"Personalized genetic preventive medicine?" written by Tinypliny on estrip.org

04/06/12 02:40 - ID#56324

Personalized genetic preventive medicine?

Although I am actively involved in the ongoing pursuit of the genetic determinants of cancer risk along with my colleagues, I daily feel that my time and effort to improve public health would be better spent in an elementary school classroom with a clear and simple message on tobacco use, sun protection, physical activity, and energy balance. In my opinion, we should be cautious in communicating our expectations of genetics to explain disease risk and its ultimate public health impact. We should be globally diligent in engaging national leaders to continue to direct resource and policy change to community leaders, planners, and educators to deliver broadly acting societal support for healthy lifestyles and choices; a strategy derived from the tobacco control policies with proven value (13, 14).

Wrote Patricia Thompson in 2007 in her honest and candid article on why hunting down bits and pieces of our genetics is not really going to do much to cure cancer.

But did anyone listen? I don't know.

Its easier to believe that eventually someone will come up with a magic test to pre-detect cancer 10 years before it occurs. It will probably be sold along with a magic pill which will silence all our (still to be found) cancer-causing defective genes. Oh right, and let's not forget about the super-crazy-awesomeness of aspirin and Vitamin D. You can forestall all the cancers in the world or maybe even prevent them completely. Who cares about the eminent aspirin induced holes in your stomach and intestines and the insoluble Vitamin D deposits in your kidneys.

Doesn't that sound awesome?

Optimism is well and good but there is now enough body of evidence that it might be misplaced. Sometimes, we just need to wake up and look at ourselves, the crappy eating habits, lack of personal involvement in food preparation, the impossibility of calorie-control and portion-sizing while eating out, smoking and drinking, physical inactivity, incessant harmful energy imbalance along with a heavier reliance on animal-based protein, reliance on pre-processed everything and the deep underlying lack of motivation and sometimes, resistance against any kind of behaviour change.

We want hard, incontrovertible, randomized-control-trial-level replicable proof that our absolutely awful habits are causing damage. We will keep pointing at that one old woman who chain-smoked for 90+ years and didn't end up with lung cancer to defend our habits. We will keep hoping that we will be that one old woman and not the zillion others who did end up getting sick. Heck, after a million papers have linked the tiniest amount of alcohol to all disease imaginable and pointed out its role as a powerful carcinogen, we still get on the high road about moderation and grasp at the red-wine-is-good-for-cardiovascular-health farce while wilfully discarding the cold fact that fresh fruit sources bring as many benefits, if not more. We also cite helplessness, bring out our social crutches, blame our environments and even blame the government and the scientific establishment for the odious habits we choose to hang on to and the food that we choose to eat everyday. In other words, we are in denial.

And that's the message that the establishment of cancer research wants to publish in clear unambiguous, simple terms. A pity it doesn't quite get round to it because someone just found yet another string of small gene variants that could possibly have a 0.000000000000000000000001% effect on cancer risk in a group of 10 people belonging to some esoteric ethnic group that lives deep in the suburbs of Detroit in a subgroup analyses of a study on 10, 000 people.

terry writes at 08:38:16 04/06/12 - Comment #68161: I take it you're quitting cancer research and taking up advocacy? Or just gonna keep it all confined to your blog?

metalpeter writes at 03:41:20 04/06/12 - Comment #68159: ----> This takes me to post #4

Yes this is kinda science Fiction but just something to think about and ponder....

Say they test everyone and see ok you might get cancer so they give you medicine and it prevents you from getting it by Genetics alone... Now obamacare (what I dumb name) has been law of the land and the health care you have covers this payment and is a government plan....

1. If you do things that cause cancer or could be said to cause cancer then who would pay for this...... They made it so you wouldn't get one kind
2. Or is it there fault for not giving you enough of a push to do things that are healthy...
3. Would this prove that there are different causes of cancer
3A. From there would an additional plan be put into place?

metalpeter writes at 03:34:54 04/06/12 - Comment #68158

3 A pill wouldn't cure Cancer... As example HPV is often carried by men and they don't get sick but it can cause or so they say Cervical Cancer in women and it can in men to but doesn't... So there is all this controversy cause if you give it to kids it is like saying ok sex is safe now go have sex at age 12.... What it really says is if you have sex this is one less thing to worry about....

