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09/11/10 08:30 - 66.ºF - ID#52710

Not sand run falls

My friend J and I have been having fun forging new trails in the tioga state forest outside of arnot, pa., and not getting to sand run falls. There's a perfectly nice marked, maintained trail to sand run falls from the arnot road, but being the oddballs we are, we have been refusing to take it, knowing there's a more obscure shorter path from Landrus Road. (I'm hoping my Tioga County friends don't read this but it's kinda embarrassing but funny.)

I tried out the android tracks app for our adventure. Ran out of battery before we finished but we were nearly on the road by then. Tracks is cool but the elevation gain stat is weird, it seems to record every foot up, not a net gain. So we went over 700 feet up, but min and max elevation were 1543 & 1905, still significant.

We found a huge old boney (shale) pile, waste from coal mining. Then we found a disgusting amd holding pond that the babb's creek watershed folks have been remediating for at least 20 years. Didn't take phone pix of it but did take real camera pix that I'll try to post soon.

Boney pile

Babb's Creek

Friends drinking at the Bear Ass last night

Beautiful clouds on the route between Buffalo & Bloss.

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Category: tourism

09/10/10 03:41 - 67.ºF - ID#52695

Parking meters

The parking meters in Wellsboro, Pa., are so pointless... they only take nickels and dimes, and tickets are $5, payable at certain meters with drop boxes.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: tech

09/07/10 09:28 - 70.ºF - ID#52679

Extreme updated cuteness

My eee pc got a new OS! [(e:heidi,45870) and (e:heidi,51382)] It's soooo cute and all handy & up to date! Asus stopped supporting this model (eee pc 900) shortly after I bought it and I was stuck in firefox 2.0, which made the all-important google docs unhappy. Now I have Chrome, firefox, cheese, and all kinds of other goodies.

(Interesting how estrip.org is in the bookmarks toolbar!)

Thank you!!!!

uncutsaniflush writes at 08:56:03 09/09/10 - Comment #58337: (e:paul) - thanks for the offer but being the Linux distro whore that I am I put Ubuntu Studo - Puppy Edition on the 900a after I commented last. I've been using it on my mom-in-law's old box (celeron 2 ghz) as as music studio with decent results. The power supply recently blew on the celeron box so i'm using a psu from another box externally since I don't have another micro-atx psu floating around at home.

Why use the puppy edition instead of the full blown Ubuntu Studio? In a word - latency. It uses a real time kernel and on the celeron box with Ubuntu Studio the latency is around 23.9 for Ardour and with the puppy edition it is around 5.8. And, of course, less latency is better latency.

paul writes at 09:49:17 09/08/10 - Comment #58320: Its totally worth it. She had a 900 and it made it work like a completely new device. I installed it by putting the ubuntu netbook live CD on a USB drive and booting off of that. I have it still if you need it.

uncutsaniflush writes at 03:31:35 09/08/10 - Comment #58313: (e:heidi) - I hope you enjoy yr new and improved eee.

(e:paul) - shame on me for thinking that you put fedora on everything.

I was farting around with my eee 900a and right now it is distro-less. Maybe I'll try fedora netbook or unbuntu netbook on it.

heidi writes at 02:00:44 09/08/10 - Comment #58312: It's very speedy. It feels so modern in comparison.

paul writes at 10:45:32 09/07/10 - Comment #58308: I do love Fedora and they do have an eeepc build, but its actually ubuntu netbook edition :::link::: as I thought it would be easier for (e:heidi) to maintain.

uncutsaniflush writes at 10:27:20 09/07/10 - Comment #58307: Since (e:paul) and cheese are mentioned I'm going to guess Fedora!!??

paul writes at 10:16:18 09/07/10 - Comment #58306: Of course I had to add that! It seems pretty responsive.

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09/06/10 06:21 - 72.ºF - ID#52672

Bennett beach

In a moment of sunshine...

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Category: moving

08/27/10 02:42 - 71.ºF - ID#52580

Moving party!

If you are anxiously awaiting an opportunity to help someone move, here's your chance! I'm going to do it in two parts - 5:00 p.m. today or 1:00 p.m. tomorrow. Beer? Pizza? Let me know.

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08/26/10 03:32 - 70.ºF - ID#52577

Stupid sign

At rest stop near geneseo, ny.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 08/26/10 03:32

08/25/10 10:20 - 66.ºF - ID#52569

LGBT Professionals Networking Event

The Pride Center of WNY will be having our next LGBT Professionals Networking event on Sept. 1!

Wednesday, September 1st
Mode Urban Bisto (corner of Elmwood & Utica)
5:00pm - 7:00pm

Please let me know if you are able to attend!!!

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Richard
richard.ridenour [at] ml.com