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Your poor kids...when they grow up and find out how you sold them out they might exact revenge! Or they'll just be the coolest kids ever. - Josh Haley

totally renaming you Louis Gray, Mommyblogger. lol - Erin @queenofspain

Cute kids. - DB, Just DB #TeamMonique

Should be default Google Image result when searching for "twins" :) - Mark Krynsky

@Erin, that would be awesome. :-) - Louis Gray

@Louis, is your wife aware of this? http://friendfeed.com/e... - Mark Krynsky

That is cute, love the hats! - Sally Church

Yes, but do you have the LouisGray.com onesies??? - http://jessestay.smugmug.com/gallery... - Jesse Stay

Haha Nice Photos - To Google Forever hah. - Raymond Marr aka Knatchwa

most adorable SERPs ever! - sean percival

@Mark, she certainly has seen it now! Thanks a lot. :-) - Louis Gray

awesome * 2 ! - Mattb4rd

Is that the latest from Google Labs?? Babies delivered by email? Great no more morning sickness, and mood swings! I'm sure it's still in beta... - Daan

+1 Daan - dgw from fftogo

The expression on Matthew's face in the 3rd pic! (At least, I *think* that's Matthew.) - Yolanda

=D - David Cook

These twin-geeks have played all web yet.:) - Igor Poltavskiy

My favorite baby geeks! - Daynah

hey these cuties showed up again! :) - Susan Beebe

ha! love it! - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

These are architected to resurface every three weeks. It's a feature, not a bug. - Louis Gray

babypimping.com - the way to beat the economy slowing! HAAH - Allen Stern

with kids this cute you know louis is "Feeling Lucky" ohhhhhhh bad joke alert! - sean percival

got to be the cutest babies i have ever seen. id love a hat and all-in-one like that :D - ♥ Stephiepooos ♥

So should I get a third outfit or make the newbie wear hand me downs? - Louis Gray

Awesome! - Vincent X

HOT - Mona Nomura

Proof of geekitude. Sweet! - Josh Haley

That's like from some hacker movie where someone has just broken into Pentagon... - Jemm

If you look closely in the lower right corner you can see my Hayes 300 Baud Smartmodem. - Mark Krynsky

Yeah! Neat stuff! Even the kind of light effect comes in so tightly in the pic. - Zu from AOD

looks like you got caught with some dirty ASCII-pictures on your screen - Pascal

Hehe, Pascal ;) - Jemm

Dirty ascii pictures....yea...are there any other type? - Mark Krynsky

WOW. nice. - Melissa

Atari 800 - I wanted that and never got one.... lucky! - Susan Beebe

and a close up of his monitor reveals: http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt... - Pascal

*bump* - Rodfather

Hey dude! - Derrick

OMG 800! ULTRA WIN! - Mo Kargas

HAWT - Shevonne

you look like the lost Brady Bunch brother. - edythe

here's the story of a boy named krynsky - Cee Bee

HAWT! - BEX

and geeky - BEX

Ah...Atari 800. My first brush with programming. First computer was an Atari 1040ST. So so so long ago. Thanx for the memories. - Curtis (a) Jackson

This thread is so old that the pic was taken straight from the camera... Edit: or actually scanned.. - Jemm

Check you out Mark - total hottie. - Mona Nomura

Mona...you make...a...me...blush. - Mark Krynsky

At least you had a Hayes 300 Baud Smartmodem. We had to make do with a half-duplex No-name British 1200/75 baud one, and we didn't have anyone to sort out the wires for us the first very frustrating weekend! - ianf ⌘

Bump for good times. - Mark Krynsky

H-O-T - Louis Gray

I'll be in my bunk. - Spidra Webster

wow. that's bigger than my dad's 'fro! - Anika

HAHAHAHAHAH FABOO MAMA!!!! - Mona Nomura

BSA rules - Josh Haley

oh sh! so nice! - Zu from AOD

This is the greatest family photo ever. - Mike Doeff

I'm liking this because the suit reminds me of Herb Tarlek - Outsanity

Is that English? - Mona Nomura

*bump* - Rodfather

oh my god. - edythe

LOL yet so adorable - Lorna from twhirl

*bump* you can't hide from the rebirth of this meme. - Mark Krynsky

This is SO cute haha - Mona Nomura

"THPPBT" - Carlos Ayala

Lord, not I said the fly. ;) - Mona Nomura

Lol. The last one with all the babies is the funniest. - Alan Le

Sounds an awful lot like my daily high school life, I swear. :) - Zach Flauaus

I know yours mostly are, but is this SFW? I'm a little scared to click... :s - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

