Paul's Journal

05/28/2006 12:47 #32634

Wegmans and blood pressure
Category: food

Made a quick trip to wegman's in order to pick up some food for the week. I was also out of protein powder and cliff bars.

While we were there I decided to check out my blood pressure which is normally extremely low. Seemed a little high but I tested it again two minutes later and it was normal. I don't trust that machine but I do want to know why my bloodpressure was like 10-15 points higher than usual. Is it that cholestrol laden protein powder?

Does anyone else go grab a magazine for the checkout adventure? This time I grabbed mobile computing magazine which I paged through with the equivalent passion a suburban fervor teenage girl has for a fashion magazine. "Will I still look nerd trendy enough with my laptop and phone through 2007 or do I need a (insert explicative) model to maintain my geek suave."

In the magazine I saw disney is making cell phones for kids that allow the parents to track the children from their phones. Two words: creepy and cancer. Those kids are gonna have brain tumors the size of lemons by the time they are 15.

Thanks to everyone for coming to the party last night. Who has pictures to post? I think everyone was quite thoroughly inebriated which turned out to be fun. I stayed up with the squireels, (e:robin) and soon to be epeep sarah-paul till about 5am.

Clams taste good at wegmans but these kind freak me the hell out. On eitm ewe were in vacation where they only had these funky clams. It was very dissapointing. I mean I love seafood but these ones remidn me of that Klinmgon dish QAGH (WIKIPEDIA - qagh) - lots of info here -

(e:terry) really wants a passion flower (WIKIPEDIA - passion flower) plants but they are $16.99

mrdt - 05/29/06 00:10
Don't pay retail for protein powder!!!
Go here and every few months I'll post a code for free shipping: :::link:::
Till 12:00 midnight Mat 29th it's: SPRING06

And those clams are way to old to eat and not stored proper.... They look like they were sitting in their own waste for too long.

theecarey - 05/28/06 21:03
I love impromtu gatherings! Its always nice to chill with friends, as Lee said, new and "old". Thanks for the bumper stickers, my car wears them proudly :)

ajay - 05/28/06 19:48
130/80? Pshaw...

I used to have 180/130 in Buffalo. No, you read that right. Yes, it _was_ 180/130.

Now I've stopped measuring it. ;-)

leetee - 05/28/06 16:58
had a good time at the impromtu party last night. thanks for hosting and the invite! Good to see everyone... new and "old". :O)

jenks - 05/28/06 15:42
yeah you should totally get the passion flower. $17? that's like 2 coffees at spot. ;) They're cool. I wonder if it would grow passionfruit too. Is buffalo warm enough for them?

twisted - 05/28/06 15:29
Nice Passion flower vine!

mrmike - 05/28/06 13:44
Thanks for the party Paul, it was great to meet with people whose words I come to hang on.

metalpeter - 05/28/06 13:28
I had a good time should have brought more drinks then I did, oh well. I hope you like the pics I posted. One thing from last night caused me to have a question about the site. Some people made those hand writen banners. That got me to thinking on my computer I don't see banners. I remember when you put up a few picuture of the new or custom themes they had banners and my view dosn't. How would I get to see banners? Also in my custome view The background and bars between my journals is there a way to change them? How would I do that I can't figure it out? I use firefox when on (e:strip) but usaly use Internet explorer for most other sites or some sites if that is any help.

06/01/2006 01:33 #32633

Slowly the whole internet went away
Category: web

I cannot get to any of the web. It slowly wittled away until there was nothing left. I have now had no internet for two hours which is really putting a cramp on the research I was doing on mobile video formats - argh.

I cannot restart my router because (e:terry) is fucking playing warcraft.
Then I remembered that my fancy phone was also a modem that gets speeds of aroudn 300k/s and decided to use it with my laptop. Thank god for that. I am my own access point now, it is a real sense of frreedom that I can brig broadband with me. I still hate warcraft. It makes every evening sound like "Argh, swish, stab, blech, blech, blech, argh, kling, kilng smash" I would record it on my phone but it is busy being used as my internet connection.

