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| Saturday, May 26th, 2012 |
jcfiala
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6:16p |
Rolling Freight and Pathfinder
This is a blog post copied from John's Website - please feel free to join him there and post comments. He has set up openid, so you can post there with your livejournal account using your openid, which is the same as your journal url minus the http://. You can find this entry at http://www.jcfiala.net/blog/2012/05/26/rolling-freight-and-pathfinder.
Boy, having a kid changes how you do stuff.
Way back a year ago, before I had had to stop freelancing to get insurance, I was a fairly early user of http://www.kickstarter.com/, enjoying searching the site and finding things to put money down on. This was way before the explosion of board game kickstarters, and so when the kickstarter for Rolling Freight showed up I was all in on a copy. For one, my wife runs the train gaming at GenghisCon and is a major train gamer, and I thought she'd probably find having a copy of this useful. For another, I had a lot of disposable income when I was freelancing. I figured it would have been a great Christmas present for Tammy last year, but production of the game dragged on, and amusingly enough I got the package only a few days shy of the first anniversary of when the kickstarter finished.
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| Friday, May 25th, 2012 |
cellio
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6:18p |
Shavu'ot
Tonight/tomorrow is Shabbat as usual, followed by Shavu'ot, the holiday celebrating (among things) the receiving of torah at Mt. Sinai. There'll be the usual community-wide late-night study from 10 to 1 Saturday night, and then Sunday morning we'll be doing a joint service with another congregation (our turn to host). Many in the diaspora will keep a second day of the holiday (Monday), though I and my movement do not. So I expect to be back here Sunday night. Shabbat shalom and chag sameach to those who celebrate, happy three-day weekend to the rest of you in the US, and happy weekend to everybody else. |
| Thursday, May 24th, 2012 |
mizmoose
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3:15p |
Dr Grumpy (and me) Redux
I've mentioned before that I'm a regular reader of a 'blog' by one Dr Grumpy, a neurologist, who shares his office suite with a doctor in another type of practice, a Dr Pissy. A couple of months ago, Dr Grumpy posted a hilarious tale of a tech assistant to an Orthopedic Surgeon who couldn't understand why every doctor doesn't have a bone saw in their practice. Apparently the guy looked like some cross between a hippie and a Dr Seuss character, and when the bone saw (the saw used to remove casts) broke, floundered at trying to figure out what to do next. The tale started out by stating that the Orthopedist occasionally rents office space "from Dr Pissy and I". Some people get zorked out by the whole "your/you're" thing. Me/I is the one that drives me bonkers. I've called Dr Grumpy on this before, but it has continued. So that time I took it head on: OH, the people you'll meet when your cast must come off From the shiny new doctor to the tech toss off But sometimes your visit may go so awry When the bone saw breaks down with a heart wrenching cry The tech guy will seek for a new saw to use While you sit kerfluffled and waiting for news Dear Grumpy! Dear Pissy! the tech guy will beg Please lend me your saw so I can free this poor leg! But alas there's no saw nearby to be found The tech guy will worry! He'll panic, by zound! And so now your cast will stay on one more day Which lends me the time to remind and say I've told you before, you grammarless Grumpy Remove the [and someone] - it's Pissy and ME A father and doctor excel at you may But that basic grammar just keeps you at bay Today Dr Grumpy posted the tale of a nice lady who confused her lunch bag with a present for the office staff. Sure enough, it started out that she "always brings a small present for my staff and I". So I left the following: I have tried the Seuss Rhymes and many jokes, but still You still get it wrong At this point I guess You must do it on purpose to poke at my brain Mrs Gift brings the small present for staff and ME not *I*, you doofus Perhaps this haiku will get through your thick, dense skull A Moose can dream, no? A final verse says the required final line Plastic Bear Vomit I got an email response with the subject heading WELL, EXCUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!! inside was a picture of Steve Martin holding up a huge pair of underwear After I stopped laughing my head off, I replied, "How did he get a pair of my undies?" Dr Grumpy responded that he had no idea, he just grabbed the first image off of Google Images. |
cellio
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9:07a |
daf bit intermission: Pirkei Avot 2
(Today's daf is Nidah 3. I'm not ready to deal with that topic, at least
in mixed company, but fortunately, we're still in the Omer and studying Pirke Avot!)
Rabbi Shimon said: be careful with the recitation of the sh'ma and
the t'filah (the main prayer). When you pray do not make it a set task
but an appeal for mercy and an entreaty before the All-Present.
