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Fwd: From Uruguay to Hollywood: Watch the Video - http://movies.yahoo.com/feature... (via http://friendfeed.com/kekibir...)
Darth Farhad Sama, Stephen Mack, Uwe and Iván Abrego liked this
Good short film, but the story behind it is even better. :)
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
true, thats what really got my attention and why I saw District 9. Were the interviews in Dis 9 hashed in the same way these were?
- echostreamer
Albert Einstein and Cousin - http://www.old-picture.com/america...
Nicholas Kreidberg, Mona Nomura, Mark H and 25 other people liked this
"We are one stone together"
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
They look genuinely happy.
- T. Brent, technopeasant
Einstein was married?!
- `aziz´ Alihan ÇETİN
Einstein and his maternal first cousin, yes. *flesh crawl*
- Joe Silence is not Santa
oh. eesh.
- T. Brent, technopeasant
Hmm, thought he didn't have a wife
- Mo Kargas
"Einstein married Elsa Löwenthal (née Einstein) on 2 June 1919, after having had a relationship with her since 1912. She was his first cousin maternally..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Joe Silence is not Santa
Wrong. Wikipedia says he was married to Mileva Marić, then later Elsa Lowenthal
- Mo Kargas
Woops, Joe beat me to it
- Mo Kargas
yup, and she WAS his first cousin.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
The bookstore-less streets of Laredo [updated] | Jacket Copy | Los Angeles Times - http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketc...
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"Laredo, Texas, is set to become the largest U.S. city without a bookstore. The B. Dalton in the Mall del Norte, owned by parent company Barnes & Noble, is slated to close next month. When it does, it will leave the city's close to 250,000 residents without a single bookstore. The Associated Press reports that letters from schoolchildren had no effect on the corporation's decision to shutter the B. Dalton; Barnes & Noble announced plans earlier this year to close all remaining B. Dalton outlets. "Corporate America considers Laredo kind of the backwater," said Jerry Thompson, an author who lives in Laredo and is a professor at Texas A&M International University."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
But these days any device connected to the internet can be a bookstore...
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
:'(
- Ayşe E.
A city without a book store is not a civilized place. And I know. I've lived near Laredo before, back when they had several book stores, some of which were comic book shops. Sad times, indeed.
- Steven Perez
If people are serious about actually *supporting* a local bookstore instead of just having somewhere to browse for free, it presents an opportunity for a local small businessperson.
- Spidra Webster
Hmmmmm...popcorn or dip into the supply of caramels?
Both -- homemade caramel corn!
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
And now for something completely offensive: My Swiftian India Experience - http://patrissimo.livejournal.com/1274963...
Paul Buchheit, Anne Bouey and Stephen Mack liked this
What a modest blog post!
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
How could the Indians have so misunderstood Jonathan Swift? It's quite clear that only Irish babies are suitable for eating!
- Gabe
Amazed at the advanced technology in Avatar but disheartened that wheelchairs in 2154 are the same as 2009. #Avatar (via @paulscheer)
ha3rvey (doesn't dance) and Stephen Mack liked this
Fashion, uniforms, and haircuts apparently haven't evolved either. Strange, that.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
I don't like it when the TiVo just turns itself on (by automatically starting to play TV after having been in the TiVo menus for a while). If I'm in the other room, I want TiVo to stay quiet!
David desJardins, Morton Fox, Keith Bourgoin and 4 other people liked this
If anyone knows how to hack TiVo to lengthen this time or the pause time, please DM me. If you happen to work for TiVo, please relay the message that people who buy their HD XL boxes with lifetime subscriptions would like more control over the experience. :)
- Cristo
Also, are there better DVRs for high-end installations? Moxi or something else maybe? I might be trying to do too much with a mid-range DVR targeted at novice consumers.
- Cristo
Cristo, I'll pass on your comments. Right now there's no way to change the menu timeouts. Most of our customers prefer that to prevent burn-in. But note that if you pause a program that's in your Now Playing list, it will stay paused forever, no timeout.
- Stephen Mack
Stephen, most technology prevents screen wear-and-tear with something called a screen saver. Also, as soon as TiVo provides a Record Channel function, I'll be good to go on the pausing programs in my Now Playing list. Until then, I still tend to want to see the value of the stock market in relatively real time. It makes it easier to make trading decisions. :)
- Cristo
It is a huge annoyance. I understand that Tivo wants to keep things simple, but there are a few missing features that are just so frustrating for people who want to use their TV somewhat differently than Tivo intends. Not having it come back on all the time is a great example. Like Cristo said, not only is burn-in not a serious issue on modern TVs, but why on Earth can't Tivo go to a screensaver rather than insisting on blaring out live TV?
- David desJardins
Potential FriendFeed Hole Allows Users to Embed Web Bugs - http://staynalive.com/article...
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Tapio Kulmala, Jeunelle Foster, imabonehead and 18 other people liked this
Ironic that the Tweetmeme button's showing up here :-)
- Jesse Stay
Note that MediaRSS images don't show up in the iPhone version of FriendFeed (http://www.friendfeed.com/iphone...), so this hole doesn't apply to that version, just the regular version.
- Stephen Mack
Good catch, Jesse.
- Micah Wittman
Feature. Tweetmeme's image is no more out of place here than it is on your blog.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Bruce, that's fine, but I'd love for FriendFeed to say that. Otherwise I'd love to see them allow us to ignore the tweetmeme button.
- Jesse Stay
How would your blog communicate that certain images should be ignored other than omitting them from the Media RSS feed?
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Bruce, FriendFeed can ignore any image they like. It's their service.
- Jesse Stay
I don't want FriendFeed to decide which images to include. I want to decide what images to include. It's my feed. (I'm not joking or being contrary. It works the way I think it should work.)
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Yes, but you could decide which images FriendFeed blocks on FriendFeed. Personally, I don't want web bugs in my stream - I think they should kill them. It opens up for some interesting uses of the site, but I think it's dangerous.
- Jesse Stay
That would work until you clicked through to the blog post. The problem has to be solved at the browser end.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
I don't mind the Tweetmeme button on my blog. I mind it on FriendFeed. That's beside the point though - the point is web bugs can be embedded by anyone in a post to FriendFeed, posting cookies, tracking IPs, and possibly more. If that's what FriendFeed wants I'm fine with it - it seems like an issue though.
- Jesse Stay
I'm sure it was a conscious decision. They know how to make their own thumbnails.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Jesse: I don't think there is any security hole here. Certainly any external pieces of media can track you but it can't do anything serious like, for example, access FriendFeed cookies. Disabling third-party cookies solves your problem of being tracked across the web.
- Benjamin Golub
The Tweetmeme plugin for wordpress allows you to put the image at the bottom of your RSS posts. I keep it at the top on the actual blog and at the bottom for RSS so I can avoid this problem.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Isn't this problem on you, the content publisher's side? You told FriendFeed to read a mediaRSS-enabled feed that pointed to images that you don't control. You introduced the ostensible third-party tracking on your own site, embedded that tracking into your feed, and had FriendFeed import the feed. I'd rather have FriendFeed import the feed as accurately as possible and have you remove...
