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my wife's engagement ring, my dog Samantha and ... nothing else really comes close - timepilot

One-way tickets. :) - Aviv

Eons ago: my first Mac - an SE30 - J. Mike Smith

Bikes, books, vintage keyboard (I love my Model-M) - Henry Prêcheur

Do wives count? - Gabe

from the article: "Boats: very costly, very disappointing. Never buy a boat." - Clare Dibble

Clare: a boat is a hole in the water that you throw money into. - Gabe

Nikon D90, books & graphic novels, Beats by Dre - Ralph

Books. Sailing vacation in Virgin Islands. Recumbent bicycle. - Fred Yankowski

Big TV, Android phone, herb. - Slappy Line

Canon 70-200 f2.8L IS, 2 other things that don't come to mind. - Russellreno

Honda Civic (1996), wedding ring (1997), Nikon D300 (2007) - Victor Panlilio

My soul. I should have never sold that sucker for super bowl tickets. - Todd Hoff

coffee, acrobatics & trampoline classes - Seth

New macs, digital SLR, pair or running shoes - Johnny from iPhone

G&L Tribute, AC15CC, AC4TV - J. Abdul-Qahhar

Vaio, iPhone, Akiva. And I didn't purchase it myself, but I love my D300. - Rochelle

Rochelle, Akiva, and Alex. - Cristo

Whoo! - Akiva Moskovitz

My citizenship in the USA, my degree at Berkeley, and my bike. - Piaw Na

My drum kit, my new 7-string bass viola da gamba, and lots of plane tickets. - Joel Webber

Paul: What three things have *you* purchased that have brought you the most happiness? - April Buchheit

All of my books, my Epson Rd1s Rangefinder camera and yet to find the third :) - Bhowmik Shah

Apple stuff, cars and Springsteen tickets. - Diego Barros 

Macbook/iPhone, ticket to Rilo Kiley (helped set off series of events much greater than the one concert), Xbox360. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

I brought my mother a pink Gund Bear about 20 years ago. She now suffers from Alzheimer's and loves that nice soft bear..so that would have to be number one.... - Bob DeMarco

Nikon, Zune and PS3 - John D Reasor

Jesus Christ... cost me nothing ... :-) - Sherif Mansour

My bike, my guitar, and the seeds and supplies for my vegetable garden. - Alec Proudfoot

I don't remember what brought happiness but I do remember what brought misery: mortgage for a house. - Dallas Cao

It is impossible to purchase happiness which never stays for long and flies away. If it did stay for long it would not be happiness. Realistically, My first board game, my first PC and my first laptop. - ashish

My Macbook, Blackberry, and Car (In that order) - Garin Kilpatrick

Hmmmm, nice question. 'purchased' option creates rethinking. Food at nice places, Nokia E50 (I still crave for a cost effective alternative), home (last year) - Nitin Nanivadekar

My Garmin Forerunner 405 (best sports gadget ever), my iPod, and my Paella pan. Any of these break or vanish and Im shopping for a new one tomorrow. - Threepwood

Books and computer accessories - Arvind

Four front teeth, a bike and a boat. If buying a boat brings you misery....your doing it wrong. We've had some of our best family fun times on that boat. We love you Getaway Bay 2.0! - suzanne

Friendfeed, i got me for the price of free .........that brought me the most happiness - Petr Buben

How 'bout the utter, complete lack of attention that the subject of torture has gained on any social media platform? A meta-issue, beyond what any one person believes about torture. But why is it not on anyone's radar? - Rick Powell

I have to amend my comment because I just did a search for "torture" on friendfeed and found some results. Not particularly interesting results, but at least some results, which, as little as one month ago I could not find, except for euphemistic usages of the word. The release of the "torture memos" has had a tiny impact. To nudge an issue forward that has been extant for, oh, what,... more... - Rick Powell

Rick, do you follow my feed?? Sean McBride's? We get scolded for talking about heavy shit *too much* and for picking on the social media dudes - who just want to talk about social media... which to me is just a big, fat, useless circle-jerk. So... it's here, you just have to find the right people. Also, please see this: http://www.cosmictap.com/breadli... - Anthony Citrano

Uhh, Anthony, since I comment and like articles in your feed, you should know that answer already. But in no way do you constitute the FF mainstream, so don't feel threatened or criticized. My general impression is that no one gives a shit. Has Scoble responded to what I just said? Torture is the frakin' ultimate white elephant. Americans believe so much complete bullshit about themselves, and this is really the main reason why I left, and now they think because they elected Obama it's all over. - Rick Powell

