I was trying to unrar a set of files on the mac and the progress bar said it would take 2023406814 hours to finish. I don't think anything ever said it would take that long.
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01/25/2007 23:46 #37872
Taking an eternityCategory: mac
01/25/2007 23:38 #37871
Uranium For SaleI was reading about some enriched uranium that was smuggled by a fish and sausage trader out of russia and into georgia (the country) Apparently, it was 90% enriched and enough to build a nuclear bomb. 100g goes for about $1 million dollars.
I never really though about what uranium looks like. I realized that it was mined and that it had to be enriched but I never really considered what the susbtsance would be like in quantity enough to make a nuclear bomb. I somehow thought it would be fancier or liek in rods.
Here it is, simply in plastic bags, The smuggler had it under his jacket. I bet he gets a nasty case of cancer.
I never really though about what uranium looks like. I realized that it was mined and that it had to be enriched but I never really considered what the susbtsance would be like in quantity enough to make a nuclear bomb. I somehow thought it would be fancier or liek in rods.
Here it is, simply in plastic bags, The smuggler had it under his jacket. I bet he gets a nasty case of cancer.
01/25/2007 17:22 #37866
Mice Are Making Me AngryCategory: housing
We have this mice problem in the house. I think part of it is from the church as I see them outside near it when it is warm out. Luckily they are little house mice and not big rats. I want to kill them more than anything. I wish I could just step on them all but it is too complicated. The real issue is they are ruining everything. Last night I had to throw out another drawer full of stuff. They ate the zip lock bags and other plastic items which is weird. Maybe nesting material.
The most important step is removing food from lying around but my roommates seem to have real trouble with that, For a while we had traps and caught a lot of them. But then we had to give the humane traps back. I am at the point where I hate them enough to step on them, so humane traps are not my utmost concern. I feel like they are invading my space now. They are even bold enough to come out during light hours. I would use poison but I am afraid that it will end up somehow killing the squirrels. In fact I am sure about it.
So I guess we will have to try the traps again. I just wish everyone would remember to not leave food out. Last night after talking about this a lot, there were crackers smashed on the floor, I found this because the mouse was trying to run out and drag them under.
Here is all the crap I found around the house the other night when i got home from work at around midnight. And it is like this every freakin' day.
On a sadder note, the baby sugar glider died. The mother is a crack whore with no parenting skills. She pretty much just threw the baby out of the nest onto the floor.
The most important step is removing food from lying around but my roommates seem to have real trouble with that, For a while we had traps and caught a lot of them. But then we had to give the humane traps back. I am at the point where I hate them enough to step on them, so humane traps are not my utmost concern. I feel like they are invading my space now. They are even bold enough to come out during light hours. I would use poison but I am afraid that it will end up somehow killing the squirrels. In fact I am sure about it.
So I guess we will have to try the traps again. I just wish everyone would remember to not leave food out. Last night after talking about this a lot, there were crackers smashed on the floor, I found this because the mouse was trying to run out and drag them under.
Here is all the crap I found around the house the other night when i got home from work at around midnight. And it is like this every freakin' day.
On a sadder note, the baby sugar glider died. The mother is a crack whore with no parenting skills. She pretty much just threw the baby out of the nest onto the floor.
mike - 01/25/07 23:00
just step on them. ugh i am pretty sure I hate any animal that can be stepped on
just step on them. ugh i am pretty sure I hate any animal that can be stepped on
paul - 01/25/07 22:27
I used to be much messier. I admit at the 444 I was particularly messy but since the mouse problem I have made a concerted effort to not leave food around.
I used to be much messier. I admit at the 444 I was particularly messy but since the mouse problem I have made a concerted effort to not leave food around.
brit - 01/25/07 20:15
on behalf of the roomates and as the actual goblin that clears up the plates that (e:paul) leaves lying around in the living room, the sink the stove top etc and forgets about then assumes he never used in the first place, I would ask you not to encourage his delusions, the only reason he gets away with it is because none of us can be arsed to take photos of his constant mess!
on behalf of the roomates and as the actual goblin that clears up the plates that (e:paul) leaves lying around in the living room, the sink the stove top etc and forgets about then assumes he never used in the first place, I would ask you not to encourage his delusions, the only reason he gets away with it is because none of us can be arsed to take photos of his constant mess!
jenks - 01/25/07 19:17
funny paul, I was JUST wondering about the babies (baby? what happened to the other one?) b/c a guy at work as sugar gliders and we were talking about them today.
