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I need a better backup system. Currently I back up all my important data to two 300GB external hard drives; I haven’t set them up as a RAID system as I don’t know how, so while they don’t automatically mirror each other, I manually make them mirror each other by meticulously copying and pasting new items from Drive A to Drive B so I have two drives that mirror each other completely in case one fails. I back up my Macbook using Time Machine, which is pretty easy, but that really only covers what’s on my laptop; emails and various personal files. On the external hard drives, I have over 10 years worth of my professional photographs, including all my scanned negatives, my portfolio, personal files, and miscellaneous data that I’d be pissed off about losing.
As one can imagine, my current method of backing up is tedious. Obviously there’s a better way to do this, so please let me know. However, apart from learning how to back up more efficiently, I also need a way to remotely back up my data. Even though I have things mirrored on two external hard drives, this doesn’t protect my data in the event of a natural disaster, theft, acts of God, catastrophe, etc. I’d love a way to mirror my data on another hard drive that’s preferably 3000 miles away at my mother’s house in Georgia, but I don’t know how. Is such a thing possible? What do I need?
Help me, Obi-Lazy-Kenowebi. You are my only hope.
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I have a collection of 12 orchids. Currently, my Paphiopedilum liemianum is blooming.
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I’m going on vacation in the Caribbean in June and was recently looking at schedules and prices on united.com and this itinerary just boggles me. I’m flying from Fort Lauderdale to San Juan, Puerto Rico. One would think that would be a direct, nonstop flight, right? Not so! Apparently, United wants to send me from Fort Lauderdale to Charlotte, NC, and then change planes and fly from Charlotte to Philadelphia, PA, and then change planes and fly from Philadelphia to San Juan. I don’t even want to think about the carbon emissions that this trip causes.
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“Right now more people have voted for me than have voted for my opponent,” Mrs. Clinton said, without explaining how she reached that arithmetic certainty. “More people have voted for me than anybody who’s ever run for president before.”
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I wrote a post on The Kitchn today about how to get the perfect caramelized top on creme brulee. Enjoy!
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During my lunch break today, I popped over to the Crocker Galleria Farmer’s Market to pick up some potatoes and leeks for the nettle soup I am making this evening. I bumped into some coworkers having lunch there, and it came up in conversation that one of them thought the farmer’s market was too expensive, and that he preferred to shop at Safeway as he thought it was cheaper. When I got back to the office, I looked up the prices on Safeway.com and sent him the following email:
Making nettle soup tonight, so all I needed was potatoes and leeks, but here’s how the prices compare:
Farmer’s Market:
4 lbs organic Yukon Golds - $4
2 large organic leeks - $2
Tax - $0
Total: $6Safeway:
4 lbs Yukon Golds: $7.98
2 leeks: $5.98
Tax - $1.19
Total: $15.15Packaged goods like cheese, olive oil, smoked fish, etc tend to be expensive, but produce is quite often dirt-cheap. Prices on breads/baked goods, eggs, and apple cider vary from market to market but aren’t too outrageous.
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Two links that solve a problem that has been driving me batty for a while, via my friend Dave Rutledge. Thanks!
http://www.viget.com/inspire/the-mysterious-save-for-web-color-shift/
http://tancredi.co.uk/2007/5/13/photoshop-cs3-and-save-for-web-issues
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I discovered the following products while shopping on drugstore.com today. These are real, actual products. They cracked me up.
Chicken Poop Free Range Chicken Poop Lip Balm
Anti Monkey Butt Powder
Boy Butter
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Knut the polar bear, star of the Berlin Zoo, caught and ate some carp from the moat surrounding his enclosure, because he’s a POLAR BEAR, and you know, that’s what polar bears do. Onlookers at the zoo were “horrified” and “shocked” and called his behavior “brutal.”
Dear onlookers, what part of “polar bear” do you not understand? Polar bears are savage killing machines that will fuck you up. They don’t sit around and knit little tea cozies. They fucking maim and kill.