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A Cup of Joe and a Slice of Pie
Is Georgetown's New Diner Any Good?
Kelly O
The diner is a thing of beauty, an American institution. It is there for the road-weary traveler, the night-shift worker, the gaggle of teenagers, the hungover mornings after. By the side of the highway, in the heart of the city, wherever it is needed (or so it used to be), the diner serves the simple things—a cup of joe, a hamburg sandwich (as they used to call it), a slice of pie. A diner needn't be great, only good.
A diner that is too good necessarily ascends out of its class. Think of Skillet Diner on Capitol Hill—its slick meta-diner interior and its "Deconstructed Corned Beef Hash." It is more than a diner, with its local ingredients and concomitantly higher prices, its patrons talking about their 401(k)s or latest graphic design project. It is also, somehow, less than a diner—less than what we see in the movies in our minds when the characters walk in and sink onto their stools or into their booth, with love or murder or the dropping out of beauty school on their minds.
To make a new diner in the classic mold is an undertaking to be handled with care. You do not want to stray into nostalgia overdose (though many do, if not most). You do not want to appear to be trying too hard in any direction, for that is not the spirit of the diner, which is utilitarian, kindhearted, tidy. The new Square Knot Diner in Georgetown has hit the nail squarely on the head. Here is the hexagonal tile, black and white. Here is the horseshoe counter with the swivel stools with backs on them for comfort and new upholstery, but cheerful chips in the paint of the base. Here is a sign advertising "BACON N' EGGS" with a happy pig and chicken, illiterately oblivious to their own fate. The diamond-patterned metal panels behind the humming old-fashioned double-doored refrigerator are just right; the dark-stained wainscoting needs a little wearing-in, which is so much better than if it were calculatedly pre-distressed. The radio plays classic rock. The curious-once-you-notice-it pulley-thing up above is left over from when the space was used to make parts for Boeing, just down the road. Out the windows, across the street, the stolidly lovely "GENERAL OFFICES" of the old Rainier Brewery sit in immovable brick; past it, a train goes by from time to time. The Square Knot adjoins the 9 Lb. Hammer, itself a paragon of its bar type.
The Square Knot makes a fine cup of coffee, strong but not too strong (I don't know what kind; this is not a question to ask at a diner). The hamburger is notably juicy, easily in the upper 20th percentile of diner burgers. They don't ask you how you want it cooked, they just cook it right. The fries are of that diner style that's uniformly golden but not exactly crispy—serviceable. The sandwiches (e.g., a Reuben and a tribute to Thanksgiving with turkey and cranberry) are home-style, if someone at your home makes good sandwiches; they're not overstuffed with meat, made plain and pleasing. A large ramekin of potatoes au gratin (available as an alternate to fries), while nicely cheesy, contained potatoes on the al dente side; a Jamaican lentil soup's veggies, however, were not overcooked, and the soup had a significant amount of chicken that clearly came from a whole bird, not a denatured breast, and it was actually spicy, too.
My favorite thing to order at a diner is an open-faced hot turkey sandwich (the ultimate tribute to Thanksgiving), and the open-faced hot turkey sandwich at the Square Knot Diner in Georgetown is outstanding. There are hunks of both dark and white meat, some of it crisped on the edges; the gravy is not too thin, not too thick, made in-house with the right amount of salt (and they may offer you more, unbidden); the potatoes are creamy, with a faint, mysterious, wonderful lemony flavor. The portion: gigantic.
Here is a thing you should never order at a diner: a Caesar salad. (At a nouvelle, upscale diner, sure; Skillet makes one—with kale. It is good, but should a place serving a kale Caesar be allowed to use the word "diner"?) I tried the Caesar at the Square Knot to re-test this truism, and lo and behold, it was made with indifferent lettuce, glops of dressing, industrial-gauge Parmesan, and house-made but not fresh-tasting croutons.
A diner's breakfasts are arguably its true test. At the Square Knot: crispy-browned on the outside, tender on the inside, shredded hash browns. Thick-cut, tasty bacon. Not-too-heavy pancakes. And the eggs Benedict is great: especially hammy (but not overly smoked) ham and a hollandaise that's creamy but light, whispering of lemon, not shouting about it.
The only real hitch is the pie. The slice of apple pie I had at the Square Knot was barely passable; the filling was fine, made with tart apples and properly cinnamony, and there was plenty of it, but the crust was pale and doughy, chewing to a paste instead of flaking apart all butterily in the mouth. Instead, you should get the 9 Lb. porter milkshake, a vanilla shake with chocolate syrup and porter beer; the porter forms little icy porter-pockets, like the ones you get with a root beer float, and it nudges the whole thing away from sweet. It is an excellent innovation: approved.
The Square Knot opened in May and has not closed since. It is there for you, 24 hours a day, the way a diner should be.
