Poaching (Patching) Eggs
The term “egg” as used in the Python community seems so whimsical. It deserves lots of puns. A couple of weeks ago, I made a little utility for myself that takes all the eggs from an egg farm produced by zc.buildout and makes a single directory tree full of Python packages and modules. I called it Omelette. Get it? Ha! ( [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 00:31:21
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Magnificence in Marlboro
5,000 square foot, 6 bedroom, 5 full bath, Center Hall Colonial on flat, private property in prestigious Marlboro Woods! ... rooms plus a full bath. Country club back yard includes oversized deck with awning and recently ... features include circular driveway, paver walkway, detailed landscaping, 3 zone sprinkler system [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 01:31:09
Terrazzo
People have used marble chips, seashells, glass, and even porcelain from busted up toilets to create terrazzo. Basically, a cementious layer ( ... concrete, lime-based, or now epoxy-based) is skimmed over a base, and then the aggregate is either ... x12” concrete paver (the kind you can get for a buck at the local hardware store). Photobucket [more...]
Date: 2008-08-09 05:42:27
Versatile Garden Lighting With LEDs
To a prospective Client LED garden lighting conjures up images of cheap solar powered lights that when installed do not work or fail after a short period of time. This poor reputation has hampered the use of LED in landscape design by professionals as Clients initially reject the idea or the designer simply opts for traditional diachronic [more...]
Date: 2009-01-22 03:01:42
Accessibility Fail (and Win)
We have a shiny new building on our campus. It’s gorgeous, with several conference rooms named for money donors, and a huge glassed-in meeting room. (Other faculty have pointed out that alas, said building isn’t a “LEED-building” meaning that the design lacks certain green/energy-efficient factors.) [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 00:29:48
What Does A Cache Look Like?
You hear a lot about caches being found, and the question oft gets raised on why are they so hard to find? Well, a cache can be hidden anywhere, from under a large paver or stone in a patio, to floorboards, to a clump of brush. On the latter, there are thousands of such clumps seemingly everywhere [more...]
Date: 2008-07-23 13:42:27
Life here at home
Yesterday held the kind of loveliness that only comes in late Winter here. The morning was cold but it warmed to a mild day which almost convinced me to take off my jumper. Almost. As usual, there was plenty to do with all the normal chores and a fair bit of relaxing and talking on the front verandah [more...]
Date: 2008-08-04 05:50:00
Old Dogs
By Heather For the sake of long-lasting mental health I like to think of age as a state of mind. Which is probably a byproduct of always feeling like I had an old soul. Some might attribute this to being married so young, having a baby when I was just a teenager myself [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 06:28:00
DiSabatino Landscaping & Tree Service Inc. has experienced arborists to provide knowledge and recommendations
Protecting your property investment is one of the most important choices homeowners can make ... Kitchens/Fireplace Contractor Hardscape Contractor / Commercial & Residential Decorative Stamped Concrete Belgium Block Driveways, Sidewalks, Patios Outdoor Seasonal Holiday Lighting Tree and Shrub [more...]
Date: 2008-11-10 19:13:55
Victoria Gotti's Hot Mess of a Mansion Hits the Market
SELLER: Victoria GottiLOCATION: Birch Hill Court, Old Westbury, NYPRICE: $3,500,000SIZE: 5 bedrooms, 5.5 bathroomsDESCRIPTION: This exquisite custom brick estate with Old World charm and elaborate detail on 4 acres of magnificent property was built in 1993 and features a pool with cascading waterfalls, guest/cabana house, gazebo with pond, [more...]
Date: 2008-12-26 15:12:00
The One Where I Fret About My Head — Again
Feel free to skip this post. It’s just me slowly coming undone and writing about it again. But I really need to because otherwise, I might just implode from the trifecta of exhaustion, anxiety and depression. Oh, and the cramps. I’m so tired of the rollercoaster ride known as my “mental health.” Or lack thereof [more...]
Date: 2008-07-25 19:29:34
Changes coming to Paver
Paver is the Python-based build tool that I released several months ago. It uses a Rake-like approach; you create a ... from the command line. Paver has largely been focused on automating Python projects. Last week, I got ... pytoss’ tool component and Paver. So, we got together to see what we can do about that. The two [more...]
