Oh I know. I went to Adhiyamaan college in Hosur (Madras Univ). So I know * exactly* what you are talking about. If it's any consolation...it doesn't get better ;). - Kamath ॐ
aah engineering drawing. I guess that does make more sense. I remember drawing normal cuboids from all possible angles and perspectives. I was quite good at it too! - Rahul Das
@Rahul; Well, I'm good at construction. Letters are killing me though - They are freehand! Yet, they should be in proper ratio. Darn :( - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
Fortunately, I wasn't in an engineering program (computer science was a different thing at my school) so didn't have to do engineering drawing. Some of my friends were, though. Personally, I think I just wouldn't have a degree if that were a requirement. - James Williams (willia4)
I guess the only person that knows why he hung on is him? - Brian Sullivan
you would assume so...maybe he thought he might bounce back up again! :) - Zee from WeDoCreative
It's a reflex when you're falling, you want to hold onto something for as long as possible. - Andrew Trinh
I think that's actually a cooler trick than vaulting the pole. - Ray Grieselhuber
If it is a reflex I would think that resisting the reflex would be something a pole vaulter would normally do? - Brian Sullivan
Pole vaulters release when they know where they want to drop, in this case this wasn't planned so you'd hold onto something for dear life. At least until your brain comes into action again. - Andrew Trinh
LOL. I laughed so hard. This is a gold medal! - Ryo
he held on because he was over the pit you place your pole into which has no padding - all things considered he probably had a softer landing than letting go at top - mike "glemak" dunn
Oh the relief when I realised it wasn't the one where the guy comes down on the pole...perfectly on his daddy bag - Toby Graham
“Finalized design. barring any objections, I think I will order this tomorrow. I believe I have everyone.. with the exception of a few of you, that decided not to make yourself known by an icon :) For you and everyone else... you are dead center.”
There is an "undo" link at the top after you delete a message. I tried to model much of fftogo after the FriendFeed experience. Everything you do can be undone. - Benjamin Golub
Yes, but i pressed stop on the browser as soon as i realized that i had pressed delete.. But it was too late, Then after i refreshed the page it was gone.. If there was a confirm page this would'nt have happened. - Azeem
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Sorry for the inconvenience. But now you know! Next time you do this by accident you can just wait for it to load and click undo. - Benjamin Golub
Just Dial is India’s no.1 local search destination. The company caters to over 8 million users a month. As of today, this search engine covers 200+ cities in India. This unique local search service is available on:
Phone - A 24/7 operator assisted search on a single national number 6999 9999
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Wireless -
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wap.justdial.com
Print - b2b and b2c yellow pages - Jigar Mehta
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I love it because it enables me to contact multiple vendors with just one click (they send me their contact info by SMS and email).. Interesting stuff is, they also send ping to the vendors that I am interested in their service and I get contacted by vendors themselves and I can initiate the conversation that way! - Jigar Mehta
great database, covers a lot of places in my city.... offtopic: the logo and color scheme looks so like http://www.readburner.com/ - Azeem
i couldnt find any on rssmeme.. probably coz rssmeme is now tracking digg and all that.. - Azeem
I've never Google Reader shared with a note. - Morton Fox
I use it pretty often on here but I haven't checked to see if the notes show up - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)
@morton me neither ... i was thinking, it would have been cool if there was a service that tweets my share with notes - Azeem
I usually don't have time to write much of a note, especially if I don't think it's going to be read. And m y stuff gets pushed down fast. - Dana Franks
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It's so much easier to just press shift-s and forget about it. - Pete Delucchi
the Pussycat Dolls don't make music. They make noise by which to prance half-naked. It's tragic that was your first taste of English-language "music." - Cyndy
My record in English language music is pathetic by western standards I'd say - PCD, Britney, Fergie, Black Eyed Peas, some Backstreet boys and a few tracks from Pink Floyd. That's all. Now, tell me, which smiley should be here? - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
@yuvi I donno its subjective.. i like LinkinPark, RedHotChilliPepper, Iron Maiden, chris daughtry, FooFighters, arctic monkeys, eagles - Azeem