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Not to imply it was ever otherwise, but sounds like Seattle, and Georgetown in particular, just got more livable.
The radio plays classic rock.Barf. Do not want. The only thing worse than classic rock is the hipster appreciation of same.
@3, I believe you are referring to Andy's.
It's a simulacrum in the worst way. It's as real the Epcot Center or the suburban mini-mall. This makes me vomit.
This is the logical, but most damning, extension of hipsterdom. The spirit of the diner has been completely abandoned - all that remains is the chrome and neon exterior. Only here, the $9.95 eggs benedict makes it glaringly obvious that it's not a real diner, whereas your average hipster sidesteps the answer to the question of where they got their $10,000 worth of tattoos. The Square Knot isn't a homage to the social roundtable of the working poor of yesteryear; it's an attempt to claim that culture's authenticity as their own.
Either step up the quality or lower those prices -- it's true that a diner doesn't have to be great but they've still a long way to go to be good.
Likewise, the patronage was sure, some tattoo/hair types, but also cops, families, old sailory looking dudes. Place may not be a foodie haven, but I don't think its the horrifying co-opt that a few of you claim.


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Pally shields have 2 possible implicit mods: enhanced physical damage or resist all. Resist all can go up to 45.
So the spirit runeword doesn't have any fire resist but the base shield can, that's why you only see fire resist on pally spirit shields.
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So a spirit Monarch has 35% Light/Cold/Poison Resists.
While a Paladin spirit Shield can have up to 80% Light/Cold/Poison and 45% Fire resists."All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." -Edmund Burke
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The game is breaking the all resist down into individual resistances.

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NewsHour Analysts Discuss the Iraq Election and Condoleezza Rice's Confirmation
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JIM LEHRER: Shields and Brooks are, in fact, syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks.
David, how would you describe the importance of these elections?
DAVID BROOKS: Tremendously, especially if things go bad. Let's look even intellectually at the importance of the campaign. Anthony Shadid mentioned some of the TV commercials for the parties are on Pan Arab television. So that means people all around the world are beginning to see political campaigns and advertising, seeing it in one country.
Let's look at the effect of the campaign on world opinion. What we've seen in the past week is a polarization of the two sides or a clarification of the two sides. On the one hand you have the insurgents who are threatening to cut off the heads of the children of anybody who votes. You have Zarqawi saying the enemy here is democracy. That makes the case very strongly.
On the other hand you have got tens of thousands of candidates and hundreds of thousands of millions of voters who are braving all to actually go vote. This is as clear a contrast between good and evil as one sees in human nature.
The insurgents are truly evil. And the people are trying to vote, it might not be what we like, but it is such a virtuous – it's like the civil rights movement and fighting the Nazis all wrapped up into one.
JIM LEHRER: Wow! Do you agree, it's that big a deal?
MARK SHIELDS: I don't see it as that big a deal, Jim. I mean, I think David casts it in sort of a gigantic historical metaphor. I do think that the election itself is probably less important, the process of it, than the product. We've reached a point now in Iraq where it's reality that is going to determine, it's reality on the ground.
If what comes out of it and out of this process is a structure and a system that the Iraqi people see as legitimate, that where order is established and a sense of justice and power sharing is the eventual product, then I would say it is a success. The fact that voting on Sunday is dramatic, it's not unimportant but I don't see it to the magnitude of David.
JIM LEHRER: But then you disagree with what the president said in a news conference earlier. He suggested that success is the fact that the elections are even being held.
MARK SHIELDS: The president has actually asked us to do the following. He said don't judge Iraq policy by the shifting rationales for going in. Don't judge it by the cost in human lives, the 14,000 casualties or the cost in dollars by the volume of violence of the resistance. Measure the success on the fact that we are voting. It's a democracy. I think that's where he wants –
JIM LEHRER: You don't agree with that?
MARK SHIELDS: To ignore everything else — we are not a people that are consumed with process. This is not an unimportant event. I don't mean to suggest that. But it is the product that emerges and the product that comes out of these efforts –
DAVID BROOKS: I didn't mean to say it was 1648 or some world historical shift but it is a morally clear shift between the side of oppression and the side of democracy.
I think that's what has become clear out of this campaign. I think people around the world and the U.S. have certainly seen the bifurcation between the two sides. As to whether the voting –
JIM LEHRER: But that is just on the fact of voting itself — not on what the result is -
DAVID BROOKS: Right. Exactly.
JIM LEHRER: — just the fact that we are having elections, that the elections are being held, is in fact the answer to –to the evil people is what you're saying.
DAVID BROOKS: Exactly. The fact that the people around the Arab world especially can see a discussion, can see those people have choice, why don't we have choice, that's tremendously important, I think. As for the voting itself, I sort of agree with Mark and I think most people would concede this; that elections don't make democracy.
