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And LA is perfect for any activity. Most of our parks have stuff you'll need for muscle toning, there are tons of hike, bike and running paths, free tennis, basketball and volleyball courts abound. Lawn bowling, cricket, soccer and baseball fields are all over and so many of them are underused. The article focuses on the most popular locations, but the places we go are so relaxing because they're so empty. - Anika Malone

Walking, cycling etc. are all very good exercises - of course the lousier the weather the less attractive they are. But a gym ball and a set of weights in your house are also plenty to get exercise. Get a dog too, although that costs about the same as a gym membership, possibly. - Joelle Nebbe

Actually, funny reading this as we are about to go play at the tennis courts around from our house. This park is underused, so the kids will be able to play at the top playground while we volley. The park also has an indoor pool, basketball courts, a lower playground, a field with 3 baseball fields, a soccer field that people use to do laps around and a skate park. - Anika Malone

Joelle, another thing I always suggest to people who have cable is to use FitTV via OnDemand. I have an exercise module for kids (8 - 15 exercises rom yoga to bhangra dancing) that my children do almost daily, there's a modules for yoga, pilates, aerobics, dancing, and muscle toning. If there's no time to hit the gym, turn on the TV and get cracking. - Anika Malone

The thing about outdoor exercise is that you aren't just doing one thing at a time. You are exercising *and* enjoying nature *and* looking at the pretty girls *and* going somewhere. Whereas if you are at the gym, you are a gerbil in a wheel. - Wirehead

Why don't hardware architects do this instead? I mean, it'd be better if the hardware or the OS takes care of this for developper, isn't it? - directeur

directeur, my understanding is that memory latency optimization that have been attempted in hardware to date have been expensive with minimal impact. This article was somewhat interesting http://www.extremetech.com/art... - Jason Wehmhoener

They try their best, but the hardware only has a very immediate view of what the CPU is requesting. It can't modify the entire application algorithm to optimize the for memory bandwidth, that's really only something you can do at a high level as an application designer. The same way as an application designer you'd make different choices if you're writing to magnetic tape or a hard disk, and no hardware can make that transparently efficient. - ⓞnor

One of the sad side effects of our layered abstraction approach to software development is that developers often lose sight of the hardware that makes it all possible. - Jason Wehmhoener

Jason, yes, I see... hardware makers can't design machines for all algorithms, and thanks ⓞnor, the "magnetic tape vs. hard disk" example explains it very well! - directeur

I should probably do the same. I have some filtering etc going on at my end, but hadn't thought about the follow on impact - Deepak

Yeah, that's what finally made the decision for me, and really the whole beauty of FF, IMO, is this filtering effect of your friends. I want my "Friend of" entries to be things that someone subscribed to me might genuinely find interesting. - Mr. Gunn

lists accomplish something similar for me, it would be nice if friends could get the benefits of this though - Mike Chelen

+1 to all the great comments above" - dekay

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damn spammers. blocked. - Mohomed=genieyclo

If you were only seeing Robert's activity on FF (I know I don't), you probably don't have enough FF subscriptions to boot. - Tamar Weinberg

Blocked him. isint there a room to post spammers to? - Roberto Bonini

Hes not spamming, he just happens to be interesting and a lot of people like his stuff - Chacha

I'm not talking about Scoble - some guy called krnsngh489 wanted to sell replica watches and mirrors from China. I blocked HIM. - Roberto Bonini

If anyone says something really interesting, usually it will appear in Best of Day or FFholic Most Discussed. - Sean McBride

Poor Scoble. He's gonna be crushed... - Mark VandenBerg

I will never quite understand the need to announce when one blocks someone else (except for spammers, of course; everyone should be alerted of their presence here). - Akiva Moskovitz

agree with Tamar and Akiva - whatevs - BEX

Akiva is "funny" -- he is guilty of the behavior he condemns. - Sean McBride

They're playing and kidding that's all. Robert "learned" blogging from Dave. And they're friends not follower-followed. - directeur

