Wow, I'd love to see a timeline on that! When I donated, I recall there being less that $30K in the pot, and that was like 2 weeks ago.
Ditto verbatim, modulo numbers.
...I mean, I agree completely and I'm in the same situation, except that I don't know how long ago it was and I don't remember quite how much was in the pot.
The $125,000, 2011 Summer Matching Challenge was a success! We met our goal 2 days early, raising $250,000 total for Singularity Institute operations. Here is the blog post announcement.