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Re: // carolinemartin

Spatulated — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:16:09 -0000

Your a jerk. Their are no bloopers.

*both those grammatical mistakes were made intentionally just to spite you and your rick-rolling ways.

Re: // carolinemartin

Spatulated — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:12:57 -0000

Ride safe!

Re: // carolinemartin

Spatulated — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:08:45 -0000

you are so adorable.

Re: http://www.carolinemartin.name/post/186031186

Spatulated — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:20:03 -0000

that moment also permanently changed my life for the better. Well done you.

Re: // carolinemartin

Spatulated — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:10:26 -0000

!!!

Re: adam holwerda's brain itches.

Spatulated — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:22:27 -0000

dropbox is one of the greatest services ever created.

Re: // carolinemartin

Spatulated — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:38:06 -0000

love it.

Re: // carolinemartin

Spatulated — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:37:00 -0000

no, if you don't sell it. And if you do sell it, vimeo would need to be very big dicks to try and stop you, though if they did the law would be on their side.

edit: it is important to note that I dont think they would be dicks about it. Just that they could.

Re: // carolinemartin

Spatulated — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:49:32 -0000

I like how elegant he looks under water when he pushes through a wave.

Re: // carolinemartin

Spatulated — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:05:10 -0000

now what? that's exactly what. You impress me so.

Re: // carolinemartin

Spatulated — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:59:43 -0000

girls who ride safe are totally hot.

Re: // carolinemartin

Spatulated — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:39:19 -0000

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am super excited for you!

Re: http://www.carolinemartin.name/post/167401501

Spatulated — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:46:44 -0000

That is quite a grip.

Re: // carolinemartin

Spatulated — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:09:56 -0000

Sadly this is one of the most clear cut examples of the influence of corporations on our government. Sarah Palin and her extremist buddies are knowingly lying because they want to discredit Obama. Corporations are hiring people to disrupt community discussions because their wallets are kept fat by things staying the same. Fox news is publishing lists of community meeting on health-care where you can "express your opinion" and notably only including meetings hosted by democrats. This is usually right after one of Fox's talking head compares Obama to Hitler or mentions that his health care plan is trying to kill old people.

Re: // carolinemartin

Spatulated — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:25:52 -0000

oh and, that is a lovely bike. It will do you well.

Re: // carolinemartin

Spatulated — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:18:26 -0000

Good afternoon sir!

It seems to me you have missed the grander point (least what I am taking away as the grander point) of action over inaction. Yes of course there is an interesting debate to be had about the ethics of action and the responsibilities we conscious beings have as stewards to our home but that doesn't seem to be the issue to address in response to an attempt at motivation.

I'd like to share a not terribly obscure quote with you.

"No shaman's spell or fast upon a sacred mountain can summon the electromagnetic spectrum. Prophets of the great religions were kept unaware of its existence, not because of a secretive god but because they lacked the hard-won knowledge of physics"
-E.O. Wilson

This particular quote is phrased for religious debate, but I feel it applies to the spirit of the original post and that it is important to note that though we did not invent electricity (or other natural phenomenon like flight) we both harness it at will and understand it fundamentally. No, not invention, but certainly the result of action over inaction.

Also, the entire first half is quite a legitimate list of things that were indeed invented. In some studies it is suggested that basic language skills do emerge naturally in humans even if they never learn them from another human, but the contents of the oxford English dictionary are something I feel we can, as a culture, hold on high without to much egoism.

I feel it is also important to note that some of the most deplorable (assuming we are applying our subjective and invented human reasoning to the neutral actions of the universe) things ever to exist existed "in a natural state." For example the cold and heartless destruction of 80% of the world organic life at the hands of a random meteor just a few hundred million years ago (multiple times in a row if you measure over billions of years). Or the existence of the African eye-worm who only can survive by eating away at the eye's of other living creatures.

What I think is important is that we are of a handful of species who shape the world rather than survive it. And with the power to shape the world we also are one of the even fewer species who can choose how we shape the world. We can even apply our own invented morality to guide us in decision about this process.

Also, it seems fairly accurate that all great humans we hold on high in our history where those doing things, discovering things, or making things. So yes, the exact statement "everything is invented" is indeed rubbish, but the idea that those who live interesting lives invent (and discover, or invent methods of discovery for) new things, seems to still stand as wildly accurate.

Re: Kickstarter's New CTO: Andy Baio

Spatulated — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:55:05 -0000

I like Mr. Baio. I like this company quite a bit. This is a happy thing you have done.

