Comments for Matt Olsen (Fatty Matty O)

Comment on Blue Proximity by Lars Friedrichs

Lars Friedrichs — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:21:31 +0000

Hi Matt,

I’m Lars, the author of blueproximity. Nice to find someone using my software. Just wanted to give you a hint for better experience: The “walk-by-unlocking” should be no problem if you can increase the time to unlock, unless you already have it that high that you have to wait in front of your computer until it unlocks automatically. Every second gives more security here.

I’m much into work at the moment (moment lasts for almost a year now…) but I still have plans for BlueProximity 2.0. It’s “on my list”…

Bye
Lars

Comment on Split and moving by strayfarce

strayfarce — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:29:57 +0000

I know what you mean. I split up my regular blog and my hardcorefoodity (which will have vegetarian and vegan sections that will appeal to you and the missus! I make a great vegan apple pie, keep an eye out). There’s a sidebar of categories and you can just click on the Vegetarian or Vegan posts to filter out all the meatsie beasties.

Comment on Review: Capital Region Veg Expo by Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:27:29 +0000

I am going to have to completely disagree with you there Tracy. Don’t get me wong…I love the outreach that Vegan Outreach does, but I find major fault in their entire “make veganism look simple” approach. This actually came up last year at the Animal Rights Conference in LA and I got into a heated discussion with some people who felt similar to you about that. Yes I think that we should be making veganism look accessible and easy….but “cheating” is not the way to do so. To me veganism in itself is EASY…..I never think how hard it is and I never let others think its hard either. I always get asked that question and my answer is always a resounding “NO”. You can very easily learn ingredients to avoid and honestly the easiest thing to do is just learn how to cook and how to ask effective questions when you go out to eat. I do not like Vegan Outreach’s stance on that point simply because it portrays veganism as something that you are’nt really serious about….”eh, what’s a little cheese here or a little chicken broth there”. Well to those who are NOT vegan….it means a lot because it is a way for them to poke holes into our lifestyle by pointing out that its impossible to do because we “cheat” sometimes.
Someone at that conference brought up eating at their mother’s house where she had cooked dinner and there was some cream and butter in the food. Instead of politely saying “oh, no thanks mom I don’t eat cream or butter” this person ate it to please their mother! Whats to stop her from pushing that limit more and more each time and start putting dead flesh into the food? There are no limits in this scenario…..”you ate some cream, why won’t you eat some beef?”. It is completely hypocritical and invalidates the entire point of veganism.
I think the better way to promote vegamism is by making it look easy…..bring your own food that you know is vegan with you. Its a really great way to show that we don’t starve and that our food is really delicious. My mom had no problem when I gently told her that I appreciated that she wants to feed me, but that I just couldn’t put those items into my body. So you know what….now I cook all the time and she really appreciates the break at holidays and she really loves my cooking/baking.
And it is NOT expensive to be vegan….I am so tired of hearing that. I manage to avoid all those “troublesome” ingredients by cooking mostly from scratch. Its way cheaper. And its also not time consuming to avoid that “ever-increasing list of ingredients” I ijust basically keep buying the same products that I know are safe….sure I recheckthe labels every once in awhile, but why would I want to make myself eat beef fat if I think its morally wrong. Sounds kinda counter-productive if you ask me.
xoxo
Sarah

Comment on Review: Capital Region Veg Expo by Tracy

Tracy — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:53:21 +0000

I agree with you that in order for “vegan” not to be scary, people need to hear it more, not less.

I think, though, that any way we get people to recognize that they need to change their eating habits (ie. go from meat-eater to vegetarian) is good, whether it be for health, environmental or ethical reasons.

Then when people are vegetarian, I think they’d be more inclined to listen to arguments about the suffering of chickens for eggs and of cows (and calves) for milk.

But I do agree with you that most people aren’t going to go from meat-eater to vegan for health reasons.

Regarding cheating, though, I support the philosophy of Vegan Outreach — that we need to make veg*anism look as simple as possible. So if I’m at a restaurant, I’m not going to ask the server if the soup is made with chicken stock or if the rolls are made with eggs or milk.

Here’s what they say about it:

For this reason, we believe that the consequences of our actions should guide our choices. Oftentimes, there’s more to consider than whether or not an item is completely animal-free. For example, it can be prohibitively expensive and time-consuming to shun every minor or hidden animal-derived ingredient. More importantly, avoiding an ever-increasing list of these ingredients can make us appear obsessive and lead others to believe that compassionate living is impossible. This defeats our purpose: ending cruelty to animals!

http://www.veganoutreach.org/guide/beingvegan.html

Comment on Mounting Porter by Gail

Gail — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:28:44 +0000

Glad you guys had fun! sure is pretty.

Comment on VMWare I hate you by ChrisT.

ChrisT. — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:22:05 +0000

I’ve been using VirtualBox for my VM needs as of late. Assuming you don’t have a reason you can’t switch away from VMWare products, it’s definitely worth looking into.

It comes with both an open source (GPLv2) and a closed source version (differences here http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Editions ). The closed source license is a Personal Use and Evaluation License, if you want to use it for enterprise usage they ask you contact them.

I haven’t had trouble getting either the Open (from repository) or Closed source (from .deb on site) versions running on Debian, they also have Ubuntu packages (Fedora and Red Hat as well).

The only issues I’ve run into with it so far are occasionally needing to rebuild/reinstall the kerner driver, and I was not able to get bridged networking to work.

So, as long as you’re not tied to VMWare, check it out.

Comment on I love synergy by Doug Olsen

Doug Olsen — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:30:16 +0000

Your site is great. Some day you will have to teach me more about this so I can give it a try.

We should post some of you cousin’s photos (pure art) for an international flare.

Comment on Fail blog gets it right by roo

roo — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:37:08 +0000

That’s awesome

Comment on Ian’s Baptism by Gail

Gail — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:25:56 +0000

Love the baby pictures!! What a cutie. The picture of Lisa with the baby is beautiful. You should have it blown up and framed. (of course, if it was your own child, that would be better!! lol) Thanks for sharing!