Our data center (SVColo) performed an upgrade to their core network switch this evening. Something went wrong, and the operation took 30 minutes instead of 5. We apologize for the problem.
Jason: we would love to host FriendFeed but any hoster will screw up from time to time so I would rather win their business on the strength of our technology and service. Our CEO puts his personal cell phone out there (I don't know of any other hosting company CEO that does that, plus mine is +1-425-205-1921). not to mention I have some major motivation to make sure FriendFeed stays up. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Compete with Wave and let people run their own Friendfeed servers.
- Vezquex
Thanks! I almost sent SOS via Twitter...but u guys were fast! :D
- Roshan Ramachandran
Oh, and it was nice of you guys to arrange your downtime for when I was flying and off the net! :-)
- Robert Scoble
The upside is I saw the 'new and improved' twitter web interface for the first time. When do I have time to do that normally :D
- Micah
@scoble, that's just it. I've only known Rackspace to screw up once and it was due to some guy driving a car into the data center. Plus, all the other perks you mentioned.
- Jason Cronkhite
Leadership is comprised of a series of moments, and it can be difficult to sort out individual moments over time. A continual leadership challenge is to be aware of which moments matter and what to do about them.
- Mitch
Leadership is comprised of a series of moments, and it can be difficult to sort out individual moments over time. A continual leadership challenge is to be aware of which moments matter and what to do about them.
- Mitch
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
friendfeedCommentAnchor [v0.1.0] - http://wittman.org/project... - A user script, a bookmarklet and an alternative configuration userscript (has autoCommentAnchor turned ON). To add a permalink to each comment. The hyperlinked text default is "#" (you can change it in the Configuration section to "permalink", "linky", etc in the user script). Works in single post and stream modes. Tested on Firefox and Safari.
- Micah
Special Note ~ Post image: NOT A HASH TAG :)
- Micah
I started the group ffhacks to house a concise listing of user scripts: http://friendfeed.com/ffhacks . If you have a script that works on the current version of FriendFeed, and you're its author, write a comment on http://friendfeed.com/ffhacks... with the link and I'll share the original friendfeed post to the group.
- Micah
Does it only work to other users with the script enabled?
- Andrew Trinh
The anchor is the comment <div> container id which has been there all along; there simply has not been a user interface to conveniently access it. So yes, a URL with the anchor will work for anyone regardless of script usage (tested in Firefox & Safari).
- Micah
ianf, yep. I try anyway. I remember one or two conversations you had anchors - I've wanted access them for a while too. Cheers!
- Micah
#hashanchors should have been there by default, so that you could spend your time on more creative things rather than fixing FF. In fact, absence of this key element of hypertext, granular addressability, tells me that FFeeders really do not care for comments - they're ffodder to the OPs, which are the only ones that rank anything in the hierarchy of submissions around here. I don't...
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- ianf ⌘
Another word and the forces will abolish all forms of Cilantro on this planet called Earth, message received from Planet Janet
- Janet:#TeamMonique
Message to Planet Janet: you know you love it with cilantro, baby.
- Steven Perez
Now see this is the interesting thing: if anybody posts, then you have to. So if everybody keeps posting, you'll just have to keep up with us. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
- c.a.j.
Debating tip: never try to get in the last word. Always give your opponent the opportunity to get in the last word. By some sort of mysterious karmic law, your persuasiveness will improve immeasurably. :)
- Sean McBride
Steven Perez isn't a Bunneh!!! As long as he doesn't respond.
- Gimminy
It's okay, he's got a Catch-22 now. Steven Perez isn't a Bunneh, so long as he doesn't respond. And we all know he refutes his Bunneh status.
- Gimminy
It was real hawt in the town that night! IF I EDIT 18 hours later like now - is your last still last if comments are disabled? A hawt question.
- Steve Cleary
Steven is a Bunneh!!! He responded when I said he wasn't. Bunneh's can win if they want.
- Gimminy
Take the ferrets out of your pants, James.
- Steven Perez
from IM
fine with me. take the last word. take it and shove it up Brett Favre's ass.
- Morgan
I don't shove ANYTHING up a former or current cheesehead's posterior, thankyouverymuch.
