"The grilled cheese is the perfect sandbox for culinary innovation. It's so easy to make that a monkey (maybe with some oven mitts) could figure it out, and its gooey interior can accommodate almost any idea, good or bad, that you can throw at it. Different types of cheese? No brainer. How about throwing some slices of stuff in with the cheese? Sure! You can add meat, you can change up the bread type, and you can even use two whole grilled cheeses as the bun for one bacon cheeseburger, if you're either college-aged or suicidal. But until now, one final frontier of grilled cheese had remained: the all-cheese grilled cheese. No bread, no fillings, just cheese. Nick at Dude Foods managed to pull this off thanks to an invention of America's cheese headquarters, Wisconsin, called "bread cheese." It's made of pressed, baked squeaky cheese curds, based on a Finnish cheese called Juustoleipa (which is fun to say), and it substituted perfectly for the real thing. Nick popped a piece of American cheese between two bread cheese "slices," sauteed it in some oil, and prayed that he wouldn't drop dead on the spot."
- John (bird whisperer)
from Bookmarklet
Um. I've had fried cheese, but I'm not sure I'd want fried cheese around other cheese without something else there. I like cheese so much, but half of the greatness that is a grilled cheese sandwich is really tasty bread.
- Jennifer Dittrich
I'm intrigued, but it might be too much cheese, and I think I'd miss the bread, too.
- John (bird whisperer)
yeah, the buttery grilled bread is an integral part of the sandwich.
- holly #ravingfangirl
One of my favorite grilled cheese creations is to cross it with garlic bread: Italian bread smothered in butter, garlic, grated Romano cheese, oregano, lots of fresh ground black pepper...and American cheese. Close it up like a sandwich and stick it in the oven till it is toasted and the cheese is melted.
- April Russo
Isn't there a website where you can submit pictures of photo-stealers? This should totally be submitted. || Edit: Found it. http://thisisphotobomb.com/
- Miss Elle
...it was only after Chipper received his prints from the local PhotoMat that he realized two humans had snuck into the background of his lakeview self-portrait.
- .LAG liked that
There were some bugs in the "Twitter publishing" code that caused some entries to get published on Twitter when they should not, and others to not get published when they should. I've cleaned up the code to eliminate these problems, but it's possible some settings were lost. Please verify your settings at http://friendfeed.com/setting...
Cheers for this Paul. How cool is it that one of the founders of FF still gets his hands dirty in the code. Once a coder, always a coder :-)
- Keith Bennett
from Nambu
Thanks Keith :) By the way, if none of your posts are making it through to twitter, it may be that you changed your password. To verify, simply click "Save changes" at http://friendfeed.com/setting... and we will check that your Twitter credentials are still good (and sign-out then back in to fix).
- Paul Buchheit
Matthew, in general all the same settings that the old ui had are available on the new one (plus a few more), though they are now divided on to several different pages. You should be able to reach all of the the settings by clicking on the word "settings" below your name in the top-right part of the page (the dialog shows a few, and links to all the others).
- Paul Buchheit
You can filter by service by searching for service:twitter (or whatever service you like), and of course that can be combined with other search operators as well. See http://friendfeed.com/search... for more.
- Paul Buchheit
Thanks Paul, sounds like you pulled an all nighter to fix these.
- Robert Scoble
Yeah, unfortunately the code had gotten rather involved since it was trying to support both the old ui and the new (the old ui worked on a per-service basis instead of letting you decide individually on each entry), and the logic sometimes became inconsistent. I simplified it quite a bit, so there should be less room for bugs now :)
- Paul Buchheit
Nice try, Matthew, I congratulate you on being awake, and carpe-diem'ing Paul here, but have to disappoint you - if FF wanted us to have favicons, they'd already issued us our favicons. Do you see any favicons that made the transition from earlier version. No? You think Paul nuked them by mistake... be my guest, and I'll be looking forward to the next couple of years' worth of your pleading for favicons when you could be learning to live both here and thereater without them.
- ianf ⌘
I'm a bit confused about the "Post my FriendFeed entries on Twitter by default" and "FriendFeed (when there's no Cc box)" options. Are these exclusive? Does checking the first one mean all my FriendFeed posts will get posted to Twitter even if I uncheck the Cc box?
