"Only been to FL once and that was in the tourist trap (Orlando) part of the state. Don't recall seeing it on any menus but I wasn't looking for it at the time either. I'm going to NOLA next month. I ought to be able to find it there I suspect. "
The fried alligator appetizer at Couchon's Restaurant is pretty good stuff. The food there is a little pricey, but not bad..and definitely different that your run of the mill NOLA restarants. I got in there, and was a one top..they got me right in past the crowd and I ate at the chefs bar in the back which is cool in that you can watch them cook and talk to them.
"You are correct. You'd know this if you weren't too busy driving the Porsche Cayenne Turbo that you don't actually have.
Why did you get rid of your PREVIOUS PORSCHE? Don't tell me... KATRINA, RIGHT?"
The cayenne in my name...reference to the chile pepper....had it a LONG time ago before Porsche put out an SUV.
Personally, I've never owned anything with more than 2x functional seats. The 911 Turbo I used to have technically had 4x seats..but the rear ones were really useless for anything but a couple bags of groceries.
Personally, I'd never want any kind of car bigger than what I've got now....
And yes, Katrina ate the old 'black monster'...but I got a good deal out of it with insurance money.
"I always wondered why the Americans adopted SMS sooooo later than European"
Well, cost is one thing. Txt messaging costs extra for most of us here in the US. While most people here these days are getting unlimited voice, and have been for awhile, you had to pay extra for txt..often in the past easily $0.10/message.
I understand that in Europe, it was cheaper to text than to voice call.
Nowdays...txt plans are getting cheaper and most people I know now have unlimited txt...whereas a couple of years ago...virtually no one I knew in my circle of friends really did much txt.
"I'm basing it on the opinion that texting is a faddish step back from voice communications. The only advantage that texting has over calling is that it can be easily stored and "time-shifted". With advances in speech-to-text and technologies like Google Voice, we'll see less distinction between texting and calling. Texting as we know it today is too cumbersome to be a long-term technology, I think."
I find the opposite to be true. I find texting and emailing to be much more efficient and convenient than calling on the phone.
I can fire off txt messages/emails throughout the day, anytime, at the moment I think of them. In general, I find that talking on the phone is inconvenient and inappropriate. At work, I don't like to make personal calls that everyone else can hear. So, if I had to depend on voice, I'd have to wait till I got some time, stand up and walk from the desk, likely outside...and call. I'd also stand a good chance of possibly forgetting everything I wanted to say to everyone...and that's another advantage to txt/email...I can blast the same message out to a bunch of people...have group conversations much easier than with voice.
I mean, to each his own...but I find that for the majority of my communications with friends and family...txt and email is the best way to go...which phone calls to fill in when needed.
"I receive 10 a year. Seriously. And most of them are unsolicited ads for Viagra."
You get SPAM ads via text messages!?!?
Wow...never heard of that...how did they get your number? Isn't it illegal to send ads that way since it costs you money (much like the ban on spam on fax machines)?
"Hell, I sometimes go 2 or 3 weeks without even turning my phone ON."
You mean phones turn off??
:)
I only turn my phone off when it needs a reboot...but then again, I don't have a landline, my cell phone *IS* my only phone..so, it has to stay on all the time.
Doesn't mean I have to answer it every time...that's what voicemail is for...
I didn't really know what texting was....till Katrina hit.
After the storm, for months, you could not receive calls if you had a 504 area code, but we all discovered that txt messages could get through, and that's when I learned about it. I learned the T9 stuff...and moved up from there.
I prefer most of my weekday communications to be email or txt, but everything has its place. I find it is much easier to communicate with txt...especially when out and about, say in a bar where you really just can't hear well, and I don't wanna be shouting over the phone and annoying those around me, a txt gets through quicker and more efficiently and doesn't annoy those around you who have no interest in your conversations.
I prefer email and txt to voice. During the day, I'm busy at work, but I can easily dash off a few messages to friends as I think of them. I work in 'cube-ville' and prefer not to talk on the phone about personal stuff with all the ears around. If I were to wait to get out of here to call, well, likely I'd forget all the ideas I had to communicate all during the day.