LOL, Kamilah they are. ;) - Mona Nomura

Thanks... it's *semi* safe, it does include some f-bombs. Wish I could easily shrink it down a bit more. Anyway, it was kinda sad :( I keep hoping things won't go that way... this Exciting Phase has lasted for a solid 6 months so far... - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

Reminds me of the joke about the phases of sex... The 1st kind of sex is Smurf Sex. This kind of sex happens when youfirst meet someone and you both have sex until you are blue in the face.The 2nd kind of sex is Kitchen Sex. This is when you have been withyour partner for a short time and you are so horny you will have sexanywhere, even in the kitchen.The 3rd kind of sex is Bedroom Sex.... more... - Tinfoil 2.0

LOL I think i'm stuck in a phase 1,2,3,6 loop - ·[▪_▪]·

Getting to 1 is a struggle for me, oh my life. :-( - Kol Tregaskes

AWESOME!! ROFLMAO!! - Susan Beebe

Omg I shared this almost a year ago! - Mona Nomura from iPhone

it's actually more than a year, now M... #justsaying #checkthecalendar - Bren

Is it? I don't even know what day it is. #typicalcalendarFAIL - Mona Nomura from iPhone

Wow, talking about ressurecting a zombie thread. 8^P - Chieze Okoye

enter the android: part human, part robot...skynet shall rule the world...ok seriously, i'm annoyed by those captchas that i have a hard time reading too... - brainno722 (Peter)

Oh, thank goodness I'm not the only one. I thought my eyes were getting even worse. - Katy S

There's also a rule (at least at the local bank here) that *women* who have had sex with a man who has had sex with a man cannot donate. So, in other words, a woman who has had sex with a guy who has had gay sex in the past. - Rochelle

I just gave blood a few weeks agon, Rah. The Central Texas Blood Center screening form now has over 30 questions on it. So yeah, the screen for that. And a million other things. - Phil Glockner

Damn, no wonder they can't get enough blood. Who wants to go through all that? Aren't they going to go behind you and test the blood anyway? Isn't this all a huge waste of time? - Rahsheen

Yeah, they don't let us. And I'm O+ and would love to be able to help those who need it. - Derrick

I could see the law being useful when it was proven that gay men were more likely to have AIDS like it was in the 80s... but now if they want to be statistical they would have to reject all Africans... http://aidsbuddy.com/wp-cont... which brings in an interesting question. I don't have an opinion. btw... I don't know the answer to this... but... more... - NoahDavidSimon

@Derrick: I'm O+, too. I'll have to donate more, since you can't. Except I'm on hiatus until April because of my Costa Rica vacation. - Erica Mauter

@Noah: I don't think it could be proven that an ethnic group is diseased. There is proof of genetic susceptibility (like the link between sickle cell anemia and malaria resistance), and there's history of ethnic groups populating certain geographic areas. But I don't think it's sound to categorically exclude a group like that. There are so many other factors. - Erica Mauter

@Erica: When you do, I'll be right on hand with the cookies and orange juice, my friend. - Derrick

Well, there's always the ethical debate you can have with yourself. Do you go in and lie and donate blood anyway, knowing that you've been tested and are negative? - Rochelle

@Rochelle, I've thought of that, knowing that the blood is tested anyway, but I haven't quite been so brazen. - Derrick

It's a stupid rule. Point blank. The blood will be tested anyway. Who cares if you're a dude having sex with dudes. If you know yourself not to be infected, you should be able to donate just like anyone else. I think Noah does have a point about stopping all black people from donating, though. I believe the statistics are not in our favor, but how stupid would THAT be? - Rahsheen

http://friendfeed.com/e... @Erica how many Eskimos do you see on this map? http://aidsbuddy.com/wp-cont... - NoahDavidSimon

Bumping this again. I emailed the Puget Sound Blood Center (the major Seattle blood bank) a few days ago to clarify the rules regarding gays donating (and those who have a history of homosexual contact, etc.). The donor coordinator said that FDA rules say that if a man has had homosexual contact since 1977, regardless of the frequency, he is permanently denied. If a female has sexual... more... - Rochelle

