"December, after all, is the season of seasonal ales, when some of the richest, most enchanting bottlings of the year reach the market, heady, potent, dark-malted brews laced with exotic spices. No, that's not a sugar plum fairy dancing in that guy's head, it's a nut-brown, triple-hopped, pine-spiced pumpkin ale with a nice creamy head in a chilled glass."
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
Last year the Anchor was my favorite. Hmm, I may call Shanon and ask her to pick up some while she's out...
- s t e v e
Just read this on Anchor's site regarding their holiday ale: "Each year our Christmas Ale gets a unique label and a unique recipe for the Ale itself. Although our recipes must remain a secret, many enthusiasts save a few bottles from year to year—stored in a cool dark place—to taste later and compare with other vintages. Properly refrigerated, the beer remains intriguing and drinkable for years, with different nuances slowly emerging as the flavor mellows slightly."
- Derrick
Yeah, well, I tend to just drink the motherfuckers.
- s t e v e
Patience has its virtues. A good Christmas brew to sit on for a year (or two) would be the Delirium Noel (pictured above). Good luck finding it so late in the season.
- Julian
I didn't get my hands on those Christmas Ales this year, they were all sold out :(
- Patrik Johansson
for the record: I had just finished a photoshoot for a friend's mom's clothing store and they let me keep the shirt. So we hammed it up all dorky-fresh style, just cause we could. I could see a point sometime in the future where I come to regret posting this picture.... :-)
- Morgan Haley
oh it's already been right-clicked-saved so watch your step haley(s)!
- Cee Bee
Ah, the days when I had hair and wasn't constantly dodging harpoons.
- Josh Haley
but seriously, we were pretty damn cute back in the day (of the dinosaurs!)
- Morgan Haley
someone post the UHQ version!!! I need a 4000x4000 copy for my wallpaper!
- Morgan Haley
Sooooo wish there was a block feature in Facebook! My right-wing conspiratorial, red-neck ignorant and bat-shit crazy family members would be getting a heaping helping of a cock-block right about now. They need to take their myopic & crazy as fuck views elsewhere...
There is. Click the "Hide" button on any of their entries that show up on your News Feed and select the "Hide <person's name>" option. Unless you're trying to block them from friending/messaging you?
- Brian Chang
There is a block feature in facebook. Settings/Privacy/Block List - just type in the name or email of the person you want to block there.
- Slappy Line
actually, if you know someone's handle on FB, you CAN block them. you'll both be invisible to each other.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
I agree, I wish there was a way to hide specific posts, instead of hiding everything by that person. I have a few of those people on my FB as well, but I don't want to hide everything they post, just the "Glenn Beck is a saint" and "Look into the eyes of the dead deer I shot this weekend" posts.
- Trish R
+1 Trish...that is was I am wanting too. FB needs a bit more granularity (argh...web 2.0 wurdz!) when it comes to the privacy options.
- JA Castillo
All you have to do is take some photos – which you never delete from your camera – so when someone finds your camera at the bottom of the gorilla pit they are able to locate you and return the lost property to its rightful owner. http://www.andrewmcdonald.net.au/a-picto...
I like how everything is clear and readable except the email address.
- Alex Scrivener
LOL That's funny, but yeah...what's with the email address being so small?
- Admiral Anika
At any rate, I had a video I made with all my info on it. I accidentally took it off my chip, but I'm positive I copied it to my camera. Unfortunately, I don't know how to access my camera's memory and the cord has been lost. One of these days, I'll RTFM. =)
- Admiral Anika
I like how the facial expressions match the whiteboard :-)
- Rene Wirtz
lol that was awesome as hell. I'm definitely planning to do it.
- Bora Mesut PALAS
I'd just leave only one pic with my email
- Itachi
The other pics build empathy, encouraging a border-line thief to return the camera. Otherwise you may as well stick a label on the case and be done with it.