No, no, no, no, no, no, no! You need to listen to the Pixies (any), Guided By Voices (Bee Thousand), Neutral Milk Hotel (In the Aeroplane by the Sea), The Cure (Disintegration), The Dismemberment Plan (Emergency & I), Elliott Smith (Either/Or), Jane's Addiction (Nothing's Shocking), Modest Mouse (Good News for People Who Like Bad News), Tom Waits (any), Nick Drake (Pink Moon), The Pogues (If I Should Fall From Grace With G-d), Stereolab (Emperor Tomato Ketchup), and They Might Be Giants (Lincoln). - Akiva Moskovitz
Damn, nothing I've even heard of, Cyndy! People here are considered pop music geeks if they listen to Pink Floyd and Queen ;) I'll check these out :D - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
Metallica, Apocalyptica, Disturbed, System of a Down, Bullet for my Valentine... That's real music! - Timo Heuer
Yuvi, listen to everything, it's the only way you'll figure out what you truly like. In addition to the above, try the Beatles, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, Tom Petty, anything from Motown, Ray Charles, Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson's latest CD, Victor Wooten, Stevie Ray Vaughn and/or Kenny Wayne Shephard. A little bit of everything. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
For a true slice of Americana, in addition to Stupid's suggestions, listen to Bruce Springsteen's We Shall Overcome, anything by Muddy Waters, Bo Diddly, and Robert Johnson, and the soundtrack to the movie 'O Brother Where Art Thou?' (or, better yet, the three-disc Art of Field Recording to hear the music sung in the first half of the 20th century in the homes of rural America). - Akiva Moskovitz
lol at all of you :) u sound like those silly kids that think that taste in music can be ranked. - Chris Hofmann
Yuvi I'll have my plane meet you at the airport! You need to escape the totalitarian clutches of your society! ;-) Freedom and vileness awaits! - Igor The Troll
krz9000, I never ranked any of my suggestions as being better or worse than anyone else's: I was just suggesting. Sometimes the subtext that you think you see is your own. - Akiva Moskovitz
Just installed the Last.fm client - and finding the Last.fm radio really *good* - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
Yuvi, you should check out Pandora as well. - Akiva Moskovitz
Haven't read anybody mention Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots or any other from the early 1990s. Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bob Dylan, Neil Young... Hard to say anything "mainstream", because I'm too into metal right now (Metallica + Megadeth + Iron Maiden + (oh God help me not get disgusted with myself!) Dragonforce) Edit: Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails (don't watch the clips!) and Smashing Pumpkins are other options. - Rodrigo Jaroszewski
@Yuvi (or anyone else): you might also try going to http://www.wncw.org and listing to their live broadcast. It's a local public radio station that plays pretty much everything but the current US top 40. An exceptional breadth of music for free: I've heard Matthew Sweet in the same set as Ray Charles and bluegrass. Plus they play Grateful Dead weekdays at 4:20, how can you not like that? - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Stupid, good idea. Yuvi, also consider http://www.kexp.org. Especially the Morning Show and Positive Vibrations. They have streaming archives as well so you can listen to those shows whenever. - Akiva Moskovitz
@stupid, i like the radio stations that play Bob Marley at 4:20. while i don't partake, it is a nice relaxing 3 or 4 minutes... Bob Marley FTW! - Morgan
Yuvi check out Ozzy Osborne! He loves to eat rats! I think there is a pink rat floating around on Friend Feed unless Ozzy bit its head off already! LMAO - Igor The Troll
I'm increasingly wondering if the "like" terminology on FF is the wrong word. This seems to come up a lot. Much of the news out there is interesting and fluent FFers know that like is just really promote. But I think as the site gets more popular this problem is only going to get bigger, especially with newer more mainstream people. How do you "like" a decapitation on a Greyhound, even if it is a newsworthy story worthy of being promoted? - Thomas Hawk
I think "Mark" would be a better tag -- that way it could be used any way you want without guilt or specific connotation - Brian Sullivan
But that might confuse all the various users named "Mark." - David Worrell
It should be more like a thumbs up/thumbs down vote like digg or reddit - Mike Hussein Cohen
hmmm.. "Mark" could be good. I wonder if we should run that one by the "Mark" group first though, I think they have a room here somewhere. - Thomas Hawk
I support any and all features named after me. - Mark Trapp
