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How many hours to go? I've got confused with which time zone you're in. - Mark H

Congrats Alex! - Patrick from twhirl

"Recipe for “Butter Milk” in Chinese courtesy of Flower Grass Garden. Ingredients: 1/2 cup of non-fat powered milk 1/3 cup of granulated sugar, dial down for less sugary result. 1/3 cup of salted butter 1/2 egg yolk 2 slices of 1″-thick brick toast. Margarine is actually a better substitute than butter as it melts much quicker into the bread, but a true carb whore will always drop her panties faster upon the smell of real butter. Here comes the tough part: don’t use regular bread and don’t even think about doubling up Wonder Bread. I use dense toast found at Asian bakeries, may it be Japanese/Chinese or otherwise. The last time around, the source of brick toast was Domie’s Bakery in Rosemead. The cashier girl, knowing the ultimate purpose for said loaf, smiled wide & deftly sliced the 6″ loaf of bread into fours, resulting in slices that are 1.5″ thick. This is good. Girls like it thick, so they tell me." - edythe from Bookmarklet

The eggs were definitely bad. I still haven't found powdered milk. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

this is neat - Beti Cung from Bookmarklet

Yeah, that makes sense, although you can't see it from the first photo. - Cristo

"Similar to Japan, copying is only the first step. Once they learn about the inner workings of how things are done the sky’s the limit. One of my ex-colleagues recounted a story about a Chinese Manufacturer proudly showing him a 100% perfect copy of a German MRI machine at 1/10 of the price and a large contract with all the local hospitals. AN MRI MACHINE! Think about this for a moment." - Micah Wittman from Bookmarklet

Don't see the cultural imperative for innovation- intricate wonderful copies are still somebody elses idea It still all goes aground with peak oil - WarLord

"Unfortunately for Lin Ring, her $14,600 surgical fingerprint switching procedure was able to fool the scanners, but could not prevent immigration officials from noticing the scars on her fingers." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

def sounds like a Bond, James Bond caper - Karma Martell

And Arrington hasn't blogged it yet? - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

I heard Myspace is buying Google! There's your scoop - shaun mclane

I keep a bottle of this at home and at work...so tasty. Way better flavor than Tabasco. - Alex Scoble from Bookmarklet

Ever since an FFer mentioned sriracha sauce in ramen noodles (that thread renewed my love for ramen), I've had a bottle at home & work. I put it in my Pho for months w/o knowing what it was (I always get take-out, & they put it in tubs). Since buying it, I've tried w/ green onion crab from a Chinese restaruant & lasagna. May have tried it on pizza! I've put it on potato chips & food... more... - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

11? - Gabe

Barely legal. - Jim Norris

Another gold bubble? - Gary Burd from Bookmarklet

cute! are they hard to make? - aden

The three finished birdies for Ayden are here in this post: http://friendfeed.com/phoenix... - Rachel Lea Fox

Hey, quit looking out the window and get back to work! - τorƍue

New office location? - Uncle CW™

He did pretty well. More pictures to follow. - April Buchheit from email

More pictures here: http://ff.im/bQBPp - April Buchheit

& Adobe wants devs to build 4 Flash & AIR, so what's your point? - LANjackal

Very old school tech. Spent many an evening scrolling through microfiche when I was in college. - Kyle Hebert

I loved going through them because of that whizzing sound they made are you "flipped" through different pages. And I too remember when they finally set up so that you could photocopy a page. that was awesome! - Anna Lynn M.

Must be all those songs he sings for her. :) - April Buchheit

1) write a book - April Buchheit

Daisy, I don't think April is operating on our time frame. She will get to it when she gets to it ;) - Clare Dibble

The best I've found so far is 50ms for "time host smugmug.com usw6.akam.net". Does everyone just run their primary dns servers at 100% CPU or something? - Sanjeev Singh

Dawn, try the friendfeed feedback room http://friendfeed.com/friendf... or the spam report room http://friendfeed.com/friendf... - Chris Heath

Quite an interesting tip about vacuuming the vents to improve performance. I wish I could make my iPhone faster by vacuuming it, but I suspect it will only make things worse :-) - Doug Beeferman

Vacuuming made a huge difference. I was ready to give up on this machine, and then I read about vacuuming, tried it, and now it feels like it's taken a year off of its age. - Amit Patel

What causes nearsightedness? It doesn't appear to be genetic. Spending lots of time outdoors while growing up seems to greatly reduce the chances of being nearsighted. - Amit Patel

This peripheral blur theory sounds very interesting. I actually only need my glasses to drive or watch TV/movies... I should get back to what I used to do for years, which was go without the rest of the time. I've needed lenses for nearly 20 years now, but the progression (degradation) has been very very slow. - Andrew C

H1N1? - Lynn Colton

I assume it was H1N1 because I had flu symptoms and most cases of the flu are H1N1. - Gary Burd

Rachel says they haven't seen any cases of the seasonal flu in the ER yet, so chances are it was H1N1. Glad to hear you didn't turn into a pig. - Joe Beda ()

love! - Ashwin Bharambe

I didn't like Computer Modern or Times. I used Century Schoolbook for my stuff, I think (\usepackage{newcent}). - Amit Patel

“No pain, no gain applies to happiness, too, according to new research published online in the Journal of Happiness Studies. People who work hard at improving a skill or ability, such as mastering a math problem or learning to drive, may experience stress in the moment, but experience greater happiness on a daily basis and longer term, the study suggests.” - Amit Patel

"And what’s striking is that you don’t have to reach your goal to see the benefits to your happiness and well-being." - Clare Dibble