3b.

But what it could do maybe is prevent the kind of cancer that starts on its on for genetic reasons.....

metalpeter writes at 03:32:03 04/06/12 - Comment #68157: Comment #2....

All that healthy stuff is the way to promote not getting cancer.... But at as much as that is way that sounds good... Don't know as it would work.... Lets face it getting cancer is horrid but it is a long way away and work sucked "Let me bum a smoke" then back over to bar.... Yes I'm going out tonight so I know what I mean.... One could get hit by a bus or crash the car over the weekend so things like that are often not a thought.... The point is that trying to use health could push people away... Even though it is the right thing to do....

metalpeter writes at 03:28:39 04/06/12 - Comment #68156: Great article I mean post.... Can't say about other countries but this one is so based on fix the results not the cause... And Since we told England to go fuck them selves and then beat them again in 1812... That attitude is part of America we won't convert to Metric cause fuck the rest of the world... We run the un... Then when they say you can't go into Iraq... We say fuck you try and stop us... I'll have my Steak Bloody and my beer warm as a blow smoke in your face... Run ha....

Now Am I being over the top yeah a bit but that attitude is real... In this country you (unless you are health care company giving money back for doing healthy things one of the 12 blue cross plans) can't talk about behaviors cause that is like saying people don't have a choice.....

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Category: i-tech

04/04/12 02:24 - ID#56320

A page by any other name...

Did you know that a simple page is visualized like this by LaTeX?

But I am convinced M$hitWord must view it like this:

I am seriously so annoyed right now that I need to suffer through Word (in addition to wrestling with LaTeX) just because people haven't even heard of LaTeX. Why do I have to even make a crap Word document when I have already compiled a good enough PDF from tex? Why??

Because of the decades of misthinking and mistakes M$hit has heaped upon the world, that's why.

metalpeter writes at 06:25:44 04/05/12 - Comment #68151: No matter what I was writing or writing for... If I use a computer I have to use the software the place I'm submitting it to uses..... Can't think of another word like program there used to be something I used .... Now if they state what software they use then part of writing a paper is to use what they use.... yeah it would suck if they used some program that was only on macs and didn't work in word but if I knew that going in then that is what I would have to use....

tinypliny writes at 05:39:48 04/05/12 - Comment #68150: Peter, the logic seems to be, if this is what everyone is used to, this is what you should do. I could not disagree more.

First, what everyone uses is for the most part influenced by the inability to learn and adapt to new things that make life substantially easier. Second, what the clueless population uses for 3 page documents without references is not ideal for a 300 page document with several intricacies. Third, given the common final expectation of a precisely typeset PDF (with barbaric margin requirements and whatnots defined by my Uni), expecting me to use Word to reach that goal is frankly the most atrocious directive. Fourth, not everyone uses Word for dissertations and LaTeX is WIDELY used in almost ALL academic circles, just not the somewhat rusty folks in my current situation. LaTeX has been around since 1980 - half a decade before Windows was grafted upon the world! :::link::: What more can I say.

And most importantly, why do you think word integrates well with everything? I have a mile long list of things it does not integrate with - including consistent format, bibliographies, mathematical notations - some of the most important attributes of a really long document.

And quite honestly - they don't even need to know what software I use to produce my documents. If the Uni wants PDFs in the end, then isn't it time people learn to review PDFs and not keep on expecting the .doc$hit? All this non-consistent, repetitive and VERY PAINFUL formatting seems like an infinite waste of time to me. I could achieve awesome professional results using LaTeX with a fraction of this effort I am pouring into definining styles in Word.

metalpeter writes at 04:37:37 04/05/12 - Comment #68148: I don't know all the details.... But from what I understand if you are a company and get a Windows based computer or even a school then it comes with word and that is what everyone knows... All the different software things like say powerpoint and things for slide shows and all that stuff is all integrated....