R. Eleazar said: be eager to study torah and know before Whom one toils.
R. Tarfon said: the day is short and the work is much, and the workers
are indolent, but the reward is great and the Master of the house is
insistent. (Avot 2:18-20, excerpted)
With the fixed text of the t'filah in the prayerbook being somewhat long,
it can be hard to remember that the text was not always so fixed and
to follow Rabbi Shimon's advice.
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| Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012 |
primaleph
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8:31a |
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| Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012 |
aleffert
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11:31p |
And appstagram is out the door. I really like ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) shaktool's suggestion of a colorblind filter. |
cellio
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10:50p |
On the Mark: origins
Part of this meme:
On the Mark:
So it's like this. I enjoy making music, both singing and playing, and
while the SCA was providing opportunities to do that, it couldn't scratch
the folk-music part of that itch. Filksings at SF cons, while also
enjoyable, couldn't scratch much of the itch either; I don't play guitar
and I don't write my own songs, so I felt like my offerings there amounted
to "reasonably-well-done a-capella songs we've all heard before". But
there was this group playing at cons called Clam Chowder that was doing
the kinds of music I wanted to do -- rich arrangements, a variety of
instruments, a mix of folk songs and filk and "found filk" and the occasional
oddball piece. And I wondered if there was room for more of that kind of
thing in fandom and perhaps occasional coffeehouses and stuff, so I asked
three musical SCA friends if this sounded interesting to them, and it did, and off we
went. (Because we were all in the SCA, we could easily incorporate the
renaissance music we were already doing there into other performances --
bonus!)
Now this all worked pretty well when we were in our 20s and didn't have
such demanding jobs and I wasn't yet paying attention to Shabbat and the
only group members who were married were married to each other. We had
a lot of fun for about 15 years and then shut it down on a high note.
We didn't want to be one of those groups that slowly degrades while its
friends sigh and hope you'll put it out of their misery, y'know?
I still listen to our CDs (well, mp3s now) sometimes and, well, gosh, we
were pretty good. In my biased opinion. :-) I wish we'd done more music
that we'd be free and clear to post online; I'd like to be able to share.
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cellio
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10:46p |
how LISP changed my professional life
Part of this meme:
LISP
The most valuable part of my education as a technical writer was my
student internship with the Common LISP project. It was also either the
first- or second-most important part of my education as a software
developer. Yes yes, the classroom stuff was important and the
software-engineering project course was essential for putting the pieces
together, but this was the real world and the real world is far less
tidy than the classroom.
I was brought on to help write the documentation for this
then-in-development language. (Other varieties of LISP existed; this
was an attempt to unify them.) But unlike all previous tech-writing
work, this was for a thing that did not fully exist yet, and I was part
of the ongoing design process. I was there in the (virtual) room with
the lead designers, Guy Steele, Dave Moon and dozens of others big and
small, and if my contributions had merit it didn't matter that I was an
undergraduate with no real experience. On the ARPAnet nobody knows
you're a dog undergrad. Mind, being an undergraduate
with no real experience, I didn't necessarily have a lot of design ideas
to contribute, but even then I was pretty good at catching
inconsistencies and asking key questions. I learned to write
software-interface documentation there, but even more importantly I
learned to be part of a real software-development process, to ask
questions even if they might seem "stupid", to argue for technical
positions and support those arguments, and to be a full member of a
team.
When I graduated and met more of the real world I would learn that it
usually doesn't work like this. In a lot of places, tech
writers are not part of the development process (and may not even be in
the development department) and the attitude is that they can come in
after the big boys are done developing the product. Phooey on that; this
important early experience taught me that it doesn't have to be that
way, and I have held firm on this in every place I've ever worked. If I
hadn't had this early lesson, I might well have fled the field.
It is also because of the Common LISP project that I went into programmer
documentation (and expanded from there). Frankly, writing application
documentation bores the heck out of me most of the time, but building
software development kits is exciting and nourishes my inner geek. When
I went to college I hadn't even heard of technical writing (I went there to
do computer science), but I came out as a technically-proficient writer who
knows the good that is possible. I have Common LISP to thank for that.
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cellio
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10:43p |
parlor game: let's talk about...
This parlor game
comes via talvinamarich:
Comment to this post and I will pick seven things I would like you to
talk about. They might make sense or be totally random. Then post that
list, with your commentary, to your journal. Other people can get lists
from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself.