- Steven Perez
from IM
I'llsickthemonyoulikeIdidwithAmber,that'safunstory.
- Tsali - A dude man
from IM
You did see where I said that I like my food scared and running, yeah? Mmmmm, ferret-ka-bobs ...
- Steven Perez
from IM
I do indeed see where this is headed, and no sir, I don't like it. *calls upon the forces of Voltron
- Tsali - A dude man
from IM
Sadly, the only Voltron to heed your call is the vehicle Voltron. And I disabled that yo-yo by pulling out the sparks plugs in the car feet.
- Steven Perez
from IM
It's an old Navajo word for "punk-ass bitch".
- Steven Perez
from IM
No one has the slightest idea how much Steven is enjoying this...
- Abhishek
very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy
- Steven Perez
from IM
VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY
- Steven Perez
from IM
hmm... 800+ comments on this thread, and this is my first, and probably last comment on this thread. I wonder should I read all the comments, or just post?
- Mike Nencetti
Are you guys still trying to win?
- Steven Perez
from IM
23 years from now, Steven will still check his MSGoogle MyFriendFace feed every morning so he can respond to this post with 3,137,783 comments...
- Joe Boone
from iPod
After half a month there must have been moment you thought it would not be a real big deal if you eventually should NOT have the last word, I suppose?
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
Ohhh, you mean that place, which is totally faked by a #viciousbunneh who was in cahoots with the government in taking all the alfalfa plants into an underground hidden bunker.
- Tsali - A dude man
Now that I have achieved status of half-centurian, I request the next 50 days of last word in honor of my achievement of breathing.
- Janet:#TeamMonique
Well, well, well. Has it been 50 days already?
- Steven Perez
I will allow you to have the last word. But to take that last word you are surrendering your honor to a den of sightless whores.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Eventually, the whole thread will go backwards to the beginning.
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
That sounds like more fun than I imagine you wanted it to.
- Steven Perez
from IM
It was a test. Honor is pride. A den of sightless whores is merely an event that you will carry forever. You have attained the 7th level of enlightenment.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
1203 comments, come on, you can do better than that.
- Tsali - A dude man
Considering that this thread has only been around since August, and has been shut down for the last two months, that's not too bad.
- Steven Perez
from IM
2012 is just the begining of the 13th Baktun, the long cont calendar doesn't actually run out until sometimes after 4772, that is of course if you stick with only Baktuns and don't use the other 4 higher counts, I just think FF will end in 4217 on planet Tersanzar :)
- Tsali - A dude man
Ah, right thread. In that thread, it's asked what you think you smell like. In this thread, I told you what I think you smell like.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Cilantro, Strawberries, and Chilaquiles.
- Steven Perez
I think this has lasted long enough. We already know what has to be the last word, it's already in the original quote. I will put it as the closing comment. I think we will all feel relieved we can now carry on to do greater things. For ourselves, our loved ones and the world.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
I dunno, the Akiva nipple-licking beach picture is pretty long, too. :-) Ah, and it looks like Mike Nayyar's last-word thread has more than 2200 comments in it. I guess we'll have to step it up over here, huh?
- Ordinarybug Heather
omg...that is a seriously long thread of comments....are you going for a record Steven?...didn't even open up so I wouldn't lose my page.
- ᏓᏰ #team Monique
I don't know why it keeps sending me the last comment...is it only my problem or does somebody else get the "Si...ti aspetto!......^o^" comment every week???
- bergadario
from email
1度だけ富士スカイラインへドライブした事があります。目の前で観る富士山は筆舌しがたいほどの雄大さがありますね。
- Ami Iida
@bergadario >ciao, Dario!....... I'm sorry. . . . but I have no particularly deep meaning........^_^
- keiko-san
Oddly enough, I think Microsoft going away would be the biggest blow to businesses. Everything Google provides could replaced by competitors very quickly (mostly by modifying bookmarks). I might be saddened more by Apple going away. I'd miss Facebook a lot, but I'm not sure I really need what they provide.
- Cyrus Lendvay
Microsoft - I make a living supporting their products; I'd be very saddened by Apple or Google, but they wouldn't hurt my job prospects.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Microsoft. I'd be unemployed, and the world would be without Windows. It would be a chaotic few years while people adopted to OSX/Linux.
