"chocolate in toronto" written by Heidi on estrip.org

07/24/10 10:59 - 71.ºF - ID#52274

chocolate in toronto

(crap! the main journal entry field clears itself when it i hit the back button! take two...)

Lilith fair was a big Lilith fail today. Lana and i made it to whole foods when it started to rain. not just a little rain, a real downpour. we didn't want to stand in the rain so we went to the oldest vegetarian restaurant in Toronto for an early dinner. I'll try to find the name later. Edit: Annapurna Vegetarian Restaurant.) It cleared up for about 20 minutes and then started raining again. We decided to bail on Lilith altogether. instead we went to visit her daughter at her new (first!) job at Soma, a fancy chocolatier in the amazing Distillery Historic District. omg. best. chocolate. eva. i had a spicy hot chocolate and got some pieces to go.

oh, Canadians are weirder than just milk in a bag. their marshmallows are square. and evidently my dog has an alternate life in Toronto.

heidi writes at 12:42:41 07/25/10 - Comment #57487: AHHHHHH thank you for the long-press-home info. Exactly what I need - I've been wondering how to alt-tab but hadn't put it into words.

I realized when I was typing the steps that's how the back button functions. Thanks for clarifying it for me.

Yea for save draft! :-) Thanks, (e:Paul)!!!!!

paul writes at 12:38:40 07/25/10 - Comment #57485: I played with the steps you gave and hitting the back button in a text area after typing is like clicking undo. That is a android default, not something I wrote. By hitting back you are essentially asking it to undo the text you just wrote.

paul writes at 12:37:32 07/25/10 - Comment #57484: Well the next button works now in the update. However, the save feature you are looking for also kind of exists.

If you want to leave the app and have your text as is, just hit the home key. It brings you to the home screen. Then get whatever data you want and then long press the home key. It will bring up all running apps. Then select the estrip app which is running in the background and you should be good to go.

To be extra safe you can select the title again before leaving. Whenever you switch between title and entry it saves the data to you phones local database until the publish button is pressed.

heidi writes at 12:37:06 07/25/10 - Comment #57483: The ready-to-eat bar at Whole Foods was $2.99/100 grams. I found a piece of cheese for comparison that was 92 grams - it was nothing! Way expensive. And I can't believe I forgot to get gas before leaving the US and paid >$4/gal. (That's C$1.049 per litre. Liter?)

tinypliny writes at 12:30:54 07/25/10 - Comment #57479: Apparently, "Annapurna peaks are the world's most dangerous mountains to climb, with a fatality to summit ratio of more than 40%". The wonders of wiki-surfing.

Well... at least they use SI units. We all know how weird it is to be Liberia, Burma and US. ;-)

heidi writes at 12:23:34 07/25/10 - Comment #57476: 1. tap estrip icon
2. tap title field
3. type. (hit next, no response, hit the back button to return to the entry fields screen)
4. tap the blog field.
5. type. don't hit the done field because the next button didn't work. hit the back button, realize you want to look up the name of the first vegetarian restaurant in Toronto, hit back button again, it clears the blog field. *sigh* and retype.

I think this means I want a "save draft" feature.

paul writes at 12:23:19 07/25/10 - Comment #57475: Oh and there is an app update that should fix the next button and temp photo issue on your phone.

paul writes at 12:14:57 07/25/10 - Comment #57474: What do you mean by back button? It should cancel the back button so that you can't do that like we talked about the other night.

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07/18/10 05:36 - 79.ºF - ID#52232

subway ginger

i didn't know dogs could go on the subway here. that is absolutely forbidden on the dc metro.
we went to a big chinese volleyball tournament. lisa used to play all the time and coached so she knew lots oc dc and ny people there.

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07/17/10 05:00 - 85.ºF - ID#52217

grateful dead exhibit

i kust finished going through the new york histprical society's grateful dead exhibit. i am grateful to have been on the bus for 20 years. pix wernt allowed in the gallery, so here are two outside shots.

oh, this also represents my first solo trip on the nyc subway system. thank you, android, for gps.

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07/17/10 01:20 - 82.ºF - ID#52216

more ginger

ginger held still while lisa held treats.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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07/17/10 12:48 - 81.ºF - ID#52215

ginger

ginger is lisa's chinese crested powder puff puppy.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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07/16/10 09:05 - 75.ºF - ID#52184

more zoma pix

more excellent food

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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07/16/10 09:02 - 76.ºF - ID#52183

zoma:essence of abyssinia

honey wine, fellow patrons, food, members of the lesbian foodie meetup that lisa's gf miriam runs....

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07/15/10 04:37 - 86.ºF - ID#52174

only took me two hrs...

to figure out how to take a picture. i got the estrip app with no problem.

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Category: stuff

07/15/10 09:32 - 74.ºF - ID#52171

Phone advice requested!

I'm on the waiting list for the Droid Incredible, which won't ship until 7/27 :-p

The Droid X is out today. Should I go to the store and get the X and kill the Incredible order?

These are very important questions.

heidi writes at 12:03:51 07/17/10 - Comment #57366: (e:enknot) - I'm going thru battery like mad. I took the bus to NYC yesterday and the ads/website promised outlets & wifi, neither of which was true. Nine-hr bus ride, new phone, couldn't play with it all I wanted :-p I figured out pandora and google listen and wanted to enjoy them but noooooo. At least I conserved enough to meet Lisa's gf at the Port Authority terminal and didn't get lost.

heidi writes at 07:08:41 07/15/10 - Comment #57326: What music/podcast manager should i use?

