I would suggest, cutting those grains by half and assigning that half to add up to an eighth more of vegetables.
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06/22/2011 12:01 #54546
ChooseMyPlate.govCategory: eating in
06/18/2011 22:37 #54533
Finding time to cook?Category: eating in
If I cooked and planned ahead like this woman wants us all to, I'd never cook anything. 
Yeah, and you never know when you might reach for rosemary and use cilantro instead.
Seriously? How long does it take for this woman to cook rice? 5 hours? I have never EVER had a hungry day when it took me more than 20 minutes to put a well balanced rice-based dish together from scratch. Such ridiculously pseudo-methodical articles about planning ahead and cooking is what makes simple cooking seem tough to people and encourages junk food consumption.
Cooking is meant to be unplanned, quick, improvisational and fun when you are doing it for yourself and your loved (or even unloved) ones. That is why it's called "cooking" and not "strategizing".
My favorite way to keep grains, beans and herbs is labeled and stored in glass jars ranging in size from gallon to 1/2 pints. These same items, if stored in boxes or plastic bags, defy functional organization...
Yeah, and you never know when you might reach for rosemary and use cilantro instead.
Remember, if you’re hungry right now, it is not the time to start washing rice. Order a pizza for dinner and while you’re waiting for it to arrive, then determine tomorrow’s main dish.
Seriously? How long does it take for this woman to cook rice? 5 hours? I have never EVER had a hungry day when it took me more than 20 minutes to put a well balanced rice-based dish together from scratch. Such ridiculously pseudo-methodical articles about planning ahead and cooking is what makes simple cooking seem tough to people and encourages junk food consumption.
Cooking is meant to be unplanned, quick, improvisational and fun when you are doing it for yourself and your loved (or even unloved) ones. That is why it's called "cooking" and not "strategizing".
tinypliny - 06/19/11 23:22
Seriously, I want to know what will make that lady eat my stir-fry... If it is the same thing that will make me eat her bacon-fat boiled dish then we, as a city, country, planet are in trouble. Deep chronic-metabolic disease-induced trouble.
Seriously, I want to know what will make that lady eat my stir-fry... If it is the same thing that will make me eat her bacon-fat boiled dish then we, as a city, country, planet are in trouble. Deep chronic-metabolic disease-induced trouble.
tinypliny - 06/19/11 23:18
"If I was Inuit, the tribe would have put me on the ice floe years ago..."
Really? they take lack of hair and two left feet that seriously, eh?
"If I was Inuit, the tribe would have put me on the ice floe years ago..."
Really? they take lack of hair and two left feet that seriously, eh?
tinypliny - 06/19/11 23:12
HEH! Nice calling of bluffs. The thing is I am not able to relate to the populations I study and their food habits because I CANNOT imagine someone eating 6 McD super macs (or whatever they are called these days) in a day (someone actually did in my study population). I am really worse than Jamie Oliver. I can't relate AT ALL. Every time I look at food pyramid recommendations, I feel like laughing because to ME, it seems an extremely trivial target to get 3 or even 10 fruit/veggie portions a day (I have gone up to 15-18/day). I feel like I am SO out of touch with the populations I want to influence through my research.
For example, I was buying the same bunch of chard as some other woman at Pricerite and struck up a conversation with her about recipes. Both of us were appalled at how the other was about the cook the chard (I was going to stir fry for a minute with garlic and serve it with raw onions, tomatoes, whatever nuts I had and splash a bit of yogurt with spices on it all as a dressing). She was going to boil the chard with bacon fat for a whole 24 hours before it would be fit for consumption.
And I don't even fall in the same "camp" as Jamie Oliver and Julia Child. I am in the academic fruit-pyramid making camp. *shudder* *shudder* at how in the world is preventive epidemiology EVER going to work. :/
HEH! Nice calling of bluffs. The thing is I am not able to relate to the populations I study and their food habits because I CANNOT imagine someone eating 6 McD super macs (or whatever they are called these days) in a day (someone actually did in my study population). I am really worse than Jamie Oliver. I can't relate AT ALL. Every time I look at food pyramid recommendations, I feel like laughing because to ME, it seems an extremely trivial target to get 3 or even 10 fruit/veggie portions a day (I have gone up to 15-18/day). I feel like I am SO out of touch with the populations I want to influence through my research.