- Sparky, lurking
Facebook. I can search with Bing, I can write ppts with Keynote, I can touch surfaces with Galaxy Tab but I can't find my friends on Orkut, Windows Spaces or.. lol.. Ping!
- Maurizio Mazzanti
Microsoft. Think of all the unexploited windows flaws that will sit unpatched forever.
- Private Sanjeev
Apple, then Google. I have little use for Microsoft other than they have some interesting research going on right now and of course give Google some competition. I have my friends in my address book, so I could easily do without Facebook.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Corel. Wait, I don't think I understood the question correctly.
- Micah
Considering that most businesses rely on Microsoft software to operate (most restaurants couldn't automate ordering without it), if Microsoft ceased to exist and all it's software went with it, business in this country would get ugly.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Google #1. #2 is FB, but only if their disappearance takes FF down too.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Short term Google would be the biggest pain. Microsoft and Apple stuff wouldn't just stop working and I think would their passing suddenly would have little effect. Facebook I wouldn't notice passing just like I barely notice they exist (except that they own FF).
- Brian Sullivan
Google (real answer). Apple is extremely close; but the web is more important to me.
- Micah
It would chaos if Microsoft suddenly went away. So many businesses rely Windows Server, SQL Server, Windows desktops, legacy apps, Office.. With Google, I'd lose search, Gmail, contacts, and Android, which all can be replaced easily. With Apple, I'd lose the iOS devices and iTunes.
- Rodfather
Some of you guys are answering a question that wasn't asked.
- Akiva
As to Akiva's point, if all that happened was that the company disappeared, I don't think I'd miss any of them. They're all replaceable.
- Kenton
The language "cease to exist" means to me that they didn't simply go out of business, but that they stopped existing at all, which means that all their products go away as well. Of course now I've got the Dead Parrot sketch running in my head and I'm laughing.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Facebook, because they pay my salary :) Google, because I use so many Google services and products -- search, Gmail, Maps, Reader, Chrome. Microsoft, because I use my home computer for games and a web browser; browsers look the same on all platforms, but many games only run on Windows. I think I'd miss Apple least; although I like my Mac laptop and my iPad, I could live well without them.
- Tudor Bosman
Apple for design/style (thought HTC and possibly Song could compensate), but Google for sure for various services. Microsoft is the sneaky choice on this list, since they're the invisible cloak which drapes our lives.
- Mike Nayyar
Apple.. They make products that are creative and fun to use and push the technology envelope :D
- agirlnamedxine
from BuddyFeed
Alex, no. Before the Mac, there was the darkness of DOS. Before the iPhone, there was the darkness of every other crappy cell phone in the world. Before the iPad there was ... just darkness. Apple innovates at a macro level, the others simply innovate at a feature level. That is a major difference. There is no other company right now that is as influential as Apple in both design and technology.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
You mean before XEROX, before Blackberry, before the Nintendo DS. Apple doesn't innovate, it integrates. Apple's not first to market anything. They are just the good at exploiting existing markets.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
microsoft, which fuels an ecosystem of business computing very hard to replace quickly, if ever. google would be replaced almost immediately.
- Alb. [CHIUSO]
Microsoft and Google. I wouldn't even notice if Apple disappeared, and if Facebook disappeared I might actually be more productive.
- April Russo
(oh there aren't emoticons here) {claps}
- testbeta
carp thats a no brainer.. Google.. !! All my propetires are built on google landscape.. blogger, adsense, groups, docs, email , picasa blah blah !!
- Peter Dawson
Google - I use a large number of their services on a daily basis.
- Tyson Key
Google (I used to use Linux and wouldn't mind it again, though I'd much prefer to switch to OSX. As for FB, let's just say that I'm getting tired of privacy not REALLY being a priority there...and I keep wondering if I should pull the plug on my account.)
- In Search of Gender
Microsoft. I use some basic Google services, but am not a power user such that I wouldn't be able to replace them with other more basic offerings. Even though I have an Android phone, I keep coming really close to being lured back to BlackBerry. Even Microsoft, I ultimately wouldn't miss too much. I use a Mac about 50% of the time and most PC games I play are also on PS3. But out of the choices, I'd still miss Microsoft the most.