Rick sorry - I didn't mean to sound like an ass. I have been out all night drinking and eating with friends. I know you do follow my feed - what I meant is, it's out there, but people choose to ignore / avoid it. It's simply too scary for them. I totally agree with you w/r/t torture - as you know I've been screaming about it for years. And to your point about Scoble et al, that's why I... more... - Anthony Citrano

This is a test of national character, and Americans will fail. In other words, all this will happen again. I am convinced of it. Not because of its leaders, but because of the sort of people we produce now as citizens. Educated, but disinterested. Compassionate, but unable to act. And as the penultimate synthesis of unrepentant consumers and marketeers, we are all expert dissemblers, and unable to self-criticize except as pertains to our failure to make it to the gym. - Rick Powell

Also too, it is so politicized and polarized by the extremes of politics (both left and right). I have tried to engage in discussions, both online and offline, and have been branded extreme even though I come from the center of politics... As terrible as it is, and how much it pains me, it's mostly not worth getting into it with people because they are so concreted into their particular POV that it's beating your head against a wall. - Johnny Worthington

Yep Rick, I think we posted at the same second but see what I said just above; you are right, but it's not unique to social media. Most Americans don't give a shit. They instead engage in the kind of useless navel-gazing that gets us nowhere. We get the nation we deserve. (And Johnny: if that's not worth it, what is?) - Anthony Citrano

It is worth it, just not very effective. - Johnny Worthington

Well, the America I studied and worshipped has a history. And there have always been lines. At some point there needs to be a national reckoning as to why those lines were crossed and why the vast, overwhelming majority of citizens remained silent. - Rick Powell

If you shut up, you give up, and I have not given up yet. - Rick Powell

Disagree. The nature of conversation immediately makes it 'worth' it. Harshness/heat/passion what have you is part of that coin, and no one should ever resist expressing views because they fear it will annoy or damage the socialy 'sanctity' of the status quo. Social media's true power is to gain outside perspective, via near direct communication and observation. It allows geographically disparate people to *talk*. I can't stress that enough. - Mo Kargas

Yet again we see how the friendfeed re-design did not go far enough. Mo, you are commenting on something 4 tiers up, no? Jeez. Tell me again how the friendfeed designers care about conversations. - Rick Powell

Threaded replies would be good. Don't know if the IM integration would work as well then. - Neal Jansons from IM

Sorry Rick, I should have specified context - Mo Kargas

No sorry needed. It's a long-standing design problem. - Rick Powell

And, Rick, as much as it breaks my heart to say it, the America you (and I) studied and worshiped is desperately, mortally ill. - Anthony Citrano

yes, I wonder when anyone is ever going to take responsibility for the last 8 years. Apparently, neither the GOP, nor Bush, nor the voters, certainly not the impotent mainstream "left" which was defeated in Iowa, nor anyone else will do so. I guess it was the frakin' A-rabs. - Rick Powell

Oh, that narrative has started already....whatever the US did wrong was really the fault of them durn terrorists for scaring everyone so badly. - Neal Jansons from IM

Political Avoidance Disorder. The US has it. - Rick Powell

Rick this is why I'm so "insensitive" to finger pointing and whining by the average American about all the trouble we're in and how they're victims in some way. I say - for the most part - if they need someone to blame, they ought find the nearest mirror. - Anthony Citrano

It's just typical teenager defense mechanisms. If you just think of the US as a developing child its history makes much more sense. Right now it is about 14, desperate to establish an identity, perceiving itself as ultimately superior and somehow simultaneously persecuted, and believing fundamentally that "fair" is equal to "I have special privileges and get to dictate terms". Soon it... more... - Neal Jansons from IM

Neal, following that metaphor out scares me. What happens if he gets some girl pregnant? WHAT IF HE'S GAY???!! - Rick Powell

Identity crises are just part of growing up. France turned out ok :p Getting over being hung up on sexuality will be one of the first signs of maturity. And it has gotten a bunch of girls pregnant...think about it, everywhere the US has gone in the last hundred years it has left bases and stations behind. We have little bastards all over the world. - Neal Jansons from IM

I don't want to think about it! So I am going to bed. Cheers! And UNFOLLOW THE LEADERS! - Rick Powell

Maybe because they don't consider them to be in the same category (black and white book reader is not a color webpad) - Benoit Cazenave

No Apple Logo==instant fail for the valley media. - Adi