Slushie on a Stick

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Tip of the Day: Before you go out and buy ice pops, make sure that the freezer compartment in your freezer is cold enough to keep them frozen.

Or else you’ll end up like me and eat slushies on sticks.

In other news, I think all the leaves from most of the trees around my apartment fell off overnight.

Either that or I just haven’t noticed them because today was the first time in a few days that I took the north exit out of my apartment, and they might’ve spent the entire weekend falling off.

Either way, I can no longer walk in stealth into and out of my apartment anymore because the leaves crunch under my feet.

 

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Jimmy John’s’ One-Day-Old Bread

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I realized today that I’ve been wasting tons of money on bread.

If you’re not aware already, Jimmy John’s sells one-day-old bread for less than a dollar (I remember it being around 49 cents back at home, and it’s 50 cents in Madison). This is the full-sized 16-inch bread, not the 8-inch pieces they use for regular sandwiches.

If you go to a grocery store around here, buying a loaf of bread costs about $3 or so. That means that for the price of one loaf of bread, I can get 6 massive sticks of bread from Jimmy John’s.

Now you might be saying that the one-day-old bread from Jimmy John’s isn’t fresh.

Which, in that case, you would be correct. But once you buy your loaf of bread, you’re not going to finish all of that in a single day, and it will sit on your counter for however long it will take for you to finish it. On top of that, it has most likely been sitting on the store shelf for more than one day anyway to begin with. So basically, a loaf of bread is much less fresh than one-day-old bread.

So yeah. I’m never buying loafed bread ever again, and whenever I want bread, I’m walking to Jimmy John’s (which is just across the street).

No, this isn’t a sponsorship, I’m just really glad that I remembered Jimmy John’s had one-day-old bread.

 

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#DS566: Make a low contrast photograph today. (Assigned June 4, 2011.)

Clear gummy bears.

Clear Gummy Bears

 

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Daily Shoot Project Comes to an End

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My day has consisted of reading documents for my two sociology courses.

And that’s about it.

My brain hurts.

 

The Daily Shoot (@DailyShoot)

It was brought to my attention today that the Daily Shoot, a project that encourages people to go out and take photos every day, has come to an end. If you’ve been keeping up with my blog for a while, you know that I used to participate in Daily Shoot.

Now that it’s over, I found the motivation to go back and do the assignments that I missed during my Daily Shoot break. If you know me at all, you know that I hate it when good things come to an end, and I prefer consistency and security over change and volatility. By doing this, I sort of feel like I’m putting off the end of Daily Shoot until later and avoiding the inevitable until I actually run out of assignments. Normally, I would say to face reality, but in this case, I don’t see any negative consequences of dwelling in the past and getting to do what I didn’t have a chance to do before.

So here’s my first missed assignment in a series of over 100 to come within the next few months.

#DS565: Focus on an edge today and make a photograph. (Assigned June 3, 2011.)

The edge of a pad of sticky notes.

Edge

 

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Account Temporarily Locked Down

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I learned today that if you’re going to store a lot of files onto your Gmail account because you haven’t been keeping up with your online backups, you shouldn’t upload more than a couple hundred megabytes, or else this will happen:

Unusual Usage - Account Temporarily Locked Down

So there’s your tip of the day. I think the cut-off might be 300 MB, because I was able to successfully upload 292 MB before it decided it was time for me to stop.

If you’re wondering, no, I do not produce hundreds of megabytes of backups per day. This was stuff from the past handful of months or so, and it was a combination of mostly PDF/document packages and interval content backups for my website.

And finally, I’m going to assume that most of you are going to wonder what I mean by “packages,” so I’ll explain it now before people ask. If you were not already aware, the largest size for an individual file you can up­load to Gmail is 25,000 KB. This means that I can’t combine all the files I want to upload into a single mas­sive archive, but this also means that I don’t have to upload every single file individually. I take files that share something in common (for example, backups for Parkzer.com taken during September 2011) and combine them into a one archive so it’s not too big that it can’t be uploaded but not too small that it’s annoying to upload.

So yeah, I’m hoping my account isn’t going to be one of those rare cases that take 24 hours to be restored. I guess I’ll find out tomorrow morning when I wake up, and meanwhile, I’m going to sleep.

 

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I’m Exam-Free for 2.5 Weeks

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I had my zoology exam today.

Zoology Lecture Notes

That’s what I was studying and memorizing off of right up to about 10 minutes before the exam. (I took the photo with my iPod, which is why the quality fails.)

The exam was not pleasant.

At least I don’t have any more exams for another 2.5 weeks.

 

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Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011

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Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011

Thank You, Steve Jobs

(Photo taken by Justine Ezarik at the Apple Store on Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, CA)

 

But life goes on.

… I have an exam tomorrow.

-.-

 

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