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Rep. Aaron Schock (R-IL) resigns after new questions about mileage expenses - Politico http://www.politico.com/story...

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Illinois, of course. What a way to go down. - Victor Ganata

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I am surprised that FriendFeed lasted as long as it has. But I am even more surprised that it's 2015 and MySpace still exists.

Mar 18, 2015

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MySpace truly reinvented itself. Found a new niche. Realized it couldn't compete with Facebook so it stopped trying to. - DB, Lil LB's Dad

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LOL, it's 2015 and I still can't post a plain text file in UTF-8 and expect the webserver to display it properly by default.

Mar 18, 2015

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Extreme penoscrotal transposition - World Journal of Pediatrics - 2010 Feb 9 http://link.springer.com/article... #iam12 #BeansAboveTheFrank #LookingThroughOldPosts http://friendfeed.com/aswang...

Mar 18, 2015

o_O) - Spidra Webster

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To this day, I still shake my head at the number of dudes who will argue vociferously that they don't need to wash their hands after peeing http://www.straightdope.com/columns... #LookingThroughOldPosts

Mar 18, 2015

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There's a lady who takes classes at the Korean Cultural Center who doesn't wash her hands after taking a dump. I had to call her out for not flushing, too. - Anika

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Reminiscing about when I was sure Google Buzz was the Next Big Thing that would make us all forget about FriendFeed http://friendfeed.com/aswang... #LookingThroughOldPosts

Mar 18, 2015

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On St. Patrick’s Day, Mexico remembers the Irishmen who fought for Mexico against the US - PRI http://www.pri.org/stories...

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So there is an Irish-Mexican connection - Victor Ganata

I think Louis CK descends from some of those guys. - Brent Schaus

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If anyone wants, I can post my hacked-together Ruby script that will download your feed and all the associated entries and images.

Mar 17, 2015

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It is pretty rough. - Victor Ganata

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It got into June 2009 before it hit a mkdir error. That's about 3 months more than it got before. - John (bird whisperer)

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Is it too late to sign up for frenf.it? I keep getting "Prossimamente su questi schermi..." which Google translates to "Coming soon on these screens"

Mar 17, 2015

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Hmm...you should be able...I'll forward this to senape (the guy who runs the show over there.) - Bren

Make sure you go to http://www.frenf.it/earlyad... and not just the bare URL. - Stephen Mack

Ah, got it! http://www.frenf.it/earlyad... - Victor Ganata

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I know we've had this discussion before. It's not just the whole privacy thing (or lack thereof). Facebook just feels like a different space. A lot of it is obviously because there are a bunch of people over there that aren't over here, but even in the confines of the FF group following a lot of the same people, I can already guarantee…

Mar 17, 2015

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…that my posting style will be different. I will hold off on posting things there that I wouldn't hesitate to post here. So even though the people will still be (mostly) there and even though FriendFeed will live on in some shape or form, it will still be a real and permanent loss when this site goes 410. - Victor Ganata

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Victor I feel the same way. But I keep trying ot remind myself that FF has essential been FB for years. It may have felt friendlier and more protected, but really the FB ecosystem was able to vacuum up whatever ti wanted, right? I'm not sure I;m persuading myself of anything, but that's how I've been trying.... - RudĩϐЯaЯïan

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The beginning of the end was 5 years 7 months ago http://friendfeed.com/aswang... #LookingThroughOldPosts

Mar 17, 2015

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I guess the 10,000 post limit is hard coded into the API, huh? The only way to go all the way back is to follow the "Older items »" link.

Mar 17, 2015

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Nikola Tesla changed the world — so why did we forget him? - PRI The World - 2015 Mar 5 http://www.pri.org/stories...

Mar 17, 2015

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Eight weeks to a better brain - Harvard Gazette - 2011 Jan 21 http://news.harvard.edu/gazette...