Now I know that PDFs are common and that at least Adobe makes things so you can read them or download a book or many things in that form...No idea what other companies there are..... But is word works fine to integrate with everything else why even mess with PDF.... Now if one does again I wouldn't know about on Mac's but with Widows based computers at some point they got adobe so if they did do PDFs that is what they would know not this other program.....

Now you might be asking what is my point.... Well if the problem is that this software no one else knows how to use it or integrate it....Even though you love it....Then any project or work should be used on or done on what they use.....

tinypliny writes at 07:02:02 04/04/12 - Comment #68143: What does it take for people to catch up? These are people who almost write for a living and they have been doing it on Word for like what - 15 years? I think the problem is they all have their PAs and admins do all the dirty formatting for them and have forgotten everything about how wretched m$shitword can make your life if you are dealing with anything other than a 2 page doc with multiple content types and bibliographies. And let's not even talk about the lack of knowledge about BibTeX and reliance (and sometimes insistence) on absolutely bottom of the barrel reference software services like endnote and refworks. ugh

Personally, I wouldn't even do a 2 page doc on M$ if left to my devices.

paul writes at 05:53:27 04/04/12 - Comment #68142: Ya it seems ridiculous. You should make it a pre-requisite of all future endeavours that the people are fluent in the technology of the last decade at least.

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Category: e:strip

04/03/12 03:01 - ID#56314

e:strip. Now! Even MORE green!

I was looking at the mobile version and was appreciating how minimal and efficient it was. But I didn't like the mobile green so much, so I made my own brighter pop-your-eyes-out green!

With Chromebot

Hee Hee

The title gave me an idea... and I missed the orange. And we had something similar like this before...

Et voilÃ !!! Tree-hugger (e:strip)!!

Get it here:

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Category: android

03/30/12 06:35 - ID#56300

ICS upgrading

Cute... and so alien.

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Category: science

03/30/12 01:11 - ID#56299

Cancer Survivors and poor health behaviour

In a study published last month, researchers who asked cancer survivors about their health behaviour found that survivors indulged in poorer/riskier behaviours than people who have never been diagnosed with cancer:

From:

A total of 18,510 had detailed history on health behaviors and previous cancer history. Overall 2713 (14.7%) reported a previous cancer history. We found statistically significant results indicating that cancer survivors were less likely than those with no cancer history to:
report their overall health as â€œexcellentâ€ (13.6% vs. 21.5%), ...

Was that a trick question?! You said you have had a diagnoses of cancer. Would you say your overall health is "excellent"?

to engage in moderate or strenuous exercise (56.5% vs. 63.3%), and to use complementary and alternative medicine (57.4% vs. 60.2%).

Wonder whether the analyses stratified people with a recent vs. distant diagnoses of cancer... need to look at the tables. Maybe the survivors were physically unable to exercise so much or maybe were on standard medication that could have had interactions with random alternative medicines had they chosen to take them. Maybe they were advised not to take OTC medicine.

Conversely, cancer survivors were more likely to be current smokers (6.3% vs. 5.5%), rate their overall health as â€œpoorâ€ (15.8% vs. 9.1%), and to report more weight gain over time. Among cancer survivors, differences also emerged by the type of primary cancer. For example, cervical cancer survivors (n = 370) were most likely to report being current smokers (15.7%) and regular alcohol users (71.7%) compared with other survivors. Ovarian (n = 185) and uterine (n = 262) cancer survivors most frequently reported being obese (41% and 34.4%, respectively). Cervical cancer survivors reported the largest weight gain (4.9 lbs at 5 y and 13.4 lbs at 10 y).

The study totally begs these questions:

Do people who are diagnosed with cancer always have poorer behaviours to start with?
Do cancer survivors indulge in poorer behaviours because they are fatalist?
Or do they just feel like they have poorer behaviours just because they got diagnosed with cancer and answer in that vein on the administered questionnaires ie. a kind of survivor bias?
Or did they feel obliged to assign blame for their diagnoses on past and present behaviours?
Or maybe the non-cancer survivors in this study didn't really feel the need to spill on their current health behaviours in so much detail as the survivors?

