Paul's Journal

01/18/2009 00:52 #47432

Beef Roast

Megan made a beef roast for dinner this evening. It had coriander
seeds on the outside. Tgey make for such a good taste. It was so
delicious. I finally got to use my silver roast serving tray and my
new electric knife, which (e:mike) got me for Jesus' birthday. They
really do work like magic.

tinypliny - 01/23/09 17:37
Nice tray!

01/17/2009 16:31 #47431

Buddha's hands at wegman's

I think I wrote about this once before when they were on sale but
called Buddha's fingers. I don't understand where the fruit is. It
looks like 90% pure rind. Seriously, who pays $14.99 for this. I
think $4.99 sounds like too much -they do look cool though.

tinypliny - 01/23/09 17:37
What a thing! I didn't know Buddha was a mutant!

metalpeter - 01/17/09 17:38
What a great store that place is, It really is. In terms of what those are I have no idea. It looks like though you get a lot of it in the bunch. Not that I buy Bananas but I think that instead of being sold by the pound they should be sold by the bunch.

01/17/2009 00:41 #47427

Playstation 3/Wii Youtube Interface
Category: web

Today, youtube came out with a playstation 3 and wii interface that is really well suited for television. I think it is also well suited for the computer as it is really streaminlined and nice.

Sadly, they don't make it available for viewing it on the computer.

But you can make it work on your computer.

The way they check is by checking your playstation 3 user agent. Luckily, you can make your computer pretend to be a platstation.

The playstation user agent is:
Mozilla/5.0 (PLAYSTATION 3; 2.00)

There a lot of different ways to fake your user agent. I am going over how to do it with Safari on mac.

First you need to enable the "develop" menu in Safari. To do this open the terminal application in /Applications/utilties/terminal.app. Then type the following into:

defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1

Once you do that, restart Safari and you will see a new "Develop" menu between the "Bookmarks" and "Window" menu. I know its weird because the command says IncludeDebugMenu and then you get a Develop menu, but just trust me. Click on Develop and choose, User Agent-> other from the drop down.

In the box that pops up type the Playstation 3 user agent from above.

Then visit the new youtube TV interface:
http://youtube.com/tv

Remember to switch back to the default safari user agent when you are done using the same menu.

kookcity2000 - 01/17/09 10:21
firefox people can use an add-in to change user agents :::link:::

01/16/2009 14:18 #47424

Wegman's empty parking lot

Last night I headed to wegman's to get some more of that tummy organic
sirloin but they were all out. Not just that, they were out of a
significant amount of organic things - even organic bananas. I wonder
if I just hit the down day or if more people buy organic now. I mean
I get why the organic wegmans brand peanut butter is out with that
salmonella scare, but why beef and bananas.

So the title of the journal has to do with this picture. I think it
is the first time I saw wegman's so empty. It was only like 9:30pm
but I guess it was like -5F

leetee - 01/17/09 01:05
Hmm.. i should start complaining when i don't find what i am looking for, then. I think Weggies has been out of a Boca product since just before the holidays...

vincent - 01/16/09 22:34
I went shopping after work on Tuesday to the Alberta Dr location. There are a few items that wanted to buy that were out of stock.

fing - 01/16/09 19:14
If you write to Wegman's they will do a better job keeping things in stock. We sent them a letter one time and they responded with a very nice letter. It was not the stupid corporate crap but rather a very heartfelt response. She even called to follow up later. Even if they don't carry something you would like they will do their best to get it. I think that most people due to the cold probably stocked up and are watching TV for the weekend.

theecarey - 01/16/09 18:00
that's funny, I was at my Wegmans yesterday, and it was so packed that I was annoyed being there. Seemed like someone was on my butt at every turn.

hodown - 01/16/09 15:07
I'm cold just looking at that picture.

janelle - 01/16/09 14:34
I buy ground pork every once in a while and I've noticed that there are only certain days that I can find it.

01/15/2009 01:08 #47412

Gayloch the blood elf
Category: warcraft

I just had a five minute conversation about work with gayloch, formerlly know as (e:terry), after which he told me he didn't hear me so much because he was too busy. Ya, too busy playing warcraft to interact with the people around him. The whole time he pretended to hear me by nodding and stuff until I asked a comprehension question which through him off.

Its not like other video games he used to play where he could pause. It is a totally consuming experience that transforms (e:Terry) into gayloch for like up to 12 hours at a time. What's worse is that if we do force him to stop he friends in the game get mad or worse yet, his family in las vegas who all play with him.