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- Mark Trapp
In your RSS feed, you have two lines in every item block that need to be removed to fix this for you: <media:thumbnail url="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebu..." /> <media:content url="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebu..." medium="image" />
- Mark Trapp
Mark, no, that problem is FriendFeed's. If they don't want 3rd-party images that can dynamically produce content, set cookies, etc. on their users' computers they need to stop that practice. It doesn't sound like they want that though, so it sounds like it's no one's problem in that case. I was just raising what I thought was an issue. If they don't think it's an issue then I guess it's fair game.
- Jesse Stay
Embedding offsite images from RSS feeds is not unusual -- for example, Google Reader does the same. As others have mentioned, if this is a concern for you, there are browser config options that will address it across all sites.
- Paul Buchheit
Paul, thanks - that's fine. I just wanted to be sure the FriendFeed team was okay with it. Now to come up with some cool technologies that utilize that. :-)
- Jesse Stay
it is important for publishers and users to be aware of these technical implications. this is a good feature for some purposes, and hadn't been apparent to me before, thanks for pointing it out
- Mike Chelen
iit's a moot point since there aren't any friendfeed users any more
- SuezanneC Baskerville
Suezanne, um, yeah
- Jesse Stay
About that whole idea of disallowing 3rd party images in friendfeed posts: That might make it impossible for some people to have any images displaying with their posts if their images are not hosted on the same domain as their blog, which would be the case with Blogger's *.blogspot.com blogs. Plus, even if you whitelist the domains Google uses for Blogger image hosting, it still creates...
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- April Russo (app103)
Personally I wish more sites would come up with dynamic images that can be passed around via feeds (and email, facebook). The friendfeed image embed works great and gives people a snapshot of dynamic content without having to click through just to find out nothing has changed. I'm not sure what facebook's safe_image.php does but you can see the latest retweet counts in your facebook notes (http://www.facebook.com/note...) but not your media elements!!
- Chris Myles
April.. I use flickr with blogger (they have a better integration with blogger than picasa for single images with captions etc). The sad thing is Blogger doesn't even include media elements for non-picasa images..including you-tube videos etc. It makes it hard to generate enticing feed summaries with thumbnails (via custom scripts, friendfeed, facebook).
- Chris Myles
For a long time, since before you could upload pics to Blogger, I used a folder on my software site to hold all the blog images I used on my personal blog. Everything was handled through WLW, from creating thumbnails, watermarking, and uploading it all. When I changed hosting, I had to start using the integration with Picasa Web through WLW to do it because WLW doesn't support FTPES,...
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- April Russo (app103)
I've seen Big Trouble in Little China way more times than Much Ado About Nothing yet I have the latter movie memorized entirely (and Big Trouble only mostly so). You would think it'd be the opposite considering that Much Ado's all, y'know, Shakespeare and whatnot. There's just something about Much Ado About Nothing that I so much love.
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Perhaps it's because it was a movie that both my first girlfriend and I adored and identified with so greatly. I haven't spoken one word to her since 1996 (after a 5.5 year relationship). I can't watch this movie, think about Ultima VII, Ultima VII Part Two, and Ultima VIII, or eat cheesecake without thinking about her.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Well, Kate Beckinsale is a lot cuter than Kim Cattrall.
- Steven Perez
'A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours.' 'Would my horse have the speed of your tongue!' Frickin' brilliant.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Steven, ah, I always found Emma Thompson for more beautiful and attractive in this movie than Kate Beckinsale (which, yes, yes, I know: such blasphemy!).
- Akiva Moskovitz
Well, yeah.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Oh, and it's one of Sean Patrick Leonard's best roles. He kills it even when having to deliver the occasionally comedically over-wrought and melodramatic dialogue. They need to put this on Blu-ray just so I can hear Michael Keaton growl the word 'coxcomb' in 5.1 surround sound.
- Akiva Moskovitz
"O, that he were here to write me down an ass! But, masters, remember, that I am an ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass."
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Don't forget Branagh's shtick with the lawn chair.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Mark, indeed! 'Were I as tedious as a king, I would find it in my heart to bestow it all on your worship!' 'All they tediousness on me?' 'Yes!' [frustrated pause] 'I would feign to hear what it is you have to say!' Kills me every time.
- Akiva Moskovitz
m9m, the addition of the lawnchair is a stroke of pure genius on Branagh's part. That whole scene is just about as perfectly executed as you could want. 'And as you all know, he has a contemptible spirit!' 'AWWWWW.' [nervous pause followed by Benedick faking bird calls]
- Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva, Beatrice is one of my favorite Shakespearean heroines. She is the most fully developed of his female characters. Her lines are incredible as when she wisely tells the Prince that He is "too good for her to wear everyday" And her scenes with Benedick, especially when she reveals that a woman, too, can feel as deeply as a man about honor are genius!
- Melanie Reed
Yeah. Thompson owns the role as if she were born to play it. After Hero is shamed by Claudio at the wedding, Beatrice is just amazing. 'Oh G-d, were I a man I would eat his heart in the marketplace!' All of the frustrations of repressed women bound up perfectly in one statement.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Yes!!!!!!!!!
- Melanie Reed
But I must say that my favorite of all lines is when Benedick tells her: "Serve God, love me, and mend." perfect cadence and thought.
- Melanie Reed
Ah, my favorite line in the movie (and my second favorite Shakespearean line) is when Claudio says, 'Friendship is constant in all other things save the office and affairs of love.' (My favorite is from Richard III: 'Should I be tempted by the devil?' 'Aye, if the devil tempts thee to do good.')
- Akiva Moskovitz
What I love most about that scene is that her honest passion does exactly what it is meant to do: spur Benedick (it is no coincidence that there names are similar) to see himself inside her and to act on her behalf allowing her to remain in the role of a woman now safe and allowed to trust. And he becomes more himself and more a man because of her.
- Melanie Reed
'...to see himself inside her...' [coy tittering follows] Seriously, though, it is that scene that not only connects Benedick and Beatrice as a couple (even though they haven't yet finalized it for themselves yet) but it also brings to bear the frustration of women (as I pointed out above) and the willingness of men to weakly betray their friendships to win the approval of a woman with...
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- Akiva Moskovitz
And it's exactly what Claudio had foreshadowed earlier with my favorite line (also written above).
- Akiva Moskovitz
I quote this line all the time: "I was born to speak all mirth and no matter." -- Beatrice (Act II, Scene 1). My only problem with this production is Keanu's scowling.
- Stephen Mack
Branagh is such hit-and-miss when it comes to casting. Denzel Washington? Genius. Keanu Reaves? Not so much. Jack Lemmon? Not a good idea. Billy Crystal? Spot on (although not everyone agrees with me on this).
- Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva, I think that is one way of reading it, though perhaps a heavily sexualized modern day interpretation. I am always careful to go back to earlier critics to check myself to see if my time betrays me on this. So here is a Shakespeare critic, Gareth Lloyd Evans from his book "The Upstart Crow" (love the title) (1982): "Here the true spirit of Beatrice is revealed - a woman of great...
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- Melanie Reed
Perhaps I wasn't clear: I wasn't questioning Beatrice's motivations at all—which I believe to be virtually pure—but Benedick's.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Gotcha. (noted) And I really love the man that Benedick becomes! He wins my heart. :)
- Melanie Reed
In other words, Benedick's heart is in the right place but what he's willing to sacrifice to win Beatrice's respect (and thus her heart) is what I find questionable. Ultimately, though, as you point out, it is what he is willing to do that makes him into what he becomes.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Scotland Yard warns of Mumbai-style attack in London - the Times. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol...
