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02/18/2011 09:54 #53638

Family bowl
Category: food
Its the name I gave my new favorite egg and chicken bowl. I paired it with an artichoke heart salad.

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libertad - 02/18/11 18:31
These meals would explain partly why you're losing weight. Very healthy looking though.
flacidness - 02/18/11 12:32
That looks really. Did you eat all that yourself?
tinypliny - 02/18/11 10:06
I am not all that sure... You might be infringing on the Family Dollar.

02/18/2011 09:52 #53637

Church of the ascension parking and plow
Category: church of the ascension
Now that the snow is finally melting you can see how much of the grass they had been plowing and parking on.

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Update: here you can see what matthew is talking about.

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They also stopped putting their trash bins in their corral which has lead to this:

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matthew - 02/18/11 13:42
The driving on the lawn, plus that fact that they never raked any of their leaves off of the lawn last fall, means it's gonna be one huge, disgusting, muddy pit this spring. I wish the members of the church of the ascension would take more pride in the building and grounds. Can't it just become condos already?
tinypliny - 02/18/11 10:07
I wonder if anyone (in power) is paying attention to this. You should take all these posts and send it to the city office.

02/18/2011 09:50 #53636

3am computer drama
Category: computers
When I first got a second harddrive for my laptop I decided to use dd and clone the current one instead of starting from scratch. This was never really an issue because I booted separately from the BIOS and the two shared no data.

Then yesterday at 1am I was testing with lvm when I decided to try and mount the second encrypted drive on the first. Needless to say this cause major drama and they have the same everything. I tried to change the volgroup name on the second one and it changed it on the first one too. This ended up leaving both systems a bit trashed. It was really late and I was so tired. Luckily, I had a boot disk and was able to resolve the issue from there.

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paul - 02/18/11 12:44
No it was just unreachable. I was able to restore it.
flacidness - 02/18/11 12:30
I really wish I knew what that means. But im glad you fixed it :)
tinypliny - 02/18/11 10:06
What do you mean trashed? Like in lost data?!

02/15/2011 17:44 #53619

Dear Google, I am sad about my lack of CR-48
Category: computers
I have spent the last couple years evangelising the awesomeness of google, android and their other products to everyone I know. I am one of those people that influence a lot of other people's technical decisions as they come to me for support and advice.

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I used to be the guy who tried to convince everyone that asked me to buy a mac. Then they became why too restricted. I dropped the iphone and switched to the google Nexus One. I was so committed to the switch and the idea of having a pure android phone I even shelled over the $570 for one directly from google. At the same time I dropped the macbook pro in favor of a Dell running Fedora.

The problem is Fedora, and linux in general, does not seem to be easy enough for me to suggest it to the same non-tech savy people I would suggest a mac to. That is unless it is paired with hardware that works good with it, like the laptop (e:tinypliny) wanted to order from system76 There is something to be said for laptops that come with an OS specifically taylored for them. E.g. the macs. Having people get macs generally solved the spy ware virus drama everyone seemed to run into with porn, file sharing, etc and reduce the number of support questions I get.

I was really hoping that I would get a google CR-48 for testing so that I could tell those same people to hang in there and wait for a google chrome OS netbook. I applied a couple months back but have heard nothing. Then (e:chris) got his today ;( I am so jealous. The idea of a simple web based OS sounds perfect for me on the go and most data consumers I know. Unfortunately, I have not made the list so far.

lilho - 02/16/11 10:29
K so I need a new laptop... What to get?
lilho - 02/16/11 10:29
K so I need a new laptop... What to get?
heidi - 02/15/11 19:21
boooo!!!

Can we have another nerd session with (e:chris)?

(e:tinypliny) - the noun form is "second" - Can I get a second on this motion? :::link:::(parliamentary_procedure)
tinypliny - 02/15/11 18:22
Is the noun for seconding - secondment? It might be...
tinypliny - 02/15/11 18:21
And I think (e:chris) got one no doubt because of his website and not because of any developing and testing advantage.
tinypliny - 02/15/11 18:20
Man, I can't believe you didn't get one! You would have been so perfect. Can you apply again? And send this letter and your site with it!!! Did you write the essay why you were the most ideal candidate for the netbook?? I would totally second your application if they needed a seconding.

02/14/2011 21:21 #53613

Android Me
Category: mobile
There is this new app for android called androidify where you can make an android version of yourself.

This is me. If only they had a tortoise pet option.

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flacidness - 02/15/11 14:29
That is super cute. Leave it to you to find something like this. Hee hee
tinypliny - 02/15/11 00:29
you have antennae on your head?
tinypliny - 02/15/11 00:28
hehehe @the shoes