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So true. At Lemoore Naval Air Station this afternoon with a vehicle full of rockets and propellant…
Just got back – many stories to share once i edit the video from our rocket launches…
20 responses to “Explosive Vehicle Crossing”
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On my way to work last year, in the pouring rain, I saw a car tailgating a drill and blast vehicle that was displaying the explosive placard. I know it was only carrying detonators for a quarry blast, but still…
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thank you for writing to them.
coming from you they may even listen.
marissa fails to realise the importance of comments as part of the sharing process. -
…with a format optimized for snacking…. the high-fructose-corn-syrup of the salon
@Jim Rees — Thanks, and that is the heart of my dismay. Comments are not a bandwidth or access hog, so the choice to truncate is a purposeful UI decision, with predictable impact on social interaction. The new trumps the thoughtful… streams of thoughts are lost, rewarding pithy isolated soundbites… archival search on Google for interesting dialog is lost… photoblog pages (with collections of photos on one page) are crippled… but we look like the hip kids.
I am struck by the irony of my lamentations just as our investment in Tumblr paid off with Yahoo’s $1.1B acquisition today.
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Update: this thread prompted me to write to Marissa last week, and I spoke with her last night at her birthday party. The first thought on her mind was to tell me that this comment issue will be fixed. This was a big relief. I found it hard to believe this was what she wanted here. I first met her in the context of photography and flickr, and that was long ago in the Google days. So I think she gets it, and I am hopeful that UI fixes are on the way.
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