"17+ Hours non stop battery usage and still going" written by Paul on estrip.org

Category: mobile

10/04/11 02:26 - ID#55238

17+ Hours non stop battery usage and still going

The galaxy s2 phone is really blowing my mind with my first true all day battery. Seems like it was definately the right choice. Considering it weighs almost nothing and is as thin as a wasa cracker - its so unbelievable.

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Category: mobile

10/03/11 11:40 - ID#55237

Samsung Galaxy S2 - AT&T Attain

One day in. I took it off the charger at 9:30am. Here we are at 11:39pm and its still going at around 50% battery power. Maybe I don't need that second battery afterall.

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Category: family

10/03/11 03:53 - ID#55234

Great Grandpa

This is my grandmother's father. Now I know where that bald patch in the middle of my head comes from. Nonna also said he died of terrible stomach problems. I should probably find out more about him.

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Category: orange tongue

10/02/11 11:58 - ID#55232

My Disgusting Geographic Orange Tongue

This Wednesday, I finally gave an appointment with a dentist that specializes in geographic tongue thanks to some research by (e:tinypliny). I am ready for it to be over. Hopefully they can do something about it.

Before tongue scraping/brushing

After

Tropical_coco writes at 07:48:10 03/24/12 - Comment #68038: Mayo scrapped it and said it was neg for yeast that's as far as it went . I did do the medication for yeast, en in cleared it up for about 3 days but reappeared. I have no history of periodontal issues either this all simply started after the root canal and antibiotics. I had never even had a cavity befor that one time. I had heard it can be related to you gallbladder but I can't actually confirm if that's true or not. IMO I do think it's bacterial/fungal in nature, mine has passed complete through my system, whatever is in my mouth has made it's way out so to speak. I've done gastros, dentists, internal meds with no answers also. I m now on my way thurs. To a neurological as I'm starti g to get symptoms of weakness and shakiness when the orange is badly coating my tongue. Ifw I have any answers at all I ll be sure to pass them along

tinypliny writes at 10:03:06 03/23/12 - Comment #68036: So Mayo did a culture on your orange growth? Did they say what spectrum of organisms they tested for? Did they only test for yeast? What about other fungal and bacterial families? Do you have any history of periodontitis?

tinypliny writes at 10:00:38 03/23/12 - Comment #68035: Hey Tropical_coco, I can't completely speak for (e:Paul), but I don't think we are close to a solution. (e:Paul) has (to my knowledge) had more than 3 different dentist consults with no particular diagnosis apart from their telling them that it is geographic tongue.

(e:Paul) thinks its perhaps microbleeds from the tongue surface that shows up as bright orange - possibly due to some pH changing reaction with either fungal or bacterial metabolites on the oral mucosa. He has noticed his toothbrush getting stained with the blood occasionally, hence the microbleed theory. It seems more plausible than others.

A few months back there was another person on the internet who sent (e:Paul) a message that he should maybe try a local application of tetracycline (as in smash a tablet and put the powder directly on the tongue). Apparently, this get the orange tongue in check. But I am not sure if (e:Paul) ever tried it.

I am sure I am missing details in between. In fact, I am interested to know what blanks I have left out...

Tropical_coco writes at 09:41:27 03/23/12 - Comment #68034: Please tell me you've found a cure or WHAT this is! I also have geographic tongue and after two rounds of very heavy antibiotics (amoxi and cipro) I developed an orange tongue. I then had a root canal with a replacement tooth put on (not metal) That was 6 months ago and its STILL orange, exact same color as yours. I was also very sick after the root canal to the point I had to go to Mayo Clinic. The swab came back Neg for yeast. I've tried Difluxcan (sp?) oil pulling, tongue scrapers with no luck. What was the outcome if any!

tinypliny writes at 09:47:11 10/03/11 - Comment #65319: That is seriously the coolest thing I have seen on your blog. I am loving your new phone already. You could totally whip out your phone and say, HERE! So exciting! :) Have you got that packet you needed to fill out? What did they ask?

Just to lower those expectations a bit. a) His senior fellow told me that he sees *many* patients with geographic tongue in his practice regularly. I am not sure that is equivalent to being an expert. ;-) Quite honestly, I wasn't really researching dentists. His senior fellow is my new officemate and I asked her a ton of questions before she was like "You should meet with my professor! He deals with it everyday, day in and day out!"

enknot writes at 09:41:25 10/03/11 - Comment #65317: that's so gross. uuguh.. I'm glad you're finding a solution to this. What the hell is geographic tongue anyway?

paul writes at 12:00:57 10/03/11 - Comment #65316: Wow, the camera on this cell phone takes closes really well.

