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Four years ago, Hannah witnessed a Senior taking food out of a trash bin.
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Height:8-10 ft. (2.4-3 m)10-12 ft. (3-3.6 m)12-15 ft. (3.6-4.7 m)15-20 ft. (4.7-6 m)20-30 ft. (6-9 m)30-40 ft. (9-12 m)
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Hardiness:USDA Zone 9b: to -3.8 °C (25 °F)USDA Zone 10a: to -1.1 °C (30 °F)USDA Zone 10b: to 1.7 °C (35 °F)USDA Zone 11: above 4.5 °C (40 °F)
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I was doing some extensive pruning yesterday in a very overgrown bed that also has a large pine tree and a sweetgum tree...I know sweetgum - but it is such a gorgeous color in the fall. The birds brought both of these plants to my yard many years ago. In trimming the low branches of the sweetgum (touching the ground) I found a "tree" that has berries on the trunk. Never seen this before. It's probably 4 feet tall. In searching for a Mexican avocado tree this morning I found a picture of my new tree. Once again, I can just thank the birds. Definitely not native here in my zone 7b yard. I'll change my experience once I see how it does. We did have snow this year and several really really cold spells.
This is mostly in response to AlicePolarbear's questions. We used to own a ranch in south-eastern Brazil where we had at least 20 large jabuticaba trees (about 1215 metres tall, whatever that is in feet). The plants were endemic to the region, so I can tell you what their native habitat is like and you can hopefully draw a few useful conclusions. I should confirm right away that they are indeed very slow growing, even in their native habitat. Here are some of the characteristics of the native habitat of jabuticabas (less often spelled 'jaboticaba' in Portuguese): (a) average annual temperatures around 2022º C; average winter lows around 13º C, with rare extreme lows reaching about 35º C; average summer highs around 30ºC, with rare extreme highs reaching approx. 3539º; (b) *extremely* wet summers with torrential rains between mid-November and mid-March, and then *extremely* dry winters, often without a single drop of rain between late May and early September and relative humidity often between 10 and 20%; (c) shallow, acidic, often gravelly and mostly infertile soils rich in iron. Jabuticabas may bloom after a short rainy spell, but to properly set fruit they need abundant water, which means that, if left to their own devices, they will only bear fruit once a year when the summer rains have started in earnest. Some people get their trees to bear more than once, or to set fruit during an unseasonably dry spell, by watering them almost continuously (well, we're talking about a small garden hose for a fairly large tree). If a tree blooms but then doesn't get enough water, fruit will tend to be less abundant, smaller, less sweet and have thicker skins. Jabuticaba trees are not normally fertilized in Brazil, but then in over 30 years I never once saw a commercial jabuticaba orchard. They grow in people's backyards and farms, often spontaneously, and when they bear fruit it truly is an 'occasion' that brings families and friends together to gorge themselves on the delicious fruit. Most Brazilians do not eat the skin, and many people just pop the fruit in their mouths while perched on a tree branch high off the ground and then spit out the skin and stone. The fruit's harmless looking whitish pulp will actually leave permanent purple stains on fabric, and I mean *permanent*. A single mature tree provides enough for a dozen people to eat until they're blue and for 2030 jars of jelly. Trees may take 40 years or more to reach their mature size, but often start bearing when they're still fairly small (50 cm tall or so) and only about five years old.
I'm now growing one of my older specimens in my greenhouse as we get temps lower than it would enjoy around here. I also planted some at my moms house in the bay area many years ago. They occasionally load up with fruits. However cool rainy weather during bloom seems to make them set a poor crop. They do grow very slow but totally worth the wait. My oldest trees are over 20 years old. And only 7 ft tall
Grew one in mid-city Los Angeles. It grows slowly and looks as if it might make a lovely topiary given its small fine-cut leaves, although I left mine to do as it pleased. It took a number of years for my Jabo to grow to about 8-10 feet, and when it finally started to flower and fruit, it really took off. I read somewhere else that skins should not be eaten due to high tannin content. I didn't know that, and just ate them skins and all. The insides, which pop out easily, remind me of lychee. I didn't usually bother spitting out the seeds although more genteel folk might wish to do so. I just bought one via online nursery for my new home in Fresno, CA. (Central Valley, winters mild enough to grow citrus commercially, summers significantly hotter and drier than conditions on mid-city L.A. (humidity apx 10% in Fresno, with avg, July temps around 110F) I would appreciate any tips for growing in these conditions since I 'd like to get it in the ground. (add humidity somehow? Partially shade from the sun? Anything else I ought to know?)
After watching this tree for two years where we buy all of our fruit trees, it finally became part of our yard yesterday. It's a beautiful 14 year old 95 gallon so I don't have to wait to see this guy grow up. Thanks to the guys at the Tree House on Pine Island for taking such good care of it - I know they will miss it but they know it's come to a good home.
After weeks of researching I am finally the proud owner of a young Jaboticaba tree. It's a beautiful delicate plant and I can't wait to see it bloom and fruit. I know it's a slow grower that doesn't usually bear fruit until much later and I'm curious as to how I can tell how old my tree is. I bought a 15 gallon one at our local Rare Fruit Tree sale and it's about 5 feet tall.
Such a georgeous tree, exfoliating bark notwithstanding. And unlike most tropical "fruit" trees which are so much work for the taste, this tree is very very special and yummy. Love the fact that the fruits pop right off the side of the stem!
