Re: Obama: It’s time for Augusta golf club to admi _

2012-04-11 Thread Larry C. Lyons
I've heard the same about curling. On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:15 PM, Scott Stroz wrote: > > I like Jimmy Demeret's quote better: > > Golf and sex are the only two things in life you can enjoy and NOT be good at. > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: >> >> As Churchill said,

Re: It's Dot Com Boomtime Again!

2012-04-11 Thread Larry C. Lyons
big question is are those friends willing to bail you out of jail. Mind you a true friend would be sitting beside you in jail and saying that really rocked. On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson wrote: > > There were a whole lot of words there, but I still dont understand what you

Re: Obama: It’s time for Augusta golf club to admi _

2012-04-11 Thread Judah McAuley
And some of us that are good at it but don't always enjoy it :) On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Maureen wrote: > > And programming.  There are a lot of people out there who enjoy > programming but aren't good at it. > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Scott Stroz wrote: >> >> I like Jimmy Dem

Re: Obama: It’s time for Augusta golf club to admi _

2012-04-11 Thread Maureen
And programming. There are a lot of people out there who enjoy programming but aren't good at it. On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Scott Stroz wrote: > > I like Jimmy Demeret's quote better: > > Golf and sex are the only two things in life you can enjoy and NOT be good at.

Re: Obama: It’s time for Augusta golf club to admi _

2012-04-11 Thread Scott Stroz
I like Jimmy Demeret's quote better: Golf and sex are the only two things in life you can enjoy and NOT be good at. On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > As Churchill said, Golf is a perfectly good way to spoil a nice country walk. > > d/k and running. > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2

Re: It's Dot Com Boomtime Again!

2012-04-11 Thread Ras Tafari
correct, think if it had more rich content it would be more engaging and we'd all be more connected, sure. but who needs that now, thanks to fb. at last count, i have like 4 friends who are not on fb. maybe 5. On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012

Re: It's Dot Com Boomtime Again!

2012-04-11 Thread Ras Tafari
PRECISELY amigo. those who get it, are the target market. those who do not, i just don't think are FB's target market. On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Ras Tafari wrote: > >> i am also a person who has always been one to "keep in t

Re: It's Dot Com Boomtime Again!

2012-04-11 Thread Cameron Childress
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson wrote: > 1000? How on earth do you keep up? > > I only have 120, and there is no WAY I can keep up. Even checking it once > per day is overwhelming. The more I think about it, the more FB is EXACTLY like this email list. Sometimes useless, so

Re: It's Dot Com Boomtime Again!

2012-04-11 Thread Cameron Childress
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Ras Tafari wrote: > i am also a person who has always been one to "keep in touch" with the > special people in my life, anyway. fb has enabled this to continue in a > MUCH > easier way. Totally... Without Facebook I wouldn't have seen a photo of you from 20 y

Re: It's Dot Com Boomtime Again!

2012-04-11 Thread Cameron Childress
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson wrote: > how on earth does it do those things for you? > By giving me a view into the everyone's life. Little bits of data, big bits of data, seeing photos of friends and family, posts about things that matter to them that might also matter to

Re: It's Dot Com Boomtime Again!

2012-04-11 Thread Maureen
I have over 700 friends, from all the different aspects of my life, so I organized them into custom friend lists, and I only read the lists each day that I really want to keep up with, like my family and close friends. Occasionally, I'll check in on people on the other lists. The longest list con

Re: It's Dot Com Boomtime Again!

2012-04-11 Thread PT
On 4/11/2012 2:38 PM, Erika L. Rich wrote: > Just because some people don't care to post every little nuance of their > day, doesn't meant it's going the way of myspace. FB isn't going anywhere > for a long time. There's a LOT of behind the scenes changes with marketing > dollars, features, ads, e

Re: It's Dot Com Boomtime Again!

2012-04-11 Thread Ras Tafari
i am also a person who has always been one to "keep in touch" with the special people in my life, anyway. fb has enabled this to continue in a MUCH easier way. On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Ras Tafari wrote: > id say that 40% of them occasionally post, some number actively post > and within

Re: It's Dot Com Boomtime Again!

2012-04-11 Thread Ras Tafari
id say that 40% of them occasionally post, some number actively post and within that group are "close friend", "family", "geek" lists. its VERY easy. On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson wrote: > > 1000? How on earth do you keep up? > > I only have 120, and there is no WAY I can

Re: It's Dot Com Boomtime Again!

2012-04-11 Thread Dana
I used to feel that way about Twitter. Then I remembered that this is the internet and nobody expects me to read everything. I see what I see. A lot of it is cool. Now, that applies to using Twitter the way I do, as an incoming feed -- there are also use cases for setting up an outgoing stream, li

Re: It's Dot Com Boomtime Again!

2012-04-11 Thread Judah McAuley
I have 243 friends. Like Ras, most are people that I've hung out with a fair bit in person. There are some exceptions, like a couple folks from this list. I also use it as a way of staying in touch with some people from high school and college that I otherwise wouldn't be in touch with at all. I

Re: It's Dot Com Boomtime Again!

