Travel, Tech, Thoughts…
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The World’s Meanest Dad
Of all the footage I’ve shot so far, this clip is, by far, my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLla0Q3egIc Now, before you comment about how evil I am, I have to set up the shot. We put Toren on his play mat of terror a couple days earlier and, in an effort to get him to like it,…
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Why we won’t see real healthcare reform
The answer is simple: $$$$ The St. Petersburg Times ran a good story this morning looking at donations to politicians in the state of Florida by… Health insurance companies and other groups who stand to see a decline in their windfall profits if the Federal Government actually reforms healthcare. Now, you may be saying, “But…
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the pen is the sword
You may have heard that “the pen is mightier than the sword”. Not so for Toren. For Toren, the pen is the sword: I give him this on occasion to check his ability to grasp things. He’s come awfully close to poking his eye out more than once!
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the play mat of terror
Some good friends gave us a play mat for Toren. For some reason, every time we put him on it he freaks out: Maybe he’s still too young?
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Streeetttccchhh!
Toren loves to stretch when waking up… and when eating… and, well, all the time:
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Pfeifferhorn
Summit Date: August 1st, around 10:30 Party: Ryan Cragun, Mark Woolley, Tom Triplett While in Utah I did my annual hike with my two hiking buddies, Tom and Mark. Having hiked all the highpoints within about a day’s drive of Salt Lake City, we decided to do something local this year. Of course, it’s not…
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Ubuntu Fresh Install
I mentioned a while back that I switched all of our computers (currently 5) to Linux (Ubuntu, to be specific). I was committed to making the transition this time and have spent quite a bit of time becoming more proficient with the operating system. I wouldn’t say I’m a Linux expert, by any means, but…
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Ubuntu: How to Install Galleon on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty
One of the great features of Tivo (and one of the reasons why we won’t switch to a different PVR) is that you can transfer shows to your computer. This is great for teachers as you can find shows and copy them to your computer to then use in class. Alas, switching to Linux meant…
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Ubuntu: Enabling USB Support in Virtualbox
While Ubuntu does about 95% of what I need my OS to do, there are a few things it doesn’t do (or at least doesn’t do well). I occasionally need to recognize the text of documents. There are a few programs for this for Linux OSes, but they all suck – really, they do. Since…
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Ubuntu: How to Automount Internal NTFS Drives
For most new users of Linux, automounting an internal NTFS drive is probably not a concern as you’ll just have one hard drive and it will be reformatted to either EXT3 or EXT4. But for people who dual boot Windows and Linux, like I do, being able to mount the NTFS formatted drives in your…