Yep, it boggles my mind that this happens in the first place. - Rodfather

This is still dumb as hell. - Rahsheen

Damn all these loops for donating blood. Seems like we need a scientific (synthetic) solution if everyone's jumping through hoops and walking on eggshells just to qualify to donate blood! - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart

Lindsey, they rely on people being honest. A guy who has gay sex with dozens of guys a year could go in there, swear he's never had gay sex, and donate if he qualifies based on all the other criteria. - Rochelle

It is exactly the same in Canada. I think it's because they're afraid of getting sued again after they infected a bunch of people with Hepatitis. I think the number of people eligible to donate is rapidly decreasing to the point where more people will be denied than allowed. They just stopped asking questions about SARS last year. - Kenton

Neal, when was that? - Rochelle

Neal, yeah. I was trying to figure out when the US/FDA started mandating hepatitis screenings in blood donation but can't find the year. - Rochelle

Heh, don't stress over it. I was just curious. Google isn't giving me the answer I'm looking for. - Rochelle

when a relationship is made up of 2 men and no women, there is very little chance of 'blood sucking' taking place. That kind of thing usually takes place in relationships containing 1 man and 1 woman. The 'blood sucking' is usually done by the woman, almost always following a breakup between the 2 people. The 'blood sucker' takes and takes and takes from the 'blood suckee', until there is almost nothing left to take. The 'suckee' often appears disheveled, pale and out of sorts immediately following an event - Morgan

Neal and Jason, I have no idea. He confused me, too. - Rochelle

Neal: What? No hard drugs on weekdays? Aw man! You never let me have any fun! - Morgan

me too, hayk. :) - Mona Nomura

Mona :) - Hayk

geeky comics, i likey! - imabonehead

heh - Charlie Anzman

Yar! - Jay Wiegmann

awesome! - Harold Green

heck yes :) - Mona Nomura

*chuckles* - The Fat Oracle

what an idea - macro

love it! - Melissa

you still look very similar (except for the bowl haircut, of course). - Cee Bee

*bump* - Rodfather

The PC police have just had an EPIC heart attack :-) - Duncan Riley

---------------------> - Mona Nomura

Haha Duncan...there was no such thing as PC in ~1967 when this was shot. - Mark Krynsky

Apparently. I just revived from an EPIC heart attack. :\ - Mona Nomura

Some memes are dangerous! - ناباور

Mark, true, but that picture is in THIS stream in 08 :-) Mona +1 lol Tsega +2 - Duncan Riley

Mona +1 Tsega +2, Duncan, let's give you one too hehe, the greatest remark. - Zu from AOD

Mike Arrington my dad....haha...that's a good one. - Mark Krynsky

my bestfriend had that hat - ❁ⓟⓘⓝⓚ❁ⓖⓐⓡⓓⓔⓝ❁

was ur friend a baby Sara? - NoahDavidSimon

I'm begging Sara to come online and play with me on friendfeed. I say make just one comment. figures it would be a picture of a baby. - NoahDavidSimon

love this - Melissa

haha, don't put this on Flickr, they censor photographs of children smoking. - Thomas Hawk

Gregory...no, I've never smoked thanks to Dad's scared straight program. - Mark Krynsky

holy cow! that is sooo 1967 isn't it! dang!! thanks Dad! - Susan Beebe

oh no! - Sarah Perez

I want that hat! - Ayşe E.

It's like Sun Tzu said: Only start memes you can win. - Kevin Bondelli

My bro has tons of 70s pics of me and him. Too bad I don't have copies or you could see Lil Tad in plaid. - iTad

God I had such a sweet 80s bowl cut. No wonder T is laughing at me. - Kevin Bondelli

That is quite possibly the best photo ever to be taken. - Mattie Kenny

It was one of the perks of being in a Hollywood family. - Kevin Bondelli

Mr. T! YES - Mona Nomura

So cool :) - Bee

MR. T!!!! FTW! - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

awesome. - Anika

I'm surprised how many of you had kid pics at the ready for this meme. - Kevin Bondelli

kevin. i only have 2 pics of me as a kid. i don't speak to my mom and she's in kuwait or UAE now so i have no idea where my childhood things are. the pics i have my dad let me borrow them so i can scan them, but i had to send them back halfway across the country. it's so sad, because there's a lot of cute pics of me as a kid. - Anika

