posted by rottenseed6 days 1 hour 21 minutes ago • 255 views
Anybody pen palling with him? I'd like to here both that he's ok, and that he's being treated well. If anybody has heard from him let's get a quick update plead
Thanks in advance.
[UPDATE] "He's in Afghanistan, not Iraq.
He's been in the southernmost province of Afghanistan now since August. It's also the most dangerous, though for the last few months he's been relatively safe. If any of you heard about the helicopters that went down [the two that crashed into each other last Monday], that was right outside his base. I don't ask about the situation there. All I know is that he hasn't experienced any danger first-hand.
His unit is transferring back to the states in a week or so, and he's heading back to the main base later this week to be reassigned. He has two options job-wise: a desk job - boring, but communication will be better than once a week, hopefully; or something similar to what he's doing now [gate guard. The guys who stand there with the bomb dogs and hope whoever drives up isn't a suicide bomber]. It's pretty obvious which one I'm rooting for.
Right now, it looks like he'll be gone until late February, though he's looking to extend and make a little more money. That's the only thing the military is good for - paying well.
If you have specific questions, ask away. I will bookmark this, but for the future, feel free to PM me. His brother is preparing to be a daddy for the second time in a few weeks, and I doubt he's been spending much time on here either." -little red
posted by residue5 hours 2 minutes 22 seconds ago • 11 views
Do you find yourself waking up in the morning feeling refreshed? Tired of getting through your whole day without falling asleep?? Sick of thinking clearly and rationally all day!? Wish you could spend all night every night angry and agitated!!?! Well I've got the solution for you, have a baby!
Oh that's right, I used to be just like you before I tried this revolutionary old program. I'd hate my whole day feeling all normal and not-tired. I'd be guilt stricken with all those uninterrupted hours of sleep just piling up night after night. But now that I've started my program of "having baby," I can breathe easy during my day knowing that I've just spent a fulfilling night trying to figure out if the baby is hungry, tired, dirty, cold, hot, dead, hyperactive, confused, diabetic, allergic to nuts, deaf, blind, demonic, confused, bored, scared, wet, gassy, crampy, pregnant, worried about getting a job, worried about finding a girlfriend, tense, wanting tummy time, wanting back time, wanting hammer time, wanting more allowance, or suffering from an enlarged prostate.
Sound appealing to you? Then get with the program that's been helping people not rest for literally decades, maybe longer!! Trust me, you'll have no regrets at all (maybe)!!
posted by dag2 days 2 hours 5 minutes ago • 27 views
It's time for our weekly update from Sift parter Neatorama.com. Check out the neat stories below and their site for lots of great stories (and material to submit to the Sift ).
A Counterfeit Penny Made of Gold Seattle artist Jack Daws made eleven pennies by casting them from 18 karat gold and plating them with copper. One of those pennies was sold for $1,000 as a work of art. Another penny was spent at a news stand in Los Angeles. Yes, Daws sent one of the pennies into circulation in 2007 as a counterfeit -on purpose ...[Link]
The Redundant Photography of Fred Lebain French photographer Fred Lebain took a trip to New York City and took a series of photos around town. He then revisited those sites after printing out huge poster versions of his shots. Then he carefully re-aligned the shots to incorporate his previous image into a new, dynamically interesting one.[Link]
The 15 Best Man Caves on the Internet A man cave is a place for a man to get away from the rest of the family and the problems of the world and to engage in his favorite pastimes. The best man caves get posted to the internet, and BroBible.com selected 15 awesome setups for this collection.[Link]
The Bald Bear Vets are baffled at this strange sight: Dolores, a spectacled bear at the Leipzig Zoo in Germany has gone bald!It could be due to a genetic defect but the animals don’t seem to be suffering any other afflictions.[Link]
posted by yoghurt4 days 8 hours 10 minutes ago • 162 views
I don't know if the site admins got my message but Videosift has been cut off from all of Taiwan for about a month... I called my ISP, tried accessing it from various computers on different isps, used various free traceroute servers around the country (at universities etc.), and so on, all to no avail.
posted by jimnms4 days 21 hours 10 minutes ago • 140 views
Yesterday I was watching videos with my morning bowl of cereal, and I must have cast a half dozen votes or so before I tried to post a comment and realized I wasn't logged in. The sift now lets non users vote? How are those votes counted?
