"Garden Walk Day One" written by Paul on estrip.org

Category: pets

07/30/11 06:19 - ID#54825

Garden Walk Day One

The bird and I just took nap. I am tired after a busy day of the garden walk. I didn't actually go to any gardens but people came here because we are on it this year.

We didn't get many visitors because we aren't in a cluster but a lot of my family members stopped by which was great. Surprisingly our street has very few gardens on the walk.

The tortoise was an even bigger hit than the garden. I pretty much spent the whole day feeding him fruits to entertain people. We were like a circus side show.

My mom came by and made fried zucchini flowers that we half picked from the garden and half bought from the farmers market. We paired it with avenue boys sausage from the farmers market and beans from the garden. The whole thing was delicious.

I wish I took more pictures but I was so busy I forgot.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 07/30/11 06:21

Category: food

07/30/11 02:31 - ID#54819

Family trip to Jim's at 2:30am

Considering I ate some egg, a slice of watermelon and a yogurt in the last 24 hours - I think a chicken finger club and fries is in order.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 07/30/11 09:16

Category: men

07/29/11 11:53 - ID#54818

bromance take 2

This one just seems straight up gay. No pun intended.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 07/29/11 11:53

Category: programming

07/29/11 05:51 - ID#54814

Estrip android app

I was working on an update to the estrip android app which checks for network connectivity first instead and displays a nice little message instead of force quitting. I added this little homage to (e:tinypliny) who is the one that discovered the issue as I had never tried the app on a device with no network connection.

Just to give you an idea how unusual this is on a mobile android device - this is the message for the google marketplace. I think mine looks better.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 07/29/11 06:02

Category: pets

07/29/11 03:33 - ID#54812

My new friend birdo

He doesn't have a name yet but he is so cute. He is actually (e:matthew)'s pet but he sat on my shoulder for like an hour and kept giving me kisses. He is so snuggly and cute compared to the rock. I hope the rock doesn't eat him.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 07/29/11 03:53

Category: str8

07/29/11 02:31 - ID#54810

Straight Guys?

I decided to check out google circles again today which brought to some random guy in a friends circle which brought me to twitter which brought me to this guy. I am fascinated by the way that gay culture has kind of taken over idolizing masculinity and close male relationships. I wonder what male relationships were like prior to modern gay culture. Its so hard to tell because everything we read now is filtered by the people who documented it and how many people's opinions do you trust. This guy seems to be trying to explore this.

Str8bro Net:

Str8bro Twitter:

Str8bro Facebook:

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: food

07/28/11 10:33 - ID#54800

everybody loves cheesy puffs

I wonder how many bugs grow up on junk food nowadays and if they suffer from things like obesity, clogged spiracles because of it.

I mean imagine the difference in nutrients between their traditional diet of fruit, worms, sap, etc and a cheesy puff.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 07/28/11 10:35

Category: linux

07/26/11 11:47 - ID#54795

Issue With Fedora 15 Terminal Transparency in Gnome 3

It has been making me absolutely crazy that since I switched to Fedora 15, Gnome 3 I lost my terminal transparency due to a bug in Mutter which caused the drop shadow of windows to be opaque. The bug report was filed with redhat back on March 3rd

but the problem was with mutter not Fedora so they had to wait for a fix. On June 29th it was fixed in mutter and we have been waiting since then for the bug fix to make it into fedora.

I understand this kind of thing takes a while, but a status update would be nice. Finally, I decided to try the mutter/clutter version that comes with Fedora 16 (rawhide) and it works. I cannot wait for someone to back port this to Fedora 15.

If you need terminal/windows transparency in the meantime, you can update to the fedora 16 version using fedora 15.

sudo yum install fedora-release-rawhide
sudo yum update clutter mutter --enablerepo=rawhide update

Afterwards, I got perfectly normal transparency on windows with a drop shadow.

tinypliny writes at 01:56:27 07/28/11 - Comment #63925: I bet he stumbled on my blog searching for Fedora and that wireless card because of your zillion posts about fedora.

tinypliny writes at 01:55:45 07/28/11 - Comment #63924: Why don't you write to him yourself? :) Tell him how ardent of a fan you are! (I am forwarding you the email!)

paul writes at 01:10:59 07/28/11 - Comment #63922: Ask them about this bug report. I would be so happy to get the mutter updates ported back to f15 to solve the transparency issue.

tinypliny writes at 12:56:25 07/28/11 - Comment #63921: Someone from the core Fedora testing team send me a message here at (e:strip) saying that he would be glad to help out with my wireless card issues if I decided to switch to Fedora 15. How randomly cool is that?! I think I am very close to switching... if only these transparencies would work. ;-)

uncutsaniflush writes at 09:07:29 07/28/11 - Comment #63919: (e:tinypliny) - debian gets the names it uses from the movie Toy Story. Sid is always the unstable branch. Ubuntu likes aliterative names like "Votive Voles". Hope that helps.

mike writes at 12:08:26 07/28/11 - Comment #63918: totally unrelated to this topic but you are not answering my text: did yo u get a cat? if you did , I am totally disgusted and feel like you were a fake your whole life. haha

tinypliny writes at 08:15:57 07/27/11 - Comment #63905: sudo yum clutter mutter? lol

tinypliny writes at 08:15:10 07/27/11 - Comment #63904: zod, bitmore, rawhide, oneiric ocelot, moonshine, etch, sid, warty warthod, gutsy gibbon, breezy badger, psyche, shrike, dapper drake, lucid lynx, zoot, taroon, nahant, tikanga, sarge, woody, potato... seriously, where do these people come up with these names!

heidi writes at 06:18:27 07/27/11 - Comment #63899: Sounds terrible. Keep us posted. ;-)

paul writes at 12:16:49 07/27/11 - Comment #63890: To be fair, this caused an issue where the UI would crash when a save dialogue was opened.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 07/27/11 11:45

Category: politics

07/26/11 12:48 - ID#54788

Mark Grisanti

I kind of feel bad for him. The anti gays are really hating on him now for representing his district. I find it so ironic that the Christian right winger want to see a referendum on this. This isn't California. How is anyone imposing gay marriage in anyone else?