I agree with peter- may be time to call in a pro. Usually the mice you SEE are just the tip of the iceberg.
funny paul, I was JUST wondering about the babies (baby? what happened to the other one?) b/c a guy at work as sugar gliders and we were talking about them today.
I agree with peter- may be time to call in a pro. Usually the mice you SEE are just the tip of the iceberg.
metalpeter - 01/25/07 18:07
It is to bad you are allergic to cats cause they might be able to solve the mice problem, however they might also go after the sugar gliders. I think the posion might be just as bad as the cat. I don't know how you find this out but I think you need to find where they get in. If you can somehow close that up then if you catch or kill them all then you won't have anymore. You may want to talk to a good extremanator and find out if there is anything that would get rid of them but not effect you guys or any of your pets.
It is to bad you are allergic to cats cause they might be able to solve the mice problem, however they might also go after the sugar gliders. I think the posion might be just as bad as the cat. I don't know how you find this out but I think you need to find where they get in. If you can somehow close that up then if you catch or kill them all then you won't have anymore. You may want to talk to a good extremanator and find out if there is anything that would get rid of them but not effect you guys or any of your pets.
uncutsaniflush - 01/25/07 17:42
Golly, your roommates are running a very nice restaurant for the mice. How sweet of them. <g>
Good luck with getting rid of the mice.
Golly, your roommates are running a very nice restaurant for the mice. How sweet of them. <g>
Good luck with getting rid of the mice.
leetee - 01/25/07 17:41
Awe, so sorry to hear about the baby squirrel!! Poor thing... i guess all moms are not created equal in the animal world, too, damnit.
Mice.. yeah, we have a bold one, or family that invades in the early part of the season. One time, i was on the sofa, and it came up and over the back of it. Scared me... i must have screamed like a little girl.
Luckily, i am a bit of a neat freak, so there are rarely any crumbs and the rodents move on to somewhere else... we think.
Although, (e:Uncutsaniflush) said he saw a rat in our yard...
Good luck with the mice.
Yo, roomies, clean up! :O)
Awe, so sorry to hear about the baby squirrel!! Poor thing... i guess all moms are not created equal in the animal world, too, damnit.
Mice.. yeah, we have a bold one, or family that invades in the early part of the season. One time, i was on the sofa, and it came up and over the back of it. Scared me... i must have screamed like a little girl.
Luckily, i am a bit of a neat freak, so there are rarely any crumbs and the rodents move on to somewhere else... we think.
Although, (e:Uncutsaniflush) said he saw a rat in our yard...
Good luck with the mice.
Yo, roomies, clean up! :O)
vycious - 01/25/07 17:32
i didnt realize they could be such a problem. ive had mice in a few apts. even rats. they never seemed to be such a pain, however. did you try talking to the church peoples about the problem?
i didnt realize they could be such a problem. ive had mice in a few apts. even rats. they never seemed to be such a pain, however. did you try talking to the church peoples about the problem?
01/22/2007 15:09 #37819
Switch BackCategory: computers
I decided to take advantage of my brithday holiday today to just say no to windows. One of the most important things was that I could natively run IE to test web sites and that the new Flash Player 9 came out for linux the other day.
It was so satisfying to just delete the windows partition. Now my vaio is much more like its running OS X without the apple crap or hardware and it is so much faster than when it was running windows. Windows is usually fast for about the first three days and then it just starts going downhill from there. I wasn't in the mood to do YAWR (Yet Another Windowds Re-install) when I saw the Suse site that compared the features of the new Suse to Windows Vista.
I have to say I really like this Suse Enterprise Linux 10
I figured what the hell, the only thing that was holding me back before was running IE and cinema 4D. I am pretty much done with Cinema 4D and I can get IE to run.
