Whenever we buy a tree they ask to trim it. That pile of trimmings becomes wreathes they then sell for like $20-$30 each. Seems like a rip off when they are already charging you like $60-$70 for the tree.
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12/13/2010 10:22 #53258
Our wreathCategory: holidays
12/12/2010 21:52 #53254
Linux vs MacCategory: computers
I tried to spend about 10 hours on a mac this weekend because I was thinking about trying to develop an estrip iphone app but I remember now why I switched back to linux. I just wish I could get a hardware accelerated mac virtual machine on my fedora box. Without the hardware acceleration I can't seem to get xcode to work or safari to run flash. I can't believe that's not possible yet. I makes me crazy.
hodown - 12/14/10 13:05
You're spending about zero hours on it this weekend because I'm coming for a Ho visit.
You're spending about zero hours on it this weekend because I'm coming for a Ho visit.
tinypliny - 12/12/10 23:44
Can you hack an iphone and put android on it?
Can you hack an iphone and put android on it?
paul - 12/12/10 22:48
That is what I do, lol. I have had an estrip app for android store for months.. The problem is that terry and matt have an iphone and my brother might end up with one too. The way it works on the iphone you have to email the pics to your blogs. I found it trivially easy but matt refuses to use it. Unfortunately, to make an app for the iphone I have to pay $100 for an apple developer acct and then I still don't even know if the app will get accepted.
That is what I do, lol. I have had an estrip app for android store for months.. The problem is that terry and matt have an iphone and my brother might end up with one too. The way it works on the iphone you have to email the pics to your blogs. I found it trivially easy but matt refuses to use it. Unfortunately, to make an app for the iphone I have to pay $100 for an apple developer acct and then I still don't even know if the app will get accepted.
tinypliny - 12/12/10 22:10
How else do people develop apps then? Maybe you should develop apps for android and ditch the iphone.
How else do people develop apps then? Maybe you should develop apps for android and ditch the iphone.
12/12/2010 21:05 #53252
Paul Visco on TwitterCategory: web
So I figured seeing as I joined facebook, I might as well also join twitter. Twitter always irritated me the most because I wanted to start something similar my second year into estrip and everyone told me it was stupid and no one would want to write about everything they were doing.
Same thing with my mobile restaurant review site from 2003-04. I guess I was just on mobile internet before it caught and then got totally consumed by my job at Roswell by 2005. If only times had been different or I had lived in a more online city. Not that I hate what I am doing or anything but I just feel it could have all been so different.
So the real point was that when I went to go sign up for twitter I chose the account name paulsidekick and it told me someone already had it. I was so pissed because I use that name for everything. Its like Tony's enknot for me.
So I went to go check it out and it was me after all. Apparently, I signed up in May of 2008 for twitter and just forgot about it. Either than or another paulsidekick was waiting for terry to get home with money.
The thing is I can't figure out how this ties into my much more interestingly described weekend on estrip (e:paul,44454) or any of the month of may where I don't mention twitter at all
Same thing with my mobile restaurant review site from 2003-04. I guess I was just on mobile internet before it caught and then got totally consumed by my job at Roswell by 2005. If only times had been different or I had lived in a more online city. Not that I hate what I am doing or anything but I just feel it could have all been so different.
So the real point was that when I went to go sign up for twitter I chose the account name paulsidekick and it told me someone already had it. I was so pissed because I use that name for everything. Its like Tony's enknot for me.
So I went to go check it out and it was me after all. Apparently, I signed up in May of 2008 for twitter and just forgot about it. Either than or another paulsidekick was waiting for terry to get home with money.
The thing is I can't figure out how this ties into my much more interestingly described weekend on estrip (e:paul,44454) or any of the month of may where I don't mention twitter at all
metalpeter - 12/13/10 19:01
I don't have a twitter so I don't know how but I know there is a way you can set it up (assuming you want it that way) so anything you post there it then sends to facebook or maybe you have to like click a button some of the people who have both I'm sure could tell you how to do it.............. I think what it would be best used for is like mobile photos......
