Would you like to hear about my undergraduate thesis on the efficiency and equity of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965?
- John E. Bredehoft
43:6f:6e:66:69:72:6d:65:64:3a:20:49:27:6d:20:61:20:74:68:72:65:61:64:20:6b:69:6c:6c:65:72
- Chris Heath
nope, i am the official thread killer
- AJ Batac :)
Cuz this is killer, thread killer night, and no one's gonna save you from AJ when he's about to strike, you know it's killer, thread killer night, you're fighting for your threads from a killer, thread killer tonight
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Had an accident today, I'm fine, but here are the details that I have in hi-definition slowmotion except for the last second. I got called by grandfather to help set up a printer for his brother-in-law.On my way I lost control of my vehicle on some loose gravel on a curvy one-lane road, rock embankment on oneside, 500-600 foot drop on the other.
I managed to avoid hitting the bank in the first turn, then ended up preparing to go over the edge on the next turn. However, I saved myself yet again, but rear wheels were still sliding out over the edge, so I nailed the gas to keep from slipping backwards. As the rear wheels hit the lip the immediately accelerated me and further exaggerated my over-steer, propelling me into the bank going sideways. Car ended up facing about 150 degrees from the direction I was initially heading, on impact at which point airbags deployed, passenger bag cracked windshield, and rearview detached and gashed my ear.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Thank God, noone was coming around that second turn, most likely we would both be dead, or at least me, the angle of the vehicle means the driver side section would have been crushed.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Yeah, I don't know if I want to deal with any tech call's anymore, lol. Totalled my car and my left arm is a bit sore, in the wrist area, WoW'ing will be decreased as will time on the net in general, I need to live in the real world for a while.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Thanks guys. ( Gus ), the amazing part is I was only going about 25mph when it occured, GRAVEL IS EVIL. ( Anika ), yeah all bruising except for my left arm I'm missing about 6-7 layers of skin over about a 2in x 2in spot right below my wrist, the gash on my ear, and a very peculiar friction burn on my right pec, caused presumably from the seat belt, but left no damage to my shirt.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
James I'm not tired this happened an hour and a half after I got up, and I feel energetic I'm kind of afraid to go to sleep because of the stiffness I'll feel tomorrow.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Here are some images that show the majority of the damage outside of my arm. http://ff.im/7diAZ It's all pretty minor to some of the stuff I've seen in the past.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Wow, that's intense. I would've been petrified. Glad you came out of it with as little injury as you did!
- Jandy
Jandy, I got out and continued up the hill for about 5 minutes before I realized I could call someone. I was dazed. Finally called my mom and she made me go back and make sure noone else hit it.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Sounds like your good driving saved you man. I don't know whether to say you were lucky (to not be badly injured) or unlucky (that it happened) either way I am glad to hear that you are ok.
- Matt G
A buddy of mine got pulled over in his Porsche 911 many years ago doing somewhere around 130mph and was amazingly let off with a warning. A week later he totaled it doing 27mph when he chose the wrong time to try to shift, spun on gravel and off the road he went. gravel=evil.
- Robert DeBord
Holden, WV isn't that scary to drive through, I'm really thankful for my job now though, have plenty of experience driving. What part do you go through?
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
That's terrifying. I'm so glad you're okay.
- joey
Yikes, Jimminy! Very glad to hear you're OK. It's amazing the clarity w/ which you can remember those details in slo-mo, isn't it? Try to take it easy for a couple of days. Give yourself a chance to really recover.
- Ayşe E.
Ayse, I have a very strong visualization and memory ability, seeing someone in real-life I can occasionaly get a very accurate image of what they look like when they were younger, when compared to images, also have been able to enter and memorize lucid states for several years. The slo-mo was very different though.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Thanks everybody. Micah, I am too, changes your perspective a bit. I was really close to losing it.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
I'm so glad you came out of that alive. Sounds incredibly scary and harrowing.
- Spidra Webster
Yikes. Could have been a lot worse, glad it wasn't
- LANjackal
Thinking about it it's kind of like the story of Friendfeed, going along smoothly then it lost control when it was acquired by FB, and it regained a little bit of control but we still don't know if it's going to be able to make it around the next turn. No one has a clue yet.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
I’m inclined to think that using web services as omens for your life is a poor idea, lol
- LANjackal
from IM
It's not an omen, just noticed a similarity, though exaggerated. Also, the last line is great. "We still don't know if it's going to make it around the next turn.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
LOL, Ahsan, I guess I got a raw deal then. No I lost about $7000. Dammit, I screwed up somewhere I guess.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Sheesh, that is pretty steep...