It's a whole process of things, it's the creative institutions that respond to people; it's rule of law, the thing we always neglect. It's thing after thing after thing. But this is an important moment, and if they get, you know, very low turnout, if there are thousands of people killed, then it will be a cataclysmic event. Then it really will be. In some sense the downside is much starker than the upside.
JIM LEHRER: You mentioned the Arab world. What about the American world; what kind of impact is potentially out there for Americans on Sunday?
DAVID BROOKS: We will probably spend the next weeks or two debating what the message of the election is because hopefully it will be at least ambiguous. And I think if things go really badly, we will see a march to the exits, from Democrats certainly and even from a lot of Republicans, if it just seems hopeless.
If it seems that the insurgents are winning the war regardless of the elections because remember, there are two sides here. There is the election, the people voting, then there is the war. And the war can trump the election.
JIM LEHRER: What do you think on that?
MARK SHIELDS: Jim, I think that the — there is an emerging consensus on both sides of this debate. Don Rumsfeld –
JIM LEHRER: You mean on American public opinion –
MARK SHIELDS: First of all, what the president is talking to is he is trying to hold – there's a concern about Republicans on Capitol Hill — support for this policy has dropped and it's dropped dramatically to the point where a solid majority of the country does not believe it was worth it in blood and treasure to have done what we have done.
The president is trying to buck it up and say this is important; we're making great progress and this is for Republicans on Capitol Hill who are quite frankly nervous. But I think what David's second point is that Ted Kennedy made a speech; he was excoriated for it by Republicans — he had 18 e-mails from Mr. Republicans — what he was basically saying –
JIM LEHRER: This was yesterday.
MARK SHIELDS: Yesterday, yeah. Urging a staged withdrawal and the underlying premise of the statement is something I think Don Rumsfeld would privately would agree to even though he would never publicly do so, and that is that the presence of the United States military in Iraq is increasingly seen not as preventing violence, but as provoking it.
And our own generals acknowledge that we are seen too often as occupiers rather than liberators. I think the die is cast for the United States departure. I think the president is trying to make the best case for it.
DAVID BROOKS: I guess, there are a few things about the Kennedy speech. First I thought it was for him moderately responsible. He doesn't want us to get out right away; he's talking about training and over a period of time; that's fine. Now let me talk about the part where I think he is flipping out.
First, three days before millions of people are going to risk their lives and go to the polls; he decides three days before the election, he is going to give a speech that this is the new Vietnam. Well, that's just wrong. This is not a new Vietnam. The insurgents are not popular. There are so many wrong parallels.
To give the speech before the elections struck me as demagogic and ridiculous. As to a couple of the other things he got wrong; well, first of all, he said the insurgency was popular, which is just not true.
The second, the idea that we provoke the violence, well Zarqawi doesn't say we provoke the violence he says democracy provokes the violence. The Sunnis are fighting in part to get us out but in part because they want their old share of the power back. And that's not about us. That's about them versus the Shia. So I thought he was wrong on that and wrong to give the speech at the time he did.
JIM LEHRER: What do you think about the timing, Mark?
MARK SHIELDS: The timing, I think, it wasn't a new speech for Ted Kennedy. I mean what Ted Kennedy has said he has said.
JIM LEHRER: Pretty much the same thing.
MARK SHIELDS: Quagmire, Vietnam; the staged withdrawal. But this is increasingly becoming a position, a staged withdrawal. He did say by the end of 2006. Jim, I don't think there is any argument among the leading military people who have been there that the United States military presence there does unite the disparate groups and the resistance, the groups they have vast differences among themselves, but what unites them is the fact that we are there.
JIM LEHRER: Okay.
DAVID BROOKS: Let me say one quick thing about the people who are there because there was a military Times poll of our soldiers fighting there they have their own readers. 66 percent support what we are doing there. The longer you have been in Iraq the more you think it's worth it. I just think as we talk about political opinion, it's worth that we have got finally a measure of military opinion. And those are the guys doing the fighting and risking their lives.
JIM LEHRER: New subject almost: Condoleezza Rice, new secretary of state this week, what are her prospects?
MARK SHIELDS: Well, it's just a stark and dramatic difference to the man she left, the man she succeeds, Colin Powell; I mean, Colin Powell is a rare cabinet officer, independent constituency, presidential possibility, international reputation, served under four presidents; just a remarkable figure, someone who could have run for president.
This is Condoleezza Rice, but always questions about his access and the confidence the president had in him, the trust he had in him. No questions with Condoleezza Rice about the confidence and trust and access that she has with the president. But her whole identity publicly has been with George W. Bush and essentially as a staff person and adviser. And I think, you know, her task is already laid out.
