Posted in General on Jan 25th, 2007
Here’s some of the pictures from our second trimester screening. During this exam, which takes about 90 minutes, they measure just about every bone in the babies body, the size of the internal organs, heart rate, everything. It’s really cool to watch. We were lucky, because baby was moving around a lot, [...]
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Posted in General on Jan 3rd, 2007
I’m driving today, and the person ahead of me was going ridiculously slow. Everyone knows that the proper thing to do in that situation is to politely tailgate. So I did. After about 5 seconds, I see the guy in front of me wag his finger in the rear view mirror in [...]
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Posted in General on Dec 28th, 2006
As it turns out, quite a bit..
20 feet x 4 feet x 18 inches, all sitting on top of 6×6 pressure treated planks. Took me 2 hours to stack.
I’m unsure how to protect it from the elements. The little kids on the internet claim that you need to season it for 8-10 months, [...]
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Posted in General on Dec 17th, 2006
A few weekends ago Eric came up to CT for a visit, driving a brand new fully loaded 2007 Mercedes CL550. Kelly Blue Book lists the car at about 1 hundred grand, MSRP. I don’t think I’ve ever been in a car that fancy or expensive before, so I was curious exactly [...]
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Posted in General on Dec 15th, 2006
This year, for the first time, we cut down our own christmas tree from a local farm about 3 miles from our house.? A 6 foot tall blue spruce(daggerus painicus maximus).? Here’s Karen with our tree, before we cut it down.
Here’s me sawing away.? The tree’s needles are just super duper sharp.? [...]
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Posted in General on Dec 3rd, 2006
You WILL wear your cute santa hat and beard Franky, even if you hate it.
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Posted in General on Nov 14th, 2006
Finally, the world of mobile keypads has caught up with 20 year old Wheel-Of-Fortune technology.
This is pretty cool.
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Posted in General, Projects on Oct 15th, 2006
Today was my first day that I had to rake my enormous oak tree laden hell yard.
Here’s the before:
And here’s the after:
Pretty good job, eh?? Rake courtesy of John Deere.
After I finish doing all this, I look up into the heavens…
And realize that mother nature hasn’t even started raining her leafy terror on my [...]
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Posted in Fun, General on Sep 28th, 2006
I think I’m the last person on earth to know this, but you can actually play Zork Online, implemented in PHP.? Talk about memories!? Although *officially* my first computer was a Vic-20, and my first game was radar rat race, Zork was the first game that actually hooked me to the point where [...]
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Posted in General on Sep 25th, 2006
This weekend we went to the durham fair. Lots of awesome goats and baby piggies. For food:
1) Chili in bread bowl (B-). Actually not bad for fair chili.
2) Roast Beef samis, slathered in bbq sauce. B+
3) Chicken wrap w/ Ranch. B+
4) Various samplings of hot apple [...]
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