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09/16/10 06:25 - 61.ºF - ID#52760

Acid Mine Drainage ick

More photos from the not-sand-run-falls hike (e:heidi,52710) & (e:heidi,52714)

What a cool mushroom, just hanging out on a dead branch.

Boney pile

Pine tree yellowed from the highly acidic shale that it's growing in.

Acid mine drainage pond above Babb's Creek. As the water moves down the mountain, it hits various treatment facilities but wow it's gross. And stinky.

We took a break here.

A nice August sunset shot from the visitors center on Rt. 15 S near Tioga, Pa.

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Category: tourism

09/16/10 06:04 - 61.ºF - ID#52759

George Eastman House & Mt. Hope Cemetery

I had a lovely adventure in Rochester with several (e:peeps) and a Casey at the George Eastman House and the Mt. Hope Cemetery

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Category: testing

09/15/10 12:17 - 59.ºF - ID#52743

Testing new app version

It seems to work.
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09/14/10 12:04 - 57.ºF - ID#52732

Kristen Becker vs. Carl Paladino

Last Thursday at the Dykes of Hazard Variety Hour, Kristen Becker told a story about her interaction with Carl Paladino at Roxy's one night... Luckily, it was video'd by the folks at www.wnymedia.net.

The Washington insider rag Politico picked it up on the 10th. And tonight, Rachel Maddow talked to www.wnymedia.net guy Mark Odien [clip]. No mention of Kristen's completely NSFW video, but it's cool that her video is bringing more attention to wnymedia's exposure of his racist, sexist, bestiality-laden emails; crazy policy proposals, and all-around ick.

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Category: home

09/11/10 09:18 - 64.ºF - ID#52716

Wet nisha

Nisha dipped her front paws in the amd pond so she got a shower when we got home. I rinsed it off her as soon as I realized she had done it... Ugh strong sulfur smell. I think she drank a little too cuz she coughed a lot and puked once on the rest of the hike. I hope she doesn't get cancer or something from it.

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09/11/10 08:42 - 66.ºF - ID#52714

First tracks post

This route isn't recommended. We did not travel across the body of water... it's the AMD pond I mentioned in the last post.

The track is also not complete because the phone was out of battery. We walked the road back to my truck.

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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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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.