I still wish they hadn't approved gay marriage but had rather cancelled marriage altogether and left marriage as something non governmental that you can choose to do on your own or with your church.

tinypliny writes at 12:41:56 07/29/11 - Comment #63943: I wish things were as clear in everyone's heads about what the definition of "marriage" really is as it is in your's (e:ExBuffalonian). Then we wouldn't have all this mess about who is allowed to marry and who isn't. And while we are at it, I also don't understand the fact that you can only pick one person as your next of kin. That is so artificial. You come into the world with so many next of kins... why limit your personal choice of more next of kins to just one? That doesn't sound fair or logical, does it?

ExBuffalonian writes at 12:10:39 07/29/11 - Comment #63940: Wills can be contested, even explicit ones. Then there's the nasty issue of paying an inheritance tax, from which a spouse is exempt. My boyfriend and I, for example, own our house together with both our names on the title. We set it up that way this time around, because we realized about 5 years ago, when we were in the last house we owned, that he couldn't afford to inherit our house if something happened to me (since we weren't married because we're two guys). When I said that marriage is about establishing next of kin, I meant that from a historical perspective. Marriage never was an exclusive Christian invention or tradition. It only exists because, from the beginning, people felt they needed a contract that would ensure that the lady would be provided for if/when the husband bit the dust. It serves the same purpose today, just like a will but more comprehensive and less chance of being ambiguous.

libertad writes at 12:09:50 07/29/11 - Comment #63939: It's not just about who gets your crap when you die. It also is who can make medical decisions on your behalf when you aren't able to, who can collect social security survivor benefits (still can't, cause of DOMA), health insurance, tax benefits and also having the right to a divorce. Without marriage equality, same sex couples do not have the same legal process to split the things that were acquired during the course of the relationship should it come to and end. There is no amount of paperwork that you could fill out with a lawyer that would ever equal all that comes with the one simple marriage certificate. Marriage unites two people from different families (usually) into one.

paul writes at 11:58:50 07/29/11 - Comment #63938: I think there are still questions about that kind of stuff all of the time or wills would not exist. An explicit will sounds like a lot more reliable.

ExBuffalonian writes at 11:52:16 07/29/11 - Comment #63937: Marriage isn't about God or religion. It's about establishing next of kin, so that one day when you're planted in the ground, there won't be any question about who gets your stuff. Plain and simple.

libertad writes at 08:30:25 07/27/11 - Comment #63906: I love you Mark Grisanti!!! I am so glad I voted for you rather than the dweeb, Antoine. You deserve a LOT of respect for your decision.

When I look at that girl with the tape on her mouth I feel like I am about to be gay bashed as soon as it is ripped off.

metalpeter writes at 05:45:51 07/27/11 - Comment #63896: Honestly there are concepts that I don't understand... I understand that if two people love each other they can get married and it is about god and family and not sinning and that ok that I get..... But here is what doesn't make sense...

There is freedom of and from Religion and the State can not endorse a religion .... Now if this is true then I have some questions....

Why is being married to more then one person like how the Mormons did it is illegal... Wouldn't this not be granting them the freedom of everyone else... Wouldn't it be discriminatory to Mormons....I say it is.... Aren't there other countries where people have Multiple wives (or they used to) and the wives are about different duties in the home... Not sure if that is cultural or religious but why is that not legal here....

But I guess my real question is how can two people say the love each other get married by god and say an oath "Till Death do You part" yes in god's eyes only death can end it.... Then they get all kinds of special benefits from the government ?

The Only thing that I can think of is they took the English Version of Marriage and no one has had a strong enough case to call it unconstitutional.............

tinypliny writes at 07:44:05 07/26/11 - Comment #63883: I wish they would do away with marriage. It is such an outdated, inflexible, money-wasting and irritating concept. In my mind, the very fact that it can be docked into something like "traditional" or even "gay" marriage is very telling about how discriminatory and medieval society-pandering a concept it really is. Ugh.

metalpeter writes at 05:22:15 07/26/11 - Comment #63873: Point #2.... The Claim is that Being brought up in the Church he has this one view but from a legal point of view everyone should have the same rights... That is what he chose and he claims that was the right thing to do....

Reason I say claim is that for all we know maybe he thought that he would gain votes from whom ever he lost votes from... Maybe he knew he was what the media looks at as the swing vote and if he caused (again in the eyes of others at least) it not to pass he didn't want to be that guy in history... He didn't want to look back and say I blew it.... He didn't want to be on as they say the wrong side of history.....

What is really crazy is there is a lawsuit over this.... I think part of the tie in is that people who voted to pass the bill got money and lots of it from gay rights groups the contention is that he was one of them.... I don't buy it.....

metalpeter writes at 05:17:13 07/26/11 - Comment #63872: Here is what I don't get #1 he isn't the only person who voted for it! Yes they counted everyone one up and he was the deciding vote but you know what if the person before him said no his yes wouldn't have mattered it would have been a tie..... Just because he had the final vote and changed doesn't make his vote any more powerful then anyone else's vote that changed....

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Category: body

07/25/11 09:13 - ID#54787

OMFG

What the hell is this in my arm? Its like I got bit by a mini vampire but it does not itch or hurt. I have never seen such bright red marks with bright white circles around them. If its a tick bite I will just kill myself.