I think the thing about Mac OS X is it doesn't have the same sense of humor about itself that Windows does.
Like seriously what does this even mean? Does it go into a larger Recycle Bin? C:/Windows/Dumpster?
Maybe it puts the Recycle Bin into itself, and you get Mobius trash.*
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For those who thought: 'wouldn't that make it Klein trash?' I bring you Acme Klein Bottles home of the Klein Stein and the Mobius Scarf
tinypliny - 10/26/08 22:58 I say this is a coup attempt by a coder to show the world that M$ doesn't care about recycling. Corporations will go to inordinate lengths to prove that they are concerned about recycling, when in reality, they don't give a damn. (eg. Roswell). By coding in the "delete" - that for some reason, slipped by unnoticed, s/he obviously made a subtle point about the willingness of M$ to compromise on issues such as recycling.
Yeah, this is a employee discontent and sarcasm statement.
zobar - 10/26/08 14:17 It takes the Recycle Bin off your desktop and you spend a half hour trying to figure out how to get it back.
1. Why a shaker top? What kind of deranged individual shakes whole black peppercorns onto their food? I can think of two recipes* that call for whole black peppercorns, and when I make them I usually just pour them out of the top of the pepper grinder.
2. The copy on the label which is probably too blurry to read, says
These are the highly regarded Tellicherry peppercorns from India...
You don't mean the highly regarded Tellicherry peppercorns from India?! You mean the ones everyone has been talking about down at the Pepper Club? You mean the ones that won Pepper Spectator's most prestigious "Highly Regarded" award in 2003 and 2004? Wow, that must be some pepper.
- Z
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Corned beef, and poached salmon.
tinypliny - 10/24/08 17:46 You're totally taking external help from a related (e:strip)per. For the record I don't think that's fair. Like, AT ALL.
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zobar - 10/24/08 15:24 Oh right! I knew there was a point to this.
- Z
dragonlady7 - 10/24/08 13:12 But this is Wegman's brand pepper. The Wegmans target market shakes whole peppercorns, without grinding them, directly into their food? On a regular enough basis that they wouldn't bother with a dispenser or grinder, but would just shake it directly from the bottle?
Z had to come get me to pry the shaker top off so he could pour it into his pepper grinder, because I have fingernails and he doesn't.
ajay - 10/23/08 23:07 1. Most Indian recipes call for whole peppercorns.
2. Grind up half of the peppercorns in that bottle. Sprinkle it all on top of 2 fried eggs, over hard. Add a little bit of salt. Make a sammich. That's how I eat my fried eggs every day.
zobar - 10/23/08 21:32 It took you nine seconds to type 'is?'
tinypliny - 10/23/08 20:34 Everything's fair in love and war. I am hard at both on (e:strip), so there!
Hehehehe, I got another one. 8-D
zobar - 10/23/08 20:30 You're doubling up on comments. For the record I don't think that's fair.
- Z
tinypliny - 10/23/08 20:18 BTW Tons of Indian dishes (and almost all South Indian dishes from this particular area) call for whole peppercorns. :)
tinypliny - 10/23/08 20:16 Hahahha... That made me snort tea up my nose.
But yeah, Thalassery is famous for its spices in Kerala. It's about 70 - 80 miles (I think) away from where I am originally from. :)
10/21/2008 23:17 #46242
bulletin! Category: food
You can make hot dogs in the Toast-R-Oven. If I'da known this ten years ago, college would have been very different.
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james - 10/22/08 08:36 I used to make macaroni and cheese in an electric kettle. And it made college AMAZING!
tinypliny - 10/21/08 23:28 Hmmm... life in college might have been different had I known about the existence of a device popular here. The microwave oven.
10/20/2008 21:19 #46217
youtube roundup Category: a series of tubes
...or, an easy way to waste one hour, three minutes, and 49 seconds of your life.
There's actually a lot of pretty cool stuff on YouTube. But how come when I'm bored all I can find is Japanese gameshows?
First we've got some Scottish dude with a pianozookelele singing Europe's 'The Final Countdown.'
