sunny from the start; shroom for lunch; east atlanta beerfest; home and couch potato

Posted by imus on May 19, 2012
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Got up and it was sunny, mostly sunny anyway. Headed out to the Shroom with the brother, Brian who did let me know he wouldn’t be going to the beerfest. No real problem, I went out on a limb to get the extra tix and thought that Autumn would go but she has her son. I can always go to these things and have fun by myself.

The trip to the MARTA station was a living HELL. There was an accident on I85, somewhere after Jimmy Carter Blvd. I never saw the thing and after sitting in traffic in the 4th lane decided to get off on Jimmy Carter and head over to the station via Buford Hwy. Finally, about an hour and 15 minutes from when I left the house I made it to the station. I didn’t make it to the Inman Park Station until about 2pm and the next bus wasn’t until 2:30 but we (me and a few younger folks I was talking to at the station) decided to catch the 107 instead of the 34. Got there about 2:30 and the place was in full swing. Lots of beautiful gals in sun dresses and short shorts. Just what a spring BeerFest is about. Lots of great beers not but a few of the Moon River brews were things I hadn’t had before though. I have to say that this was again one of the best Festivals all year. Only problem I have is the MARTA travel required. I wish I had a friend that lived in the area.

EABF

grant central east


On the way out of East Atlanta I stopped in at the Grant Central Pizza, good thin crust pie, a bit soggy though. The place was FULL of people from the beerfest. This one gal who I talked to for a bit, that has some operation on her ankles was there but I couldn’t remember her name, damn still can’t. I then got out to wait for the bus that was suppose to arrive about 7pm, missed it going the right way but then took it going OUTBOUND from the station, rode the damn thing for over an hour all through lower Atlanta, I was the only white person on the bus. Stopped at the Perimeter College and then came back, got over to the MARTA past 8pm and wasn’t home until almost 10pm. Long waits at each of the MARTA stops, shit.

Partly cloudy, warm; greenway; tmac for a quick one; home;

Posted by imus on May 18, 2012
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Mostly cloudy all day, the sun peeked out randomly and the sky was more white than blue.

Went out on the greenway about 10am and since it was wet due to the rain from yesterday the mushrooms were sprouting all over the place. Mostly the white brown varieties, non of the colorful ones around here it seems.

Stopped in at the tmac suwanee after work, Beverley was there and then the guys replaced her, Greg and Dave. Had the moylans kilt lifter ale and some chili.

Came home and then laughted at tBBT episodes until about 9pm and went out to the mall of ga for another couple of beers, the young dude how talks about 100 miles an hour was there. Home about Midnight and in bed about an hour later, getting the photos of the beers I bought on Thursday.

Asked Brian about the EABF but don’t expect him to go.

partly cloudy all day, hight 80′s; greenway photos; botm @ johns creek; donna summer dies

Posted by imus on May 17, 2012
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It was partly cloudy all day, sun was out. A bit of a sunshower about 7pm just before sunset, thankfully I did put up the top on the car before it rained, I noticed the darker clouds.
 
 

I woke up about 6am but instead of going ahead and getting up I just laid back down and decided to get up a bit later. Around 7:30 I did finally get up and by 8:30 was at work, it was nice to let myself wake up more or less on my own.

I started to update the setup for the Portal and got out on the Big Creek Greenway around noon and got some photos of several mushrooms and a few insects.

Found out that Donna Summer died today of lung cancer that she got from the dust of 9/11, ok…..

Two Rugers

Rugers


After work I stopped in at the Johns Creek TMac and had an Insanity and a Victoria along with a large taco for dinner.

Out of impulse I stopped in at the Mall and had a few more beers, having a great time chatting with Erin and Kevin, damn what a really nice couple. Lots of interesting discussions, genetics, books, hunger games, authors, and beer.

cool and foggy, warmed up-sunny; tv; trivia; tilted kilt

Posted by imus on May 16, 2012
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Cool and a bit foggy on the ride into work. It warmed up quite quickly and by 11 it was warm and mostly balmy.
 
 

Big Creek Greenway

Out on the Big Creek Greenway today, scared up a rabbit while I was traipsing through the woods. Happened upon some mushrooms and fungi, also a pill-bug and a spider and grubs on some logs. Also, got some close-ups of some Carpenter Bees. Maybe I should have gone out a bit earlier in the week, with the rain we had over the weekend Monday would have been a bit better for mushrooms.