At night, well, I like a little peace and quiet, and not generally IN a mood to talk on the phone...so, I rarely like to use voice on the phone.
This actually seems to work with most of my friends, except for one. He just seems to HATE txt or email...and insists he get phone calls, at home in the evening (don't call him at work, he says is too busy and doesn't like personal calls there). Well, he tends to get left out of things. Most of the time during the week, my other friends and I communicate all day long with email/txt...and have things for the weekends, or some week nights planned out without ever speaking to each other at all on the phone.
My friend? Well, he refuses to be in the loop...won't pay the extra for txting on his personal phone, but won't leave his work cell phone on which does have paid for texting...and well, we want him along, but we often forget to go home, and physically call him.
I like to talk to my friends in person....but we use txt and email to plan get togethers.
I was watching a show the other day...something like Modern Marvels, and it showed all the processing that they have to do to corn to get HFCS, and I was dumbfounded.
If nothing else, I'm trying to change my diet to stay as FAR away from processed foods as I can. As it is, I try to mainly shop only on the outside edges of the grocery store...veggies/fruits...meat/seafood...dairy.
I know sugar is processed, I don't use much of it, but geez....the chemicals and process to "extract" HFCS from corn was almost alchemy in my eyes.
That alone gives me personally, a good reason to just try to avoid it.
And considering everything that stuff is in..it is actually kinda hard these days. I mean it is hard to even find a loaf of bread (which I rarely eat) that doesn't have HFCS in it...c'mon...bread???
"I can honestly say that quality soy milk is superior in every way. "
I'm troubled by studies I've read about, that seem to show that increased soy products in general, tend to raise estrogen levels in males, and I think even actively lower testosterone levels (I'm not 100% on the lowering part).
With all the pesticides and chemicals that are already feminizing men...I'd just a soon try to avoid most soy products in order to at least keep one bad factor out of my body.
I believe there is a significant problem we're starting to have due to chemicals messing with men's hormones. Increased rates of besity and moobs seem to be a valid visual indicator of such...to me.
"It's not like when you're left handed you are missing your right hand- you're not disabled..."
I dunno. Possibly it is due to lefties having their brains wired differently, but as a right handed person...my left hand for most things, is completely useless. I can not do most things at all with the left hand.
As I kid, I did learn some slight of hand magic, and I could learn to do a few simple things like roll coins on both hands, etc...but very limited.
If I try to do most anything with my left hand...I feel like I am a bit disabled, and get pretty much a disabled persons results with it.
Typing and fingering the fretboard on a guitar are about all I can do left handed.
"The main reason why the government started doing that in 2005 was because we had discovered that Israeli spies had been doing exactly that thing, getting fake NZ passports using the birth certificates of dead babies..."
I seem to recall years back..there were a whole litany of things you could do with "dead babies"....?
"And the poisonous spiders that hide in the dunnies. And the poisonous snakes that hide in your shoes. And the poisonous jellyfish that hide in your togs.
"What we really need to do is bite the bullet and have the government lay fiber to every house in the area. "
Regardless if everyone in the country wants or needs such service?
Don't get me wrong..."I" would love to have this kind of service and speed, but, this isn't at this point a necessity of life here. To many people out there, this is still a nice luxury. Not everone has a computer out there to take advantage of such a connection, etc.
Yes...it would be nice...but isn't as necessary to living in the US as compared to things like roadways, police and firestations which the community at large pretty much all needs.
"In my experience: one stream only. I had trouble when both client and server were wireless, but if either had a wired connection to the WAP, it went fine. This suggests collisions, and it might be that a better WAP would handle wireless all around."
Thanks for the reply.
The mythtv backend will be wired to the router/wireless...the multiple front ends will all be wireless.
I may get one of those little ion boxes for a front end, and see how it does, if it doesn't work out...will re-purpose it for something.
I've got some extra boxes, and want to do the client server route....trouble is, how to route from the server in the upstairs office, to the smaller boxes by each tv up/downstairs?
I currently rent, and it is an OLD house...no real way to run ethernet through attic and drop through walls.
Can wireless-N handle traffic fast enough to be able to send HD content around the house?