05/27/2006 16:39 #32632

Inky Caps Eat Plants
Category: nature

The inkycap mushrooms in our yard are destroying everything near them. I have never seen them be so killer. It kind of looks like a miny gang of zombies. I wonder if the plants have nightmares about them.

There are spreading, where will it stop.

imk2 - 05/28/06 00:19
paul, can we like dry them and eat them? do you think we'll see pretty colors and shapes on the walls?

05/27/2006 16:20 #32631

The Crazy Lady on Elmwood
Category: elmwood

The crazy lady on elmwood was extremely riled up today. Frankly, she seems like she is starting to be dangerous. She was screaming at people and got in the coop and started freaking out. Then she marched outside and started screaming at the top of her lungs. I recorded a bit but then decided to get the hell away from here. (e:mike), it the one that freaked out that you weren't fighting in Iraq.

Anyways, she seems like she really need help, like maybe she forgot to take her medication but I think everyone is so afraid of her that she will never get help. I can't imagine what she must feel like. Does anyone know her story?

::DOWNLOAD SOUND::

After the recording some guy out front of the laundromat told her to shut up and she freaked out on him too. You can hear him say shut up at the end of the recording. She told him that he doesn't even care that he ripped her off and stole her money because he is just going to get in his starship and fly away. She has seriously lost it.

Coop food is too damn expensive. I think I am done shopping there again. I can't afford a mansion and yuppy food. It's one or the other.
I mean it cost about $30 for some fruit and a couple thai soup packs.

libertad - 05/27/06 17:04
oh gosh that poor woman. She is completely insane. I saw her the other day at the Co-oP going off. Maybe someday that will be me screaming about government conspiracies and aliens. And yes, they are too expensive. If I were rich, I would buy organic. Why do we have to be rich to care about the environment or in (e:matthew)'s case buy wheat free products?

leetee - 05/27/06 16:30
Go to Guercio's... we rarely spend more than 15 bucks there... and get tons of produce and goodies. :O)

05/27/2006 10:37 #32630

Javascript Prototypes Part II
Category: programming

Here is a good example I wrote of javascript prototypes that extend other objects. (e:paul,4369) was part one and both were in reference to (e:zobar,59)

[box]<html>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
/*create a sound object for making sounds*/
sound = function(noise){
    this.setNoise(noise);
}

/*add new prototype to output the noise */
sound.prototype = {
    /*set the noise echoed on sound.out)*/
    setNoise : function(noise){
        this.noise = noise || 'plain sound';
    },

    /*output the noise*/
    out : function(numTimes){
        var noise ='"';
        for(x=0;x<numTimes;x++){
            noise += this.noise;
            if(x<numTimes-1){ noise +=', ';}
        }
        return noise+'!"';
    }
}

/*create a animal object for making animals that make sounds*/
animal = function(name, noise){
    this.setName(name);
    this.vocals = new sound(noise);
}

animal.prototype = {

    /*set the name of the animal*/
    setName : function(name){
        this.name = name || 'another animal';
    },

    /*prototype to wrap sound.out*/
    talk : function(times){
        alert(this.name +" said "+this.vocals.out(times));
    },

    /*prototype to wrap sound.setNoise*/
    changeVocals : function(noise){
        mySquirrel.vocals.setNoise(noise);
    }

}
/*instantiate an animal ( a squirrel that barks) and make it talk */
mySquirrel = new animal('squirrelio', 'bark');
mySquirrel.talk(3);
mySquirrel.changeVocals('ruff');
mySquirrel.talk(4);
</script>
</body>
</html>
[/box]

A lot of people have come up with different methods for dealing with inheritance. Here is one page that explains it

and here is another that abstracts it a bit.

Once you are into the prototyping system you can make your own system to make extending and inheriting easier.