For example, I was buying the same bunch of chard as some other woman at Pricerite and struck up a conversation with her about recipes. Both of us were appalled at how the other was about the cook the chard (I was going to stir fry for a minute with garlic and serve it with raw onions, tomatoes, whatever nuts I had and splash a bit of yogurt with spices on it all as a dressing). She was going to boil the chard with bacon fat for a whole 24 hours before it would be fit for consumption.
And I don't even fall in the same "camp" as Jamie Oliver and Julia Child. I am in the academic fruit-pyramid making camp. *shudder* *shudder* at how in the world is preventive epidemiology EVER going to work. :/
uncutsaniflush - 06/19/11 22:57
OK, I'll call your bluff. if you were Jamie Oliver and you didn't want people to sicken and die of food related illnesses caused by eating fast food, what would you do??
And telling people not to eat animal flesh is not an option. As you said, what inner city population can relate to that?
OK, I'll call your bluff. if you were Jamie Oliver and you didn't want people to sicken and die of food related illnesses caused by eating fast food, what would you do??
And telling people not to eat animal flesh is not an option. As you said, what inner city population can relate to that?
uncutsaniflush - 06/19/11 22:52
(e:tinypliny) With respect, do you think your food posts are something that the inner city population can relate to? Gor Blimey, substituting apple sauce for butter?? That's just like Jamie Oliver telling people that a fruit smoothie is a substitute for a milk shake.
But that's just me, I'm old, fat, bald, and I can't dance. If I was Inuit, the tribe would have put me on the ice floe years ago. So to echo Neil Young, take my advice, don't listen to me.
(e:tinypliny) With respect, do you think your food posts are something that the inner city population can relate to? Gor Blimey, substituting apple sauce for butter?? That's just like Jamie Oliver telling people that a fruit smoothie is a substitute for a milk shake.
But that's just me, I'm old, fat, bald, and I can't dance. If I was Inuit, the tribe would have put me on the ice floe years ago. So to echo Neil Young, take my advice, don't listen to me.
tinypliny - 06/19/11 22:46
Underlying all this eating-healthy/eating-junk culture is a deep-rooted class-divide. If I can have Jamie Oliver shop with a few of the people he ridicules, buy from a similar supermarket, stick to the same budgets and time-tables and cook with them when they have the time, then I'd see it as a sort of promising experiment. I don't see him taking this all-encompassing approach that I think has more potential than just pointing out what's wrong with "them".
Underlying all this eating-healthy/eating-junk culture is a deep-rooted class-divide. If I can have Jamie Oliver shop with a few of the people he ridicules, buy from a similar supermarket, stick to the same budgets and time-tables and cook with them when they have the time, then I'd see it as a sort of promising experiment. I don't see him taking this all-encompassing approach that I think has more potential than just pointing out what's wrong with "them".
tinypliny - 06/19/11 22:41
It's all about attitude. If you don't play in the same chord as the rest of the population, you cannot be in tune and cannot find what is really wrong with the song. In other words, you can't just say that you are better than the rest of the population and "show" them how you are "better" than them. That is not leading by example. That is just setting an unrealistic target that the population can never hope to reach or even WANT to reach. Because your finger-pointing has turned them off. You see, the Julia Childs of the world show off cooking as some sort of high-priestess-accomplished-complicated-art and the Jamie Olivers of the world scoff at the people because "they can't even do this!?" What sort of messages are these two camps sending?
Cooking is for freaks and snobs who are just not one of us?
This gradual global migration to a fast food eat-out culture is a multilevel multicausal problem. But media environment and social structures play a substantial role in propagating the problem...
PS: Jamie Oliver also has a personal herb garden out of which he takes fresh herbs and cooks them in his 30 min meals. What inner-city population can relate to that?
It's all about attitude. If you don't play in the same chord as the rest of the population, you cannot be in tune and cannot find what is really wrong with the song. In other words, you can't just say that you are better than the rest of the population and "show" them how you are "better" than them. That is not leading by example. That is just setting an unrealistic target that the population can never hope to reach or even WANT to reach. Because your finger-pointing has turned them off. You see, the Julia Childs of the world show off cooking as some sort of high-priestess-accomplished-complicated-art and the Jamie Olivers of the world scoff at the people because "they can't even do this!?" What sort of messages are these two camps sending?
Cooking is for freaks and snobs who are just not one of us?