- Ahsan Ali
from IM
Yeah, It goes up to about 1200-1400 at the top of the hill, I was just about half way up. Oh, the price, I totalled my car and have to pay medical bills, out of pocket.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Hope you're not too sore in the morning!
- Anne Bouey
Going 25mph and your car is totaled? Wow! That is some wicked gravel! Good that you're okay!
- Fajar Nurdiansyah
Fajar, I don't know how fast I was going when I hit, I was going 25 when I hit the gravel and had to accelerate to get my rear wheels back on the ground in the second turn, unfortunately I wasn't think as I did this that the car was All wheel drive, as soon as the rear wheels hit the ground, It fired me right into the embankment, so I hit at about 35-40mph, I guess.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
So your doing it rally style? Good thing that can instinctively drive yourself out of the 500 foot drop.
- Fajar Nurdiansyah
Fajar, yeah rally style, with out the jumps, and flipping when I hit the bank, though it was a near perfectly vertical rock where the road was carved in the side of the mountain. I was actually in an Impreza.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Good grief! Sounds like you were very lucky to walk away from that one. Glad you're ok!
- Andrew Terry
This is the closest thing I've found to my accident, everything over the dotted line was the drop off though, and the road wasn't quite that straight, so that turn back he does I was entering the second turn. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Wow! You've got my respect brother! Make sure you keep the scar, chicks digg scar -- or so they say lol
- Fajar Nurdiansyah
I have plenty of scars, there just in places you can't normally see. Armpit(fish-hook), head(triple-cracked skull), abdomen(hernia), the only one I think may stick with me is the damage to my ear and that won't impress anyone, or maybe the deep friction burns on my chest.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Holly shit! I'm glad you're ok man! That's one hell of an accident!!!
- David Cook
"They were responsible for some of the first European-market 3G (UMTS) feature phones, when said networks initially launched (around 2002-2003), and the initial buzz was surrounding videocalling functionality, and proprietary content portals (of all things). I had an e616V - which wasn't a bad phone in retrospective. (It had decent build quality, AGPS support, and rudimentary multitasking functionality - on a proprietary Nucleus RTOS-derived platform, no less), even if it was cumbersome in comparison with some of the GSM-only handsets at the time; used Sony MemoryStick Duo cards for external storage; had crippled Bluetooth support (no OBEX); and its predecessor had a habit of voraciously consuming battery power (so the V was shipped with 2 batteries). That aside, it's a shame really - since they made some nice handsets for NTT DoCoMo, from what I remember (quite a long time ago, now)."
- Tyson Key
Can you remind me again where to find those stats?
- Brian Johns
Brian, go to "Me" link (http://friendfeed.com/brianjo...) which defaults to the Feed tab. Look at the sidebar on the right, below Discussion.
- Micah
0.75 (926/1226) - still relatively new here
- mikepk
I only see my stats for the last week (17/14 = 1.21) Please tell me your 670 number is for more than just a week!
- Brian Johns
1.44 (566/391) for brianjohns (after week tally you should see a comma then 'all time' count - I can see it on your page)
- Micah
OK, sorry. I'm a total dumbass. I stopped reading after the weekly totals...
- Brian Johns
3.74, which seems way off of everybody else's. I wonder what that says. I comment a lot more than I like.
- Cyrus Lendvay
FFers use FF with their own strategy or simply default tendencies. The ratio is an interesting snapshot of behaviour. Thanks for joining in everyone, hope more keep flowing in.
- Micah
from twhirl
0.66 - I tend to 'like' things without needing to comment further, I guess, and I notice I usually like the things upon which I comment. Well, frequently.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
.39 (2457/6242) I guess I don't comment much. I do 'like' a lot of things, it would seem.
- Bren
0.62 then again i have over 11,000 comments
- Cee Bee
1.23 (5287/4229) - I am put to shame by Cee Bee's participation, good grief!
- Lindsay
So far: Average: 1.27 | Median: 0.81 ... (if you average 1 comment per like, you'd be 1.0 ... if you're 0.xx you might herd content more than discuss ... if you're whole numbers above 1 you may not 'like' much or discuss plenty or both)
- Micah
InPerpetualMotion(Gina k), I really liked this 'Like' of yours (in a series of pics, so I flickr fav'd it): http://friendfeed.com/e... and commented. Thanks!
- Micah
.68 6986/10194 Someone wrote a great article on the comment-like ratio a few months ago. Search on FriendFeed is crashing on me... I'll try to get the link.
- Mitchell Tsai
Thanks Mitchell (btw, search crashing on me too - lots)
- Micah
1316 comments/20221 likes (0.06), according to Windows Calculator, although I probably screwed up.
