Weekly goals unmet:
Getting to sleep earlier during weeknights. I paid for it yesterday, as I had wanted to go to Diablo for 80's night but had to pass as I was on the verge of coming down with something and needed to opt for sleep instead, passing out on my couch ~ 9:45PM. Last weekend when I had attend to lots of non-fun chores, I told myself that I'd make it up to myself this weekend. Well, I blew it during this week and as most fun things in Buffalo seem to happen on fridays, I've shot myself in the foot. I'll try to turn this negative into a positive, and take it as an example of why I need to save up my good health on the weekdays to spend on the weekends.
So next week, when it's 11:30 at night and I'm currently in the process of teaching myself Ruby on Rails while simulataneously using wikipedia to figure out the correlation between the ages of major impact craters and mass extinctions while simultaneously seeing if I have any new Myspace messages while simultaneously trying to figure out whether the cute girl from Colden on the internet dating site would really be interested in me, I will be able to use what I learned this weekend to put everything down and turn in early.
Weekly goals met:
I managed to go a whole week eating a healthy lunch at work instead of going for fast food on my break. For five consecutive days, I ate a peanut butter sandwich with natural (i.e. less sugar) peanut butter on whole wheat bread and had a crisp braeburn apple for dessert. This whole thing started both as me trying to get better about regularizing my life as well as my doctor's insistance that triglycerides (aka "The Family Curse" aka "Cholesterol Death by Jolly Rancher" ) needed to go way down. I actually followed this same basic lunch pattern in high school and reaped all of the health benefits from it then, but I fell out of the habit in college via freshman 15. My haiku yesterday was about my biggest challenge yet: having to sit in my cubicle and stay good while I had to smell my coworkers indulging in their take-out. I prevailed, so yay me!
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04/21/2007 05:48 #38986
Goals unmet and metCategory: goals
04/20/2007 10:42 #38970
Standing my groundCategory: random
They order chinese.
Though Moo goo gai pan's tasty
I'll hold like a wall.
Though Moo goo gai pan's tasty
I'll hold like a wall.
museumchick - 04/21/07 15:38
It would be tough to avoid that- it sounds really good. That's really awesome that you stuck to your diet.
It would be tough to avoid that- it sounds really good. That's really awesome that you stuck to your diet.
museumchick - 04/20/07 16:03
hmm...what's in moo goo gai pan?
hmm...what's in moo goo gai pan?
04/14/2007 18:43 #38887
Debugging updateCategory: programming
When I finish my long "stop estrip from crashing on Safari" journey, I'll probably write a long post about it with all the stupid details. But for the time being, I'll probably use this journal to keep track of how far long I am.
Step 1 Summary
Yesterday, I fired up my powerbook in a fresh reboot and ran only Safari with e-strip loaded on it without having visited any prior sites. I left the machine to sit there idly the entire day I was at work. When I came home and turned on the monitor, I see a crash dialog.
From this experiment, I can most likely conclude that there's nothing special I have to do, such as being in the middle of a post or writing a comment, for Safari to crash on (e:strip). And this is great, which means that there's a lot less slightly different iterations of things I'm going to have to test to get the crashes to happen.
Step 2 will being fashioning a simple, estrip only web browser with webkit, the underpinnings of Safari, and that browser to estrip and leaving it and seeing if it crashes. If it doesn't crash, then that likely means there's some problem with the Safari executable itself and the webkit libraries it uses are okay, although I think that is pretty unlikely.
Step 1 Summary
Yesterday, I fired up my powerbook in a fresh reboot and ran only Safari with e-strip loaded on it without having visited any prior sites. I left the machine to sit there idly the entire day I was at work. When I came home and turned on the monitor, I see a crash dialog.
From this experiment, I can most likely conclude that there's nothing special I have to do, such as being in the middle of a post or writing a comment, for Safari to crash on (e:strip). And this is great, which means that there's a lot less slightly different iterations of things I'm going to have to test to get the crashes to happen.
Step 2 will being fashioning a simple, estrip only web browser with webkit, the underpinnings of Safari, and that browser to estrip and leaving it and seeing if it crashes. If it doesn't crash, then that likely means there's some problem with the Safari executable itself and the webkit libraries it uses are okay, although I think that is pretty unlikely.
carolinian - 04/14/07 21:31
I believe I've narrowed it down to the area of code responsible for deleting user pics from the "peeps online" selection. I suspect that if you have a crash and then you immediately go back to estrip, you will see fewer userpics (or different ones) than you would have seen right before the crash.
But I'll need to do more testing before I can say for sure that this is it.
