• A happy new year

    To my friends, both real and online, that do me the honor of reading this, I wish you all a very happy new year. I could not ask for better people than the half dozen of you that I “see” every day. You could not be more special, or more important to me, and I…

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  • The night that lingered…

    So, it’s 2:00 PM and I’m just getting up a bit ago. Sounds like a good start to a weekend, right? Well, it would have been if I was gettiing up at 2 after going to bed at, say, 2 AM? But being at work until 6, in bed by 6:30 doesn’t make for a…

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  • Been a while

    I haven’t gotten to updating this puppy in awhile and he’s hungry! Tonight I get to set up a new OS X server at a big client of mine. if all goes well, we can get in and out in a few hours. I’ve spent the better part of the past week configuring, setting up,…

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  • Coaster madness

    OK, This is cool However, what is even cooler is totally putting it to the MAX–resolution, screen effects, etc., and having my G5 1.8 STILL give me 40-50 frames/sec. I was doing this thing is 1280 X 1024 mode with EVERYTHING on and getting a steady 30-40 FPS. Let me know how y’all do. Interesting…

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  • Mommy Dolly

    Check out what’s for sale this holiday at Discovery Toys OK, I don’t want my kids playing with anything more dangerous than a spoon, let alone sequencing their own DNA!

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  • Want it

    TV on the Ceiling Philips has made a bed and a sofa with an embedded LCD projector and sound system meant to have you lying on your back looking UP at the image. About time, no?

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  • Brrrrrrr

    It’s currrently about 55 degrees in our house. That is probably because our furnace, on the coldest day of the year thus far, decided to quit. I guess it’s tired. Me too. As a result, the house was freezing and we let both kids drift into our bed. Now, we have a big bed. A…

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  • talking

    I just woke up from another crappy night of sleep because I went to bed angry and got up angry. I HATE that. I’m still angry. I get it in my head and can’t get it out until I talk about it with who I’m angry at, but she doesn’t want to talk. So I…

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  • Thanksgiving day

    Turkey day started not with a whimper OR a bang, but with a phone call. 6:30 AM the phone rings, jolting us out of sleep. “hello?” I answer, groggily “Hi, daddy.” says my 6 year old, who is staying overnight at my mom’s house. Turns out that she wanted to know what time the Macy’s…

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  • testy

    Am I too sensitive? I dunno. I seem to get grouchy pretty fast. I feel so possessive sometimes and I try hard not to, but ever try NOT to feel a feeling? So, I muddle on, screwing it up as I go. But I care for the dear readers of this blog as intensely as…

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