@faboo I guess that is one of the big advantages of everything being digital now. - Kevin Bondelli

This might be my fave from the Kid Meme bunch. - Melissa

*bump* haha - Rodfather

oh behave! - Pascal

We should never shake hands. :) - Morton Fox

:P - Alemsah Ozturk

Look at his face... the dude on the very right. HAHA! - Mona Nomura

omg, a cracker - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Truth hurts!...Ahahaha! - Olcayto Cengiz

hahahha, super - Özkan Altuner

alls fair in (self)love and thumb war! - Joe "Funkasaurus" Pierce

HEE! :-D - Ordinarybug Heather

Awww, too late! - Shey

lawl! - Christian (Simply X)

ROFL - Abbas Haider Ali

just showed this to Tad in a restaurant and he's laughing so hard people are staring. LOL! - Lindsay

Excellent!! rofl!! - Penny

I don't know who bumped this, but thanks. I forgot I even posted this. That very last character's face is PRICELESS. And Lindsay. LOL! - Mona Nomura

LOL!!! This is great!!! - David Cook

Smiles - Bob Gannon

haha - Ted Roden

Holy FUNNIEST. COMIC. EVER!!!! - Morgan

hahahhahahhaha - Mona Nomura

Mona wins the innerwebs! -

You guys, this is SO old - from November LOL - Mona Nomura

Hey, Mona! Pull my finger! - Steven Perez

ROFL - Anika

Ha ha - Brandy Lea

hehe :p - alessandro

C&h ftw - mjc

love it! - Greg

ROFL - knagayama

that's wrong. so wrong. :) - felix

This was really posted 97 days ago? - Jason Shultz from twhirl

Aw, come on. It's probably a kindergardener's first time drawing scissors. It IS funny, though. - Dread Pirate PJ

Ahhh kids ... so innocent! - Penny

That's pretty good. Mine looks like that. Scissors I mean ;) - Toby Graham

Streaking = running with scissors? - Dread Pirate PJ

hahah good one, i thought you drew it Zee-_- - Gordon Swaby

lol Dread...@Gordon, if i only i was so talented! :) - Zee.

Snip snip... - Mathieu Ayel

God that send shivers up my spine Mathieu.. - Zee.

Superbad. - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

doodle meme? - Josh Haley

haha... we used to do something similar in high school... we'd draw it on the blackboard and claim it was a rocket ship... I miss high school - Shawn Duffy from twhirl

I think meme came from Richard Dawkins. meme=the mental equivalent of a gene. A thought that passes all around like a virus. So meme here is something that one or a few people start doing and soon everybody's doing it. right now posting photos of doodles. it's like a fad but memes seem to run their courses even faster. - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

this message brought to you by the society to cut up men - Cee Bee

If you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at? - jfayel

Lorena Bobbit inspired? - Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ

I've got the first 6,000 words. "It was still the best of times and still the worst of times?" "It was still a dark and stormy night?" - Nine Ferdinand

Stick in a few recipes or song lyrics. - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

Then you could submit it to McSweeney's and be guaranteed publication. - Akiva

Words are easy, the order not so much. - Micah

I think one of the fantasy authors I read has been having the same problem. The last three books of hers I've read included pages of descriptions of minor characters and their histories... and then you never hear of them again. - Pixie

It's like reading Homer! 300 pages of the dogs of Ajax and then back over to the war. - Nine Ferdinand

Wow, pretty impressive dodging... He apparently knows the 5 D's: Dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge! - Robert

You know what patches says, if you can dodge a shoe, you can dodge a ball! -- sorry, had to add that. - Robert

i always thought "Shoeless Joe" was supposed to be an outfielder, not a pitcher. http://instantrimshot.com - Karim

Of course he's an expert at dodging. That is one of the major talents he exhibited these last 8 painful years. - Donna Mugavero

Amazing. - Kenley Neufeld

Oh man, that was great.. But I kinda gotta feel bad for Bush.. it's gotta be hard when people halfway around the globe hate you so much. But he moves fast for someone who's slow with his way of words. - deepikaur

I'm loving how Bush just ducks and smiles as the shoes fly at him. - daniel williams

NOTE: If you do not know the answer to the question reload the page and you will get another question. - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

I have been deemed sub-human - woe - Nadine Schaeffer

The answer is FISH over and over again- Rimmer out... - InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)

Oddly enough, I don't think it's that great a CAPTCHA for a computer. - Rob H.

