Urban Dictionary: chatch

Chatch

One who views one's self or self worth more than it actually is in reality. One that tends to TRY and dress trendy or hip but just can't pull it off. One whose style does not equal their confidence.

See etymology (Scott Baeo in "joanie loves chatzy"). That dude thought he was cool in the extra medium shirt...damn he looked like a chatch

via Urban Dictionary: chatch.

Hahahaha, and do i know a few :D

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Delicious Library is Awesome

This program basically catalogues your entire stuff collection. Anything you own you can enter into this program to keep track of what's lying around. You can also scan the barcodes in of what you have and it automatically adds the items for you! Its cool as!

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Gran Torino

Awesome Movie!

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Red Bull drink lifts stroke risk: Australian study

By Rob Taylor

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Just one can of the popular stimulant energy drink Red Bull can increase the risk of heart attack or stroke, even in young people, Australian medical researchers said on Friday.

The caffeine-loaded beverage, popular with university students and adrenaline sport fans to give them "wings", caused the blood to become sticky, a pre-cursor to cardiovascular problems such as stroke.

"One hour after they drank Red Bull, (their blood systems) were no longer normal. They were abnormal like we would expect in a patient with cardiovascular disease," Scott Willoughby, lead researcher from the Cardiovascular Research Centre at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, told the Australian newspaper.

Red Bull Australia spokeswoman Linda Rychter said the report would be assessed by the company's head office in Austria.

"The study does not show effects which would go beyond that of drinking a cup of coffee. Therefore, the reported results were to be expected and lie within the normal physiological range," Rychter told Reuters.

Willoughby and his team tested the cardiovascular systems of 30 young adults one hour before and one hour after consuming one 250ml can of sugar-free Red Bull.

The results showed "normal people develop symptoms normally associated with cardiovascular disease" after consuming the drink, created in the 1980s by Austrian entrepreneur Dietrich Mateschitz based on a similar Thai energy drink.

Red Bull is banned in Norway, Uruguay and Denmark because of health risks listed on its cans, but the company last year sold 3.5 billion cans in 143 countries. One can contains 80 mg of caffeine, around the same as a normal cup of brewed coffee.

The Austria-based company, whose marketing says "Red Bull gives you wings", sponsors Formula 1 race cars and extreme sport events around the world, but warns consumers not to drink more than two cans a day.

Rychter said Red Bull could only have such global sales because health authorities across the world had concluded the drink was safe to consume.

But Willoughby said Red Bull could be deadly when combined with stress or high blood pressure, impairing proper blood vessel function and possibly lifting the risk of blood clotting.

"If you have any predisposition to cardiovascular disease, I'd think twice about drinking it," he said.

(Editing by David Fogarty)

via Red Bull drink lifts stroke risk: Australian study | Health | Reuters .

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Twitter Updates for 2009-01-05

  • At City Perks in Saskatoon. Awesome cafe. Finally Canada has some decent coffee! #

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Elizabeth Singing In The Sun

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Mike Davidson - sIFR

How it works

sIFR is meant to replace short passages of plain browser text with text rendered in your typeface of choice, regardless of whether or not your users have that font installed on their systems. It accomplishes this by using a combination of javascript, CSS, and Flash. Here is the entire process:

  1. A normal (X)HTML page is loaded into the browser.
  2. A javascript function is run which first checks that Flash is installed and then looks for whatever tags, ids, or classes you designate.
  3. If Flash isn’t installed (or obviously if javascript is turned off), the (X)HTML page displays as normal and nothing further occurs. If Flash is installed, javascript traverses through the source of your page measuring each element you’ve designated as something you’d like “sIFRed”.
  4. Once measured, the script creates Flash movies of the same dimensions and overlays them on top of the original elements, pumping the original browser text in as a Flash variable.
  5. Actionscript inside of each Flash file then draws that text in your chosen typeface at a 6 point size and scales it up until it fits snugly inside the Flash movie.

This all happens in a split-second, so all of the checking, replacing, and scaling is not visible to the user. It is not uncommon to notice a very short delay as the Flash loads, but to the user, none of the internals of this process are exposed.

via Mike Davidson - sIFR.