Who knows.

Do you remember what you ate last Monday through Friday - in detail, morning, afternoon, evening? Do you remember how you generally ate in the past decade? If you are not tracking your periods for some specific reason (or maybe have an android period-tracking application to record days and symptoms for fun), how accurately do you remember the date your last period ended? Do you remember the brands and compositions of the hormone pills you took 20 years back?

Sometimes I wonder if our questionnaires are eliciting anything useful. Or if we should trust them so much. It would be nicer to have more objective ways of tracking health behaviours and milestones.

metalpeter writes at 07:21:25 03/30/12 - Comment #68100: Does Paul mean bigger boobs....HA.....

Now I don't know enough about the science but would having something implanted be another risk that would have to be factored in based on how ones body would react to it.....?

tinypliny writes at 06:59:09 03/30/12 - Comment #68099: But yeah, implants for research would be awesome and address at least some level of guesswork and poor quality data collection.

tinypliny writes at 06:58:07 03/30/12 - Comment #68098: Or more precise analyses of body fluids/secretions including but not limited to poop, mucus and the like.

paul writes at 06:41:21 03/30/12 - Comment #68095: I say implants that track everything.

metalpeter writes at 05:59:19 03/30/12 - Comment #68093: Sounds like something Spock might say....

tinypliny writes at 05:50:44 03/30/12 - Comment #68091: Precisely. A chicken and egg situation. Heavily correlational with a a fair warning against any assumptions of causation.

I am not sure science is anything but truth, arranged logically. (as someone once said... ).

metalpeter writes at 05:40:59 03/30/12 - Comment #68090: I did take science in school but wasn't good at the lab stuff... But that being said now I know a lot more....
1. I assume all women since it is breast cancer
2. All getting mammograms..

So what this tells me is that you all ready have people who are taking care of themselves at least.... But overall health we can't really judge since we don't know.....

I would think the next study would be to then go and get women who aren't being screened.... But I still think that the results would be what I think are the same.... That in most cases no idea with a percentage.... That people with cancer would be unhealthier then people who haven't had it or don't know they have it.... Since things like smoking cause it or can lead to it.... In terms of a study one (if my memory is correct) can't say it causes it only that there is a correlation ?

Wanted to say more but lost my thought sorry

tinypliny writes at 05:20:05 03/30/12 - Comment #68086: heh, yes, I was being a bit sarcastic when I pointed out that first question. In my mind, if I were a cancer survivor, I would really find that question quite ludicrous just because cancer has such a looming uncertainty about when it might return or metastasize. If they really meant to ask "Are you feeling excellent TODAY?" then that question means nothing at all. If it were "Have you been feeling excellent over some longer time period?" the expecting cancer survivors to given equivalent answers to those who have never had cancer (and look for statistical significance, no less!) is a very big stretch.

tinypliny writes at 05:13:50 03/30/12 - Comment #68085: The buzzword for your other two observations: Gene-environment interactions. Let's say you need both elements to progress towards cancer. In that study the inherent assumption is that the interaction is a) possible b) that most of their cases and controls could have both or at least one of the components and c) that these interactions are reversible because this is their conclusion:

Conclusions: These results suggest opportunities for tailored behavioral health risk factor interventions for specific populations of cancer survivors.

metalpeter writes at 05:12:07 03/30/12 - Comment #68083: 3.... And final comment.......

Being unhealthy and doing unhealthy things will for some people lead to cancer you don't do those things and lot of cancer won't happen but some still will.... So it makes sense that being or feeling on healthy would tie into having cancer....

