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04/03/2011 22:55 #53975
Dare to be mikeCategory: family
(e:mike) has been dare since the day he was introduced to it. This is the cutest pic. Just look at his poofy hair and how happy he is with his nonna. Its so hard to imagine him that little now.
04/03/2011 10:58 #53965
Baked turkey nugget saladCategory: food
This was so delicious. The blackberries made me want summertime so bad.
paul - 04/03/11 12:56
Its baked breaded turkey breast, butterleaf lettuce, several kinds of olives, cooked string beans, blackberries, celery, fresh mozzarella, olive and coconut oil, lemon juice, herbed salt.
Its baked breaded turkey breast, butterleaf lettuce, several kinds of olives, cooked string beans, blackberries, celery, fresh mozzarella, olive and coconut oil, lemon juice, herbed salt.
tinypliny - 04/03/11 12:25
What else is in there? I can see green olives, celery, black olive? Is that bok choy?
What else is in there? I can see green olives, celery, black olive? Is that bok choy?
04/02/2011 20:21 #53964
Trip to WegmansCategory: food
I saw the produce Guy out and aabout with a crate of beans. So, instead of taking the old stringbean pickovers that were left out I waited for him to put the new ones out. It was so worth it. Look how freaking green and yummy they look. Its like summer.
Also, my favorite tuna in the glass jar is back. No need to trek out to the Orchard Park Wegmans anymore.
Also, my favorite tuna in the glass jar is back. No need to trek out to the Orchard Park Wegmans anymore.
libertad - 04/04/11 10:50
Mike and I had green beans 3 nights in a row. You certainly lucked out on those as we had a hard time buying them. Actually we went to 7-8 different stores looking for the perfect chicken to fry for my Dad's birthday and most of the stores we went to the green beans were completely picked over. Price Rite had the nastiest beans of them all but it is where I picked up the best frying chicken.
Mike and I had green beans 3 nights in a row. You certainly lucked out on those as we had a hard time buying them. Actually we went to 7-8 different stores looking for the perfect chicken to fry for my Dad's birthday and most of the stores we went to the green beans were completely picked over. Price Rite had the nastiest beans of them all but it is where I picked up the best frying chicken.
KeithT - 04/03/11 12:10
It must be super inconvenient to have to travel from south buffalo to allen town all the time....lol :P
It must be super inconvenient to have to travel from south buffalo to allen town all the time....lol :P
tinypliny - 04/03/11 10:06
I bought super-greeeeeeeeen beans too. I am usually very excited when I spot produce people coming in with new stuff. In fact, I am friends with the main produce king at pricerite (who was in the Buffalo United Artists version of this play btw: :::link:::) because I constantly hover around to see if I can get newer produce.
I bought super-greeeeeeeeen beans too. I am usually very excited when I spot produce people coming in with new stuff. In fact, I am friends with the main produce king at pricerite (who was in the Buffalo United Artists version of this play btw: :::link:::) because I constantly hover around to see if I can get newer produce.
04/02/2011 14:56 #53963
Energy and AdvertismentsCategory: web
It seems like there is this never ending race for more bandwidth. Some of it is necessary to facilitate things like HD video, immersion gaming technology, etc. At the same time so much of it is totally wasted on web ads. Think about all of the news sites you visit. How much of the downloaded data is actually content and how much is simply bandwidth wasted, click the dancing monkey, buy this new software bullshit.
I feel like they are getting so much worse. What starts out generally as a header or footer ad, slowly turns into a third column of ads, then ads between each article and worst of all, ads that float down on top of the content and force you to close them in order to read the actual content.
Its not just bandwidth, it is energy being wasted. Its sick when you consider how much of it is not ever recognized by the user and then how much energy it takes. I would love to see a study of the energy used to produce web ads seen by a user for a year in terms of coal usage, etc. Not only is it bad for the environment and its very bad for your laptops battery life.
Having a browser with a flash blocking plugin helps, but with the move to HTML5 this is going to be increasingly difficult to block.
I feel like they are getting so much worse. What starts out generally as a header or footer ad, slowly turns into a third column of ads, then ads between each article and worst of all, ads that float down on top of the content and force you to close them in order to read the actual content.