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FOUND Magazine | The Best Thing Ever

The Best Thing Ever

FOUND by Sam in New York, New York

It was the first nice day of spring so I decided to go to Central Park. I found a nice plot of grass to lay down on and eventually fell asleep. When I awoke this was folded up behind my head.

via FOUND Magazine | The Best Thing Ever.

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‘Hello 911? I’m driving drunk’ - Yahoo! News

BISMARCK, N.D. – Police get calls about drunken drivers all the time, but rarely do they come from the alleged offender. A 17-year-old girl in Bismarck called 911 on New Year's Eve "to report herself driving under the influence," police Lt. Randy Ziegler said. "I've never heard of such a thing happening, and neither has anyone here."

The girl told authorities her location shortly before midnight Wednesday and officers found her in a parked car near downtown, Ziegler said. She failed a sobriety test and was arrested for failing to have control of her vehicle while intoxicated.

The girl, whose name was not released because of her age, was not cited for drunken driving, Ziegler said.

"Her keys were in her purse and she was parked," Ziegler said. "She did tell us that she had been driving around for hours."

The call probably was a plea for help, he said.

"She told us her life was spiraling out of control, and she had spent the majority of time drinking over the past two weeks," Ziegler said.

The girl was released to her parents Thursday.

via 'Hello 911? I'm driving drunk' - Yahoo! News.

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PEP8: Style Guide for Python Code

Follow and obey!
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/

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We ♥ WordPress.com

Awesome designs of wordpress driven sites. Yes, I love WordPress!
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-37°c

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-37°c: Pizza & Defiance

defiancepicture-5Sounds like a cozy night especially when its -37 degrees outside!

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Places to Buy NG001 From

But as any seller would say, please get in early, as these puppies are selling out. As you will see from a few links above! Wohoo!

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Ubuntu On Mac Without CD-Rom or USB

This was quite the saga.
I ended up doing the following:

  1. Buy a Firewire cable, 6-pin to 6-pin and make sure you have another macbook or mac!
  2. On the mac that will be Ubuntufied download and install Refit this is a custom boot loader for Mac and will mac it easy to switch between operating systems on your mac! Go to Applications > Utilities and select Partition Inspector, then select analyze!
  3. On the mac you want to install Ubuntu on, go to Applications > Utilities and then Disk Utility.
  4. Select the drive you want to install Ubuntu on and then make a new partition on the drive. If you have no space resize the existing partition and then add a new one. Once the new partition is made, go ahead and delete it, making sure the other partition is kept the same size as when you resized it. Now you should have some unallocated space on the drive. Perfect!
  5. Then get a friends other macbook and connect them both through the firewire ports.
  6. Go to System Preferences > Then Startup Disk then select "Target Disk Mode". Do this on the mac that you want to install Ubuntu on.
  7. Make sure you have a copy of Ubuntu on CD. Insert it into the 2nd mac (Your friends mac) then reboot it.
  8. As it reboots make sure you hold down the option key (alt option) as it boots, you will now see a selection of devices to boot from. Select the CD option.
  9. Ubuntu will boot in and show a live cd installer. Which is basically a replication of the operating system running via RAM and CD-ROM. Double click the install option and begin with the installation.
  10. When it comes time to selecting which device to install it on make sure you select the firewire device, which will usually be sdc or sdb, below the primary hdd device. If you are unsure go to System, Administration and select Partitioner to double check.
  11. Click Next. Now i simply just chose guided, using the most free allocated space. 
  12. Fill out your details on the next page and choose next.
  13. Now you will be taken to a new screen showing a summary of all the installation. On this page look for a button called Details. Click it and select the boot from and change it to the new partition. Mine was SDC3 which was the 3rd partition (the new partition) on the device. This will install the bootloader on the correct partition and not screw up the master boot records on your friends PC!
  14. Click next and install!
  15. Once the installation is complete reboot both pcs and you are done!
  16. On the Ubuntu'd mac, refit! will load and simply select the penguin option. At first i was just greated by a blinking cursor. Then it froze. I rebooted, tried again, this time i was greated by a frozen penguin (tux). The third time worked. However if this happens to you i recommend you use the partition inspector from the boot screen to update all the partitions correctly. Then it should all work!

I had a heap of trouble achieving this, as i smashed my internal drive in my mac book. I bought an external drive, however the mac book wouldn't boot from that.

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