I have been wanting one of these trees since I traveled through Brazil and spent time on a ranch in the state of Goiás. They had a tree that was about 10 foot tall and was loaded with fruit. We finally found a 3 foot tree at of all places, Lowes. I have no idea how old the tree is but I can't wait for it to have fruit. I remember how popular the fruit was in Brazil having it in several different fruit drinks.
This is one of my favorite tropical fruit trees. The fruit is delicious and the tree is quite attractive. They grow very slowly and don't give fruit until they are like 8 years old, so it's best to buy one that is already fairly old (in a 7 to 10 gallon liner). Surprisingly you can find jaboticabas here in South Florida that are several years old for a very reasonable price. The jaboticaba is a pretty tough plant. Our 20+ year old jabo blew over with Wilma, completely tearing up 2/3 of it's root system and it really didn't seem to mind. Four months later it was covered with fruit ;-). The one drawback to this plant is that they are not reliable fruiters. A friend of mine has one that is over 20 years old and has only fruited once. However, many will fruit up to 6 times per year. As far as cultural requirements goes, the Jaboticaba doesn't seem to mind light shade; we have one that is 12 feet from a giant Canistel tree and it doesn't seem to car. They also appear to enjoy copius amounts of water, though they will tolerate lack of irrigation here in South Florida.
I love the taste of this fruit. Some compare it to muscadine grapes but I think it is much better. It makes quite an interesting specimen in the landscape due to the fact that it flowers and bears fruit directly on the trunk and branches. It takes 8 or more years for one to fruit but it's worth the wait. Jaboticaba trees have attractive foliage and nice peeling brown bark. It's moderately hardy-mature trees tolerating temperatures as low as 24-27 degrees. Very easy to germinate from seed!
In Hawaii we call this tree and fruit jaboticaba. A lovely tree when all covered in the little white powder puff flowers...Nice fruit to work with. Can achieve very large yields and does not take up much room in the yard. I've had great results with making syrups, jams and jellies. Waiting for my next harvest to experiment with other recipes.
I have grown this plant in So Cal... slow grow, but after 6 years finally produced a few 'grapes'. Wow, are those fruites great. Grapes, growing right off the stems of the bush. Needs more sun than I gave it here. Have seen them produce hundreds of fruits elsewhere in So Cal.
Jabuticaba is a popular fruit in Brazil. Of the size, shape and color of a common grape, it´s hardly sold on markets, more commonly consumed locally. These are small to medium sized trees, reaching from 3 to 10 meters tall. The tree is round when young, losing this shape when become old. The leaves are small, with the characteristic myrtle aroma. The flowers show up directly on the branches, and the flowering is massive, taking over the plant with small white flowers. Most flowers will originate fruits. These fruits have a dark purple, almost black, fibrous and bitter peel (but not bad tasting, bitter like guava for example). The pulp is sweet, white and gelatinous, with only one seed. This seed is spherical and soft, and might be eaten along with the rest, it has no taste. Can be eaten pure, but Jabuticaba liquors are said to be good too. This tree requires high to moderate temperatures, regular watering, full sun. It isn´t very demanding regarding soils.
This plant has been said to grow in the following regions:
Lake San Marcos, CaliforniaLos Angeles, CaliforniaSan Antonio Heights, CaliforniaSan Jose, CaliforniaWillits, CaliforniaBig Coppitt Key, FloridaBoca Del Mar, FloridaBoyette, FloridaBradley, FloridaBrandon, FloridaCampbell, FloridaCape Coral, FloridaCutler, FloridaDelray Beach, FloridaIona, FloridaLake Belvedere Estates, FloridaLoxahatchee, FloridaMalabar, FloridaOrangetree, FloridaPembroke Pines, FloridaSouth Bradenton, FloridaSouthwest Ranches, FloridaTamarac, FloridaHonomu, HawaiiMililani, HawaiiOakland, South CarolinaHouston, TexasShady Hollow, Texas
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Most notable this month is my running. Since I was pretty out for the count February and March, when I finally recovered from my IT Band flare up, my body was ready to run and run faster than it ever has ran. There are 4 major events of my running life this month that stick out amongst the rest and support that I'm improving.
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- I ran 100.29 miles in April
Swim and bike are coming along well too. I got outside on my bike a lot more and ended the month with 333 miles. Swimming got harder with workouts from my coach, but I still managed to get in 25,100 yards. This month goes down as my 2nd biggest training month ever in terms of mileage. I had a big month last July that still stands #1.
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text: Technical Abstract: Resistance to turnip crinkle virus (TCV) in Arabidopsis ecotype Dijon (Di)-17 is conferred by the resistance gene HRT and a recessive locus rrt. Inoculation of TCV on Di-17 elicits a hypersensitive response (HR), which is accompanied by increased expression of the pathogenesis-related (PR) genes and high levels of salicylic acid (SA). We have previously shown that HRT-mediated resistance to TCV is dependent on SA-pathway and increased levels of SA confer enhanced resistance to TCV via upregulating the HRT gene. Here we show that HRT-mediated HR and resistance are dependent on light. A dark phase, immediately following TCV inoculation, suppresses both HR and resistance and suppresses induction of a majority of TCV-induced genes. However, absence of light does not affect either TCV-induced free SA levels or the expression of HRT. Interestingly, transgenic plants overexpressing HRT showed susceptibility but overexpression of HRT coupled to high levels of endogenous SA showed pronounced resistance in the dark. This was consistent with the observation that exogenous application of SA, in light and prior to TCV inoculation, partially overcomes a requirement for light. Light was also required for HR and resistance against N-gene-mediated HR and resistance to tobacco mosaic virus, suggesting that it is an important factor, which may be universally required during resistance signaling.


