dinner party download: ice breakers 12

A penguin walks into a bar;






Penguin: Has my brother been in here?


Bartender: I don't know, what does he look like?

Tom Jones, dinner party download, episode 12.

dinner party download: ice breakers 11

How do you turn a duck into a soul singer?

Put it in the microwave until it's Bill Withers.









Ed Harcourt, dinner party download, episode 11.

dinner party download: ice breakers 10

This man walks into the butcher store and says to the butcher: Are you a gambling man?

Butcher: Yah, I'm a gambling man. 

Man: Alright, I bet you fifty bucks you can't touch that meat up there hanging from the hook.

Butcher: Nah, I'm not going to bet on that.

Man: What? I thought you were a gambling man?

Butcher: Yah, but the steaks are too high.








Chad Brown (a.k.a. The Lonesome Cowboy), dinner party download, episode 10.

dinner party download: ice breakers 9

A pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel sticking out of his pants.



Bartender: What's up with the steering wheel sticking out of your pants?

Pirate: Arrr, it's driving me nuts!

Aaron Aites, dinner party download, episode 9.

dinner party download: ice breakers 8

René Descartes walks in to a bar.

Bartender: Descartes, hey, how's it going - can I get you a beer?

Descartes: I think not. 

..and then he disappears.





- Abigail Chapin, dinner party download, episode 8.

dinner party download: ice breakers 7

A guy goes to the rabbi;

Guy: Rabbi, I think my wife is trying to poison me.  Can you talk to her and find out?

Rabbi: Okay, go and come back in two days.

The guy comes back two days later

Rabbi: You know what, I talked to your wife for two hours, maybe three. And I think you're right, I think she is trying to poison you. And if I were you, I'd take it.




- Dan Ariely, dinner party download, episode 7.

dinner party download: ice breakers 6

The disciple approaches the master -

Disciple: Master, what is fate?

Master: Disciple, it is that which causes a man to travel a great distance with a heavy load upon his back.  And which causes a road to spring up under his feet. And which causes Inns and Public Houses to spring up alongside that road to stave off hunger and weariness and thirst.

Disciple: Master, that is fate.

Master: Fate? I thought you said freight. 










MC Frontalot, dinner party download, episode 6.

movie queue:
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

war, inc

choke

savages

the history boys

Trust The Man

super troopers

noise

helena bonham carter

coen brothers



rebel without a cause

jaws

lawerence of arabia

ALL cult classics at weekend video

midnight rocky horror picture show

diminished capacity



une vieille maitresse (the last mistress)

garden party

finding amanda

i.o.u.s.a.

songs from the second floor

dinner party download: ice breakers 5

So a dog walks into a post office.

Dog: I want to send a telegram.

Postman: Okay, what would you like to say?

Dog: I would like to say, 
     "Woof, woof. 
       Woof woof woof. 
       Woof woof, woof woof."

Postman: For the same price, you could put another woof in there.

Dog (incredulously): Uh, but that wouldn't make any sense!


- Sarah Lyall, dinner party download, episode 5.

Mom's Dosa recipe:


2 cups rice flour

1 cup urad dhal --- soaked overnight & ground the next day with rice flour




Let it ferment in a warm place.

After it ferments

Add salt & 1/8 teasppon methi powder

Make dosas in a flat skillet by using the onion to oil the skillet --

add butter to crisp if needed

dinner party download: ice breakers 4

There's this guy, he's driving down the road, and he's got 17 penguins in the back of his car.  This cop sees him, & the cop stops him.

Cop: I don't know what's going on here, but you've got to take these penguins to the zoo.


Guy: Um, okay.

The next day, the same guy is driving, he's got the same seventeen penguins in the back of his car. The same cop is in the speed trap and stops him again.

Cop: Look man, I stopped you yesterday, I told you get these penguins to the zoo.

Guy: I took them to the zoo - today we're going to the beach!


- Ezra Feinberg, dinner party download, episode 4.

dinner party download: ice breakers 3

David: How can you tell the drummer in the band
...
David: The one who had to pay a cover charge to go to his own gig. 


[so apparently all drummer jokes stink]

- David Carr, dinner party download, episode 3.

dinner party download: ice breakers 2

Gregg: What do you call cheese thats not yours?

( silence )

Gregg: Nacho cheese!






