andrew 05.23.08
Work let us out early today so we could start the holiday weekend early. WOOT!
My daughter and I got our plants put out on the deck while mom went to costco. It was a beautiful day and it was great to spend some time with the kid. Looking forward to a nice [...]
andrew 05.22.08
This is going to be an incredibly inane post.
My inlaws got back into town, so we had a dinner at their place. Got back, and our dishwasher was stuck in “make everything really f’ing hot mode.” Realizing the thing was probably 20 years old we decided to get a new one. [...]
andrew 05.18.08
First of all, saturday was a beautiful day. I was expecting cool and overcast, instead I got warmish and sunny. I took our daughter to the aquarium to get my wife a break. We had a great time, Liz spent 30 minutes or so just staring at the dolphins. I really [...]
andrew 05.12.08
I need to spend more time learning/creating new things. I need to spend less time playing games. I really enjoy games, and I don’t really see it as time wasted, however, I’d like to get back to really enjoying writing code, and creating things. I’m torn between doing something in rails or [...]
andrew 05.06.08
I’ll get this out of the way up front. I voted for Ron Paul in the republican primary. I tend to be pretty liberal socially, and fairly conservative economically. Make your judgements, etc. I don’t really care that much. (though if you want to rationally discuss any of this, I’m [...]
andrew 05.04.08
This has been a pretty busy weekend. We took our daughter to the zoo yesterday for breakfast with the penguins. She’s a little obsessed with penguins so it was a good time. Apparently the Maryland Zoo has the largest colony of African Penguins in the US. You can see the [...]
andrew 05.01.08
Marco Polo is software that you can use to make your laptop “location aware.” You set up a series of predicates based on things like visible wifi networks, ip address, external monitor, usb devices, etc. Marco Polo will evalute each of the predicates and come up with a score that it uses [...]