2012-04-11 Thread Jerry Milo Johnson
1000? How on earth do you keep up? I only have 120, and there is no WAY I can keep up. Even checking it once per day is overwhelming. On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Ras Tafari wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson > wrote: > > > > There were a whole lot of words t

Re: It's Dot Com Boomtime Again!

2012-04-11 Thread Ras Tafari
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson wrote: > > There were a whole lot of words there, but I still dont understand what you > are talking about. > > how on earth does it do those things for you? through connections with people. > how often do you check it? whenever i can, whenev

Re: It's Dot Com Boomtime Again!

2012-04-11 Thread Dana
I just think the content I get on Google Plus is more interesting. That said, Facebook has allowed me to reconnect with people I knew in college or did MMUDs with in the 90s. It makes it easy to see what my nephews are up to, whereas if I emailed them -- well, first of all I *wouldn't -- and asked

Re: It's Dot Com Boomtime Again!

2012-04-11 Thread Jerry Milo Johnson
There were a whole lot of words there, but I still dont understand what you are talking about. how on earth does it do those things for you? how often do you check it? how many "friends" do you have? what kinds of stuff do you yourself put on there? On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Ras Tafari

Re: It's Dot Com Boomtime Again!

2012-04-11 Thread Ras Tafari
fb rocks. i use it for business (new sites), pleasure (Friends, family, fun-times, cool pictures, news gathering, etc), entertainment (following some cool industry peeps, rags, etc), see a lot of twitter stuff that makes it through to fb feed. personal and, close friends and family lists that are

RE: Zimmerman charged in Martin's death...

2012-04-11 Thread Eric Roberts
According to the news, he is being charged with second degree murder and is in custody. http://www.businessinsider.com/george-zimmerman-criminal-charges-decision-20 12-4 -Original Message- From: Cameron Childress [mailto:camer...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 3:40 PM To: cf

Re: Zimmerman charged in Martin's death...

2012-04-11 Thread Cameron Childress
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Eric Roberts < ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > It's official.he is going to be charged in Trayvon Martin's death.How > convenient that he lost contact with his lawyers and they think he is out > of > state now. Zimmerman needs to be in custody if f

Re: It's Dot Com Boomtime Again!

2012-04-11 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Same here jerry. The only reason why I have a facebook account was to test some scripts, otherwise I don't use it or even pay attention to FB. Its an alien landscape as far as I'm concerned. On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson wrote: > > that wasn't a complaint, or a dis, but a c

Re: A little maritime history and word origins

2012-04-11 Thread Justin Scott
> Of course not. It's a golf joke. I've never played golf so I fail to see the connection. -Justin ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion

Re: A little maritime history and word origins

2012-04-11 Thread Larry C. Lyons
They actually did transport a lot of fertilizer and manure this way. When my wife was researching the packet and clipper ship era, she ran across the accounts of a number of ships that sank just because of this. On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson wrote: > > Of course not. It's

Zimmerman charged in Martin's death...

2012-04-11 Thread Eric Roberts
It's official.he is going to be charged in Trayvon Martin's death.How convenient that he lost contact with his lawyers and they think he is out of state now. http://abcnews.go.com/US/george-zimmerman-charged-trayvon-martin-killing/sto ry?id=16115469#.T4Xj4dUUvbk

Re: It's Dot Com Boomtime Again!

2012-04-11 Thread Cameron Childress
Yes - I think that the key to understanding Facebook's success is to completely disregard what *you* use it for (or not), and instead consider what *other* people are using it for. -Cameron On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson wrote: > that wasn't a complaint, or a dis, but a con

RE: It's Dot Com Boomtime Again!

2012-04-11 Thread Eric Roberts
Isn't that what linkedin is for? I don't do anything with business stuff on FB. -Original Message- From: Erika L. Rich [mailto:elr...@ruwebby.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 1:39 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: It's Dot Com Boomtime Again! There's TONS of room for growth with Fa

Re: Obama: It’s time for Augusta golf club to admi _

2012-04-11 Thread Larry C. Lyons
As Churchill said, Golf is a perfectly good way to spoil a nice country walk. d/k and running. On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Erika L. Rich wrote: > > I used to like you. :P > > Now granted, I cant stand waiting for a group of ANY GENDER who > dilly dallies, and let me tell you, there

Re: Push to add drama

2012-04-11 Thread Jerry Milo Johnson
Love it. On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Justin Scott wrote: > > LOL > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=316AzLYfAzw > > ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusi

Re: It's Dot Com Boomtime Again!

2012-04-11 Thread Jerry Milo Johnson
that wasn't a complaint, or a dis, but a confused cry for help. obviously it is working for millions of other people. but there is no click for me. I dont get what people are seeing. (much like i dont understand any programming on mtv, nor any "reality show".) On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 3:09 PM,

Re: It's Dot Com Boomtime Again!