- Tyson Key
A recent change in FF: now the comment count shows total number of comments (previously multiple comments in one thread only counted as one) http://friendfeed.com/e... so all the numbers above are from the old methodology....
- David HC Soul
My new ratio: 0.76 all time (old methodology .52).... this week 1.39
- David HC Soul
Looks like my ratio as flipped again (comments back to dominating again). Seems to match my own awareness I've lately been commenting without Liking (commenting is my inherent recognition of value to me and the additional Like is when it merits an extra bump to help discovery by others).
- Micah
Rick, you mean that face with glasses I photoshopped tint into with an apparently disembodied arm which is actually very much attached to my eldest son? It's mostly just me :)
- Micah
Thanks, Michael. Yes, you have a rising tide of comment percentage (oh, wow, you were one of the originals from January - cool!)
- Micah
Yeah, that's a decent upward rise in comments, Nicholas.
- Micah
.6 (6,000/10,000) 3rd update - Now it's time to flip this on its head. My goal is to have (16,000/16,000) next time I post here. Regardless of what happens, I'm just looking forward to the next 10,000 comments, likes, posts, and new relationships I make here. It's all good!
- Michael Fidler
1.76 (7539/4290) My commenting habits haven't chanced much, but it felt like I clicked Like a lot less, and this ratio confirms that for me.
- Micah
.82 as of right now. edit: on January 8th it was 0.39 -- when I saw that, I decided to make more of an effort to comment. When I hit 10k "likes" I decided I wouldn't "like" anything else until I also had 10k comments.
- Bren
Jimminy, I'm copyrighting every single number. It's kind of a honeypot ;) Actually, it was curiosity mostly, but I also hope to build a sampling (small and self-selecting as it may be) for anyone who might want to analyze it.
- Micah
Wow I didn't realize I was so out of whack!! 12.23 that's got to be a record (and I don't even import my feeds with the summary as a comment)!!
- Chris Myles
Thanks JA, Chris (wow, 12+ is unusual :), Serkan and Nine!
- Micah
Micah.. I told you I take my likes seriously; ). You *might* want to ask (in a separate post) what percentage of likes were used to "bookmark" a post or save it for later VS actually "liking it". I NEVER used like for that.. but I did use a private group that if filled with my own topics (and comments)..
- Chris Myles
Likes are down relative to comments, which matches my much lower frequency of liking. I'm a more selective liker than ever.
- Micah
I don't think I could argue that any particular kind of ratio is "best", because if Lurkers like to Lurk and cultivate (via Likes) and the Chatty-ites love to chat, to pump out much many more comments than Likes, each can be happy and make for a great social experience.
- Micah
wow, what a difference time makes, when i 1st posted on this thread, 6.43%, now = 1.25%, for a 5.18% difference, :o (and this is the earliest post to date i've recovered of my activity on ff)
- chaz2b
chaz, I think there's been a big fluctuation for most people (maybe not that much). This is the oldest post on which you commented that you've recovered?
- Micah
that was my third post... It's interesting to see how the number has changed. of course, I manipulated the number to a degree, because I stopped "liking" things for a while...
- Bren
Bren, the other thing that can seriously throw off someone's stats is a feed that upon each item it imports adds a comment automatically.
- Micah
true. that can seriously inflate comment stats, of course. Then you have someone like RAPatton, who posts a gazillion comments, in part because of his playlist posts where he will list each song in a separate comment. I found, after this post in fact, that I tended to "like" things much more frequently than comment on them, that I was lurking instead of participating. I have changed the way I use ff rather considerably, and I think for the better.
- Bren
In 4 days it will be 1 year since my first recorded stat here. My comments/like were almost a 1:1 ratio then. Now comments are almost double likes for me.
- Micah
75,415 comments/1,286 likes = 58.64 - i wish the auto inserted comments didn't get counted... the true number is probably much much close ot my number of likes
- Chris Heath
1.97%. thanks again micah, this has been a great metric to measure my first year here on ff. As the year went (this being the first record of me being here that i've found): , 6.43%:1.25%:1.97%
- chaz2b
Chris, Bren, thank you. And chaz2b, thank you too - glad it's a special marker for you. :)
- Micah
63.58 (97,534/1,534) -- interesting that my last three digits are the same there, eh? (note, i already posted a month or two ago when i first saw this thread)
- Chris Heath
Last year my comments were around 7000 and likes around 2500, for a ratio of 2.80. I consciously chose to do more liking over the last year. As of today my comments number 10,782 and likes number 7,666, for a ratio of 1.41.
