"You are guessing..." written by Tinypliny on estrip.org

Category: the odes

03/11/12 01:00 - ID#56202

You are guessing...

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 03/11/12 01:01

Category: the odes

03/09/12 10:11 - ID#56193

Random annoyances.

My hair is very long now. And my stress levels are at an all time high. The combination is a bad one.

There is hair everywhere. In the bathtub, on the floor, inside the keyboard, everywhere! Strange little hair creatures live in corners of my flat. It's so aggravating. I really don't have time to clean now or recycle. So my flat looks abysmal and weird. The omnipresent hair makes it worse. It's like my head has transformed into a human cat/shedding machine. I reckon I must be losing at least 200-300 strands a day.

And I seem to have entered a joyless cooking phase where I just make things as fast as I can so that I can gobble them up and get back to work. On top of it, my tea consumption has gone up to nearly 30 cups a day. I am not so concerned about drinking so much tea (it's mostly water and some milk). The main problem is I am out of my favourite teas (tetley and harrod's) because I just kind of burned through my stash. I don't have the time or inclination to go to the Indian store so I am stuck with my less-liked teas.

I am finding out that I really hate Chamomile tea. Worst pathetic tea in the world.

ladycroft writes at 01:00:07 03/15/12 - Comment #67948: i want to see a photo of this long hair!!!!

tinypliny writes at 12:22:08 03/15/12 - Comment #67939: hahaha, yes, it was way better when it was short. :) I am considering a trim as soon as I get some time!

oda writes at 09:48:54 03/14/12 - Comment #67938: i would much rather lose hair than put a placenta on my head. maybe you could cut your hair shorter and you would notice it a lot less!

tinypliny writes at 08:13:57 03/13/12 - Comment #67926: maybe I should try placenta-cream? But who knows what other side-effects it comes with...

tinypliny writes at 08:12:34 03/13/12 - Comment #67925: I honestly don't know how to make it stop. Seriously, it is beyond nuts. The thing is EVERYWHERE. I scoop out hairball after hairball from tub every weekend. its very disturbing.

tinypliny writes at 08:11:02 03/13/12 - Comment #67924: Your hair stopped falling out when you were pregnant! That is so fascinating in so many ways. Pregnancy is a very high-estrogen state. I was looking at hair-product use recently. A number of women of colour use placenta-based hair products. Its very popular in conditioners and whatnots. Placenta = high source of estrogen. I wonder if estrogen has the same effect applied externally as it does when one is pregnant. If it does, what other attributes of pregnancy do these hair products simulate? You have to wonder...

ladycroft writes at 01:40:19 03/13/12 - Comment #67919: yah. my hair stopped falling out while i was pregnant. now it's starting to again and i realize just how much it drives me nuts! i can't stand hairs on things other than attached to the body in the right places.

metalpeter writes at 02:02:31 03/10/12 - Comment #67874: HA..Is this the blog of the Chinese people making macs.... Sorry had to toss that in.... The real problem is if you have rugs and not a wood floor.... Wood you can sweep but hair on a rug is tough and does bad things to a vacuum.....

Permalink: Random_annoyances_.html
Words: 219
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 03/09/12 10:12

Category: i-tech

03/09/12 05:01 - ID#56191

Techno'ed out

Maybe it's all a bit too much, but is it?

I currently use:

A laptop with fedora (Heavyduty (for me!) computing, coding and writing)
A laptop with an ubuntu derivative (madbox) (experimentation with linux)
A laptop with a lean modded WinXP (communicating with the non-clued in world. Read: people who don't know what LaTeX and linux are, live in the past and deal with the painful M$hit word.)

A tablet with honeycomb and considering dual boot with ubuntu LXDE. (Heavyduty PDF reading)
A smartphone with Ice cream sandwich (Camera with panorama)
A smartphone with gingerbread (Alarm Clock with fancy tunes.)

At work:
A paleolithic machine with some ancient slow version of WinXP (good for pretty much nothing really, because its so slow and terrible).

