Looking back on another year, my second Xmas with the Double Fs, I have come to appreciate the power and complete kickassedness of a lot of you here. For me, putting aside one's personal spiritual persuasions, Xmas is about taking stock of the ones you know and the ones you hold dear. This year has been hard for a lot of us. Some of us have battle personal tragedy. Some of us have battled financial stresses. Some of us have battled illness or disease... some continue that battle and you are in our thoughts. The year kicked off in spectacular fashion with the birth of Audrey Moskovitz. I have enjoyed watching her grow and I have also enjoyed watching the growth of Akiva and Rochelle as they experience some of the things those of us with kids have experienced. I have forged strong friendships. I have built on existing ones. I have lost some as well. The fact that I have a wonderful friend in Mr Josh Haley is a true blessing and a gift that lasts longer than one day. He truly is the Yang...
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- Johnny Worthington
Can't wait to see your Christmas pix, Johnny! Hope y'all have a wonderful day!
- LB - not a snow bunneh
Merry Christmas to you and your family, Johnny! :-D
- Live4Emma (L4S)
Great post Johnny! Here's wishing all the same back to you, and that Bruce the Koala is all shagged out and allows you some peace and quiet during the hols :)
- Patrick Jordan
For the brick ramen, Chicken is definitely my fave. If we're moving onto the "cup o noodles," I like the shrimp flavor and the cheddar cheese flavor, too.
- Curtiss Grymala
I combine 2 flaves - chicken and beef. but i add only half of each packet. then i add egg, shoyu and green onion (if I have them)
- Morgan Haley
wow morgan u go all out! I have been wanting to try egg with it.. only how do i incorporate it in? cook separately? Curtis, i have never tried the cheese flavor. lol
- Rachael Depp
I don't think the cups are actually made by Top Ramen (not sure) but there are all kinds of newer flavors in the cups (cheddar cheese, Alfredo, etc.) You should try them all at least once. :)
- Curtiss Grymala
from iPhone
Of course, when I make the standard flavors (chicken, beef, pork) I generally use half as much water as the directions say, so that I get a lot more flavor in the noodles
- Curtiss Grymala
from iPhone
chicken. i also augment it with additional ingredients. only way to fly (especially now that i can't listen to my iPod or keep my freezing hands warm in between my legs).
- Joe Silence
Thank you Mona, happy Holidays to you too!
- Niki Costantini
Niki :) Hope all's well with you and you're enjoying your Christmas :)
- Mona Nomura
Have the best AT it, and best of vaca-tions! No one can leave you behind! Me and my special Mona-X-Mas Children Carol: \o) o o o o~o~o oo o,o- o ,,o
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Ohayou-gozaimasu. Hajimemashite? Oai-deki-te ureshii-desu. My Japanese is still very poor. I am thankful for such good teachers as you. ^_^
- Ken & Kiyomi
good, maybe you can explain the elements pf sentence too, like what does yoroshiku mean? or how do you compare these two phrases , etc. :)
- Mahmood Padura
Piacere di conoscerti. Un saluto dalla Sardegna
- Isola Virtuale
and I was surprised that a HELLO FEED has much attention!
- Amin Diary
from IM
بابا بیخیال خانم، خوشحال شدم از این تبادل فرهنگی! در ضمن کامنت بعد رو داشته باش:
- Amin Diary
from IM
?? no, I can't understand.....what does it means?
- Keiko Yamada
I am an Iranian .... o, I am not a terrorist nor a wife beater, I don't live in a tent in a desert and camels are not our way of transportation. I speak Farsi, not Arabic. Iran is pronounced "EERAUN" and not "I - ran" (it's not track & field) Iran is the first country on earth to have a lion (male) and a sun (female) for its symbol; and the colors red, white, and green for a flag. A beautiful country ran by the wrong people, but still the best part of Middle East
- Amin Diary
"Yes, you now have uncovered me. Some reasons may be that with time, you finally realized where I kept hidden, as I had to work with some other fellas like you on that one. As you may or may not know, the contract on that one last only for a year. So better be packing up for your greatest adventures." -24 (hehehe <O,
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Ah, you get double presents! no fair! :) Happy Birthday!