This gradual global migration to a fast food eat-out culture is a multilevel multicausal problem. But media environment and social structures play a substantial role in propagating the problem...
PS: Jamie Oliver also has a personal herb garden out of which he takes fresh herbs and cooks them in his 30 min meals. What inner-city population can relate to that?
uncutsaniflush - 06/19/11 22:26
(e:tinypliny) - hmmm, apparently you didn't skip school the day mindreading was taught. I was going to ask you about Jamie Olivier I liked the bloke since back in the day when he had his band on his show. and I think his heart in the right place. What is it about his attitude that stinks for you? Are you a closet fan of Wendy McDonald? Of which he is a sworn enemy?
Along with that bloody wanker Gordon Ramsey, Oliver wants people to cook quick healthy and tasty meals instead of eating fast food. And just like Paul McCartney asked about "filling the world with with silly lovesongs" what's wrong with that?
(e:tinypliny) - hmmm, apparently you didn't skip school the day mindreading was taught. I was going to ask you about Jamie Olivier I liked the bloke since back in the day when he had his band on his show. and I think his heart in the right place. What is it about his attitude that stinks for you? Are you a closet fan of Wendy McDonald? Of which he is a sworn enemy?
Along with that bloody wanker Gordon Ramsey, Oliver wants people to cook quick healthy and tasty meals instead of eating fast food. And just like Paul McCartney asked about "filling the world with with silly lovesongs" what's wrong with that?
tinypliny - 06/19/11 22:26
Ugh.. I really need to stop ranting today. Cooking and eating and food gets me worked up too much. heh
Ugh.. I really need to stop ranting today. Cooking and eating and food gets me worked up too much. heh
tinypliny - 06/19/11 22:25
I really like his 30 minute endeavors, but he could do with a little humility, respect for others and general awareness of why a population cannot be changed by bullying alone.
I really like his 30 minute endeavors, but he could do with a little humility, respect for others and general awareness of why a population cannot be changed by bullying alone.
tinypliny - 06/19/11 22:19
Jamie Oliver is no better btw. His attitude stinks.
Jamie Oliver is no better btw. His attitude stinks.
tinypliny - 06/19/11 22:15
Yeah - that's true. I guess I am not fighting the frogs or even that woman really. I am just a trifle... no make that VERY annoyed that the net is strewn with these self-appointed "culinary royalty" who propagate the general feeling that cooking is not for everyone and that it requires more effort and time than say, ordering a pizza and waiting for it to be delivered. I HATE the fact that julia child-esque minions are so influential and dominate public opinion of cooking as a sort of precise snob-chemistry.
Did you know, for instance that the great julia child actually felt that julie (or julie and julia fame) was "demeaning" her "efforts" and "achievement" at cooking when she did her 1-year project? I mean who are these snotty hags anyway? Why are they dictating (either consciously or subconsciouly) and influencing the populations perceptions on cooking? I wonder sometimes if this gradual move away from simple kitchen cooking to increasing consumption of fast food here and elsewhere across the pond is partially the doing of these culinary monsters...
I spend a lot of time talking with random people on the street and a majority feel that cooking is time consuming. I lead a pretty crazy life, sometime I work 18+ a day and STILL have time to quickly cook something rather than ordering or eating out. But I am not influential. Neither are similar-quick cooks around the world. Why? I think it's because of the self and media-hype built around these julia-childesque dinosaurs... They do a disservice to the mental attitudes of a population when it comes to cooking and eating habits.... :/
Yeah - that's true. I guess I am not fighting the frogs or even that woman really. I am just a trifle... no make that VERY annoyed that the net is strewn with these self-appointed "culinary royalty" who propagate the general feeling that cooking is not for everyone and that it requires more effort and time than say, ordering a pizza and waiting for it to be delivered. I HATE the fact that julia child-esque minions are so influential and dominate public opinion of cooking as a sort of precise snob-chemistry.
Did you know, for instance that the great julia child actually felt that julie (or julie and julia fame) was "demeaning" her "efforts" and "achievement" at cooking when she did her 1-year project? I mean who are these snotty hags anyway? Why are they dictating (either consciously or subconsciouly) and influencing the populations perceptions on cooking? I wonder sometimes if this gradual move away from simple kitchen cooking to increasing consumption of fast food here and elsewhere across the pond is partially the doing of these culinary monsters...