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My son was arrested at school for a fight. Neither boy was hurt, but because it was my son's second fight in 4 years they arrested him. He was 17, but they took him to the adult jail-apparently in GA you are a criminal adult before you can vote about it.
My son was given probation with a stipulation that he have an anger assessment--not treatment, just an assessment. He did so and was found not to have any anger issues.
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"Given the objective to limit negative returns over shorter periods' a portfolio that targets around CPI plus 2 percent typically consists of mainly fixed interest instruments'" he said.
"During normal rate cycles this is achieved by investing in the money market' nominal bonds' inflation-linked bonds and various credit instruments. Many investors rely solely on money market funds' which invest at the short end of the interest rate curve."
The investments company said that it had become considerably more challenging to achieve real returns in the current economic environment' with cash delivering negative returns as short-term interest rates yielded less than the prevailing inflation rate.
Retief said that while it was not uncommon for interest rates to be low compared to their long term averages' what was concerning was the possibility that the situation could continue for longer than in the past due to the magnitude of the financial crisis of 2008/9 that currently persisted in Europe.
The challenge this posed for investors who were drawing income from a portfolio yielding a negative real return' was that they would increasingly be drawing down on their capital' Retief cautioned.
He identified "a viable alternative" as diversification into a wide range of fixed interest instruments in conjunction with some property and protected equity exposure.
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Aromatically there are orange blossoms, honeysuckle and jasmine. On the palate it's a real citrus fiesta with sweet lemon, limes and mandarins. There is also an element of minerality about the wine with subtle notes of stone fruit and almonds. The sugar acid balance is described as 'off dry' and the finish is clean making this a good aperitif and food wine.
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The bouquet is intense, ample and elegant with a hint of honey and wild flowers. Dry and smooth on the palate with good balance and an exceptionally long finish.
This is classic Mosel Riesling with a fresh lemony fragrance on the nose. In the palate there is an amazingly complex balance of many different factors - fresh acidity and off-dry sweetness - slate driven mineral texture and low alcohol - fresh fruit and a deep oily complexity. Poise and depth.
Intensely purple/black in colour, almost opaque. The nose is a concentrated wall of spices, mineral tones and dark berry fruits. Deeply concentrated, tight and seriously well structured, the palate is immense in its breadth and length showing a wealth of blackberry, fruits of the forest and spiced, wooded flavours. The firm finish means you won't forget this one easily.
A complex perfumed nose of dark berries with a pure, compact and densely flavoured palate of ripe forest fruit, herbal notes and earthy spice, followed by textural fine tannins.
A lively crisp sparkling wine with a delicate lemony character and an aromatic, dry, refreshing finish.
A really superb sparkling Loire, dry but not aggressive, produced from Chenin Blanc in the small village of Martigne-Briand, close to the town of Saumur. The wine has a beautifully fragrant English late summer fruits bouquet (apples and pears) and is clean, fresh and lively on the palate, a great alternative to Champagne.
Straw yellow with a nose showing ripe stone fruits. This dry white is textured and long on the palate with rounded acidity.
Concentrated, ripe and intriguingly complex on the nose. It releases a cocktail of tropical fruits among its toasted hazelnut and fresh bready aromas. It's full bodied too, filling the mouth with bags of melon and pineapple fruit with hints of bananas all underpinned with a stylish grapefruity acidity and a sumptuously silky finish.


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Man No Sober
Eric George and Mikey Chavez, veteran road musicians, have come together to form an all-original Roots Rock Duo. With years of touring, recording and collaborating with other national and international artists this power duo has the experience to stand out on their own. Eric's blues-influenced voice and rock'n guitar riffs combine effortlessly with Mike's finessed percussion and powerhouse drumming. Together they form a full and complete sound in Man No Sober that rivals most multiple member bands.
To sum up the Man No Sober project would be to realize a unique intoxicating dream in the face of societal pressure to conform. The current generation coming of age is less willing to "sober up" to the cultural norm. They are rebels who follow their passion with no apologies to create more interesting and expressive lives, no matter how difficult the path. Eric and Mikey have lived on that path for their entire lives and have come together to offer their interpretation through music to inspire others.