2012-04-11 Thread Sam
I agree with you but, the marketers have taken it over and the audience has grown weary. . On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Erika L. Rich wrote: > > There's TONS of room for growth with Facebook. > > But the only way you see that is if you use FB as a BUSINESS TOOL, and > that's where the growt

Re: Global Error Handler

2012-04-11 Thread Larry C. Lyons
it depends on what you're trying to do. I've moved away from using cferror and setting up a specific html page in the admin to using cftry/catch or the onError function within Application.cfc On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Brian Thornton wrote: > > Anyone have a simple CFERROR handler for an

Push to add drama

2012-04-11 Thread Justin Scott
LOL http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=316AzLYfAzw ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffu

Re: It's Dot Com Boomtime Again!

2012-04-11 Thread Erika L. Rich
An ad a client just placed for advertising their business, ON Facebook, got over 600 clickthroughs. In 2 days. To their services. Cost them $43. They sold thousands. I'll take that ROI any day. Again. Might not click for you, but there's plenty of other users it clicks for. :) On Wed, Apr 11, 2

Re: It's Dot Com Boomtime Again!

2012-04-11 Thread Cameron Childress
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Erika L. Rich wrote: > But the only way you see that is if you use FB as a BUSINESS TOOL, and > that's where the growth is. Those that ignore this in their day to day > dealing with clients, are doinng a disservice. > That's one potential. I also see the opport

Re: It's Dot Com Boomtime Again!

2012-04-11 Thread Jerry Milo Johnson
I have to admit I don't "get" facebook at all. I see my wall, and it does nothing for me. 100% noise. I get blogs, I get wikis, I get twitter, I get flickr/picassa, I get (but dont use) youtube. I dont get foursquare, but can see how it works. But facebook just makes no sense to me. nothing cli

Re: It's Dot Com Boomtime Again!

2012-04-11 Thread Erika L. Rich
There's TONS of room for growth with Facebook. But the only way you see that is if you use FB as a BUSINESS TOOL, and that's where the growth is. Those that ignore this in their day to day dealing with clients, are doinng a disservice. Just because some people don't care to post every little nua

Re: Obama: It’s time for Augusta golf club to admi _

2012-04-11 Thread Ras Tafari
of COURSE! just easier to bitch about women golfers ;) lol On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Erika L. Rich wrote: > > Just as long as you realize MEN play that can barely hit it 10 feet. > > It's not gender specific :P > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Ras Tafari wrote: > >> >> :) hahahaha,

Re: A little maritime history and word origins

2012-04-11 Thread Jerry Milo Johnson
Of course not. It's a golf joke. On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Justin Scott wrote: > > > In the 16th and 17th centuries, everything had to be transported by ship > > and it was also before commercial fertilizer's invention, so large > > shipments of manure were common. > > It's a cute story

Re: Obama: It’s time for Augusta golf club to admi _

2012-04-11 Thread Judah McAuley
In my family, it was an unwritten rule to politely ignore the fact that almost all the golfing trophies in the case belonged to my great grandma and not my great grandpa. She was also better at fishing. Only person I've ever known who could catch a wild trout using a huckleberry. She claimed the

Re: Obama: It’s time for Augusta golf club to admi _

2012-04-11 Thread Erika L. Rich
Just as long as you realize MEN play that can barely hit it 10 feet. It's not gender specific :P On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Ras Tafari wrote: > > :) hahahaha, sorry, darlin i didnt mean to offend, which is why i said > > "granted there are plenty of fast-playing > >> female groups out th

Re: Obama: It’s time for Augusta golf club to admi _

2012-04-11 Thread Ras Tafari
:) hahahaha, sorry, darlin i didnt mean to offend, which is why i said "granted there are plenty of fast-playing >> female groups out there, " because golf is about rhythm it REALLY matters when someone dillie dallies. or cant hit it more than 10 feet. which i see A LOT. so i have a right to bit

Re: A little maritime history and word origins

2012-04-11 Thread Justin Scott
> In the 16th and 17th centuries, everything had to be transported by ship > and it was also before commercial fertilizer's invention, so large > shipments of manure were common. It's a cute story... plausible, even. Unfortunately it's not actually true. See: http://www.etymonline.com/baloney.p

Re: Obama: It’s time for Augusta golf club to admi t

2012-04-11 Thread Erika L. Rich
I used to like you. :P Now granted, I cant stand waiting for a group of ANY GENDER who dilly dallies, and let me tell you, there is a fair amount of old fogeys of both genders who can't seem to get off a tee box around these parts. But for you to limit it to just women?! Shame on

A little maritime history and word origins

2012-04-11 Thread Jerry Milo Johnson
In the 16th and 17th centuries, everything had to be transported by ship and it was also before commercial fertilizer's invention, so large shipments of manure were common. It was shipped dry, because in dry form it weighed a lot less than when wet, but once water (at sea) hit it, it not only bec