- Alex Scrivener
Does anyone else want to make out with this guy for being SO DAMN AWESOME? Srsly, total panty-dropper this one was.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
wow, this is very close to being the most popular thing I have ever posted to Friendfeed. Just goes to show, um, something. Always use pictures?
- Alex Scrivener
I'm the opposite. I tend to ignore posts with photos (unless the post itself is just a photo). Why? The image usually detracts from the text and people spend time talking about the picture and making it clear they didn't bother to read the text or link.
- Admiral Anika
=/ (not about the original post. I already expressed how much I love it)
- Kamilah Gill
Or you could just put an address sticker on the camera...
- Alix Whitmire
No, the pictures try to build an emotional connection with the finder. It helps convince a not-so-honest person to return the camera rather than just keep it. It won't stop a real thief, but it could tip the odds in his favor. A sticker can't do that.
- Alex Scrivener
There should be a place in your camera for email address, like cell phones have "Home" so when you lose it, someone can call you. Hmmmm.
- anna sauce
I wouldn't ever think to go through pics, but if I found a lost cam (or phone or whatever) with an address clearly visible on it, I'd pop it in the mail, or call/email someone, no problem. Same holds true for some lost and found places. They might call you if there's easy contact info, but I don't see them taking the time to flip through photos to figure out how. Maybe do both?
- Alix Whitmire
I was putting a README.txt file on my USB sticks with contact info if it got lost. This is way better! Now take this board with your contact info.... smile, no! put a sad face.... and you're done!
- Nenad Nikolic
This is now far and away the most popular thing I have ever posted. Even got a FFundercats Best of the Week!
- Alex Scrivener
Thank you :) It wasn't as bad as I thought, it was tons of fun. Now I have the itch. This could be bad. It is sitting next to my monitor right now, I can't wait to show our gaming group.
- aden
er...shouldn't there be *6* minifigs?
- WorldofHiglet
i was at a toy store with my wife and kids today looking for a dolly for our oldest. after that was concluded, i disappeared into the 3 aisles of LEGO for nearly 20 minutes. my wife says that when i emerged my face looked like i'd recently received oral gratification. dang.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
It's Monday morning and my fingers are raw. Very hard to type... Now, how to explain this to my work mates without encountering the relentless mocking that usually follows these types of projects....
- Johnny Worthington
In response to this http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... it has become evident that Robert Scoble follows too many people to be able to keep up with and filter the good stuff from the silly fun stuff. I propose we help him by tagging our intelligent stuff that he can learn something from with the following hashtag: #HelpRobertScobleGetSmarter Feel free to tag anything that will help him become a better, wiser, more patient, understanding, tolerant, kinder, etc.human being. If he really wants us to be his teachers and isn't smart enough to see the lessons in everything we do, then let's mark them for him so he can do his homework and stop making excuses.
- April Russo (app103)
@Steven I wouldn't have proposed this if I didn't think there would be some benefit to the common good, above and beyond serving only Robert Scoble. I have made this tag a saved search and will be taking a look at it myself, just to see what we come up with. I have faith in the collective intelligence of the friendfeed community and I am confident that we will end up with some really good stuff that a lot of us could learn something from, even if Robert Scoble never does.
- April Russo (app103)
Can't he just take the high road again and DELETE all his friends/followings and start over from scratch. That was touted as the way to get things back under control previously. Or has the internet changed in such a way compared to earlier this year that that will NEVER work again?
- Andy Bakun
I dunno. There are a bunch of folks who still claim that it's all an "Andy Kaufman" style gag, all to promote the documentary that Casey Affleck is doing about his supposed hip hop career. I wouldn't put it past him.
- Fleagle
And Anika, I saw your comment about Ilia on the back row in the middle. That's where I always ended up standing, too, because I was one of the taller kids.
- Trish R
Shevonne there are videos of both kids in my feed.
- Admiral Anika
Yeay! will check after this meeting. SO CUTE
- Shevonne
And thanks you guys. I think my kids are cute too.