(I use itunes on my windows laptop & desktop.)

heidi writes at 06:30:19 07/15/10 - Comment #57325: I don't think I want to talk about whether I've touched (e:KeithT)'s big one.

The new phone is humongous compared to my Centro. It feels like I need a big protective pillow for it.

heidi writes at 02:49:44 07/15/10 - Comment #57317: Got it!!!!! And a cute purple case. Yippee!

Apologies to (e:fellyconnelly) for being too impatient.

enknot writes at 11:09:59 07/15/10 - Comment #57313: I'm glad I have a droid for now and can wait till the perfect storm hits before buying a new one. None of these are going to do it for me (since I'm on sprint to begin with), but if I had to pick one it'd be the one with a longer battery life. Everything else on these devices is so much better than what you have if you have no smart phone I don't think it'll matter, and if you do have one it's such a huge speed improvement you'll be giddy with techy wonder too, but battery life is the little death destroys every good time. Still you can go paul style and get a 2nd battery and charge stand, which you should regardless since it's an ability your phone will have over those eye devices no matter which one you pick.

paul writes at 10:05:34 07/15/10 - Comment #57310: This dude feels the droidX wins and he is a super dork :::link:::

paul writes at 10:00:16 07/15/10 - Comment #57309: I would definitely go for the droidX. Alone, the better battery life sounds good. If you have handled (e:ekeithT)'s big one, you would know how awesome the large size is. Compared to his mine is so average size.

jim writes at 09:38:14 07/15/10 - Comment #57308: The Droid X is bigger, personally I prefer phones that fit nicely in my pocket, but the bigger screen may be appealing. Droid X and Droid Incredible have very similar screen resolutions, though.

Droid X is supposed to have a better battery.

Droid Incredible also ships with a slightly non-standard version of Android (with HTC's Sense theming), so I *believe* but may be wrong, that the Droid X will tend to get Android OS updates quicker since it's easier to release an update without HTC's issue of needing to update all the custom stuff.

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Category: holiday

07/09/10 03:47 - 71.ºF - ID#52131

Infringement Festival!

Infringement Festival is quickly approaching! I'm really excited because I'm having my first art show! Please come to the opening reception/party:

Friday, July 23
6:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m.

464 & Blink Galleries
464 & 466 Amherst St. Buffalo, NY
between Elmwood & Grant on Amherst. Street parking.
Food, drinks, live music, (Michael Sheffield and Three Degrees of Separation), DJ, performances, including a 3-D Pop Art piece (glasses provided!).

Our favorite robot music t-shirt guy will also have an installation!

Bring friends!

infringebuffalo.org/

heidi writes at 02:24:12 07/10/10 - Comment #57247: (e:Joshua) - Infringement is a great way to check out random art, and get to know emerging artists and musicians in the city who you may want to follow later. Almost all the venues/parties/performances/installations/interactions are free/donations welcome. That also means the quality varies from great, interesting, or discussion-worthy to cringingly bad or embarrassing. But there's no commitment - you hate it, walk out until the next performer starts.

Here are some shots I took of last years' festival. :::link::: I saw three different belly dancing groups - one was pretty blah, one was a pro from Lebanon, one was a very neat combo of belly dancing and ballet.
I loved loved loved the firedancers.

I went to a performance art piece (I think by (e:angelal)?) in a 3'-wide alley here on Allen with a full video backdrop, music, costume & make up, and some toplessness, about the fate of asian elephants. It was very well thought through and professionally produced and performed. I don't know if I actually know more about the elephants' problems, but I'm definitely more aware of them. This year I think she's doing something about the fate of the ocean inhabitants.

The schedule is definitely confusing, but the online version is more manageable - you can sort by day and venue and type of thing. The geographic center of the festival is Allen West/Days Park, so just wandering there can drop you into the middle of something interesting. Last year there was a storytelling car ride and a building-it-now interactive photo exhibit.

I'm really impressed with the organizers - I haven't been to any meetings yet but the emails have been pretty organized and professional, and the website database is clean and simple to manage my info in (had to help the db developer debug a couple times :-) They're nonhierarchical, noncommercial, have no corporate sponsorships, they sell some ads and take donations.

DIVE IN! :-) (Hopefully I'll see your dive at 464 on 7/23!)

joshua writes at 12:50:03 07/10/10 - Comment #57246: Hmm, as long as I've been here I've never checked this out. I have to admit that I've not been exposed to a lot of this stuff and know very little about it, although I've always liked art and have only been exposed to limited forms of artistic expression. The lineup seems interesting but it is totally confusing to me. Maybe I should just dive in and check stuff out that seems appealing.

metalpeter writes at 09:37:59 07/10/10 - Comment #57243: July 23rd I will have to remember that. That is like 2 weeks away I would like to go. I wish you luck. In terms of if you sell anything you might. I can't really say cause I the type of art I buy isn't photogrophy really, so I don't know what gets someone to buy that. But maybe people who buy that type of art will like your stuff, who knows maybe I even will. I'm more of a drawings or photos of someplace that is somewhere else type of person. I wish you luck.......

lauren writes at 09:35:05 07/10/10 - Comment #57242: well that's very exciting! hopefully we can stop by and see it!

heidi writes at 08:09:55 07/09/10 - Comment #57236: Photography. I think you've seen everything that will be in the show because I've posted most of my best stuff here over the past two years (since I bought my camera summer '08). It'll be nicely printed and framed, and on display/for sale at an actual art gallery. (Not that I'm expecting to sell anything, but it's part of the deal with the gallery - 20 percent commission.)