I bet (e:paul) has more devices (actually I would love to see your list, (e:paul). :)) and whatnots but what about you all?

tinypliny writes at 10:53:37 03/09/12 - Comment #67866: man! that old madbox of mine is just 512mb, its terrible. They keep saying that some linux runs on low end machines but those flavors are just awful. if you have a low end machine, you are just out of luck. that's all.

uncutsaniflush writes at 10:34:57 03/09/12 - Comment #67865: (e:tinypliny) - I do love music. When I listen to music, I listen to music. That's it. No multi-tasking or using using music as audio wallpaper. I'm old-fashioned. Other than listening to music sometimes when I'm doing computer stuff, I don't like listening to music when I am out in the real world. I find "music" in the sounds I experience as I go through my day.

As to the hex-core, I know it's overkill. But I reckon it won't be obsolete for at least 6 months . It has 6 gb of ram. The pentium 4 3.0 mhz box that (e:leetee) uses has 1.5 gb of ram.

tinypliny writes at 09:43:55 03/09/12 - Comment #67863: Why don't you use your ipod nano? Isn't it a music player?? I thought you liked music?

I have a beat up sansa. I kind of abused it so much, I first broke its clip, then I broke the headphones that came with it, then I bought and broke another pair of panasonic headphones for it, and then some of the screws that held together some other stuff on the sansa came loose and the micro-sd won't stay in anymore, its still holding on somewhat and I continue to beat it up. But yeah, its probably the most used device I have. I guess it should enter this list but it seems just so...you know commonplace and not very smart-web-like.

tinypliny writes at 09:37:29 03/09/12 - Comment #67862: What seemed kind of unbelievable to me was that (e:Paul) and I had a nexus one at the same time! That blows my mind still. Of course, he has moved on to the finest and the greatest now! :)

tinypliny writes at 09:36:06 03/09/12 - Comment #67861: Oh! And I forgot. I also have a non-smartphone Nokia phone somewhere in one of my drawers. I don't know the serial number but its not a smartphone - but you could go on some limited web browser if you had a data plan.

tinypliny writes at 09:33:45 03/09/12 - Comment #67860: you know, (e:paul), I thought you would totally have more!

tinypliny writes at 09:32:54 03/09/12 - Comment #67859: LOL Both of you have more devices than I do so there is more scope for accumulation here. heh

None of my machines is probably as powerful as some of yours (hexcore?! o_O what kind of rigors do you put it through? robotics and floating point computation? ) How much RAM do you have on your machines, (e:uncut)? I am especially curious about (e:leetee)'s box that runs PClinuxOS.

And nexus one is my alarm clock. :)

paul writes at 09:00:10 03/09/12 - Comment #67858: Oh wait I forgot the Dell 1950 server. Oh and in the tech graveyard I have the nexus one, the nokia n900 not phone, an old powerbook duo from the mid 90s and the old server.

paul writes at 08:58:37 03/09/12 - Comment #67857: I have one computer (linux fedora), one phone (android) and one tablet (ios).

uncutsaniflush writes at 06:19:50 03/09/12 - Comment #67856: Here's I was thinkin that Buddy was talkin bout techno music, what a hoser, eh?

I have:

hexcore box Fedora 16 box that also has vmware images of Win98SE and WinXP.

hp pentium 3.0 Mhz box that runs a modded PClinuxos. It's the box (e:leetee) uses.

G3 iBook with Arch PPC.

eee 900A with Bodhi linux

I also have some museum pieces: an original IMac, a Tandy, and a 900Mhz Compaq box.

I have no smart phone. I have one of the last Nokia phones built for voice, the 6030.

I was gifted a 6th gen (I think) Ipod nano that I don't really have any use for.

It's not that I don't embrace new tech. I'm just a cheap bastard.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 03/09/12 05:08

Category: music

03/08/12 10:40 - ID#56189

Marteria

Can't complain about google new unified policy, Discovered Marteria. :)

Permalink: Marteria.html
Words: 14
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 03/09/12 09:24

Category: eating in

03/07/12 02:46 - ID#56183

Perfect brown paper bag popcorn from scratch

I know (e:kookcity) wrote about the perfect stovetop popcorn but this is for busy times when you want popcorn and cannot be bothered to watch over the stove.

Get a brown paper lunch bag
Put in around 4 heaped tablespoons of unpopped kernels
Set your microwave to 2-3 minutes and put the bag in
When the popping slows to 1-2 per second take it out (this is crucial, burnt results are terrible).
Empty the popped popcorn out over a big surface area (a generous bowl, perhaps).