Date: 2008-10-30 13:59:04
The rough ways smooth
Paver dumpster 12-03 Paver crew 12-03 I headed to the Center Drive seeking some wintry peace and quiet. Rowrbazzle! ... Perpendicular Position. Paver fresh tar 12-03 This was not the wistful sunset idyll I had sought ... to go traveling (as my Aunt Louie used to sigh, "Ah, the open road"). Paver detail 12-03 The guys seemed [more...]
Date: 2008-12-03 23:17:54
Manalapan: Fairways at Battleground The Villas-Hallmark Homes
Seeking a “resort” lifestyle? Then you will fulfill your quest at Fairways at Battleground, The Villas ... appointments include Pella windows, full poured concrete basements, sodded lawns with individually controlled sprinklers plus paver stone driveways and walks. Several lots are available [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 16:50:31
Manalapan: Fairways at Battleground The Villas-Hallmark Homes
Seeking a “resort” lifestyle? Then you will fulfill your quest at Fairways at Battleground, The Villas ... appointments include Pella windows, full poured concrete basements, sodded lawns with individually controlled sprinklers plus paver stone driveways and walks. Several lots are available [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 20:15:49
Manalapan: Fairways at Battleground The Villas-Hallmark Homes
Seeking a “resort” lifestyle? Then you will fulfill your quest at Fairways at Battleground, The Villas ... appointments include Pella windows, full poured concrete basements, sodded lawns with individually controlled sprinklers plus paver stone driveways and walks. Several lots are available [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 20:29:27
Looking Out My Front Door, No. 3
We don’t need no steenking pavement: Ohnoes! There’s two of them! ... in the red brick building (right background of the second picture) — it means the store floods ... to freshen it a bit, then it will be brought back and laid down as a smooth coat by a paving machine [more...]
Date: 2008-11-24 18:08:55
Analysis: Recognition of Third Province Likely to Take Years: TLC 11.26.08 November 26, 2008
Posted by geoconger in Living Church. trackback An abbreviated version of this article has been published by The Living Church magazine. The members of the Joint Standing Committee (JSC) of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) and the college of primates are meeting at St Andrew’s House and Lambeth Palace in London this week in preparation for [more...]
Date: 2008-11-26 21:08:05
Above the Law
A few weeks ago, I was startled out of my slumbers a little past midnight by the roar of a machine in the street below. When the din refused to stop, I bundled myself out of bed to try to try to figure out what was going on. It turned out that a bulldozer was ripping up the asphalt so that paver blocks could [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 13:04:42
Looking Out My Front Door, No. 4
Or, in this case, looking at my front door — I went across the street to get sun angle ... in, and the membrane helps. This isn’t a real continuous paver, as I know the type — it’s more just an asphalt ... it at the proper thickness. A “real” continuous paver would have a vibrating plate and some heavy rollers [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 21:15:27
Mechanics in the UK to Receive Recession Boost from Cost Conscious Car Owners
Mechanics set to receive a boost during the recession as car drivers in the UK hold on to their vehicles for longer, choosing to repair rather than replace. UK (PRWEB) January 20, 2009 -- High street garages in the UK are set to be one of the big winners over the next 12 months as cash-strapped drivers [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 09:45:00
Saturday’s Eagle Nest - 01/05/2009 (delayed)
You know, even though it’s not Saturday. And for some reason there are a bazillion Eagle Scout notices in the past week. Alabama • James Michael Jones of Troop 82 — Jones cleared trails and repaired a bridge at Penny Farm, an outdoor classroom used by Hokes Bluff School [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 20:42:14
Oh 9.
We have high hopes for you, if you’re listening. And if you’re not, we may shout at you to get your attention ... on a tear. Pavers! The answer to the problem.Except that our backyard is two full sets of steps DOWN from the driveway where they waited in the back of our truck. Pavers! They measure 16″X16″ [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 01:02:09
Project Graduation
It’s a new year, holidays are over, college paperwork is completed… and now it is time to gear up for the June 5 graduation and our Project ... installation of engraved pavers. Purchasing an engraved paver not only benefits Project Graduation ... . We raise $5000 at this FUN event. PAVERS Think about purchasing a paver to help Project Graduation [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 21:03:49
Converting from Make to Paver
As I briefly mentioned in an earlier post, I recently moved the PyMOTW build from make to Kevin Dangoor's Python-based build tool Paver. I had been wanting to try Paver out for a while, especially since seeing Kevin's presentation ... for experimentation. Concepts: The basic concepts with Paver and make are the same. Make "targets" correspond [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 23:44:54
Infantry Museum Offers Pavers as Unique Holiday Gifts
(ARA) - The holiday season brings with it one of the toughest decisions of the year: What to buy loved ones for Christmas ... of life. The commemorative pavers, engraved with personal messages of gratitude, will line a 1,000-foot ... is selling the 4 inch by 8 inch granite pavers to support the mission of the National Infantry Museum [more...]
