Delaney scored two 3rd place ribbons in art, I scored some pictures, and a nice night out with part of the family. The teenage son is apparently too cool for the Fair. Although had he known about the Frisbee dogs… The rest of the story is in the pictures
…if Internet access had been available where I was. And really, I’m not upset that it wasn’t. For 40 glorious hours I couldn’t even call my wife, let alone post to Facebook or Twitter. When was the last time you were cut off completely like that? It’s liberating. I need to do it more often. [...]
I took advantage of the downtime in the woods this weekend to re-read The Lost Coin. It was just as good as the first time I read it – 8 years ago.
Last night it started raining at about 10 PM. Luckily we had retired to the tent at about 9:45 PM, and I was in the process of crushing Breck at cribbage when the raindrops started falling. Then we split two games of Statis-Pro baseball, with the person playing the 2009 Red Sox beating the person [...]
From Grayson Highlands On the way home from Mount Rogers today Breck and I stopped by Appomattox Court House National Historic Site to visit the scene of Lee’s surrender of The Army of Northern Virginia. That act effectively ended the Civil War. Fighting continued here and there for a few weeks, but with Lee out, [...]
Last week I noticed that all my keyword searched from Firefox address bar were going to Bing. This wouldn’t be that surprising, except that I run Linux! I still have absolutely no idea what was causing it. I deleted Bing from the search tools list, and I edited URL.Keyword to point to the default, Google. [...]
I found them on Aime Street. Sadly, it’s probably the last new-to-me music I’ll ever find on Aime Street. (Aime Street is shutting down later this month) Cute blond singer that also plays guitar…check. Catchy songs that sort of dance on the country / rock /folk fence…check. From Chicago…check. Not sure why the Chicago thing [...]
Lacking any truly brilliant ideas for original content, I decided to look back at what I was writing about in previous Septembers. 2001: I really didn’t write much about the events on 9/11/2001. Only 3 posts, of which this one was sort of prescient. What better way for the government to get what they want [...]
ChristianCollegeGuide.net sent us a 32 page full color glossy magazine full of ads for small Christian colleges across the land. (We are ignoring the target marketing fail here. That is a whole ‘nother post) Check out the Photoshop job on the back cover. The back cover! I used to work in printing. That is the [...]
Amazon S3 is Amazon’s cloud storage service. At .15 per gigabyte, 50GB will cost me $7.50 a month, versus $20 for Dropbox or UbuntuOne. And odds are those services are planting your data on Amazon servers anyway! It’s a damn good deal for redundant storage. Both of these services give you 2 GB for free, [...]