He gave me: Lisp, On the Mark, Accessibility, Books, Role-Playing Games, Filk,
Faroe Islands (one of these things is not like the others).
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dvarin
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6:10p |
A weekend of things and stuff
Weekend visit from dr4b, which was consequently containing things I don't usually do, such as: - Walking to, then dining at Chinook's. For lunch, which is even more rare. - Karaoke (apparently several Disney movies have been translated into Japanese, and their songs are in Rock Box's catalogue. Attempted to sing "Be Our Guest", but lacking the actual sheet music I couldn't tell when syllables were supposed to be contracted to make it fit the melody. Though in general, I think I'd find sheet music helpful for karaoke.) - Dining with jweill. In Capitol Hill. - Going to a musical. In this case, Damn Yankees. I very much disagree with dr4b's "starts out strong and then flops" evaluation, mostly because to me it seemed about the same level of mediocre throughout. As a whole, that is--I must stress that the production quality was quite good and almost all my issues are with the story. For example, the plot was exceedingly sketchy, I think more so than usual for musical theater, probably due to the majority of musical numbers being plot-irrelevant and the handful of times they don't even try to excuse something that happens for no good reason. Given the selection of moralistic bits it was also pretty obviously written in the 50s, but I can deal with that, and I didn't find the non-cheating thing unbelievable because Virtuous Protagonist is still a standard trope. Some of the other things (Man, that homesickness was fast. Also, man is Applegate not evil at all.) irritated a bit though. - Getting up at 6am |
roseandsigil
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9:50a |
It's been a billion years since I've posted about my life. Here are some things that have happened. In December, I hung out with Lea. I went to NYC; hung out with Akiva and other people. I had Christmas at my parents house in New Jersey. For New Years, I went first to DC, then to Charlottesville, both times hanging out with CTYers. After New Years, I visited my sister in DC for a couple days. In Februaryish, I went to Seattle. Then my parents came to visit. We drove around town with my dad's college roommate. Then I turned 28. Somewhere in there I strained some muscles or something in my leg or groin, so I haven't really been able to get any exercise :-( I recently finally got hardcore about not using it a lot, and now it's almost better! Dannel came to visit thereafter. Four weeks ago, I went to Carnival (and a 7 party and an 8 party.) Two weeks ago, I went to my 10 year high school reunion. It was pretty excellent, actually. Some of my high school acquaintances are doing awesome things. Relatedly, I hung out with Granger in NJ and Philadelphia. A week ago, I went to my sister Kat's graduation in Poultney, Vermont, which is very small. I pet a cow, and she graduated. I was mildly sick from Tuesday to about Saturday, but it was not too bad. This weekend, my sister Emily came to visit. She and her boyfriend Bill got kicked out of my house into a hotel because I was sick. However, Sunday morning, we went to Bay to Breakers, which was great, and to get Mexican food. Then they left for Yosemite, and I lay around a lot in the sun and went to the beach. There was also a solar eclipse. Then Game of Thrones with Tom and Alice. My social life has consisted mostly of Tom, Alice, ChrisPride, Zoe and Kempy. These are good people. (Also another exciting thing is happening but it is a secret. I will tell you soon.) Current Mood:  accomplished |
aleffert
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12:08a |
real artists ship
Appstagram is done. It has a much nicer installation method and no longer uses SIMBL. I am kind of hesitating releasing it because the filters aren't that great. Anyone want to make a filter/overlay thing? Also releasing things is scary. |
| Monday, May 21st, 2012 | |
dr4b
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8:57a |
I was the UGLIEST GIRL in Wenatchee, Washington
Well, I guess I should have EXPECTED to get delayed? 8:15am flight is now "maybe" departing at 10am. Goddamnit I forgot how much I hate this part of the Seattle->SF thing. Anyway, so Sunday started off with lunch at Ivar's, and then we took the bus downtown. I stopped off in the Mariners team store (where there were, as always, Japanese tourists) and got an Iwakuma #18 t-shirt. Thought about getting a Munerin one too but they only had it in XL and XXL and that won't fly anymore, plus I still feel silly for not getting one from when he was with the Hawks. Then we went to see Damn Yankees at the 5th Avenue Theater. Bizarrely I just realized this marks the 10th anniversary of last time I saw it (the May 2002 production at the Walnut Street Theater in Philly), but I guess I've gotten a little more jaded about musicals since then, since my opinion this time around was basically that this show starts off strong and then really just kinda falls on its face. The scenes with the baseball players are great and I thought they did a good job with all the dancing numbers, but just as before I just find the entire goody-two-shoes plotline with Joe and his wife to be unbelievable. (I even commented to Carl after the show how a lot of the storylines have