- Stephen Mack
Jason, Stephen - cool. Thanks for keeping updated here. :)
- Micah
Okay, Micah. <----I had to resist the urge not to post that because I know it's going to up my comment count. ;)
- Jenny R
But how many of those primordial, high interest posts are still active. Uh huh. :)
- Micah
Thanks, Morton. BTW, when you posted in February, it was exactly 0.13 also.
- Micah
Jenny, resistance is futile; embrace the rising tide of comments.
- Micah
Comments are more difficult and time consuming than Likes. I'd be happy about a high comment:likes ratio except that many are surely imported from feeds, while every Like is manual.
- Mike Chelen
it has changed to 2.2256 now as Sep, 6 2010.Labor Day. :) I added the date for future references.
- ۳۰ مرغ Loves Y'ALLLLL
I had exactly a 2:1 ratio as previously reported [Aug 30, '09], now I am at: 1.7241:1 ratio. 6,067 comments to 3,519 likes.
- The Ghost of Library Past
Two years later and my ratio has climbed from 3.4 to 4.675. I've got a lot to say, apparently.
- Kevin Fox
Funnily, I didn't notice until after leaving that comment that when I reported my stat in 2009 I also followed it up with "I've got stuff to say." I didn't say it was *new* stuff...
- Kevin Fox
2.91; 6.43% (@ 2yrs ago) 2.33% (@ 1yr ago). for history's sake, this thread was started shortly after i found friendfeed, or friendfeed found me, so it holds a special place in my heart. thanks for keeping it around mr micah
- chaz2b
You're certainly welcome, chaz2b. In some way it feels like a living heirloom to me. :)
- Micah
3 (2.991) (and now the list has become too lengthy for me to track my progress, ;) [dumb me, i have a post not 10 lines ago in history, from 090711 2.91; 6.43% (@ 2yrs ago) 2.33% (@ 1yr ago) ;) ]
- chaz2b
This isn't actually a new logo, it's a botched/failed redesign. They did all the branding work, but never implemented the new design, so now (2 yrs later) the design firm released all these materials.
- Steve and 3 other people
Ah, gotcha. I'm with HP on this one. It's clever but I don't like it.
- Stephen Mack
I think it looks great on the side of the building and in the high-contrast print materials, but kinda bad on the web and as corporate identity.
- Steve and 3 other people
It looks okay next to the old (current?) logo, but if I just saw it on its own, I'm not sure I'd connect it with HP since the connections between the verticals aren't obvious.
- John (bird whisperer)
"The defining signature of the system is the 13° angle. 13° represents HP’s spirit as a company, driven forward by ingenuity and optimism about the future and a belief in human progress." Wait. What?
- Louis Gray
I thought I read something about 13° being about the difference between true north and magnetic north.
- Steve and 3 other people
The difference between true and magnetic north varies depending upon where you are on the globe (there are at least two longitudes where true and magnetic north are identical). Moreover, because magnetic north shifts, it tends to change over time (Heathrow airport had to repaint its runway indicators a few months ago because of this).
- I like big Botts
I think that 13° bullshit is what separates the successful ad companies from the ones that just say "it looked like a good angle to use."
- Andrew C (✓)
Andrew, I think you're exactly right. Mystical mumbo-jumbo justification for the minutest details that makes all the execs in the room nod and rubber stamp the project: That's the secret winning sauce or tiger DNA (do we still talk about that?) or kool aid or something..
- Stephen Mack
and not a fuck was given (I may be drinking)
- Michael W. May
I've always thought of it as being more like a soft "Ah" than a hard "Are".
- Tyson Key
Could be - I think in my mind it's exaggerated and conflated with the idea of southern/posh accents. I pronounce 'garage' as 'garidge', and 'garaaaaage' still sounds funny to me, even though now I'm in Canada people don't understand what I mean :)
- WoH: Minding her Botts
I haven't spent much time using this - so I can't really form an opinion of it. That said, I'm slowly becoming fond of Beyond Compare, and TortoiseHg Workbench, lately.
- Tyson Key
I love Beyond Compare; but Tortoise Merge has gotten to the point where it's almost as good as BC (on top of the fact that it's really simple to invoke Tortoise Merge/Diff to compare working copy to previous revision).
- Curdy G
I've found that http://jamesmckay.net/2010... has also made life much easier for me, since I'm currently having to interoperate with a GitHub-hosted repository, whilst I work on an Android project (which I began developing using Mercurial).
- Tyson Key
Now you're just getting lazy with your scripts!
- Mike Nayyar
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in...
more...
- Tinfoil 2.0
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
- Tinfoil 2.0
So it's since Tuesday huh? The ultimate thread. How will the thread die then? We must have a limit for that, let's say 24h without one comment.
- Zu from AOD
As a side note, I do have to applaud the endurance and pettiness of those of us on FriendFeed. No one on Facebook gave this status update a second look!
