Wow! Snooki was ... good??

2011-04-04 Thread Gruss Gott
I've never seen the Jersey Shore and really don't know a thing about it except that it exists and that everyone seems to hate Snooki who's an alcoholic. With that said, this is pretty surprising: http://www.wwtdd.com/2011/04/snooki-was-genuinely-amazing-at-wrestlemania-27/ ~

Re: Where's Al-Qaeda?

2011-04-04 Thread Gruss Gott
Vivec wrote: > > I call BS on this story. > It's a report on a report in another magazine, with nothing verified > (and no doubt, nothing verifiable) > > Al Qaeda seem to be doing just fine operating out of Pakistan. > I'm too lazy to do any real research, but AQ in Brazil has been in the news /

Re: Where's Al-Qaeda?

2011-04-04 Thread Medic
> > Bin Laden in Brazil? > If so I'll join the hunt. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/c

Re: Universal Soldier by Donovan

2011-04-04 Thread Cameron Childress
Cool old tune. Not sure I'd ever heard that one before. On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Vivec wrote: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC9pc4U40sI > > Back then...they all knew. > > Where have our artists gone? > ~| Order th

Re: Where's Al-Qaeda?

2011-04-04 Thread Vivec
I call BS on this story. It's a report on a report in another magazine, with nothing verified (and no doubt, nothing verifiable) Al Qaeda seem to be doing just fine operating out of Pakistan. What's next? Bin Laden in Brazil? Bin Laden in Libya? On 4 April 2011 16:59, Michael Dinowitz wrote: >

Re: Follow up on cast lead

2011-04-04 Thread Michael Dinowitz
Yep. A second cousin. I'll be totally self serving here and say I want to get there early for the smorgasbord. The "pre-wedding party" was so superbly catered that Judith left with the younger kids and I stayed an extra hour with my oldest daughter. They had ribs that you would kill for and a dess

Re: Where's Al-Qaeda?

2011-04-04 Thread Michael Dinowitz
Al Qaeda members hide in Brazil, raise money - report BRASILIA (Reuters) - Al Qaeda operatives are in Brazil planning attacks, raising money and recruiting followers, a leading news magazine reported Saturday, renewing concerns about the nation serving as a hide-out for Islamic militants. Veja m

Re: Follow up on cast lead

2011-04-04 Thread G Money
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Michael Dinowitz wrote: > > Oh, and I will not be able to respond to the firestorm of responses to this > post till either later tonight or tomorrow. I've got a wedding to get to in > half an hour. > Jewish wedding? I attended my first jewish wedding a couple of

Follow up on cast lead

2011-04-04 Thread Michael Dinowitz
A few years back we had a lng and drawn out 'debate' on Israel's actions in regards to Gaza. The accusation that Israel targeted civilians was thrown around based on a (flawed) report for the UN. Well, it seems that the reports author has backtracked on that accusation. http://www.washingtonp

I just DO NOT understand how this spam even works!

2011-04-04 Thread Ian Skinner
Who is the 0.1% that actually clicks a link in a message like this? "Look atp refreshing dyrgs at sepcial hot http://{url omitted} prices. Become the lvoer with galss" It took me a while to figure out they where NOT trying to say "Become the lover with glass!" Whatever that might have mea

Re: Speaking of Twittersssssss

2011-04-04 Thread Ras Tafari
me too, ill play in a flurry, then not for 12 hrs, then on for 2 days straight, then not for a day or so. no worries... slow play/pace is ok amigo. i havent played chess on here for a WHILE since chess is the kinda thing where you have a flow, and you have to know the board, etc. On Mon, Apr 4,

Re: Speaking of Twittersssssss

2011-04-04 Thread G Money
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Ray Champagne wrote: > > My app idea is a suite of < 3minute games that are fun to play while on the > crapper. iPoop. 99¢ get yours today. > That's a great idea..i may have to go Zuckerberg and steal that one from ya :) ~~

Re: Speaking of Twittersssssss

2011-04-04 Thread Casey Dougall
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Ras Tafari wrote: > > actually. > > words = iSnowboard > chess = iRastafari > I'm a slacker but I'll play some chess with ya, good luck. Play with the best, die with the rest Boh! ~| Order the

Re: Speaking of Twittersssssss

2011-04-04 Thread Ras Tafari
btw, tiny wings is killer :) im on my 10th nest!! On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Ray Champagne wrote: > > My app idea is a suite of < 3minute games that are fun to play while on the > crapper.  iPoop.  99¢  get yours today. > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Cameron Childress wrote: > >> >> O

Re: Speaking of Twittersssssss

2011-04-04 Thread Ray Champagne
My app idea is a suite of < 3minute games that are fun to play while on the crapper. iPoop. 99¢ get yours today. On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:45 PM, G Money wrote: > > Buttwitter and face are blocked here at work > > Smartphone. D

Re: Speaking of Twittersssssss

2011-04-04 Thread Ras Tafari
actually. words = iSnowboard chess = iRastafari On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Ras Tafari wrote: > im there dog. > > isnowboard > > on both. > > git it. > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Casey Dougall > wrote: >> >> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Ras Tafari wrote: >> >>> >>> true indeed.

