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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
laserhen
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9:40p
However far away
I will always love you
However long I stay
I will always love you
Whatever words I say
I will always love you
I will always love you
current music: The Cure
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dawaioser
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8:00p
Lil' Halloween Shoppe
current mood:  amused
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ostraya
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6:09p
Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookie
An adaptation of this recipe.
INGREDIENTS
* 1 cup butter
* 1/2 cup white sugar
* 1/2 cup brown sugar
* 2 eggs
* 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
* 2 cups all-purpose flour
* 2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
* 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1 1/2 cups peanut butter chips
* a handful of chocolate chips
DIRECTIONS
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets.
2. In a medium bowl, cream together the butter and sugar. Stir in the eggs and vanilla. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt, stir into the creamed mixture. Finally, fold in the peanut butter chips. Drop cookies by heaping teaspoonfuls onto the prepared cookie sheets.
3. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, until set. Cool on wire racks.
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They turned out tasty, but a bit softer and crumblier than I'd expected. John blames his oven, I blame the delay I had after I put in the baking soda, as well as having to put them into the container warm because I was running late. If I do them again, I'll use something other than peanut butter chips, since those weren't a hit with my hostess (although she obviously liked the cookies, since she ate around the chips!)
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boutell
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5:13p
Dear Lazyweb: writing droplets for MacOS X
I know it's possible to write "droplets" for MacOS X, which are simple applications that just do something interesting when files are dropped on them. And I know these have been written in scripting languages like PHP and Perl. But I can't find any documentation on how this ought to be done and I'm curious.
If you drag files onto an executable shell script, does MacOS simply start it up with a command line full o' filenames and set the current working directory to the desktop? That would make a lot of sense.
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magnio
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11:02p
Bah.
I was a cheap-ass when parking at the doctor's today, and paid with my small change in stead of with one coin. I paid for 50 minute parking; with 2 minutes to spare before my appointment that should be enough. Unfortunately the doctor was 40 minutes delayed, and the parking guards came while I was in the lab :-( So my sudden urge to save NOK 5 turned into a NOK 300 parking ticket.
I talked to the guard, a nice old man, just to check whether it was any use in finding documentation and writing a complaint. He seemed quite honest (he is not working on commission, so why not be honest?) when he told me I could of course write a complaint, but the rules were practised very strict and since I was about 15 minutes late back to the car he didn't think I had much chance. So I didn't bother - I am all in favour of paying where you are supposed to pay, whether it's parking, road tolls or taxes, and I knew I broke the rules, so I am going to pay this. Next time I think I will expect the doctor to be an hour delayed and pay for extra parking, though.
Nothing is wrong with me, and I even made the doctor happy: my blood pressure has been on the high side, so he forced me to switch to some other medicines last year. I asked him to take my blood pressure today, and he was reluctant: "your high blood pressure is stress induced, so it may still be high." "Oh, come on, if it's normal now it's super low! And you did take my high blood pressure last year too."
It turned out to be quite normal, actually within the lower range of normal pressure. After confirming it twice, he exclaimed "oh, now you made me happy!" :-)
I also learned that my credit card had been closed. Apparently Santander is closing lots of their customers' credit cards due to a fraud issue. They sent an email telling me this and that a new card and pin code would be issued and sent soon, so I called them to get more information. After several attempts and ten minutes in queue I got through. All they could say was that they had gotten information from VISA about possible fraud in UK, and they were apparently closing all accounts related to this. I have checked my monthly statements since May, and the only .uk store I have shopped from is Amazon.co.uk. (But there may be other stores I don't recognize as UK, though.) It's good that they are proactive when closing cards - I'd rather have my card closed now than to be the victim of a fraud one month before the expiry date of the card when the bad gals have been storing my card number for months. But I would like some more information, if nothing else because I am curious.
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ostraya
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4:52p
10% flickr
One of the perks of being a grad student is that I can pretty much handle my work time however I want. So for the past while, inspired by the Googlers I met as part of the Anita Borg Scholarship Retreat, I've been letting myself set aside 10-20% of my time (a few hours every week) for projects of interest. Sure, this is time away from my primary task of writing thesis, but it keeps me from going crazy, and I actually find I'm more productive if I have a few things I can swap to when I get stuck or when I just need something more entertaining than "oh, yeay, more editing" to get my brain woken up in the morning. It's been really great!
The first major beneficiary was Mailman, when I started trying to organize our documentation so that people could use the Mailman wiki as a one-stop place to find our documentation. The big project here was in converting the Frequently Asked Questions so that it fits into the wiki (and thus can be searched with the bulk of the other docs). I also designed a new version of the Mailman website although it hasn't gone up on the main site yet. (Comments still welcome on the version I just linked!)
I'm planning on doing lots more for the Mailman project with my time (I've got some interface changes planned), but today, I decided that I should use that time to fix up my website to show my flickr photos.
A quick search didn't turn up the gallery application I'd hoped to find, but it did turn up the amazingly useful phpFlickr class which, honestly, looked easier to learn and set up and config than any of the gallery applications that I saw.
A few minutes with their example code and I had a page that does what I wanted: displays my most recent flickr photos, as well as all the photosets with a thumbnail and a link to the associated page on flickr. The code follows, LJ cut so I won't eat up too much space on people's friends pages.
( The code, for posterity )
Of course after I was mostly done my script, I found these nice instructions. But honestly, it's not like it was hard to figure out. I'll probably tweak it a few more times as I decide exactly how I want it to look, but all in all, a painless experience!
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koikuri
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10:22a
Sometimes, I'm inclined to agree with the cup.
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dinda
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8:57a
leaving. . .
jet airplane. . .you know the drill, shampoo, rinse, repeat, Vegas, 3 days, back in time for storm prep.
take care all!
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yesthattom
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7:20a
Chart of Fetishes
I must have missed this when it came out in 2002. Katherine Gates documented every fetish she could research and charted how they are interconnected.
View it here.
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yesthattom
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7:05a
McCain Owes America An Alzheimer's Test
[I got this in my email box. I’m sharing it with my LJ readers]
While Ted Kennedy and Michelle Obama were rocking the Democratic convention in Denver, John McCain made his 13th appearance with Jay Leno to joke about his age.
But McCain’s age is no joke. He will turn 72 on Friday and would be halfway to 73 if elected and sworn in on January 20. That would make him the oldest first-term President ever, two years older than Ronald Reagan. He has survived four skin cancers (melanomas), including one in 2000 that was classified as Stage IIa.
McCain is two years older than his father was when he died suddenly of a heart attack at 70. He is 11 years older than his grandfather was when he died suddenly of a heart attack at age 61.
The United States cannot afford the risk that McCain would die suddenly in the middle of an international crisis.
Nor can we afford the risk of dementia. 22% of Americans over 70 are affected by mild cognitive impairment, while 13% of Americans over 65 have Alzheimer’s. Ronald Reagan was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s at age 83, but early signs were evident during his first term. Britain’s “Iron Lady” Margaret Thatcher developed dementia at age 75.
McCain has never had an Alzheimer’s test, even though he has 6 of the 10 warning signs , including his inability to remember recent facts like the number of homes he owns, the $1M lawsuit he filed in 1990, or the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.
John McCain owes America a thorough test for Alzheimer’s and cognitive impairment long before Election Day.
Sign our petition to the Corporate Media:
http://www.democrats.com/mccain-owes-america-an-alzheimers-test
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ehowton
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12:01a
Theme Clips
Bear McCreary goes into great detail about the different themes he chose to score for the series on his blog.
Pilot
Song 1
Song 2
Song 3
current music: Goldgrapp - Discography
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indescribable
confused