Category: whine
09/29/11 10:12 - ID#55213
Not in Control
Now the ground is spinning as I type this and my peripheral vision has an extraordinary sense of movement.
I hope to goodness this won't be a repeat of the benedryl drama. I know I am not the biggest of people but common doses of medicine have the weirdest effect on me. The kid dose of 9-10mg/kg comes to around 42 X 10 = 420 mg. I am 20 mg under the kid dose.
And I have dizziness. It is so ludicrous that on the very rare occasions I HAVE to take medicines, ALL the frustrating side effects come on to haunt me in full force. I mean who gets dizzy with ibuprofen, one of the most common NSAIDs?? ME. Arrrgh.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 10/01/11 06:01
Category: eating in
09/28/11 10:39 - ID#55212
Squashed!
I just made a roasted acorn squash soup with shredded coconut, tomatoes, red onions, moong dal, ginger, dried red chilles, cumin, asafoetida powder and dried curry leaves in 17 minutes.
A new record. Take that, rice cooker!
I always have a timed (and rather unhealthy) competition with my rice cooker. While it steams the beans or lentils or some other staple, I chop and hustle to finish before it can. 80% of the time, its a tie between us, it wins 15% of the time. Today was my croaky and gloaty 5% win!
And victory was tasty! :-)
Acorn Squash shot from Mango&Tomato: I don't own that kind of photo equipment!
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 09/29/11 01:45
Category: the odes
09/26/11 07:39 - ID#55197
The weekend is past.
And I didn't get to make that bread from cookbooks 101 because there was no time after endless iterations of analyses and endless bug fixing of my 60+ variables. I thought maybe I was just obsessing, but you have to be obsessive when it comes to data. One small mistake in coding and the data is telling you something else.
This is exactly how it feels like. I am not even sure where I am on that pile of unfinished work.
I want some magic to happen this week. I want to suddenly get very efficient at coding R or fluid in LaTeX or extremely good at coming up with insights on my dataset or just maybe finish everything I need to finish very soon. I am going to try and help myself very intensively this week.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 09/26/11 07:48
Category: the odes
09/24/11 09:06 - ID#55188
Who needs an alarm clock...
Paul: When are you done
Me: I am never done.
NB: Click on the alien for the perfect simulation of how I wake up everyday.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 09/24/11 09:07
Category: science
09/22/11 03:46 - ID#55181
Cancer Progress Report.
I think this report is well worth reading, if only to know a little more about this terrible disease. The plainly laid out facts in the report challenge the ill-founded conspiracy theories about how the medical, research and pharmaceutical establishments are out to get the cancer patient and are suppressing the cure to cancer (See for example: (e:vincent,55175))
If you had any questions about cancer or simply wished you had a better understanding of the disease, I highly recommend this read:
::READ PDF::
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 09/22/11 03:47
Category: linux
09/22/11 10:15 - ID#55180
(H)Umpteen Choices!
Humpty Dumpty was making a longtable
Yes! It was part of a thesis, and not a fable
Something about "Save" was taking far too long
Humpty didn't want to become egg foo yong
Stopping and listening to (e:strip) voices
Lead to Humpty having a million+ choices
Nice longtable reference:
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 09/22/11 10:22
Category: eating in
09/21/11 09:49 - ID#55177
Determined to make bread
I love that website. It's easily my most favourite recipe website ever. I like the pictures and the commentary on Pioneer Woman Cooks better, but more often than not, her recipes are too soaked in butter, too full of animal products and a trifle too rich for me to handle. I often wonder how many arteries she is clogging with her gorgeous looking blog. I am constantly tempted to go the whole nine atherosclerotic yards but I never make it through even two before I change course and convert her recipes to their ghastly poor versions. Unfortunately, they seldom take kindly to changes.
101 cookbooks, on the other hand, is all about light, airy dishes that don't take too long to cook and are infinitely "tweak-able" with equally good results down each tweaked path.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 09/22/11 02:36
Category: goals
09/21/11 12:11 - ID#55176
Internal Struggle List
I like its main points of summary. I reordered them to help myself out.
- Be realistic
- Face your fears
- Focus on your options
- Rise up to the challenge
- Find peace
- Don't stress over things you cannot control
- Engage in acts of gratitude
- Be cautious when thinking about confrontation
- Don’t suppress or deny your feelings
- Be around people
- Spend some time alone
- Feel good about yourself
- Relax
- Live your life
- Seek professional help
And these are my goals for September and October.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 09/21/11 12:11
Category: linux
09/20/11 05:18 - ID#55172
Save takes longer in gedit and gnumeric
It could be that windows is just telling me it has saved the state of the program sooner than it really has and that Linux doesn't report the state being saved until it really has finished saving. But this is just speculation.
I know it isn't a big deal. A few extra seconds isn't much but it does adds up when you are writing a really long document and have fallen into the habit of saving multiple times as you write. Hitting Ctrl+S is almost second nature to me when I start writing. Having to wait a good chunk of time more in linux for even minor saves is somewhat annoying.
I wonder if anyone else has noticed this strange lag. I have seen it in Crunchbang, Ubuntu, Fedora and numerous other distributions I have tried. Every distro has the same annoying longer delay for saving (on gedit and gnumeric)"^.
^and some other apps that I will continue to list as I keep a closer watch on this issue: Gummi is now in the list.
"EDIT after comments: Please click that small comment bubble below and see the comments to this journal. (e:Paul) gave me some very useful suggestions about getting to the root of this problem. Thankfully, its not the operating system or even the hardware on my computer (two things that I was hoping it wouldn't be, because I can't change them without considerable effort).
The problem apps are gedit and gnumeric. I have found a substitute for latex composition with a live preview already: Gummi! And it is 100x more fabulous. Gnumeric will be hard to replace. I don't know what program comes even close to the awesomeness of Gnumeric. OpenOffice (Libreoffice) calc is a pale shadow for the particular way I use Gnumeric.
"Thanks, Paul. If every linux newcomer had a patient friend like you, I think the transition to the OS would be so much more painless. :-)
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 09/21/11 01:50
Category: linux
09/18/11 08:46 - ID#55166
Linux Bugreport Rap
don't go tinkering and fixin'
for you could be shot to hell
without so much as a token
But if something really is awry
there is little point in being shy
fire those irate bug reports
at upstream and downstream ports
You will be ignored (or rarely not)
your bug report could be cold or hot
but what really matters is just that
You filed it. Give yourself a pat!
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 09/18/11 08:48
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I didn't feel dizzy till after I took the ibuprofen. So I attributed it to the medicine. It's been a couple hours now. Things are not that unstable but they are still kind of wobbly. I also drank some guaiphenesin (expectorant) + dextromethorphan (anti-cough) meanwhile.