But also I bet this works with anyone who has any Disease.... Even if when asked how they feel they are feeling great that day and have been for some time..... They know they are sick so it is natural to feel unhealthy....

tinypliny writes at 05:08:39 03/30/12 - Comment #68082: Peter, you would make a wonderful public health researcher. You got right to the core of the matter. The selection of controls. Without proper controls the contrasts would be exaggerated. And you guess is spot on.
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Methods: In a large cohort of 19,948 women presenting for screening mammography, questionnaires on health behaviors were administered.
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All of them were recruited from screening clinics. All these women have screening behaviour in common. If we were to speculate why they turned up for screening in the first place, the cancer survivors probably turned up because they are anxious about a recurrence or were simply advised to, and the other non-cancer women turned up because they can a) afford it b) have had some scare or the other in their lives and families c) have been advised by their primaries in the recent past to get a mammogram. All of them are most likely to be insured or at least covered by some sort of insurance.

Now you could argue that all these factors puts the survivors and cancer-free on the same footing (and that is the definition of controls: controls could be cases because they have all the risk factors). But really, it does not, because the reasons the survivors are turning up to these clinics are patently different from the other women.

metalpeter writes at 05:08:23 03/30/12 - Comment #68081: 2A.

A+B+C Often times the truth is those all over lap and you might be healthy and have great DNA but if you waited tables for 20 you get lung cancer.... Or you do all that stuff but your body or your DNA turns the cancer on?

I guess the point I'm getting to in this comment is they are all factors and over lap and some things are part of the others....

metalpeter writes at 05:04:54 03/30/12 - Comment #68080: 2. Can we agree that in terms of Cancer really there are 3 factors? One could make the point that this is true not only of cancer but other things as well....

A. DNA..... Everyone's body is the same but different and some things like cancer you will find in families now yes it could be that behaviors are the same but in terms of 4 generations of breast cancer I say it is DNA....

B. Environment.. Now this would be things like exposure to chemicals and dyes or even smoke.... Some stuff can cause cancer or maybe even put you on a path towards it....

C. Health.... Now of course health is tricky what is eating good or to much... Yeah apples are great but do those pesticides hurt you.... How much arsenic (in the seeds) is ok.... But that being said if you eat right and take care of your body then eating the bad stuff won't cause the cancer... But also if one is in tune with your body if you feel bad you may catch something before it is to late...

metalpeter writes at 04:57:14 03/30/12 - Comment #68079: 1. The first question one has to ask is how do they select or find the people who don't have cancer?
--This is huge .... If how ever they do it doesn't get a real cross section of America or the area at least then yeah you are going to get healthy people... If say this was done at doctors offices then generally people who get yearly or bi-yearly checkups will be in better health...

metalpeter writes at 04:54:56 03/30/12 - Comment #68077: Your post is interesting....

Now to be honest didn't follow the link.... I assume that entire thing would be way to long ......

Now all that being said I'll have a few comments this is kinda my intro to comments......

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Category: the odes

03/30/12 12:50 - ID#56298

Mega Lottery?

I don't read the regular news too often. My narrow tracking feeds pretty much target and scrape what I want from the news (mostly research, linux, android and grocery news). When I do hit the google news page once in a bluemoon, I am always trying to catch up on the last n-months worth of craziness. I often stop when I reach around 1 hour worth of news (around 3 articles). And then I don't read for the next n-months before the cycle repeats.

The blue moon rose today and I happened to glance at the top headline. A lottery. Seriously, a lottery of 640 bazillion dollars. That is top national and international news. Specifically, all the different ways you could spend the 640 bazillions that you have a whole 1:zillion odds of winning.

I say, this is an exemplary example of the human spirit and hope. Imagine buying a $1 ticket and hoping you can beat the 1:zillion odds. Fascinating. Maybe I should get a ticket too and join everyone else. The thing is does anyone know where I can get one within a 1/2 mile radius. Does Walgreens sell lottery tickets?

Ooh, (e:Paul) just told me - the nearest gas station. Hmm.. need to go on Google maps to find the nearest one. Maybe this is a hint that the tickets are not really targeting my demographic if I am having so much trouble just figuring out how to get them. Nevermind the question of what I will do with the money.

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Category: goals

03/29/12 12:58 - ID#56295

Thoughts on switching

Ugly but true.