- Gregg Gillis (a.k.a Girl Talk), dinner party download, episode 2.

dinner party download: ice breakers 1

Chandra: What do you call a deer with no eyes?

Leigh: I don't know what?

Chandra: No eye-deer.

- The Watson Twins, dinner party download, episode 1.

This is how much 15,811,000 US single men spend on average according to the government in 2006.   Also I include stats for 2,923,000 san francisco 'consumer units' and the 118,843,000 US consumer units.  I think I'll do a chart of this data after I make sense of it.  I'm thinking one chart will say why SF is a spend-a-lot area versus the US average and the other chart will compare something and US single men.  I don't know what the something is yet - maybe over time?  don't know. 

 

Food away from home includes all meals (breakfast and brunch, lunch, dinner and snacks and nonalcoholic beverages) including tips at fast food, take-out, delivery, concession stands, buffet and cafeteria, at full-service restaurants, and at vending machines and mobile vendors. Also included are board (including at school), meals as pay, special catered affairs, such as weddings, bar mitzvahs, and confirmations, school lunches, and meals away from home on trips.

1 man avg: 1,880

US avg: 2,694

SF: 3,769

Alcoholic beverages includes beer and ale, wine, whiskey, gin, vodka, rum, and other alcoholic beverages.

1 man avg: 552

US avg: 497

SF: 757

Entertainment (total)

1 man avg: 1626

US avg: 2,376

SF: 3,080

Entertainment Fees and admissions includes fees for participant sports; admissions to sporting events, movies, concerts, and plays; health, swimming, tennis and country club memberships; fees for other social, recreational, and fraternal organizations; recreational lessons or instruction; rental of movies, and recreation expenses on trips.

1 man avg:417

US avg: 606

Entertainment Other entertainment equipment and services includes indoor exercise equipment, athletic shoes, bicycles, trailers, purchase and rental of motorized campers and other recreational vehicles, camping equipment, hunting and fishing equipment, sports equipment (winter, water, and other), boats, boat motors and boat trailers, rental of boats, landing and docking fees, rental and repair of sports equipment, photographic equipment and supplies (film and film processing), photographer fees, repair and rental of photo equipment, fireworks, and pinball and electronic video games.

1 man avg: 339

US avg: 451

Housing-Household operations (total)

1 man avg: 339

US avg: 948

SF: 1,574

Housing-Household operations 

Other household expenses includes housekeeping services, gardening and lawn care services, coin-operated laundry and dry-cleaning (non-clothing), termite and pest control products and services, home security systems service fees, moving, storage, and freight expenses, repair of household appliances and other household equipment, repair of computer systems for home use, computer information services, reupholstering and furniture repair, rental and repair of lawn and gardening tools, and rental of other household equipment.

1 man avg:303

US avg: 555

Housing-Household operations 

Personal services includes baby-sitting; day care, nursery school, and preschool tuition; care of the elderly, invalids and handicapped; adult day care; and domestic and other duties.

1 man avg

:37

US avg:393

Housing-

Household furnishings and equipment (total)

1 man avg: 972

US avg: 1,708

SF: 2,414

Housing-

Household furnishings and equipment 

Miscellaneous household equipment includes typewriters, luggage, lamps and light fixtures, window coverings, clocks, lawnmowers and gardening equipment, other hand and power tools, telephone answering devices, telephones and accessories, computers and computer hardware for home use, computer software and accessories for home use, calculators, business equipment for home use, floral arrangements and house plants, rental of furniture, closet and storage items, other household decorative items, infants' equipment, outdoor equipment, smoke alarms, other household appliances, and other small miscellaneous furnishings.

1 man avg: 460

US avg: 693

Personal care products and services includes products for the hair, oral hygiene products, shaving needs, cosmetics and bath products, electric personal care appliances, other personal care products, and personal care services for males and females.