Do limited edition prints. :) - Roberto Bonini

That's "places" then. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

@Roberto - Finally, a plausible game plan to monetize friendfeed.com/scobleizer - Mitch

I'm not looking for a place that's *free* of Scoble, just less enslaved. - Dave Winer

Dave, just unfollow and your chains will be free. - Michael Krigsman

Yep. Signed for a 30%markup on unsigned ones. :). Not quite an iFart, but close. - Roberto Bonini

Michael, don't talk to me like I'm an idiot -- I don't like it when people do that. - Dave Winer

+1 Dave! I'm not even subscribed to you Sir, but I have so much respect for you! - directeur

Dave, apologies if it came off that way--definitely not my intention. - Michael Krigsman

Cooooooool. Anyway -- I have unfollowed Scoble. On Twitter that pretty much works, but here -- This is ScobleFeed, The First Church of Scoble is not an overstatement. - Dave Winer

It actually makes alot of sense what you are saying dave. ;o) - Rob Sellen

I said that in regards to your church of scoble post dave. ;o) - Rob Sellen

Dave: you crack me up. I remember when people talked that way about you and you didn't like it. - Robert Scoble

So much labia to gluteal activity now days. Just gotta love the power puckerers! - Going to CES. Are you?

Scoble: I'm not going to take the bait on that -- I have unfollowed you, that's a neutral statement, it's not meant to hurt your feelings, or otherwise. That's the way this goes. No one is forced to follow. But, you really do get in my face more than I want. I meant everything I said in today's piece. And it's not aimed at you, or supposed to make you feel bad. This is the problem. Everything here is about you, according to you. I don't like it. I'm not asking you to change anything. - Dave Winer

But if you want to NOT be the topic of conversation in every which way including ways you don't like, then you should change the way you do things. I'm not going to tiptoe around your ego, esp when you insert it all kinds of places where it doesn't belong. - Dave Winer

BTW, I didn't like the way you were dealing with me last spring, so I changed my behavior, I never asked you to change. - Dave Winer

According to Scoble, it's not who follows you, but who you follow. By definition he won't give a crap if someone unfollows him. Just my guess. Robert Scoble in no way has paid for this comment. ;) - Going to CES. Are you?

James +1. I am not holding a gun to anyone's head here. Enslaved? That is a harsh word. - Robert Scoble

Damn it Scoble. Give me a "-1" immediately, else the whiners of the world will consider that comment an endorsement! :P - Going to CES. Are you?

I always found it interesting the tendency for one person to reduce another person's interest, or agreement with someone else, to brainwashing or mass delusion merely because they disagree with it. If you listen to Robert Scoble or you talk about what he says, you clearly are brainwashed and are a devout member of the Church of Scoble? - Mark Trapp

Dave, I just blocked you with these reasons. 1. He feels that too much of friendfeed is enslaved to me. So, I freed him from my bonds. 2. He wants a place to post without interruption from me, so I gave it to him because now I won't see his friendfeed posts and be tempted to reply to them. 3. He once told me he blocks anyone who says that they are unfollowing him to "save them the pain." 4. I found I was getting caught up in his little drama, which was causing me to be enslaved to his thinking. 5. We still have Twitter and I still read his blog. - Fast Company

Actually I said no one needs to suffer. You're totally within your rights to block me and I wish you the best! It still won't solve my problem, because the ScobleSphere is bigger than Scoble. :-( - Dave Winer

@Robert: MySpace I'll buy but I'm thinking you just meant you don't use Live.com for search...because you do, in fact, have a Live.com profile! It's right here: http://is.gd/eo9b - and you already have 41 people in your network! You work fast! :-) - Sarah Perez

Sarah: yeah. But I don't use it much. I have a myspace page too. - Robert Scoble

is the problem with friendfeed - that there are insufficient options for selective viewing - or the problem that people find scoble interesting? - shedali