This is probably the 10th time I installed linux on a proprietary laptop and this time it went great with no hitches right out of the proverbial box. This is the first time I ran Gnome desktop with Suse but it is their default window manager now so I decided to give it a try. The last time I had used it was with Fedora back when (e:ajay) helped me install it on this same laptop.
It was so satisfying to just delete the windows partition. Now my vaio is much more like its running OS X without the apple crap or hardware and it is so much faster than when it was running windows. Windows is usually fast for about the first three days and then it just starts going downhill from there. I wasn't in the mood to do YAWR (Yet Another Windowds Re-install) when I saw the Suse site that compared the features of the new Suse to Windows Vista.
I have to say I really like this Suse Enterprise Linux 10
I figured what the hell, the only thing that was holding me back before was running IE and cinema 4D. I am pretty much done with Cinema 4D and I can get IE to run.
This is probably the 10th time I installed linux on a proprietary laptop and this time it went great with no hitches right out of the proverbial box. This is the first time I ran Gnome desktop with Suse but it is their default window manager now so I decided to give it a try. The last time I had used it was with Fedora back when (e:ajay) helped me install it on this same laptop.
enknot - 01/24/07 07:48
I'm getting a table PC for like 5 beans... so I guess I'm going to have a PC lappy, and I think I'll try this SUSE-Q out for a spin...
I'm getting a table PC for like 5 beans... so I guess I'm going to have a PC lappy, and I think I'll try this SUSE-Q out for a spin...
ajay - 01/23/07 10:43
I see Windows days as numbered.
Microsoft is getting squeezed on both sides. On the server side, Windows just can't compete with Linux or FreeBSD.
On the client side, Apples are doing a phenomenal job.
I think, in the next 10 years or so, expect Microsoft to quietly drop the OS and move to a just being a software suite provider (Office, mainly).
I see Windows days as numbered.
Microsoft is getting squeezed on both sides. On the server side, Windows just can't compete with Linux or FreeBSD.
On the client side, Apples are doing a phenomenal job.
I think, in the next 10 years or so, expect Microsoft to quietly drop the OS and move to a just being a software suite provider (Office, mainly).
paul - 01/22/07 17:26
I have never seen anything like the desktop window effects for Suse 10+ The cube desktop is amzing, its has that thing that os x has with the window tiling and untiling and a million other beautiful and fast effects once you get xgl running. The window wobble is amazing. Make the windows feel like actual things you are handling.
Looks like opensuse 10.2 is the fedora of Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop.
I have never seen anything like the desktop window effects for Suse 10+ The cube desktop is amzing, its has that thing that os x has with the window tiling and untiling and a million other beautiful and fast effects once you get xgl running. The window wobble is amazing. Make the windows feel like actual things you are handling.
Looks like opensuse 10.2 is the fedora of Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop.
uncutsaniflush - 01/22/07 16:53
Welcome back to the fold. I'm glad everything worked out of the box for you.
I should look into SuSE again since it seems to work so well for you. I think the last time I used it was 2001 or 2002.
Welcome back to the fold. I'm glad everything worked out of the box for you.
I should look into SuSE again since it seems to work so well for you. I think the last time I used it was 2001 or 2002.
01/22/2007 12:00 #37815
When 20 turns to 30Category: birthdays
I wish I had something important to say at the end of being a 20-something.
Flashback to January 21st, 1997: I am locked in my dorm room in Flensburg, Germany totally dissatisfied with the thought of turning 20. I somehow thought it was going to be the end of my adventurous life and that everything would change the next day. What really amazes me about the difference between then and now is the omnipresent internet which was nowhere in my life at the time. I had only began to use it the year before in 1996 and in Germany my only access was in a special computer lab once a week.
The night of my twentieth birthday I was not online chatting with my friends in the motherland but rather locked in my room tripping on mushrooms by myself.
Eventually, I ended up wandering out into the park and if I remember correctly, I had a good time.
I don't remember my 21st birthday. Does anyone else remember it. I think I might not have one single friend in my life now that was there then - or maybe I just don't remember it because it was so fun. Actually maybe chris was there. Maybe (e:hodown) but I think she was in New York. Or maybe I was in Arizona? If only I had a journal. I think I was probably in Arizona.
