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jim 22:01 Just saw 2012, the movie. OMG too long. I wanted all the characters to die by the end.
jim 00:33 Movie over time for sleeeeeep.
tinypliny 00:16 Aarrrgh. Home remedies without basis
tinypliny 00:16 because it doesn't
tinypliny 00:15 Unless they mean it increases the white cells - which makes no sense
tinypliny 00:15 I mean mucus is like white cells and infection jumbled together - the immune reaction to an ongoing infection - how does milk increase this?
tinypliny 00:14 I don't see how milk is a mucus-inducing food
tinypliny 23:44 That local sneaky bloke must have such a workload if he or she is real - which I suspect they are not.
tinypliny 23:43 for just about everything.
tinypliny 23:43 I was looking for best pizza places and I was SO annoyed looked at that generic paragraph with "Our local sneaky blah blah"

Jim's Journal from 10/2007

10/02/07 16:21 - 68ºF - ID#41457Category: workTooling

I was so frustrated at work today. I tried to use version control software again but it kept failing with weird errors. I tried Subversion and Git. I've tried both of them at RPCI before but had weird errors. Turns out it's because they can't work on windows network shares. I wish that I knew that ahead of time, I've wasted so much effort reinstalling and tweaking software today and the other times I've tried to set it up. They just can't be used over the network and there's nothing I can do about that. I mean, clearly they are networkable tools, but the 'local copy' can't be on a remote network share due to file locking. The remote copy can be anywhere of course.

Oh well tomorrow is another day.

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10/02/07 18:45 - 68ºF - ID#41461Category: cultureThings Which Are Awesome

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia

Super funny, watch it

Night Watch / Day Watch (Russian Sci Fi)
Hard to track down but really good. (dubbed)

(2004_film)

Happiness

For the love of god don't watch this one. This one is awesomely horrificly traumatizing.

Firefly

Awesome. From Firefly:

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10/02/07 22:01 - 68ºF - ID#41467Category: computersBackup Hard Drives

OK, so this is getting ridiculous.

I have one external backup drive for my laptop, one for e:james' desktop, and now two more on the way to attach to the network for photo storage (100+gb so far). No more room on my laptop for them all.

I'm going to need to buy a house soon just to install a datacenter in the basement, and I don't think we'll need to worry about the house being cold this winter with all these electronics going. We have like four 8-outlet power strips in room with our computers.

Or maybe just get one of these...

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tinypliny writes at 01:36:21 10/06/07 - Comment #25832

That reminds me that one of these days my laptop is going to die on me and I am going to be a total wreck because I am just too lazy to back-up anything.

metalpeter writes at 06:45:06 10/04/07 - Comment #25770

I take pictures on my digital camera and store them on CD but I really do need to back them up other then on the computer. But I print all of mine out that is what photo albums are for. The thing is they are esaier to view in albums then on a computer. I really need to figure out how to get the ones on floppy's on a disc and then copy that disc.

jim writes at 10:41:16 10/03/07 - Comment #25719

Yikes!

Jenks that is no good :)

I can't believe that anyone uses those disks anymore. I've had to try a few times in the last year, and the disks or drives are invariably dead.

jenks writes at 10:35:48 10/03/07 - Comment #25718

ok, this will make you guys cringe.
At work we keep a list of all the patients we are taking care of. It's a dinky little excel file. But it is full of all sorts of private info, so it's "protected information" blah blah.

But there is no place we can store this file, that everyone has access to it. And they have just banned flash drives.

So we have been storing it on a FLOPPY DISK. The SAME floppy disk. For TWO YEARS now. With NO backup copy. And I am the only one that seems remotely concerned by this.

I didn't know computers even HAVE A: drives anymore!

dcoffee writes at 08:06:41 10/03/07 - Comment #25710

Yea, I know the feeling. I have my photos on DVD and hard drives. But I don't trust computers at all. We should print more of our favorite photos. I know us digital photographers don't print much, we post things online, email stuff to friends, group it into folders, but printing at a photo lab? I went about 3 years without adding a single photo to a photo album, but it's so rewarding when you do. I admit it takes a bit of time, and I haven't printed anything for myself in at least 6 months. But I feel like prints, are a real backup.

jim writes at 07:50:59 10/03/07 - Comment #25707

I've got remote offline storage covered, but this is all about making sure I've got two copies of everything locally too.

I'm super paranoid about backups, don't worry about me :)

metalpeter writes at 07:46:50 10/03/07 - Comment #25703

Seriously I noticed you didn't mention CDs or DVDs. I will admit that one little scratch can mess them up but that would give you another way of storing pictures and video and with the pictures then if you have a DVD player that would be another way to view them. Backing things up is really important and a lot of people forget to do and then when they lose stuff it is gone and they can't get it back.

jenks writes at 06:17:24 10/03/07 - Comment #25689

well shit, at only 24K, I'll take two!

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10/04/07 16:58 - 78ºF - ID#41494Category: politicsPolitics

Well I normally hate talking about politics on estrip, but this one is too funny:

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An elephant with a 'wide stance' in Minneapolis. Nice. (This is the actual GOP logo for their convention)

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10/07/07 11:37 - 61ºF - ID#41529Category: buffaloMarcella's Underwear Contest

The contestants:
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Who I voted for:
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These two won, a tie, and they went and danced on a pole together afterwards.
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I tried to wipe the lens of the camera phone off, but it must have still been a little dirty.

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10/07/07 12:43 - 61ºF - ID#41532Category: photosPhoto Booth

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10/07/07 19:45 - 72ºF - ID#41544Category: estripE:Strip Dinner

Welcome to my daily reminder to sign up for the e:strip dinner, to be held on Wednesday, October 10th, at 7pm. Click this link to find out more or to sign up if you're interested.

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10/09/07 17:46 - 69ºF - ID#41563Category: lifeVacation

I took my first day off in forever on Monday. I think it might have been the first day in 6 months that I didn't do any work. It was really nice, so thank you James, Paul, Matt, and Terry!

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10/10/07 16:28 - 57ºF - ID#41577Category: estripEstrip Pizza and Wings Night!

Tonight is the night!

There's room for last minute stragglers if you're suddenly available.

Check out the details here.

JJ's Casa-di-Pizza on Elmwood at 7pm.

See you there!

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