Re: http://www.carolinemartin.name/post/58853838

Spatulated — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:38:32 -0000

Ohio has a certain lack of strangeness too it. This mediocrity that isn't inherently bad but inspires a certain angst in most of its thinkers and artists. When the nation grows we grow less than most, when the nation flounders we flounder less than most. Are cities arn't that big and they arn't that dense and our farm land isn't that open or free, and our ranges don't stretch that far. Our mountains arnt very tall and our plains arnt terribly flat. Our weather, though not very predictable, isn't terribly dangerous. Our rivers arnt very wide or long and our great lake is the most shallow but not the smallest. We are pretty good at sports but not excellent and we used to be awesome at manufacturing back when America was a production nation.

A big pile of this-is-pretty-ok

Re: http://www.carolinemartin.name/post/58258183

Spatulated — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:40:58 -0000

Also, there was more information on both candidates than there ever was about any two other candidates in history. They gave more detailed policy reports than anyone ever. It was on you, as a citizen, to do research, to look into topics important to YOU and make the right decision, not ask your friends to think for you. Also, voting for nadar because it "looked so bright" ... People are probably going to be ok with that because we won, but jeses. The fate of the free world lies in the balance and you vote for a third party that cant even hit thae magic 3% mark (which is where they get public funding in the next race and why it is ok to vote thrid part even if they cant "win" but if they cant even hit 3%, well, vote wasted, well done)

Re: http://www.carolinemartin.name/post/57856656

Spatulated — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:20:59 -0000

did you know his middle name is HUSSEIN?!

meaning "good" or "handsome" or "beautiful" in Arabic

Re: http://www.carolinemartin.name/post/57636806

Spatulated — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:25:58 -0000

hahaha, cute

Re: getting my Christmas rant done early.

Spatulated — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:05:02 -0000

But... but, but... I like Christmas... alot.

Re: I am going to see Barack Obama tomorrow.

Spatulated — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:04:31 -0000

ask him how he thinks a man who does not fufil his promises should be judged, than tell him you hope you never have to think that way...

Re: Last time

Spatulated — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:10:59 -0000

I know you tend to be more gracious Caroline, but this is also straight up crap. The limits are arbitrary. Its like a phone company making the low end phone shitty, not to cut costs, but to make the expensive one more attractive. Sure it is legal, and common, but it is also shitty. 1 hd video? that is no a price thing (if it was they would limit size, not number of uploads). limits on number of groups and channels? again, not a pricing issue, just making free crappy. Now i would have no issue with this if it had always been like this but the fact is, with the advent of PLUS what was free is now less good.

Now one could (and i will) site flickr as a great website that has arbitrary limits (like the number of collections you can have) unless you buy their premium package. but the thing is, Flickr has had those limits since day one. To allow people to get used to something free and then take it away isn't just pour consumer relations, its lazy. Its saying "we don't want to/can't come up with new things to offer, so we have to gimp our free offerings to make them less attractive

Also free stuff is just as much a product as anything you have paid for. Vimeo has made money on "FREE" for years now. Its not like with the advent of plus they will now magically shift from a charity to a profitable company. Google is one of the most successful companies ever and all of its products are "free." "Free" does not mean free from scrutiny, free does not mean their offering it out of the charity of their hearts. If all of vimeo's non-paying customers left right now they would go broke because they would lose their ad revenue.

Even free products must be great. If they are not great they should fail. This is capitalism at its core. Now of course vimeo's free service (even their new gimped free service) is great. But that does not mean we should all bow down to the great Vimeo gods and say "thank you oh lord for making your product shittier!"

I, like the majority of vimeo's users, will never buy plus, but I would bet (though i obviously could be wrong) that we, the non-paying customers of vimeo will now and forever drive more of vimeo's profits (through ad revenue) than the plus service will ever be able to bring in. They should keep that in mind when they gimp their services and piss of their base.

Also, since I am feeling prophetic, I predict the gimping of their free services will go unnoticed by the silent majority and will have ZERO effect on the growth of the number of people using their services. It will work as planned, they will make a shit ton of money, the new revenue will make their service better, and cycle will spin upwards making them rich and the masses happy until they are eventually outclassed by another adaptive start up who offers what they charge for for free through a highly inventive ad scheme. And, through all of this they will have forever lost a little of my respect (which is meaningless to their profit margins)

Re: http://www.carolinemartin.name/post/52113711

Spatulated — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:59:20 -0000

well done love