Re: Speaking of Twittersssssss

2011-04-04 Thread Ras Tafari
im there dog. isnowboard on both. git it. On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Casey Dougall wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Ras Tafari wrote: > >> >> true indeed.  i def catchup during my morning session. >> >> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Cameron Childress >> wrote: >> > >> > On

Re: Speaking of Twittersssssss

2011-04-04 Thread Casey Dougall
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Ras Tafari wrote: > > true indeed. i def catchup during my morning session. > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Cameron Childress > wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:45 PM, G Money wrote: > >> Buttwitter and face are blocked here at work > > > > Smart

Re: Speaking of Twittersssssss

2011-04-04 Thread Ras Tafari
true indeed. i def catchup during my morning session. On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:45 PM, G Money wrote: >> Buttwitter and face are blocked here at work > > Smartphone.  Dare I say that Twitter is appropriate bathroom reading. > > -C

Re: Speaking of Twittersssssss

2011-04-04 Thread Ras Tafari
and ill take this moment to say GO O's sweepin the Ray's in their first go-round this year it's the small battles for us O's fans On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:51 PM, G Money wrote: >> That all sounds great.but by 11pm when i'm wo

Re: Speaking of Twittersssssss

2011-04-04 Thread Cameron Childress
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:45 PM, G Money wrote: > Buttwitter and face are blocked here at work Smartphone. Dare I say that Twitter is appropriate bathroom reading. -Cameron ... ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

Re: Speaking of Twittersssssss

2011-04-04 Thread Cameron Childress
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:51 PM, G Money wrote: > That all sounds great.but by 11pm when i'm worn down, the only > information i really care about is "why is this kid crying, and how can I > make her stop Not sure Twitter can help here, but you never know... > oh, and did the Royals win

Re: Speaking of Twittersssssss

2011-04-04 Thread Ras Tafari
priorities. thats all amigo :) and the fact that they are BOTH blocked @ work, would stave me off as well. thats sucks tho... you arent missing anything in particular, but you are missing a lot that you could consume. either way, we usually end up talking about it all here anyway :) On Mon, Apr

Re: Speaking of Twittersssssss

2011-04-04 Thread G Money
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Maureen wrote: > > I find that it saves me a lot of time because it aggregates only those > people and topics that I care about in one place, and the 140 > character limit forces that information into quickly digestible bites. > That all sounds great.but by

Re: Speaking of Twittersssssss

2011-04-04 Thread Maureen
I find that it saves me a lot of time because it aggregates only those people and topics that I care about in one place, and the 140 character limit forces that information into quickly digestible bites. On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:45 AM, G Money wrote: > yeah, i could definitely see the value in

Re: Speaking of Twittersssssss

2011-04-04 Thread Maureen
It's more about knowledge than social interaction. More reminiscent of writers salons than the water cooler. People I talk to on Twitter - authors, songwriters, film critics, politicians, newscasters, friends, family, business associates. By talk to, I mean that I respond to their tweets, and

Re: Speaking of Twittersssssss

2011-04-04 Thread G Money
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Ras Tafari wrote: > > lol. > > i might suggest you try a few industry peeps, maybe some of the espn > guys. the branch > out from there... you might find you like it, and its better than the > news, and you can add/detract > as you see fit ;) > yeah, i could de

Re: Speaking of Twittersssssss

2011-04-04 Thread Ras Tafari
i mean, where else am i going to get this POV from the masters: http://yfrog.com/gzvp6etsj thats stuart appleby!! On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Ras Tafari wrote: > and the beauty of group servicing of information... even if you miss > something the group "the twitterverse" > will retweet, et

Re: Speaking of Twittersssssss

2011-04-04 Thread Ras Tafari
and the beauty of group servicing of information... even if you miss something the group "the twitterverse" will retweet, etc. group knowledge is AMAZING and powerful. On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Casey Dougall > wrote: >> For me

Re: Speaking of Twittersssssss

2011-04-04 Thread Cameron Childress
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Casey Dougall wrote: > For me it's like logging into facebook and seeing you just missed another > 300 updates from your friends. Who can keep up with all these feeds. Abandon the idea that you are going to read everything. Imagine it more like a passing conversa

