Comments from Rick

Rick commented on The Valleywag-Boing Boing sex map

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:39:45 PDT

@Melissa Gira Grant: Wow, what a party

Rick commented on Did the Internet's free-speech guardians try to hush up a girl-on-girl love affair?

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:27:04 PDT

This is about as close to hot lesbian action as the bay area will ever get

Rick commented on The Valleywag-Boing Boing sex map

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:26:13 PDT

I wonder if the mint green redacted was a three way?

Rick commented on Bill Gates's relevance -- and irrelevance

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:57:58 PDT

lol, what an aspy

Rick commented on Why did Microsoft buy Powerset? Not for founder Barney Pell

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:57:32 PDT

@MikeTy: Without having ever given a serious critical analysis, I'm afraid semantic web might be overrated. It would take me a while to un-learn how to search, nevermind my grandma.

I think this is one of those things which because it wasn't done right the first time, it never will be. The semantic web might be idealistically nice, but what can't I find fairly quickly with google?

Rick commented on Why did Microsoft buy Powerset? Not for founder Barney Pell

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:52:49 PDT

@cowboytwopointoh: I think you're right, but he could have been on tenure track if he would've lowered his expectations a little bit

Rick commented on Advertisers' diagnosis: Digg users need antidepressants

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:48:57 PDT

Sad that owen's the only one who saw the ads because every single other digg visitor has adblock

Rick commented on Natali Del Conte the adorable face of CBS-CNET synergy

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:41:09 PDT

And jesus, surely that was an edited version of segment. Did they really just dive bomb out of it at the end like that?

Rick commented on Natali Del Conte the adorable face of CBS-CNET synergy

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:39:09 PDT

@Jimmy the Saint: Uhhh yeah. Morning news isn't exactly the evening news either. Women usually are better than a Cronkite in this slot. Besides, like Randall said, she's not auditioning for anchor. She's a correspondent

Rick commented on Why did Microsoft buy Powerset? Not for founder Barney Pell

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:26:59 PDT

Pell is a seasoned academic. To say that he has no talent might be ridiculous. He certainly has no talent as a CEO, but I'd bet no one at his company is smarter than him

Rick commented on Digg CEO Jay Adelson a dead ringer for male model

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:18:11 PDT

@VanOwen: Thinking Adelson could've been a male model makes it pretty obvious she went somewhere the boys weren't too hot

Rick commented on Wired editor Chris Anderson's latest book proposal would throw scientific method under a bus

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:32:24 PDT

@Nicholas Carlson: Nod, I only know to call people a sophist if they're getting the better of me in a debate.

All the same, this is a really good post. It's hit and miss on some things, but good nonetheless.

Rick commented on Is Duncan Riley getting the silent treatment from Michael Arrington?

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:50:55 PDT

arrington's such a scumbag

Rick commented on The New York Times sells Digg to Google

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:25:47 PDT

@Ian Bell: Lol, exactly that's one of digg's biggest problems.

They are almost always -days- behind actual breaking news. There's almost no reason for google to buy digg, least of all this one.

Rick commented on Paul Fetch Is The New Andy Kaufman. Unless He's Just Really Really Unfunny.

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:56:17 PDT

tim and eric blow

Rick commented on One Yahoo's ten reasons for leaving

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:08:22 PDT

Hello English. This guy's subject-verb agreement are batting .000, he should just goes with the opposite of what he think.

Rick commented on Ten most densely populated technology startup regions

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:07:53 PDT

lol at mint and friendfeed being world changing

Rick commented on Kevin Rose gushes over Digg-shoppers Murdoch, Diller and Gore

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:41:34 PDT

I guarantee I've gotten more ass than this guy, stop it

Rick commented on Gurbaksh Chahal to pretend to be poor, learn life lessons in new Fox reality show

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:38:40 PDT

@HowardHughes: Which indicates he watches valleywag nonstop and has a legion of sockpuppets

Loser

Rick commented on Tila Tequila demands cash or date with Mark Zuckerberg to ditch MySpace for Facebook

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:34:08 PDT

Who has a more football shaped head, her or stewie griffin?