Her first task is she is going to repair, in the second term, the relations with European allies that were ruptured in the first Bush administration by our policy; I mean, to try to redeem the United States position there. I mean she has a full plate, don't get me wrong, but I think it's a question of will she bring that same sense of independence?
Colin Powell, ironically, leaves office as somebody who probably saved the Republican Congress in 2002 by insisting they go to the U.N. over the objections and opposition of many in the administration and many on Capitol Hill.
JIM LEHRER: Before going to Iraq.
MARK SHIELDS: Before going to Iraq.
JIM LEHRER: First of all, first question on Condoleezza Rice. When you see her as secretary of state and you look ahead, do you have a vision?
DAVID BROOKS: She is going to have the term Colin Powell wished he had. When you talk to people in the administration and you talk about the first term, they see that was a war term, we were attacked 9/11, Afghanistan Iraq. It was a time when pieces were broken apart. And they really have a different mentality it is striking how differently they talk about this next four years from the last four.
This is the time they say we have got to start putting some pieces back together, and so when you talk to them about the administration or about the next four years, they are much less likely to talk about the Middle East, much more likely to talk globally about Brazil, about strain in China, which is trying to kick us out of the Pacific; much more likely to talk about India.
And you notice that change immediately. The second thing they talk about is building institutions to help spread democracy and freedom, which is the stuff Colin Powell was really into. They talk about education; they talk about these millennium challenge accounts to create new institutions, foreign aid, transforming foreign diplomacy; it's a much softer administration.
This is the one Colin Powell would have liked to have had and I think Condoleezza Rice is looking forward to having a much calmer administration. Whether she gets her wish — Iran may have something to do with that — is another matter.
JIM LEHRER: Did, from your perspective David, did Colin Powell deserve the label "dissident" that he had within the Bush cabinet on national security affairs, particularly in relationship to Rumsfeld and his crowd?
DAVID BROOKS: I still think a lot of people who disliked Bush and liked Powell somehow to reconcile that. They said Powell must be getting beaten in every policy debate. There were differences between the State Department, the Pentagon, and the White House, but he was behind the war and he was behind a lot of the policies.
MARK SHIELDS: He was behind the war, what bothers Colin Powell and those who admire him and are closest to him is the fact that he made the case for the war on totally faulty intelligence.
Colin Powell gave a marvelously wistful interview with Juan Williams of NPR just on his way out and he said a president is well served when he has cabinet officers who are secure enough in themselves and secure enough in their relationship with the president that they can speak dissent.
The president is ill-served when he has cabinet officers who don't have that kind of confidence in themselves or the confidence in their relationship with the president or afraid that they will be seen as squabbling or a leak will be that they dissented. I think that's a marvelously important message for anybody to deliver to any president, especially in this administration.
JIM LEHRER: Does Colin Powell go out of office weaker than he did going in?
MARK SHIELDS: Yes.
JIM LEHRER: Do you agree?
DAVID BROOKS: I guess I do agree with that.
JIM LEHRER: Okay. Thank you both very much.


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Four women, three men all had gunshot wounds.Verified 2 years, 2 months ago
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Grapevine police dept still hasn't released the names but they do share the information that all seven were related by blood or marriage; that they were around the tree opening presents; and that the suspected shooter, a middle-aged man, was dressed as Santa.
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Pizza came to Sao Paulo along with the influx in Italian immigrants in the early 20th century. But although in the rest of Brazil, ketchup is a common additive to the traditional pizza, ordering a bottle of Heinz with your pie in Sao Paulo is a no-no.
Pizza's one of those things that seems to be everywhere these days. In fact, the best pizza I ever had (and I've had lots) was in Koh Samui, Thailand. As a lover of all things with cheese, I'm kind of excited to try Sao Paulo pizza -- sans ketchup though (ick!)
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Brazil has the worst pizza in the world, bar none. The pizza is probably even the worst interpretation of a food of one country by another.
The worst examples are those slathered in Catipury (consistency of peanut butter - we called it cat puree) cheese and sprinkled with kernals of corn. Gotta love (hate) it when they chop up the pizza into 1/2" square, proceed to eat it with toothpicks while dipping it into whatever catsup / ketchup is on hand.


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- 04-16-2012, 02:28 PM Thread Author #101
@slutyman321 (and anyone else), here is your gingerbread lockscreen.
Gingerlock black statusbar theme
directions, same as the other status bar mod, flash in recovery.
I don't think the zip is signed.Last edited by anthonycr; 04-16-2012 at 02:54 PM.
- 04-16-2012, 06:15 PM Thread Author #103
Your welcome, theming is great fun.
