Paul's Journal

12/03/2009 10:08 #50445

Bold statement
Category: computers

This is a pretty bold statement. I wonder what all the stipulations
are?

uncutsaniflush - 12/03/09 11:37
You have to get a Exadata V2 setup. Here's a article from the Register about it. :::link:::

jim - 12/03/09 11:04
Oracle is heavily optimized for Sun Sparc multi-proc chips and Solaris. That's why Oracle bought Sun after all... but still 2x is pretty serious claim.

joshua - 12/03/09 10:55
They must have tested this over and over.

12/02/2009 11:56 #50435

My eye and the plant
Category: nature

My one eye is red. I hope it's just irritated and not pink eye. On
another note, I know I don't clean the sink traps enough but this one
actually has a plant growing in it.

flacidness - 12/03/09 03:14
oh Dip!Thats awesome (not the eye) which sink is it??

paul - 12/02/09 19:38
(e:matthew) said it is from the bird seed. strangely it is growing a little chunk of soap. I guess plants are stronger than germs.

mike - 12/02/09 18:08
that is in your house? insane

lauren - 12/02/09 15:08
haha that's hilarious. the plant that is, not your eye.

11/29/2009 18:43 #50408

Freaking sick
Category: body

I finally got sick. This is the first time I got sick this year, so on one hand it's awesome. On the other hand it sucks because I am sick. It was fine this morning and it just kept getting worse. Hopefully, it's not pig fever...

lilho - 11/30/09 09:06
fell better boo boo! xoxo

zobar - 11/29/09 20:15
(e:dragonlady7) got walloped the night before Thanksgiving and I got walloped the night after ... eight to twelve hours of not being able to move your head, even the slightest bit, under penalty of puking. Diabolical. The only remedy we came up with was warm flat Coke.

- Z

11/29/2009 14:50 #50404

Chocolate mint oolong tea
Category: food

We went to betty's for brunch and they had chocolate mint oolong tea
that was so delicious. Especially, when paired with sugar in the raw.

metalpeter - 11/30/09 19:43
That sounds great

lilho - 11/30/09 09:06
sounds tasty.

tinypliny - 11/29/09 17:22
Now that is interesing... I need to check out this brand of tea (though I don't like mint; everything sweet with mint in tastes like toothpaste to me).

11/27/2009 23:00 #50391

Dead in a cave
Category: web

I was reading the news earlier about this guy who died in a cave after being stuck for 24 hours on thanksgiving. I feel bad for his family, etc but I can't help but wonder what the heck he was doing as a 6' 190 lb man in a 10" by 18" chute with a turn. The cave has multiple areas where you can inch along by squeezing your body through tubes that do not really fit humans very well. One of them is over 100'feet long.

This is the official website of the cave called nutty putty.

Here is the PDF map of the "trail"

The story is so sad. I can't imagine being trapped for so long, being pulled up 12 feet and then falling back into the rut.

Instead of getting him out they are talking about just sealing the cave off with the body inside.

tinypliny - 11/29/09 17:27
"Nutty Putty Cave What type of people like to squeeze through tight passages underground?"

From :::link:::

Yes. What type, indeed.

lilho - 11/29/09 00:07
that is so horrible. i can't even imagine.