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Cheaty Cheaty Mc Cheat Cheat - Sonic Mega Collection Plus
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Also on: PlayStation 2 PC
Cheaty Cheaty Mc Cheat Cheat
Here are some cheats for Comix Zone, And all of the Sonic games(1,2,3Sonic And Knuckles, Sonic 3d Blast, and spinball)Make sure you hit the right button,Check under controls on the options menu, One last thing, unless I say otherwise enter
Code at the press start screen
Sonic 1
Lv. Select: Up Down Left Right Repeat till ring A+Start
Debug:Up C Down C Left C Right C Repeat till ring A+Start
Sonic 2
Lv. Select: Sound test 19 65 9 17 start at title A+Start
Super Sonic: Lv. Select sound test 4 1 2 6
Debug: Lv. Select sound test 1 9 9 2 1 1 2 4 A+Start
Sonic 3
Lv. Select: Up Up Down Down Up Up Up Up When sonic Spins to SEGA select sound test
SS and debug:Sound test 2 4 5 6
Sonic +Knuckles
Lv. Select: Mushroom hill hang on the hangy thingy Left Left Left Right Right Right Up Up Up start then A Then Start+A
Sonic 3D
Lv Select: B A Right A C Up Down A, Start Game and The Menu will appear
Sonic Spinball
Lv. Select: A Down B Down C Down A B Up A C Up B C Up A+Start lv. 2 B+Start Lv.3 C+Start Lv. 4
Comix Zone
Invincible: Go to jutebox Press C on 3 12 17 2 2 10 2 7 7 11
There is a Level select, but uh... I Kinda forgot it, I'll Post it later
Finally, in Comix Zone I hear that by pressing Down in the game for a few seconds, Sketch Farts...Also If you pause the game Sketch yells SEGA!! After a second, And last, by holding the punch button, Sketch makes a paper airplane that does a lot of damage to every body, Including Sketch.
That's All the cheats for the games!! Lot's of typing. CRAMP, OWW!!!!!
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Thoughts and opinions from Dispatch columnist Joe Blundo.
The Columbus Dispatch - November 02, 2012 03:40 PM
The Introvert's Way: Living a Quiet Life in a Noisy World is the second book on introversion this year.
Unilke the first, Quiet by Susan Cain, the new one doesn't attempt to blame the 2008 financial crisis on people who are too outgoing. The Introvert's Way, by Sophia Dembling, is more of a personal manifesto against being forced to conform to an extrovert world. As an introvert myself, I find that refreshing.
Inevitably, this topic must begin by addressing the difference between introversion and shyness. Dembling quotes a neuroscientist who says introversion is a weak desire to be with people. It's motivation. Shyness is a behavior. You can be a shy extrovert or a non-shy introvert.
"I am introverted and not shy," Dembling writes. "This means when I want to step out from inside my own head, I can so do without much trouble. But I don't always want to."
Shyness can be overcome, she says. Introversion cannot. Not that anyone is likely to be 100 percent intro or extro. People can swing between the poles.
"Introversion theorist Jennifer Grimes thinks that if it weren't for the ebb and flow of introversion and extroversion within each of us, nothing would ever get done," she writes. Planning takes introversion; enacting the plan takes extroversion.
Dembling writes about disliking cocktail parties, loathing karaoke, and avoiding roller coasters. The only thing that fascinates me about any of those activities is that some people actually enjoy them.
The best advice in the book is in a chapter on how to deal with children who are introverts:
"If your child is usually social and outgoing and suddenly becomes withdrawn, that's a big red flag, not to be ignored. But if the little one consistently prefers being solo over social, can spend hours playing alone, loves a good book, a quiet room, and one on one times with friends and family, then what you have is a little introvert who should be given plenty of space to do what comes naturally."
Chen earns promotion to Clippers
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Matias Sanchez made quite an impression with his first MLS start. In last Saturday's 2-0 loss to Colorado at Crew Stadium, Sanchez played 77 minutes and was described as one of the best players on the field by head coach Robert Warzycha.
He was also among the loudest. The feisty defensive midfielder was called for a game-high four fouls and was demonstrative in his objections to most of them – perhaps a bit too much.
It's been a nice couple of weeks for Walt Dennis.
The president and CEO of HFI, an automotive interiors supplier in Canal Winchester, Dennis and his wife, Jane, were recognized by Ohio State on May 6 for a donation that put their names on a 20,800-indoor practice facility for the Buckeyes' men's and women's golf teams. Construction began in March and the facility is expected to be ready for business by January.
Thursday, playing alongside his wife in the BMW Charity Pro-Am, a Web.com Tour event in Greenville, S.C., Walt had a hole in one on the ninth hole at Thornblade Club and won a BMW 325i.
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Dems have a theme for state diner
Crew forward Jairo Arrieta has received a two-game suspension from the MLS Disciplinary Committee for his foul of Colorado's Drew Moor last weekend.
Arrieta earned a yellow card in the 18th minute when he reached back with his left arm and delivered a shot to Moor's face while going for a long pass. You can watch the clip here.
A leading narrative about this Broadway season just got challenged – in a
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Kinky Boots, a crowd-pleasing musical affirming diversity with terrific pop songs by Cyndi
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Court order for hazardous waste, air pollution violations.
Neither Danny O'Rourke nor Agustin Viana will make this weekend's trip to Toronto, Crew head coach Robert Warzycha said today.
Both players progressed from injuries this week and were listed as questionable on the team's official injury report released Thursday, but it will be at least another week until either is back in uniform. Viana has missed the last two games with a hamstring injury and O'Rourke sat out last weekend's game with an ankle injury.
Case Shiller, which publishes one of the nation's most watched home-price indexes, forecasts a slight decline in central Ohio home prices this year, followed by a healthy rise.
The index, which was recently purchased by the real-estate data firm CoreLogic, estimates that median home prices will drop .6 percent in the Columbus area by the end of the year before climbing 3.5 percent between the fourth quarter of 2013 and the fourth quarter of 2014.
