica Belmont, he would have stuck around.
- Eric Geller
OR maybe that was exactly the answer she was looking for. I'd like to imagine she furiously transcribed your answer into a worn spiral notebook full of crazy stuff.
- Paul Reynolds
"Yes... donkey! Why hadn't I thought of that?!"
- Veronica
I have found a new website to screen cap at all times.
- Mike Nayyar
Stranger's partner may have a giraffe fetishism. Right now he/she could be making donkey noises..
- Jemm
I got one from an AOL bot on Adium the other day, about 'what does something smell like'. I didnt reply..
- Simon Wicks
I tried it and my chat counterpart said "Obama sucks balls" and disconnected. I feel like I climbed the mountain to seek wisdom from the wise old man and got cheated.
- grant fox
at least that had an opinion. my last one just said "penis."
- Veronica
haha, my one just asked me if i had a spare .. ummm, lady garden..
- Simon Wicks
yeah that was me.
- grant fox
Just trying to spread the word http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Fee501st
Soon there will be just random FF-people chatting with each other
- Jemm
I just got asked about "Man Meat" lol
- Joshua Schnell
Qik | Trapped! - http://qik.com/video/1311230
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at least it was only 4 floors :)
- Fee501st
iRodrigo » Blog Archive » The day I saved a life - http://irodrigo.com/?p=250
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My friend Rodrigo jumped in front of an oncoming train and saved someone's life!
- Veronica
from Bookmarklet
A Brave person, a good friend to have!
- Fee501st
MacHeist 3 Bundle Reveal Show with @Veronica, @mostlylisa, and @chrispirillo this Tues @ 8pm EDT!! http://www.macheist.com/forums... (via @MacHeist)
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Lisa and Veronica on the same show, Oh my!
- Fee501st
is personal blogging dead? w/my facebook page/twitter, I'm not sure I need a blog anymore.. thoughts?
N.G. Gordon - RadarSync, Kevin, Fossil Huntress and 17 other people liked this
blogging+microblogging=great couple
- Igor Poltavskiy
I think personal blogging will be more split quality wise with facebook and twitter. Mundane personal blog post will be summed up in a tweet or some facebook note while someone writing about a serious issue will be blogged, as it wouldn't be able to fit in 140 characters.
- Long Vo
Blogging is still epic cause of the content that you could also add to the page, for quick fixes of information Twitter and Facebook do a really good job, but if you are hungry for eye candy and more readable content there is nothing like a blog website
- Ernie Babinski
Personal blogging for anything other than ad revenue is probably dead, but then again, is that really personal blogging?
- Fleagle
I really hope it's not dead! I think of personal blogging as a way to improve writing technique where you need structure (problem, discuss, conclude). Whereas I see Twitter / Facebook / FriendFeed as casual writing with less structure (newsburst). Both are required I think as they feed each other, we Twitter on blogs, we blog from Twitter updates.
- Mark Aitken
I agree with Igor: Blogging + Micro-blogging. But "Blogging 2.0". I'm changing my whole 'system' now, as foreseen
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
I think blogging is helping businesses and professionals more than individuals who want to just rant about every day stuff. Individuals now have their FB pages, their Tumblr or their Tweets. No need for personal blogs, unless they want to talk about something within their niche and feel they want to share their knowledge. Plain old personal blogging (example: I went for a coffee and so a nice girl, blah, blah) isn't so hot any more. All this info can be read on Social Networks, as it happens
- Spyros Papaspyropoulos
from twhirl
how can a twitter/facebook page replace the indepth exploration of a blog post and the conversation afterwards? The myth of blog disappearing at the expense of the online properties is just not sustainable. There is some overlap for minor posts/breaking news/announcement and vanity publishing but i don t see that going further.
- Ouriel Ohayon
Are you really asking such a stupid question?
- Richard A.
Calm down Richard! You know some people do have so much to talk about and share them with everyone on the net. With blogs, the whole content of your mind that pertain to the topic is put together in one post. With Facebook and Twitter, the ideas are put out a few thoughts at a time for people who have no time to read the entire blog. So yeah, your question is legit and smart, Kevin.
- RON08
when you use the twitter and friendfeed and some same special microblogging services, you dont have to write personal things on your blog:) so you can switch your blog with lifestream like that: http://alibabaoglan.com
- Aykut Karaalioğlu
Remains of the Day: The Vintage Web Edition - http://lifehacker.com/5174176...
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Nice! We were Lifehacker'd today!
- Veronica
from Bookmarklet
Nice! Veronica's conquest of the internet continues
- Fee501st
Anybody remember this one? http://web.tampabay.rr.com/lnsemsf...
- Jasmin Patry
Jasmin: I do, lol
- Fee501st
damn, that that was you dressed in green tights
- Chris
The Vintage Web - http://thevintageweb.tumblr.com/
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I started up a new blog today. Submit your circa-1995 looking websites to thevintageweb@gmail.com.
- Veronica
from Bookmarklet
Cool idea Veronica!
- Fee501st
Damn. Now my mind is racing trying to remember some of the janky websites I've seen recently.
- Paul Reynolds
Araceli, that's great.
- Veronica
I remember this one, also longest domain name ever, http://www.wildsound-filmmakin...
- Fee501st
I really wish I could find one with the revolving email and underconstruction gifs
- Matthew DeVries
Holly hell - http://www.horserentals.com/virgini...
- Fee501st
OMG, that last one. My brain would explode.
- Araceli
http://www.frnz.de/ now with midi
- Fee501st
Araceli: I made that Soras site.
- Paul Reynolds
No fighting! It will tear us apart!
- Veronica
Really? I was supposed to redo it for him.
- Araceli
I keed... I keed... (That would have been an awesome comeback on your part, though!)
- Paul Reynolds
http://www.dinghyinsurance.com/ um would you buy insurance from him?
- Fee501st
:P I was starting to wonder. He was looking for someone to redo it recently. But I didn't want to go up to Myrtle Beach and do it.
- Araceli
Leo plugged your site on twit! He love it, lol
- Fee501st
Awesome! Thanks, Leo!
- Veronica
Why you don't park in front of a fire hydrant (pic) - http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ckBlas...
jim thompson, ThisGuyDoug, Kevin and 14 other people liked this
What is this!
- adam
I love it, good for that person. I don't think they will be doing that again.
- Patrick Minze
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