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08/20/2005 15:03 #32179

campingand plastic mites
We were supposed to leave for camping early this morning. We forgot about the way we had left stuff off after the last adventure where we we uncovered the new breed of plastic mites that ate my phone. I swear they are a sign of the apocolypse.

I found more of them in an old plastic camping backpack in our closet. Once again, they were only on plastic stuff. A polyester hoody, a plastic suitcase and the plastic backpack. Do they eat plastic? They look just like dust mites and don't bite. I am going to get a usb microscope this week and then I will figure it all out, if they don't eat the mircroscope.

I need to cut my beard again, it looks so mscruffy right now.
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twisted - 08/20/05 19:24
(e:Paul), you KNOW I support you in anything you want or need to do. But could you PLEASE give me a little advance warning next time you're about to run off to naked camp? I'm at a critical crossroads here! Thanks.

08/19/2005 22:25 #32178

Ambrosia
Category: food
(e:lilho), (e:terry), (e:alison) and I headed out to ambrosia for dinner. It was tasty as always. I decided to spare everyone the additonal calamari pic but nonetheless it was tasty. If you like calamri you definately need to try it out.
metalpeter - 08/21/05 08:47
I havn't been there in a long time it was good the last time I was there. There is this one awesome chick who works there or who did I think she still does. During the winter I'm walking down elmwood full winter coat frezzing my ass off and shaking and she is out there in a short sleve shirt not shaking at all cleaning the outside windows she looked like it felt like summer.

08/19/2005 19:42 #32177

I miss my programming and friends
Category: computers
So I spent the last week tricking out my computers hardware and software. I think I am just one step short of getting it a new paintjob, a window and some neon. Maybe even hydraulics for my chair and some big speakers. Okay I am not that into it but it's probably close. It is really time for me to return to production mode. I miss (e:twisted) and (e:shawnr) and everyone I haven't talked to in like 5 days during my hermitage. Congratulations on Gamesfirst (e:shawnr) [inlink]shawnr,145[/inlink]. You did an excellent job.

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I hate to admit this in public but in the end I really have to say linux is not for everyone, or maybe it is but not when you have tricked out hardward and lots of it. I mean walmart sells computers running it, and I guess if all you want is a web browser and a word processor then you are set to go. Istill think that mac OS X is by far the easiest OS for anyone with no computer skills.

Unfortunately/fortunately, I also have about a hundred different proprietary hardware parts including a dual xeon tower, a highly proprietary sony laptop, a terabyte of different file types, a web server, a graphics tablet, an ipod shuffle, a external firewire drive hooked up through a pcmcia card and a slew of design programs I had to replace.

I finally got my php ide all set up. And yes I realize there is a chat bug that prints the number of epeeps, they are sharing a variable and that the profiles are all funky looking when you update them. I expect to get to that this week.

I am also thinking of going in the direction of OS software although maybe it isn't necessary now that the web is everywhere and always online.

(e:lilho) and I are going to eat some more squid. Oh and (e:pageseven) is (e:hodown).
joshua - 08/20/05 13:23
Oh... Mac Os X is great for n00bs, I would definitely have to agree. However, I have pictures from Cali that I would love to post but I can't because I don't know how to use iPhoto to reduce the size of the image to confine to 100k size. :(
joshua - 08/20/05 13:21
Linux is nice once you set it up... but setting it up suuuucks - even when you are a computing veteran. I think marketing Linux to the general public is a vast mistake. It has to be more "Windows-like" for laypeople to be interested in a major way. You have to bring out your Paulus Maximus computing stamina to not give up, but once everything is set up its hard to not ask yourself, "Ok, so this took a few days and now it works the way I want to (sorta), but I could have installed XP and had it working in 45 minutes!!!" Open source dedication, baby.

08/18/2005 20:26 #32176

the fair - klu klux lamb?
Category: events
I finished getting everything to work on linux accept the printer. Maya, zend studio, wireless, apache, php5, pspell and a gigantic assortment of free apps. Now I just need to have time to use the computer instead of just setting it up.

We went to the fair to see all the tasty animals. What is up with this lamb? All the lambs are covered like this. Is it to protect their coat for the show? It kind of reminds me of those italians that cover their couches in vinyl.

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Check out the face on that chicken-like thing below. It was on sale for $20. I wish I had more land or that winter wasn't coming. I saw a chicken lay an egg for the first time. It is pretty gross.

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Food. Like every Buffalo metropolitan area event, food was the main attraction. I ate italian sausage, fried ice cream, birch beer, fries, and the best thing I ever had in my life. Basically, it combines my two favorite foods - maybe syrup and cotton candy. There is a picture of (e:matthew) holding it below but I ate the whole bag myself.

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Then we went to the animal freak show. It was disgusting. I feel bad for giving them money. The animals were in such bad conditions. There were two five legged cows. They had this tiny box with a big snake in it. On the box it said,"ancient belief - touching silver coins to a snake brings good luck" The cage was all full of dirty money. Some of it was even in the food bowl.

(e:ladycroft), they had the biggest zuzchini contest and it wasn't nearly as big as yours. Yous should enter next year.
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alicia - 08/19/05 10:46
Awe those sheep look funny!!! definately like KKK sheep :)~ We went to the fair from like 9pm-11 most of the animals were put away. we did get to see bunnys YAY and some chickens and birds....and the moo moos
leetee - 08/18/05 22:42
The coats and hoods on the sheep are to protect the wool before showing, so they don't get dirty and look dingy. Least, that's what the man witht he english devon sheep told Walt and i a few days ago!

08/18/2005 03:15 #32175

Linux fun
Category: linux
Everything is finally set up in linux land, accept I can't find a good gui FTP manager. Both kbear and kftpgrabber have problems for me. I drew this evil baby that wants to take over the world in inkwell. The vector drawing capabilities are really excellent.

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uncutsaniflush - 08/18/05 10:31
Paul, since I'm not sure why the kde ftp appls aren't satisfactory, i'm not sure if my recommendation will be any better - gftp :::link::: and here is a screenshot :::link:::

To me this interface seems old school dos except it's a gui and midnight commanderesque so it seems familar.