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Felix's Blog
by Felix — Who am I?
Test your "secret questions" or "security questions"!
posted 2012-11-23
So, I took a trip to England recently, and of course half of my various online accounts went into lockdown mode when I tried to sign on from a different continent. Unfortunately, account recovery mechanisms have a short shelf life:
If you set up your Facebook security questions a while ago, Facebook has randomly renamed them, so good luck working out which answer they want when you told them your mother's maiden name and they ask you who your first grade teacher was.
Yahoo questions were character-set restricted at some point, and any answers that contained non-alphanumeric characters or were longer than 32 chars now no longer work.
So, it's probably a good idea to artifically trigger an account lock *before* you go on a trip, just to see if your security questions actually work. It might also be a good idea to assume that all security question implementations were written by complete idiots (well, they'd pretty much have to be... anyone who thinks adding a way to bypass the password on an account using publically available information has to be an idiot), and use fairly few alphanumeric characters in your answers.
Oh, and some services just plain don't let you log in from afar, e.g. Equifax requires you to use a North American proxy server. Not sure what good credit monitoring is if you can't access it...
CASH ADVANCE FEE / you can't gamble with a credit card
posted 2012-11-15
I learned that there's a rule somewhere that "you can't gamble with a credit card" -- but this does not manifest as you being unable to pay for lottery tickets with a credit card. No. I bought my first ever lottery ticket on a random whim on my birthday, and the terminal looked exactly the same as the ones at the checkout lanes at this grocery store. Nothing was different about how the transaction went through, no warning messages anywhere, etc.
It even looked normal on my credit card statement -- except that below it was a "CASH ADVANCE FEE". I've never made a cash advance in my life, so I called them up, and apparently that's what that perfectly normal-looking transaction was treated as.
So yeah. Don't pay for anything remotely gambling-construable with your credit card.
Formula for the length of a Hamming code from message (i.e. data bits) length
posted 2012-10-22
Apparently this is not published anywhere. For a message of length d bits, a Hamming code will be this many bits:
length of hamming code = d + 1 + floor(log2(d+1+floor(log2(d))))
I derived this myself with not much mathematical rigour, so you might want to check it if you're gonna use it for something important. (I actually don't know how to derive it symbolically, or I'd post the derivation. I worked out this formula by sort of... throwing logarithms at the problem until it got better.)
Why cats save humans from house fires
posted 2012-10-20
I realized today what their thought process probably is, in those cases we sometimes hear about of cats saving their humans by waking them up when there's a fire.
My ex-mother-in-common-law was in the kitchen cooking, and set the smoke alarm off. Moritz (that's the cat) immediately came running from wherever he was out in the yard, to investigate. He associates the smoke alarm with food, because whenever it goes off, food is being prepared.
So, when there's a real fire and the alarm goes off, the cats wake up their humans because something isn't right: the food annunciator is sounding, but no one has prepared any food for them! The humans must be awoken at once to rectify this situation.
Michael Geist - In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law.pdf
posted 2012-09-08
Here is a book related to the copyright kerfuffle from a few years ago. It's still relevant — and I've finally finished assembling a nice PDF of it (I meant to do it during the original kerfuffle, but it's been on the back burner ever since). The whole thing is available for free here, but in separate files per chapter. I combined them into one file, redid the cover graphic, added a table of contents, copied in all the "about the author" bits from the download website, and added document bookmarks. I think that's OK under the licence the original content was under :)
New Project: Food moulds that are harmless
posted 2012-07-17
Lamenting the death of the netbook
posted 2012-03-02
Turn off Google search auto-correct/auto-suggest
posted 2011-12-16
Lately, it seems that Google's "I think you meant this instead of what you actually searched for, so I'm not going to show you what you actually searched for" algorithm has gotten a lot more aggressive. This is bad, because it often leads to me concluding that there's no useful information on the topic I searched for.
For example, I use a PDF annotation program called Xournal. Recently I've seen talk of a new version called Xournal++. It's still in the early alpha stages, so when I got no useful results, I assumed that the developer hadn't released any info about it yet. Except...
Showing results for "xournal"
Search instead for "xournal++"
Dammit Google! If I hadn't wanted those two + signs there, I wouldn't have typed them!
Anyway, you can disable this nonsense by putting "&nfpr=1" in the search URL. This is easy to change in Opera; Firefox users will need to do a bit of hacking. (What does nfpr stand for? My guess is "no fucking proof-reading" :P)
Product Plug!
posted 2011-08-01
This may well be the first time I've ever done this, but... This thing is
(Ultra USB 2.0 to IDE/SATA Cable for 2.5-Inch/ 3.5-Inch / 5.25-Inch Drive with Power Adapter)
It's a USB to any-kind-of-hard-drive adapter. That is, it's got a USB plug on one end, and all the kinds of hard drive connector mashed together on the other end. I just ordered one, because this is going to save me so much time disassembling USB enclosures (see below).
List of Cities in British Columbia by Regional District
posted 2011-07-21
I needed to code a list of 114 cities in BC with what regional district they belong to. This is not an exhaustive list of BC's cities, but if you ever need to do the same thing, this may save you some time.