I spend a lot of time talking with random people on the street and a majority feel that cooking is time consuming. I lead a pretty crazy life, sometime I work 18+ a day and STILL have time to quickly cook something rather than ordering or eating out. But I am not influential. Neither are similar-quick cooks around the world. Why? I think it's because of the self and media-hype built around these julia-childesque dinosaurs... They do a disservice to the mental attitudes of a population when it comes to cooking and eating habits.... :/
uncutsaniflush - 06/19/11 20:23
Your point about dried legumes is very valid. What I was trying to say that is that "that woman" always pre-soaks her legumes (no matter what your (and general) culinary wisdom might say about the wisdom of doing so). If she has a pre-soak mindset, she can never be spontaneous.
Your point about dried legumes is very valid. What I was trying to say that is that "that woman" always pre-soaks her legumes (no matter what your (and general) culinary wisdom might say about the wisdom of doing so). If she has a pre-soak mindset, she can never be spontaneous.
tinypliny - 06/19/11 20:16
No dice. I use dried legumes too! Not all of them take pre-soaking... In fact out of the ~32 kinds that I have cooked with, around 20 or so cook in around 20 minutes in a rice cooker. I don't cook with canned stuff because I don't have a can opener and have a morbid fear of botulism...
Screw the frogs.
No dice. I use dried legumes too! Not all of them take pre-soaking... In fact out of the ~32 kinds that I have cooked with, around 20 or so cook in around 20 minutes in a rice cooker. I don't cook with canned stuff because I don't have a can opener and have a morbid fear of botulism...
Screw the frogs.
uncutsaniflush - 06/19/11 11:38
I think "that woman" (Monica Lewinsky incognito?) uses dried legumes so she can't spontaneously decide to have rice and beans for example.
Though I have to say that I am not sure that the French culinary world would agree with you about "unplanned, quick, improvisational and fun" cooking no matter who it is for.
I think "that woman" (Monica Lewinsky incognito?) uses dried legumes so she can't spontaneously decide to have rice and beans for example.
Though I have to say that I am not sure that the French culinary world would agree with you about "unplanned, quick, improvisational and fun" cooking no matter who it is for.
06/18/2011 12:26 #54521
Most useful Chrome extensionsCategory: i-tech
A few weeks into any of my fresh Chrome installs, my extensions and bookmarks start to get out of hand. I just try out most of them and forget to remove them. But a few of them are constants. Some of them can even be called useful. Yeah, apparently, I don't have anything interesting to blog about so I will blog about dull things now.
The 1st extension I install (and this reflects the sad state of my internet usage) is the creatively named OWA Chrome Companion which obsessively checks my work email every few minutes and pops up a wild array of small notifications everywhere if a new message (however spammy and random) comes in - at which point I have a mild anxiety attack and scurry about trying to unsuccessfully ignore the email. It kind of defeats the whole point of the extension.
Oh well... moving on, I hate filling forms and entering passwords repetitively so these two extensions just fill them in for me:
And I hate new windows popping up all the time so this extension makes them behave and forces every single tab and page and popup into ONE window. By the end of the day, I have a million tabs, but still it a fair price to pay for ONE WINDOW!
It's kind of a vicious cycle, so I need this "Tab Glutton" to keep a check on my tabs. (Actually, I end up not managing them at all and sometimes accidentally close everything and re-opening everything again from scratch but let's not talk about it.)
Then of course, there is link grabber which helps me visualize all content on a page and the content that I am usually interested in (pdfs mainly) at a glance and grab them without having to wade through all the text.
Lastly, Readability Redux makes the web a better place:
I can get rid of most evil and awful ads and poor web designs and can read the content in peace. I just wish there were a spring green or vibrant orange background to the text...
The 1st extension I install (and this reflects the sad state of my internet usage) is the creatively named OWA Chrome Companion which obsessively checks my work email every few minutes and pops up a wild array of small notifications everywhere if a new message (however spammy and random) comes in - at which point I have a mild anxiety attack and scurry about trying to unsuccessfully ignore the email. It kind of defeats the whole point of the extension.
Oh well... moving on, I hate filling forms and entering passwords repetitively so these two extensions just fill them in for me:
- Autocomplete = On
- Lazarus Form Recovery:
And I hate new windows popping up all the time so this extension makes them behave and forces every single tab and page and popup into ONE window. By the end of the day, I have a million tabs, but still it a fair price to pay for ONE WINDOW!