- Nathan Chase
Thanks for the birthday wishes, all. I'm increibly flattered. You all rock. Merry Christmas! I'll go back to aging to death now...
- Mike Nayyar
from iPhone
coldacid on Ask /r/geek: Why does Cygwin continue to use its crappy install program for package management instead of using RPM or dpkg instead? - http://www.reddit.com/r...
">Using rpm or deb would be nice, but please don't forget that you can't just go from one extreme to the other by going CLI-only, i.e. a GUI installer that doesn't itself depend on Cygwin would still be necessary. Oh, there'd always be need for the basic Cygwin setup program, but only really as a bootstrapper. Once Cygwin's installed, a user could use the regular CLI or GUI package management programs instead."
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
With you on that, anything that lets you specify in a console like with pacman or aptitute would be amazing. Never took more time to customize than with a net release of Debian, choosing and all is always a fun part of building Linux distros.
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
I'm not sure that I'd for sure name it best (it's kind of unfair to compare all different sorts of TV shows together in one category), but it's certainly the one I return to over and over and over again. (Too bad not all of the seasons were of equal quality, though.)
- Spidra Webster
Part of the impact of West Wing was the marked contrast between Josiah Bartlett's administration and the real-life version under Bush and Cheney.
- Mark "DerBingle" J
That may account for some of its popularity, Mark, but I think West Wing was popular for what marks a lot of Sorkin shows: excellent dialogue, fantastic mix of comedy and drama, supernal ensemble casting...and the extra for West Wing was being able to geek out over all that governmental stuff. The dialogue was so thick with it that repeat viewings reward you. Takes several times seeing an ep before you really feel you've gotten everything out of it.
- Spidra Webster
Without looking at other answers: Homicide, particularly the first year.
- AJ Kohn
First season of Miami Vice... unfadeable baby!
- Adrian
The West Wing was so awesome I remember bit characters. Like the guy in records or something who had the best line ever. "Well you're a strange little frumpy man, aren't you?" Of all the series I've loved, this one lasts the longest.
- Heather
People are so serious about their TV! People are yelling at me on Twitter, too! Geez. LOL
- Mona Nomura
from iPhone
None of the above. But. Mad Men is climbing the charts fast. Still. WW is in the stratosphere, and nothing will touch it.
- Christopher Galtenberg
from iPhone
I've been watching it again on DVD. In fact, watching it right now... Jean-Paul just spiked her drink, Tae Diggs is talking to a bunch of folks about to get it... uh oh... aaaaand.... poor Molly...
- Ken Sheppardson
Plus most of the rest that ya'll listed. Good picks! :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
better than TWW: Arrested Development, Futurama, Veronica Mars, The Simpsons (uh, stopping somewhere between end of season 9 and season 12 at the latest), 30 Rock, Community, and Newsradio. Action, Pushing Daisies, and Life, too if we can sneak in those shows that were "cancelled before their time". Buffy up to S5 but not past it. Esp considering the relative doldrums of TWW s3 - s6.
- Andrew C
That's easy, 24 and X-Files are far better. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Guess I'm just one of those peeps who think the west wing was boring. Couldn't get through an episode. Was more interested in ER at the time.
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
from Android
Rome series 1, BSG reimagined, Sportsnight, Buffy, Farscape, Magnum PI, Red Dwarf, Thundar the Barbarian, Underdog, M.A.S.H., Password, What's My Line?, I Love Lucy, The Carol Burnett Show all rank pretty high with me. I'm sure I missed some. Loved West Wing in doses, but it became taxing for me to watch.
- Michael W. May
West Wing is a tough show to compare shows to. As far as must watch TV: Damages, Flash Forward, Rescue Me, Dark Blue, Fringe, Lie To Me... This would be easier if I was near my DVR!
- amarquart
The West Wing might be my FAVORITE series but I think the BEST series was The Wire.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Good show, but best ever? Don't think so. The Wire and Rome, for instance, are way better. Heroes Season 1 (only), Kings, The Black Donnellys, Babylon 5, New BSG before season 4 are some more. Andrew C names a bunch more that I agree with.