not changed significantly since the 1950's -- Washington DC even has a team again AND lots of people would still sell their soul to defeat the Yankees -- but the one storyline that is truly no longer believable IMO is that a hot young 22-year-old rookie baseball player would be faithful to his 45-year-old wife, especially when confronted with someone like Lola.) Whatever, their sets were FANTASTIC, I was really impressed by how they handled a lot of the "special effects" in this musical too. And they added a few little Seattle baseball shoutouts, like Gloria doing an Ichiro imitation and then when Applegate is introducing Joe to the team during his tryout and Joe is hitting homeruns left and right, he yells "GET OUT THE RYE AND MUSTARD, IT'S GONNA BE A GRAND SALAMI!" Afterwards I took a bus out to Redmond so I could help my team apply for the Wartron game, except, I literally arrived JUST as they finished their final puzzle. Oops. I feel bad, but I had bought these tickets to Damn Yankees back at Thanksgiving, before I'd even moved to San Francisco or heard about Wartron. So... yeah. But the team managed to get into the 12th slot out of 20, so that was good. I hear the application process was pretty hellish for a lot of teams because the site kept going down. Christine is leading this one, not me, though we called the team Lavacatipu (because Christine and Jon and Greg played their last two events as "Lava Hoedown" and the other half of the team is me and Lahut and Mike from Liboncatipu) So instead I hung out to help talk about logistics and stuff instead, and share puzzle hunt stories and whatnot. Eventually I took the bus back to Ballard, met up with Carl at Cupcake Royale, and came home. Of course, we woke up at like 5:30 so I could get to the airport for this stupid 8:15 flight which is now never ever going to depart. SO tired. I wonder if I could somehow nap here and not miss my flight. |
| Sunday, May 20th, 2012 |
dvarin
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7:52p |
[WoW] Note to self: If someone in a random 5 posts damage meters, and you respond with "kick bottom 3 dps... no, better kick 5 to be sure.", they will label you as an elitist and kick you right before the last boss. Apparently it was too subtle a joke. Alas. |
cellio
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5:48p |
salad-mix recall
Oh phooey -- we ate that yesterday, "possibly" exposing us to listeria monocytogenes (warning: I cringed while reading this). But kudos to Giant Eagle for calling and telling me; store affinity cards do bring privacy issues, but it's nice to know that the tracking of purchases can produce good outcomes too. Unless it were to make the news somewhat prominently, I might not have known otherwise. (Specifically, I might have heard "River Ranch" and not connected it to "Farmer's Market", the local branding.) Tomorrow morning I'll ask what my doctor recommends. |
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dr4b
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1:00a |
in Seattle
Having fun hanging out with Carl, basically, though I probably shouldn't be taking him away from his actual homework so much. Also hanging out with Adam and Rehana a surprising amount because they live upstairs from Carl, and so last night when I heard them come in I burst into the hall like "hi guys!" so they came down to hang out here for a bit, and then tonight when we got home they invited us upstairs and we hung out there for a while. But anyway, today we went to Chinook's for lunch, walking there, and on the way back we had a bunch of adventures, including running into the Ballard Bridge being raised, and then when we got to the corner of 22nd and Market, we ran into Carl's old boss or grandboss or whoever from Mayaviz/GD, Werner, who even I vaguely recognized since I think I interviewed there once too. And worse, they were both wearing t-shirts from old Viz products (Commotion?). After that we stopped in Bartell's and then walked by Zach's house to see what the current construction looks like. It's huge! I'm really curious to see the inside someday since right now it's like "I lived in this house for 2 years but I totally don't recognize it at all!" We went to Rock Box so we could sing a ton of enka or something, though the discovery of the day was actually Carl finding a ton of Disney songs translated into Japanese, so we sang those together; that along with actually doing an Ishikawa Sayuri medley pretty much sums up the time. Then I called jweill, and Carl and I walked to Half Price Books, where I found a whole ton of D&D books that we'd been hoping to find in SF and bought too many of them, and then the three of us ended up at Oddfellows Cafe for dinner (it was pretty late by then). I had a porchetta sandwich which was tasty but way too fatty, go figure. Then we came home. Carl points out that I never update LJ or G+ or anything like that because I've become a Facebook dweeb, so here you go. |
| Saturday, May 19th, 2012 |
zare_k
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11:44a |
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| Friday, May 18th, 2012 | |
dvarin
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11:29a |
潰れる運命
