is grand.

So many reasons to love android and linux, and this beats them all! I was hunting around for a USB cable to transfer some snaps to my computer today and I found this instead. (This FTP application also helps transfers in the opposite direction: from linux to Asus transformer TF101 or any android device. See: (e:tinypliny,56232))

Motsha Wireless File transfer
(fork of swiftp)

It's so simple, it's amaaaaaazing!

Once you install the app.

1. Go to Setup
2. Input a username and password
3. check accept connections from wifi
4. check accept connections from net proxy
5. check keep phone awake (full cpu speed)
6. Tap Save
7. Tap Start
8. The wifi url will appear

On your linux:

• Open a console
• create a directory: mkdir somedirectorywhereyouwantthefiles
• and from that directory, do:

wget -m --user=username --password=password ftp: // 10.0.0.7:2121/sdcard/DCIM/Camera/

where username and password are the ones you set in Step 2
and the ftp address is the address that appears in Step 8.

Transfer speed: 54MB/s (the max on my router). No more hunting for USB cords!!! I know I keep whining about linux but once you step to linux windows seems infernal and complete paleolithic.

I am now able to confidently go in and make a completely whole wheat improvised bread with whatever without any recipes from scratch. And, more importantly eat the results without cringing or wishing I hadn't made the colossal mess. I know I said this already zillion moons back here: (e:tinypliny,53247) But that was banana bread. This is THE staple everyday bread bread.

I think that is progress.

Only, it's progress in the words of a frog in that arithmetic problem, you know, the one that lives in a slimy well and jumps up 4 steps to fall back 3.

I am sorely tempted to include one in my thesis:

You know your tea addiction has gone a bit far when:

1. You put the kettle on and when it boils, you immediately refill and put it on again because you know you will finish the current cup before it finishes brewing the next one
2. You distinctly remember having asked your archenemy in a nightmare if they would like a cup of oolong (poisoned) or a cup of cardamom tea (also poisoned, what did you think?)
3. You bid on auctions for green tea from ebay.com's authentic chinese sellers because the blurry pixelated pic looked like that one tea you had once upon a time that you could never find in stores later.
4. You lose the bid because someone sniped it at 4:00AM and you are bitter all day.
5. You drink coffee and think, ugh this is vile. Only the whipped cream redeems this mess.
6. You drink close to 27 16 oz cups of tea a day.
7. You don't drink any regular water anymore, only tea
8. You alternate between 7-8 different kinds of tea and have teas to match the hour and mood of the day.
9. The promise of tea is enough to enable you to weather minuscule work storms
10. You are known as the office tea pusher and have induced at least 5 other officemates to drink more tea than they ever did their entire lives.
11. You buy a kettle exclusively for the office and it is used so much, it develops scales within a month.
12. Your desktop is tea-themed
13. Your recycling is 10% or more teabag wrappers.

SCOOOOOOORRRREEEEESSSS!
Any 5 and you are one.
Any 7? have you taken the teaddiction test lately?
Any 10? Hmm.. and how does that make you feel?
Any 12? Have you put the kettle on yet?

Any 13? Welcome to my world.