I have a friend that has settop boxes on all tv's in his house, but he just sneakernets usb harddrives to each one...I want the myth thing to capture from cable and HD antenna..and just be able to watch from any room in the house....
Can wireless-N handle sending HD content through your house?
"My ex's father runs a multimillion business of manually collecting the feces of livestock and refining it into fertilizer. It works beautifully - raw materials are readily avalable for low or no cost, and much of the business is in the local agriculture community."
"You might want to reconsider growing algae for food, one research group at my university is investigating growing algae to produce sugar, so we don't have to cut down forests to grow sugarcane. "
Hmm...not too good for us low carb types.
Gimme dead animal that I can sink my teeth into any day of the week....I mean, I'm open to trying most anything food wise, but can't see myself eating much and being satisfied with algae...?
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The fried alligator appetizer at Couchon's Restaurant is pretty good stuff. The food there is a little pricey, but not bad..and definitely different that your run of the mill NOLA restarants. I got in there, and was a one top..they got me right in past the crowd and I ate at the chefs bar in the back which is cool in that you can watch them cook and talk to them.
I love this city...
Why did you get rid of your PREVIOUS PORSCHE? Don't tell me... KATRINA, RIGHT?"
The cayenne in my name...reference to the chile pepper....had it a LONG time ago before Porsche put out an SUV.
Personally, I've never owned anything with more than 2x functional seats. The 911 Turbo I used to have technically had 4x seats..but the rear ones were really useless for anything but a couple bags of groceries.
Personally, I'd never want any kind of car bigger than what I've got now....
And yes, Katrina ate the old 'black monster'...but I got a good deal out of it with insurance money.
Well, cost is one thing. Txt messaging costs extra for most of us here in the US. While most people here these days are getting unlimited voice, and have been for awhile, you had to pay extra for txt..often in the past easily $0.10/message.
I understand that in Europe, it was cheaper to text than to voice call.
Nowdays...txt plans are getting cheaper and most people I know now have unlimited txt...whereas a couple of years ago...virtually no one I knew in my circle of friends really did much txt.
I find the opposite to be true. I find texting and emailing to be much more efficient and convenient than calling on the phone.
I can fire off txt messages/emails throughout the day, anytime, at the moment I think of them. In general, I find that talking on the phone is inconvenient and inappropriate. At work, I don't like to make personal calls that everyone else can hear. So, if I had to depend on voice, I'd have to wait till I got some time, stand up and walk from the desk, likely outside...and call. I'd also stand a good chance of possibly forgetting everything I wanted to say to everyone...and that's another advantage to txt/email...I can blast the same message out to a bunch of people...have group conversations much easier than with voice.
I mean, to each his own...but I find that for the majority of my communications with friends and family...txt and email is the best way to go...which phone calls to fill in when needed.
You get SPAM ads via text messages!?!?
Wow...never heard of that...how did they get your number? Isn't it illegal to send ads that way since it costs you money (much like the ban on spam on fax machines)?
You mean phones turn off??
I only turn my phone off when it needs a reboot...but then again, I don't have a landline, my cell phone *IS* my only phone..so, it has to stay on all the time.
Doesn't mean I have to answer it every time...that's what voicemail is for...
I didn't really know what texting was....till Katrina hit.
After the storm, for months, you could not receive calls if you had a 504 area code, but we all discovered that txt messages could get through, and that's when I learned about it. I learned the T9 stuff...and moved up from there.
I prefer most of my weekday communications to be email or txt, but everything has its place. I find it is much easier to communicate with txt...especially when out and about, say in a bar where you really just can't hear well, and I don't wanna be shouting over the phone and annoying those around me, a txt gets through quicker and more efficiently and doesn't annoy those around you who have no interest in your conversations.
Hey...as long as he was still able to bang her...who cares what/when she was texting??
At night, well, I like a little peace and quiet, and not generally IN a mood to talk on the phone...so, I rarely like to use voice on the phone.
This actually seems to work with most of my friends, except for one. He just seems to HATE txt or email...and insists he get phone calls, at home in the evening (don't call him at work, he says is too busy and doesn't like personal calls there). Well, he tends to get left out of things. Most of the time during the week, my other friends and I communicate all day long with email/txt...and have things for the weekends, or some week nights planned out without ever speaking to each other at all on the phone.