- Chieze Okoye
Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (sorry, @Ha3rvey.)
- edythe
from iPhone
Nobody's mentioned The Greatest American Hero? *sings* Believe it or not, I'm walking on air. I never thought I could feel so freeeee-eeeeee-eeeee!
- Jason Huebel
I've never seen West Wing, but that's how I feel about Six Feet Under.
- Alix Whitmire
ditto what Alix wrote. and I'll add The Wire.
- jbrotherlove
"The West Wing might be my FAVORITE series but I think the BEST series was The Wire." - Akiva
- Mona Nomura
West Wing is a great series. Period. BUT NYPD Blue was better.
- Louis Gray
The Prisoner (the original 60s series, not the remake).
- Parody
I saw a clip. It showed a person being cowed into standing for the president. That was enough for me.
- SuezanneC Baskerville
What does cowed into standing for the president mean?
- Mona Nomura
intimidated - one is "supposed" to stand up when the president enters a room, at least according to the show. it's a statist ritual, like singing songs of praise to governments. i find it offensive.
- SuezanneC Baskerville
Respect != intimidation. Besides, what's wrong with showing respect to ranked officers? POTUS is the Chief of Staff.
- Mona Nomura
Rational, Twitter usage is flattening, people are finally figuring out that Twitter sucks for having a conversation. People though Friendfeed was hard to use, try having to install several software 'crutches' to be able to use Twitter productively without even half the functionality as Freindfeed.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Either this is tounge in cheek or Robert really hasn't gotten over our breakup... Robert, I hope we can still be friends but we have to move on and grow... FriendFeed will always love you, but we need some 'us' time to find out who 'we' are... *cues The Bodygaurd soundtrack*... *walks out into the rain, adjusts collar, walks off down the road*... *fade to black, credits*
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Comment bait. Even Robert can't generate interest these days.
- Russellreno
I agree. Friendfeed is for those who need more from a 2d interface. Until there spatial interface is there, Friendfeed is on top of the pyramid (especially when one knows how to use it best).
- Kirill Bolgarov
Lets hope so ... Miss some of my old peeps :)
- Charlie Anzman
I'm surprised Robert made this statement but I find it very interesting in the change of view and wonder what has changed his mind or if he knows more info.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
The unpredictably erratic Scobot is at it again...
- Ciro
Well, after glancing at his Twitter timeline, he's just making a bunch of joke predictions. I'd like to think that there's some truth in this one though...
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Sniffs... Do you smell that? It's what we used to call a troll. Robert is getting dangerously close to becoming irrelevent.
- Jason Williams
from iPhone
Robert is waiting until 2010 to respond to this thread. :)
- Louis Gray
Scoble - I disagree ONLY because I think that FriendFeed activity is already migrating to Facebook via deeper integration over there but I'm wiling to hear you out (as are the other 40+ people commenting here). Do share why you think this is true?
- Aaron Strout
I wrote this tweet for Twitter, not for FriendFeed. But nice to see you all! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Jason: I'm definitely irrelevant if the people calling me irrelevant don't even have 1,000 subscribers. Sigh.
- Robert Scoble
I actually see FriendFeed growing instead of slowing and there will also be new enhancements. A testing ground for Facebook. Just to expand, Robert's still the man!
- amarquart
Akiva wins the internets with this mathematical formula for spotting comment bait.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
You think we're fighting, I think we're finally talking! -all in one page
- Tim Jones
Funny, when I write, I write for everyone, everywhere
- Johnny Worthington
@Jason Williams, wow that's the pot calling the kettle black, doncha think? Robert's not a troll.
- Jason Huebel
@Kol, somebody mentioned that those stats often only consider US visitors (why that would be, I don't know). FF's non-US contingent has grown tremendously, so that graph may not show the whole picture.
- Jason Huebel
I'm finding that FriendFeed is fiendishly sticky. On Twitter lists do help, they make twitter better and all but but but-but I think a lot of users are getting more sophisticated in their web usage faster than Twitter can evolve their tech. Louis Grey recently postulated that even if there is no interaction on FriendFeed it makes complete sense to stay riding this horse. That got me...