OMG - I was trying to figure out a compound interest problem last night and the formula look a lot like this. I would FAIL BAD on this CAPTCHA. - Martha

I think the answer's 0 despite what the math whizzes in the thread say. - Jim #TeamMonique

This is the reason I hate maths. - Roberto Bonini

That's one site I won't be joining. :( - Jack&Cleo

Jim, once you hit calculus, the answers are all either zero or infinity. :-) - Ordinarybug Heather

My son has dyscalculia, and I worry about math-based captchas for this reason. There is always someone who is being excluded by these tests of our humanity! - Patricia F. Anderson

If you're not good at math, you probably won't be signing up for a Quantum Random Bit Generator Service. - Rob H.

Actually, it's a trick question. The answer is "mandatory". - vijay

14. ... 7*6 cos (6x) - 7*4 (sin 7x + pi/2) at x = 2pi ... and cos (multiples of 2 pi) = 1, sin (multiples of 2 pi) = 0, sin (multiples of 2 pi + pi/2) = 1, so ... 7*6 - 7*4 = 14 - Mitchell Tsai

I'm glad I forgot how to do this kind of math soon after I graduated! - Craig Eddy

Just found out I'm not human :(...Cannot answer the darn thing! :) - Joel Reyes

@Joel. I think that's the point. If you get the correct answer, you're obviously not a human! - In Search of Gender

Can't I just copy and paste that into Maple or Mathematica? - Robin Barooah

Do you think you need prove that you are a human ? - xuzepei

@Scott,just my humor :). I think @ Mitchell has the answer :) - Joel Reyes

Well.....I can't solve it. I'm not human either. - J. D. Ebberly

can we google the answer ? - Sai

umm... 42? - Capn' One Eye - adrift

Answer: 5 - Outsanity

i'm not the human!!!!(google Answers) - OnoQ

Answer: Not important. - ::Kristen::

Oh my, this means people need to have at least a Calculus background! What happens for those who have forgotten calculus? Perhaps someone is or has worked on an automatic math bot that can read and answer this? - Alvin

After about five refreshes you get a simple addition/multiplication problem. - Rob H.

lovely :) i wish there were more CAPTCHAs like this...! internet would become an esoteric gathering of excessively bright and resourceful humans!! - Hayk

Typing in 0, 14 or mandatory???? really Hayk :) - Roberto Bonini

Love it! - Mark Douglass

As soon as you enter the answer you will get this message "Session expired. " and you'll see a new CAPTCHA :) - Ferruh Mavituna

OMG, that's the way to fight spam - Dobromir Hadzhiev

And these winds do not help at all. - Anika

34F. It's warm today, D. :) - Mona Nomura

The only thing getting me through it is the warm oven about to be filled with homemade snickerdoodle cookie dough for Anika's later. ;) - Derrick

Me = intrigued. Snickerdoodles? Haven't had those in a while. It may just be me and you singing songs, ya know? My friends are now hedging because I was dumb enough to mention Rock Band. They're still scarred from the Great Eye Toy Fiasco of '05. Man, I should dig up those videos. ROFL. - Anika

Anika, we can sit and eat cookies and talk mess about people. Not a problem. Although I'm thinking the kids might have something else in mind. *shudders* ;) - Derrick

Okay! Be warned: My daughter gives tours of the house. Please resist. - Anika

Abby, one time we had people over. I had taken all the laundry that I hadn't folded and all the dirty clothes and put them in my bedroom. She showed everyone that room, "Mommy and Daddy's room is messy because mama didn't do the laundry before you came over. See?" Me = mortified. - Anika

So sad. - jho

I know, my e-feelings are hurt. - Mona Nomura from IM

I just slit my wrists a trillion times over. brb. BRUNCH TIME! YEAH! - Mona Nomura from IM

Mona, you can't believe everything FF tells you. It's just jealous... See here http://friendfeed.com/e... - FFing Enigma

Thank you, Nation Hahn. I feel better now. :) -patches up slit wrists from hurt e-feelings- - Mona Nomura

Cheer up, Mona. Things could be worse. You could have found out that bacon and Legos no longer liked you. Not that they did, mind you. :) - Steven Perez