- Brian Chang
Can you roll the dice and move the wheelbarrow around the board for us if we just call in form So Cal every few minutes?
- SteVe C
hmmm. which makes me wonder - are there any games where one could actually play a board game remotely? because I'd be willing to try that some day.
- Nathalie
Nathalie, I'm really sorry it turns out I can't make it - Laura is scheduled to work that evening. I keep my eye out for any live blogging threads of the game night. :)
- Micah
no worries! maybe next time. I'll post a new thread here whenever I host. Hopefully it will become a regular session.
- Nathalie
Anyone else from Calgary and Area? Isn't there another RedDeer fellow around these parts?
- Nathalie
I'm the other Red Deer fellow (one of them, at least). Sorry Nathalie, I'll be out camping that weekend. Sounds like fun though. Keep me posted for future events. ;)
- Mitch
cancelled. not enough interest. will reschedule.
- Nathalie
Sorry, Nathalie. Don't lose hope. A friend and I have a games going in town every Monday night now. It's great.
- Micah
I"ve had a few before. The long weekend was a poor choice of date.
- Nathalie
My first real experience with the N900 was using Nokia Maps on the device on my way home. The UI is fairly different to the UI on my N97 but it located me very quickly!
- Paul Jacobson
The N900 runs Maemo 5 which is a Linux-based operating system. While some of the application icons are the same as S60 devices, the UI is very different and I am slowly getting used to how to do stuff on the device.
- Paul Jacobson
There are a couple things I really like about the N900: email handling (presets for various email services and easy mail account setup), conversations view for IM and SMS (combines both into a seamless messaging flow) and the fact that I can run Firefox with Weave (can't figure out how to make that my default browser though).
- Paul Jacobson
The N900 now is a little like the iPhone in its early days. There isn't nearly the wealth of apps you see on the iPhone or Android devices and not even as many as I have available on my N97. That being said, there are quite a few apps available although clearly with a tech/geek bias.
- Paul Jacobson
I moved a couple .mp4 and .mov files across to the N900. It picks them up but won't play them for some reason.
- Paul Jacobson
That's certainly a turnoff. Tell us about the screen and keyboard :)
- Mitch
The screen is great. The viewable area is roughly the same as an iPod Touch/iPhone. The resolution is pretty good too. I have seen video playback on the N900 and it looks great too. I don't know why these videos are not playing. I thought the keyboard would be a bit difficult to use after the N97 but aside from getting used to a different layout, I find it to be pretty easy to use. I have also enabled the onscreen keyboard and it works well too.
- Paul Jacobson
Now if only I could figure out how to change ringtones ...
- Paul Jacobson
As a Linux person I would love to get my hands on a N900 .. have been playing around with the Maemo 5 SDK and development environment ..
- Marius
the .mp4 and .mov not playing is a codec issue .. since those are both licensed formats you will have to add the codecs yourself ... Nokia are not allowed to distribute it by default ..
- Marius
Marius: Thanks for the ringtone link. I didn't notice that I could scroll down to expose the other options. How would I add the additional codecs to the device to support mp4 and mov playback?
- Paul Jacobson
Although I realise the N900 is Linux based, I am not familiar enough with Linux to understand whether other Linux apps would run on the device and, if so, which ones.
- Paul Jacobson
will see if I can find link to the mp4/mov codecs .. Maemo is just Debian with another GUI .. like Ubuntu is Debian with Gnome .. apps that does not use a GUI (ie command line) can mostly be used as is ... other apps needs slight changes to run .. you can add the maemo-extras repository and then have lots of other maemo based apps to install ... lots of extra apps is added each day ... crap .. I need one of these to play with ...
- Marius
Oh, wait, I saw something about enabling the extras repository somewhere ... In the meantime, I am transferring some media to the device now using Salling's Media Sync which can also be used with other devices.
- Paul Jacobson
It isn't a very easy transition from S60 to the N900's Maemo interface, at least not from my N97. I can imagine it could be that much harder to transition from an iPhone (assuming anyone would want to make that transition).