I don't know this may seem way out there, but you all might want to actually you know, read the piece. It actually says that Scoble is right and the other guys are wrong. Funny how one might actually miss that you know, if you know you didn't you know read the you know actual piece. http://bit.ly/P0CR - Dave Winer

shedali: actually I am a social media fungus. I am everywhere Dave Winer doesn't want me to be. But glad we can get back to something more interesting like whether Steve Jobs is still making cool product or not. - Robert Scoble

Jobs? Is he still alive? I thought I heard he died and was turned in yogurt. - Jack Carlson

Jack: that just proves that you can break news by both eating yogurt and friendfeeding, doesn't it? - Robert Scoble

@Robert - sure, we all have abandoned MySpace pages :) but the home.live.com thing is still kinda new soooo....anyway, it's cool that you set it up with your Twitter info 'cause I can see the tweets from my network in my Live Messenger window...that's handy - Sarah Perez

I admit I have a MySpace page. Because I'm too lazy to figure out how to host and promo my music on my site and too broke to pay someone else to do it. http://www.myspace.com/meganly... - Spidra Webster

@Sarah - I agree the new home.live.com is very cool.... - Amar Shah

Dave: people read the post. The issue is that the most interesting portion of the post was in the first paragraph, where you launched into a diatribe about how much you can't stand Scoble being everywhere. It didn't relate to the rest of your post, but you chose to put it out there anyway. You really don't get to control what portions of what you put out in public people react to. - Mark Trapp

Dave: I'll bet most of the folks repsponding here probably did read your post, and are just responding the first seemingly unrelated "#" where you wish you didn't see so much of Robert, rather than the rest of it where you weigh in on the Arrington/Calacanis v Scoble kerfuffle. - Ken Sheppardson

You can see an example of this behavior with the Tweet at http://friendfeed.com/e/9356a8... and the related FF share at http://friendfeed.com/e/11b8a6... - Internet Strategist

Sometimes this is done so folks can leverage the ability to "tweet" a reply back to the originator of the post. But you do raise a good point :) - Susan Beebe

We could still do that. The Tweet is there and the option to reply. I just think the excerpt, images, and comments here at FF should always be visible and the related Twitter entries be hidden in the drop-down if something has to be. If you go to http://FriendFeed.com/growmap soon you can see what I mean live. - Internet Strategist

It depends on the timing I've found. Whatever is last is prioritised. So, for example, if I Digg something *then* share it on FF a minute or so later then the Digg is hidden under "related..." and the FF share is prioritised. - Kol Tregaskes

I think you're right Kol. What I do is share something here and then tweet a link to it to send more traffic here. Because of that the FF post is hidden and the Tweet is most visible. I still think FF shares should always take priority over Twitter. - Internet Strategist

Please, just give us and OPTION to chose. e.g. I would like mento postings be visible, and delicious hidden. Or, if all else fails, show me the thing where the comments are! Or finally, have all as one item, and cut the crap of duplicates. - dekay

I ranted about this a few weeks ago via FriendFeed Feedback here: http://friendfeed.com/e/cbd2e3... . I think that the "related" feature on FriendFeed was poorly executed. What about "related" entries that have a LOT more activity than the more recent entry? - Tamar Weinberg

We ought to be able to separate them too, as sometimes things are improperly grouped. - Tanath

Any number you derive will be used for purposes for which it was not intended, as with the IF today. - Mr. Gunn

42? - Paulo Nuin

Well, that's the answer, but what's the question? - Mr. Gunn

42, the Impact factor of the Journal of Life, Universe and Everything Else. - Bora Zivkovic

No matter how many different indices you develop the only one that counts is the one used by the tenure committee and supervisors. In annual reports we put all our teaching, research and service. Blog posts, wiki pages, etc can be put in the research category - and I do :) - Jean-Claude Bradley