- Tony Ruscoe
Paul, thank you thank thank you for the "Check CC Twitter box by default" option!!! That's one step closer to only needing Friendfeed. I'm almost ready to dump Google Reader AND Twitter now!
- Curtis (a) Jackson
Tony, the "cc twitter by default" option sets whether then checkbox is checked or unchecked by default in the share box and bookmarklet. The other option ("when there's no cc box") applies mostly to the API and other off-site interfaces, such as email (mail share@friendfeed.com) and IM. For any given post, only one setting applies.
- Paul Buchheit
I publish to Twitter by default but now link directly to the source. I figure that those finding outside of FF want to go to the source (while those reading on FF are already seeing the discussion).
- Mike Reynolds
Hi Paul, about 15 mins ago I "shared" an item from FF here to "my feed" and "cc Twitter". But still not showing up on Twitter. Just thought I'd let you know.
- Brian
Thanks Brian. It turns out there was a bug in the "Share" feature that sometimes caused us to sometimes not send the tweets (the new code errors on the side of not sending tweets). It's fixed now though. Please let me know if you spot any others.
- Paul Buchheit
Paul, that did the trick! Thanks for looking into that. BTW, that was a quick fix! Just shared an item on FF and it pushed thru to Twitter instantly.
- Brian
Hello Paul, when I try to publish just my google talk status to twitter and have "Link to source site instead of FriendFeed conversation" selected, it doesn't send the tweet. I'm not sure if this is because twitter seems to be having difficulty right now or if it's the lack of a source link because it's a google talk status?
- ehaab
ehaab, publishing to Twitter was broken this morning, so no updates went out. It should work fine now however, including publishing updates from Google Talk. Sorry about that.
- Paul Buchheit
thanks! it was driving me batty trying to figure out why it wasn't taking.
- ehaab
I think it's still broken. I just posted via the Bookmarklet and CC'd twitter... no go. EDIT: my latest one just posted, must be intermittent.
- Daniel Sims
Hi Paul, Mine is still not working. I have also checked the setting page.
- zahedzadeh
it is May 2012, 3 years passed, things are broken, Twitter makes what it promises, Friendfeed fix at top does... nothing. After oAuth decoupling and re-coupling again, fresh app access appears on Twitter control side but Friendfeed does not follow.. #PRKL
- A. T.
Hi Paul, apparently there's no new certificate available for FF. Italian and Turkish users are panicking, this might be a sign that the end of FF is approaching. Can you reassure us?
- mentegatto
this is the end of the world as we know it
- thomas morton ☢
Would you like to hear about my undergraduate thesis on the efficiency and equity of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965?
- John E. Bredehoft
43:6f:6e:66:69:72:6d:65:64:3a:20:49:27:6d:20:61:20:74:68:72:65:61:64:20:6b:69:6c:6c:65:72
- Chris Heath
nope, i am the official thread killer
- AJ Batac
Cuz this is killer, thread killer night, and no one's gonna save you from AJ when he's about to strike, you know it's killer, thread killer night, you're fighting for your threads from a killer, thread killer tonight
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
"Two weeks ago, we launched version 2 of the FriendFeed API in beta. Since then, we've watched how developers have been using the API and collected a lot of their feedback. We've implemented some changes, and now, we're ready to remove the beta label!"
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
A two weeks beta in the 2.0 era sounds almost blasphem! Congrats!
- Simone Ruffilli
Congrats to Ben and Gary for all their hard work getting this out the door. And thanks to all the developers who have been sending us great feedback the past couple weeks.
- Bret Taylor
It took me 1.5-years to get RSS after Dave Winer first showed it to me. So, I am getting faster. Took me just a few months to get friendfeed. Glad you kept after me.
- Robert Scoble
So how do I access it? <---I take that back. Didn't realize what I was looking at when I went to the site.
- Mattie Kenny
Josh: it was a seasonal thing last year at this time, so it is no longer possible. We may have to bring it back by popular demand, but for now the entries you see are all from last year.
