Hospital again Published August 11, 2005
Mom’s back in the hospital again. She’s been there since Monday I guess. I wish she would have called sooner. I have to go out of town for the wedding this weeekend.
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Nice visit Published August 1, 2005
I visited my aunt and uncle (Anne and Bob) this weekend and I had a wonderful time. It was good to catch up with them. Carissa and I had a party to go to that weekend and we decided to leave a day earlier and visit with them since they were on the way. I’m very glad we did. The barbecue at Neal and Sara’s place was a lot of fun.
Unix Tools Published July 22, 2005
I was working on my PE disk tonight and I came across these tools that I totally forgot about. UnixTools is a collection of command-line tools that are ports of the most common and useful “Unix Tools” a typical Unix / Linux admin would run across. So now you can use “grep” in Windows, and you can stop confusing “dir” with “ls”! Download the files here (~2.7 MB)… the file is a self-extracting archive that will prompt you for an install path.
Rails Published July 22, 2005
I’ve been spending a lot of time with Ruby on Rails and I love it. I love it so much that I hate ASP and PHP more than anything. Rails takes all of the crap about programming that I hate and gets rid of all of it. It lets me avoid doing all of the database-to-form mapping and validation stuff that I hate and instead lets me focus on the presentation and design of the site.
From Mom Published July 22, 2005
Mom says: I’m going for the bone marrow transplant after all. I keep hearing all these success stories and I figure I’m too young to give up. I just have to recover my normal blood counts and that won’t happen ’til at least August. In the meanwhile, I get platelet transfusions and shots that produce white blood and red blood cells I completely support her decision, but I am really worried.
History of the Laugh Track Published July 16, 2005
Much of the “canned laughter” used on the soundtracks of sitcoms is said to have come from tapes that were originally recorded during broadcasts of “The Red Skelton Show” in the late 1950s and early ’60s. It is eerie to realize that when we encounter a laugh track (or “sweetening”) in a recent show, some of the people we hear laughing may have been dead for decades. Yet their guffaws go on forever.
Learn Physics With Mario Published July 14, 2005
This awesome flash animation is a fun and very well done way to learn about some physics concepts like frequencies and amplitudes. Check out the movie here.
Fun Movie Stuff Published July 13, 2005
Dr. Doom reviews “Fantastic Four” movie. The Sith Explained
Mmmmmm… recirculated air Published July 6, 2005
The AC is in, and the house is much more comfortable. I slept great last night, so great that I didn’t even want to wake up. I had to take the morning off because the electricians had some more work to do and I wanted to be there when the big stuff was going on. I left them to their work about 11:30 or so, and I guess we’ll see how much of my house is left when I get hom.
Raiden Published July 1, 2005
Raiden was one of my favorite platform space shooter games when I was a kid. Now, some enterprising Flash developors have made a wonderfully accurate (and great-looking) remake that you can play online. Play RaidenX