Headed on home with the top down, I just love spring time. Watched tBBT and then the latest Game of Thrones, it’s starting to get wild, it ended with the supposed death of the two young Starke boys but I believe they are still alive. Got the AR bolt back from Brian and I didn’t do much until I headed out to Trivia and stopped in at the Movie Stop to pick up our movies, The Grey with Liam Neelson.

Trivia was cool and we actually came from behind and won 1st. (It was said, “We usually don’t come from behind”, and someone, Autumn? said, “That’s what she said.” :) , ha. So, no Bill again, I think maybe he may be gone for good? LaurenS was back and the redheaded Lauren was back a second time along with Sam, Russell and I. Surprise visit by Autumn, she texted me earlier and I didn’t get back to her since I hadn’t noticed the text. I replied back @ 7 when I arrived at trivia but got no response, figured I’d call and see if she was still interested, and this got her attention and she ended up there about 8:30. LaurenS had photos from her Keys Scuba trip that were really cool. Learned a bit more about Sam’s friend, Lauren. She’s a tech at a Lab somewhere, wants to do some genetic stuff with viruses (gene therapy), really cool, it’s what I would have been into if I hadn’t gone into Engineering. Oh, and it was Brad’s Birthday today, his 41st.

Autumn and I went over to the Tilted Kilt (instead of the Taco Mac?) I had another beer although I really shouldn’t have. I did like the time with Autumn, she’s cool and although it really seems that if I “try” to find time to see her it gets harder to do so. If I let it go, it seems to happen.

Barred Owl :: Bird Identification Guide :: Bird Watcher’s Digest

Posted by imus on May 16, 2012
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Barred Owl

Photo by Maslowski Wildlife Productions.

The classic “eight hooter,” the barred owl lives in old forests and woods along rivers, swamps, and lakes. The nest is typically in a deep hollow in a dead tree but is sometimes in old crow or hawk nests. It feeds on small mammals and invertebrates, frequently sharing a territory with red-shouldered hawks. The call, perhaps the most famous among North American owls, consists of eight sharp hoots, almost always written as who-cooks-for-you who-cooks-for-you-alllll, the last note slurred and dropping. They also give a variety of clucks, whistles, barks, and bill snapping noises, especially when an observer is near the nest. Rarely seen, it is sometimes heard calling during the day in spring. The most frequent daytime call is the last note of the common vocalization, the hoo-alll, given once or twice. Barred owls are more common than most people think but their dependence on old forests and riparian habitat makes them vulnerable.

I’ve heard this owl over in the Greenway, heard the call during the day lately and there are red shouldered hawks there as well. Older forest with lots of dead trees, many with holes that could be used as nests.

Barred Owl :: Bird Identification Guide :: Bird Watcher’s Digest.

Photosmith 2 Screenshots: – PhotoSmith should be out soon!

Posted by imus on May 16, 2012
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[This post is part our ongoing series introducing Photosmith 2 which will be a free update for all users]

In preparing the press stuff for launch we realized that most people have never seen what version 2 looks like unless you bought Jeff’s book.  We’ve talked about it a great deal and offered a few glimpses but we’ve never shown full screenshots.  Well that’s all going to change right now.

via Photosmith 2.

foggy, overcast, slowly got sunnier; ice cream social @ work; odd request, but ok; shroom; home

Posted by imus on May 15, 2012
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Woke up ontime today, drive in was foggy and then the morning mostly overcast and wet, things just didn’t dry up.
 

We had a little ice cream social thing @ our office. I noticed that a gal that I saw over at the Paneria Bread Company today was out there as well. Seems she works for a Agri-Business software company who used to be owned by John Deere, she is relatively new and works on the 3rd floor. Also noticed the one HOT gal who works for the building has a really nice butt and long dark hair, yeah I’m a dog I know. Chatted with ChrisC & KemJ about guns and AR-15s, Kem is quite into guns as well and has one in all the right places.

After the outing where I talked a bit to Kem and Chris about the issues I’m having with getting the nJupiter driver working with the Self Serve Portal, it was all a bit misleading since the driver config file sample had the administrator user name put in LDAP format and it didn’t really want that.

Got a funny call today, asked for a “favor” that I was OK with doing. Some sad news that I feel terrible about. My heart goes out to them and wish nothing but the best for them.

Big Creek Greenway

tiny bug

Called up Nicki today to see what was up, no answer. I did get a text about the book and I ended up getting the whole book for $121 @ Amazon.com, it looks like a cool book so I’ll but it in my library after she uses it for school. Astronomy Today, 7th Edition.