- Bret Taylor
Bret - bring back those cute little red icons next to the FF posts! easy seasonal "flair" feature!
- Susan Beebe
I didn't know you on FF before tonight, but when I saw that you went to be with Jim & Frank AND you live in Silver Spring, I thought, hey, he must be pretty awesome (I grew up in Hyattsville). Blessings to you.
- Corinne L
"Another meaning that is ascribed to the color red is passion. This can refer to love or anger but is probably more associated with love." http://www.catalogs.com/info...
- Myrna
Lots of folks saying the Google Chrome logo "makes them want to play Simon" - LOL
- Susan Beebe
to me it looks like how a non-computer-using artist type would design a trackball -- either that or they are trying to get a HAL vibe without creeping everyone out
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Uh-oh, Google, you've been caught with your hand in the electronics bin!
- MiniMage
I got my son a travel version of Simon, so there's at least one kid who's seen it. (He needs hand-eye coordination practice.) This does seem very, very similar.
- Kisha
from BuddyFeed
This is clearly not my cat. If this was my cat he's have one arm shoved down into the printer trying to tear up all the internal whirling bits with his bare claws.
- Soup in a TARDIS
Too Funny! Reminds me of the San Mateo Cat Shelter where one of the cats loves to sleep on top of the laster printer where the paper comes out...
- Greg Lato
1600+ to beat the FFundercats live chat thread. I think with this real time now on all threads we're going to see some truly epic comment numbers.
- Simon Wicks
Ivan, no the picture speaks for itself. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Petr, I have no idea what you mean, but thank you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
@Kol .. :] that, partially, might have been the purpose.... I don't know it exactly either. :] .. was I reflecting on a cat under the fax, and that it is hard to fax that way ... /?:] ... "underfaxing at its worst" ..
- pb:
there ya have me ! :] .... see, to be honest with you, i saw this pic couple days ago, but i let it go, without posting it ..... what does that make me? :]
- pb:
even a flat cat... faxes just can't handle the hair. You'd have to shave the cat first, else the hair will burn and stick to the drum... a mess! (I am extrapolating from transparencies, mind, i don't have access to a cat to test)
- Iphigenie
Hehe, Joelle. This is now tied for the 'likes' top stop. One more then, hehe. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Hehe, Greg. Blimey! Erm, is that not far from 500 likes now? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Bloody marvelous, Kol. Wish I could like it again... too cute (and help u to 500 likes).
- Roberto Bonini
I couldn't believe it when I logged on from the morning over posting it and saw it was at something 200 likes! You all have a strange fetish with cats and fax machines, hehe. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Am I the only one who saw this and their first thought was - My goodness did someone break that cats neck? It still freaks me out a little
- SteVe C
Steve, it does look a little out of place, but cats are pretty bendy. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
So we can put this post to rest now. :-) 505 likes final count, wow! :-D Good night all!
- Kol Tregaskes
did 3 people really un-like this? now at 506. wtf (edit: uh, oh, yeah, me and 2 + 506 others makes 509. dammit, jim, i'm an artist, not a mathematician)
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
One of the best funny cat pictures I've seen! :-)
- John Collis
Kristian, it appears to be. Hehe, John.
- Kol Tregaskes
ای بابا این پیشول بی خیال نمی شود، بابا پاشو برو دنبال یه بازی دیگه ، از هفته پیش تا حالا تو فکس ولو شدی حوصله ات سر نرفته، پاشو اقلا بپر رو کیبوردی چیزی
- Maryaminaa
It's really only social convention which regards it as inappropriate, same with Xeroxing it, like one does with their b__tocks. Wait are we still talking about cats cats here or...
- sofarsoShawn
OMGosh 700+ likes now!! LOL. Thank you all 702 of you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Just remember- this is not a competition, just an exhibition. @Kyle - ever been to Culver, IN? Grew up there before moving to Chicago.
- michael sean wright
Nice: I have been to Culver! You are in Chicago now? I will have to let you know next time I am up your way.
- Kyle Lacy
Not sure about that, but: "Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable." - Swatch, Always Now, 1997 (and yes my lunch, at 1:42am local, is consisting of a double martini so that actually makes some sense to me)
- David HC Soul
are you saying that time "now" has no meaning? i (obv.) reject this but toast your willingness to acknowledge the wisdom of a dean martin martini. now, for you sir, on to the work of most importance. focus on the permanent.