My friend? Well, he refuses to be in the loop...won't pay the extra for txting on his personal phone, but won't leave his work cell phone on which does have paid for texting...and well, we want him along, but we often forget to go home, and physically call him.
I like to talk to my friends in person....but we use txt and email to plan get togethers.
I've never run into the 'limit' on txt messages. I've typed some VERY long ones....and they go through just fine.
I guess the iphone breaks them up and puts them together on each end to just keep it looking like one long message?
And don't forget, this Sunday...Sept 19th is International Talk like a Pirate Day !!
My 1986 911 Turbo...was pretty much lucky to get over 10mpg in the city.
Granted...I drove like a bat outta hell everywhere...
Man, it sure was fun to light up the turbo when under a bridge...made the most glorious racket that would scare the hell out of most people around me.
Lost it to Katrina...R.I.P.
If nothing else, I'm trying to change my diet to stay as FAR away from processed foods as I can. As it is, I try to mainly shop only on the outside edges of the grocery store...veggies/fruits...meat/seafood...dairy.
I know sugar is processed, I don't use much of it, but geez....the chemicals and process to "extract" HFCS from corn was almost alchemy in my eyes.
That alone gives me personally, a good reason to just try to avoid it.
And considering everything that stuff is in..it is actually kinda hard these days. I mean it is hard to even find a loaf of bread (which I rarely eat) that doesn't have HFCS in it...c'mon...bread???
I'm troubled by studies I've read about, that seem to show that increased soy products in general, tend to raise estrogen levels in males, and I think even actively lower testosterone levels (I'm not 100% on the lowering part).
With all the pesticides and chemicals that are already feminizing men...I'd just a soon try to avoid most soy products in order to at least keep one bad factor out of my body.
I believe there is a significant problem we're starting to have due to chemicals messing with men's hormones. Increased rates of besity and moobs seem to be a valid visual indicator of such...to me.
I dunno. Possibly it is due to lefties having their brains wired differently, but as a right handed person...my left hand for most things, is completely useless. I can not do most things at all with the left hand.
As I kid, I did learn some slight of hand magic, and I could learn to do a few simple things like roll coins on both hands, etc...but very limited.
If I try to do most anything with my left hand...I feel like I am a bit disabled, and get pretty much a disabled persons results with it.
Typing and fingering the fretboard on a guitar are about all I can do left handed.
Is it actually illegal to fake your death??
I seem to recall years back..there were a whole litany of things you could do with "dead babies"....?
Ok, gotta ask, what are "dunnies" and "togs"?
I've thought about trying to get into something like that, would be interested in seeing what you do...
Regardless if everyone in the country wants or needs such service?
Don't get me wrong..."I" would love to have this kind of service and speed, but, this isn't at this point a necessity of life here. To many people out there, this is still a nice luxury. Not everone has a computer out there to take advantage of such a connection, etc.
Yes...it would be nice...but isn't as necessary to living in the US as compared to things like roadways, police and firestations which the community at large pretty much all needs.
Thanks for the reply.
The mythtv backend will be wired to the router/wireless...the multiple front ends will all be wireless.
I may get one of those little ion boxes for a front end, and see how it does, if it doesn't work out...will re-purpose it for something.
You might look into that.
I've got some extra boxes, and want to do the client server route....trouble is, how to route from the server in the upstairs office, to the smaller boxes by each tv up/downstairs?
I currently rent, and it is an OLD house...no real way to run ethernet through attic and drop through walls.
Can wireless-N handle traffic fast enough to be able to send HD content around the house?
I have a friend that has settop boxes on all tv's in his house, but he just sneakernets usb harddrives to each one...I want the myth thing to capture from cable and HD antenna..and just be able to watch from any room in the house....
Can wireless-N handle sending HD content through your house?
Yeah, but I hear the business "stinks"...
Hmm...not too good for us low carb types.
Gimme dead animal that I can sink my teeth into any day of the week....I mean, I'm open to trying most anything food wise, but can't see myself eating much and being satisfied with algae...?
I can't stand the light CFL's throw off....and LED's are too fucking expensive.....