Should I have seen this coming. Well maybe with all the fantasy books and stuff, I just never thought it would be so totally consuming being a blood elf in world of war craft. Its like his total everything. I would rather that he be a drag queen. At least there would be more downtime.

He even has the dorktastic headgear now so that he can totally immerse himself in the experience. He thinks he is the only one that can hear the other dorks talking.

I have a feeling this is what he is going to look like just before (e:matthew) murders him someday.

tinypliny - 01/23/09 17:39
I don't get this fascination with the unreal world. Someone I once knew (but since has gone back to being a stranger) dropped out of high school and went broke due to this evil game. I guess murder is sometimes warranted.

metalpeter - 01/17/09 17:49
That was a great episode. Not sure if I remember how it ends. But what I think (e:Paul) might want to do is go find a place to play and get level ups (or what ever it is called to get stronger) All for the effect so you and a few friends can attack (e:Terry)'s character and slay him. Maybe even do funny lines through the head piece like "I just wanted to talk" "talking time is over" "Its time to die" Or if one of you gets hit real hard "Its mearly a flesh wound". HA.

imk2 - 01/16/09 20:47
oh...this is just like that south park episode. did you guys see it?

fing - 01/15/09 12:55
Sounds like you need some time based access lists ;)

lilho - 01/15/09 12:33
don't kill each other! im sure it will be better when it warms up, which is pretty much never... i swear some wives have threatened divorce because of wow.

theli - 01/15/09 10:54
I've played so many MMOs, for so long, that they've all started to run together in my mind.

I've played Ultima Online for a short period. Beta'd and played Anarchy Online and Shadowbane on and off. Played Dofus. (A french turn based strategic 2d MMO.) Messed around with Maple Story. And beta'd and/or played at least a dozen or more others. Including 9Dragon, for which I actually helped act as editor/proofreader for a portion of the help file translations. (Originally korean.)

Haven't been playing all that much in the past few years though. Although 2008 had some time spent in Azeroth, but I eventually dropped that. It's a fun game, but still just an MMO. And MMOs only really have value as long as you have fun and/or you have people you know that you really want to play and have a good time with.

Nowadays, I'm into this free (ie. cash shop) megaten MMO brought over from Japan by Aeria Games. Although I haven't had much time to play as I've spent almost all of my free time since NYD working on a firefox plugin to do basic word replacement to make interpreting japanese wikis on the game easier. (Almost done, just gotta fix this one last annoying problem... UGH)

Anyway, good luck on your attempts to grab their attention. If you're not used to this kind of game, it can really wreck you for a while.

enknot - 01/15/09 10:23
yeah I've been thinking about jumping back in too. Sill I've been trying a low budget lifestyle, and if all you play is WOW it kinda works to eat up tons of hours and provide even more tons of fun, but there are better things to do...though maybe not cheaper.

Otherwise, my friend Casey is video game addict and what would be a short jaunt into Asteroth for me would leave him stranded in that place for a very much longer time. I'd rather spend time with him in other ways. We're thinking about starting a podcast of nerdy proportions soon. If he were WOWin' out we'd never get anything done...

jason - 01/15/09 09:54
What Blizzard did was to reduce the maximum size of the raiding parties. This means that high end game content is available to more people, which is good because more people feel they are getting their money's worth.

Doing this also had the negative effect of making each one of those people in the raiding party *very* important, as well as hard to replace in a pinch because experience usually matters when raiding. One little mistake fucks people over.

On top of this Blizzard has made the game unbelievably fun and engaging. Millions and millions of people play world wide. The really, REALLY cool stuff in the game takes time and effort. This is a formula for addiction.

I realized I couldn't commit so much time because I had to focus more on professional development and getting my head straight. But now I admit I'd love to go and create a new character to try out some of the new areas of the game. Playing lower level toons is still really fun and doesn't take all day.

enknot - 01/15/09 07:56
I feel your pain (e:terry) and yours to (e:paul) and (e:matthew). That game is too good and soooo bad for everything else in life. I've seen peoples who pay to get into an event where u can play with other people in the room with your computer log onto Warcraft. Even after they moved their computer, monitor and all to some room and they could have done all that without leaving the house, or paying an entry fee.

Anytime u dudes wanna come over and Wario Ware or Rockband with us u let us know.