Source/method: I snarfed the wikipedia page for each city, using a shell script like this:
cat cities.txt | while read l; do wget "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$l"; sleep 4; doneThen, I parsed the regional district out of the files that had it (manually for a few of them). Finally, I looked up the remaining few using this Google map plotter and ran their locations against the official maps.
The Data
cities with regional district.txt official ID numbers.txt
The cities file has each regional district spelled out in English, but each text string is exactly equal to the official name, so you can do a simple search/replace against the "official ID numbers" file to get the official codings.
(I didn't use the official ID numbers because they are duplicated for the Island/Mainland regions for the two that have this distinction, and we needed those separated in our database.)
Shaw hijacking NXDOMAIN responses
posted 2011-06-09
I have a Shaw cable connection, and today I was surprised to find myself here:
Shaw is hijacking NXDOMAIN responses. There's a whole bunch of literature out there about why this is bad and how it breaks the Internet. To disable it for your connection, go here:
Stimulating Minds to Fantasy: A Critical Etymology for Sahul (Chris Ballard)
posted 2011-03-17
On the extremely remote chance that anyone else needs this academic paper on the origins of the name 'Sahul' for the Australian tectonic plate, here it is. It was practically impossible to find, so I think that trumps copyright. (I think it's pretty old, too, so it should be in the public domain anyway. Of course it legally isn't, but that's because of Disney and Sonny Bono lobbied/bribed US legislators, not because of any actual good that comes to society from having indefinite copyright terms.)
The Author Actual Moneys Project posted 2011-03-16
Looking for an alternative to book piracy that still pays the authors for their work? Try this.
A short story posted 2010-03-11
Here's a short story of the same kind as Shirley Jackson's The Lottery. It's my hope
that high school students will one day be forced to read and analyse it :)
The Remainder
(Fun fact: 'remainder' is a legal term in property/inheritance law. Look it up after reading the story.)
Disassembly instructions for Seagate "Expansion" ST310005EXA101-RK 9SF2A4-500 external hard drive posted 2010-01-04
Eventually I'm going to set up a sort of knowledge base where I can dump articles on
all the random things I discover while I'm working. Til then, I'm going to post this here
because I couldn't find instructions for this anywhere on Google and it was a bitch to
figure out without damaging the thing.
How to disassemble / open up the casing of a Seagate "Expansion" ST310005EXA101-RK 9SF2A4-500 external hard drive (PDF)
Downloaded flickr photo sorter posted 2009-11-07
So I had a substantial collection of unclassified, um, pictures, that I downloaded from Flickr, and I thought to myself, "Wouldn't it be nice if instead of having to sort through all these pictures, I could just have them automatically sorted by username?"
So I wrote this perl script to do just that:
ls *.jpg | flickr_classify.pl [a flickr session ID cookie] > outputfile
It'll work without the session ID cookie, but on pictures that you need to be logged
in to see it'll return "Dont_know" or "No_permission_to_view" (you'll see those
on other photos too; usually it means they've been deleted).
Then view the output file in your favourite text editor to make sure it worked out
alright, flip the mkdir lines up to the top, and run it as a shell script.
I highly recommend you run this script on a COPY of your, um, photo collection and then double-check that nothing got overwritten/deleted before keeping the results.
Disassembly instructions for Lacie 301304U external hard drive ("Design by Neil Poulton") posted 2009-08-10
Eventually I'm going to set up a sort of knowledge base where I can dump articles on
all the random things I discover while I'm working. Til then, I'm going to post this here
because I couldn't find instructions for this anywhere on Google and it was a bitch to
figure out without damaging the thing.
How to disassemble / open up the casing of a Lacie 301304U external hard drive (PDF)
Critical Mass Bike Ride, Victoria, BC posted 2009-08-01
I attended this event for the first time yesterday. First, Google, here are a number of things everyone needs to know about the Victoria Critical Mass ride:
- The meeting location is Centennial Square, by City Hall.
- The date is always the last Friday of any given month.
- While the usual time for these things is 17:30 (5:30 p.m.), the Victoria, BC one doesn't seem to start until about 19:00 (7:00 p.m.). The "official" meeting time is between 18:00 and 18:30, however, most people are half an hour to an hour late.
Now, some commentary (things that didn't impress me about the ride):
The turnout was very small for a city this size. I mostly blame this on our nonstandard starting time
and conflicting information posted on those few websites that have it. See above for the correct
I know that running red lights is kind of a standard practice for Critical Mass, and it makes sense for a parade-like event, but the execution on the Victoria ride this month was very poor. We ran red lights that were red when we got there, i.e. deliberately biking out into cross traffic and stopping it. I had originally intended to set an example by waiting at reds, but the turnout was so small that I wouldn't have been able to keep up with the group if I did that (especially since they wouldn't wait at the next red, either).
At least one person repeatedly went into oncoming traffic. I didn't think that was a good idea. Ironically, though, he had more chance of being run over from behind than in front — by the pissy car drivers who didn't want to take a few minutes out of their day and roared into oncoming traffic themselves to get around us.
We were very rude to the horses. Victoria, BC has horse drawn tour carriages, and while the horses are probably drugged (or very well trained or so psychologically broken that they don't care about traffic), being mobbed by tens of small, shiny bicycles probably sucked for them. Critical Mass riders also kept their horns and bells going when we passed horses, further startling them. Several trainers/minders had to reassure their horses after we went past the main parking spot for the carriages.