- Paul Jacobson
i am more interested in the fact that it is a linux device which would mean it would interface much better with my linux desktop/notebook than other devices
- Marius
Marius: Well that is an interesting prospect. I don't know nearly enough about how Linux works to appreciate how the N900 would interface with a Linux machine. It would be pretty cool if the N900 somehow sync'd with your Linux machine on your desk, allowing you to use the N900 as a sort of hub away from your office.
- Paul Jacobson
I have this persistent feeling that no matter what my impressions of the N900 are, I am just grazing the surface of what the N900 is capable of. In a way it feels like the N900 is wasted on me! Haven't been able to say that about a mobile device before.
- Paul Jacobson
i think since at the base the n900 is the same as an other linux machine, it would interface much better than say a Symbian, Windows, iPhone or RIM device ... I only just have to look at how easy I find to to move stuff between my laptop and other linux based machines. But then I am speculating here since I cannot try it out and it looks like we in SA will not get the n900
- Marius
The battery life on the N900 is terrible. i am barely making it through a day (as in daylight).
- Paul Jacobson
I just switched back to my N97 while the N900 charges. Just want to see what it feels like to go back to Symbian ...
- Paul Jacobson
I switched back to my N97 again this evening while the N900 charged (notice a pattern?) and I'm back home, about to switch back and I'm feeling a little reluctant. When I use the N900 I miss Google Maps, better Nokia Maps, working Exchange sync and Gravity. On the N900 I really appreciate a better UI, better geotagging for photos and video, better shared services integration and much better Web browsers ...
- Paul Jacobson
Any comment about the use of Skype with the N900?...Thys
- Thys Mouton
I didn't use Skype all that much when I had the N900 but it is very nicely and tightly integrated into the OS. Very nicely handled.
- Paul Jacobson
38ish (+3 - forgot the frig+oven+microwave) (oops +1 for the dryer) (oop2 +1 for range hood)
- Kevin Johnson
Actual ones? The Moroccan lamp has 8 of them in there! Now, I must go count. BRB...Okay, I say 22. 29 if we count each one in the Moroccan lamp, 34 if I count each light bulb in the string of Ikea lights.
- Anika
40 including the fridge, stove, microwave, and dryer. Only about a third are CFLs.
- Mitch
Oh, microwave. If I count that (I did count the oven already), then 47 (I hesitated because I don't think it's easily replaceable, but that shouldn't be the criteria, really).
- Micah
detecting bimodal distribution across apartments and houses
- Kevin Johnson
Wait...we're supposed to count the lights inside appliances too? Hold please...OKAY! That adds 5. I'm not counting the lights on my powers strips or electronics or flashlights, because that'll take all night.
- Anika
and I refuse to count the box of xmas lights still sitting in a box in a corner of my living room
- Kevin Johnson
I also didn't count my garage because it's detached, but there's 8 light bulbs in there.
- Anika
and I didn't count the sockets I leave unpopulated
- Kevin Johnson
40, but I did this in my head so I'm not entirely sure, somewhere around there. This includes quite a few that don't get turned on, and I may have counted double on the fluor-o-fixtures, though only a few have both bulbs in them.
- Gimminy
Ok, actually went and counted 33 that get used, but simultaneously in use maybe 10, and 39 total.
- Gimminy
No idea... 150-ish maybe, variety of incandescent, halogen, LED, and fluorescent. How do I count LED strips (no, not Xmas lights, they're installed).
- Tinfoil 2.0
~50 CFL and 3 LED. We've had bad luck with our CFLs, so most of our fixtures are running with one live, one dead bulb.
- Matt M (inactive)
4 currently. Start installing electrical tomorrow though. We'll have near 30-40 all cfl's or led's.
- SAM
from iPhone
Okay, if LE really has 150, I don't feel so bad.
- Rochelle
I used to be changing lights bulbs all the time it seemed, until I changed as much I could to CFLs (though lots don't work, like things with dimmers or special fixtures).
- Tinfoil 2.0
Disneyland (this recollection is two decades old, but still) has a full time position just to change light bulbs in the park. They replace dead ones of course, but preemptively swap out working bulbs on a schedule too, I believe.
- Micah
32, I think. Though, only the 4 fluorescents in the kitchen are turned on right now.
- DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
I use CFLs on my dimmers, LE. They make them for it now. All the lights in my living room are on dimmers. In the Moroccan lamp, I use the regular ones, in my sconces, I use tiny ones shaped like like candle bulbs.