Bacon and LEGO no longer like me? IMPOSSIBLE. - Mona Nomura from IM

Oh the BLASPHEMY. - Mona Nomura from IM

I think these scenarios demand more attention. Maybe we can get a grant to study each set of conditions and determine which is worse. - Steven Perez

Will NOT give up bacon/LEGO for $$. I AM NOT CHEAP, DAMNIT! - Mona Nomura

I HATE YOU MORE! - Mona Nomura

The day I start caring about stuff like this is the last day I use any social networking sites. - Akiva

I HATE AKIVA MORE - Mona Nomura from IM

I HATE AKIVA MOST. - Rochelle

Pffft. So not true. - Louis Gray

I HATE AKIVA MOIST. - Akiva

Gross. HAHAHHAHAHHA - Mona Nomura

MOSTEST GROSSEST!! - Mona Nomura from IM

haha - Denis

Hello, sailor. - Akiva

This thread made me LOL - Bwana ☠

I HATE THIS THREAD AND I HATE FF! ;) - Mona Nomura from IM

My stats show that I like Mona and she doesn't like me. - Louis Gray

Ok, there is some funny business going on here! - Mona Nomura

It's so not true, Mona!!! http://friendfeed.com/e... - Lindsay

Woooo hooo I *barely* made it on there! ... phew, close call! :D - Susan Beebe

I will no longer think of the song Santa Baby without thinking of you, Susan - Phil Wolff

It's LG's fault. He's always in the first two. Think FF's rigged ?? :) - Charlie Anzman

I read fast too... sometimes to fast! :o) - Rob Sellen :o)

That's called skimming! But I can finish two paperback flying from JFK / La Guardia / EWR to SFO. - Mona Nomura from IM

i'm a afraid to take the test, might not get back here for hours :( - ernie yacub

mine is 400 - 450 ... - Alemsah Ozturk

"You read between 450 - 500 words per minute. Well above average reading level. (The average rate is between 200 - 250 words per minute.) It is assumed that you did not skim the words nor fail to understand the meaning of what was read." -- Hrm, didn't skim, but I probably zoned out somewhere in there. They should have a comprehension quiz afterwards..LOL - Rahsheen

I read 150 - 200 words per minute, but I think it will be more when I do this in my own language... - Aline

I agree, V. if I'm reading an author that I love or a particularly interesting passage, I'll re-read stuff and linger over the words just for the pleasure of it. - Rahsheen

150 - 200. I tend to read slower then I used to cause I like to soak in every word that I read. I like to become part of the book. - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

I find speed-reading through books to be kind of offensive. It usually means that the reader only cares for the story and not how the story is told. I'm a slow reader because I usually read for style rather than content; I read to enjoy the writer's art. - Akiva

Actually, there are studies that show almost all Japanese people speed read and skim. We pick up the first few words, skim the middle, and read the last but still comprehend context. It's related to our ambiguous oral patterns, I think. - Mona Nomura

The only thing that I skim are articles. Where all that is important is to pick up the facts. Books, I have to take time to get through those. - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

250-300 and made a concerted effort not to skim. I'm pretty sure I could consume a lot more - but that's not the point. There's time for skimming and time for reading... - George Smith

I wasn't skimming. =) I usually reread a book about a year later. I started reading on my phone as I was traveling all the time and for the last 4 years averaged about 80-100 books a year. Kinda wish I was a slower reader, then I would not have to fork as much cashish to ereader. - jho

TOTALLY agree. Were you thrown into Kumon, too Jauder? - Mona Nomura from IM

350-400. I admit to reading more quickly than I normally would because I'm competitive. :) But I wasn't skimming or losing any comprehension. On lingering, I tend to read things I want to savor twice rather than read slowly. Second time aloud, often (okay, which means more slowly...), - Jandy

I read at about 450 words per minute on average. This varies depending on the content a LOT. If I am reading a newspaper, I can skim through an article at a MUCH faster pace. If I am reading a Marquez Novel, I read about one page in one hour cause I am taking time to absorb the beauty of each word. It depends on the following factors: a. Understanding of/Familiarity with the subject, b. Motive behind the reading (pleasure versus information), c. Author's way of writing. - Parth Awasthi

You read between 650 - 700 words per minute.The second time I finished before the minute was up, but I have to admit to skimming the first few paragraphs because I'd already read them and remembered them. - Nine Ferdinand

