Paul's Journal

09/05/2010 22:53 #52663

Griffis Sculpture Park
Category: hiking

I really enjoyed the day at Griffis Sculpture Park with (e:matthew), (e:enknot), (e:keithT), (e:terry) and I went out down to the park.

(e:keith) had a hard time getting 3g so he went to the top of the tower

The white flowers are awesome.

Keith looks like he is having fun.

This is matthew from the tower

This statue was gigantic.

The palette hive was awesome. It seems like they nailed it together and then shaved it with a chain saw.

(e:keith) really loves a handful of metal

here is (e:Terry) as a monkey, you should have seen (e:keith)'s reach

(e:Terry) and (e:enknot) in a tree

Here is the KML file to track our path through the woods. I figured it would almost be impossible to find some of the stuff again without it. I forgot to track the part from the parking lot to the cement bags sculpture, the place where I started recording.

metalpeter - 09/06/10 16:17
Also looks like it was a good time, heard rumors that many brain cells died up there from lots of parting over the years

tinypliny - 09/06/10 12:44
It looks pretty morbid and disturbed.

paul - 09/06/10 11:25
Totally creepy. (e:keith) tried to convince me they killed hikers and stored them inside the statues.

jbeatty - 09/06/10 08:39
Such a fun hike. The heads all the way back in the woods are a little creepy though.

09/04/2010 18:28 #52656

injera and grapes
Category: rochester

I ate so many grapes at the Eastman house. Then we went out for Ethiopean vegan food. Not my favorite but not terrible although I am not a fan of the ace bandage resembling injera bread which is made of formented Teff. What it really needed was like goat or Lamb. I love that my phone thinks Lamb needs to be capitalized. I concur.

tinypliny - 09/09/10 19:23
I really want to make injera someday but it's tough to get right.

tinypliny - 09/04/10 21:31
You went to my favourite Ethiopian restaurant after a stroll through my favourite cemetary. My eyes have turned an unhealthy hue of green.

09/04/2010 18:18 #52655

Mt. Hope Cemetery
Category: rochester

This cemetary has some seriously old graves.
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tinypliny - 09/04/10 23:53
If there are two things I really miss, it's my almost daily walk through this beautiful and awe-inspiring cemetery and the HUGE summer farmer's market in Rochester.

uncutsaniflush - 09/04/10 22:39
It's one of my favie cemeteries in the world. And certainly my favie in Western NY.

tinypliny - 09/04/10 21:29
That's Mt. Hope Cemetery! You are in Rochester!

09/04/2010 01:13 #52650

Friday Night Bike Ride Through Buffalo
Category: biking

This was the first bike ride I went on since my bike was stolen at canisius college back in 2002.

At the end of the ride I tried to write my name in the Jew center parking lot via GPS but unfortunately I had the drop point set to every 16 ft so it just looks all curly. I will have to try again with shorter intervals.

In the last eight years I became quite a bit furrier and tonight I realized furry butt, tight jeans and bike seat aren't a good match. Maybe that's why people wear bike shorts.

09/03/2010 21:50 #52647

Revisiting Clipboard Security in IE
Category: computers

The day (e:samathon86) and I revisited the IE clipboard insecurity site

I made five years ago. Many IE users are still 100% vulnerable to this stupid exploit and it seems like no one cares. I bet a huge percentage of all IE users are. Basically, it lets a website read your clipboard in Internet Explorer if you don't have your setting set properly. The interesting part is that it allows the site to continue to read it in the background.

In fact I found it to be so extreme as to read the host OS clipboard while IE was running in a VM.

You can use the site to test your browser's vulnerability and turn it off. You are totally safe if you are using a browser besides IE, although I am wondering if flash presents a similar risk. I might check it out more this week.