Date: 2008-12-15 02:07:00
Range Of Construction Equipment
Construction equipment range from the very heavy construction equipment to the portable and mobile lighter equipment, some of them with a precise description of their functions are detailed below. Engineering equipment with a front bucket/shovel and a small backhoe in the rear combined with a tractor is known as backhoe loader [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 11:46:16
The price of equal pay - a drop of £7,000 per year in salary
The price of equal pay - a drop of £7,000 per year in salary leave a comment » And how do you start negotiations about the pay review? Fire 4,000 people. Now don’t get me wrong - I am all for equal pay, I have always advocated it. I think it is one of the most simple things to do - but to others it is just a way of making life hard [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 18:06:30
Good Eats, Los Angeles, California, Restaurante Monte Alban
Restaurante Monte Alban 11929 Santa Monica Blvd./Brockton, nr. Bundy, in shopping strip, (310) 444-7736. B-L-D daily; $. Named for a ruins outside Oaxaca, Mexico, this cozy cafe is inside a shuttered, cave-like space decorated with mural-painted walls, paver-tile floors, Oaxacan woven tablecloths, and heavy carved [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 15:39:00
Join the Navy, See the World
This story is too good not to mention. Lex has the news, and Captain Bob has the passenger ... Australian hiker Debra Paver. Paver began to experience symptoms of hyponatremia, a condition resulting from low sodium levels in the blood. Paver was transported to the Military Sealift Command hospital [more...]
Date: 2008-08-13 01:51:26
Recycled Glass Countertops Take Home CleanTech Award
As GreenBiz reported on Tuesday, the 2008 CleanTech Open concluded earlier this week, ... , a Los Altos Hills company that makes ceramic stone countertops out of recycled glass. It takes ... thick concrete paver. The glass waste used is direct from post-consumer sources, meaning it’ [more...]
Date: 2008-11-13 12:59:47
Tink Turns 12 and I reveal her name
My dear Tink is now 12 years old. How time flies! Twelve years ago I remember sitting in front of the Christmas tree with my newborn all swaddled in a light belt because of severe jaundice. I cried and cried that night. A girlfriend came over with another friend and prayed with me [more...]
Date: 2008-12-28 19:19:00
Oh-Eight Inspiration
It is almost unbelievable that another year has come and gone. And what a biggie it was. An election. A stimulus check. A recession ... grassy yard beyond a modest slate or concrete paver patio (both budget friendly materials you can snag [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 20:50:35
DesignQuote.net Leads: January 07, 2009 Daily Digest
Web Master, Here is the daily email you registered for and subscribed to: (Unsubscribe instructions are at the bottom of this email) $33,750.00 worth of projects posted in the last 24 hours on Design Quote: ----------------------------------------------------------- Skip the emails - get project alerts via twitter: http://designquote.blogspot [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 06:39:00
Private Ocean Frontage Pool Home
Search for homes Take advantage of this opportunity to own a piece of paradise. Mediterranean estate villa, direct ocean front on a rare 1 ... plaster. Outdoor has lighted brick paver driveway with lush landscape. Front entry has Grecian [more...]
Date: 2009-01-23 20:56:05
Mersey Tyre Tycoon Wins Double Dragon Prize at BT Entrepreneur Awards
Liverpool entrepreneur Michael Welch has scooped a brace of prestigious awards at a national business competition, judged by a star of TV's Dragons' Den. Mr Welch won the awards for his venture Blackcircles.com, now the fastest growing tyre retailer in the UK. UK (PRWEB) [more...]