- michael sean wright
Well, I will grant that the sentiment of French Marshall Lyautey has some merit (he asked his gardener to plant a tree and when the gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years the Marshall was said to have replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!').... So I am off to plant some trees....
- David HC Soul
you, i like. and will point you to Hermann Hesse before he won the Nobel Prize for 'The Glass Bead Game' in which he wrote in in the idyllic poem "Hours in the Garden" (1936)- 'I hear music and see men of the past and future. I see wise men and poets and scholars and artists harmoniously building the hundred-gated cathedral of the Mind." - (forword to Glass Bead Game by by Hermann Hesse by Theodore Ziolkowski.)
- michael sean wright
Thanks for the pointer - I'll go search it out.
- David HC Soul
I hope so. The thought is consuming much of my waking hours these days.... But I have to be up in 5 hours... so will have to return to the 'nightcrew' tomorrow night. One thing about time is it does seem to age one....
- David HC Soul
sleep perchance to dream, a wise man said. Billy Shakespeare.
- michael sean wright
Then pause now to ask yourself the following question: "Am I dreaming or awake, right now?"
- David HC Soul
man, most of the ppl who liked this i haven't seen on FF in ages. maybe i'm doing it wrong.
- Joe Silence
for most of us we met here, stayed loyal here but the sun set long ago : ( what a rush of a time that was! now we find ourselves over at g+ telling stories of the good ol' days!
- michael sean wright
Meme-inless no more! always been an interesting world with you!
- michael sean wright
oh and... i do have some google+ invites left - email me nicefishfilms at g ma i l dot co m
- michael sean wright
I'm curious now - did google + make you come back to FF? Because that is v interesting.
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
yes, we did the podcast when ff was acquired by the book of face.. watched them absorb the real-time elements and i check in from time to time usually through this post as it brings back very fond memories. google + reminds me of the early days of ff - haven't felt that way about any of the social nets that have come since the facedbooked swallow up. heaven knows we've been on them all and they seem so ancient now -- quora anyone? google got it right with +. think it marks the next era for them.
- michael sean wright
Google + right now does remind me of the FF glory days and I am curious to see what happens next.
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
we ship a lot of comics to your fine country - hopefully the comic book buying public will survive, best of luck and our best wishes.
- Comics Forge
Thanks Johnny. I was wondering about this just yesterday. We went through quite a few typhoons when we lived in Okinawa. Those things are no joke. I'm glad you guys are safe.
- DB, Just DB #TeamMonique
Johnny for a moment I was wondering, why did you move to Texas :-) I guess North American bias everything is about us.
- Shakeel Mahate
Just to be certain, are we talking a canada-like scale here? Meaning that you and Melly live together, Glenn and Penny are your only neighbours and Mo's place is described as "over yonder" ? teehee
- Slippy like shiny things.
Oh wait, I just remembered...the Mobot don't friendfeed no more. WIPE HIM FROM THE MAP. HE IS DEAD TO ME!!!!!!
- Slippy like shiny things.
Sister in law is ok, seems it didn't hit Makay too hard, they lost power and had a pretty wild storm but they're ok
- Glenn Slaven
According to the company's results, net income for the quarter was $695 million, or $1.33 per share diluted, compared with net income of $934 million, or $1.78...
- Loic Le Meur
"I may be a total noob for not knowing this (feel free to insult me in the comments, but please stay polite ;)), but did you guys know that in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, you can see hieroglyphs of R2-D2 and C-3PO cleverly hidden in the background of several scenes? Behold:"
- AJ Batac
from Bookmarklet
"Quick! Let’s free associate. Complete this sentence: _ SETS OF _ REPS. Did you answer 3 and 10? Of course you did. It’s the Pavlovian response. After all, anyone who’s ever picked up a dumbbell knows that doing 3 sets of 10 reps of each exercise is the quickest way to build muscle. Except it’s not. In fact, it’s the quickest way to get nowhere with your workout routine, says Michael Mejia, C.S.C.S., a long-time Men’s Health fitness advisor."
