02/14/14 01:07 - ID#58681

Programming dirt

A while back I wanted a smartphone, and Microsoft was handing out Windows Phones to anyone developed an app for them. So I banged out an app called Soil Sort that classifies soils based on sieve test particle size. It tells you some general properties of the soil like strength, cohesion blah blah. My roommate Sarah always called me a dirt nerd because of it.

Anyway, it had been downloaded 448 times, but I never got any feedback. The other day I got an email from some Nigerian engineer thanking me for writing it.

Thanks a lot for this wonderful program I love it GOD bless you for taken out time calculations easy for designers let us have more of unified systems and way of alternating the % retained method
Regards
Abiakam Chidi Steven
Civil and Environmental Engineer @ GEOFINITE CONSTRUCTION

It's an awesome feeling to hear that someone actually used something I made. It motivates me to want to program more. I'm still learning tons about web development and PHP from (e:paul), so hopefully I can produce useful tools soon.

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Category: random

02/14/14 12:46 - ID#58680

Restlessness

I've been feeling pretty restless lately. I'm not sure if its because of work, that I want it to be warm or maybe a combination. I have a bunch of projects that I'd like to do at home but its hard to even do them because being cooped up drives me crazy.

There are these ridiculous ice tunnels in Crystal Beach that have popped up, apparently it's a freak occurance from the lake ice and wind. The other day I was wishing I could just bike across the lake on the ice to Canada or something. In a few months we'll be riding over the bridge to Windmill Point anyway!

(e:paul) is going to Florida for a conference at the end of the month. I'm jealous. Too bad (e:terry) and I couldn't go with him.

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Category: beer

02/14/14 12:32 - ID#58679

Shake it don't brake it

Last night (e:terry) and I went with (e:yesthatcasey) to GO Bikes Valentine event at Essex. Not really sure what the point was but the Rusty Chain was free for members so that was awesome.

We ran into Dana there and ended up having a big debate on GMOs and food. Casey asked me if I would eat an animal that just died if it wasn't raised or killed for humans to eat. I feel like logically I should because that takes away the environmental and ethical problems, but that means I'd eat roadkill. They do have recipes

.

Ironically we drove there because of Terry's bum knee. So embarassing, I'll never be cyclist of the month at this rate!

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Category: birthdays

02/14/14 12:20 - ID#58678

Paul's Mom's Birthday

So for her birthday, we went with (e:Mike) and (e:libertas) to Hutch's. It was crazy good food. I got the poblano pepper which was amazing and vegetarian, and even the mixed green salad was good.

After we went to Mike and Dave's for dessert. I ate way too much sponge candy and caramel bark. We heard from Paul's Dad what happens when you're in the first division, and that Paul was either a really terrible or really good paper boy.

Wish I took pictures.

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Category: music

02/11/14 12:20 - ID#58669

Erica rocking it and 24 Hours of Happy

(e:czarkasm) sang at Nietzsche's open mic night again. Even with the burps, definitely thought she was the best we heard there. Unfortunately we missed the throat singer but a guy did a poem that was pretty decent.

(e:paul) and I think (e:terry) should go up and sing sometime, he's so good at singing.

After we got back Terry and I danced in the living room to an hour of Pharrell's Happy. It has a 24 hour music video online here

. Surprisingly it didn't get annoying to me but I'm pretty sure it was to Paul, lol.

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Category: food

02/11/14 11:53 - ID#58668

Turkish Rice Pudding

The Turkish girls (e:paul) and I talked to on omegle recommended we make Turkish rice pudding, which is rice pudding with a broiled egg on top. On Sunday I made it using this recipe

. We asked them about making it with chocolate but the Turks thought this would be sick. I thought it sounded good.

It didn't taste very good at first, but it became much better eaten chilled yesterday. The broiled egg yolk was a weird touch that actually tasted pretty good with the creamy pudding. I used tapioca flour as a thickener so it tasted like tapioca pudding.

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Category: food

02/11/14 11:50 - ID#58667

Shopping Sunday

On Sunday (e:paul), (e:terry) and I went shoppinng pretty much everywhere. We went to Feel Rite, Pet Supplies Plus, my parents house, Trader Joe's, the Indian and Chinese groceries on Sheridan and then Anderson's with my family for 96 cent cones. I got the Greek yogurt custard. It reminded me of the sweet cream ice cream I got for Paul's cake last month.
I was also so suprised Terry didn't die because he hates grocery shopping and his knee still hurt.

When we got back home Paul made the giant artichokes, Terry made an amazing barley vegetable soup and I made Turkish Rice Pudding. I was food babying so hard.

Ferret Laxative. Good thing we were running short.

Horse or pig? Who knows.

Anderson's turtle cake

Artichoke fisting

Terry's Suppe

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Category: deutsch

02/09/14 02:20 - ID#58658

Deutsch Omegle

In addition to the Flappy Birds fiasco, I've been stuck in 2009 and chatting on Omegle to practice German. (e:Paul) and I spent probably 7 hours this weekend looking for Deutschers to chat with. It's really good practice because Duolingo doesn't really have much of a verbal component.

We spent 3 hours talking to these drunk Turkish girls. Apparently I've aged poorly because they thought Paul was 25 and I was 30. We exchanged Whatsapp and snapchats and now we have to make a Turkish baked rice pudding called f?r?n sütlaç.

We also talked with a weird Russian boy who apparently was recording his sister having sex. He thought Paul was 24 and I was 26. Yeah I thought we were going to get arrested for that one.

Last person we talked to was to some Austrian kid. He was super impressed with Paul's German, especially when he pronounced these two redonk German words.

die

Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft

oder die "Danube Steamboat Shipping electricity main control office building related subordinated state employee- Company"

und

Feuerwerksraketenanzündeschnursicherheitsverlängerung

oder die "Firework rocket ignition cord safety lengther" or a fuse lengthenre for a firework

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Category: church

02/09/14 01:53 - ID#58657

Priest Fingers

So yesterday (e:Paul) put a seaweed snack in my mouth and pretended it was a communion host.

Somehow we brought up priests placing communion in your mouth and I said I remember when I was little being grossed out when their fingers touched your mouth. Apparently this didn't happen to Paul or (e:mike) so either I had creepy priests or I was a creepy child who sucked on the priests fingers. I remember always preferring to take it my hands to avoid it. Did this just happen to me? Can I get a settlement out of this or something?

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Category: dancing

02/09/14 01:40 - ID#58656

Soul Night at Milkie's

On Friday, (e:paul) and I went out with (e:robert), Mickey, (e:xandra), (e:flacidness) to Milkies for soul night and Rita's birthday. Poor terry was still broken.

I thought it was going to be lame because the music really isn't my thing but it was weirdly alright to dance to. Pretty sure my mom would have loved the music they played.

I wish my phone had more battery so I could have taken pictures of the ridiculous videos they played. or all the beards and mustaches there. I thin there were about 2 straight guys in the whole place.

After it ended at 3, Paul and I headed home to bed while everyone else went to Faherty's