It's kind of a vicious cycle, so I need this "Tab Glutton" to keep a check on my tabs. (Actually, I end up not managing them at all and sometimes accidentally close everything and re-opening everything again from scratch but let's not talk about it.)
Then of course, there is link grabber
which helps me visualize all content on a page and the content that I am usually interested in (pdfs mainly) at a glance and grab them without having to wade through all the text.Lastly, Readability Redux makes the web a better place:
I can get rid of most evil and awful ads and poor web designs and can read the content in peace. I just wish there were a spring green or vibrant orange background to the text...paul - 06/20/11 14:16
The owa one seems interesting but why does it require the following permissions, "This extension can access: Your data on all websites
Your browsing history"
Just because they tell people doesn't make it safer. When you visit the google website explaining the permission it says, "This item can read every page that you visit -- your bank, your web email, your Facebook page, and so on. Often, this kind of item needs to see all pages so that it can perform a limited task such as looking for RSS feeds that you might want to subscribe to." But my question is why for this extension?
The owa one seems interesting but why does it require the following permissions, "This extension can access: Your data on all websites
Your browsing history"
Just because they tell people doesn't make it safer. When you visit the google website explaining the permission it says, "This item can read every page that you visit -- your bank, your web email, your Facebook page, and so on. Often, this kind of item needs to see all pages so that it can perform a limited task such as looking for RSS feeds that you might want to subscribe to." But my question is why for this extension?
tinypliny - 06/19/11 09:28
On second thoughts, looking at the code of that extension on GIT Hub, I am going to create my. How hard can it be? It's just HTML and some style tags.
On second thoughts, looking at the code of that extension on GIT Hub, I am going to create my. How hard can it be? It's just HTML and some style tags.
tinypliny - 06/19/11 08:45
Found it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's called "My home page" :::link:::
I am adding it to the list above because I really would like just what I want on the home page. A clock, some links, history, a todo list and a place for some notes.
Found it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's called "My home page" :::link:::
I am adding it to the list above because I really would like just what I want on the home page. A clock, some links, history, a todo list and a place for some notes.
tinypliny - 06/18/11 17:46
I want my new tab page to have a todo list and a notes space. I located this cool extension that enabled you to edit the new tab page with HTML and CSS but now I can't find it! So frustrating.
I want my new tab page to have a todo list and a notes space. I located this cool extension that enabled you to edit the new tab page with HTML and CSS but now I can't find it! So frustrating.
tinypliny - 06/18/11 13:07
No, but I think it's planned for the next release. Quite a few people have requested it. I really like it because it helps me work off-campus without having to constantly reload my email page (with a timed javascript reload thing). I can also quickly skim the email without ever having to open the real page and delete general "to-everyone-in-the-universe-and-beyond-I-want-this-antibody" emails at work.
No, but I think it's planned for the next release. Quite a few people have requested it. I really like it because it helps me work off-campus without having to constantly reload my email page (with a timed javascript reload thing). I can also quickly skim the email without ever having to open the real page and delete general "to-everyone-in-the-universe-and-beyond-I-want-this-antibody" emails at work.
paul - 06/18/11 12:54
The owa extension is interesting. I used something called davmail that lets Thunderbird read from owa but that seems more convenient. Does it alert about appointments?
The owa extension is interesting. I used something called davmail that lets Thunderbird read from owa but that seems more convenient. Does it alert about appointments?
06/15/2011 04:29 #54498
It's an error.Category: i-tech
And that's all I know.
Strangely, this summarizes my life@work right now.
Strangely, this summarizes my life@work right now.
AwolGMJ - 06/24/11 10:40
Google has a sense of humor? Who knew ;-)
Google has a sense of humor? Who knew ;-)
metalpeter - 06/15/11 17:04
Today on Google by the way it is an animated eclipse .....
Today on Google by the way it is an animated eclipse .....
06/11/2011 19:20 #54478
Citybration balloon ride and cheerio breakfast!Category: buffalo
I REALLY want to go on a hot-air balloon ride over downtown buffalo ->
If I can take one of the earliest balloon rides, I then want to dash to the city hall and watch the rest of the balloons and the sunset at the city hall sunset reception!!!