On the way home I made a detour to the Home Depot on Pleasant Hill Rd, picked up some PVC and two end caps to make a holder for my .22LR bolt for my AR-15, I also picked up some dowel rod for the handle on my range bag and a 2.5 ft piece of quarter round molding for use in my grenade box turned gun cleaning case. Got everything cut down and realized that I cut everything one inch too big; damn, at least it wasn’t too small.

Stopped in at the ‘Shroom today after work, Sahill was there, just got back from NYC. Actually, just off the plane today and she was feeling a little out of sorts due to the wild ride of a short quick vacation to a very busy city. Had a Lazy Magnolia Pecan Brown Ale and a chicken ceasar salad for dinner.

Came home and found out they had mowed the lawn, everything looks great. I then just hung out, cut the pieces for my gun cleaning case and the handle for my range bag. I also cut the piece of PVC pipe I’m using to construct a tube case for my .22LR AR-15 bolt group. I realize now that maybe I should have gotten an adapter to allow a screw-on cap since the friction one could get stuck and become hard if not impossible to remove. I also realized that having some sort of rubber bumper (attached to caps) would protect the bolt from bumps and bangs while in the tube. The whole thing only cost about $4 to make.

wet and cloudy; messed with iui more & my beers app; daughter calls upset; couch potato

Posted by imus on May 14, 2012
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Wet and overcast although no real rain today.
 
 
 

Got up a bit late this morning, the alarm didn’t ring at all but I did wake up about an hour after it should have gone off so maybe it did.

Messed with some iUI stuff today, they are finally getting around to a release, 0.40 but what I’m looking for is the 2.0 release where they talk about iPad abilities. I’m thinking about getting some testing done and possibly putting some issue reports. I’ve been messing with GIT and google-code stuff to allow getting the CODE for iUI and then actually helping out with some bugs or something.

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

On the way home there was a small two car fender bender in front of the Home Depot on Pleasant Hill/States Bridge, silly part is everyone creeping by and the fact that neither car was disabled and they should have gotten the thing out of the intersection.

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American Lady

I get a call from Nicki about 4:10pm, I’m still at work and she is crying a little and tells me she needs me to get a U-Haul and get all her stuff out of the apartment. Seems that Jorael has taken the TV, TV Stand and the Camera they have bought together. I drive on home and when I get home about 5:15pm I’m getting the truck ready (not a U-Haul but Brian’s truck, I already told her that’s all I could do) she calls me and says she is going to be staying there tonight. She has taken off tomorrow and she also says that Jorael is calling saying he is sorry. I’m not sure what’s up but I try to let her know that no matter what he says basically he will not be changing that much, so be careful. I also find out that in the mail today I got a ticket for running a red light, but it’s Nicki’s car and it was about 6:40am on 5/7 on Spring St. Silly, doesn’t she know they have cameras there? $70.

So instead I watch episodes of tBBT and just much on bad things for dinner, olives, cookies and pop chips, yum!

I also got my butterfly taken care of, an American Lady.

code for iUI and multiple buttons on a single line

Posted by imus on May 14, 2012
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in JS Fiddle here –>http://jsfiddle.net/xTUaS/1/

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Inline Buttons</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=0">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://iui.googlecode.com/git/web-app/iui/iui.css" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://iui.googlecode.com/git/web-app/iui/t/defaultgrad/defaultgrad-theme.css"  type="text/css"/>
<script type="application/x-javascript" src="http://iui.googlecode.com/git/web-app/iui/iui.js"></script>
<style>
ul.inlinebuttons li {
display:    inline-block;
}
ul.inlinebuttons li a {
position:     relative;
height:       auto;
padding:      0.7em 0.5em;
top:          auto;
right:        auto;
}
</style>
</head>

<body>
<div class="toolbar">
<h1 id="pageTitle">Inline Buttons</h1>
<a id="backButton" class="button" href="#"></a>
</div>

<div id="home" title="Inline Buttons" class="panel" selected="true">
<fieldset>
<div class="row">
<ul class="inlinebuttons">
<li><a href="javascript:;" class="button">--</a></li>
<li><a href="javascript:;" class="button">-</a></li>
<li><a href="javascript:;" class="button">+</a></li>
<li><a href="javascript:;" class="button">++</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</fieldset>
</div>

</body>
</html>​