I updated the Ignition Theme OP, just so you people know. I added a fixed version of the first theme as well as this gingerlock, just in case anyone wanted the lock. I think the edit to the theme OP might be confusing because there are three attached zips, so if anyone is confused, don't hesitate to ask for clarification... sometimes I make no sense - 04-16-2012, 06:37 PM #104
- 04-16-2012, 07:22 PM Thread Author #105
- 04-16-2012, 08:41 PM Thread Author #107
You know maybe you should start a thread about what you want to do, seeing as this is a thread about a rom and not one about theming. If you do that, people are bound to help you, whereas when you post here in this thread asking about how to theme, people don't answer you because I'm expected to answer the questions as the Original Poster. What I said should have given you a start at theming, and it does work because those are the methods I use to theme/build. It doesn't get any simpler than I explained it, so I think you should ask the community in a thread about theming if you really need help, because I honestly can't guide you through theming all by myself, I don't really have the time (I'm a student). So, if my directions earlier aren't clear and google hasn't yielded anything to you, I suggest you make a separate thread. This thread is about Bumblebee, not theming.
Thank you. - 04-16-2012, 08:56 PM #108
- 04-16-2012, 09:00 PM Thread Author #109
This rom has been solid as a rock. I was getting so tired of cutting edge and glitchy - this is a breath of fresh throwback air. All I really miss are the power control on the notification bar. Any way to add just that?
Thanks for this great rom.
Sent from my VM670 using Tapatalk - 04-18-2012, 03:18 PM #112
Harmonia Developer for Optimus V, Optimus Elite, One V, Evo V, Evo Shift, Evo V
Donate here if you feel inclined to brighten my day. - 04-18-2012, 03:51 PM #113
Re: [ROM] Resurrected Bumblebee Rom 2.2.1
Not that heavy
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[Recovery] ZenGarden 220.127.116.11-T a recovery to fit all your needs. - 04-18-2012, 04:31 PM #114
Re: [ROM] Resurrected Bumblebee Rom 2.2.1
I'm sure Anthony can do that, but right now he's trying to get the ums to work with the new Kernel.
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[Recovery] ZenGarden 18.104.22.168-T a recovery to fit all your needs. - 04-18-2012, 04:38 PM Thread Author #115
Yeah, I keep confusing myself too because my files are disorganized on my pc, but so far, ums is broken with one kernel, rotation is broken with a different one, and wifi doesn't work on a third.
I haven't been able to work on it because school is getting really crazy... stupid college crams half the material into the last quarter of the semester :-/
Sent from my VM670 using Tapatalk 2 - 04-18-2012, 05:59 PM #116
Re: [ROM] Resurrected Bumblebee Rom 2.2.1
I've seen the code, and you are right, it's not THAT big of a deal if you know what you are doing, however, there is more to it than just the code.
If you do it, you will mess up the apk signing on the files you touch. That may sound trivial, except that you will have to re-sign all of the system APK's to match or you will end up with flashing failures. This was why Obijohn had to initially flash BB in two parts when he added the power button menu and was what held up Harmonia 1.3 so long.
This is also the very reason you couldn't use Play Store on Harmonia, and you can't on Bumblebee Res..
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Donate here if you feel inclined to brighten my day. - 04-18-2012, 06:22 PM #117
Re: [ROM] Resurrected Bumblebee Rom 2.2.1
With the trying to use the VM-Update for my Froyo ROM I've had to resign everything to either get it to flash, or to stop FC and the Play Store works. I think there was a bug in the lge-res.apk, the messed with the Market apk
Re: [ROM] Resurrected Bumblebee Rom 2.2.1
Just want to say I enjoy the ROM, I wasn't around for the original run of bumblebee and it seems like harmonious bumblebee hasn't been updated in a while so I figured this was the next best thing. Flashed it earlier today and so far so good. Loving the selection of wallpapers too.
- 04-22-2012, 09:28 PM Thread Author #119
Thanks, I plan on updating once finals are over, I have some more tweaks that I've made, such as a modified boot animation and removing the kernel overclock to keep anyone from having issues on boot, as well as adding some changes to the ui. I'm also hoping to update the themes, and possibly make an ics theme. Again, thanks for the positive feedback, it makes me know that the effort is appreciated (:
If anyone has theme ideas, you can post them. However, it would be helpful to provide the framework of the theme you want so that I don't have to go looking high and low for the icons. - 04-22-2012, 09:44 PM #120
- 04-23-2012, 04:32 AM Thread Author #121
Overclocking works differently for everyone based on their usage. For instance, my phone sits idle a lot of times in my pocket, and I'm never doing more than one thing with my phone at a time, so I keep my minimum at 320. However, if you use gps and listen to music at the same time, you might want to move the minimum up to 480. As for max, that's a little more difficult because not everyone can OC their optimus straight to 864 without problems. I keep mine at 806, but that's because I don't have problems at that frequency. I recommend finding the frequency that you start getting reboots at and then backing down from that frequency a step or two.