Talked with Japan recruiter again. He asked me why I wanted to work in Japan. Unfortunately, I haven't thought about that for two months and so I was %@#$ed for what answer to give him and ended up rambling on and on about things very unconvincingly. Sigh. He asked about my Japanese ability, I mentioned the JLPT and that I usually had few problems with conversation if it was directly to me rather than, eg, two Japanese girls chattering to each other at lightning speed. Afterward I got a call from one of his Japanese teammates, who... talked at lightning speed. Or possibly it was normal speed and I just didn't understand well because it was a bad phone connection. (Certainly, my cellphone has an earpiece which cuts out randomly, and putting the person on speakerphone adds another level of garble, so I was actually just losing segments of the conversation. People should just use Skype.) Regardless I was in a state of high panic the entire time and only caught half of it. Several times it was also extremely apparently that I was only catching half of it, alas. We'll see what happens. |
| Thursday, May 17th, 2012 |
cellio
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10:44p |
Baldur's heart
Since last I wrote about Baldur a few things have happened. A week after that post we went to Toronto for Pesach and I boarded him at the vet's so they could monitor him. (This is a new service.) While he was there they did another X-ray and reported that the fluid he'd been retaining was nearly gone, so they had me reduce the dosage of the Furosemide (diuretic) and told me to bring him back in a month. Last week was that visit, and he had a lot of fluid in his abdomen. (Not in his lungs -- just running around in there, um, somewhere.) The vet tried to get a sample with a needle but reached the "feisty" threshold before succeeding, so didn't. She recommended another ultrasound to see if there's been a change in his heart. That was today. She also had me raise the drug dosage (splitting the difference) a few days ago; they recommend checking bloodwork 3-4 days after doing that so we timed it for the ultrasound day. (This drug can rapidly cause kidney damage; that's what they're looking for.) The ultrasound confirmed that he has congestive heart failure; at the previous ultrasound they used words like "possible" but not this time. His heart hasn't changed much since the last one, which is good; I guess they got a closer look this time. There is also still a fair bit of fluid, though it's down some, so I am to increase the dosage again (back to that original level) and bring him in for a quick blood test Monday morning. We will probably also increase the dosage on the Enalapril (the heart medicine), but my vet understands the value of isolating variables during testing so we'll do that after confirming that the other drug's dose is fine. She also strongly recommended that I board him with them when I go to Israel this summer. I said my cat-sitter is excellent and diligent, thinking she was worried about him not getting all his meds or something, but she pointed out that if he's there I can authorize them to use their best judgement about any on-the-fly treatments. Good point. Being in a cage, even a nice large one, for a week and a half won't be much fun, but on the other hand he spends most of his time sleeping so maybe he doesn't care? My vet is unsure about prognosis. We're pretty sure that he won't be going out to celebrate reaching drinking age in two years, but beyond that... At this point we need to get his heart problems under control, which risks kidney problems, which -- if they show up -- we'll need to do something to compensate for, and the dance goes on. I don't know what end-stage heart failure looks like, but I do know what kidney failure looks like and that's not fun, so let's hope he continues to tolerate the heart meds. (Today his BUN was 40, last week 37, normal is up to 36. Erik and Embla stayed around 60 for a year or two before going downhill. So I'm cautiously optimistic about the kidneys.) His pulse, on the other hand, was 100 both this week and last. Normal for him is 160-200. That's kind of freaky. On the bright side, a friend gave me some home-grown catnip today for him and I can report that he found his first sample quite satisfactory. :-) |
avocado_tom
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9:48p |
cooking
Made a balsamic vinaigrette for the for the first time. Trying to get better about cooking at home now that I moved in with Dustin (1) and can get home at a reasonable hour (8 minute commute by bike). In other news, I got a parking ticket despite having an parking permit and I'm pissed. That's about all for now. |
| Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 |
blk
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10:22p |
honesty is such a lonely word