- imabonehead
from Bookmarklet
Bridesmaids has to be one of the most honest, funny, genuine and gobsmacking comedies I've seen in a long time. Definitely a home run. I highly recommend seeing it.
Yes, it has some totally unbelievable moments in it as all comedies tend to do, but the casting of this movie is pure genius. I connected with all of the people in the movie because they cast people who really fit their roles. It's really refreshing to see that level of commitment on the part of the filmmakers to get the cast as true to real life as you are likely to see come out of Hollywood.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
from YouFeed
It's also refreshing these days to find a comedy that makes me laugh pretty much the whole way through. We watched You Again the other night and it was simply awful in comparison.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
My wife and I watched it this afternoon as well. Definitely a fun movie. =)
- ronin
Another great moment in the debate was when Obama said that parents shouldn't be lazy and to put down the video games- and a virtual realtime friendfeed storm started happening all over my iPhone. I'm saying, people were pissed.
regardless of how we all feel about videogames... We will not be able to "fix" the education problems in this country without parents putting forth a full effort.
- JoEllen
As a parent, I agree 100% with what Obama said. Indeed, let's not get lazy.
- Mike Reynolds
I agree with that comment of Obama's too. School may be for education, but parents should be teaching their kids how to behave. That includes moral guidance, a sense of right and wrong, discipline too. Also sex ed and guidance should be a parental responsibility not a schools.
- Ian May
In the school my mother taught at for 35 years, they had to start offering dental services to children AT SCHOOL because parents weren't doing it AT HOME. This alongside the school psychologist/psychiatrist, the free/reduced lunches and offering breakfast & childcare for low income kids as well. I'm not saying these things shouldn't be done - but that is why we're spending so much on education. The school is taking care of what isn't being taken care of at home. I should add that is in a suburban school.
- JoEllen
Our society's really self absorbed. Hard to be a parent when you are!
- Patricia
I don't think Obama was talking about parents playing videogames, I think he's talking about kids playing videogames and watching TV.
- JoEllen
I think he was talking about family priorities. Many of the 8th graders in my sister's classroom have PS3's or xboxes at home but honestly do no have/own notebooks, folders, pencils, or $ for after school activities.
- JoEllen
Don't hate on warcraft- the azerothian economy is doing *just fine*, thank you.
- Chris Hollander
I'd even settle for parents and kids playing videogames together. Thank you Rock Band, Guitar Hero and the Wii.
- JoEllen
If people are mad that Obama said this, I think they're overreacting. It's not like he was demonizing TV and video games outright. There's just an increase in parents not taking responsibility to discipline their kids in all aspects, including having a balance between reading, learning, having the thirst for knowledge, and playing video games, watching TV, and doing other stuff like that.
- Cheryl Jones
Growing up, I played a lot of NES, Sega, had my own computer and spent a lot of time on it. But I was also a voracious reader, had strong interests in science (not so much math) and English, and generally had a good balance with my interests. The balance isn't so great now with kids. And a lot of parents do not discipline their kids like my parents disciplined me (it bugs the crap out of me, seeing kids running wild in stores and not getting scolded). I think his call to parents was correct and necessary.
- Cheryl Jones
I thought this was a moment that Obama really thought he had made the race, and was working towards lowering unrealistic expectations the public may have- the "we all have to work on this" instead of "I'm your savior"
- anna sauce
Suddenly MC's wall and pics on FB don't respond. I think the engagement has provoked the equivalent of a DDOS attack of good wishes on the FB servers. :-D
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
Woohoo! Congratulations, you two! I'm pretty happy with my Scott; since all Scotts are awesome, I know you'll have eternal bliss with yours! :-D
- Ordinarybug Heather
I'm a little late, but OMG YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox
- Headless Gnad Kicker
We know Jandy is balling when she buys a Benz to store her produce.
- SAM
I wonder if he sat it there by accident and just happened to remember that's where it was. Whatever the case was, awesome. You can't make these things up.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
I'm sure that's what actually happened, Kamilah. I think it's funnier to assume he meant to put it there, though. :)
- Jandy