1 man avg

: 193

US avg: 585

SF: 734

by age http://www.bls.gov/cex/2006/CrossTabs/singlesbyage/malesage.PDF

by income http://www.bls.gov/cex/2006/CrossTabs/singlesbyinc/malesinc.PDF

high income survey 

http://www.bls.gov/cex/2006/Standard/higherincome.pdf

SF & other big western cities 

http://www.bls.gov/cex/2006/msas/west.pdf

Kynthia's buttermilk buscuit recipe

Kynthia's buttermilk buscuit recipe:
makes 10-12 biscuits, depending on how big you cut them

preheat oven to 450.
combine in a good-sized mixing bowl:
scant 2 c. flour
1 Tbsp. baking powder (4 tsp. if you’re at a high altitude)
1 1/2 tsp. sugar
1/2 tsp. cream of tartar (it makes them fluffier)
1/2 tsp. salt
cut in, with pastry blender, knives, fork, whatever’s your pleasure, until uniformly crumbly with butter the size of small peas or thereabouts:
1/2 c. butter, cold
make a well in the center and add:
about 2/3 c. cold milk (better less than more)
mix just until it starts to stick together, then use your hands to form a ball and turn it onto a floured surface, kneading a very few times so as to help with the butter distribution but not encourage it in melting.
roll (or pat, i usually just pat) out to about 3/4″ thick, and cut with a biscuit cutter or top of a glass.
place on ungreased baking sheet and bake in your preheated oven for 10-12 minutes.
you may have to add more flour or milk in the balling/kneading phase, depending on how scant your original 2 c. were and such, so adapt as needed.
the keys to a perfect batch (which even i do not always attain), are first to not let the butter get too warm, and then to get the right balance of flour and
milk and not overknead.
the original recipe, which i haven’t had in years, called for a full 2 c. of flour but i often found myself thinking that was too much, so i would add more milk or whatever, but then they would be moist but not flaky, so i started cutting the flour at the beginning and then only adding more if i needed it, and trying
to keep the milk level low enough that i didn’t need to add flour other than to dust the counter and pat it out…it’s kinda just something i feel as i go, which is the main principle of my cooking, so i hope this isn’t all very unhelpful… :)

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?

A man, a plan, a canal, Panama 

a palindrome obession!

MySQL GUI tools review for Mac OSX:

• MySQL GUI Tools Bundle by MySQL: 4/10 ; you can see your db, and do any and all maintenance. Loses marks because its not a designing tool and the query tool is awful. However, this is probably the tool I will use to monitor, deploy, and maintain MySQL instances.
  
• Eclipse Database Designer by Visual Paradigm: its commercial, so skipping.
  
• Navicat : looks very capable, but its commercial, so skipping.
• Cocoa MySQL : 6/10 very minimal but highly functional at the same time.  No designing mode, but I'm giving up my search and going with Cocoa for now.
  

The process of posting the completed source code REST based authentication in RoR on google code (google code may be replacing sourceforge.net one day..) took some tinkering on the Mac. 

Here are some gotcha's / tutorial-light:
1. Download svnx (alternate subversion client list)
2. Sign up for googlecode
3. Accept the new site's certificate through a terminal window (#svn list 
https://restfulauthentication-ror2.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/)

- you have to do this because the certificate isn't considered valid due to the certificate non-explicit naming of the https server

4. follow the steps on wikihow for a good how-to use svn on the mac

- deviate step 4 to the new google code's repository address

5. check in an RoR project by either using this shell script (file | save as, chmod +x, etc) as you initially create a RoR project (it is designed for starting a new RoR project).

6. if you have a RoR project already, clean up the check in using the same methods detailed in the shell script, but executing them manually so as to skip the rails project generation step:

svn remove log/*

svn commit -m 'removing all log files from subversion'

svn propset svn:ignore "*.log" log/

svn update log/

svn commit -m 'Ignoring all files in /log/ ending in .log'

svn propset svn:ignore "*" tmp/sessions tmp/cache tmp/sockets

svn commit -m "Ignoring all files in /tmp/"

svn update tmp/

svn commit -m 'Ignore the whole tmp/ directory, might not work on subdirectories?'

svn move config/database.yml config/database.example

svn commit -m 'Moving database.yml to database.example to provide a template for anyone who checks out the code'

svn propset svn:ignore "database.yml" config/

svn update config/

svn commit -m 'Ignoring database.yml'

7. check it all back out -- e.g. 

• svn checkout https://restfulauthentication-ror2.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ /Users/pjacob/restfulAuth/
  

8. after further edits / updates to your source, use svnx, View | Working Copies.  Add one named what-have-you, use the local path to your RoR app (e.g. /Users/pjacob/restfulAuth), and your username and password for the google code repository.  Double click on the new item in the list of working copies, and the changes should be listed. Click commit to commit changes, or perform any of the other normal SCM activities.