- 04-26-2012, 10:55 PM Thread Author #123
Major theme update
Gingerbread on froyo. Its almost indistinguishable from gibgerbread, go ahead I dare you. I'll upload in a minute, until that happens, here's the screenshots
I will be posting the flashable zip on the second post
EDIT: DARNITALLLL, I gotta go... I can't upload tonight, I'll do it first thing tomorrow.Thanked by 2: - 04-27-2012, 08:02 AM Thread Author #124
Re: [ROM] Resurrected Bumblebee Rom 2.2.1
I uploaded the gingerbread theme, as you can see, screenshots are in the post directly above.
I removed the old ginger_lockscreen_theme and replaced it with this. If you are gonna thank me, I prefer you do thank the OP Posts
I uploaded the theme to the second post of the thread, but lets see if I can make a direct link here so you can download it directly from this page... CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD
If that doesn't work you will have to go back to page one to download it. its called bumblebee_gingerbread_mod.zip
If you have any improvement suggestions... or for some reason a bug or something messed up, report below. I have seen no problems, but I may have edited too much code so something might look funny. If it does tell me and I'll fix it.Last edited by anthonycr; 04-27-2012 at 12:15 PM.


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Andrew Christian has followed up its initial Behind The Scenes With Jockstrap Cowboys with a Part 2, which I've posted belowed. It's features lots of hot butts, especially Quinn Jaxon's.
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Behind The Scenes With Jockstrap Cowboys Part 2
Andrew Christian has followed up its initial Behind The Scenes With Jockstrap Cowboys with a Part 2, which I've posted belowed. It's features lots of hot butts, especially Quinn Jaxon's.
Monday, July 30, 2012
Reed Kelly In The Cell Block Tango from CHICAGO
I found this incredible video on YouTube of that fantastic Broadway dancer Reed Kelly performing at Broadway Backwards, which is a benefit event for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids in which Broadway performers reverse roles and by that I mean Broadway male singers sing songs originally written for women and Broadway female singers sing songs meant for men. In this video, all the merry murderesses are replaced by merry murderers and the Cell Block Tango from Chicago is given a whole new turn.
Sunday, July 29, 2012
Patrick O'Brien aka Paddy O'Brien (Revisited)
One of the most popular guys that have appeared on this blog is gay-for-pay male porn star Patrick O'Brien aka Paddy O'Brien. Hence I'm always on the look-out for new photos of this Irish hunk, preferably sans clothing,
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Friday, July 27, 2012
Jett Adore & The Stage Door Johnnies
I love Jett Adore and the Stage Door Johnnies which includes Ray Gunn and Bazuka Joe. These guys are male burlesque artists. To call them male strippers is missing the point. Yes, they undress on stage but their acts focus more on the tease than on the act of being naked. Their strips are always imaginative and sexy and Jett is as hot as a pistol. He's got a cute little ass to bout! Here are some photos and recent videos I found on YouTube.
Jett seems to enjoy showing off his gorgeous butt just a little bit longer than the rest of his group!
Jett seems to enjoy showing off his gorgeous butt just a little bit longer than the rest of his group!
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Joshua Tree Park
One of my most favorite places to visit when I am in the Palm Strings area is Joshua Tree Park. It's a National Park that is roughly a forty-five minute drive from my house in Rancho Mirage. The serenity of this location is not to be believed. I go there to get away from the noise and the crowds and the bad air. On a good day there's virtually no one in the park except a few hikers, just you and your thoughts. Here are some photos I recently snapped of my favorite vistas and sights in the park.
Monday, July 23, 2012
Marilyn Comes To The Palm Springs Desert
Fifty years after her death, Marilyn Monroe is every bit as popular as she was at the height of her career. I recently received the catalog of the Beverly Hills auction house Profiles In History and noticed that it featured a heretofore unknown nude photo by Bruno Bernard of a very young Marilyn Monroe. In the photo Marilyn seems very sweet, reflective and unaffected. What would she think if she knew that her likeness from Seven Year Itch, complete with her dress being blown in the wind to reveal a sexy pair of white undies covered her shapely butt, had now been crafted into a garish 30 foot statue named Forever Marilyn which has been erected in the heart of Palm Springs, for the enjoyment of tourists and locals alike, who pose underneath her skirt for souvenir photos?
This giant statue of Marilyn Monroe was created by
80-year-old artist Seward Johnson, an heir to the Johnson & Johnson
fortune, and was housed in Chicago since July 2011. It was erected in the Palm Springs California Desert on May 7, 2012 at a temporary public park
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buildings are constructed as part of the Desert
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revitalization project. The statue stands on a replica of the subway grate over
which Monroe famously held down her
skirt in the 1955 movie The Seven Year Itch.
