I just heard that my sister Jodie is pregnant! I’m going to be an uncle (for the fifth time)!
… more than a really nice RAID card.
I totally understand not doing things because of religious beliefs—I’m LDS and I don’t drink alcohol, coffee, tea, and I don’t smoke. What gets me are things like this: four Amish children contract polio in Minnesota. They didn’t get immunized because of “religious reasons”. Now that’s just retarded. According to PolioEradication.org, as of October 4th there have been 1,310 global cases of polio, and it looks like all of them are in third-world or war-torn countries. Four cases here in the U.S. puts us alongside Niger and Afghanistan for polio.
This is so retarded I can’t write anything more about it.
Growing up, we always had a ton of stuff in our garage. It’s a sign of stability—who’s going to move when they have tons of crap in their garage, really? I was driving to work yesterday morning when I passed a house that had the garage open, the owner was pulling a car out of it, and it was almost completely bare. No boxes, tools, storage areas, or anything. I don’t think you can trust people that live like that.
I, for instance, have many things in my garage, and am highly trustworthy. I have two motorcycles, hand tools too numerous to mention, a radial arm saw, table saw, circular saws (you never know when you need three at the same time…), a backup UPS (unplugged), lots of sawdust, a table, a shelf that needs painting, an unassembled wood project, lots of CDs, a bunch of books, extension cords, monochrome monitors still new in the box, and probably a lot of spiders as well.
The folks (down under) at HotBeam have some really cool inventions! I love the SolarBrick, and the iBall is really sweet, too.
These are sort of like the cool jackets and pants I wrote about before, solar-powered backpacks!
When they start making Pez Dispensers into mp3 music devices.
Okay, here is what my new front yard looks like! You can see the bigger version here.
All the dirt covered spots are seeded with Kentucky bluegrass. The barky areas hide flowerbeds (remember the bulbs Lorien bought?).
I posted earlier about raking rocks out of my yard, and I thought I’d post a picture of just a few of the rocks I raked out. I moved wheelbarrows full of rocks to other spots as well.
The dirty ones are the ones I raked out, not the nice river rocks.
Slashdot ran the story this morning about collaboration beginning for a Princess Bride Musical.