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Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | Tweethttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervolcano_(docudrama)
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetWell
More fun than TV
Fun in winter when it gets dark early
Cocooning when it’s easier to stay home than get out
Started for keeping up with my kids but found more and more “near peers”
I only “friend” to folks I know in real lifeBrother in law was dissing it as too hard to maintain, but answer is you only need to spend the time you want
Multi-task - quick check while listening to conference call, between newspaper articles (all online of course) etc etc etcWe have one staffer who is using it to market, but very homey
stuff, selling food stuff to foodiesNot for anything highbrow !!!
Ciao
Chip
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetAt one of the last PCForum events in Scottsdale, she mentioned that she was triple platinum, kryptonite card holder for life … never having to buy a flight again.
Of course, last knew, she doesn’t drive either
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetWill other people be able to edit these pages? Will you/other people be able to edit pages directly (e.g. without the outlining tool)? This makes things a bit tricker as you need to handle “broken” wiki-text when sucking it into the outliner.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetWithin a given node, are you satisfied with plaintext editing (e.g. using the wiki-specific pseudo-tags for links, italics, etc)?
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetI like Facebook for one reason - it enables me to keep in touch with my real, real-world friends. (Okay, I’ve accepted a few friends because they were friends of really, really good friends.) I’ve become expert of ignoring everything else, including the ads.
Hop in, spend a couple of minutes, hop out.
Like any other techie tool - Facebook is what you make of it. (or don’t.)
(If I’m assimilated - can I have one of those cool eye thingies like Captain Picard?
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweettHEY KEEP TAKING THE MONEY OFF MY CREDIT CARD AS A PRE AUTHORIZED, EVEN THOUGH I ONLY OKAYED ONE PAYMENT TO SEE WHAT IT WAS ALL ABOUT. i CAN’T RAISE THERE WEB SITE TO CANCEL IT.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetHallo there - love the borg metaphor - my time is so precious once the small boy in my life is finally in bed asleep, I get frustrated that the only next thing I can think of is visiting facebook. It’s addictive but somehow unpleasant. I think it’s nice to keep in touch with friends but then a phone call would be nicer.
Doc - I have a question for you. I am preparing a paper on the future of government monitoring in the web2.0 era and wondered if you had any thoughts? The title question is:
“How do you see the role of government monitoring developing, taking into account web developments and the changing media landscape?”
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetThanks, Kate. Looking forward to breakfast outside there as well. Discovering it was a delight. Even after I was full, I kept wanting more.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetDoc -
I love the Neighborhood for many reasons. It has good, simple food, they fill your plate, it’s a family joint and it’s cozy (unless you’re by the door in the winter). I had anything bad. And if you’re someone who likes things on the healthier side (as I do), they have made several full-breakfast options that are lighter fare.
I’m a big fan!
Kate
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetIf I’m not mistaken, the first language spoken in the Neighborhood Restaurant & Bakery’s kitchen (which is off the kitchen, so one might notice) is neither English nor Portuguese, but Spanish.
From what I can tell, the tendency to overcook eggs isn’t an ethnic matter. It’s as American as venti lattes.
At hotels and buffets I tend to order a lot of omelets cooked right in front of me. With very few exceptions, they come out browned and dry, even when I tell them exactly how to make what I want. This happens with cooks of every ethnicity.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetOne of the things that was difficult for me when I moved to California was finding that most restaurants hire Mexican workers in the kitchen who like to cook eggs into paper. Hard to get soft eggs even when you specifically request it.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetDoc, I believe that what my colleagues and I are doing at Endeca bears some philosophical similarity to your work, but it’s in a somewhat different sphere. You can get an idea of what we do here:
http://www.fiercecontentmanagement.com/story/one-one-daniel-tunkelang-endeca/2008-11-25
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetI knew that Facebook was the Borg the minute I signed up. Which is why in the section marked ‘About Me’, all I wrote was:
“Facebook makes us all identical.”
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetAs good as it is in the winter, it’s even better when you can have breakfast outside, under the arbor.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetMy system is (1) accept all Facebook invitations (2) if I actually know the people make sure I have them on LinkedIn (3) export my LinkedIn contacts.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetAs I told you (very honoured to be part of your new facebook chatting experience) I’ve found myself going into facebook more and more these last weeks. That’s mainly because the “offline crowd” in my world are there: extended family, old friends and new ones, ex-colleagues — these are people I’d never got onto Twitter, who wouldn’t open a blog because they don’t see the point, and who probably don’t have any kind of IM account.
I agree that the fact all this is taking place in the facebook silo is regrettable, though.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetLost My Cookies transposed the “i” and “l” in the link. Try flightstats.com. Works like a charm and is about much more than sponsored links - global flight status, flight tracking, flight alerts, etc.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | Tweet“Well, I think it is legitimate to complain about how much worse commercial air travel has gotten over the last two decades (much worse) and even the last few years. The reasons why are complex, but one major contributor is that we have WalMart-ized air travel”
Trouble is, Trinidad is far more representative of the typical airline customer (his focus on price, I mean;). If price is your primary consideration, commercial air travel has gotten quite a bit better over the past two decades.
“The ancillary nonsense of checking in and immigration control and baggage transfer seems especially devised for maximum aggravation. I would love to sail across the Atlantic in a ship, just to avoid the desperate urgency that surrounds air travel”
If you think these things are different when you’re traveling by ship, avoid cruises that originate or terminate in a country you’re not a citizen of.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetI too have been avoiding Facebook. I have Twitter feed into my “Facebook Wall” — and I’m getting many replies via Facebook instead of Twitter.
Twitter seems much more passive, which I like. It has its own failings, however, which I suppose will be blog fodder for me someday.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetHilarious - I just referenced the Borg in this post:
[And, as an even-further aside, it's time to start reading again. I don't just mean how-to nonsense; I mean nonfiction and fiction. In a video I've shown nearly a hundred time to a hundred different people for a hundred different reasons, Penelope Trunk [of Brazen Careerist] suggests that “your generation” (presumably Boomers) read the Catcher in the Rye or [On The Road, or some other somewhat accurate generational cliche], while our generation (Millennials) read books on organizational techniques. What are we, the f**king Borg? That’s the most depressing thing I have ever heard suggested about Millennials. And in my own anecdotal experience, at least in the early-adopter crowd (with some exceptions, of course), this is largely the case.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetThanks for turbulence info! I use flytecomm.com to track flights.
On a Cape Air Flight (Cessna) from RKD to BOS on Jan 1 all 7 of us hit our heads on the fuselage even though we had our seat belts on! Happy New Year.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetYes, and while I’m not an alarmist, the ol’ girl is way overdue for an eruption. If I’m not mistaken, however, we expect years of high activity before anything catastrophic happens.
And now, I’m off to read your links.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetGeorge, you’re right about big west coast airports. In my experience the worst to go through is SFO, because any ground weather shuts down one runway (by law — the two main runways are <800 feet apart). For that alone it’s an awful hub. LAX, with its more widely separated runways, is better.
Given the politics of the Bay Area, it looks like we’ll never have more widely separated runways there.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetJoseph, et. al., we did consider renting a car and driving to LAX or SFO, and taking Amtrak to Burbank. In fact, we explored pretty much every option. The problem was that, at the far end of those options, the available flights were oversold.
Since we have a house in Santa Barbara, and SB is hardly a hellish place to wait around, we just went home and waited for the next booking to work out or not. Finally on Saturday we got an SBA-SFO-IAD-BOS routing that had us to BOS before noon Sunday.
It was a redeye from SFO to IAD, but not too bad, except for when I spilled the icewater on my lap and stayed awake for the following hour.
Coulda been worse.