- Mike Nayyar
We pride ourselves in our pettiness and obsessiveness. Um, wait.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Remember. It's not whole Scoble likes. It's who likes Scoble.
- Akiva
According to FriendFeed, that's everyone. And some Twitter marketers and SEO experts.
- Mike Nayyar
Mike will get in the last word. Eventually. Everyone else is an idiot for playing his little game. Me included. :-)
- Robert Scoble
I'm not actually playing. Or, if I am, I'm playing to lose.
- Akiva
HAHA! You see that? Robert Scoble acknowledges I will eventually win! HAHA! FINALLY! For once in my life, I win! :) :) :) :) Unless Logical shows up...
- Mike Nayyar
Only mostly dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
- Tinfoil 2.0
We're testing the limit on the number of comments.
- DGentry
Nah, the FFundercats live chat pushed that one way over the top. We are, however, testing the limits oh how sick people are getting of setting my face.
- Mike Nayyar
This thread has a lot of comments, that must mean Mike is an expert of some kind...or maybe an A-Lister. Must stalk^H^H^H^H^Hinvestigate him...
- Rah-PM 2012
Olympus too? Good thing Logical doesn't know any Japanese mythological figures.
- Mike Nayyar
All right, if you're going to play that way, Raijin AND Ajisukitakahikone are BOTH mad at you. And Raijin was especially unhappy because you interrupted his NOMmage of children's bellybuttons.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Dude, my best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Raijin put down the platter.
- Tinfoil 2.0
We'd be content, of course, if you (Mike) issued a public retraction of the assertion in your post, followed by allowing someone else to post the last comment in the thread ;-)
- Tinfoil 2.0
805 comments!! I'm afraid to click on the more link....
- Jeff P. Henderson
Nicholas, as long as it's not Mike, it's irrelevant.
- Tinfoil 2.0
I'm sad that Logical saw this Facebook status.
- Mike Nayyar
You know at some point, expanding this comment will really put a strain on mortal browsers. It already has a 3 second pause to expand it.
- Mark Philpot
I wonder if at some point we will hit a soft limit and FF won't let it keep going. That or they look at this as a great high-bounds test case for the system.
- Sparky, lurking
Great experiment there, I'm somewhat scared opening the thread here. Funny thing, Even the explosion of words spawned through this, making it a wordle madness. http://www.wordle.net/gallery...
- Zu from AOD
I'm scared to expand the comment thread :)
- Roberto Bonini
There are few computers with the processing power capable of handling the comments in this thread. Except for, you know, quantum computers.
- Mike Nayyar
from iPhone
i'm afraid to click on the link to see all comments. so i'm just typing this so another guy (or gal) can read it and comment to make this comment disappear.
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
If anyone gets these emails in their gmail and got sick and tired of them like me, just press 'm' to mute the conversation (if you have keyboard shortcuts enabled) (haha i got the last word)
- Daniel Morgan
No you just don't know I posted this.
- John D Reasor
cant the person that started this block the comments now? and thereby win.
- Morgan
If you can get buddy buddy with mike and figure out his schedule, you can prevent him from stopping the comments because you'll always be able to get the last word in. We must prevail for great justice!
- Jonathan Hardesty
That would be cheating, and he knows it :)
- Tinfoil 2.0
That's how the FriendFeed Mob rolls. :-D
- Steven Perez
from IM
you didn't disable the comments yet? you could comment and then do it and then you really would get the last word. but then again, that's cheating. and cheaters never prosper.
- Trish Haley
You're not supposed to make sense of it. It exits only as an opaque, monolithic data structure that is constantly being updated and evolving. ;)
- Tyson Key
Attempting to parse it in a manner that is not approved by FriendFeed, Inc may result in disruption of the space-time continuum, and a series of Bad Things(R) occurring.
- Tyson Key
not only does it make julian fries, but it slices and dices in in seconds. ORDER NOW and you'll get this special gift ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!!!!11!!1ONE!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
from email
this is the thread that doesn't end, yes it goes on and on my friend, Mike started it not knowing what it was, and it'll keep on going no matter what just because this is the thread that doesn't end, yes it goes on and on my friend, Mike started it.....
- T-Bone Tsali, FF Cherokee
from IM
welcome back my friends, to the thread that never ends, we're so glad you could attend, step inside, step inside.
- Mike Nencetti
MISSILES FOR ALL! Gun control is for unarmed wussies! Blow away comment limits! Damn the torpedoes! FULL STEAM AHEAD!!!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
from email
Test conducted to see how long this can last.
- Ashish
it'll never die, with all the wireless cards out there transmitting this, it'll reach alpha centuari in about 300 years.