It took a six-member crew of artists, including those who originally
built Forever Marilyn to assemble the giant sculpture on the busy Palm
Springs intersection. Getting the 40,000-pound sculpture to the desert cost
approximately $78,000 which includes transportation, assembly and insurance.
Here's my photo underneath Marilyn's legs, the only woman's legs I'd ever get in-between:
Here's my photo underneath Marilyn's legs, the only woman's legs I'd ever get in-between:
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Mozilla proposes 5X slower Firefox release tempo for enterprises
ESR channel would ship a new version every 30 weeks, support with interim security updates
Computerworld - Mozilla has proposed a significantly slower Firefox release pace for enterprises, the result of a corporate backlash earlier this year against an accelerated scheme that ships a new edition of the browser every six weeks.
If the proposal is adopted, Mozilla will deliver a new version of Firefox to enterprises every 30 weeks, five times slower than to consumers. During each 30-week stretch, Mozilla would issue only security updates for the browser. In addition, each enterprise edition would be supported for an additional 12 weeks after the release of its successor, assuring companies 42 weeks of support for each version.
Mozilla now discontinues security support for a specific version of Firefox as soon as the next in line appears.
"These proposed releases would provide organizations with additional time to certify and deploy new versions of Firefox while mitigating some of the security risks of staying on an older release," said Kev Needham, Mozilla's channel manager, in a post to mozilla.dev.planning discussion forum.
The interim security updates would be limited to patches for vulnerabilities rated "critical" or "high," the two most-serious rankings in Mozilla's threat scoring system. What Mozilla calls "chem spills" -- emergency fixes labeled "out-of-band" by other vendors such as Microsoft and Adobe -- would also be included in the updates between each 30-week release.
Mozilla is calling the new release concept "Extended Support Release," or ESR. If the proposal is approved, ESR would kick off with either Firefox 8, now slated for delivery Nov. 8, or Firefox 9, which is planned to ship Dec. 20.
If ESR begins with Firefox 8, adopters would not receive a new version of the browser until Mozilla ships Firefox 13 on June 5, 2012.
"I think the proposal addresses most of the concerns of enterprises," said Mike Kaply, a consultant who specializes in writing Firefox add-ons and in customizing the browser for corporate clients.
Kaply was one of the critics who last June blasted Mozilla's rapid release schedule, saying that the six-week scheme was unworkable for enterprises because it did not give them enough time to test each update. Kaply and others raised additional issues, including Mozilla's decision not to support older editions with security updates, forcing companies to choose between running an untested browser or one that had known vulnerabilities.
Mozilla took heat over the six-week schedule, in part because Asa Dotzler, a director of Firefox, said that enterprise "has never been (and I'll argue, shouldn't be) a focus of ours," and dismissed corporate users as "a drop in the bucket."
Rival browser maker Microsoft inserted itself into the controversy to pitch its Internet Explorer (IE) browser as better suited to enterprise needs.
Mozilla's reaction to the backlash was to form a working group to look at ways to keep enterprise users happy. The ESR proposal came out of that group.
Kaply, who monitored the enterprise working group mailing list -- which Mozilla declined to make accessible to the media -- said that the proposal was largely an internal production. He acknowledged that much of the feedback he provided was integrated into the proposal, however.
Kaply was cautiously optimistic about the ESR plan. "I think this will go a long way to show that Mozilla cares about enterprise," he said. "Forty-two weeks is a nice chunk of time to move from one version to another."
But he hesitated to claim victory for enterprises until Mozilla actually committed to ESR and showed it was serious about supporting corporate users. "They made it clear that this is a proposal, said Kaply. "I've seen proposals from them before. I'm excited about this, but I'll believe it the day they roll it out."
In the proposal, Mozilla spelled out several caveats and risks, including its prediction that ESR "will be less secure than the regular release of Firefox" because new functionality and lower-level patches will not be added to the enterprise channel as fast as the one for consumers.
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How very cool for you to be reaching this 1-year milestone! Like Danny, let me know if there is anything I can do to help with your efforts.
All the Best,
Narciso Tovar
Yesterday this blog turned a year old. I've actually been doing this – sometimes not at all consistently, but I've hung in there – for a year.
I do want to share some thoughts on what I've been through as a new blogger, as well as call out some people without whom it wouldn't have been possible, but right now, I'm going to share another milestone.
In four days, I'll turn 40.
Yup, I thought I'd get a bigger reaction out of you with that one. Time flies when you're having fun.
I don't know if I'm killing my future career prospects by revealing my age, but let's face it, if you know me and/or have been following me, you should've figured it out by now.
Plus, this is supposed to be social media and the 21st century, right? "We're here and we're ol-der, get used to it" and all that.
I'll confess, I still get a kick out of it when I'm carded. Who doesn't like being thought younger than they are, other than, possibly, five-year-olds? But I watched with admiration as Danny Brown pulled together the 12for12K initiative when he turned 40 and figured I could try to do something along those lines.