Last Saturday was the last home game for the jboys's soccer this year, so it was also "8th grade recognition" day. The graduating 8th graders got a personalized jersey, and all the soccer parents were called on to bring brunch supplies for parents and players to feast on during the three levels of games that day. As is often the case with this school, people brought TONS of foodstuffs, so that even after two games had been played and the opposing team invited to partake of their fill, there were still two tables of food left over. I had been working casually trying to make sure the food was spread well and available, to encourage the eating of, and also with some cleanup. As a result, I got a handful of snacks to take home as leftovers, including some Honest Kids juice pouches. Oh, neat, I thought, those juice boxes look like they might be regular, wholesome fruit juice mixes, which are tasty and nice to have around. After all, they advertise "all natural" and "no corn syrup" and things like that. Silly me, I forgot to look for the singularly important phrase to have on those things: "100% juice," which, as I'm sure everybody at home is shaking their head sadly, of course did not exist. One sip from the "goodness grapeness" made me regret my grab. It turns out that "low sugar" fruit drink is along the same lines as "low carb orange juice," where they take regular, normal, yummy 100% juice from fruit, water it down, and add sugar. The first two ingredients on 3/5 of the options: water, sugar (sugar is third on the other two). No I don't care that it's "organic" and "natural" or that it's supposedly more healthy because it's less sugary. I don't want watered-down sugar-added juice-flavored drink, I just want juice! Grar. Does anybody I know actually like that stuff? I suppose I'll keep them around for parties, but I feel bad peddling that crap to people I like. |
dvarin
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7:09p |
Completing the Avengers background movies, watched The Incredible Hulk. I liked that it wasn't actually an origin story--apparently it's familiar enough that they could get away with an opening montage and some backreferences for that. The ending as a little weird in that it seemed to imply he was trying "control" instead of "abolish", but how Banner shows up at the beginning of Avengers with his general depression and antipathy toward the green guy is not entirely consistent with that. Though I guess he could have given up and gone back to completely hating it during the interim. Vaguely wonder what happened to the overly enthusiastic professor. Also what the reversion trigger is. Have been getting these from Amazon Instant Video. Mostly because OMGConvenient. Though I do know Amazon is kinda evil to its suppliers, in this case the supplier is Hollywood, so... [Side Comment on Iron Man] Post-Avengers, we had a conversation to the effect of "Iron Man was actually conceived of during the 60s as a giant FU to the antiwar movement, intentionally incorporating traits they hated, but designed so that they'd love him anyway. He's an aggressive narcissistic ass with a heart of gold." My response to that was, "...which he keeps in his secretary." Though that's not actually accurate--on reconsideration it's actually just his social cooperation ability that he keeps there. |
| Sunday, May 13th, 2012 |
talldean
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11:15p |
Personal quirks.
Was giving a good bit of thought to blk's post on " how to bicycle safely", basically, as I have some relatively odd yet strongly held beliefs. The two that came up: - I enormously prefer quality taillights to quality headlights, given the choice of one. - I think that if you're a bicycle taking the lane - which is absolutely in your rights - it's rude not to be pedaling. The second one gave me a bit of thought, as I disagreed with the person I was discussing with, but something didn't click. And then, riding around yesterday, something *did* click. This one is oddly me. I've been yelled at, frowned at, and generally made people disgruntled simply by standing or being seated in front of them at movie theaters, concerts, operas, speeches, talks, classes, symphonies, football games... this got to the point years ago that I rarely attend *any* of these anymore, unless I can choose my own seat, and likely can choose a seat in the *back* row, so that no one is making me feel guilty for being there. I *hate* having someone behind me feel that I'm inconveniencing them. Which makes everything click a lot more why I think of bicycles as having every right to the lane... as long as they're actively trying not to inconvenience the person behind them. Personal quirk, not entirely grounded in reason. Got it. |
cellio
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4:31p |
but those were useful features!
A very helpful (yes, really!) technician at Verizon diagnosed our network problems as a flaky router, so he sent us a new one and we swapped it in today. The old router had two features that I found useful: I could name devices on the network, and the "my network" list showed me everything that had connected since the last router restart, not just the currently-connected devices. These, particularly in combination, were useful for monitoring my network. (Why yes, since I can be punished for anything done from my IP address even if I didn't do or authorize it, and since no security that is still usable is perfect, I do care.) The new router lacks both of these features; it shows currently-connected devices by MAC address (and IP address), but short of my maintaining the name-MAC mappings externally, that's of limited utility. And it doesn't tell me if a neighbor found his way onto my network while I wasn't watching. Now my neighbors seem like decent folks, and in a different legal environment I'd rather be the sort of person who shares my spare bandwidth with anybody who needs it, but that's not the point. Oh well. I guess I am now relying more strongly on decent neighbors and passwords, as I haven't found anything like router logs that tell me this stuff. I know that some of my readers are pretty security-conscious. How do you handle this? |
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