Re: Speaking of Twittersssssss

2011-04-04 Thread Ras Tafari
my peeps are on fb, the news/world/geeks are on twitter. two wholly different things for me. but to each his own for real On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Casey Dougall wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Tony Weeg wrote: > >> >> I'd love to hear why. I really would. >> >> Sent

Re: Speaking of Twittersssssss

2011-04-04 Thread Casey Dougall
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Tony Weeg wrote: > > I'd love to hear why. I really would. > > Sent from my iPhone... Don't hate. > > For me it's like logging into facebook and seeing you just missed another 300 updates from your friends. Who can keep up with all these feeds. ~~~

Re: Speaking of Twittersssssss

2011-04-04 Thread Ras Tafari
lol. i might suggest you try a few industry peeps, maybe some of the espn guys. the branch out from there... you might find you like it, and its better than the news, and you can add/detract as you see fit ;) On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:00 PM, G Money wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:53 AM, T

Re: Speaking of Twittersssssss

2011-04-04 Thread G Money
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Tony Weeg wrote: > > I'd love to hear why. I really would. > I dunnoI'm just anti-social I guess. Other people just don't hold much interest for me..which is probably why I don't understand the fascination with reality TV...or even cell phones. ~~

Re: Speaking of Twittersssssss

2011-04-04 Thread Tony Weeg
I'd love to hear why. I really would. Sent from my iPhone... Don't hate. On Apr 4, 2011, at 11:46 AM, G Money wrote: > > But those of us who dismiss it for other reason.are we OK? > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Erika L. Rich wrote: > >> >> +1 Bingo! >> >> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at

Re: Speaking of Twittersssssss

2011-04-04 Thread Cameron Childress
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:46 AM, G Money wrote: > But those of us who dismiss it for other reason.are we OK? Sure. Do what you gotta do - just because it's useful to others doesn't mean it is useful to you - or that you have that much free time to devote to keeping up with it. I just think

Re: Speaking of Twittersssssss

2011-04-04 Thread Erika L. Rich
Well... as long as your livelihood does not depend on the search engine rankings, and on and off-line marketing of any kind of product or service, by all means dismiss it ... But if your salary is paid by a company that markets itself in any way, then never dismiss it. In fact, make sure you tell

Re: Speaking of Twittersssssss

2011-04-04 Thread G Money
But those of us who dismiss it for other reason.are we OK? On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Erika L. Rich wrote: > > +1 Bingo! > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Cameron Childress >wrote: > > > I think that people who dismiss Twitter as a narcissistic soapbox are > doing > > themselves

Re: Speaking of Twittersssssss

2011-04-04 Thread Erika L. Rich
+1 Bingo! On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Cameron Childress wrote: > I think that people who dismiss Twitter as a narcissistic soapbox are doing > themselves a disservice. It is what you make of it, and there are many > MANY > more useful things you can make of it than that. > > -Cameron >

Re: Speaking of Twittersssssss

2011-04-04 Thread Cameron Childress
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Gruss Gott wrote: > And I've found it to be less people talking about their lives and more > local journalism. I think it depends on who you are following. I have a hard time keeping up with the firehose of data, but it's still great to watch it when I have ti

Re: Speaking of Twittersssssss

2011-04-04 Thread Ras Tafari
its amazing. i learn more from twitter on a daily basis than ANYWHERE else. hell, i even get golf tips from Stewart Cink, directly to me. nowhere in the history of civilization has this access been possible. On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Gruss Gott wrote: > > Ras Tafari wrote: >> >> its th

Re: Speaking of Twittersssssss

2011-04-04 Thread Gruss Gott
Ras Tafari wrote: > > its the global social conscience. And I've found it to be less people talking about their lives and more local journalism. After all, isn't that what News is? A reporter doing stuff and then telling us what their seeing? i.e., telling us about their lives? ~

Re: Speaking of Twittersssssss

2011-04-04 Thread Ras Tafari
its the global social conscience. check out www.twistori.com cool stuff, and if you dig a bit deeper on that site to its sister site, you will find some DAMN fine data viz of the twitterdata out there. cool stuff. On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Medic wrote: > > By self centered I mean the who

Re: Speaking of Twittersssssss

2011-04-04 Thread Medic
By self centered I mean the whole idea of broadcasting one's life 140 characters at a time. I think this describes it best. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN2HAroA12w On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Erika L. Rich wrote: > > LOL! :) > > I guess I meant that "self-centered" is a little harsh un