I read between 300 - 350 words per minute. That actually shocked me. I wish I could write essays for English that fast! - Michael Forian

Mona, no. I did not grow up over here. =) As far as I can remember, I've always been into books and reading so it just sort of happened over time. - jho

I'd like to see someone read Proust at 1,000 words per minute and then claim that they've read Proust. - Akiva

Ten maybe - Josh Haley

first time through I got 400-450, but I was distracted a couple of times, and had to stop reading to scroll down the page. I inhale books that I like. Just like walking and thinking, I go faster when I'm concentrating. BUT I usually read every book I like 2-4 times (some I've read more). - InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)

between 400 - 450 words per minute for me as well. - Joe "Funkasaurus" Pierce

I got 450 and I know that's slow for me - I can't read on screen as fast as I can read on paper. - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

i wish i could read so I knew what this said!!! - (jeff)isageek

good stuff during good time - Igor Poltavskiy

400-450wpm - Jesse Stay

250-300. I thought it would have been lower then that. I'm surprised. - David Cook

How retarded is that? FriendFeed posts are not really news, but eh...whatever. I guess I'll go ahead and clip this one for good measure. (no, not really) - Rahsheen

I actually feed FriendFeed back into itself several months ago, just to see what would happen. It was in the FF Feedback room, but apparently it has been pruned ;x - xero

When you connect your FF to socialmedian we only grab your original FF submissions not your connected sites. - Jason Goldberg

I guess I just don't see the point, but I guess it's good for some other folks. - Rahsheen

@Rasheen if you want to have all your newsworthy online submissions fed to socialmedian we make that possible. Increasingly people are entering content directly on FF vs. just doing it via site feeds. We want to make sure that content gets shared. - Jason Goldberg

Rah, I feed my FF into SocialMedian *but* only items that met specific keywords. That way I can go through my RSS reader and either share things to FF via bookmarklet or share them via GReader, they show up here, and if they meet my keywords they also show up in SocialMedian. It keeps me from having to share each item twice (once for here and once for there) - FFing Enigma

It makes sense to grab specific ones, but a simple search like "who:rahsheen service:internal" here, will show you what I saw a few people importing over there. I just found it kinda odd to see basic microblogging being fed in as news. Maybe it's just a few people doing that, though. :) - Rahsheen

Ew, really? I'm going to have to go visit the site, but that's an unfollow, IMO. That's as bad as having your FF comments pipe into Twitter. - Anika

Exactly, Anika. I see why the option exists, but it's inevitable that people will use it "wrong." Although, I'm interested to play with it later to see how easy it is to share just actual news from here to there :) - Rahsheen

Rah, the keywords are what make the import feature worthwhile. If it were my call, I'd make including keywords mandatory so you couldn't import a bunch of junk... - FFing Enigma

Well, I read Jason's comment, now I'm freaked out that my FF is going to s|m. It was doing that to Strands and I had to cut that because who wants or needs to see all of that? - Anika

Anika -- your FF only goes to sm if you set it up that way. We don't do anything like that for you. You have to set it up yourself. - Jason Goldberg

You wish you were a little bit taller. Wish you were a baller. Wish you had a girl who looked good, you would call her? - Mattie Kenny

Mattie, that's the first thing that came into my mind, too. I thought, 'What the hell. This is not how that song goes.' - Akiva

I understand where you are coming from. I'm an even six feet, but my father and younger brother topped out at 6'3' and 6'5". I always had to look up to talk to them. Not fun at all. - Derek Coward

Mattie and Akiva clearly never flipped the record over and bumped THE REMIX. - Derrick

I'm around 6ft, but my wife is only 5ft 3. She says she's little and good. Sometimes I'm not so sure! :) - Ian May

Meh, I'm 5'6", I heard that's the average height of a woman...yeah...whatever - Rahsheen

I wish I was 5'10" - Shevonne

5' 11". Pop is slightly taller and my brother Joel is 6' 2", but my other brother Josh is 5' 9". Still, Josh's brother-in-law is 7' 5", so he and the wife are worried about their kid being nine feet tall. :D - Steven Perez

Pfft! AMATEURS! Anyone over five feet is TALL. Signed, Heather, Literally a Midget at 4'9", application to LPA in the MAIL. Yeah. - Ordinarybug Heather

