Homer Vs. Kidd

Every whif of documentation I’ve pored through told me that the only way the iMac can support screen spanning (having multiple monitors act like one giant desktop) is if you use crazy dangerous firmware hacks that can potentially brick your computer, void the warranty, and cause the sky to fall. Tonight, I plugged in my new 22″ widescreen Acer monitor, setup the display, and well…

It works out of the box, no changes required. As proof, I submit this picture of super-maximized iPhoto.

For the record, my model is a circa late 2006 iMac, 2.16ghz, Ati Radeon X1600. And the screen spanning works AMAZING. Completely flawless.

We started Evangeline on solids at about 5 months, and it took about 3 weeks for her to really understand what was going on.

Now that she’s got the hang of it, feedin’ time is about the best time of the day.

Ok, um, that’s not food..

If we didn’t send you out a christmas card this year, don’t fret.. Here’s the picture we used…

This year we took a trip to a local Christmas tree farm and cut our own tree. This is a new tradition for us, and one that I really like doing. Any activity that involves me walking around with a saw and cutting stuff down, and not going to jail, is a good time.

Even though it’s bitterly cold out, we still got a smile out of her.

And a few hours later, we’re completely ready for christmas.

My first choice of costume for the baby was Master Blaster from Beyond Thunderdome.

My choice was of course discarded in favor of “happy caterpillar”.

She really hated this costume, and except for maybe 5 minutes, screamed when the little caterpillar hat was on her head.

More pics here..

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I’m not sure they still make you do this, but back when I was in high school if you wanted to more easily get into college, they tried to make you take a foreign language. So I picked German. I don’t know why I did that. Spanish or Latin seems more useful. But I just HAD to pick German. Not only did I struggle in it, but it completely wrecked my ability to write in English. Why? It’s a little known fact that German is the only language in the world that requires you to capitalize all nouns.

To this day, by default, I always capitalize all my nouns, no matter what language I’m writing in (mostly English, but I do it in computer languages too). I don’t know why I allowed the noun capitalization meme to infect my brain, but it’s there, like a song that’s been stuck in my head for the last 15 years. I can’t stop. Today I wrote up a fairly wordy piece of documentation, only to realize at the very end that I forgot about my noun problem, and every noun was capitalized. Search and replace can only fix things to a point. I sometimes wonder how many hundreds of hours I could have reclaimed if I never took that stupid foreign language.

I should also mention that the only opportunity I’ve ever had to use my German was at Lake Como in Italy, which borders Switzerland. There was one waiter who tried talking to me in a language that sort of sounded like a dialect of German, but his speech was impenetrable. That was my one big chance, and I choked.

3 years of foreign language classes down the toilet.

Every night when I leave work, I accidently keep iTunes running. And for whatever reason when I come in the next morning, iTunes will randomly pick a small 1 second piece of a song, and play it continuously FOREVER. This morning’s selection is a new song by Avril Lavigne called “Foppy”.

I think Foppy could be her next number 1 hit. Listen for yourself and decide. I for one can’t stop listening to it.

FoppyFoppyFoppyFoppy

Remember 50 States, 10 minutes?

Now try all the presidents in 10 minutes.

I got 30 out of 43. Notable presidents I missed were Madison, Monroe, Wilson and McKinley. Who the f*ck is Millard Fillmore?

Also, stupid Google ads at the bottom of the page gave me Warren Harding, so technically my score should be 29.

Some pictures that Andrew took..

From Andrew's Pict…

From Andrew's Pict…