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Category: linux

03/25/12 12:54 - ID#56284

Checking application installation history on Android

I find them and then I lose them.

I have tried out several applications on Google Play at various points. But I uninstall many of them because of random reasons. Just when I need some of the particular features in any one app, I forget what they were called. It's almost pathologic.

Thankfully, Google Play now has a section that remembers every single application you ever installed on your android devices. Check this out:

Now, I need to find something similar for the Chrome web store.

Just for fun I am cutting and pasting all my history here. Looks like I installed the entire market at some point. My list runs several pages long and I don't even have many of then still installed.

1Weather
ONELOUDER APPS
1Weather: Real-time global forecasts & alerts plus timely local weather tweet...
INSTALL

ASTRO File Manager / Browser
METAGO
ASTRO File Manager helps organize your pictures, music, videos and other file...
INSTALL

Adobe Flash Player 11
ADOBE SYSTEMS
Bring the FULL web to your device with Flash Player- videos, games, apps & m...
INSTALL

Advanced Clock Widget
ZOOPER INC
Small, configurable and battery friendly widget with digital clock and much m...
INSTALLED

Advanced English & Thesaurus
MOBILE SYSTEMS
The "Different" English Dictionary with more than 1.4 million words. This dic...
INSTALLED

All About Root
JOEYKRIM
Simple and educational app to define root, why gain root and how to check roo...
INSTALL

Amazon MP3
AMAZON.COM
The Amazon MP3 includes both the Amazon MP3 store and Amazon Cloud Player (US...
INSTALLED

Androidify
GOOGLE INC.
Get ready to make Android your own. Androidify yourself by customizing the li...
INSTALL

App Cleaner
JDRIOD
Easy uninstall multiple apps based on last use and the number of times used. ...
INSTALL

Barcode Scanner
ZXING TEAM
Scan barcodes on products then look up prices and reviews. You can also scan ...
INSTALL

BlogIt!
JOÃƒO CORREIA
BlogIt! Blogging with control! This is a blogger app. It supports: - Multip...
INSTALL

Blogger
GOOGLE INC.
Start blogging on the go with the official Blogger app! Experience the offici...
INSTALL

Blogger-droid
ANDERS HEDSTRÃ–M
Simple Blogger client. You can: -create/view/edit/delete blog posts -post c...
INSTALL

Boat Browser Mini
BOAT BROWSER
Boat Browser Mini is a fast,clean and ease of use android browser. Boat Brows...
INSTALL

Calorie Counter - MyFitnessPal
MYFITNESSPAL, LLC
Lose weight easily with MyFitnessPal, the best calorie counter for Android! L...
INSTALL

Calorie Counter by FatSecret
FATSECRET
A simple tool to find all the Calorie and Nutrition Facts for the foods you e...
INSTALL

CamScanner -Phone PDF Creator
INTSIG INFORMATION CO.,LTD
Turn phone to document scanner CamScanner is the greatest invention in 21th c...
INSTALLED

Chrome Beta
GOOGLE INC.
The speed and simplicity of Chrome, now on your Android phone and tablet. Bro...
INSTALLED

Color Flashlight
NOTES
Turn your phone into a Color flashlight. It helps find your way in the dark. ...
INSTALL

Compass
CATCH.COM
Android's leading compass, featuring location display and geo-tagged notes. F...
INSTALL

Dictionary.com
DICTIONARY.COM, LLC
Take Dictionary.com's trusted reference content wherever you go. ALERT: For a...
INSTALLED

Do it (Tomorrow)
ADYLITICA, INC.
Why do today what you can put off till tomorrow? Do you love procrastinating?...
INSTALLED

Dolphin BrowserÂ® HD
DOLPHIN BROWSER
Dolphin Browser HD is the FASTEST, EASIEST and most FUN mobile Web browser Do...
INSTALL

DroidDia diagrams for Android
ALAREX-GROUP
Diagram painting at glance. DroidDia allows you to make flow charts, org cha...
INSTALL