And now is the step that no one on the net is sure about. How to make the seasoning stick to the air-popped or microwave popped popcorn:

spray the popcorn with an ultra fine spray-mist of ... water!
sprinkle on the seasoning. I love just plain salt.

That's it. Totally guilt free, perfectly seasoned popcorn without a stove, without toxic stuff, without preservatives, from kernels to perfection in under 5 minutes.

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Words: 155
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 03/07/12 02:48

Category: eating out

03/06/12 07:12 - ID#56180

Dinner in desperate times

is grand.

Permalink: Dinner_in_desperate_times.html
Words: 4
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 03/06/12 07:12

Category: linux

03/05/12 07:15 - ID#56176

Share Android files with Linux laptop via WiFi!

So many reasons to love android and linux, and this beats them all! I was hunting around for a USB cable to transfer some snaps to my computer today and I found this instead. (This FTP application also helps transfers in the opposite direction: from linux to Asus transformer TF101 or any android device. See: (e:tinypliny,56232))

Motsha Wireless File transfer
(fork of swiftp)

It's so simple, it's amaaaaaazing!

Once you install the app.

Go to Setup
Input a username and password
check accept connections from wifi
check accept connections from net proxy
check keep phone awake (full cpu speed)
Tap Save
Tap Start
The wifi url will appear

On your linux:

Open a console
create a directory: mkdir somedirectorywhereyouwantthefiles
and from that directory, do:

wget -m --user=username --password=password ftp: // 10.0.0.7:2121/sdcard/DCIM/Camera/

where username and password are the ones you set in Step 2
and the ftp address is the address that appears in Step 8.

Transfer speed: 54MB/s (the max on my router). No more hunting for USB cords!!! I know I keep whining about linux but once you step to linux windows seems infernal and complete paleolithic.

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Words: 193
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 03/18/12 12:34

Category: eating in

03/05/12 05:38 - ID#56175

Finally. Regular Bread without recipes

I am now able to confidently go in and make a completely whole wheat improvised bread with whatever without any recipes from scratch. And, more importantly eat the results without cringing or wishing I hadn't made the colossal mess. I know I said this already zillion moons back here: (e:tinypliny,53247) But that was banana bread. This is THE staple everyday bread bread.

I think that is progress.

Only, it's progress in the words of a frog in that arithmetic problem, you know, the one that lives in a slimy well and jumps up 4 steps to fall back 3.

Permalink: Finally_Regular_Bread_without_recipes.html
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 03/05/12 05:59

Category: science

03/05/12 05:15 - ID#56174

And you can now cite tweets.

I am sorely tempted to include one in my thesis:

Permalink: And_you_can_now_cite_tweets_.html
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 03/05/12 05:15

Category: eating in

03/05/12 04:54 - ID#56173

The kettle's just boiled.

You know your tea addiction has gone a bit far when:

You put the kettle on and when it boils, you immediately refill and put it on again because you know you will finish the current cup before it finishes brewing the next one
You distinctly remember having asked your archenemy in a nightmare if they would like a cup of oolong (poisoned) or a cup of cardamom tea (also poisoned, what did you think?)
You bid on auctions for green tea from ebay.com's authentic chinese sellers because the blurry pixelated pic looked like that one tea you had once upon a time that you could never find in stores later.
You lose the bid because someone sniped it at 4:00AM and you are bitter all day.
You drink coffee and think, ugh this is vile. Only the whipped cream redeems this mess.
You drink close to 27 16 oz cups of tea a day.
You don't drink any regular water anymore, only tea
You alternate between 7-8 different kinds of tea and have teas to match the hour and mood of the day.
The promise of tea is enough to enable you to weather minuscule work storms
You are known as the office tea pusher and have induced at least 5 other officemates to drink more tea than they ever did their entire lives.
You buy a kettle exclusively for the office and it is used so much, it develops scales within a month.
Your desktop is tea-themed
Your recycling is 10% or more teabag wrappers.

SCOOOOOOORRRREEEEESSSS!
Any 5 and you are one.
Any 7? have you taken the teaddiction test lately?
Any 10? Hmm.. and how does that make you feel?
Any 12? Have you put the kettle on yet?

Any 13? Welcome to my world.