Bluesun 2600, WarLord, Stephen Mack and 2 other people liked this
"Scotland Yard has warned businesses in London to expect a Mumbai-style attack on the capital. In a briefing in the City of London 12 days ago, a senior detective from SO15, the Metropolitan police counter-terrorism command, said: “Mumbai is coming to London.” The detective said companies should anticipate a shooting and hostage-taking raid “involving a small number of gunmen with...
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- RAPatton
Frightening.
- Stephen Mack
FriendFeed should be faster again. We were had some network issues which caused a lot of slowness this past week, but I think it's fixed now. Let me know if you are still encountering any extreme slowness.
mehmet t. akalın, Mustafa Dalcı, Sergey Kapustin and 116 other people liked this
Will this mean I'll be able to upload pictures again? EDIT This does not mean I can upload photos now.
- Admiral Anika
Thanks for the update Paul! ;)
- AJ Batac
Mainly just had problems with email posting and the bookmarklet. The rest seemed fairly okay.
- Jason Huebel
I've been told that I'm extremely slow much of the time, but I don't think that's what you meant. Thanks for taking care of the issue, Paul.
- Jim Is Not Smart
Does seem very zippy, thanks team!
- Stephen Mack
Time to time, it's slow. Overall fast (again), however.
- Ozkan Altuner
I think the issues were directly related to Cristo's 11 MB PDF upload.
- Louis Gray
Thank you, Paul!
- Holly Rae
it looks faster now. thanks
- Hakan İyice
I still see Twitter updates coming in here 10 -15 minutes later
- Jorge Escobar
Thanks Paul. Much better.
- Roberto Bonini
Im experiencing extreme slowness ,,,, but then again , Im 53
- johnpiercy
nice also to know your not Boarding up the Windows
- johnpiercy
It did seem a little faster this afternoon.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
The Twitter issue is a separate problem Jorge -- our realtime feed from them is gone, but we hope to get it restored soon.
- Paul Buchheit
The Twitter feed went entirely???? o_O
- Roberto Bonini
It would be great if you could speed up importing of Twitter feeds. The slowness has been an issue for me lately.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Got it, Paul. Thanks!
- Jorge Escobar
Nice to know that there is indeed a problem with Twitter importing being slow, and I'm not just going crazy.
- Tyson Key
Awesome news!
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Sweet
- Josh Haley
Meanwhile, Dad's kids with his new wife get what kind of toys?
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew, FriendFeed users have no reason to complain about our toys. And even if we did, bitterness doesn't help.
- Bruce Lewis
FriendFeed is dying for me. In fact. it's just about gone. I use it as a control room and discussion space for my Twitter feed, and a searchable archive. Discussion threads are down about 80 percent. "Likes" are off about 90 percent. There's no real time feed in from Twitter any more. Sad.
- Jay Rosen
Agreed, Jay. My personal life is in a bit of an upheaval right now, which hasn't helped, but the FB acquisition took the wind out of the sails for me. It feels like there's no future, or worse, a future wired up to the "friending" criteria of my Facebook account. I use the services COMPLETELY differently, however. Inbound updates continue, since they're automatic, but this is the first comment I've posted in weeks. Sad, indeed.
- Ken Kennedy
+1 Jay
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I am using Twitter and FB more and more lately. On the plus side, it's strengthening some real world connections. I'm missing out on the cool new stuff but I think I had gone overboard on that front.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I like FriendFeed, but I happen to find myself using Twitter and IRC more as of late. I guess I've probably just burnt myself and others out, given that I don't seem to have much in the way of compelling content and commentary these days, and that I just don't feel as motivated as I'd like to. :(
- Tyson Key
Thanks
- zizukabi
Thanks for the info and the update.
- giuseppe c. | markgreene
Still seems to be some slowness. The Innovation Management Room (er...Group) hasn't updated for several hours: http://friendfeed.com/innovat...
- Hutch Carpenter
Thanks for throwing some love over to FF :)
- Susan Beebe
Is there currently an issue with posting from FF to update Facebook -or is Facebook broken after the re-design ? i dont get anything posted to FB anymore which worked fine before yd
- Del_
Hi Paul, I know it has been a while since this post. But over the last 48 hours my Twitter updates have quit showing up in FF. I tried manually refreshing. Then I removed the account so I could just add it back in. When trying to do that I get the following message: "We could not find the given account" I haven't changed anything. Any thoughts on why this is happening? I haven't had any trouble until now. Thanks.
- Mary-Lynn
My Twitter feed is coming into FF much faster now - thanks! *Edit - Blog feed, too!
- Kurt Starnes
Dan O'Bannon dies at 63; screenwriter of 'Alien' - http://www.latimes.com/news...
Oh no :( -- he was also a great comic book artist and wrote Dark Star.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
Help! Our office has an Epson Photo 1400 and I'm trying to print mock ups for trade shows. I can't get the colors to match properly. Any ideas? I know there is software I can get to help, but I can't remember the name.
The design files are both CMYK and PMS. Also, I have adobe CS4 if that matters at all.
- Georgia Diehl
Anyone?
- Georgia Diehl
Apple computer, right? Are you thinking of ColorSync? http://www.apple.com/pro...
- Ken Gidley
Or Pantone matching? Calibrating a printer info: http://www.pantone.com/pages...
- Ken Gidley
Thanks Ken, I'll try that
- Georgia Diehl
You're trying to do something called "printer profiling", and it's a bit tricky to do well. The best way is to print a test sheet on the printer and send it to someone who analyzes it and sends you back a profile file. You install that and then your printer should print pretty "standard" colors. It costs about $150 and takes some time though. Lower-end printers are more variable and harder to calibrate/profile.
- Brian Johns
Hmm, crap. I need to print on Monday. Any other suggestions?
- Georgia Diehl
Use a printing service?
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
Ok, here's something I'm too lazy to Google so you folks can tell me instead: What exactly is "minced meat" and does it taste as yechy as it sounds?
Loc, Stephen Mack, Tyson Key and 10 other people liked this
I think it's "mince meat" - and I have no clue what it is.
- Brett Kelly
from iPhone
I always thought it was gelatinous nuts and it's disgusting. Uh...I'm also assuming you mean 'mincemeat'.
- Admiral Anika
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... dried fruit, spirits, seasoning and meat. it sounds gross.
- Mary Carmen
dried fruit (esp raisins), alcohol and a bit of suet as a pie filling. I've never had it but I really like raisin pie so I think I'd probably like mince pies.
- Spidra Webster
BLEAH. it's disgusting.
- holly
*pushes away from the table*
- Derrick
I used to think meat and fruit couldn't mix but there used to be a Peruvian restaurant in town and they totally changed my mind on that with a sort of Peruvian tamale they made with raisins in it.
- Spidra Webster
There's no nuts in it?!?! WTF did they feed me? I refuse to believe those crunchy bits were actual meat.
- Admiral Anika
One of my great-aunts made mincemeat pies every Thanksgiving. I never tried it.
- Katy S
I like it in moderation.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
"minced meat" is a common term in the UK for what we in the US call "hamburger." Mincemeat (or "mince," as it's often called) is a pie filling dating back to the middle ages that consists of small pieces of fruits, nuts, and suet, usually soaked in wine or other spirits. It used to be considered a great delicacy and has since fallen somewhat out of favor.