ES File Explorer
ESTRONGS INC.
Featured File manager & App manager which can explore the phones & computers....
INSTALLED

EZ Drop (File Sync)
NANCH
Send files between your android and PC! Easy, fast, and free! Transfer files ...
INSTALL

Easy Uninstaller
INFOLIFE LLC
Simplist & fastest uninstall tool for android. Easy & fastest uninstall tool ...
INSTALL

File Expert
GEEK SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY INC.
Powerful File Manager/WIFI File Transfer Web & FTP/App Manager - ALL in ONE A...
INSTALL

GNotes - Sync Note with Gmail
DATO
GNotes is a easy note taking app for android synchronize with GMail. GNotes i...
INSTALLED

GTasks: To Do List | Task List
DATO
Synchronize Your To Do Tasks | List with Google GTasks is a simple and effici...
INSTALLED

Google Goggles
GOOGLE INC.
Search the real world by taking a picture. Search by taking a picture. Goggle...
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Groupon - Daily Deals, Coupons
GROUPON, INC.
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Lync 2010
MICROSOFT CORPORATION
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Magic Doodle Free
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FLIPDOG SOLUTIONS, LLC
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MobilityPLUS
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Opera Mini web browser
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Opera Mobile web browser
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Period Tracker
GP INTERNATIONAL LLC
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Plan B
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Pomodroido
ARTIFIX
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NEXTPAGE
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DAY8 DESIGN
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Scan to PDF Free
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Sense Analog Glass Clock 4x2
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SIINE LTD
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AUTODESK INC.
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WARGOTH
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NIKOLAY ANANIEV
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TWITTER, INC.
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PAUL VISCO
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Category: eating out

03/23/12 08:13 - ID#56277

An Ethiopian Restaurant in Buffalo

Finally. The Lucy Legacy

But why does it have to be so very far?!

Lucy Ethiopian Restaurant and Variety Store
388 Amherst Street - Buffalo NY
Hours are: Mon-Sat 7am to 10pm | Sun 11am to 10pm

Wish it was on Elmwood and Summer.
:/

tinypliny writes at 01:22:13 03/30/12 - Comment #68070: LOL. thanks! I am just analyzing and cooking up excuses because it will mean 2-3 hours. hehehe

Yuuuuuummmm injera. :(

heidi writes at 01:04:16 03/30/12 - Comment #68069: Relative to Zoma (e:heidi,52184) & (e:heidi,52183) it's not nearly the same quality and no where near the range of options. It's essentially fast/diner food compared to sit-down Ethiopian experience dining. Iv'e been to another NYC ethiopian restaurant but have forgotten the name, and to a place in Silver Spring, MD, and the comparison is the same.

Sheesh, it's not that hard to get to by bus, just go!!

tinypliny writes at 12:30:22 03/30/12 - Comment #68068: What do you guys thinks of Abyssinia, Rochester, NY? How do your other Ethiopian experiences compare to this one (if at all) - worse, better, equivalent? I realize everyone has unique personal tastes and preferences, but comparing might set a sort-of baseline? To widen the scope, if you have ever been to Meske (Hell's Kitchen), , Meskerem (Greenwich), Zoma (Harlem), Ghenet (Brooklyn) or Awash (Manhattan) - any comparisons could also be baselines...

leetee writes at 11:54:05 03/30/12 - Comment #68067: Friend of mine took me to an Ethiopian place in Toronto years ago and i hated it.... texture is huge for me and i felt like everything was soft, runny and blended.

heidi writes at 02:56:01 03/28/12 - Comment #68064: The food was okay/good, not great. The people were very friendly.

tinypliny writes at 11:05:24 03/27/12 - Comment #68060: So food was awesome, and they are just having teething troubles with service? I would say, that is a great start for a restaurant! I need to definitely check this place out. It would be a shame if I never did. Injera and lentils are some of my top favourite dishes of all time. And I simply love African spice mixes.