- Anika
Thanks Anika. When my inventory is depleted, I'll look for the ones that can be dimmed ;)
- Tinfoil 2.0
Let's see... 27 inside (counting 5 lamps, microwave, fridge, over the stove, dryer, and 2 in the basement) and 3 outside. The 9 most used are CFLs, the kitchen is 2 std fluorescent, and 1 is a halogen. Outside lights are 1 CFL and 2 halogens. Edit to add: right now 4 of them are on (1 porch light, 1 front door lamp, 1 over the stove light, and 1 den lamp). 3 of those 4 are CFLs.
- FFing Enigma
16, including fridge & microwave. My apartment is rather dimly lit. I keep a LED crank flashlight near me most of the time in case I need to see something.
- April Russo
"Last night on Lost, everybody made his/her move. Sawyer, Jack, Sayid and Claire all made defining choices... we just won't know for a while what exactly those choices were. And the two universes really started to sync up. Spoilers ahead. "
- RAPatton
from iPhone
"Claire wasn't the only one of Locke's Army who seemed to have second thoughts. Is it even remotely possible that Sayid actually followed orders and killed Island Desmond? I mean, we didn't see it happen, but that could be a double-fakeout. If Desmond really did die off camera, stuck down a well, I'm going to be a mite put out. Also, Sayid didn't seem to be among Locke's crew in the last couple scenes, before the bomb hit. I re-watched those scenes a few times, and no Sayid. Where did he go?"
- RAPatton
from iPhone
"Among the many gratifying things about last night's Lost was the way all the strands in the "flash-sideways" universe get drawn tighter together. Sawyer talks to Kate, then he and Miles arrest Sayid. Jack meets his half-sister Claire, then goes to operate on Locke - who's in the hospital not far away from the injured Sun. (Who seems to be having flashes of awareness too, thanks to her...
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- RAPatton
from iPhone
"Parallels between the island and "flash-sideways" realities last night: Jin and Sun have a touching moment where Jin assures Sun that everything's going to be all right. (Or that they'll never be separated again.) Jack and Locke are reunited, and Jack has something that Locke desperately needs. Kate finds out that Sawyer's got some dirty little secrets. Jack and Claire meet and discuss...
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- RAPatton
from iPhone
"- Did anybody think that Jin's head was going to explode when he ran past the pylons to hug Sun? I know Widmore's people ordered them turned off, but I wasn't sure if they'd had time to do it. " --- I wondered that very thing
- RAPatton
from iPhone
I really want to know if Desmond is alive, brutha!
- RAPatton
from iPhone
Nice, RAPatton! The sandwich lady asked "[unintelligible] or grilled?" I said, "Fried." "Original? Okay." I guess they're not allowed to use the word fried :P
- Lo
It was sort of underwhelming, honestly. We'll see if I regret it, so far not really. I feel like I ate a normal sandwich. It was spicer than I expected, in a good way, but still rather monotonous.
- Lo
Um ... Yes, the picture... of course that's what I meant ... Yes, of course, that's the ticket
- RAPatton
from iPhone
Nope, not at all aden. In fact I just had some pudding. It's not as much as I thought.
- Lo
So wish I'd managed to get one of these on the way home...
- Spidra Webster
...breadmakers everywhere are up in arms! .LOLz!
- .LAG liked that
Up in arms? Chickens don't have arms to be up in!
- Neal Krummell
Hm, after 4-5 hours I'm feeling fine. What a surprise, an internet legend doesn't live up to the hype. :P I'm thinking it would actually be better with bread, like maybe another piece of cheese and some grilled sourdough... mmmmm...
- Lo
YES now you guys are talking. This is like a Boodocks episode. I was thinking it needed spicy jam, but clearly an egg is also needed, and maybe a biscuit top with a donut bottom?
- Lo
You did? I'm not sure if congratulations ARE in order.
- tehKenny
Well, I wasn't really looking for congrats, I just ate a sandwich. I was more amazed at the fact that I could finish it, wasn't expecting that.