I use the Like button the same way. There is a lot of activity on my feed, even though I'm not following that many people. I also use the Like button more as a bookmark, so I can go back to certain posts. I do agree, a scale button for FF would be great, or even something like the noise filter on social|median, so I can scale just how much activity I want to see from certain people. It would also be great to have some way to keep activity from certain people (or imaginary friends) at the top of my feed, so that the less well-known people who I follow don't get lost in posts by yourself and Robert Scoble. - Aram Zucker-Scharff
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Tag? I haven't seen anybody called Tag -- but there probably is - Brian Sullivan
By liking you put your name on it and thus give it a weight proportional to your name - promote, otherwise said :) But I do believe it is rather a common sense thing. - Hayk
I also use the "Like" button as a bookmarker. I'm not thrilled with the terminology either, as it's similar to the concept of having "friends" on myspace. - Helen Sventitsky
I'd not mind slashdot-style ranking. Interesting, Funny, Informative, Trolling, etc. - abacab
I also use Like from my iPhone, but when using FireFox, I have the FriendFeed Read Later Greasemonkey script and that helps. Of course, having the feature built-in would help across all platforms. - Sergio Cruz
"Like" is problematic because in instances like the Canada bus beheading news story - the event was extremely interesting, and awful and curious but not "likeable." Also since there isn't a "dislike" option either maybe there could be a "meh" or a shrug. - JoEllen
I don't want a Digg system here. I think that commenting serves to convey anyones dislike of the post. Its easy to like anything. Its harder to give constructive criticisim - or even a well-thoughout opinion. - Roberto Bonini
you can always use the read later script/tab in firefox as a book mark - Richard Binhammer
*laughs* @ Mona's suggested DO NOT WANT - Leslie Poston
Mark is good by me, as you can keep those 'chosen' items for later review by email. / Share is already a choice by the service itself (Reshare) even though it gets to your credit without I think actually totally link to the 'original' post. - Zu aka ElijahBailey
The other proposal in the article was the ranking of friends from 1 to 10 for filtering purposes. If friendship reciprocation is a junior high issue now, imagine how the social dynamic will be with the new system? "You didn't see my post? How dare you set me at 2? I am going to set you at 1, so there!" - David Muir
Why don't you just use the READ LATER Greasemonkey script?? - ChaCha Fance
"Same here... If only google would realize that so many like us still
cling on to orkut only because of the community.. And stop copying
facebook" - Azeem
I think colleges should discourage students from getting themselves placed in technology outsourcing companies.. - Azeem
@Azeem - not a chance. Colleges are PAYING companies to recruit people in. F*ed up model, this is. - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
The article is distressing but not too surprising... Yuvi, what you say is *crazy* - given the rampant recruiting that seems to be going on are colleges really paying companies? Do you have a link? I'd be curious to see why that is happening! - felix
@Felix - I don't have a link, but @Sudar (who works in CTS, which is just below the Axis of Evil) tells me that HR is paid to recruit people. I can dig up links, just a sec... - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
@felix i dont have any proof.. but i think this could be happening.. because placement percent is a factor that people here in india assume to be an indication of the quality of the institute.. this would result in more payed seat being filled and so private managements actually gain from getting more of their students placed in techonology outsourcing companies. - Azeem
Sudar will be a way better person to speak I guess. Will point this link to him when he comes back online... - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
Not me because no matter my current language of choice, I always have my eye on something else that I think could be better. Guess that makes me a Gig programmer: Grass Is Greener. In other words, no matter what language you're using, you always feel like you should be using a different language. - Akiva Moskovitz
If you last a long time in computing you realize that you can't really be a Blub programmer (or maybe you are a serial Blub programmer?). I have used Fortran, Basic, Assembly language of various kinds, PL/M, C, OpenScript, Javascript, Python (and probably lots of others that don't come to mind and there were dozens of others popular along the way that I never programmed in) -- and will probably tackle one or two others before I stop. - Brian Sullivan
Now there's something: the product meme is already down track before the product itself gets out of the gate. Not so 'Cuil' in this case. - Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ ᴷᴵᴹ ᴬ
i had a similar experience with a not so techy friend.... he said he saw it on TV - Azeem
Ha! Lots of newspapers and websites in India carried the supposedly 'Google Killer' and I took the bait only to be extremely disappointed! - chendur venkatraman