- T-Bone Tsali, FF Cherokee
from IM
It's not because I'm a person who wants to have the last word, but just because you people keep me reminding that there are others that do want that very badly, that causes me to comment here once again. HI! I'M BETTER THAN MIKE NAYYAR!!!!!!! LOSER! :-)
- Ton Zijp
This IS the time and place to announce a gathering of the societal beginnings of the intrepid adventures of... Wait... sorry, this isn't the place? Oh, okay, I'll go back home then.
- T-Bone Tsali, FF Cherokee
I was able to expand this thread on my Droid incredible, and post this comment at the end. Nice test of Dolphin HD browser.(edit - I use the default FF web page.)
- Mike Nencetti
from Android
If I get the last word in, will I get .LAG's World Series tix???
- Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™
It's been a while, Mr. LastWordThreat. I did some good things these recent months. Care to share some of your insights while you were on that trip? TLDR. 8) (2K+ comments is massive hehe, we're getting to your second b-day)
- Zu from AOD
All I want for Christmas are my two front teef.
- Mike Nayyar
Eventually, you will win. Because you're not married to this thread. But if you ever marry...your trend of always getting the last word will end. Painfully.
- Bubba Botts
This thread must go away!!! What if it kills FF!?
- SAM
this thread could go away right now. but you people keep posting comments...wait....didn't I just do the same thing? OK, nevermind. Long live this Thread!!!!
- Morgan
I heard Nayyar had to get in the The Last Word, always. I talked to the casting director, and Mike Nayyar got the lead in The Last Word.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
this is the last one -------------->>> WORD!
- .LAG liked that
Every middle brings another middle. When the world ends, will this comment be toward the end of the thread, or toward the beginning?
- John E. Bredehoft
You guys!!! This post will forever break FF if we're not careful.
- SAM
Yeah, we should all totally stop bumping this post.
- Slippy
I'm surprised Friendfeed can still expand this thread.
- Morton Fox
OMG, doesn't even want to image what would happen if Nayyar tried to use #fftop20. Actually I kind of do, but I bet it would be slow. Scores would be off the charts though.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Probably still under 9000, people should try harder.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
"I'm sure that I had a Panasonic dumbphone once - although it was a rather clunky brick with a monochrome display, and rather forgettable specifications."
- Tyson Key
"For what it's worth, I vaguely recall reading somewhere that DoCoMo was supposed to be an acronym, formed from the phrase "Do Communications over the Mobile network"."
- Tyson Key
LOL They're grounded. Or at least should be.
- Anika
There is definitely an arc of electricity every time I plug anything in. Shockingly dangerous. Shockingly. That's a pun. Thought I'd make that obvious.
- Mark H
from WinForFeed
Are you kidding? UK plugs are 220V; American ones are only 110. And England has all those different wonky kinds of plugs.
- I like big Botts
Wait, can we go back to the alcohol situation. What's going on there?
- Eric
The toilets in my house are FABULOUS. And since my house is wired properly, no arcing in my outlets. And my alcohol situation is delightful. You should just camp out here.
- Hookuh Tinypants
I want one of thise fancy Japanese toilets with the heated seat and shoots water at your brown eye. It feels violating yet comforting at the same time.
- Rodfather
Glen: all what different kinds of plug? We have one. It's earthed. It's safe.
- Mark H
from WinForFeed
Rodfather, I was listening to a food show on KPCC today. They talked about a restaurant that won the "Best restroom" award from Eater. And while on the subject of restaurant restrooms, they mentioned a Japanese place in LA that supposedly has a $5000 Japanese toilet in its bathroom that is an attraction.
- Spidra Webster
Oh they're great. My friend down the street has one.
- Rodfather
So the alcohol thing: we used to be a nation of hard liquor drunkards. Like dead by 40 because we drank a liter a day. What else do you drink when your water supply is dodgy and will make you immediately sick? Anyhow, church folk and doctors got involved and passed all sorts of weird assed laws about where and what and when you can buy -- except in California and Louisiana where you can get booze all day everyday. Now we drink a lot less.
- tiffany
from iPod
Alcohol: I'm over 18. Yes I would like to go to several places just to buy wine and beer and alcohol.
- Mark H
from WinForFeed
Visited the UK several times and remembered those *mammoth* plugs...
- CarlC
*scratches head* Could you be more specific about your situation? Which state are you in? I have no trouble buying wine, beer & alcohol in one place if I'm of legal age.
- Spidra Webster
If you were in Indiana, you couldn't buy any of those things today b/c it's Sunday.
- Katy S
VA and MD right now. Strangely arcane. Flying to Boston tomorrow; bound to be better there.