Which led me to these Latvian dudes rocking out with their cellos out. [Yes I've heard of Apocalyptica.]
Here's some other Latvian dudes for whom walking is just too boring. [fast forward two minutes]
And then I spent like a couple hours watching Flight of the Conchords videos.
This guy over here isn't on YouTube but he listened to 'Dancing Queen' on Repeat One for an entire four-hour road trip -- and then got stuck in traffic for another hour. I don't know why.
- Z
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You wanted Japanese gameshows? Like for reals? Fine, here's Marshmallow Eater, What a Cool We Are, Silent Library, cat weightlifting, Door Runner, and Brain Wall keeping the treadmill and ice water industries in business. I can only imagine what kind of poor life decisions turn you into a recurring character on these shows.
tinypliny - 10/21/08 23:24 Yikers, you are like a youtube über-sucked-in-watcher! :D
dragonlady7 - 10/20/08 21:27 Melo-M is cooler than Apocalyptica, because while Apocalyptica works the Finnish death-metal vibe, Melo-M instead has that frenetic hardcore Baltic dorky vibe, which I much prefer.
Also I never heard Apocalyptica do a cover of "Take On Me", which has just needed to happen.
10/19/2008 23:36 #46204
why don't i hate vista?
I was feeling adventurous last week so I managed to install Windows Vista Ultimate on my MacBook. It's certainly got its share of annoyances but I don't understand why everybody seems to hate it so much.
Installation was much less painful than xp. In particular, that first software update after a fresh install was a hundred times easier- only had to update & reboot once rather than a half dozen times.
Graphics performance: I've got a totally weak Intel 945 'integrated graphics chipset.' I'm running the full Aero interface and, weirdly enough, it hasn't exploded yet.
Memory consumption: I've got 1GB, the minimum recommended. Memory usage is pretty high but it seems roughly comparable to Mac OS X. If I were doing more than testing websites I'd probably be more concerned.
This is a weird one: it keeps 'asking for permission.' When you click 'more details' all it shows is a UUID. I know from context what it's doing, but seriously people. In general, though, I've noticed much fewer weird geeky error messages than xp.
Graphics design: one thumb up for improved controls and icons, one thumb down for the over-the-top window decorations. I like how the folder icons are stuffed with the actual icons of the folder's contents.
Graphics technology: much improved over xp. Text is super-crisp, and that frosted glass effect, while annoying, is pretty impressive.
Screen savers: What happened to the series of tubes?
- Z
tinypliny - 10/20/08 19:23 I didn't like Vista because it was too memory intensive. Plus all those "asking for permissions" almost drove me to smash a rock through my monitor because it got to a point where I was being asked to confirm 20 times for one single thing! I turned off most of the confirmations but some were still popping up. It was frustrating to the max - like having a overbearing parent who doubts your ability to do anything right and asks you a zillion times whether you want to be where you are. I mod and tweak all my installations a lot and delete a lot of windoze components that I never use, but Vista didn't let me do that in a smooth fashion. For zikes sake, don't treat your users like they are from planet "not-only-am-I-dumb-but-also-stoned".
jason - 10/20/08 08:56 Yes, you're probably right, 2GB is pretty much the real minimum if you want to do anything meaningful.
One really funky thing with UAT, in case you haven't seen it yet, is when you get asked for permission when you view source. Ta da!
zobar - 10/19/08 23:51 I haven't gotten that one yet. Maybe I'm already elevated enough. (-:
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paul - 10/19/08 23:49 I love the error when it says you need elevation to continue instead of saying elevated privileges. I agree though, it is better than XP.
home of the Klein Stein 
I say this is a coup attempt by a coder to show the world that M$ doesn't care about recycling. Corporations will go to inordinate lengths to prove that they are concerned about recycling, when in reality, they don't give a damn. (eg. Roswell). By coding in the "delete" - that for some reason, slipped by unnoticed, s/he obviously made a subtle point about the willingness of M$ to compromise on issues such as recycling.
Yeah, this is a employee discontent and sarcasm statement.
It takes the Recycle Bin off your desktop and you spend a half hour trying to figure out how to get it back.
- Z
So what does happen?