Who wants to do this with me? It's on Friday, June 24th, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM. (e:matthew)? :-)
And OoooooH! Downtown-Buffalo made authentic Cheerio Breakfast on Sunday! Wooohoo! June 26, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Erie Canal Central Wharf.
If I can take one of the earliest balloon rides, I then want to dash to the city hall and watch the rest of the balloons and the sunset at the city hall sunset reception!!!
Who wants to do this with me? It's on Friday, June 24th, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM. (e:matthew)? :-)
And OoooooH! Downtown-Buffalo made authentic Cheerio Breakfast on Sunday! Wooohoo! June 26, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Erie Canal Central Wharf.
tinypliny - 06/24/11 16:05
There will be other balloon rides you know... And besides the weather isn't that great for floating over downtown. Once we go up we could be stuck up there for quite a while before the petrol store gives out.
There will be other balloon rides you know... And besides the weather isn't that great for floating over downtown. Once we go up we could be stuck up there for quite a while before the petrol store gives out.
heidi - 06/24/11 15:47
I should be studying! Massive waves of guilt washing over me.
I should be studying! Massive waves of guilt washing over me.
tinypliny - 06/24/11 15:39
doing that much? What shouldn't you be doing? I am confused... Am I missing something here?
doing that much? What shouldn't you be doing? I am confused... Am I missing something here?
heidi - 06/24/11 15:31
I'm only in for the balloon, so no balloon = no heidi.
I'm only in for the balloon, so no balloon = no heidi.
tinypliny - 06/24/11 15:20
Or here is the rain plan. If it is raining we are going because we surely don't want to miss out on celebrating our city like they did at the Pan American exposition in 1901. But we will go to the Sunset Reception at the City Hall instead?
Or here is the rain plan. If it is raining we are going because we surely don't want to miss out on celebrating our city like they did at the Pan American exposition in 1901. But we will go to the Sunset Reception at the City Hall instead?
tinypliny - 06/24/11 15:10
How about we are going with raincoats etc. but if it's thunderstorming or raining kangaroos, I am not about to throw my life away by getting into a balloon. Your option....
How about we are going with raincoats etc. but if it's thunderstorming or raining kangaroos, I am not about to throw my life away by getting into a balloon. Your option....
tinypliny - 06/24/11 15:08
Tweet from the citybration balloon ride organizers: Unfortunately, we don't have anything planned as a backup...but let's see how the day evolves. We'll keep everyone posted!
Tweet from the citybration balloon ride organizers: Unfortunately, we don't have anything planned as a backup...but let's see how the day evolves. We'll keep everyone posted!
heidi - 06/24/11 15:01
Okay, someone has to make the call before 4:25 when I leave my house. Are we going? is the event on?
Okay, someone has to make the call before 4:25 when I leave my house. Are we going? is the event on?
tinypliny - 06/24/11 11:57
Update on the planned 4:45 (e:strip) trip to the balloon land: If it is thunderstorming, I don't want to be electrocuted. Besides, there will then be no sunset to speak of.
AAARRGRGH. I swear someone is always waiting and watching to spoil whatever little fun I plan!!!!!!
Update on the planned 4:45 (e:strip) trip to the balloon land: If it is thunderstorming, I don't want to be electrocuted. Besides, there will then be no sunset to speak of.
AAARRGRGH. I swear someone is always waiting and watching to spoil whatever little fun I plan!!!!!!
tinypliny - 06/24/11 08:27
If it rains at 6PM like it is now (8:26AM), I think the Balloon will need extraordinary powers to even launch... or be an airplane in disguise. Besides, might not be the wisest of moves to go up in a balloon in a thunderstorm.
If it rains at 6PM like it is now (8:26AM), I think the Balloon will need extraordinary powers to even launch... or be an airplane in disguise. Besides, might not be the wisest of moves to go up in a balloon in a thunderstorm.
heidi - 06/23/11 22:53
:-(
:-(
tinypliny - 06/23/11 19:29
The forecast is so crappy for tomorrow 6PM = 80% chance of precipitation. I hope they are wrong like they always are!
The forecast is so crappy for tomorrow 6PM = 80% chance of precipitation. I hope they are wrong like they always are!
heidi - 06/23/11 13:21
I'm in! 4:45 @the 24!