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Category: mobile

10/02/11 10:31 - ID#55231

Samsung Galaxy S2 - AT&T Attain

The Samsung galaxy s2 came out on ATT&T today and I finally jumped ship from the nexus one after almost 2 years. It feels like the future because this is my first video phone. I called myself between the fedora 15 laptop and the phone. It was pretty neat. Its even neater between phones. The thing that did it was a combination of the speed, size, amazing screen and camera. The screen is so clear and the blacks of the AMOLED are so black. I want a TV like that someday.

The camera is amazing. Actually it was the main factor as I can you it to document my geographic tongue better and take close-up pics of text. The nexus one had cracked lens so closeups were a no go.

As you can see by the benchmarks, it blows away my old phone.

It even has this fun cartoon mode.

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Category: games

10/02/11 09:11 - ID#55230

Casinorama

Last night (e:matthew), (e:Mike) and I went to the Seneca Casino last night. Gambling at the slots sucked. Sometimes I win a bit, even if I am going to lose. This time I consistently lost $20 worth of plays on the penny slots. Even though it was the penny slots we were playing 50 lines at a time.

Actually, I was exaggerating - there was on win, this was it. How the frick is this a win? I can't understand how the machine works at all, which makes it seem all the more suspicious.

The best part was the Mega sized mozzarella cheesesticks. The worst part was the cigarette smoke. I had no idea what it was like to be in a place where thousands of people are smoking cigarettes indoors.

We opened the glowstick fairy wand, but had no chance to show it off. Its kind of a sad end to the fairy wand.

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Category: images

10/02/11 09:03 - ID#55229

Looking at 3D images cross eye style

Apparently I don't cross my eyes all the way when using the cross eyed method for viewing stereoscopic images.

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Category: food

10/01/11 04:43 - ID#55224

Toro For Restaurant Week

Sameer, (e:terry) and I ate at Toro for restaurant week the other day. I think they might have the best calamari in town. Its not greasy and its topped with parmasean cheese slices and peperoncini.

Sameer was going for the madmen look with a tie and a martini.

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Category: pets

10/01/11 04:38 - ID#55223

Floofy Poof

He is so puffy when he is cold.

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Category: environment

10/01/11 03:22 - ID#55221

Green Building Tour

We toured a bunch of green properties today. I am pretty sure I want solar panels and radiant floor heat. We were thinking of refinancing, maybe its a good time to look into it.

One of the houses had geothermal. I am still not sure how it stays warm.

metalpeter writes at 09:04:52 10/02/11 - Comment #65315: The Thing about Miserable is everyone has temps they like and it is also (can't remember the word that isn't good so I'll say it in an odd way) from your perspective point (There it is Relative)... So that day was a crappy day but if you where in the Middle of Winter it would be considered a warm day.... But since we just left some warm weather it becomes miserable....

Now forgetting about temp for a minute you can have a dry sunny cold day where you feel comfortable even though it is colder... That bright sun and nice sky and no chilly wind and bright as opposed to looking like the gates of hell are about to open is a factor in miserable ........

tinypliny writes at 11:36:59 10/01/11 - Comment #65313: Share! Share! Share!

uncutsaniflush writes at 11:27:02 10/01/11 - Comment #65312: As always oh tiny scientist, who am I to disagree with you. But dopey old me doesn't consider 8 degrees Centigrade to be "semi-freezing" I think that "semi-freezing is around .5 plus or minus C degrees.

I'm sorry that you had a miserable time. I wrote a song once about my "New Miserable Time". Maybe I should share it with the world. Or not. Because I'm too miserable.

tinypliny writes at 11:03:27 10/01/11 - Comment #65311: heh, take any day with overcast skies, semi-freezing temperatures, unresolved conflicts and that is a recipe for miserable. Viewed by someone whose cold just won't leave, it is bonafide miserable.

uncutsaniflush writes at 10:55:27 10/01/11 - Comment #65310: Perspective is a funny thing. I didn't get that the day was miserable from the photos at all. But I am a pollyanna so what do I know? Speaking of illin', the pundits say that George Orwell wouldn't have written "1984" if he wasn't sick at the time. I'm just saying.