- Mistletoe Glen
The preparation was also a good way to preserve meat way back when. It also adds filler (the fruits and such), extending the amount of meat that a person had to use. In that context, it makes sense, but I've never felt compelled to try a mincemeat pie. The aroma of the ones I've been near have not been enticing.
- Katy S
Mince Meat is my porn name.
- Chrimmus Tad
My grandmother used to make Mincemeat pie and made her own mixture, which yes, did include suet......however, there is no meaty taste....just sweet. Now you can buy mincemeat in jars to make pies, but there is no longer any suet added to it. She used to put "hard" sauce over the pie...that's just butter, confectioner's sugar, and booze.....like brandy, rum or whiskey....it was the best part!
- Bonnie Foster
I like mincemeat pies from time to time. I've never had one that tasted like meat, though, and if meat was part of the mix it was barely recognizable.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Tad++
- Brett Kelly
from iPhone
modern meaning of minced meat is identical to that of ground meat. IOW, minced beef = ground beef.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
My grandmother used to make it when I was a kid. It was like an extra spicy raisin pie. I ate it and didn't hate it, but then, no one ever told me it actually had MEAT in it! I thought it was "mincemeat" in the same way that the edible part of a nut is "nutmeat." Once I had eaten it, it's probably best that I didn't find out what it really was.
- Mark "DerBingle" J
the mincemeat pies you get in the US are generally meatless.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
I'll try it
- Rodfather
No, but what you can buy the filling (and mostly) what's made has changed from the original recipe. Still, its quite good if you like a very sweet pie. I recommend Nonsuch and Crosse and Blackwells. I would not recommend that you get the reconstituted (in the box) on your first go at it even though it is cheaper. It's rather nasty and will definitely put you off mincemeat forever. :)
- Melanie Reed
+++ Glen Mistletoe
- Melanie Reed
And don't forget to add the Brandy! Most important! :)
- Melanie Reed
+++ Bonnie. Agree it is the best part. :)
- Melanie Reed
This is the cookbook I have which has a good mincemeat recipe: "Great British Cooking: A Well Kept Secret" by Jane Garmey It has a great forward by Calvin Trillan p.254
- Melanie Reed
I'll bet that's an interesting book... The British aren't renowned for good cooking!
- Fa La La La Lindsay
Lindsay, yeah. Ive enjoyed and tried several of the recipes. Colcannon, Poor Knights of Windsor, Toad in the Hole, Bubble and Squeak are a few of my favorites!
- Melanie Reed
Mince meat is actually chopped dried fruit, as in mince pies
- Ian May
Lindsay asked about minced meat, tho. not mince meat.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
I've never had mincemeat with meat in, only dried fruit. Tradition may have stipulated meat many years ago.
- Ian May
@Joe, I didn't know there was a difference... I was asking about the dish that seems to be served around this time of year. :)
- Fa La La La Lindsay
Minced in England is what is ground in the US
- Ian May
but mincemeat (usually one word) is dried chopped fruit.
- Ian May
If one goes into an English butchers shop and wanted some ground beef, one would ask for mince, or minced beef.
- Ian May
@Melanie --What? Mincemeat involves Brandy? Well that explains a lot! @Joe --I shall cling to the hope that my grandmother's version did not, in fact, contain meat.
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Mincemeat can and does vary a bit between commercial brands, and home made (which some do lace with alcohol)
- Ian May
mincemeat pie is okay, but i'll go with apple or razzleberry or even cherry if i have to.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
@Mark I hope it explains good things. :) btw- a side note. If any of you have seen the remake of "State Fair" (with Pat Boone) putting brandy in her mincemeat is what wins the Texas State Fair competition for the mother. lol
- Melanie Reed
putting booze in ANYTHING wins at the Texas State Fair.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
Joe ROFLOL !
- Melanie Reed
*lives in Texas and attends that fair every year*
- Joe Silence is not Santa
There is a lot of crap sometimes between US and UK about food and drink. Americans are led to believe English food is bland and the beer is warm; Britons are lead to believe that Americans eat nothing but donuts and McDog, and all look like those 'people from walmart' pics...
- Ian May
*Joe, Was Texas Transplant and lived in North Corridor of Dallas for 2 years. Loved it. Still consider them a "second home" ;)*
- Melanie Reed
@Ian: we do eat WAY too many corn-related products, that much is true.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
Melanie. I quite often make Bubble and Squeak, and I made Toad In The Hole recently too
- Ian May
According to my copy of The Oxford Companion To Food, while mincemeat "rarely contains meat nowadays," it often did in the past. Some recipes today still contain suet. "The beef was sometimes partly or wholly replaced by suet from the mid-17th century onwards, and meat had effectively disappeared from 'mincemeat' on both sides of the Atlantic in the 19th century."
- Katy S
And yes, I own an 850+ page reference book about food.
- Katy S
Is there anything that there's not an Oxford Companion for? :D
- Fa La La La Lindsay
Similar to what I remember being told about the origins of mincemeat, and why it was called such.
- Ian May
"The Compleat Oxford Companion To Shaving Your Pubic Region, 5E"
- Joe Silence is not Santa
My mom uses it in her fruitcake.
- Shevonne
+++ Katy S yep!
- Melanie Reed
Shevonne meat, suet or mincement (fruit only) ?
- Melanie Reed
fruit only...it says Mincemeat on the can
- Shevonne
Joe, I read that the average US diet contains 4 main ingredients. Corn, Soy, Wheat, Rice.
- Ian May
you forgot beef, fat, sugar, chicken, corn, fat, fat, fat, MSG and fat.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
Shevonne, I'll bet its a wonderful moist fruit cake. :)
- Melanie Reed
Joe, still mostly corn though, after Nixon set up those huge subsidies for it back in the 70's. There wasn't HFCS before that.
- Ian May
HFCS is a particularly American thing too. You don't find it in European products for example.
- Ian May
i never found it in any food in SE Asia, either.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
American meat is largely banned in the UK, due to the use of growth hormones. UK beef was banned here for a good while due to mad cow, It's a crazy world.
- Ian May
I largely avoid HFCS myself. I'm not allergic to it though
- Ian May
HFCS is really bad for everyone in many ways. avoid it as much as you can.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
We mostly eat fresh meat and produce here
- Ian May
Not fanatical about it, I just prefer it, The palate doesnt have to have a high fat high salt high sugar diet.
- Ian May
Hey! I like mince pies- with mincemeat. Weird yes, nice also. But then, I like Marmite.
- Pete
I consider this conversation both entertaining and educational ;) My grandmother rocked the mincemeat (in both pie and cookie form) every year around this time - and suet, suet, suet was the magic ingredient as it is with all the old recipes in our family. I don't even know how I would go about buying suet if I needed to.
- Holly Rae
Atora.
- Pete
Pete thanks for that. I will look into trying some.
- Melanie Reed
Holly - If you ask most butchers, they can get suet for you. I've seen it in one of the grocery stores here every now and then, but a butcher is your best bet.
- Katy S
And here is the clarified suet Pete is talking about available online: http://www.britishfoodshop.com/atora-s...
- Melanie Reed
Suet is the thick layer of fat found around beef kidneys.
- Ian May
Don't sell mince pies short -- see http://friendfeed.com/zeigen... -- delicious.