In conclusion, since this is a decentralized event there's no one to complain to about things. Instead, I'll be talking about them to the crowd before we leave on next month's ride (since I'm as much an organizer as anyone else).
Lamenting BC-STV
posted 2009-05-17
So we just had a big election in BC. From my point of view, we lost. It was
the saddest I've ever been after an election — I'm used to the person I
voted for not getting in, but this time we had a referendum on electoral reform
and the thing I voted for didn't get elected there either. I'll moan more about it
some other time, for now, here's a document I'm working on:
Why BC-STV failed (PDF)
Business Idea
posted 2009-05-01
As some who know me know, my strategy when I have a great idea for a business or a product is to immediately tell everyone I know. The hope is that someone with more free time, capital, or entrepreneurial drive will implement it so that I don't have to bother. I'm more concerned with bringing things into existence than owning and controlling them (which is why I hate patents and intellectual property in general).
Anyway, my idea is this: When you move, wouldn't it be great if you could just liquidate all your stuff instantly, and buy new stuff at the other end? No shipping, no worrying about stuff getting lost or broken on the way, and hey, a couch is a couch and a desk is a desk, right? (Obviously there are a few sentimental things that you'd want to really move, but the majority of our stuff really is just stuff.)
My idea is a kind of teleportation by logistics -- there could be a stuff escrow company (a national self-storage chain would be the ideal candidate, since they already have lots of space to keep stuff), that would record the transaction and then grant you all the replacement stuff when you get to your new city. Think of all the millions of litres of fuel and trucker time it would save.
Anyway, I'm going to go and tell a bunch of self-storage companies about this now; I just thought I should post it here first in case any of them got any ideas about patenting the process or something. Prior art!
posted 2008-11-27
So I thought of this all by myself last night, and was surprised to learn
that no one's ever thought of it before! (Says Google.) So the riddle is —
what animal is this?:
(Look at the image filename for the answer.)
Condoms in wallets
posted 2008-08-06
Why do people still do this? You'd think that several years of Google-assisted sex-ed would've put this (and a few other not-so-good traditions) to rest forever, but apparently not.
My boyfriend and I were on a bus back from the ferries the other night, when a fellow passenger sat on a wallet left by someone. In typically human fashion, he foisted it off on us as soon as we expressed any interest in being the ones to take responsibility, and naturally we started rifling through it.
(I'm the kind of person who likes to do his own detective work rather than turn stuff in to the lost & found — I believe [correctly or not] that I would put more effort into getting the one item returned than would the staff who deal in lost items by the bucketload.)
No useful ID, since the owner was a kid of 14 or 15, but we did find the clichèd condom. We did end up just passing it on to the lost & found, but not before I stole the kid's condom and left a note in its place:
Dude! Condoms in wallets = BAD IDEA
(Google it.)
On the one hand, we might've just ruined some poor kid's First Time (I imagine him, all genuinely and justifiably horny and nervous for the first time, fumbling awkwardly into his wallet for... a note from a creepy random stanger with an odd sense of humour), but on the other (says my boyfriend) he's probably better off without that extra baby. Besides, maybe he'll find it amusing too.
My own take on the condom-in-wallet tradition? I keep a fragment of the wrapper from my first time :)
I love the fucking Russians
posted 2008-07-26
So today I finally decided to make an attempt at converting my small selection of Liquid Audio files to something that I could actually play. Most of you are probably thinking, "Liquid Audio? What's that?" and you're right -- Liquid Audio was an obscure format in its peak, and has been a totally dead format since before my boyfriend graduated from high school.
However, for a brief few weeks, a younger version of me (who didn't fully grasp the problem of DRM and closed media formats) thought that Liquid Audio offered the best audio quality per bitrate of anything out there. At that time, it was easy to find a Winamp plugin (there were Winamp plugins for everything back then, and this was before Microsoft forced them to lock down the Disk Writer so it couldn't be used on WMA files). I also found the "Liquifier" encoder, which, being the content creator side of things, conveniently ignored all playback restriction flags.
Back then, I was also naive enough to assume that CD's would last forever and that (and this is a worse assumption) people I lent things to would always return them.
I put all of my Liquid Audio software on one CD. Somebody lost that CD.
I hadn't listened to those Liquid Audio tracks in so long that I'd set up a new computer and not bothered to reinstall the player, Liquifier, etc.
Liquid Audio failed, went out of business, and their downloads section disappeared from the web. Because they were a closed, proprietary, sue-happy company as much as the next one, no one else was providing copies of those programs.
Enter 2008, me running Linux as my main OS, and the fucking Russians (btw, I don't mean that to sound offensive at all; it's more along the lines of "Russians are fucking AWESOME"). After some Googling, I found one download link to Liquifier version 5, in Google's cache of an old Russian warez site. Those Russians -- they don't care about North American copyright law at all, and it's thanks to them that bits of our culture can sometimes be saved where they would otherwise have been lost to the intellectual property mongers.
I'm going to take this opportunity to return the favour, and help anyone else who might have Liquid Audio files still locked up in DRM obscurity. Here, as my first foray into posting content that might get me sued, is Liquifier Pro and some assorted utilities:
WARNING! For all their usefulness, Russian warez sites do sometimes slip nasty things into programs. There's no guarantee that these files are completely safe, so I strongly recommend that you only use them in a virtual machine.