Its not just bandwidth, it is energy being wasted. Its sick when you consider how much of it is not ever recognized by the user and then how much energy it takes. I would love to see a study of the energy used to produce web ads seen by a user for a year in terms of coal usage, etc. Not only is it bad for the environment and its very bad for your laptops battery life.
Having a browser with a flash blocking plugin helps, but with the move to HTML5 this is going to be increasingly difficult to block.
tinypliny - 04/03/11 18:38
Nevermind. Seems to be some other problem. As soon as I removed firefox, chrome has started dragging as well.
Nevermind. Seems to be some other problem. As soon as I removed firefox, chrome has started dragging as well.
tinypliny - 04/03/11 18:19
Yes, FF04. I installed it using this ppa ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
Its not on my fastest laptop. This laptop has just 512 megs ram and is from 2005 and is running WattOS (with LXDE).
Yes, FF04. I installed it using this ppa ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
Its not on my fastest laptop. This laptop has just 512 megs ram and is from 2005 and is running WattOS (with LXDE).
paul - 04/03/11 17:38
Firefox 4? I don't believe you. It loads for me in under 1 second.
Firefox 4? I don't believe you. It loads for me in under 1 second.
tinypliny - 04/03/11 17:24
I just ran it head to head with chrome loading (e:strip). Sorry to say, it took a whole 46 seconds more to load (e:strip). I went a brewed a cup of tea and it was still loading.
sudo aptitude purge firefox it is.
I just ran it head to head with chrome loading (e:strip). Sorry to say, it took a whole 46 seconds more to load (e:strip). I went a brewed a cup of tea and it was still loading.
sudo aptitude purge firefox it is.
tinypliny - 04/03/11 16:04
Trying it out now... (you have great persuasive powers ;-)
Trying it out now... (you have great persuasive powers ;-)
paul - 04/03/11 14:10
Firefox 4 is awesome. You should trying it again.
Firefox 4 is awesome. You should trying it again.
metalpeter - 04/03/11 13:52
Firefox used to be awesome and then at some point not sure why it seems to take forever on everything..........
Firefox used to be awesome and then at some point not sure why it seems to take forever on everything..........
tinypliny - 04/03/11 13:16
Sadly I do. Chrome is a resource-hogger. I prefer Opera 11.01 on Windows platforms and Chrome on linux. Somewhere around firefox's 2.0 release it started taking AGES to startup and I hated it and never got back to it.
Sadly I do. Chrome is a resource-hogger. I prefer Opera 11.01 on Windows platforms and Chrome on linux. Somewhere around firefox's 2.0 release it started taking AGES to startup and I hated it and never got back to it.
paul - 04/03/11 13:13
Did you know IE9 and Firefox 4 are more efficient than chrome/safari.
Did you know IE9 and Firefox 4 are more efficient than chrome/safari.
tinypliny - 04/02/11 15:40
I hate those ads that keep coming on top of everything else. I use readability to cut down on junk a lot, but sometimes readability does not function well. Stripping down to text is another way to get rid of these annoyances. Some browsers like Opera allow you to script your own CSS and apply it on top of every webpage. It makes all uniqueness and colour go away but I am more productive and able to learn about things and read things much more quickly than without a readability or CSS filter.
I hate those ads that keep coming on top of everything else. I use readability to cut down on junk a lot, but sometimes readability does not function well. Stripping down to text is another way to get rid of these annoyances. Some browsers like Opera allow you to script your own CSS and apply it on top of every webpage. It makes all uniqueness and colour go away but I am more productive and able to learn about things and read things much more quickly than without a readability or CSS filter.
04/01/2011 19:14 #53958
Gnome-shell minus black panelCategory: linux
I like that the new gnome-shell is created with js and css. It means a lot more people will be able to play with and add stuff to the desktop once its released. It just makes it way easy to tweak the interface.
Here I took the panel and made it tiny font size and transparent, giving me almost my entire screen as screen real estate with barely any UI until I am in the activity screen.
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Activity Panel
Here I took the panel and made it tiny font size and transparent, giving me almost my entire screen as screen real estate with barely any UI until I am in the activity screen.
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Activity Panel
paul - 04/02/11 20:16
(e:tinypliny) - you might get is faster than I thought, the delay really was an April Fools joke, so Fedora 15 is still on schedule for May. :::link:::
I am so glad because I was really starting to finally enjoy gnome-shell.