- Stephen Mack
usually it is made up of beef but you can also get it in chicken or pork flavour, i use it to make pasta sauce :)
- Loc
Penn and Teller di-hydrogen monoxide ban petition. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Dihydrogen monoxide -- a very common compound used as a flame retardant and a cleanser -- causes millions of deaths each year. It should absolutely be banned.
- Stephen Mack
Always a fave. :) We like to refer to this little social experiment a lot in my classes for discussions. It illustrates so many points that we're always going on about (like the inability of many people to think critically about an issue before putting their stank all over it).
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Mince Pies by Mr Kipling - http://www.amazon.com/Mr-Kipl...
These are delicious. End of story.
- Stephen Mack
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They dined on mince, and slices of quince, which they ate with a runcible spoon, and danced by the light of the moon.
- Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy
Catan iPhone app review - http://www.zeigen.com/blog...
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OMG!
- Kate Schmidt
Hi Kate -- go get it!
- Stephen Mack
I'm withdrawing my "buy it" recommendation until the next bug fix release. 3 of the last 4 games I've played have got stuck during the computer players' turn. Also, save game doesn't work.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
1.1 just released. Will advise if it solves these problems.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
1.1 is much better. The AI is way smarter: they'll box you in, trade away all of a single resource type and then monopoly it back, etc
- Benjamin Golub
Benjamin, I agree -- only played it once or twice, but the AI is better (they gang up on me more!) and no more crashes/freezes.
- Stephen Mack
Once they network-enable multi-player on it and fix the bugs, I might consider buying this one
- Matt Mastracci
Bugs are fixed, that I can vouch for. Agreed on the multi player (although on my iPhone I play more single player games and almost never action games because I rarely have long to play, so I prefer strategy). I always really want a leaderboard.
- Stephen Mack
This week's new movies: Avatar (fresh, 82%) ... Did You Hear About the Morgans (very rotten, 9%) ... Nine (limited release, rotten, 47%) ... plus many other limited releases. - http://www.rottentomatoes.com/movies...
I'll be seeing Avatar tonight provided I'm feeling better. Looks like the other studios moved their wide releases away from the Avatar onslaught. Surprised to see Nine get such a low score; I loved what Rob Marshall did with "Chicago."
- Stephen Mack
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TomTom for iPhone/iPod Touch on sale, half off - http://iphone.tomtom.com/en-us...
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I bought it when it was $30 off on Cyber Monday, but now it's $50 off. I haven't used the app much so I can't offer a full review, but my use of it so far suggests it's at least as good as the last TomTom GPS device I used (including carrying over some of its quirks, like "Main Street 123" instead of "123 Main Street." Also no traffic support. Full selection of existing voices but no downloadable voices like Homer Simpson or John Cleese (yet?). Very responsive on my 3GS. Be warned it takes up about a gig of space.
- Stephen Mack
from Bookmarklet
I don't know how the app is, but i HATE my real tom tom! Use my google maps on my iPhone more often!
- Rachel Lea Fox
I tried the TomTom app. Deleted it pretty quickly because it was crap. Thank goodness I didn't pay for it. :) I've also tried Navigon, and found it much nicer, but a bit crash prone. Honestly, I keep coming back to Waze, which is free and kinda sorta rocks. Apparently word got out around here and lots of people are using the thing, making the data really up-to-date and neat.
- Otto
Waze drives me crazy! Maybe not enough local users but it has me driving across dirt driveways or taking bike paths.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
Rachel, whyfor you hate TomTom?
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
I admit that Waze's directions don't make a whole lot of sense until your area gets mapped out pretty well. Going on waze.com and correcting the maps in your area helps a fair amount. Mainly I leave it on whenever driving even if I'm not using the directions feature. This helps, a lot. Seeing the pac-man guy munching road dots gets addictive. :)
- Otto
Is the car kit also half off? I'm seeing that as $180 from Amazon. Any cheaper options for the car kit?
- Jesse Stay
Stephen, my TomTom is pure crap! the UI is convoluted and I can't even search for a store name to find it's location. POIs are difficult to turn on. It does not have records or streets in areas like Los Gatos, Carmel and Milpitas. It's notifications of turns are ill timed and confusing. In the end I end up not being able to use it for one reason or another so many times I don't bother....
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- Rachel Lea Fox
I've used the TomTom app on someone else's iPhone and found it to be pretty good. I haven't used that many GPS devices, but I thought it was awesome that it showed how many lanes there were and which ones were valid exit lanes on freeways. Only downside was that it seemed to drain the battery pretty quickly. I guess you can always get a power adapter.
- Dan Hsiao
Im tempted to get this ... but I just purchased my first GPS unit a few weeks ago ... the price is right ..
- johnpiercy
Jesse: The TomTom Car Kit is only $120 from Apple: http://store.apple.com/us... However, I've heard that it's not really worth it. It only improves the speed of the 3GS by a couple of seconds. Although it does make the 3G work much better (and allows the iTouch to work at all).
- Otto
I bought the TomTom Car Kit and will try it out -- seemed worth it for hands-free calling if not for improving the app itself.
- Stephen Mack
Do you think knowing famous people makes you a better person?
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Is one of your goals to meet lots of famous people and then tell other people you know them?
- Cristo
Definitely ... too bad I don't know anybody famous.
- Brian Sullivan
When you give examples or tell a story, do you try to weave in famous people that you've met?
- Cristo
Brian, you must not be trying very hard then.
- Cristo
No, hell no, and definitely not. I know a handful but go out of my way to ensure their privacy is not violated. A big step is not bragging about knowing them. Besides, I feel most are better off because THEY know ME! :)
- jcunwired
Do you trust someone more because they say that so-and-so famous person told them something? E.g. As I was sitting next to Rep. X on the plane they said that the FCC is going to make Twitter the official US micro-blogging service.
- Cristo
I think getting to meet and/or hang with rich/famous people gave me an opportunity to get a perspective on what really matters (to me), so, in that sense, I think I've gained something as the result.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
I wouldn't personally know. But knowing people from FF has made me a better person.
- Morgan Haley
I guess it would depend on the person
- Rodfather
Rodfather, the person who knows famous people, or the particular famous person?
- Cristo
Not a goal to meet them, but I'm related to a semi-famous person so sometimes I talk about him, but definitely not a goal.
- Jimminy Fuller
Famous people, no. Interesting people, yes. Some of the interesting people I've met happen to be famous, but that's not what I have usually found interesting about them. I've taken things away from those meetings that have made me a better person.
- Jennifer Dittrich
no
- VAL D. Zone
Chris, the particular famous person
- Rodfather
Oh, absolutely...duh!
- Christopher A Carr
It depends on the person. And how much you let someone influence you. But I'd have the same answer if you removed the word "famous."
- Lo
Do you like to read blogs where the blogger is constantly talking about all the famous people they've met, as if that makes him an authority on everything?
- Cristo
I simply adore name-droppers.
- Christopher A Carr
Internet Famous != Famous
- Jimminy Fuller
If it was an entertainment blog, maybe.
- Rodfather
What about a technical & social media blog?
- Cristo
If the famous person has access and knowledge of pre-released products, maybe. Angelina Jolie had one of the Palm Pre test devices. If the blogger got some inside scoop on that at the time, then I would probably read it.
- Rodfather
I think knowing exceptional people makes one a better person. Doesn't matter if they are famous.