Date: 2009-01-22 09:45:00
500 Ding Dong the Witch is Dead
501 Ding Dong The Witch Is DeadWith apologies to L. Frank Baum.Baum gave us "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" in 1900. It was neither his first nor his last book, but it's the one we remember, often because of the film, which many early critics panned and which endures to delight and confound countless millions.Why? [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 11:38:00
Vineyards at Silver Oak
done The Vineyards at Silver Oak is a luxury maintenance free enclave in a gated executive neighborhood. This luxury community has a Mediterranean flavor with each home having paver driveways, tile roofs and ornate architecture. The community is maintenance free and features a clubhouse with heated [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 15:45:49
Pair injured in leap from runaway paving machine
Two men were injured at a Chino Hills construction site on Tuesday when they leaped from a runaway asphalt-paving machine ... the paver at Collinas Point and Vellano Country Club Drive; William Franks, 52, was riding along ... machine, and when it headed down a steep hill and toward a parked vehicle, the men jumped. The paver [more...]
Date: 2008-11-19 19:51:12
B is for busy.
Busy day yesterday. Went to Clementi Central to get my ATM card from POSB.And I saw this:Brilliant, ain't it? "Clearence" sale indeed.So Kevin, Alex ( ... pictured above (which I haven't started reading yet) called "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver. Seems [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 09:44:00
Christmas Caroling
We had a great opportunity to go caroling at the Cumming Nursing Center on Saturday ... , we sang carols with them for about an hour. Scott Newton and Karlo Paver took turns playing ... and be an encouragement to the residents of the Cumming Nursing Center. Written by Tracy Paver [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 03:25:27
Anglican Consultative Council Meeting by ENS
The Joint Standing Committee of the Primates and Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) has devoted much of its November 24-26 meeting to discussing budgetary issues and planning the next meeting of the ACC -- the communion's main policy-making body -- set for May 1-12, 2009 in Kingston, Jamaica [more...]
Date: 2008-11-27 01:13:00
Submit Memorandum at British High Comm on Batang Kali Massacre
.fullpost{display:inline;}We have submitted a copy of the Memorandum to the British High Commissioner, HE Mr. Boyd McCleary CVO this morning, 12 December 2008. Mr. James Paver, Head of Political, Economic & Public Diplomacy Section was present as well.A delegation of about 100 representatives [more...]
Date: 2008-12-13 04:59:00
Balkanology
New Architecture and Urban Phenomena in South Eastern EuropeIn the western Balkans, the collapse of the socialist economic system in Yugoslavia and Albania has given rise to extensive informal building activity that represents a new form of urbanisation [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 15:51:00
SPIRITWALKER by Michele Paver, read by Ian McKellen
The second Chronicle of Ancient Darkness follows 12-year-old Torak through a world of Stone Age spirits and mysticism. Guided by master storyteller, Ian McKellen, listeners easily follow ancient rituals and meet a cast of exotic characters. The fast-paced action follows Torak's quest, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 15:23:43
Glen Rock French Country Home - SOLD
This Incredible, Newly Constructed Glen Rock Home has been Sold but… An equally beautiful Glen Rock Home is now available right next door and is ... also includes wrought iron window boxes, finished basement, 2-car heated garage, paver patio [more...]
Date: 2008-11-01 01:10:44
Ceremony to Rededicate the Lakewood Veterans Memorial
Ceremony to Rededicate the Lakewood Veterans Memorial 10:30 AM Tuesday November 11, 2008 Lakewood Park, Lakewood, ... Nam. The McCue Design Group, from Lyndhurst Ohio created the new design which was estimated to cost ... materials/labor has reduced the total cost of the renovation to less than fifty per cent of the original [more...]
Date: 2008-11-10 21:37:42
Private Investigators for Casey– did they scope the site where Caylee was found?
Yikes- I’ve been away from this case over the holidays and this is the first I’ve heard about a video tape at the crime scene a month BEFORE Caylee ... knowledge. Hoover mentions paver blocks– LP says you can see them in the crime scene photos. Dec 16 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 08:12:25
Call 911 !! I have just witnessed Crape Murder!!
Pruning of plant material is more of an art than a science to me. All plants need pruning at some time in their life ... dinner on their fabulous paver patio, and cooking on the built in grill (both constructed by Green [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 16:39:47
Hiker passes out in remote New Guinea and then the witch doctor showed up
Debra Paver had seizures and fell into a coma while hiking in a remote area of New Guinea. "While she clung to life, a woman witch doctor brandishing a machete watched over her." Lucky for Paver, the US Navy was in the area and managed to airlift her to the USNS Mercy, where [more...]
Date: 2008-08-19 21:55:00
