Travel, Tech, Thoughts…
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One more positive from the World Cup
Toren, whether he wanted to or not, got to watch a lot of World Cup soccer (as that’s pretty much all I did in my free time during June and July). You can see him sitting on his improvised soccer watching seat in this photo: Turns out those hours and hours of exposure to soccer…
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Toren helping with laundry
While he doesn’t really show it that well in this video, Toren’s typical way of “helping” with the laundry is to pull everything off the couch or chair as quickly as possible and throw it on the floor:
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pushing the trash
As soon as he learned how to walk, Toren started finding new toys, namely, our trash cans. We’re not sure why he likes doing this, but he pushes our trash cans all over the place now: Luckily we keep them fairly clean and empty them regularly. So far we haven’t had any major messes as…
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new email from my uncle: Jose Legal vs. Jose Illegal
So, I got another email from my uncle (well, Debi got it and forwarded it to me). Here it is: JOSE LEGAL VS. JOSE ILLEGAL You have two families: Jose Legal and Jose Illegal. Both families have two parents, two children and live in California. Jose Legal works in construction, has a social security number…
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back in the childseat
I snapped this while riding the bike around our neighborhood one day as Toren just looked very cute in his bike helmet:
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back on TV
Toren, Debi, and I were on TV here in Tampa last night. A reporter stopped by to get a comment on how things have changed in my neighborhood since they shut down the pain clinic behind our house. Here’s the clip:
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Oregon trip updates
I posted some additional video footage on two of the Oregon trip report posts (here and here) and added another post (here). I just thought I’d mention it as those posts aren’t on the front page anymore and people may want to see them.
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sunscreen hair
I’ve been too busy the last week to post anything, but I found an hour today to put together a few posts, so I’ll try to catch up with posts everyday this week. Here are some fun photos of Toren’s hair coated with sunscreen after the St. Pete Pride Parade: If he had thicker hair,…
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Ubuntu: Adequate OCR for free on Linux
Even though I have mostly switched from Windows to Linux, I do have to emulate Windows for a few things just because the software for Linux either isn’t very good, doesn’t work, or in one case I haven’t learned it (R rather than SPSS). One of the reasons I would run Windows over Linux was…
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Android: An e-book reader that copies, pastes, and highlights text
As my regular readers know, Debi and I recently bought new cellphones that run the Android operating system. For about three years before that, we were running an old Windows Mobile OS (I think version 5). On our old phones, I had installed an ebook reader that allowed me to copy and paste text from…