heidi writes at 10:44:52 03/27/12 - Comment #68059: (e:puddlediving) and i went on saturday. i like ethiopian a lot but this was kinda meh. We both had the veggie combo - a set of four dishes on a platter with two big pieces of injera. The injera was good. The (red lentils) mesir wat - was good, too spicy for lana. The combo also included cabbage, yellow lentils and a green bean & carrot dish.They seemed overwhlemed by the quantity of people - seriously, they were creating tables for people to sit at. It's not really an ethiopian restaurant experience, it's more of a quick food/diner/take out and maybe cheaper quality ingredients than I've experienced at full service places. Lana ordered just the mesir wat but they brought the combo by accident. The wat was $5.99, the combo $8.99.

uncutsaniflush writes at 08:59:21 03/26/12 - Comment #68058: That location is cursed. Nothing has stayed open there for more than six months in recent memory.

I drive by that corner almost daily. I thought about posting about Lucy but it felt a wee bit wrong to me. I've eaten Ethiopian cuisine in 3 or 4 restaurants in two different countries (admittedly neither country was in Africa) upon the recommends of culinary-adventurous people who love to eat Ethiopian. It's not for me. That being said, I wish Lucy every success.

jolene writes at 11:15:41 03/26/12 - Comment #68053: (e:tinypliny): I've just seen many small, interesting restaurants come and go in Buffalo, that's all.

tinypliny writes at 10:04:02 03/25/12 - Comment #68049: Why do you think the odds aren't in their favour? It's not like they have any competition. As far as I know, they are the ONLY Ethiopian restaurant in Buffalo!

metalpeter writes at 01:29:30 03/24/12 - Comment #68041: Map Quest it might not be that far..... Amherst near Grant might be more then one wants to walk... But near Delaware not so bad..... Also see what else is near by.... It could be one of many things and not just to trek over there just for it...

jolene writes at 09:15:23 03/24/12 - Comment #68039: I've driven by, and definitely want to eat there before they go out of business. Not to be pessimistic or anything, just odds aren't in their favor...

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Category: music

03/23/12 06:29 - ID#56276

You are my home

Okay, I admit, I just can't stop looping all his songs. It's Billy Joel but in an inexplicably and 10000000 times sexier voice.

metalpeter writes at 05:08:31 03/26/12 - Comment #68057: I used the word better where I shouldn't have an have to say sorry about that... That reason is why I don't watch American Idol.... To me American Idol is like saying we prefer this voice over that voice... But look to rock Music people like Neal Young, Bruce Springsteen and some might even put John Bon Jovi in there, Axel Rose all have bad voices..... But if that is so then why do they sell so many Records... Why is Gun's N' Roses going the Rock N' Roll Hall of fame... I think Axel has a great voice he just doesn't use it very often.... If I didn't want Christina to rape me and if it wasn't at the same time as WWE and my Fox monday night shows I would watch the voice I think it is cool idea... I also liked when they had some rock band that people tried out for that was a cool show......

tinypliny writes at 10:12:24 03/25/12 - Comment #68052: So I was actually searching for a musical/broadway/pure unmodified piano (no strings or synth) version of "Just the way you are" and found this instead. There, you now have background on my bias. :)

tinypliny writes at 10:10:26 03/25/12 - Comment #68051: Take La Roux for example. On its own the voice is nothing to write home about, but with the tune, it has its own charm.

tinypliny writes at 10:08:43 03/25/12 - Comment #68050: heh, funny you say that. I was thinking how wonderful this bloke would be in musicals. I don't know if you can call one voice better than the other. They all have unique voices in their own way. Some voices are more suited to carrying melodies, some stay in tune, some have a delightful way of changing timbre and yet stay in tune. It's difficult to assess voices. I like the Allentown cover (below) the best. Somehow it has more raw feeling in it than Joel's for that theme...

metalpeter writes at 01:20:08 03/24/12 - Comment #68040: Well I'm glad you found cover songs you like..... Now granted Joel's voice has changed some over the years but his voice is way better then this guy.... Now I could see this guy maybe doing plays and musicals but rock star sorry no.....

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