I am 5'6" and my husband is 5'2". He is the tallest of his 3 siblings. The shortest is his 4'9" sister. She looked like a like a doll at her wedding. :-D - April Russo

Also, +10 to Mattie for the song, and to Akiva and Carmen for recognizing it. - Ordinarybug Heather

7'5"? Is his BIL Yao Ming? My kids are ridiculously tall for their ages. People think they're 2 years older than they are. You should see people's eyes bug out of their heads when we tell them our son is 3. He looks like a baby to us, but to everyone else he's a freak of nature. - Anika

heck, i wish i was 5'- 4'10" sucks...Finding pants is a pain and a half. I could go broke with tailoring alone. instead i just wear skirts and pants that are designed to rest mid calf. petite pants are still 2" too long. - InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)

7'5" is just freakishly tall. 6'5" is freakishly tall. - Derrick

6'5" is freakishly tall? *cries in corner* - Brandon

Me again, with the metric system :) 194cm here.... Apparently that´s 6.3648294 feet according to Google. - ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ

Ahem, 6'5" is perfectly beautiful and sexy and people possessing that height should be loved ten times over by all who encounter them. (How's that, B?) - Derrick

Ummm *blush* ... hehe that was wonderful, D. ;) - Brandon

I'm 5'8", what's wrong with that? :-) - Kol Tregaskes

I'm 5'11" and I'm good with my height. - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

"I wish I was a little bit taller. I wish I was a baller. I wish I had a girl who looked good, I would call her. I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat and a '64 Impala. - Cheryl Jones

Dammit, just realized the lyrics were already posted at the beginning of the thread. Geeze. - Cheryl Jones

I'm 5'8.5" but my ex is 6'0". My 9 yo daughter is 5'2" and still growing like a weed. I've never felt like I was short or tall. I've been successful with tall and short ladies in terms of dating/marrying/divorcing (only tall on the divorce thing). It's how you carry yourself that matters, not the actual elevation. - Morgan

pwned. :-P - Mattie Kenny

they can't block your iphone! fftogo.com! - Sarah Perez

So when are you switching jobs? - The Fat Oracle

what about friendfeed via facebook? Or accessing your account on fftogo.com through the web browser? Or NoiseRiver.com? Do those get blocked too? - Josh Haley

That would definitely inspire me to quit and look for a new one. - Eric P

What if you access it through Facebook or through your blog? There are always loopholes. - Shevonne

I now have my laptop hooked up to my work monitor. The laptop is resting on the keyboard holder under my desk with a 'USB Switch' so I can switch from my laptop to the work computer on one monitor. I only have to tap 'Scroll Lock' twice to make it switch back and forth. *They can't hold me back from FriendFeed!* =D - David Cook

IT Nazis will do it everytime while keeping their jewels readily available:( - Roney Smith

Que shrill horror music. - Tyson Key

Josh you're a genius! I forgot about noise river. It works! I will now exploit it until they block that site too. ;) (Facebook was blocked from the day it was created.) - David Cook

I can't get anything but Linkedin at my work. Shortsighted neanderthals, I say. - Martha

no no no! I'm scared! my job is likely to find and block it any day now. What are alternative ways to access FriendFeed, other than fftogo? I'll have to check whether NoiseRiver works (I'm on vacation this week). I need my escape routes ready for the day that it happens. - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

I know! I can download whatever I want on my work laptop. - Shevonne

In defense of the "IT Nazis", most IT departments are loath to filter internet access and it is generally mandated by some non-IT manager. - Kenton

I am all for the freedom at lunch and agree that work should be about the task at hand :) - Joe Dawson

BOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! - AJ Batac

to friendfeed? wow, that's a new one on me - unlike facebook friendfeed can be research and communication. I guess they looked at the web logs and saw this growing traffic and went "yikes!" - Iphigenie

hello proxy workaround - adolfo foronda

I think we get in trouble for proxy workarounds at my job... - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

bummer! good ideas above; except proxy workaround might get you attention you don't want - Susan Beebe

Same here, only twitter is not blocked.. !? - ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ

Sheryl, I can't speak for other people but I am one of the biggest multi-taskers you will ever meet. I get so much more work done then my co-workers ever get done on a daily basis and I still have time to check posts and post stuff myself. I wish they had a system that could tell how much work I was getting done and *then* make the decision to let me have access or not. - David Cook