one wife is nott enough

Actually, one wife is plenty.

My apologies to everyone who came to this entry this morning. I have had a password protected email gateway that I use to post entries via email ever since this was a movable type blog. Unfortunately some spam randomly hit upon the key to the mechanism and ended up going all of the way through the system and ended up as an entry on the site. This really was left over from a time when phones and pagers could send email but did not have ...

posted: 2008-12-01 06:52:35 117 comments Read More

What's the best possible bed for a boy?

Ben is growing up pretty quickly, and his bed which was a converted crib, was getting small. After considering things like race car beds from a department store, I decided that a castle would make a better bed because 1) it suits his personality well, and 2) it also makes playing in his room more fun which might be pretty important as winter nears. Since I was taking a belated week off from work, it seemed the perfect time to build it myself.

The first day, I bought a mattress ...

posted: 2008-11-11 20:17:09 833 comments Read More

How certain are you about how good he is?

"For he's a jolly good fellow!
For he's a jolly good fellow!
For he's a jolly good fellow, which nobody can deny!"

posted: 2008-10-16 15:42:15 110 comments Read More

Am I too lazy?

My Slicehost machine ran out disk space yesterday, so I was looking for logs to rotate, files to delete, etc and I ran across a few large groups of files that I wanted to keep. I tried gzip -9 like always, but then found myself wondering if I could get these files any smaller. A quick google turned me on to rzip. But as it turns out, rzip is extremely memory intensive and was completely consuming everything I had on this poor slice.

I could go though all of the ...

posted: 2008-10-04 08:10:26 153 comments Read More

Perpetual Motion

THe funny thing about this video is that intends to sell the viewer on the concept of gasoline engine as a virtual perpetual motion machine, but then ends with the admission that it can't be. Only now we realize that it's not just the law of thermodynamics, it's the laws of supply and demand too.

posted: 2008-09-05 08:19:34 108 comments Read More

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