Category: i-tech

08/06/11 09:09 - ID#54887

Pringles Cantenna

What I really want to do is to be able to work from my building's rooftop. Unfortunately, my router's wireless signal is weak and pathetic. I am thinking...

Pringles Cantenna!

Now, I only have to pick the flavour of choice and mooch some copper wire from (e:paul).

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 08/06/11 09:11

Category: eating in

08/06/11 08:46 - ID#54886

Secondary Fuel

I am trying to learn how to cook with just 3 - 4 ingredients as opposed to throwing the whole fridge in.

It's a tough ordeal for me because I am constantly tempted to throw in everything I spot. In the end, everything I make starts to resemble everything else. It's not good for the cooking soul.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 08/06/11 08:51

Category: eating out

08/06/11 05:29 - ID#54884

Primary Fuel

Considering I just wiped off the entire shelf of the Lindt 85% at the store, I probably have the biggest stash in a mile radius now.

Wonder how many hours these will now drive me.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 08/06/11 08:48

Category: i-tech

08/06/11 10:24 - ID#54877

Keyboards

I am always looking for quieter keyboards that don't sound like the train is rattling through my flat as I type. I type a lot and keyboard rackets really bother me. So I recently bought this unbranded chiclet-keys-type keyboard:

I reviewed it on Amazon. In short, I like how the keyboard feels and sounds (not quiet but tolerable). But I mistype on this keyboard often because the spacing is somewhat non-standard.

I tried out this Azio keyboard

and hated it.

The noise factor was okay but the keyboard was too hard to type on and fatiguing. Plus it was glossy and retained fingerprints.

Then I got this logitech K120 yesterday.

It is just a classic keyboard with well spaced out keys so that mistakes are minimum and you get everthing right at the very first type. But it is not quiet as they say. Its not quiet at all. All the clackety clatter is very much there. I think it has got noisier from yesterday. That is exactly what happened to my earlier M$shit keyboard.

The racket steadily increased over the years till I had to drown the sound out with heavy metal or full orchestras. Chopin was completely out of the question. I am afraid this keyboard might be headed the same way.

I am pretty torn. Do I care more about precision or do I care more about the sound. Or should I just hold on to the noisier but more precise keyboard and just suffer through the noise?
Both keyboards are a pleasure to type on though. They hardly require any effort. Both are not entirely quiet but I prefer the sound of the chiclet keyboard rather than the clackety noise of the logitech k120 (I wonder what the people who think this is quiet were smoking!).

For now, I have two of the unbranded silky chiclet keyboards and the classic logitech k120. I returned the Azio. I think I am holding on to the chiclet keyboard but I am not sure what to do with the logitech keyboard yet. I am typing on it now, hardly making any mistakes but I am not liking the noise at all.

tinypliny writes at 03:46:35 08/06/11 - Comment #64161: That small paragraph took me 3 minutes to type correctly on this keyboard with 3-4 tea sips in between. That's not very productive.

tinypliny writes at 03:45:21 08/06/11 - Comment #64160: I have now switched from logitech to the chiclet and my typing has slowed down A LOT. I am making a ton of mistakes. I keep going back to correct words. But there is no irritating racket. It sounds like I am typing on a laptop. If only they had spaced out this chiclet keyboard a little more... it could have been the most perfect keyboard. I don't know why they had to jam all the keys together in non-standard formats.

tinypliny writes at 03:42:38 08/06/11 - Comment #64159: Hmm... I don't know if I can deal with those silicone membrane keyboards because there is no tactile feedback when you type. In a regular keyboard, you can be confident that you have hit a key even when you are not looking at the keyboard or the screen but on a membrane-like keyboard, it could be tough to be certain of whether you have typed correctly or not without looking.

I really don't know. I like the chunky feedback of a keyboard like logitech but I hate the noise.

metalpeter writes at 01:21:19 08/06/11 - Comment #64157: Silly Question? Back in the days of some recent time ago you had two kinds of keyboards the standard kind that click like a type writer a bit where each letter is a key stroke then you had (picture the ateri video game quickly with keyboard) where you don't have keys that go up and down you hold down and get the letter.... Now granted those it was very easy to hold downnnnnnnnnn and it used to be with these other type of key boards if you wanted double letter or numbers you had to type again but now if you hold it down you get multiples.... the question I have is can you get the kind that makes no sound because there is no button that goes up and down you just press it and depress it? I thought I saw and add someplace for a key board like that and it unrolls... Just an idea not sure if they still make that kind..........

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 08/06/11 10:39

Category: the odes

08/05/11 09:45 - ID#54873

Mayor abducted by aliens...

Multiple eyewitness accounts confirm that the beam-me-up-scotty-mobile was spotted hovering menacingly over his office just after nightfall.

The hostile mothership was last seen speeding over the Erie lake towards the Canadian side of Niagara Falls.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 08/05/11 09:58

Category: the odes

08/05/11 09:12 - ID#54872

Cue "The X-Files" tune!

I am having way too much fun with this blimp.

The truth is OUT THERE!

It's some vodka called Hangar One

and it's on a multi-city tour. Today was its Buffalo day. Seems like you will get a chance to see it eerily floating over Erie tomorrow as well as Sunday.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 08/05/11 10:34

Category: the odes

08/05/11 08:59 - ID#54871

UFO over city hall!!

Probably the shot that will make the alternative freaky tabloids alongside how the dingo ate the baby.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 08/05/11 08:59

Category: the odes

08/05/11 08:47 - ID#54870

They lighted the blimp.

I am fascinated.

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Words: 5
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 08/05/11 08:47

Category: linux

08/05/11 08:39 - ID#54869

Netinstall debian with XFCE

With my continuing troubles and hiccups with Gnome 3 on Fedora 15, I am sorely tempted to migrate to this:

(From omnsproject blog:

)

Clean and minimalist netinstall Debian with XFCE 4.8 featuring transparencies that work, highly non-technical customizable menus that can be shifted easily to the right side and most importantly, no unexplained freeze-ups and cursor changes right in the middle of a coding session which force me to reboot either RStudio or the system altogether. *sigh*