I believe I've narrowed it down to the area of code responsible for deleting user pics from the "peeps online" selection. I suspect that if you have a crash and then you immediately go back to estrip, you will see fewer userpics (or different ones) than you would have seen right before the crash.
But I'll need to do more testing before I can say for sure that this is it.
james - 04/14/07 21:16
I have had safari crash on this site twice. Both times while I was writing something.
But this is weird.
I have had safari crash on this site twice. Both times while I was writing something.
But this is weird.
04/13/2007 19:49 #38880
Romantic Spam Bots Part DeuxCategory: love
Another message of interest from an admirer of the silicon variety, this time from match.com
"Here it is possible to write everyone about yourself much, but I think the person it is possible to learn well only then when you will communicate to him some time!"
She looks like Jennifer Aniston but she talks like Borat. I'd have thought the Russian hackers would have spent the extra ruples for some content that almost resembles passable english. If I got a message titled "I need big strong man to pull plow" I could at least give them a few brownie points for humor.
"Here it is possible to write everyone about yourself much, but I think the person it is possible to learn well only then when you will communicate to him some time!"
She looks like Jennifer Aniston but she talks like Borat. I'd have thought the Russian hackers would have spent the extra ruples for some content that almost resembles passable english. If I got a message titled "I need big strong man to pull plow" I could at least give them a few brownie points for humor.
metalpeter - 04/14/07 17:03
Well most Russian girls don't look like Jennifer Aniston, Yes she is very hot but Russian girls more often look like that hot little tennis girl. Wow I would so let Anna rape me for hours at a time, but that is off point. I'm not sure how the scam works but I have a guess that it will some point come down to you sending money so they can fly here or pay for documents so she can leave the country. But the thing is the bad english makes it more legit. For people who are into forgein girls part of that is how they talk. The sterotypical russian speak is very hot on a sexy babe. The way they talk sounds simalar in other countries that use that same kind of language. If they used good "American" or any kind of english it would sound as if someone else was writing it. The other thing is would read like is that they are highly educated. If I'm someone who wants a hot russian bride I don't want her educated she is my trophy and sex machine. But if highly educated then she is a threat.
Well most Russian girls don't look like Jennifer Aniston, Yes she is very hot but Russian girls more often look like that hot little tennis girl. Wow I would so let Anna rape me for hours at a time, but that is off point. I'm not sure how the scam works but I have a guess that it will some point come down to you sending money so they can fly here or pay for documents so she can leave the country. But the thing is the bad english makes it more legit. For people who are into forgein girls part of that is how they talk. The sterotypical russian speak is very hot on a sexy babe. The way they talk sounds simalar in other countries that use that same kind of language. If they used good "American" or any kind of english it would sound as if someone else was writing it. The other thing is would read like is that they are highly educated. If I'm someone who wants a hot russian bride I don't want her educated she is my trophy and sex machine. But if highly educated then she is a threat.
chico - 04/14/07 10:00
LOL ... "big strong man to pull plow" made me guffaw. Wickedly funny.
LOL ... "big strong man to pull plow" made me guffaw. Wickedly funny.
04/12/2007 22:33 #38871
Who You WantCategory: love
To expand on (e:metalpeter)'s theme of the day...
If she likes homemade mojitos
And gettin' caught in the rain
If she roots for the Sabres
But is okay with the 'Canes
If she likes Saturday lunches, at the India Gate
Then she's likely the woman that I'd probably date.
Just random pieces of doggerel floating through my mind. Move along, nothing to see here...
If she likes homemade mojitos
And gettin' caught in the rain
If she roots for the Sabres
But is okay with the 'Canes
If she likes Saturday lunches, at the India Gate
Then she's likely the woman that I'd probably date.
Just random pieces of doggerel floating through my mind. Move along, nothing to see here...
metalpeter - 04/14/07 16:52
I admit I'm not into poetry but that one isn't to bad, or in other words it is good.
I admit I'm not into poetry but that one isn't to bad, or in other words it is good.
Hahah... I love seeing you say "yay me!" :) Yay, you!
I totally hear you on the natural pb. I've started eating that here, since Publix has a natural one on their house brand. The label says:
Ingredients: peanuts and salt
Contains Peanut Ingredients
I think it wins the title of Most Redundantly Labeled Product in Our Pantry.
I hear you on the diet thing. For this month I've given up on my traditional breakfast: bacon, eggs, homefries, sausage ect. I've went back to the basics when I was in school and started my day with 2 scoops of Raisin Bran.
The only downside is that where I work, breakfasat is the best meal that they serve. The garbage they they serve for lunch and dinner is just scary. That is why I never tell anyone to eat at the buffet @ the Casino, since the food comes from the same kitchen.
Congratulations!