Me at 7:00 PM: Rushing out of Walgreens with the speculoos.
Buffalo Police on Walgreens duty pointing at Biscoffs: Man, I hear they are very good. Everyone is getting one today. I need to try those...

Me at 7:15 PM: Rushing back into Walgreens because I forgot to get the shortbread I wanted.
Buffalo Police on Walgreens duty pointing at someone else's frozen pizza: Man, I hear they are very good. I need to get that!

Me at 8:00 PM: Back to walgreens for the chocolate.
Buffalo Police on Walgreens duty pointing at twizzlers in someone's checkout pile: Man, it's been ages since I had that! I hear they are sweeter now. I need to try that!

Conversation starter? Genuine interest? Or just massive hunger?

Anyway. Behold, a dinner of depravity.

I tried dropbox sometime back for many months. I didn't quite like it because I felt like I couldn't control many aspects. In addition, I ended up deleting many of my files due to some stupid settings confusion. I bet they have more options now, but I don't feel like going back. So I signed up for 25 gigs of free space from... *gasp* Microsoft's Skydrive. I figured if they are giving away this much space in the cloud for free, why not twist it around and use it as a cloud for Linux so that the joke is actually on them.

Naturally, Skydrive doesn't have any desktop synchronization tools for linux. And that is where SMEStorage Sync comes in. All I needed to do was to

• Install "Linux Cloud Desktop Tools" from SMEStorage for fedora.
• Set up an account at SMEStorage and login.
• Go to My Account --> Providers Tab
• Add the Skydrive account and password
• Set the Skydrive account as default (so all your files will be uploaded and synced to the Skydrive 25 Gigs account rather than the limited 2Gigs SMEStorage-Amazon Cloud. (An index of the Skydrive account is mirrored on the SMEStorage-Amazon 2 Gig Cloud. So the 2Gig account has an index but no real files taking up space.)
• Fire up the SME Storage Sync Center on your laptop/desktop
• Choose the US SME Server and connect
• Choose the local home/system folders to Sync
• Press Sync Up any time you want to upload and backup/sync your files in that folder.
• You can manually fire up the SME Storage Sync Center everytime you feel like doing a backup or schedule it to do automatic backups at some regular schedule.

That's it! Evil example of using Microsoft's resources to make life on linux easier.

Dedicated to (e:fing). ;-)

at pricerite?

• 0.25 lb Jalapeno Peppers
• 4.54 lb Acorn/Buttercup/Kabocha squash
• 3.46 lb Zucchini (Green squash)
• 3 generous bunches of fresh cilantro
• 5 medium red onions
• 0.89 lb red bell peppers (2 peppers)
• 3.79 lb Vine ripened tomatoes
• 1.00 lb Plum tomatoes
• 5.53 lb Granny Smith apples
• 2.61 lb Bosc pears
• 2.07 lb Black Friar Plums
• 1 Gallon Skim Milk

Except for the plums, each item on that list came from NY farms. Not bad at all for 13/14* 100 ~ 93% local produce & milk. I checked . That is about as seasonal and local as you can get.

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Blasted thing won't post straight!

I skipped all the in-between bits of writing functions. Maybe I will return to them in the future.

But for now, I think it's super important to know how to apply a function once I have written it using what else but...
APPLY!!!

• The output of Apply can be a vector or array or list of values
• The input of Apply is always a matrix. So make sure to insert a "as.matrix" before anything you want to apply your function on.

Basic syntax:

apply(as.matrix(some object which is not a matrix already), Starting Row, function)

For eg.
Out <- apply(as.matrix(list of element), 1, function)