10/11/08 06:09 - ID#46064
Shove a sponge in it?
Okay, I totally don't know anything about women's menstrual cycles but
putting sea sponges up there seems crazy. I mean, I get that dioxin
is bad and tampons are bad. That unbleached cotton is safer and that
you probably should try and not lose a multitude of tampons up there,
like one of my friends - you know who you are. But this borders on
totally strange to me and they are $15. Maybe you just rinse and
repeat.
Then again, I was in the feelrite buying ear candles- so maybe it's
not that strange.
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10/11/08 02:38 - 48ºF - ID#46055
Surebert Flash Player 10 Uploads Fixed
I am much happier with the new version and I learned a lot. Like how much MXML application suck for tiny things. The smallest I could get it as an MXML application was about 150k which is so freakin lame considering it is just a bttton. I didn't even think to look at the size until I was done and I was so pissed. There was no way I was going to add a 150k button to pages.
So I scapped where I was at and build one form scratch as and Actionscript 3 project in Flex and used the flash drawing API to draw the button states etc. Its nice with an actionscript project you can really get the project size so tiny. I ended up managing to get it all under 10K which is a lot more reasonable. You can style everything bou tthe button from javascript and all the event handlers are the same as the old surebert multifile uploader ones so implementation should be easy. I commented the javascript API but no so much the flex code. The Javascript is here and assumes you are using the surebert toolkit although you could adapt it to run on anything else. Anyways, the flex code is here if you are interested
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Category: religion
10/10/08 11:43 - 52ºF - ID#46054
Religulous
The only thing that kind of shocked me was that the Jesus story isn't unique. Apparently, it is also the same store as Horus and some other previous god-men.
In the end, the movie just confirmed my belief that I am terrified of muslims and christians alike and that jews are also scary but there aren't a lot of them - so not so much. Who knew there were so few of them? I guess there are a lot more if you count the christians as religious decendents.
According to the Jewish Agency, as of 2007 there were 13.2 million Jews worldwide; 5.3 million in Israel, 5.3 million in the United States, and the remainder distributed in communities of varying sizes around the world; this represents 0.2% of the current estimated world population.
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10/09/08 01:41 - ID#46018
Wasabi Sushi Bar On Elmwood
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Category: food
10/09/08 01:05 - ID#46016
Not kunis
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Category: programming
10/07/08 10:37 - 50ºF - ID#45984
Adobe and Safari I hate you tonight
On another note, I can't believe I am still at work. I am trying to finish this video uploading site for a contest they are hosting. Unfortunately, the magic that is my surebert multi file unloader is about to die as Flash Player 10 changed the way you can call the FileReference browse method and calling it from javascript is no longer an option. They want it to have a flash interface. Adobe says it makes it safer, I say it just makes it flashier and makes me mad.
I plan on creating a new multi file uploader widget based on my previous work but I won't have time tonight and they needed a solution now. I decided to just use traditional file uploads seeing as they are only uploading one file.
Cool enough, but sadly you don't get the progress which is really the fun part of the surebert uploader. Luckily, there is a php extension that allows you not only track how much of the file has been uploaded but how long it expects to take, the current speed, etc. Its really so easy and you can quickly get the data back via json. You add an extra random ID attribute to your form and it uses that as a key to track the file upload. Then you can make requests back to the server to get updates on the time remaining, etc. You make the requests via ajax which is really simple and great.
Sadly, after testing in IE6 and firefox and everything working, I tested it in Safari which refuses to receive ajax responses after it has initiated a file upload. I send them, it just won't process any responses. I hate you safari. Seriously, its always you that has to make everything fucked up.
Anyways, so I re-factored and ended up going with an iframe solution as safari was happy with that and so were the other browsers. Its cool to get an estimated finish time.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: music
10/05/08 12:42 - 58ºF - ID#45944
Bad Boy Bill at the strip club
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: toys
10/05/08 11:55 - ID#45943
Where Jesus meets glow
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: web
10/05/08 10:32 - 51ºF - ID#45941
Micorosoft Search Perks for Live Search
Then when I got there to sign up I was stopped with this.
Well, fuck you micorosft, I won't use it afterall. Who tries to beg people to use their stuff and then makes it at all restricted or difficult. They really need to learn this lesson. If you want your search engine reward points to draw the most people, make it work from any browser.
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Category: movies
10/04/08 06:47 - 56ºF - ID#45933
Nick and Norah's Infinite Adventure
It was also one of the first movies I saw that had gay characters I could identify with.
They did such a good job capturing the first night of meeting someone too.
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Blood is not revolting or even disturbing to me at all.
As for ear candles. PLEASE RETURN THEM!!! They are clinically not efficacious, and in fact injurious.
:::link::: I was so grossed out by the sponges that I totally missed that you bought them!!
If you want to get earwax out, try and get eardrops/oil and drop them into your ear for a week or so (a few drops daily). This will soften the wax up. Then get a syringing appointment at the ENT clinic. Syringing is a process by which a fine spray of sterile water is pointed into the ear and pushes out the softened wax.
More tips for ear-health:
PLEASE get rid of all your earbuds. They are the NUMBER #1 reason for impacted wax and do more harm and no good at all. They push ear wax deeper into the ear. The ear has a natural conveyor belt like assembly whereby ear wax is naturally circulated outward from the tympanic membrane into the external ear canal. The best way to clean your ears is by swishing your finger gently around your external ear while you are showering. Poking and using earbuds are the reason 50K Americans report to the ENT clinic with impacted wax every year. I cannot reiterate this enough. Get rid of the ear candles and the earbuds. Both are evil little implements of ear ruin. :(
Since you brought it up...
I do use the natural rubber version of the silicone cup (e:leetee) was talking about. I've used it two years now. it's actually really great. And I generate absolutely zero waste (I dunno about you, tinypliny, but I used to use a hell of a lot more than 4 pads in a month-- I bleed for a solid week! Maybe I'm just a freak. I am a much bigger person than you are, so that might make sense that I would generate a lot more volume-- but that might not be science, so don't quote me). You can even do the opposite of generating waste, and dump the blood out of the cups into your compost bucket, or dilute it with water 4:1 to use immediately as fertilizer for houseplants. It's organic! It's nutrient-dense! It's clean!
It's amazing how much cleaner and less disgusting all that mess seems when it's not in a grody bleached paper and plastic thing in your manky underwear. When it's just blood, it's totally not gross or nasty or smelly at all anymore-- it's just blood. And blood isn't particularly gross. Slightly disturbing, but not really gross.
But a sea sponge seems totally nasty. I would not shove anything like that up there. Also, I am fairly certain that would leak like anything. Rubber at least is hygeinic-- you can wash it in hot water and vinegar or soap. The silicone ones, you can boil. That makes sense to me. They don't get stained, they don't get stinky, they're waterproof and don't leak.
So yeah, wow, ew.
Are ear candles any good??? I read somewhere that they were a crock and dangerous and didn't work and whatever, but I don't remember where I read it so I have no idea whether it was just some idiot saying that.