When I logged in, the video I had last voted up and was trying to post a comment, it re-assigned the vote to me, so I hoped it did it for the rest of the videos I voted for.
Apparently it didn't though because one of the videos I know I voted for is on the top 15 today, and it shows like I haven't voted for it. What happened to all of those votes I cast yesterday before logging in?
posted by xxovercastxx5 days 7 hours 19 minutes ago • 403 views
As you may remember, the correct pronunciation of "choggie" was a topic of discussion at the LA SiftUp earlier this year. I figured now, with the return of said choggie, we could get an authoritative answer. But why not have a little fun with it first?
Choggie, if you would be so kind, please give us the correct answer after the polls close.
Hear ye Hear ye. All sifter who have been wondering what has happened to the owner of the Geek Channel, ok so maybe you didn't even care, but I've come back from the dead to transfer ownership over to demon_ix, who will be the new proprietor. That is if Dag and Lucky are willing to change that. Just keep your fingers crossed that when they do they don't erase all the votes from every video on the sift.
I just haven't been nearly as active on the sift as I was about a year ago so I feel it's time to pass the torch. Just remember, wherever stupid video create unstoppable memes on the interweb. I will be there, lurking... and occasionally posting things.... and such.... I'm batman!
posted by xxovercastxx1 week 1 day ago • 251 views
People mostly sift politics and news videos that reaffirm positions they already have. It's fine to express your opinion, even via someone else's words, but it feels like 90+% of the top videos since the 2008 election campaign started have fallen into this category.
I get it, really. Bush was wrong and Obama is right. The Republicans are idiots and the Democrats are saviors. Fox News couldn't find their way out of a paper bag (because paper bags are all recycled now and recycling is part of the Muslim, Marxist, Liberal Hippie agenda).
You've all made your point, now can't we get some videos that teach/show us something new? Maybe ease off the frivolous news for a while? I could go back to watching TV at this rate.
Siftbot is in a ruby-bestowing mood recently, and it seems it's just Len's time to get one! My own acquaintance with this excellent sifter is quite lacking, so I'll leave the congratulations and celebrations to the rest of the Sift community.
I would simply add, congrats Len Nickel, keep on sifting the wonderful stuff you find and get to work on coming up with a channel idea for yourself (and one for me, if it's not too much trouble )
Now, go storm his queue for all those gems he has hidden away there.
It's time for a spooooky update from Sift parter Neatorama.com. Check out the goulish stories below and their site for lots of great stories (and material to submit to the Sift ).
Perfect for Halloween, this dish is a regular meatloaf made into the shape of a hand! Not Martha has the instructions for several different versions, depending on how badly you want to creep out your dinner guests. [Link]
An artist from MAC Cosmetics painted a woman as a comic book character for Halloween — right down to the dot printing style of old comics books. Or, alternatively, as a figure from a Roy Lichtenstein painting. [Link]
The Happiness Hat Lauren McCarthy created the Happiness Hat – a gadget that detects whether or not you’re smiling. If you’re not, it drives a small metal spike into the back of your head to encourage to you resolve that problem quickly [Link]
Vadim Ryazanov built a robot that rolls away from you as you reach for it. He calls it “Mr. Wake.” As soon as the alarm goes off, an IR sensor on the robot turns on. The robot is programmed to move in the opposite direction ofany object moving toward it [Link]
When Dorothy, a beloved female chimp died at the Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center in Cameroon, her burial was witnessed by the rest of the chimps residing there. [Link]
Forgive me if this has been addressed, I've been gone for a while with some family business, but is there some reason why we can't bookmark a video anymore without actually entering that video's page? There used to be a button for bookmark under the video from the main page..
This is the day of the week when we give a little attention to videos that have drowned in the information overflow to languish in people's personal queues. The rules for the 5th edition are a little different but very simple, so please read on.
Your submission (one pqueued video, not from your own pqueue) has to be based on the post before you. Someone posts a worthy vid to start with, the second poster gets his/her inspiration from that video (its title, its channels, a tag or something shown in the video) and posts a new interesting pqueued video based on that, etcetera.
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