- Lo
I need to eat one of these, and then I think I'll be good for the rest of my life. Too bad I'll probably love it so much I'll have to get another eventually. >.<
- Lola Bean (Penguin)
Don't worry Penguin, you won't die from it or love it. We've established it needs a fried egg, donut, biscuit, and jam to become lovable. It's just okay.
- Lo
A fried egg, biscuit, and some cream gravy? I'd eat TWO.
- Akiva
+++ Akiva, gravy! I'm going to have to make this someday.
- Lo
Glen - I think it's two boneless chicken breasts. Normally, when I'm eating fried chicken, I might eat one breast or two smaller pieces, but I don't usually eat two breasts. From the photos, they look like pretty meaty pieces of chicken (of course, in photos, the Big Mac looks like it's got big beef patties on it, too, so I could be completely off-base).
- DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
Yeah, it's not even a shocking number of calories IIRC.
- Lo
It is a shocking amt of sodium, though.
- Spidra Webster
True, anyone on a heart-healthy/BP conscious diet should stay away.
- Lo
Yup, and like I mentioned before, the "healthy" grilled version is even higher in sodium than the fried version.
- DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
I don't even understand why they'd make a grilled version. If you really want grilled, wouldn't you want to skip the bacon/cheese?
- Lo
Is the grilled version still breaded?hard to imagine two slabs of grilled chicken acting like a sandwich. I'd want to eat it with a fork like a normal stuffed chicken breast. But don't they only have sporks at KFC?
- Sarah (or SCarla)
from iPod
I was thinking the same thing, Sarah. They did seem to make the chicken as breadlike as possible, flat and thin and extremely tender (so easy to bite). Not sure how the grilled would work, though.
- Lo
liking for RAPatton's "thats what she said" =P
- Marissa
Last night at 3am my (vegetarian) stepmom went to the emergency room with gastritis. I can't tell if the double down was somehow responsible...
- Lo
from Android
that almost looks like a...special..."flower"...
- sofarsoShawn
Whosever special flower that looks like should be advised to see her physician post-haste.
- Brad Greer
And the creepiest comments of the day go to sofarsoShawn and Brad Greer. Congratulations, gentlemen!
- Akiva
Nor was I, until you guys mentioned it. Now, that's all I can see. I might need to hide this post, now. :(
- DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
I swear i've seen a .gif that lookef like an alien & it just popped out right at you - pow; it looked EXACTLY like that! I'll see if I can find it...
- sofarsoShawn
from iPhone
I think its the recent comments Aden but yeah, that's all I see now too. Gross! Haha!
- Paulette
how does the "special sauce" taste? ;-)
- Paulette
Brings a whole new meaning to the idea of 'doubling down' now, doesn't it?
- Akiva
I feel sad that sentient beings suffered. So I guess it was just my glee that was ruined. But my :( wasn't because of you, it was for the suffering. Sorry it may have been unclear :P I'm also talking on the phone, lol
- Lo
This sort of thing has weighed on my conscience many times over the years. I've tried vegetarianism several times but it doesn't work for me. So I always tried to buy more ethically sourced meat, but honestly I can't really afford that right now. So I try not to think about it, which is admittedly lame, but what can I do? You just made me think about it, is all, in a thread where I *really* didn't expect any ethics matters. That's all! Sorry for the confusion.
- Lo
Yeah, I'm a fan of the Tremendomeatatarianism idea. That's probably closest to what I used to be, however extreme poorness has basically precluded that as an option. I'm fully aware that the shit on the dollar menu at Wendy's barely qualifies as food, and I'm glad I don't know how it's made, because when it comes to meeting my caloric requirements with the $ I have, there's basically no choice but to eat horrible, nasty shit. It's only temporary, or so I keep telling myself :)
- Lo
I will be having one of these today for dinner, after which I intend to prop myself up in a corner and cry until the meat-sweats pass.
- Hookuh Tinypants
Dammit. I woke up this morning craving one of these things. The Gods of KFC are geniuses. GENIUSES!@$~
- Akiva
is this available in Europe or have we banned it?
- JSLeFanu
I don't think it was outright banned in Europe, but everything I've read says "available nationwide," so I'm assuming it's US-only. For now. Just found an interesting examination of the nutritional value (or lack thereof) from several perspectives here: http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010...
- Lo