(e:tinypliny) - you might get is faster than I thought, the delay really was an April Fools joke, so Fedora 15 is still on schedule for May. :::link:::
I am so glad because I was really starting to finally enjoy gnome-shell.
uncutsaniflush - 04/01/11 22:20
I can see how using CSS would be an advantage. I think of the strengths and weaknesses of e17 is that uses efl. Using EFL isn't particularly complicated (at least to my eyes), works on just about any device (including toasters) and it works across platforms but CSS is much more universal.
I can see how using CSS would be an advantage. I think of the strengths and weaknesses of e17 is that uses efl. Using EFL isn't particularly complicated (at least to my eyes), works on just about any device (including toasters) and it works across platforms but CSS is much more universal.
paul - 04/01/11 22:08
You can do that in gnome 2 already. The difference with new gnome shell is the styling is all done with CSS, the same style markup language used for web sites.
You can do that in gnome 2 already. The difference with new gnome shell is the styling is all done with CSS, the same style markup language used for web sites.
tinypliny - 04/01/11 20:53
I think you can make the panel transparent even now in gnome....
I think you can make the panel transparent even now in gnome....
uncutsaniflush - 04/01/11 20:52
Is it configurable at a gui userland level?
Or like all sorts of other gnome2 stuffs that I've experienced in Ubuntu, did you have to edit conf files and/or write scripts? One of the things that annoys the hell out of me that gnomescreensaver doesn't have a gui for setting even though it is based on xscreensaver (which does have a settings gui).
I like the ability to resize a panel and to make it "invisible". Since I've been able to do both in KDE and e17, I would have thought you would have been able to do that in gnome as well.
Is it configurable at a gui userland level?
Or like all sorts of other gnome2 stuffs that I've experienced in Ubuntu, did you have to edit conf files and/or write scripts? One of the things that annoys the hell out of me that gnomescreensaver doesn't have a gui for setting even though it is based on xscreensaver (which does have a settings gui).
I like the ability to resize a panel and to make it "invisible". Since I've been able to do both in KDE and e17, I would have thought you would have been able to do that in gnome as well.
tinypliny - 04/01/11 19:41
Oh well, it's pretty. :)
Oh well, it's pretty. :)
paul - 04/01/11 19:32
It make me question how the Fedora team thought they were 99% done and ready for release :::link:::
"Targeted release: Fedora 15
Last updated: 2010-03-25
Percentage of completion: 99%"
Under contingency plan they have "If gnome-shell is not complete or stable enough, keep it experimental and use the 'fallback mode'. If there are problems with certain combinations of graphics hardware and drivers, use gnome-shell only on known good combinations, and use fallback mode everywhere else." Maybe they will do just that.
It make me question how the Fedora team thought they were 99% done and ready for release :::link:::
"Targeted release: Fedora 15
Last updated: 2010-03-25
Percentage of completion: 99%"
Under contingency plan they have "If gnome-shell is not complete or stable enough, keep it experimental and use the 'fallback mode'. If there are problems with certain combinations of graphics hardware and drivers, use gnome-shell only on known good combinations, and use fallback mode everywhere else." Maybe they will do just that.
paul - 04/01/11 19:29
Unfortunately, I can't easily share it with you as there was a lot of compiling involved to get this to work and gnome-shell is not ready for prime time yet. Gnome-shell and Gnome 3 were slated for Fedora 15 in May but today the Gnome release team met in Bangalore and pushed Gnome 3 back to September - so I don't know what that means for Fedora 15 :::link:::
Unfortunately, I can't easily share it with you as there was a lot of compiling involved to get this to work and gnome-shell is not ready for prime time yet. Gnome-shell and Gnome 3 were slated for Fedora 15 in May but today the Gnome release team met in Bangalore and pushed Gnome 3 back to September - so I don't know what that means for Fedora 15 :::link:::
tinypliny - 04/01/11 19:20
OOOHHH... Can you share this configuration maybe? What is that floaty search you are using?
OOOHHH... Can you share this configuration maybe? What is that floaty search you are using?
Sooo cute!!!
This is a very cute pic. I'm glad you posted it.
That is so funny.
aww! I love that pic and totally ironically I am actually wearing that shirt right now, as a pajama shirt but still wearing it proudly!