- Alex Scoble
Thanks Alex. :)
- Cristo
It certainly hasn't made me one. A lot of them are really quite normal to tell you the truth.
- Itachi
Famous people are famous because of all the non-famous people who know them, right? It's only human nature to brag. Or so my good friends Tom Hanks and Albert Einstein say.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
:) @Alex
- VAL D. Zone
Stephen, knowing someone and knowing of them are different things, although some people do confuse the two. :)
- Cristo
Nope
- Shevonne
Only being a better person can make you a better person, and we each bear sole responsibility for our quality in humanity. Internet fame is better than "proper" fame because it ends when it's supposed to :-)
- Slappy Line
Somerimes Its good for me to talk to someboby rich or powerful or famous because I find out they have problems too, sometimes same as mine sometimes different but just enough so that money, fame and power didn't solve it all. This forces me to quit whining and man up. Of course visiting hospital has a very similar function ;)
- WarLord
The only reason I wish I knew someone rich and famous is to get into a suite at the football game Sunday and the bowl game on the 27th instead of sitting in the cold. Other than that, I don't really care.
- Alan Simpson
Alan, thanks. You reminded me there is football on tonight. :)
- Cristo
hahahahahahahahaha
- Mona Nomura
far from it.
- John Wang
If you can learn something from "famous" then it will make you a better person but that can be said for any person. It all depends upon that famous person.
- ashish
I think Mona is the only one getting this. :)
- Cristo
Not a better person but more interesting at dinner. Especially if you slept with Tiger Woods. ;-)
- Robert Scoble
It makes me feel cooler, I do have to admit to that.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
I dont know anyone famous ,, does it make me a lesser person ,, of course not
- johnpiercy
I prefer the company of infamous people.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
it can change your social status but it is ethically irrelevant
- barbarars
I AM famous. Y'all betta rekonize up in here. Holla at me in the VIP section.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I run into Burning Buildings and have done CPR on more dead people than most of you have seen "LIVE" people ,, does that make me a HERO ,, of course not ...
- johnpiercy
Robert, did you sleep with Tiger Woods? It doesn't seem like that exclusive of a club lately. ;)
- Cristo
Cristo: I slept with a Tiger, but I don't think I slept with THAT Tiger! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Prolly not but it can give an interesting perspective on things. :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Are you sure, Amazon? Frequently Bought Together: Gaming Storage and Furniture Ottoman, Ergonomic Ice Scraper, and Lego Indiana Jones Fighter Plane
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For certain values of "frequently," such as "once."
- Stephen Mack
For that price, how could you go wrong?
- Louis Gray
It's self-perpetuating. I mean, I couldn't resist ordering after seeing Dan's post. Damn you, Amazon.
- DeWitt Clinton
Pack me that !
- Desirade
Britain Ending Checks - http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archive...
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"The board of the UK Payments Council, the body for setting payment strategy in Britain, agreed on Wednesday to set a target date of October 31, 2018 for winding up the check clearing system. The board is largely made up of Britain’s leading banks."
- John E. Bredehoft
Good plan.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
+1 to this idea!
- Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy
Quick with the one-liner
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"You have the Midas touch. Everything you touch turns into a muffler." -- Henny Youngman
- Stephen Mack
"When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety." -- Steven Wright
- Stephen Mack
"When I die, I would like to go peacefully, in my sleep, like my grandfather did. Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car." -- Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey
- Stephen Mack
"When I grow up I want to be a futurist because I want to know what happens next."
- Kevin Fox
(Is that one by you, Kevin?)
- Stephen Mack
It has my name after it. right? ;-) Seriously, I ws going to give myself attribution, but it seemed weird to say "-- Kevin Fox - Kevin Fox"
- Kevin Fox
On the other hand, you just said "-- Kevin Fox - Kevin Fox" - Kevin Fox
- Stephen Mack
"Me fail English? That's unpossible." -- Ralph Wiggum
- Stephen Mack
"If I were manager of a Black Angus restaurant, I'd have one person responsible for going out at dusk to make sure the 'G' lights up." -- Emo Philips
- Stephen Mack
"A girl phoned me the other day and said, 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home." -- Rodney Dangerfield
- Stephen Mack
"A girl phoned me the other day and said, 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home." -- Rodney Dangerfield
- Kevin Fox
I'm still waiting for a fireman and stripper to have an affair; I can see the see the headline now, "Stripper Caught on Fireman's Pole"
- Jimminy Fuller
"If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be." -- Yogi Berra
- Stephen Mack
"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life." -- unknown
- Dylan Parker
(Dylan, per this site, http://www.lspace.org/ftp..., that great line is by Terry Pratchett from "Jango.")
- Stephen Mack
"I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with ‘Guess’ on it. I said, 'Thyroid problem?’" -- Peter Kay
- Stephen Mack
I was on the street. This guy waved to me, and he came up to me and said, “I’m sorry, I thought you were someone else.” And I said, “I am.” - Demetri Martin
- Aneto
I LOVE Demetri Martin. That is not a one liner. Just sayin'.
- Lisa L. Seifert
"The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you're on the job." -- Slappy White
- Stephen Mack
"Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins." -- Mae West
- Stephen Mack
"The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive." -- W.C. Fields
- Stephen Mack
There Stephen, I "liked" your thread, are you happy now?! ;)
- Georgia Diehl
My happiness is infinite and unbounded. -- Me
- Stephen Mack
"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same." -- Oscar Wilde
- Stephen Mack
"Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for seventy-five cents." -- Billiam Coronel
- Stephen Mack
"Marge, I'm not going to stand here and lie to you, so I'll be at Moe's" - Homer S.
- Mark Layton
"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes." -- some guy on Reddit
- Stephen Mack
(Seen on a fridge magnet) "It speaks well of the human race that we allow our teenagers to live."
- Dylan Bennett
"This is the worst kind of discrimination. The kind against me!" -- Bender, Futurama (yay renewed!)
- Stephen Mack
Futurama got renewed?! When where. :)
- Dario Gomez
Haggis with the scoop! http://friendfeed.com/haggis...
- Stephen Mack
"The wages of sin are death. But by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling." -- Paula Poundstone
- Stephen Mack
"How many members of a certain demographic group does it take to perform a specified task?" "A finite number: one to perform the task and an additional number to act in a manner stereotypical of the group in question."
- Stephen Mack
"Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing." -- Dave Barry
- Stephen Mack
Just because you can, it doesn't mean you should...
- Tyson Key
Aperture Science: "We do what we must, because we can"
- Kevin Fox
'I sprayed spot remover on my dog and now he's gone.' –– Steven Wright
- Akiva Moskovitz
'I came home the other day only to find that everything in my apartment had been stolen and replaced with an exact duplicate.' –– Steven Wright
- Akiva Moskovitz
'Do you know why Jewish husbands die before their wives? Because they want to!' –– Henny Youngman
- Akiva Moskovitz
Very nice, Akiva, keep 'em coming.
- Stephen Mack
[Not necessarily a one-liner but a personal favorite] When interviewing a woman who had six children, Groucho Marx asked her why so many. She replied, 'Because I love my husband!' He said, 'Well, lady, I love my cigar, too, but I take it out of my mouth every once in awhile.'
- Akiva Moskovitz
'I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.' –– George Carlin
- Akiva Moskovitz
[Another personal favorite] 'I'd never join a club that would have someone like me as a member.' –– Groucho Marx
- Akiva Moskovitz
Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean that they aren't out to get you!
