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Plants…

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 [...]

Crazy week. . . .

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. [...]

Nice weekend and some productivity.

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 [...]

need to code more. . . .

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 [...]

The Election. . .

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 [...]

Penguins

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 [...]

Cool OSX software for laptops

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 [...]