I don't have a twitter so I don't know how but I know there is a way you can set it up (assuming you want it that way) so anything you post there it then sends to facebook or maybe you have to like click a button some of the people who have both I'm sure could tell you how to do it.............. I think what it would be best used for is like mobile photos......
lilho - 12/13/10 13:55
i would like to have you know i have twitter and hate it, and still dont have facebook. i dont really care what other people are doing, unless it pertains to me. or if they are celebs, but i care less about that as time goes on as well.
i would like to have you know i have twitter and hate it, and still dont have facebook. i dont really care what other people are doing, unless it pertains to me. or if they are celebs, but i care less about that as time goes on as well.
lilho - 12/13/10 13:54
i love your blog, and i feel you deserve fame and wealth. just bring me along as a groupie. don't stop working towards your empire if tech glory.....
i love your blog, and i feel you deserve fame and wealth. just bring me along as a groupie. don't stop working towards your empire if tech glory.....
tinypliny - 12/12/10 22:12
Somehow that tweet is so funny - like you were a 50s thrifty housewife who would manage the husband's money. lol
Somehow that tweet is so funny - like you were a 50s thrifty housewife who would manage the husband's money. lol
tinypliny - 12/12/10 22:07
I decided to not give anyone short and timely messages and deleted my twitter account recently. (e:tinypliny,53146)
I decided to not give anyone short and timely messages and deleted my twitter account recently. (e:tinypliny,53146)
12/12/2010 20:41 #53251
Facebook and TerroristsCategory: web
I was reading about the swedish suicide bomber story and they mentioned he had a link to a facebook group that had burning towers as their profile pic. So I looked them up and sure enough, it exists. Then I realized I must have still had facebook login cookie set which probably they have now profiled me as a terrorist. I hate facebook already.
Apparently, he had a swedish wife and left behind children. It seems so insane to me that anyone would care enough about anything not directly happening to them, to want to blow themselves up.
This guy doesn't fit the hollywood driven vision of what a terrorist should look like at all. I found it interesting that it also mentions he was seeking a second wife at muslima.com There is a site for everything now.
and they mentioned he had a link to a facebook group that had burning towers as their profile pic. So I looked them up and sure enough, it exists. Then I realized I must have still had facebook login cookie set which probably they have now profiled me as a terrorist. I hate facebook already.Apparently, he had a swedish wife and left behind children. It seems so insane to me that anyone would care enough about anything not directly happening to them, to want to blow themselves up.
This guy doesn't fit the hollywood driven vision of what a terrorist should look like at all. I found it interesting that it also mentions he was seeking a second wife at muslima.com There is a site for everything now.
tinypliny - 12/12/10 21:57
Sounds like he was a "Sleeper". He totally fits the Spooks criteria for a terrorist suicide bomber. Spooks occasionally gets it right even thought the plotlines are so unbelievably insane and ludicrous.
Sounds like he was a "Sleeper". He totally fits the Spooks criteria for a terrorist suicide bomber. Spooks occasionally gets it right even thought the plotlines are so unbelievably insane and ludicrous.
12/12/2010 16:35 #53248
Mike at his happiestCategory: shopping
He gets so excited about anything glitter based.
We spent the whole day christmas shopping for my parents at best buy. I hope they like their gift.
Then we went to pick out a tree for my mom at Adams. My father is done with real trees but my mom still wants one so my father asked me to get one for my mom. (e:mike) and I are really useless at making decisions like which tree is the best one to buy.
We spent the whole day christmas shopping for my parents at best buy. I hope they like their gift.
Then we went to pick out a tree for my mom at Adams. My father is done with real trees but my mom still wants one so my father asked me to get one for my mom. (e:mike) and I are really useless at making decisions like which tree is the best one to buy.
I bet that'd make one really artistic wreath. Just gather every thing up. Smear a round cardboard piece with adhesive and glitter and drop all the branches on it. They will stick in a random unique pattern and et voila!