Mar 17, 2015

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"Participating in an eight-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy, and stress. In a study that will appear in the Jan. 30 issue of Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, a team led by Harvard-affiliated researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) reported the results of their study, the first to document meditation-produced changes over time in the brain’s gray matter." - Victor Ganata

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Hah! Ensign Hoshi Sato and Keiko O'Brien were in the same "Castle" episode. #ST #DS9 #Enterprise

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Castle S7E17 "Hong Kong Hustle" 2015 Mar 16 http://www.imdb.com/title... - Victor Ganata

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Looking back at old posts, I am still really surprised that FriendFeed outlasted Google Reader by so long. #darkhorse

Mar 16, 2015

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Study links Disneyland measles outbreak to low vaccination rates - L.A. Times http://www.latimes.com/science... #CaptainObvious

Mar 16, 2015

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…and not because of the undocumented like some racist assholes would have us believe. - Victor Ganata

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Ugh ergh well, yes, that too. There are a lot of idiots (I was going to say "racist idiots" but there are lots more besides) on FB. - walt crawford

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"Kai su, teknon" #HaveAWaryIdes

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I say St. Patrick's Day is the Irish Cinco de Mayo #CulturalAppropriation #ImDrinkingTequila

Mar 14, 2015 from

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http://www.yucatan-holidays.com/yh... - AHnix (Anna Haro)

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I can't remember exactly when I signed up for FriendFeed but I do know that I had tried to log in on May 13, 2008 and couldn't remember my password.

Mar 14, 2015

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All my FriendFeed posts (including images) take up 397.5 MB

Mar 14, 2015

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This is your life. - Josh Haley

Well, at least seven years of it. :) - Victor Ganata

ای بابا - حسین آفلاین

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Hah. It takes grep 19 seconds to go through all of my downloaded FriendFeed posts stored on my local file system.

Mar 14, 2015

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How are the happy face and the thought bubbles generated? The raw HTML backup of my feed on my local hard drive doesn't have them.

Mar 14, 2015

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Also, where does the code to expand the comments live? I might just end up unrolling the <div>s instead of trying to find it. - Victor Ganata

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I want to be excited about 3/14/15 but I know it's really 3/14/2015 and in the rest of the world it's 14/3/2015

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And on my computer it's 2015/3/14. - Victor Ganata

Worship not whited sepulchers, it's the spirit of the law that matters. It's pi day! - Todd Hoff

Mere details, Victor. Pie is the only thing that counts. - Stephan Planken

That's why it's called National Pie Day, it's as American as apple pie. Enjoy it or you'll wake up tomorrow singing 'bye, bye, (I) miss American pie' - Greg GuitarBuster

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Today I am 38½ years old :D #halfbirthday #semiversary #fridaythe13th

Mar 13, 2015

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I was reminded of this fact by an e-mail from BevMo, because they clearly want me to drink for every reason possible. - Victor Ganata

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It's definitely not pretty, and I have no idea if it will work with anyone else's feed, but I think this kludgy script I wrote might actually succeed in downloading my entire feed to my hard drive.

Mar 12, 2015

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Or end up in an infinite loop somewhere and take up all the free space. - Victor Ganata

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I dunno if I'll do the likes, but we still have time :D - Victor Ganata

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Trying to figure out how to set up a sane up-to-date Ruby environment in OS X so I can write a script to scrape all my Friendfeed posts. I had totally forgotten about dependency hell. #DyingSocialMediaProblems

Mar 11, 2015

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Today I've discovered that 16 GB on a mobile device is just not enough space for me.

Mar 11, 2015

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I don't do music on my smartphone anymore it's all in the cloud (Google Music). Last time I checked it was apps that took up most of my space. - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart

^ this. I had a few that were just gorging on space - once I reformatted my phone (bad upgrade,) even after restoring and downloading all of my old apps, I'd regained about 2 GB of space from... somewhere. - Jennifer Dittrich

Same here. It's ridiculous how much some apps bloat on updates. - Anika

I was just saying that about my Nexus tablet last week. - COMPLICATED MR. NOODLE

Victor Ganata

Sheesh. Am I going to have breakout Ruby and XPath? #DyingSocialMediaNetworkProblems

Mar 11, 2015

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I wonder how many programs will break when the Gregorian calendar rolls over to 10000 AD/CE because they hardcoded the year field to four digits. #ThinkingAboutDeepTimeArchives

Mar 10, 2015

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There's still plenty of time to sort out the y10k problems. - John (bird whisperer)

http://longnow.org The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996 to creatively foster long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years. - Joe

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I'm surprised I haven't seen more "Defying Gravity"/"Let It Go" mashups.

Mar 10, 2015

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There's three youtube results up top: https://www.google.com/search... - Andrew C (✔)

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Almost 24 hours of running an archive script (although I've had to stop and restart once and my laptop battery died once.) Looks like I'm just in early 2014.

Mar 10, 2015

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The script has been running continuously since I posted the OP and I'm just in mid 2013. - Victor Ganata

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Trying with --all flag, it gets stuck in an infinite loop in early 2013 :( - Victor Ganata

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