- Admiral Anika
Great post. You really captured the essence of the city with your words. New Orleans is one of my favorite cities, too. My heart is always heavy when I have to leave.
- Trish R
thanks trish :-). i really want to go spend several months there and experience the place more fully. there is so much history and culture there that is underappreciated by most.
- tiffany
Tiffany, I agree. I plan on doing the same thing when my son graduates high school and I have a more flexible schedule.
- Trish R
Yeah, the time and effort to make that right now simply will not materialize. I have frozen bananas though... a little peanut butter, honey and milk, whirl it up in the food processor, and... SKAFOOOSH! Instant Banana Soft-serve for my tummy!
- Adrian
thank you, Caroline and Mo! ;-)) Adrian, even *that* is more work than I am willing to do. At this moment I'm eating a banana and peanut butter on a spoon.
- Anna Haro
Every time I see that stupid commercial for the Alvin and the Chipmunks movie and the girl chipmunks go into Single Ladies, I GET ENRAGED AND WANT TO BREAK THINGS.
Me too, I hate the Chipmunks! I made fun of the Chipmunks when I wrote for Parent Dish and all the parents ripped me a new one. I received hate mail telling me what a bad parent I was. People take those Chipmunks seriously!
- Trish R
Single Ladies makes me want to break things. Chipmunks make me want to break things. Single Ladies + girl chipmunks = rip in the space-time continuum.
- Brian Chang
Wow, that sounds really, umm, odd. Glad I've never seen this. Score one for not having TV.
- Laura Norvig
"Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is ready to take on that annoying blast of sound when TV commercials are just too loud and wants to compel the Federal Communications Commission to fix it and require the ads to be at the same decibel level as the programming. Whitehouse has introduced legislation called the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act of 2009, or CALM. New York Sen. Chuck Schumer (D) is a co-sponsor. Democrats say the FCC has received consumer complaints about commercials being louder than television shows since the 1960s. In the 25 quarterly reports on consumer complaints released by the FCC since 2002, 21 have listed as a top complaint the loudness of television commercials. Earlier this year, the Consumers Union, the nonprofit organization that publishes Consumer Reports, stated in testimony before the House of Representatives that "the CALM Act provides an elegant and common sense solution to finally ending a 45-year consumer complaint in the United States.""
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
TeuxDeux is a very simple ToDo list manager if you'd like to manage this sort of thing using a web application. Basically, it makes elegant date-based lists. They've mercifully kept feature creep to a minimum. If more complex task management is more than you need, this might be worth a look. ...
- Chris Baskind
from Posterous
that is an excellent idea. the other day i thought i should hang tiny little square shelves around as platforms for bud vases. I don't have too many places to put them otherwise. not where they aren't ultimately in the way.
- edythe
"I decided that because this woman thought it was okay to make me feel uncomfortable in my home, I would retaliate and make her feel just as uncomfortable, if not more. This woman was wearing a ankle-length corduroy skirt, which, as we all know, is a fashion nono. So, in order to make her feel uncomfortable, I stood next to her and held a sign that said Corduroy skirts are a sin! I don't think I have ever drawn so much attention in my life. SO many people asked to take a picture with me, I got laughs, high fives and there were the few that even cursed off the woman standing behind me. As I drew interest to what was going on with myself and the woman with the hateful sign, I started to draw a crowd that stood with me in support. Before I knew it I had 100+ people holding signs for gay rights asking people to honk their horns to support. I was interviewed by a news station, and more than 5 student organization papers, and the post standard of syracuse. I never expected anybody to come...
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- Nikhil Dandekar
from Bookmarklet
yay to Chris Pesto for not putting up with that crap! and ya to the people in Syracuse who supported him! :) This totally made me smile :)
- Anna Lynn M.
I love how humor drew more support than a more serious approach would have (most likely).
- Laura Norvig