The photography is pretty good, but I think you've got to hand it to whoever was driving... - Brad

Haha. Yeah, I was really trying to capture the excellent skills of the driver in the photograph ... but I guess the reflections of the sunset and palm trees kind of got in the way of that. ;) - Ocean

Have you guys been on vacation :)? - Sanjeev Singh

She just had finals last weekend. Now that school's out, I find her humming the tune that use to drive her nuts because they played it over and over at the cafe she used to study at ... - Ocean

"This stuff tastes like weasel!" ... "It *is* weasel, Austin ..." - Ocean

How was it? - Paul Buchheit

Really tasty ... a little sweeter and smoother than the usual. But it's really the thrill of ingesting something that's already been ingested by a weasel that's cool. - Ocean

Firefox, Foo Fighters, and Final Fantasy would be so jealous. ;o) - Ocean

We're trying (kind of), but it probably won't be cheap enough. - Paul Buchheit

Just make a firefox bookmark with the keyword "ff". Much cheaper than having someone buy a 2-letter domain name :) - Phil

My beautiful bandaged toes and Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park"... - Noriko Yatsunami Tong

me want some - darren

I would infer than she moves in mysterious ways. - Chris Reed

Correct! That was exactly the song they were playing. :o) - Ocean

Another one we found at the SF Costco. The bottle design is kind of novel too. :o) - Ocean

For folks who like the wines that I like, the SF Costco is stocking this again. - Ocean

MMMMmmmmm. What style? - Phil

deeelicious style. I suppose others would call it New York style. ;) - Ocean

After eating Viennese cheesecake, which is much fluffier and fun to eat than New York Style, I'm a changed man. - Robert Konigsberg

I'll have to try that sometime! - Ocean

Where was that? - Phil

On the big island of Hawaii, at the Punalu'u black sand beach. - Ocean

A friend tells me that one of the problems with using bacteria to manufacture things is that they will often evolve the desired genes back out of their genome, since producing your favorite drug or whatever is essentially an inefficiency from the bacteria's perspective. - Paul Buchheit

it never occurred to me, but it guess their lifecycles are even faster than fruit flies. we can't make it so they only get food if the drug is found in the dish? - paulm

invest: depends on whether they're really good at producing high-value compounds - j1m

"desired genes back out of their genome" - while this could be true, the bacteria are often grown is selective media - the desired gene must exist for bacteria to grow. - Joel

I *knew* you were cheap ;-) - Phil

LOL. But with the declining value of the dollar ... - Ocean

Good point - soon none of us will be able to afford you... - Phil

Drinking Darick's 3rd attempt. It's good! I'm going to have to think of revising my "List of things I can do better than Darick".... but nothing beats someone waking you up in the morning with the aroma of good coffee.... mmm... - Noriko Yatsunami Tong

Haha. It'll be a while before you can take cappuccino-making off of that list, but I'll keep trying. :o) - Ocean