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05/19/2006 18:47 #32616

Trip To The Washington Market
Category: food
(e:enknot) and I went to the Washington Market for lunch today. I forgot to get pics of the food but it was delicious as usual. I ate the southwestern grill cheese sandwich $5.50. It is seriously yummy. A bunch of cheese, avacado, tomato, and (for $1.50 extra) chicken.

Washington Market (362-3181) (MAP TO: 461%20ELLICOTT%20STREET)
Monday - Friday 6:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Saturday 7:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Sunday 7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Yes, it is on Ellicott not Washington St.

On the way back we parked off of high street near Michigan St (Harriet Tubman Way) and there are three empty lots together. One was just knocked down today and looked liek a freshy tilled field. I will try and get a pic this weekend. The old looking farm house but it has all these warning signs saying they sprayed rat toxin (MAP TO: 200%20HIGH%20STREET)

Anyways, how long do you think it will be before parts of the city are completely returned to "nature". That whole area is being knocked down and re-natured, will it raise the property value. Will it become the urban rural? Will Roswell just keep expanding?

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There were two interesting products that I did not buy. However, that Washington Market is sensational. I would suggest everyone stop what you are doing and go there right away.


They had some black velvet popcorn . I would have bought it but I am no longer eating popcorn from bags after the whole cancer scare

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Fiji Water - what the fuck is this about. I mean do we really need water that is imported from Fiji (WIKIPEDIA - fiji) . According to the bottle the sand in fiji filters the water is some special way. I don't believe anything about filtered water. One time (e:terry) and I drove to Poland Springs in Maine and it was a dried up recess in the ground. I bet the same is with Fiji water.

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ladycroft - 05/20/06 12:02
i like the taste of fiji water.

05/19/2006 16:40 #32615

Beautiful Errors
Category: programming
Well I don't officially know if they are beautiful yet as I am not officially a master of fine art - not until february. This happend as an accident. I was using surebert for an ajax front end to an applictaion and I wanted the repsonses to be in random places on the page so that it was easy to debug.

I got back into my ide but left the browser window open. When I went back, 3000 queries later, the system has drawn me this image based off the following basic colorization code, a little surebert and some error magic.

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Here is the tiny simple code that made it happen

function mv(obj,x,y,z){
    if(typeof(obj)=='string'){
        obj = $(id);
    }
    obj.style.position='absolute';
    obj.style.left = x +'px';
    obj.style.top = y +'px';
    if(z!=undefined){obj.style.zIndex=z;}
}

function rand(min,max){
    min = min || 0;
    max = max || 100;
    return Math.floor(Math.random()*max+min);
}

function randColor(grey){
    if(grey == 1){
        grey = rand(0,255);
        return "rgb("+grey+","+grey+","+grey+")";    
    } else {
        return "rgb("+rand(0,255)+","+rand(0,255)+","+rand(0,255)+")";    
    }
}
zobar - 05/19/06 16:48
I love graphics programming, because both bugs and proof-of-concept code make the most aesthetic errors. At my last job I actually printed out and hung up out some graphics I had drawn with some code I'd written that was totally, hopelessly wrong, because it looked so cool.

- Z

05/19/2006 11:12 #32614

Another fun day with formulas
Category: work
I am beginning to love formulas and flow charts. Who knew an art degree would lead to logic and math problems.

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05/19/2006 10:08 #32613

Roswell lunches makes big legs
Category: food
The Roswell Park cafeteria keeps topping itself. Yesterday was Baja Burger Bar.

I got the turkey burger with potato salad but I took a picture of (e:enknot)'s burger because it had better presentation quality.


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My new well fed legs.
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mrmike - 05/19/06 16:41
That last entree looks a lil fuzzy
paul - 05/19/06 11:09
You are just jealous that yours are not as hairy.
hodown - 05/19/06 10:48
who's hairy legs are those? Did you really need to post that?

05/18/2006 15:13 #32612

Ride for Roswell
Category: cancer
It's the time of the year to participate in the Ride for Roswell Cancer Fundraiser.

Some of you might be interested in riding. I remembered that (e:mrdt) said he was thinking about doing it. Are you still doing it, is anyone else riding?

Here is a video about it.

They are looking for volunteers to help out at the event, people to donate and riders.

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mrdt - 05/19/06 00:04
yeh, I'm in, but ify on the bike. my buddy told me just the other day that he would lend me his roadbike for the event but ya never know.

I guess I'm gonna start getting pledges at school and former places of employment.... and I probably ride the 33 miler...


paul - 05/18/06 20:06
The hard part is raising the money to get sponsored ;)
jenks - 05/18/06 20:02
paul it's just a ride, right? not a race? I'm thinking about it, if I don't have to work that day.