- Mark H
from WinForFeed
We have the three-tier system for distribution, plus a patchwork of state and local laws regarding alcohol. It's stupid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Eric
See, I can never leave CA. I like being able to roll into a gas station on a Sunday and buying beer. I like being about to get wine at Target or the corner store. I do the the 2am cutoff time for sales is stupid, but I should be asleep anyway.
- Anika
Whereabouts in Boston are you going? (Don't worry, we have plenty of liquor stores.)
- Penguin
No liquor in grocery stores in MD, but plenty of liquor stores (Not all open on Sunday).
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Penguin: no idea. Doing the tourist thing and then heading to Gillette stadium for the game. Fiance of sis-in-law arranging things.
- Mark H
from WinForFeed
UK plugs are monsters - unpackable! - but they are indeed safe. And I'm with Mark on the US plugs, the flimsy 2 prong plugs are often having arcs when being plugged in. It's the plug, not the socket, as it happens even when plugging them in a converter plug here in Europe, but it happens a lot when plugging anything in the US - my gamecube did it, my blow dryer did it, the toaster did it etc.
- Iphigenie
Get out of the old buildings, or into one that has been brought to code due to a renovation or other reason. I've only been in 2-3 buildings that have wiring that isn't grounded, and doesn't offer a grounding. Even in those, it was rare to see an arc. Alcohol, as it's been stated, US federal law is 21, though I disagree with this, because of it, we have weird carding laws that they're...
more...
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Actually, I understand the alcohol law taken into conjunction with the age of driving. Frankly, if you allowed beer drinking at 16 then you'd have to up the age of driving, which you can't... The combination of starting to drink and starting to drive is just too dangerous. On a more cynical level, it also means you can criminalize youth whenever needed, which is handy politically.
- Iphigenie
I love UK plugs! In case of danger you can use it as a weapon!
- Xabaras (G.O.)
British plugs are great* for lacerating feet, should one accidentally step on one that's been left carelessly lying around...
- Tyson Key
Eivind, it's like saying 'Hail Mary' three times into a mirror in a dark room. If you post this woman's photo anywhere, she appears like a harpy and whines until your eyes bleed.
- Akiva
Google+? I have to find that after wading through all the occupy cat pictures. Does this mean that Verothika will appear on every social media service that debuts in the next 250 years?
- John E. Bredehoft
""BBX" is just their brand of a "BlackBerry-flavoured" QNX Neutrino distribution. QNX Neutrino proper includes Photon, and a rather nice desktop environment - although its UI isn't exactly tablet or smartphone-friendly."
- Tyson Key
"Sony were using Access's NetFront Web browser, when I last checked - unless they've switched to a derivative of Gecko or WebKit, since then."
- Tyson Key
I didn't used to be that kind of guy, but I am becoming more like him every day.
- Friar Will (:^)
me me.. I hate talking on the phone .. email or IM me !!
- Peter Dawson
call me,I'm the exact guy,My last and longest talk in phone was less than 6 min
- Oğlan Moğlan
It's sad but I'm starting to slowly get turned off by guys who want to always talk on the phone like when I was a teenager. Damn, even teenagers aren't talking on the phone anymore. Hahaha
- Shevonne
Ha! Not helpful, but I hate talking on the phone. My wife can talk for hours. 20 minutes in and I'm twitching.
- caj needs a haircut
*calls Shevonne and says, "hishevonne,letshavelunch,kthanksbye"*
- ha3rvey ($10 HUGS!!!)
No, you hang up first! OK, we'll hang up together: 1....2...3....Awwww! Why didn't you hang up? :)))))
- Rah-PM 2012
Or go to sleep with the phone on your ear, wake up a few hours later..."Are you still there?" Haha
- Shevonne
Haven't done that in YEARS! Jeez, I rarely have time to talk on the phone now or Skype. It's like I have to set an appointment first. I miss having down time to talk to someone I care about but life is so busy!
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
@Zu Exactly. I'm always on the run with the kids, and I hate to tell the kids to be quiet while I spend hours on the phone. When the kids go to sleep at 9, then that is when I have time for myself.
- Shevonne
My kids have woken up at night and crawled into my lap when I've Skyped a couple of times. *head desk*
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
Maybe I'm like this cause my exes were hardcore texters and IMers, so when I encounter someone who acts like he has never heard of texting or IMs, I cringe cause I know it will be hours on the phone that I don't have.
- Shevonne
I'm a non-phone person because a) I deal with assholes on the phone all day and the idea of going home and sitting on a phone just makes me cringe. And b) The moment the phone touches my ear, it's like a fly to honey "MOM! MOM! MOM! MOM! I need this, I can't do that. MOOOOOOOOOOOOM!" So I'd rather text. I can send a quick mesage to get my point out/share details/make plans. Then see that person face to face.