Back to 2007 -
My blood pressure was ridiculous the other day. Although, in fairness I was really angry at the moment.
Last night we celebrated my birthday at my parents house.
My family got me so much candy. In fact (e:mike) wrapped my gift in candy. The gift was a set of these four keychains that attach to stuff you lose. Then when you press a button o the basestation the things make an alert noise so that you can find them. What a great idea. I wrote about it a while ago when I was on the plane to San Francisco to visit (e:twisted). They had them in the skymall magazine at the time.
(e:lilho), a big part of the last ten years.
I love this vaio series. At over 4 pounds lighter than the macbook I think I will need one, once the tax returns come.
Flashback to January 21st, 1997: I am locked in my dorm room in Flensburg, Germany totally dissatisfied with the thought of turning 20. I somehow thought it was going to be the end of my adventurous life and that everything would change the next day. What really amazes me about the difference between then and now is the omnipresent internet which was nowhere in my life at the time. I had only began to use it the year before in 1996 and in Germany my only access was in a special computer lab once a week.
The night of my twentieth birthday I was not online chatting with my friends in the motherland but rather locked in my room tripping on mushrooms by myself.
Eventually, I ended up wandering out into the park and if I remember correctly, I had a good time.
I don't remember my 21st birthday. Does anyone else remember it. I think I might not have one single friend in my life now that was there then - or maybe I just don't remember it because it was so fun. Actually maybe chris was there. Maybe (e:hodown) but I think she was in New York. Or maybe I was in Arizona? If only I had a journal. I think I was probably in Arizona.
Back to 2007 -
My blood pressure was ridiculous the other day. Although, in fairness I was really angry at the moment.
Last night we celebrated my birthday at my parents house.
My family got me so much candy. In fact (e:mike) wrapped my gift in candy. The gift was a set of these four keychains that attach to stuff you lose. Then when you press a button o the basestation the things make an alert noise so that you can find them. What a great idea. I wrote about it a while ago when I was on the plane to San Francisco to visit (e:twisted). They had them in the skymall magazine at the time.
(e:lilho), a big part of the last ten years.
Missing Image ;(
I love this vaio series. At over 4 pounds lighter than the macbook I think I will need one, once the tax returns come.
paul - 04/06/13 21:07
Ya I had a problem with candy. The things I got where you can hook them to four items and they beep when you press a button so you can't lose the item. Ya those things. I lost all four of them.
Ya I had a problem with candy. The things I got where you can hook them to four items and they beep when you press a button so you can't lose the item. Ya those things. I lost all four of them.
mike - 04/06/13 20:55
OMG no wonder you are having teeth issues now! I wrapped your gift in candy! you really did love candy!
OMG no wonder you are having teeth issues now! I wrapped your gift in candy! you really did love candy!
lilho - 01/22/07 16:26
aww, i get to be a big part of the last ten years? im holding out for a big part in the next ten years, will i have a speaking role?
aww, i get to be a big part of the last ten years? im holding out for a big part in the next ten years, will i have a speaking role?
iriesara - 01/22/07 14:34
Happy Birthday Paul! Been thinking bout you.... Hey I finally got a laptop, trying to figure out what I need to get to go on-line, but I'll be more of a fixture on EStrip once that happens! Also, Katrina's here (Elijah calls her the tsunami), she'll be staying with me for a couple of weeks. Hope everything is great! Have a great birthday; I wish I could've made the party! Maybe you three can come out here for my 30th in August! Lots of love!
Happy Birthday Paul! Been thinking bout you.... Hey I finally got a laptop, trying to figure out what I need to get to go on-line, but I'll be more of a fixture on EStrip once that happens! Also, Katrina's here (Elijah calls her the tsunami), she'll be staying with me for a couple of weeks. Hope everything is great! Have a great birthday; I wish I could've made the party! Maybe you three can come out here for my 30th in August! Lots of love!
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That's just a quarter of eternity in Mac time, haha!
Seriously, that is one of the craziest progress messages I've ever seen. And I've seen some crazy ones.
p.s. - your userpic looks way more serious since you went back to a mac.