All the source code is available from the google code host site under my name or by project name: restfulauthentication-ror2

The entire REST based authentication plugin and all is available through the rubyonrails' wiki

    This is my computer. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My computer is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it, as I must master my life. Without me, my computer is useless. Without my computer, I am useless. I must use my computer true. I true. I must compute faster than my enemy who is trying to kill me. I must outcompute him before he outcomputes me. I will. Before God, I swear this creed. My computer and myself are defenders of this country. We are masters of our enemy. We are the saviours of my life. So be it until there is no enemy, but peace. Amen.

Visio Rant:
The new AutoConnect feature in Microsoft Visio 2007 Professional doesn't do exactly what you'd like.  Firstly, its unintuitive to turn on - requires a Tools | Options type of enabling, and it also requires a toolbar selection to enable it per-drawing.  Secondly, in UML drawings such as an Activity diagram, you want to modify which connector is being used.  E.g. use Control Flow between States or Action States, whereas the autoconnect puts a two sided generic 'connector' between the states.  This doesn't help because in the Activity diagram, you need to represent which direction the flow is proceeding in with the Control Flow or Object Flow connectors.  Feature request for Microsoft? Automatic connections are so much easier in Rational's eclipse based modelling tool (RSM/RSA).  In RSM the connectors change based on the objects you are connecting.  Seems obvious enough.

books to read through
- the electric kool-aid acid test, tom wolfe
- kesey's garage sale, ken kesey
- prime green: remembering the sixties, robert stone
- trout fishing in america, richard brautigan
- the subterraneans, jack kerouac
- naked lunch, william s. burroughs

haiku

piece of shit, you are
manipulative asshole
i hate you, pritish.

SF late night restaurant list

• sauce, 2 always
• farmer brown, 12 m-sat
• nopa, 1a
• naan n' curry, n/a
• emmy's spaghetti shack, 11?
• taquieria cancun, 3
• pakwan, 11
• liberties, 10:30
• brick, 12
• globe, 1 m-sat, 12 sun
• oola, 1a tue-sat, 12 sun-mon
• yeut lee, 3a wed-mon
• ryoko, 2 nightly
• thai house express, 12
• cafe maritime, 1a
• grubstake, 4a
• osha thai, 1a sun-thu, 3a fri-sat
• colibri, 11 weekends, 10 weekdays
• brazenhead
• tsunami sushi, 12a m-w, 1a thu-sat
• andalu 10 sun-tue, 11 wed-thu, 12:30 fri-sat
• harry's bar
• el farolito
• last supper club
• absinthe

tell me something good by rufus (buy this)

what does "gort klaatu barada nikyo" mean? - from Tron

focusing: to bend all incident light appearing on a subject into one cohesive image

restaurants to look into

• yaya cuisine in burlingame
• cabana in berkeley

keychain

joshua:tinypony gg

mpsc:mpscwifi!! sc/la

mix tape

1. notch no go so
2. dj threat clear my throat
3. run d.m.c.

sayings (in russian)

• seeroyezhka; mushroom and raw food eater
• ya indus, a te every ?

books

• notes on a scandal
• i'm your mushy man - curtis mayfield
• life of pi
• shantarum
• page 282 of lucifer's hammer has a good list
• song of hawatha (poetry)
• letters of wyoming

consumer software companies

• webroot
• intuit
• mcafee
• boomerang
• symantec
• trend micro
• nuance
• sony creative software
• roxio
• pinnacle systems
• adobe
• corel
• palo alto software
• peachtree / sage
• fear, work, game

TO
* be more decisive
* complete startup ideas
* get friend's birthdays
* calligraphy
* play guitar to solsbury hill

India's role in diversion

Somehow I came upon The International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) is an annual report by the Department of State to Congress prepared in accordance with the Foreign Assistance Act. It describes the efforts of key countries to attack all aspects of the international drug trade in Calendar Year 2007. "Diversion" is apparently the latest way of getting from the suppliers to the end users.

Notice 'Transit Country A' is somewhere in South America - interesting graphical prejudice (but I love diagrams!)