- Liquifier Pro v5.0 beta 24
- LQM to LQT converter for Liquifier 5
- Liquifier Pro v4.0.0 build 41
- LQM to LQT converter for Liquifier 4
- Total Recorder (lets you record a digital audio stream before it hits the sound card (i.e. losslessly))
Since Liquid Audio has been stone dead for years (at least as far as their player/encoder software goes), I don't think they'll care much. Also, for all its shortcomings, Canada's proposed copyright bill C-61 does enshrine violation of intellectual property for the purposes of interoperability, and I'd say rescuing people's dead music files counts.
Total Recorder seems to still be around so I might get a takedown notice from them, but we'll see. Hopefully they won't care about 7-year-old software that's 3 versions behind current and probably doesn't even run under Vista...
Stop bill C-61 please.
posted 2008-06-24 07:45 UTC
The Internet vs. the Library
Gary: "There was a famous quote at the time [1990's] that the Internet was like the Library of Congress, but with all the books thrown on the floor.
Felix: "Well, the Internet is still like the Library of Congress with all the books thrown on the floor, only now we have an autistic person who knows where he threw them — that being Google."
Update on the mudslide story
posted 2007-06-06 20:17 UTC
Turns out 2 people did die; buried under it in their truck. They were from Williams Lake and related to someone my mom knows. Archived here.
If I had spacial distortion technology...
posted 2007-06-05 21:30 UTC
...I would use it to put more stuff into my sandwich.
In other news, I wrote another short story (an episode in the Feline series); it should be up on AnthroArchives.org soon. It's called "Werecat!".
100 000 words!
posted 2007-06-03 03:09 UTC
Well, perhaps I will finish my novels within a year — I crossed the 100 000 word mark today in book 1. (For anyone not up to speed on that, I'm writing a trilogy of novels about werecats.)
I also tried to find something similar to what I'm writing in the library the other day, just to see what it was like. Apparently I was right when I said no one ever thinks of werecats — I can't find any examples of novel-length fiction that feature werecats that aren't just including them because they have werewolves and a miscellany of other werecreatures. Maybe I really am doing something new here?
Here's a picture of random girls in a field (at UVic):
(click for big)
Mud/Rock Slide Near Terrace
posted 2007-05-29 21:02 UTC
event in question 2007-05-28 15:30 UTC
The details, as I've heard them so far:
- location: Highway 16, 37km east of the junction between 16 & 37, in Terrace [says Terrace Standard]
- dimensions: 15m deep, 40–25m wide [says e-mail forward]
- composition: looks like rocks, trees, & mud to me :)
- casualties: none [says Opinion 250]
- total volume that needs to be removed to reopen the road: 25 megalitres (metric baby, yeah) [says Opinion 250]
- alternate route around it? yes, via "Cranberry Connector" (a logging road, 50km long and unpaved) [says Terrace Standard]
Pictures (click for bigger):
Archived news stories:
Opinion 250
Opinion 250 #2
Terrace Standard
Wouldn't it be easier to just find a real crab?
Bay Street Bridge Fire
So the Bay Street bridge caught fire Sunday evening; pictures:
More of the aftermath over at
Google Photos...
Canada.com news article archived here.
Dream: (possibly related to watching The Fountain with my roommate last night): I dreamt I was in the plotline of Titan, but most of the cast were characters from Lexx., including me (I was Kai). I remember doing something like the tai chi dance scene among the background of stars from that scene in The Fountain (I'll get a still of it later) while singing the Brunnen G chant.
The Fountain: Good movie; I'd recommend it... my roommate and at least one of his friends call it the "best movie made so far;" I'd be a bit reluctant to call it that, but then again, they're Lit majors ;) I will say that it has some of the things the best movie ever made will need, though (namely snow, a woman with short hair, love, death, and the aforementioned starry sky).
Favourite word this very minute: mondegreen
The Anuspout
I bought this honey this morning that I just had to blog about: the non-drip spout looks like something out of Lexx.
Here it is passing gas: |
...and here it is in action: |
Here is the whole container, next to a tub of margerine with a questionable slogan on it: No, Parkay, I don't know™... pray tell. They probably can't without upsetting the Butter Lobby: In the United States, the color bans, drafted by the butter lobby, began in the dairy states of New York and New Jersey. In several states, the legislature enacted laws to force margarine manufacturers to add pink colorings to make the product look unpalatable, but the Supreme Court struck down New Hampshire's law and overruled these measures. By the start of the 20th century eight out of ten Americans could not buy yellow margarine, and those that could had to pay a hefty tax on it. Bootleg colored margarine became common, and manufacturers began to supply food-coloring capsules so that the consumer could knead the yellow color into margarine before serving it.[from Wikipedia:Margerine. It's missing a citation, but we have a similar silliness in Quebec, so I believe it. If it were up to me, all food dyes that serve no purpose beyond changing a food's colour would be illegal — if our food is grey, then let our food be grey, I say! The truly ironic thing is that most butter is also artificially coloured.] |
Favourite word this very minute: malapropism
Turn Signals a la xkcd
Watch the leading car in the left turn lane and the van behind it — sorry the quality's so bad, I took this freehand with auto-focus on, shooting through a dirty bus window, and with almost no space left on the camera.
Egg in the Microwave
This is from a while ago; mostly using it to test video embedding.


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