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- JSLeFanu
Dude..... I totally hope you're right, but not too sure about this! LOL Explain your rationale please :)
- Susan Beebe
i agree with the original prediction. by the way, what's a resurgence? is it different than insurgents? :-)
- Morgan Haley
Morgan - the insurgents never left ... ;-p
- Robyn Hawk
I'll stay one faithful user, for those "outside the US" stats. Still feature plenty, still enjoyable. Still effective. Thanks for rallying the troops again Robert. Bring the hopes, and forget the ropes! 8)
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
I like this whole thread. ++Akiva, Johnny, JSLeFanu, Jason Heubel, Mike Chelen . . . Robert, Twitter may have geeks and famous people, but you can actually do things here. Oh, wait - I'm not here. I'm in a widget on a blog in someone's Posterous whom I don't even know, that I'm searching through to find FF peeps to subscribe to over here. Now, that's just mind-blowing!
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
Happy happy joy joy, happy happy joy joy, Brent over there, Brent over here, Josh Neff too, enjoy the good ol' days, and prepare for more action in the future. Partying if possible, wishing the best of health and to all the technopeasant's family, the best of year. \o, /o/ ~~,o. \O/ ~
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
"US defense manufacturer Lockheed Martin is being awarded an 841.9 million dollar contract to produce 24 F-16 aircraft for Morocco, which ordered the jets in 2008, the Pentagon said."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
Being of Moroccan origin, I'm amazed to hear that.. it gets developed by the day...
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
i say we requests at +1000 button like Jennifer mentioned. this post is deserving of at least that much 'plussy-ness'
- Morgan Haley
While we're working on the +1000 button, I'm mentally plotting how I might shoe-horn peanut butter cookie dough into such a recipe. Or make ice-cream sandwiches out of them.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Dave Winer is link baiting with this title. It could have also been called: "I'm overwhelmed by my unread count and why doesn't Reader just sort all stories by rev chronological and eliminate every other feature."
- Bill Strathearn
The strange thing is that the default view for any feed *is* newest first, so I'm not even sure what he's complaining about with the line: "Anyway, Bloglines, Google Reader, Newsgator, etc all embarked down the wrong path, the view that news is email. Sure they added contortions that made it possible to go from story to story in reverse chronologic order. But the primary view, the one that isn’t hidden, is the one that defines the product."
- Brian Shih
Sort by Magic gets me the latest stuff, so it works perfectly fine
- Jorge Escobar
Dave Winer doesn't discuss nascent news recommender system technologies: what is the most important news from the authors and publications on the topics which most interest me? Strange. I suppose there are only so many information technology revolutions one can anticipate, create or grok.
- Sean McBride
Dem's fighting woids, although not to start another tanget, how hard is it to get the number to read the actual amount of articles, huh, huh?!? Jeebus! /me commences ducking whilst putting flame retardant suit...la la la.
- Scott
is it that good? I didn't know I was instaling it when I downloaded some CCCP codec pack to see an MKV movie. (even VLC falls short handling mkvs)
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
What? For me, it rules! (haven't checked the link, I'm a Google fan-boy ;)
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Elijah I agree with you. I love Google Maps however as a social media journalist you wouldn't believe the number of times people filed lawsuits against Google for being found out cheating (having their car parked in front of the home of the mister/mistress) and it even held Google back from posting nwe additional items for a while.
- H0llywoodWh0re
I'm sure you had a year without it hehehe. Had that offline period recently, once since 1995, and it felt as usual after some days as computers still exists around...
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Patient is your only shelter.Keep tied to it.Wish you the strenght to overcome horrible 85-90 hours without internet...Take Care.
- Dedegi
Happy Holidays! With a Chevrolet de Chimayo to get to The golden spire, watch some of The UFOs: they are coming! (faves with custom phrasing the photos' titles)
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
"Microsoft's attempt to appeal an earlier decision regarding infringements against developer i4i's patents on custom XML tagging has fallen through. Microsoft will be forced to pull Word 2007 and Office 2007 off shelves by January 11th."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
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