What happened? Twelve years! You hit me with a cricket bat! Ha! Twelve years!
Thursday, July 24
What It's Like
What It's Like Going Grocery Shopping With Celiac Disease
About 10% of the food items are labelled Salmonella Free. And from experience, you know that's maybe 70% accurate, so if you ever want to try something new, you'd better clear your schedule because you might be spending the next 24 hours locked in the bathroom.
And there's no rhyme or reason to it. Coffee? How the hell did they get salmonella in coffee?*
What It's Like Using Windows 8 On A Non-Touch Device
It's like living in a house where the doors are just painted on the walls, and to go in and out of the rooms or open the cupboards you need to carry a chainsaw. And all the surfaces are painted the exact same shade of off-white. But the location is great!
* I thought I was lactose intolerant as well until I discovered that gluten is a common filler in ice cream.
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Hmmm, makes me want to break out the ice cream maker. I do a chocolate ice cream with dutched Chocolate and lots of cream that you just can't get commercially.
Posted by: Mauser at Thursday, July 24 2014 04:13 PM (TJ7ih)
Whenever I attempt to publish a post on my blog, I get a "permission denied" error. I also get one when I attempt to upload a picture. Is there a way for me to fix this, or do you need to do some voodoo on your end?
Thanks.
Posted by: Physics Geek at Thursday, July 24 2014 10:51 PM (MT22W)
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I think you got securitied to death - an automated security script tightened the controls on your site to the point that you couldn't update it.
Should be fixed now.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, July 25 2014 12:47 AM (PiXy!)
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Thanks. I'll check it out when I get home. For some reason, my employer blocks me from posting while at work. Ahem. In any event, thanks for the quick work. I'll let you know one way or the other.
Posted by: Physics Geek at Friday, July 25 2014 03:34 AM (MT22W)
Why exactly is it that if I want an antihistamine, or a painkiller containing codeine, it needs to be approved by a pharmacist, but if I want a cold & flu preparation containing both, I can just pick it up and pay for it?
Update: It might be because the cold & flu pills have less codeine (I checked) and antihistamine (not sure). Plus paracetamol (acetominophen) to keep you safe. The paracetamol will kill you before you can get hooked on the codeine.
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And if she wakes up and sees her shadow, it'll be six more weeks of cleaning up spam.
Posted by: Mauser at Sunday, May 18 2014 08:43 PM (TJ7ih)
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Are we running on slower hardware now? I've noticed that I often have trouble loading my page, sometimes taking upwards of a minute, and sometimes some of the pictures time out.
Also, just now it took me three tries to load this page to get the comment entry box.
By the way, whatever you did that made it so that we didn't have to log in all the time, you need to do it again.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Tuesday, May 20 2014 03:04 AM (+rSRq)
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Tuesday, May 20 2014 08:06 AM (RqRa5)
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I second Steven's comment... everything seemed okay for a few days, but
now The Pond is awfully slow. Actually, every member of Mee/Mu.Nu.via
seems to be slow.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Tuesday, May 20 2014 11:19 AM (ekFa5)
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Steven & Wonderduck - Not a hardware issue this time, but a combination of spammers and web spiders. Whacked the spammers; we should be able to cope with the spiders now.
Pete - Princess Bubblegum from Adventure Time.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, May 20 2014 12:21 PM (PiXy!)
Quite a while ago we had a situation where people were having to log in a lot, because their previous login timed out and expired. You made some sort of change that lengthened the timeout, I think, so we didn't have that problem anymore.
Whatever you did wasn't in the backup, and we have to log in all the time, again. Could you make that change again?
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sunday, June 01 2014 02:36 AM (+rSRq)
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Preved-Medved
It is a pity, that now I can not express - I ma late for a meeting. I will be released - I will necessarily express the opinion.
Posted by: BenQued at Sunday, June 01 2014 02:07 PM (he/be)
Don't leave an Australian two dollar coin in your pocket when washing your clothes in... Whichever model fancy Samsung combination washer/dryer it is that I have.
Because it's exactly the right size to lodge in the drain and block it completely.
And if the thing can't drain, it won't do anything at all.* Which means no washer. And also no dryer. Combination washer-dryers are wonderful things until they break, and then you lose two critical appliances at once.**
So now I have a working washer, a working dryer, and two dollars.*** A good day all round.
Update: Well, I have a washing machine and $20 anyway. Found some $5 notes in a pocket when I was carefully checking my first load in my restored washing machine, which was good. Then it singularly failed to dry the load of washing, which was not so good. Still an improvement.
* Because (a) the first thing it does on any wash cycle is drain any leftover water, and (b) the dryer has a condenser unit, and won't start unless it can run cold water through the condenser.
** It's been raining here in Sydney for about a month. I can hand-wash my clothes when I have to, since it's just me, but hand-drying is not so easy.
*** Actually, $5. There was another $2 and a $1 in the emergency water release thingy.
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Wednesday, March 26
Littlewood's Law
Littlewood's Law states, effectively, that every human being will experience a miracle about once a month.
Where "miracle" is defined not as something necessarily supernatural, but an event with odds of a million-to-one. So it could just as well be bad, or simply weird, as wonderful.
For example, being late to work on two successive Mondays because the train you missed (because you were already late) hit someone and the railway line was closed.
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Monday, March 24
If The Universe Is Trying To Tell Me Something, I Wish It Would Stop
Last Monday I was running late for work, and missed my train.
I was made significantly later than I already was because the train I missed hit someone and all services on that line were cancelled for the next couple of hours. Fortunately, since I was stuck at a station which is the junction of three different lines, I was able to take a longer route and eventually reach the office.
Today I was running late for work again* and missed my train. I caught the next one... And the train I missed hit someone and the train I was on had to wait while emergency services were called in.
Also, it rained.
And the building site next door keeps catching fire.
I think I should stop going to the office on Mondays.
* I do work flexible hours, but I was kind of outside the flex.
The American midwest ("Tornado Alley") gets the vast majority of the world's tornadoes, but it ain't 100%.
Here in the Pacific North West they're virtually unknown. But when I was in high school, one time a bowling alley in Vancouver was destroyed by a sudden high wind. It's long been conjectured that it was a tornado.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Tuesday, November 19 2013 01:29 PM (+rSRq)
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Apparently this is the fourth confirmed tornado in New South Wales this year, but the only one in a populated area. (Western New South Wales is huge and incredibly empty; everyone lives on the coast.)
The Bureau of Meteorology seems to be spending a lot of time today saying "Yes, it was a tornado. Yes, they do happen in Australia."
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, November 19 2013 01:48 PM (PiXy!)
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Tornadoes have been seen on every continent except Antarctica, which probably means that nobody ever goes outside in Antarctica because it's so cold, so they never see 'em.
Glad you're all right, Boss!
Posted by: Wonderduck at Wednesday, November 20 2013 12:50 PM (Izt1u)
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Apparently there was a tornado in the suburbs of Asquith and North Turramurra - right next to Hornsby - in April last year. I remember the storm but didn't know that there was a tornado involved. When it was investigated afterwards they found a narrow trail of destruction extending for several miles, and the Doppler radar confirmed a tornado.
That was actually a bigger storm, but it didn't get as much attention as this week's event because most of the tornado's path was through open forest, rather than making a direct landing on a busy commercial district in the middle of the day.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, November 20 2013 04:11 PM (PiXy!)