I'm in! 4:45 @the 24!
tinypliny - 06/18/11 12:42
VERY exciting!! Who else is coming for the grand (e:strip) balloon adventure!! (e:Paul), could you put this on the front page as an invitation! :)
VERY exciting!! Who else is coming for the grand (e:strip) balloon adventure!! (e:Paul), could you put this on the front page as an invitation! :)
metalpeter - 06/18/11 12:17
using this a possible excuse for a day off I need one.... Yes it screws everyone else at work but hey there are a couple people who need to do more anyways..... So for now 4:45PM at the 24 sounds great.....
using this a possible excuse for a day off I need one.... Yes it screws everyone else at work but hey there are a couple people who need to do more anyways..... So for now 4:45PM at the 24 sounds great.....
paul - 06/17/11 22:48
Sounds like a plan
Sounds like a plan
tinypliny - 06/17/11 20:03
Or maybe 4:45. I want to be on the first balloon and then make a dash for the city hall.
Or maybe 4:45. I want to be on the first balloon and then make a dash for the city hall.
tinypliny - 06/17/11 20:00
Oooh -let's meet up at the 24 at 5:00 then, we can walk to the theatre station from there (~5:20), take the train to the skyway (~5:40). The balloon rides start 6:00 PM.
Oooh -let's meet up at the 24 at 5:00 then, we can walk to the theatre station from there (~5:20), take the train to the skyway (~5:40). The balloon rides start 6:00 PM.
paul - 06/17/11 19:15
I am all about it.
I am all about it.
metalpeter - 06/15/11 16:49
I forgot to say I want to go as well......
I forgot to say I want to go as well......
heidi - 06/15/11 12:52
I wanna go on the hot air balloon. Let's do it!
I wanna go on the hot air balloon. Let's do it!
tinypliny - 06/11/11 21:23
OMG. I also want to go on the Queen City Ferry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :::link:::
OMG. I also want to go on the Queen City Ferry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :::link:::
tinypliny - 06/11/11 21:15
I am seldom much higher than any of the parapets. Maybe that is why I always feel safe. lol
I am seldom much higher than any of the parapets. Maybe that is why I always feel safe. lol
tinypliny - 06/11/11 21:11
I have been up there a couple times actually. I am not really scared of heights at all... Updated the post with times. We should totally make it so that (e:strip)pers populate a complete balloon ride. HEE HEE.
I have been up there a couple times actually. I am not really scared of heights at all... Updated the post with times. We should totally make it so that (e:strip)pers populate a complete balloon ride. HEE HEE.
metalpeter - 06/11/11 20:48
The Friday event doesn't list a time....
Making it an (e:strip) event would be cool.....
That being said I have a thing with heights.... Sometimes they freak me out a bit and sometimes they don't... Top of city hall is high and amazing if you haven't been up there it makes me wish I had one of those big cameras with the big zooms like at least 7x and 13x or even a 26x would be great think I'm thinking of those ashton camera ads....
The Friday event doesn't list a time....
Making it an (e:strip) event would be cool.....
That being said I have a thing with heights.... Sometimes they freak me out a bit and sometimes they don't... Top of city hall is high and amazing if you haven't been up there it makes me wish I had one of those big cameras with the big zooms like at least 7x and 13x or even a 26x would be great think I'm thinking of those ashton camera ads....
tinypliny - 06/11/11 20:26
Don't you want to come with me, (e:metalpeter)???!! We will make this an (e:strip) evening out! :)
Don't you want to come with me, (e:metalpeter)???!! We will make this an (e:strip) evening out! :)
metalpeter - 06/11/11 19:54
That is an event you need to be all "Japanese tourist" for yes the views would be great and that is what you should focus on with your eyes (assuming your tall enough to see over the basket Ha...Kidding) but then as you look over take pictures as well....
That is an event you need to be all "Japanese tourist" for yes the views would be great and that is what you should focus on with your eyes (assuming your tall enough to see over the basket Ha...Kidding) but then as you look over take pictures as well....
I admit I haven't seen it is some time but as a visual this is pretty good but here is my question.... Some people are lactose (sis for one or maybe milk doesn't all ways agree with their insides) so do they have a new chart for those that can't or chose (there are pills you can take or special milk to drink) not to have Dairy..... I also find it interesting that they say protein instead of meat and I find that odd since protein can be in Dairy and Vegetables as well.....