- Just Katie
@Katie Thank you! I've tried to tell this particular guy that I can't talk on the phone much, and he is like "Ok, you can call me after the kids go to bed." *face palm*
- Shevonne
I hate talking on the telephone. The only person I was actively willing to talk on the phone with was my mother. Rochelle and I only spoke on the phone in urgency. Otherwise, you text me, e-mail me, IM me, or GTFO.
- Akiva
Be less interesting and they won't talk as much :-)
- Todd Hoff
Dude...after Jake goes to bed I send a few last messages and turn the damn thing off!!!! It's MY TIME after he's in bed.
- Just Katie
Yeah, I'm going to talk to this guy tonight and tell him that I can't do the phone but 10 minutes at a time and tell him my reasons. I don't think this is going to go anywhere.
- Shevonne
just txt each other.. that also works.. some peeps dont have the time/feel intimidated.. but that does not mean communication needs to stop !
- Peter Dawson
I remember back in the day I would talk for hours on the phone with the ladies ... my how time changes ...
- Amani
Welcome to my #1 hate, Shevonne. And I used to work in customer service. Ironic, no?
- Steven Perez
That used to be the case for me, until fairly recently - although I find that I'll spend anything up to an hour on a call, if I haven't spoken to someone for a while (my longest recent one was to my best friend, and lasted nearly 45 minutes, and was interrupted only by running out of airtime). I tend to prefer e-mail, or IM for trivia/non-urgent-but-pressing-enough stuff or dumping large amounts of information for later perusal, though.
- Tyson Key
I am not a phone person...never really was. In 1999 when I got a computer and a dialup account, it was the greatest thing on earth...a way to tie up the phone so people couldn't call me. My husband wasn't too thrilled with that, so I ended up installing some software and paying for a forward when busy voicemail service that delivered my messages over the internet. When I finally got...
more...
- April
I used to LOVE the phone. Now I hate it. Text me, email me. If you HAVE to call, make it quick.
- ☆ Mellyboo ☆
I thier point is that Word makes for a crappy HTML editor, point well taken.
- Roberto Bonini
Nothing against Word if you need instant results for something incredibly basic, I guess. Still, attacking a DNS provider, and gradually poisoning cached data is a pretty stupid idea, in the grand scheme of things.
- Tyson Key
I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't just use an existing exploit script, and hoped that the organisation in question had poorly configured their infrastructure, either.
- Tyson Key
yes, but that's not quite the same. US National Guard operates at a level that allows it to be sent overseas to operate alongside regular forces as needed. or in some cases not needed but sent anyway.
- Joe The Sausage
home guard doesn't actually exist anymore, does it?
- Joe The Sausage
anyway, just a thought. this is definitely out of hand.
- Joe The Sausage
not that i'm aware of, maybe we could deploy the TA?
- Halil
I was being facetious but we do have a Territorial Army which is our part-time regular army so I guess that's close enough.
- Mark H
last resort. getting the military involved in civilian policing is a slippery slope.
- Joe The Sausage
Putting the army on the streets would be martial law, pretty much- a bad precedent at the least. We used to live in Birmingham..
- Pete
yah, not a good idea. here the National Guard routinely gets pulled in for emergency disaster relief work and to shore up civilian police, but it's kept on a pretty tight leash. regular military wouldn't be as tightly controlled.
- Joe The Sausage
"Interesting stuff. Whilst it would probably be an extremely fiddly and time-consuming thing to do, I wonder if it would be feasible to use the Square adapter to read audio cassettes, and dump their content?"
- Tyson Key
"Interesting stuff. Whilst it would probably be an extremely fiddly and time-consuming thing to do, I wonder if it would be feasible to use the Square adapter to read audio cassettes, and dump their content?"
- Tyson Key
"That was painfully difficult to read, but to be honest, calling Series 40 "Symbian Lite" would be misleading - since it isn't derived from Symbian OS or S60 code at all, to my knowledge."
- Tyson Key
"That was painfully difficult to read, but to be honest, calling Series 40 "Symbian Lite" would be misleading - since it isn't derived from Symbian OS or S60 code at all, to my knowledge."
- Tyson Key
"That was painfully difficult to read, but to be honest, calling Series 40 "Symbian Lite" would be misleading - since it isn't derived from Symbian OS or S60 code at all, to my knowledge."
- Tyson Key
"That was painfully difficult to read, but to be honest, calling Series 40 "Symbian Lite" would be misleading - since it isn't derived from Symbian OS or S60 code at all, to my knowledge."
- Tyson Key