- Morgan Haley
'You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar.' –– George Carlin
- Akiva Moskovitz
'Everything in moderation including moderation.'
- Akiva Moskovitz
'This sentence is a lie.'
- Akiva Moskovitz
"In the future, everyone will be obscure for fifteen minutes". - me
- Michael R. Bernstein
"Very good, then we shall fight them in the shade!"
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
"If you ever see me getting beaten by the police, put down the video camera and come help me." -- Bobcat Goldthwait
- Stephen Mack
The funny thing is that the video may end up helping him a lot more. Getting someone else to even out the fight doesn't work so well when the cops have billy clubs, mace, tazers and guns (not to mention the law).
- Kevin Fox
He's a little beyond help now though...
- Stephen Mack
'Who are you and how did you get in here?' 'I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' - Leslie Nielsen (via Gmail clips box just now)
- Paul Buchheit
"Hello," he lied.
- Timothy Griffin
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." -- Mitch Hedberg (RIP)
- Stephen Mack
"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know." -- Groucho Marx (as Capt. Spaulding in "Animal Crackers")
- Stephen Mack
"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people." -- Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
- Stephen Mack
Never argue with an idiot. Someone else might not be able to tell the difference.
- Kevin Pedraja
"Trust me, that fall won't kill you. But the deceleration poisoning is a bitch..."
- Jonathan Disher
"When you're Amish, everyone's relative."
- Kevin Fox
"Recently I got caught masturbating -- to National Geographic. Not my finest moment. I don't know who was more embarrassed, me or my dentist." -- Anthony Jeselnik
- Stephen Mack
I'm not nearly as profane as I used to be. My grandmother accidentally taught me how to curse like a sailor as the saying goes. I've gotten really good about keeping it clean but Audrey's starting to recognize words so I need to get it completely clean. Discussing this tonight with Rochelle, I realized that my favorite profanity is, of all things:
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(and remember that I'm Jewish)
- Akiva Moskovitz
Jesus Fucking Christ.
- Akiva Moskovitz
So, yeah, I really, really need to get over that one. Thanks, movies!
- Akiva Moskovitz
I know why Jesus never fathered a child... Imagine having sex with a girl who just calls out your dad's name all the time... *goes straight to Hell, no waiting*
- Johnny Worthington
Johnny, we've got VIP passes.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Bahahaha
- Mo Kargas
Me and mom did a pretty decent job keeping things clean, but the grandparents not so much. I think he pretty much knows how to say just about any "bad word" with conviction and perfect comedic timing.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I think replacing it with obsolete swears is the best way. Jumping Jehosaphat! 'Zounds! Peter Paul and Mary!
- Spidra Webster
Spidra, my personal fave is "Cheese 'n Rice!"
- felicious
"Kelly Clarkson!"
- Derrick
I'm just learning how to curse in foreign languages. That seems to be the diplomatic solution.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva, that's what my mother did when she really felt the need to curse. I was the coolest kid in French class!
- joey
...or you could just say what you mean. Like "ouch" or "oops" or "look what you did to my couch, do you think money grows on trees?" When you say what you really mean, there's no reason to try and appear more powerful by using profanities. (Full disclosure: I've been back in with religion for three years and I still have to catch myself after the first syllable. "Oh, fuuuuuuuuuuu...dge.")
- Jeremy (cropmarks)
Pick a more obscure language. I found cursing in Spanish when I encountered bad drivers wasn't exactly a smooth move. I had to switch to Swedish.
- Spidra Webster
I usually go with "cheezits" (in case you dont get it, instead of jesus), "fudge cakes", and I'm trying to work in "crivens!" because its the funniest one I know. :) p.s. My bf's sister was all "We can't swear around the baby!" and she's the one that does it the most. >.<
- Heather
"bah..." and "bloody" work for nearly everything when around the wee ones
- Michael W. May
Frak!!!! BSG style ;)
- Alemsah Ozturk
from iPhone
Those frelling curse words...
- Jemm
Sometimes I think its worse to make up a curse word. If you are a gonna curse, just curse....says the girl with no kids. :-D
- Paulette Garcia Morris
"Blast!" is pretty satisfying. So is "Dadblagit!"
- Jenthemum
"What the deuce?"
- Jemm
I learned it all from my Dad
- VAL D. Zone
My favs are "Jesus Christ in a handbasket" (holy shit); Holy Mary Mother of God (oh my God!); freakin' (fuck, fucking, etc.); and then go with bloody or foreign language terms, like scheisse (shit in German, said 'shy-suh'). Caveat - not Catholic and will probably go to hell anyway.
- Cassandra
If I believed in Hell, I'd probably be headed straight down in a stretched limo. But I don't, so there. :-P
- Jason Huebel
You could say just say '@#*!' (pronounced 'at-hash-splat-bang') or some similar combination.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Thanks to friendfeed, I just go around yelling DYSP all the time now.
- Alex Scoble
While I was breaking myself of the habit I'd say, "Bad words!" or "Curses." Three kids and only one picked up "shit" I dropped something in front of the toddler once.
- Heather Solos
Akiva, you're welcome to borrow my name to help you gradually step out of the habit, replace Jesus Fucking Christ with Jimminy Fucking Cricket. Good luck dropping the habit though.
- Jimminy Fuller
I didn't have a hard time not swearing at home, but I cuss like a sailor when I drive. I knew it was bad when one day I was stuck at a red light and Joelito busts out the f bomb. I have since attempted to clean up my act.
- Michelle Martinez
my wife is trying to wean me off of this before our child is born in May. It's starting to work. I swear like a fucking sailor at home most of the time.
- Bill Kinney
My kids are in full-on copy-everything-they-hear mode, and I'm trying to convince my wife to stop saying "crap." It's not a very bad curse word as far as curse words go, but it's a bit embarrassing when my 2-year-old says it to the neighbor. As for me, I don't swear much.
- Stephen Mack
Well the "F-bomb" is one of my most favorite words, and I have to admit, I use it a lot at home (no kids here), but I've trained myself to pretty much watch my mouth when I'm out and about, and in front of my parents.
- Bonnie Foster
12-16-09
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Dan Freeman was today's random person. http://friendfeed.com/dbf... Thanks, Spidra. This is another space-filler sketch. Just getting one done for the day. I'm dead tired again.
- Kamilah Gill
The fact that you do one every day, never mind do them so skillfully, is really inspiring to me.
- Spidra Webster
What Spidra said. Also, if looking over the entire series, I think I see that your quick ones are improving (from good to very good) -- so this exercise seems to be doing you good!
- Stephen Mack
THE SPICE MUST FLOW.
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FOR THE FATHER, NOTHING.
- Steven Perez
I WILL KILL HIM!
- Chrimmus Tad
LET ME TAKE HIS WATER.
- Steven Perez
from IM
HIS NAME IS A KILLING WORD.
- Chrimmus Tad
WHAT DO YOU CALL THE MOUSE THAT HOPS?
- Steven Perez
from IM
FEAR IS THE LITTLE KILLER
- Chrimmus Tad
TELL ME OF THE WATERS OF YOUR HOMEWORLD, USUL.
- Steven Perez
from IM
THE DREAMER HAS AWAKENED!
- Chrimmus Tad
I HAVE SEEN YOUR GOM JOBBAR. NOW YOU SEE MINE. I CAN KILL WITH A WORD.