A snippet of the report on India's role in the world wide diversion scene:
"A joint investigation by the DEA and India’s Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in 2005 led to the dismantling of a major international pharmaceutical drug organization that was distributing controlled pharmaceuticals such as bulk ephedrine (a controlled precursor chemical) and ketamine (a Schedule III non-narcotic controlled substance in the U.S.) internationally through the Internet. The international drug trafficking ring, responsible for this criminal activity consisted of over 20 individuals in the U.S. and India, and may have had as many as 80,000 retail customers. The 108 kg of Indian ketamine seized in the U.S. was valued at $1.62 million. The total amount of U.S. money and property seized in this investigation was $2 million dollars in India and $6 million in the United States. In another joint investigation, DEA and NCB cooperated to take down another Internet pharmacy, resulting in the arrest of seven individuals in the United States and five in India.

Subsequent joint investigations have shown the continuing use of the Internet and commercial courier services to distribute drugs and pharmaceuticals of all kinds from India to the U.S. and other countries. Although ephedrine seizures within India were down in 2007, one seizure in the U.S. in September 2007 found 523 kg of ephedrine
shipped through commercial carrier from India through the U.S. and headed to Mexico. The shipment was disguised as green tea extract.

India is also increasingly emerging as a manufacturer and supplier of licit opiate/psychotropic pharmaceuticals (LOPPS), both organic and synthetic, to the Middle East, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. Some of the LOPPS are licitly manufactured and then diverted, often in bulk. Some of the LOPPS are illicitly manufactured as well. Indian-origin LOPPS and other controlled pharmaceutical substances are increasingly being shipped to the United States. DHS Customs and Border Protection are intercepting thousands of illegal “personal use” shipments in the mail system in the United States each year. These “personal use” quantity shipments are usually too small to garner much interest by themselves, and most appear to be the result of illegal Internet sales."

Now to crunch the numbers

Exporters (KGs)

Pseudoephedrine	2006
India	301,068
Germany	229,700
China	50,279
Taiwan	45,830
Switzerland	41,519
Sub-Total	668,396
United States	36,715
All Others	17,224
Total	722,335

Ephedrine	2006
India	185,804
Germany	33,200
Singapore	14,550
United Kingdom	7,300
China	6,152
Sub-Total	247,006
United States	596
All Others	8,132
Total	255,734

India is at the top of the exporter list - this is troubling.

Importers (KGs)

Pseudoephedrine	2006
United Kingdom	140,600
Singapore	45,400
Thailand	43,955
Mexico	43,428
Switzerland	38,891
Sub-Total	312,274
United States	171,195
All Others	306,380
Total	789,849

Ephedrine	2006
South Korea	17,150
Indonesia	15,407
Singapore	12,750
United Kingdom	9,200
France	7,200
Sub-Total	61,707
United States	89,624
All Others	35,394
Totals	186,725

Here is what is interesting: compare the amount the US Imports to the legitimate amount we claim we need; Table: Annual Legitimate Requirements Reported by Governments to the International Narcotics Control Boards (source: INCB); seems like the US is short of a legitimate demand for around 100,000Kg.

the entire report can be found here.

Socialites in SF

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These are two old society organizations in SF - what is the deal, are they for real about philanthropic causes, or is it an extension of sororities & fraternities from college?  I'm going to look into both and see if I know any members.

30,000 mile check up

Summary: I will live to be an old man;

Bacteria tests

• Chlamydia = negative
• Gonorrhea = negative

STD tests

• Hepatitis A Virus (HAV) = n/a; vaccinated
• Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) = n/a; vaccinated
• Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) = negative
• Herpes Types I and II = negative
• Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) types 1 and 2= negative
• Syphilis' Rapid plasma reagin (RPR) test = negative
• Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) = negative

Blood tests

• Complete Blood Count (CBC)
  
• test measures the Red blood cells (RBCs), White blood cells (WBCs), Hematocrit (HCT), Hemoglobin and Mean Corpuscular Volume (MCV)
• WBCs=1900, should be >2000
• seems like the body continues fighting the MRSA Staph infection in my knee from Dec 2007
  

• Cholesterol test (lipid panel)

• low-density lipoprotein (LDL)= 109 mg/dL, less than 100 mg/dL for people w/diabetes history, or should be 70-80 mg/dL for those w/heart disease in family. "The only way to lower this is through medication"
• high-density lipoprotein (HDL)= 63 mg/dL, should be greater than 40 mg/dL
• Total Cholesterol =182 mg/dL, (HDL + LDL + VLDL), should be less than 200 mg/dL
• triglycerides =51 mg/dL, should be less than 150 mg/dL

• Glucose test

• glucose=89 mg/dL, should be 70-117 mg/dL