Rick commented on Seller goes nuts at eBay Live

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:33:16 PDT

@categorically: shit, I'm still jealous I was too lazy to do it myself. That just isn't the kind of thing I can get excited about

Rick commented on HuffingtonPost going local with Chicago section

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:30:13 PDT

Sweet choice. Probably the #1 or 2 city on the "Cities turned to complete shit by a Democrat administration" list. Should be good!

Rick commented on The Jason Calacanis inusufferability index to reach new heights with arrival of Tesla Roadster

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:28:27 PDT

My brother was talking about some apocryphal report of these electric cars causing cancer....let's hope nothing befalls poor old Jason

Rick commented on Is former Powerset CEO Barney Pell the douchebag with these hot chicks?

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:54:43 PDT

I'm pretty sure that's not barney, about 90%, in fact.

Rick commented on "FUCK IT, WE'LL DO IT LIVE! THIS THING SUCKS!"

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:52:42 PDT

I can't suggest a better headline, but I think I love this chick

Rick commented on Matt Cohler, another member of Mark Zuckerberg's braintrust, leaves Facebook

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:40:31 PDT

@tawni: He lost out in the first bubble, too. I was at something he spoke at one time and he said he was all but picking out his jet when the bubble burst on him.

Rick commented on Matt Cohler, another member of Mark Zuckerberg's braintrust, leaves Facebook

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:23:37 PDT

Wow, that kind of surprises me. Cohler definitely has a bit of talent. Something is up over there, for sure.

Rick commented on Robert Scoble plays dirty uncle in Amsterdam

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:28:51 PDT

is mah 18 yet, I got some good dirt on her

Rick commented on How Time's 50 best websites make money (if they do)

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:14:58 PDT

This is a cool as hell presentation, but have you guys had this on the back burner for a while? Didn't this list come out quite a while ago?

Rick commented on How Jeff Weiner botched the top job at Facebook

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:13:29 PDT

I can't find a single flaw in this analysis.

@Hopeless: ""you like beer too?! i love beer!" followed by an almost sip"

So sillicon valley. As I've said before, it's hilarious to watch these victims of arrested development and their juvenile attempts to look cool by drinking....beer. Wow, extreme.

Rick commented on Michael Arrington has at least one favored flack

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:06:42 PDT

A PR person who told me I needed to be on TC would be fired pretty quickly, I'd say.

Rick commented on Loic Le Meur goes spelunking for the mythical g-spot in Seesmic demo

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:05:09 PDT

@SFBubs: heh, every comment of yours but one was written trashing some woman or another. Misogyny ftl

Rick commented on Seesmic launch illustrates how Metcalfe's Law and Dunbar's Number correlate

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:03:00 PDT

@Figaro: Yeah man, like I've said, -most- people on the internet realize how ugly they are, the few who don't are this product's only market.

Rick commented on Blogging mentor Doc Searls in a world of hurt

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:00:40 PDT

Not sure who this guy is, hope he's alright or whatever, but you can't sit there with a straight face and tell me blogging requires a mentor. LULZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Two days training and my dog is blogging better than anyone you know, fool.

Rick commented on Play the iPhone party game

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:23:52 PDT

@MostlyLisa: Is it a characteristic of all hipsters to flee like roaches when the light shines on your shennanigans or are you guys just reading from the Jakob Lodwick playbook?

Rick commented on Stewart Butterfield's bizarre resignation letter to Yahoo

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:12:10 PDT

I'm trying to figure out which is more contrived/cool that look on his face or the weirdo letter.

Rick commented on Apple Store now the place to start your modeling career

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:55:38 PDT

@deathbychichi: Maybe the video's okay, I've really got no capability to judge it, but if you think the annoyingly amateur voice over is acceptable you've been watching too much web video. She's pretty hot though

Rick commented on Play the iPhone party game

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:31:34 PDT

@Rick: heh, tough guy

Rick commented on Play the iPhone party game

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:18:45 PDT

@Ted Dziuba: Word if I'm ever at a house where a white person has one of those tables, I'm flipping it the fuck over and kicking everyone's ass

Rick commented on My arched right eyebrow? That means that I am pheeling phrisky

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:58:06 PDT

I wish Will Wright would quit messing around with stickers and get spore done already