Power went out yesterday. So today, I wrote a script to send a “push” alert to my phone when power is lost/restored at home. #geekhome
Took 45 min, but FINALLY set the time zone on my home phone. Not on the base, not the handset, not the VOIP co web page, but on the ROUTER!
Suddenly dark in the house. Sky looks like a strobe light. #storm
RT @mikbre: Worst. Congress. Ever.
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We met the teachers, both Salamander and Spartan.
Busy night! We superglued our fingers together. We lit a fire with magnesium and flint. We sang with a vocoder. #geekdad
Quality of food at work cafeteria continues to slide. Bananas should be easy… no, they have a fibrous vein of seeds in the middle. #yuck
Hail in Cary!
Just now figured out that I had an unused daemon process on my home Linux server, running for the past year, chewing up CPU for nothing.
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@eronel I think they should relabel that switch BATTERY SUCK vs BATTERY LASTS.
So… on the Kindle, to turn wifi ON, you have to turn “Airplane mode” OFF. I get it… OFF means ON.
Nice performance by the “campers” at the Raleigh Chinese Language School summer day camp! (北å¡æ´›éº—ä¸æ–‡å¸æ ¡)
@marsroverdriver TriLUG in Raleigh NC is interested in having you attend/speak. Do you have contact info for follow-up?
How most software is documented: “here are detailed photographs each one of my footprints” (no mention of where we’re walking to, or why).
Long-time friend keeps sending me text messages meant for someone else, apparently someone who’s staying with him on vacation.
One Mac, 6 mission control “spaces”, multiple apps on each space, multiple tabs in each app, multiple “screen” sessions in my terminal app.
Spending a cloudy and thundery day at Wet’n Wild Emerald Pointe water park.
This scheme is totally insane & I am rooting for them! 3 weeks from now: “7 min of terror” as Curiosity lands on Mars. http://t.co/QKoQ7ONA
It’s OK to live in a minefield… as long as we document all of the mines.
RobDenBleyker I hear Internet Explorer 10 is going to allow you to download & install Firefox up to three times faster.
Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.
Good deal at Wendy’s in Kinston (only) for a $1 donation, get 1 free Junior (extra small) frosty EVERY DAY til 12/31! pic.twitter.com/VCnRlWeA
@jeremydavis0_0 That’s where we just ate!
Found a very nice “pandora” bracelet in the parking lot in downtown Morehead City. Bummer for whoever lost it. Wish I could find them.
Current status… pic.twitter.com/rseb5dkA
I need to have a vowel movement.
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Our office is deviating from the US Flag Code (aflag.com/us_code.asp) by flying all colors at half-staff to remember Andy Griffith.
Slumber party!!
Slept late this morning, took a nap this afternoon, just might go to bed early tonight.
Playing a 1987-era DOS-based game with my kids. Galactic Conquest, aka “Galcon”. http://t.co/keWBPtur D1 conquered the galaxy.