Tinypliny's Journal

07/22/2011 07:25 #54755

Kinetic Choreography on Google
Category: i-tech

On the google home page today is quite an extraordinary simulation of a hanging metallic mobile toy that actually follows the laws of gravity, the earth's electromagnetic field and the eccentric orbit as it moves and responds to your mouse gestures.

I didn't know anything about Alexander Calder - the sculptor that the doodle is honouring so I had to look him up. V.interesting.

metalpeter - 07/22/11 18:01
saw this today and thought of you....On facebook this would be a like or some other page a thumbs up....

07/21/2011 22:29 #54754

Annoying chocolate, annoying actresses
Category: the odes

I just had a piece of this Chocolate:

I am totally ready to puke right now. It is so horribly and cloyingly sweet, all my senses are revolting. Chocolate is not meant to be this disgusting!

Toblerone's website proudly proclaims:

2007 For the first time in 34 years, a completely new TOBLERONE taste experience was launched. TOBLERONE Fruit & Nut is made from the finest Swiss milk chocolate with honey and almond nougat, and juicy Californian raisins.

2008 TOBLERONE celebrates its 100th anniversary.

I cannot believe they had the gall to celebrate anything after releasing such a monstrosity on the public.

Yuck. Yuck. Super-yuckety-yuckezoid-yuck.

The chocolate reminds me of three actresses I find super annoying.
1. Keira Knightly
2. Julia Roberts
3. Scarlett Johannsson

Yucketishly cloying.

metalpeter - 07/22/11 18:53
Well it could be that I really like those movies and like her being playing off Jack Sparrow .... But I like her.....

tinypliny - 07/22/11 18:25
I haven't seen the pirate movies... maybe because she is in them. Are you saying she is actually better in those movies than the rest of her oh-so-dissatisfying movies?

tinypliny - 07/22/11 18:24
Whoa. AeroBar: :::link:::

metalpeter - 07/22/11 18:15
Now onto the Bad chocolate .... Sorry but you got the pricey and with fruit in it Never heard of having fruit in Chocolate no wonder it was bad the regular stuff is good though or it used to be...

Keira is great in those Pirate Movies but not sure about in other things.....

Scarlett is pretty good or maybe it is just all those curves .... I think she is good......

Honestly most actors aren't good.... They talk the same in every movie.... People think DeNiro is great and I like him but he talks and says everything the same way in every movie he plays.....

metalpeter - 07/22/11 18:11
To Warn you Aero Bar has air holes in it but it is very good... Think they sell them at Globe Market on Elmwood (I really need to get one) that isn't the only place they sell them but they are from Canada....

tinypliny - 07/22/11 14:59
LOL, I had to look that up!

mrmike - 07/22/11 10:54
Get thee an Aero Bar quickly, it will cure the overblown ailments from that abomination

07/21/2011 21:43 #54753

E:strip search eccentricities
Category: e:strip

I think it might be helpful to document some of the weirdness that I experience with (e:strip)'s search function sometimes.

When I search for the term "wok":

This post about my wok mania turns up: (e:tinypliny,54663)

This post about my Amazon disenchantment while buying woks doesn't: (e:tinypliny,54693) (Though, wok is prominently in the title of the post and also mentioned in the body.)

Odd, don't you think?

metalpeter - 07/22/11 17:56
The Last time I used search it went by words used in the Journals not by the topic or the tittle.... So if you are trying to find a certain post it can be hard.... I thought there was a way to check by person also but you would have to remember who wrote it?

tinypliny - 07/22/11 13:31
So I have a higher number of corruptions than others? I wonder if this has something to do my compulsive and repetitive editing behaviour. I often pull up old articles and edit them just because I feel like it. Maybe the indexing can handle only a fixed number of versions and gets corrupted with a higher number... I always wonder about how versions work on estrip and i2. Newer image versions get a number hash appended but what about newer versions of posts?

paul - 07/22/11 13:24
My guess is there is something wrong with the index. I will look into it when I get a chance. The way search works, it does not actually look at every single word, it indexes the works in another place and then uses the indexes. If the index for that entry is corrupt then wok might not show up.

07/21/2011 21:01 #54752

Fry Pan Excitement, Part II
Category: eating in

Jul 21, 2011 4:24 PM
Arrived at FedEx location
PERRYSBURG, OH

WOOOHHOOO. Perrysburg!!!

Wait... What?! Why on earth is the pan going from City of Industry, CA to Perrysburg, OH instead of coming to Buffalo, NY?

Backstory: (e:tinypliny,54740)

tinypliny - 07/22/11 20:54
It's in Syracuse now!!

metalpeter - 07/22/11 17:54
Honestly not sure how all the stuff moves.... Generally though all the stuff going to the east coast moves somewhere ... Then all the stuff that goes to Ohio I think that is would go someplace based on where it was headed and so on and so forth.... but I don't work for fed ex so can't tell ya anymore really....

tinypliny - 07/21/11 21:25
WHAT?! I thought you were not going to get the zillion tablets and run the ebay scam...

paul - 07/21/11 21:18
Waiting for stuff is the worst. Thats how I feel about my tablet.

07/21/2011 20:27 #54751

Armstrong 200711
Category: goals

Day 4: 12x
Reason for stopping: general exhaustion, not specifically arm-pain.
Status: I was a complete hour late for this edition of project Armstrong because I got carried away talking with (e:Paul). So when I finally remembered, (e:Paul) offered to do push-ups with me. (Of course, he was doing the authentic push-ups, while I was trying to miserably drag through wimpy ones.) I think he got through 18-19 before I was done with my measly 12 with a ton of effort. It was nice to have someone doing the push-ups with me but it didn't really do much good in terms of motivating me to do more. I think this is a sign that the problem really lies so deep that it can't be fixed by mere peer motivation. (hey, that rhymes!)

paul - 07/21/11 21:17
You just got to stick with it.