The game's logic appears to be almost entirely in the client and the server will accept any old data. For fun and profit I used Cheat Engine to speed time up in the game so my dishes cooked 20x faster than normal.

Here is how I did it.

1. Load up Cafe World
2. Start Cheat Engine
3. Click Search
4. Find Firefox and click it.
5. Click open.
6. Check Enable Speed Hack
7. Set the Speed to 20. Any lower is too slow, any higher and it won't work.
8. Click Apply.
9. Make the longest taking highest level dishes you can.
10. Repeat 9 until you get tired.
11. Make your fiance cry because you just surpassed her months of work in a week.

A note about the speed setting. It may seem like a good idea to crank that sucker up to 500, but you quickly lose connection with the server and the game reloads. Once the game reloads the time left on your dishes resets to what they should be.

Another note... this method should work on any of the time based games on FB. Good times.

The picture updates every thirty minutes. I'll have some neato time lapse stuff up after I collect enough source material.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Update 4/20/09: Needed my EeeeEEEEeeeePC for something else, big timelapse to follow.

Also, last time I stayed a whole week and I either got frostbite or cauliflower ear.

As a joke I left the baggage tag from my Hawaii trip on my bag. The box contains MREs. Eagle Butte doesn't really have any resturants. There is a Taco John's that is the town's running joke.

My first view of snow was in Bentonville, AR.

Giant beer cans on the Missouri border.

Somewhere in Iowa there was more snow... I have a thing for snow.

Yeah.

Nothing.

The motel in Eagle Butte used to be a Super 8, they lost the franchise. The pillows in the rooms are like soccer balls. I'm referring to the shape. Oddest and most uncomfortable thing ever.

It snowed over night in Eagle Butte.

Across the street from the motel is the town's only bank, which resides in a double wide trailer.

 

This was by no means an exciting trip, but in this case that is good.

I was using a generic pair of Everlasts before, the Rev Gears are a night and day improvement. I won't be going back.

A++ would buy from again!!!11one

To ring in the upcoming new year I decided to wash all of my old gear.

For reference, the water coming out of the facet is clear.

And just because, Can Cat:

I have an Xbox with XBMC that I had been using every day. I bought the Popcorn Hour for a couple of reasons, HD, quietness, and I'm worried about my four year old Xbox having a heart attack in the middle of a movie.

It was my hope that the Popcorn hour would work at least as well as the Xbox and solve those problems. The Popcorn works exactly as advertised, no complaints there. I can plug it into my network and watch videos off of a SMB share.

I really think my problems are more, 'It is not XMBC', rather than the Popcorn Hour being flawed.

What I like:

* The case looks a lot nicer than an Xbox.
* It's silent. This is wonderful.
* Watching TV on an Xbox makes you feel like a huge nerd, not so much on the Popcorn.

My problems:

* The interface is slow. There is a second or two pause between pages when scrolling through a directory listing. XMBC can scroll through the same list in a blur. This slowness annoys the hell out of me, I don't see any reason why it should be slow either. Cache the directory listing, and then scroll the cached copy, dang.

* I have a lot of music videos that I like to queue into a random play list and play while I work around the house. Popcorn can't seem to do this.

* No FLV file support, this one is my fault for not paying attention to the supported formats list, but it still bugs me.

* Whenever a video loads, my TV displays a bright blue 'NO INPUT' screen for about four seconds before the video starts. This is annoying any time, and blinds you late at night.

As my opinion stands now I wouldn't recommend the Popcorn Hour to anyone. At first I was going to say it would be nice for someone who isn't computer savvy, but anyone capable of having a collection of ripped videos and such to warrant a Popcorn Hour is probably smart enough to figure out XBMC.

Update 11/15/08:

Some goony goon goon suggested I set the PH to use one video mode instead of auto. That fixed my TV blue screening.

I still hate the PH and I am sending it back.

My Xbox will never play HD, so for that I'm going to wait until XBMC Linux matures and then I'll build an HTPC. In the mean time, so begins Operation Silent Xbox.