- Steven Perez
from IM
FOR HE IS THE KWIZATZ HADERACH - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Jeunelle Foster
GOD CREATED ARRAKIS TO TRAIN THE FAITHFUL.
- Steven Perez
from IM
This just intensifies my love for David Lynch and Frank Herbert.
- Chrimmus Tad
WE WILL KILL UNTIL NO HARKONNEN BREATHES ARAKEEN AIR.
- Stephen Mack
MAY THY KNIFE CHIP AND SHATTER.
- Steven Perez
from IM
AND BRING IN THE FLOATING FAT MAN
- Jeunelle Foster
THE SLOW BLADE KILLS
- Chrimmus Tad
USUL, WE HAVE WORMSIGN THE LIKES OF WHICH EVEN GOD HAS NEVER SEEN.
- Mo Kargas
BEHOLD, AS A WILD ASS IN THE DESERT, GO I FORTH TO MY WORK.
- Steven Perez
from IM
BUST A DEAL, FACE THE WHEEL!
- ha3rvey (doesn't dance)
GOOD... THE SLOW BLADE PENETRATES THE SHIELD... BUT LOOK DOWN. WE'D HAVE JOINED EACH OTHER IN DEATH. HOWEVER, YOU DID SEEM TO FINALLY GET IN THE MOOD.
- Mo Kargas
WHERE'S MY DOCTOR??? http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Jeunelle Foster
TRY LOOKING INTO THAT PLACE WHERE YOU DARE NOT LOOK. YOU'LL FIND ME THERE, STARING BACK AT YOU.
- Steven Perez
from IM
NO GIRL-CHILD EVER WITHSTOOD SO MUCH PAIN!
- Fa La La La Lindsay
HE WHO CAN DESTROY A THING, CONTROLS A THING.
- Steven Perez
from IM
I AM THE SHADOUT MAPES... THE HOWWWSKEEEPAAAAA...
- jbrotherlove
BLESSED BE THE MAKER AND HIS WATER.
- Steven Perez
from IM
IT IS BY WILL ALONE I SET MY MIND IN MOTION. IT IS BY THE JUICE OF SAPHO THAT THOUGHTS ACQUIRE SPEED - THE LIPS ACQUIRE STAINS - THE STAINS BECOME A WARNING. IT IS BY WILL ALONE I SET MY MIND IN MOTION.
- jbrotherlove
I'LL MISS THE SEA, BUT A PERSON NEEDS NEW EXPERIENCES.
- Steven Perez
from IM
PUT YOUR GOD DAMN HAND IN THE GOD DAMN BOX OF PAIN - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Jeunelle Foster
THE TOOTH
- Todd Hoff
Stephen Mack liked this
Cute! He's getting sooo big.
- Stephen Mack
JULIET - OSCAR - SIERRA - HOTEL - space - ROMEO - UNIFORM - LIMA - ECHO - SIERRA - exclamation mark
josh neff, geek at large, AJ Batac, Archangel ωαřмaiden and 12 other people liked this
You do
- Johnny Worthington
My daily self-affirmation. :p
- Josh Haley
..-. .-. .. . -. -.. ..-. . . -.. / .-. ..- .-.. . ...
- Stephen Mack
Waits for someone to comment Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
- Mike Nencetti
Yankee-Echo-Sierra -space- Yankee-Oscar-Uniform -space- Delta-Oscar
- aden
.---- ..- .--. --..-- / ... - . .--. .... . -.
- Josh Haley
Ruled Josh > Ruled Paper.
- Micah Wittman
GLARRGLGAGHHGLRARAARRGL
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
SIERRA OSCAR DELTA space OSCAR FOXTROT FOXTROT
- Mistletoe Glen
It's as though there's some sort of "code" involved here... if only... if only I could break it!
- Mark "DerBingle" J
INDIA FOXTROT space OSCAR NOVEMBER LIMA YANKEE....
- Mike Nencetti
*radio squelch* "roger that. over"
- giuseppe c. | markgreene
LIMA OSCAR LIMA
- Josh Haley
Yes sir! You Romeo Oscar Charlie Kilo!
- AJ Batac
TANGO HOTEL ALPHA NOVEMBER KILO SIERRA
- Josh Haley
If you were extremely disappointed with the way that a business handled half of what they are doing for you (wedding venue), but haven't completed the other half (processing and delivery of photos), when would you think would be a good time to start reviewing their service in an online forum?
Tyson Key, Kol Tregaskes, Jeff P. Henderson and 7 other people liked this
When they complete the 2nd part of the engagement or after they did the 1st?
- Alex Scoble
After all is said and done especially if photos are not yet complete. While you may not be happy, having crappy pictures of the event (or none; "Oh, dear, we seem to have lost them..") would be way worse than telling people how bad they were.
- Kenton
Can you edit the review? If so get it off your chest now and revise later if your mind changes.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
Good idea, Stephen
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Unless there is some chance for them to redeem themselves on the backend, you might as well let it out. It's your valid opinion thus far and you can always add-on/edit to talk about the rest.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
You could write a draft now and post it later if the situation isn't corrected.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
I had a friend of the family who never got their wedding photos because they started playing hard ball. So ... depends on your level of risk. Because if they're petty they could just 'lose' your photos as retaliation. So, venting on their service versus ensuring you get your photos ... I'd go with the latter and then vent once you're in the clear.
- AJ Kohn
What AJ said. Don't post too much negative information before you're all done with them. If they find your negative comments, they may be inclined to make the rest of your transaction less than pleasant.
- Rochelle
Give them a chance to make it up. Then if after a few times your not satisfied give an accurate review of their service.
- CW™
Dude, they totally screwed up multiple facets of our wedding and even sent us a rude email today. There's no chance that they can make it up to us at this point.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
They could give us back all of the venue rental money and I would still trash their SEO. They don't deserve to have customers.
- Alex Scoble
I'd draft things up for now (documenting the different things that have been wrong), and then post as soon as the full transaction is finished. Writing now while the memory is fresh is good, but as AJ said - businesses as petty as that may retaliate, making things worse.
- Jennifer Dittrich
What would BOFH do?
- CW™
I would put in a complaint to the Better Business Bureau. Especially if they are the ones messing up and being rude to you about it. There's no reason to have to put up with that, and if at all possible I would look to get the rest of what they owe you done by someone else.
- Heather
Any specifics on how they screwed up? This llama needs some drama. ;-)
- Jason Huebel
The laundry list is long and varied. I'll publish details after we get our pics.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
But yeah, it's just annoying that we should be basking in the afterglow of our wedding and instead we are dealing with nonsense from an extremely unprofessional vendor employee.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Alex, I'm sorry about that. I have a few friends who ran into their own issues with the venue and other vendors and I can only imagine the frustration.
- joey
In general in dealing these things I recommend trash-talking after you play nice to complete the transaction. - that is unless you don't want to get your 2nd half what-so-ever. Slightly off-topic: In dealing with large corporations like the Regent, Peninsula, etc (which is not applicable in this case but useful in related cases): generally speaking if you write them a very sincere but demanding email / mail, you'll get *lots* of goodies in FedEx within the next week :)
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
The Opposite of Vaporware - http://fury.com/2009...
Jenna Bilotta and Stephen Mack liked this
"Solidware"?
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
*fistbump*
- Kevin Fox
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