This year, I'm trying to raise money for Kids with Cameras, a non-profit organization that teaches the art of photography to marginalized children in communities around the world. And right now, they're undergoing a capital campaign to build a safe haven for young girls from Kolkata's (my home town) red light district.
I tried to bring attention to them on my birthday last year, having been inspired by the likes of Beth Kanter, and my friends and community – you – were very kind in keeping me going.
If you didn't read (or don't remember) what I wrote about them last year, and why I relate to the Kids with Cameras, here it is. And I still believe that we communicators have an enviable opportunity to touch others, by virtue of what we do. Communication is our lens.
This year, I'd really appreciate your support – and celebration of all I've put up with to get to 40! – by you visiting my Facebook Cause and, if it moves you, donating whatever you can to help me raise $800 for them. It's not 12for12K-level, but it's a beginning. And my friends Alissa Friedman and Geoff Livingston have kicked it off – thank you both!
Will you help me change the lives of children you've never met? It really would be the best birthday gift ever.
Thank you!
"A Little Birdie Told Me" could fly into your inbox just once a month. It's Shonali-as-seen-nowhere-else. What're you waiting for?
[...] Working on a special promotion? Use a URL-shortening service such as tr.im, bit.ly, ow.ly (or several others) to draw attention to it just above your signature block. For example, I used this as a way to raise funds around my birthday: "Why I'd like you to know how old I am: http://tr.im/K6Yi." [...]
[...] Working on a special promotion? Use a URL-shortening service such as tr.im, bit.ly, ow.ly (or several others) to draw attention to it just above your signature block. For example, I used this as a way to raise funds around my birthday: "Why I'd like you to know how old I am: http://tr.im/K6Yi." [...]
[...] Shonali Burke celebrated her birthday at the event. She used social tools to make her 40th a fundraising endeavor for Kids with Cameras. Popularity: 1% [...]
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Beth Kanter, Danny Brown, Geoff Livingston, arikhanson, Sonny Gill and others. Sonny Gill said: RT @chuckhemann @shonali: Why I want you to know how old I am & my birthday wish: http://tr.im/K6Yi h/t @dannybrown @kanter @geoffliving. [...]
[...] this blog turned a year old on January 10. Another milestone for me in a year of milestones (another one's coming up on January 15, in case you missed my post from [...]


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Bertha Lee Sain Foster, age 58, passed into Eternal Rest on February 14, 2013.
She was a homemaker and a member of the Rutledge Falls Baptist Church.
Mrs. Foster was preceded in death by her parents, the late Robert L. Sain and Aileen E. O'Dell Sain; and sister, Ginger Sain.
She is survived by her loving husband, Malcolm "Mike" Foster of Manchester, TN; children, Tiffany E. Guess (Jarrod Miller) of Nashville, TN and Michael H. Foster of Florida; two sisters, Jane Holder (James) of Erwin, TN and Linda Sain (Dick Wolff) of Decherd, TN; two brothers, Robert Sain, Jr. (Letti) of Crestview, Florida and James Sain (Clarissa) of Manchester; nephews, Joseph Huffer of Estill Springs, TN and Larry Jr. Huffer of Murfreesboro, TN; and a host of other relatives and friends.
VISITATION will be on Monday, February 18, 2013 from 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
The FUNERAL SERVICE will be conducted on Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. from the Chapel of Central Funeral Home with Pastor Mike Morris officiating.
BURIAL will follow at the Rose Hill Memorial Gardens.
Arrangements with CENTRAL FUNERAL HOME.


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Today it is Caroline Inkpen's chance to shine as a guest designer on the Making Memories' blog. Caroline created a pretty banner using the Slice. Caroline explains how she created this banner.
To make the base cards, I cut a 4" flower and its layer from the Dilly Dally design card in beige and pink cardstock. Then, I punched holes for the ribbons at this point so I knew where not to cover with the embellishments. I cut the letters spelling "sister" using Making Memories' Panorama collection and the Dilly Dally design card at 2" and attached them using a dimensional adhesive.
Next, I went through my Slice design cards to find words that begin with the relevant letter and fit with the sister theme. I ended up using the following design cards:
I created my own embellishments using the Making Memories' Panorama collection and the Dilly Dally design card and finished them up with gems and brads from Making Memories' Pitter Patter collection.
Thanks Caroline for sharing this project with us.


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Truck Narrowly Misses Crushing Chinese Man
Description:A lucky escape for this Chinese motorcyclist who did not see it coming but dismounted just in time. The incident, caught on a traffic camera, happened on January 22 in the eastern province of Zhejiang. The truck driver said afterwards there was nothing he could do to stop the load overturning and that he had been driving very carefully. (0:52)
Source: Reuters
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