Kids these days
When I was a kid we watched TV on a 20” screen that weighed 600 pounds, output 480i (the antithesis of HD TV) and only provided very fuzzy, analog network channels. Howe we wished…
Funny
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Compensating
During our trip to Southern California I realized that it’s not just Disneyland that is a wonderland, separate and distinct from the rest of the world, but most of Southern…
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XMLHttpRequest status 0 and responseText is empty
I ran across a problem in the javascript for the OER Glue mashup process today that surprised me. We’re using backbone.js and so I had constructed a login form via one of the…
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I Have One Quadrillion Dollars
Zimbabwe was the first country to issue a 100 Trillion dollar bill. I have ten which makes me a Quadrillionaire: Each bill is about 15 x 7.5 centimeters so 112.5 sq centimeters…
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I Spent My Day With Hot, Young Girls
Well, at the first of the day they were cold young girls then we went to Bear Lake and it was pretty hot. My wife is girl’s camp director which means she gets to spend 6 months…
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What is in my Pants?
I have three daughters. They are moody and emotional but relatively non-violent unless they are playing with dolls together in which case they fight like cats. It actually reminds…
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Doggie Shed
We’re visiting my parents in Idaho for the weekend so that the kids can go to my grandmother’s house to hunt Easter eggs. It’s a long story that involves who can be in town when…
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Uses for banana
My two year old son has picked up an interesting habit of using ‘banana’ like the f-bomb. “I hate that! Banana you!”
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Merry Christmas
Santa’s up a bit late this year (every year actually). Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!
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Callie Found This…
We’re using this to teach our kids Chinese. Kind of funny how a word in one language sounds so much like words in another language:
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Implicit multipart emails using Ruby on Rails and ActionMailer won’t work
I’ve been beating my head against the wall trying to figure out why html emails from my Rails Engine are sent out as plain text ie the email shows up with all the html tags…
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Ruby gems and “Couldn’t get release_id, upload failed?”
I’ve been experimenting with Ruby gems over the past few weeks. I use a couple of other gems to make the process easier including rubyforge, jeweler and newgem. Jeweler has a rake…
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Conversations With Devin
Today my two year old had this conversation with my wife: Devin: I want juice. Callie: How about milk. Devin: How about juice. Callie: How about milk. Devin: How about juice…
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Dude, it’s 420
Today is 4/20. That is significant for two reasons. One is that it is my parent’s wedding anniversary. My dad likes to get license plates with significant numbers. For years the…
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Count is broken in Rails 2.3.2
After upgrading to Rails 2.3.2 I started getting this error: Mysql::Error: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for…
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A Couch
This is a couch:
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Joel With Coffee
Don’t let him fool ya. Here’s Joel with a cup of coffee at the last OCW conference: Everyone needs a little pick me up.
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Super Cheese
This is the most impressive cheese ever: Each serving has 1176 calories with 11 servings per container which means this thing has 12,936 calories.
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House plans that look good in the snow
It’s snowing in Logan again and so in my current tradition of posting house plans that I would build if the economy didn’t suck and if I had lots of money I am submitting to you…
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Snow and Rain
I just manged to get the kids in bed. It’s 9:00pm. I started at 6:30. I’m sitting here watching the rain letting my brain idle for a few moments until I get back into write code…
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Shoulda Craps out on Rails 2.2.2
I tried the latest shoulda on luvfoo a while back and it died on the internationalization stuff so we gave up. Turns out that with the new internationalization in Rails 2.2.2…
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The binding argument of #concat is no longer needed
If you upgrade to Rails 2.2.2 and start getting “The binding argument of #concat is no longer needed” then wherever you do something like this:
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So I am a Big Geek
I had to reboot the server in my office closet this evening. That’s when I realized that I am a really big nerd. I have a server in my closet with RAID 5 to backup the other…
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Maybe I Should be a Computer Tech
My wife’s computer finally died. I mean really died. For about ten minutes I could push the power button and it would just barely turn on and then it would immediately shut down…
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The Nutcracker
We took Aubrey, Alyssa and Jenna to the Nutcracker Monday night. It is part of our effort to expose our children to culture. Devin doesn’t like ballet and utterly refused to go…
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Top Ten Reasons to Use Windows Vista
I have a mac. I love my mac. I run VMWare so that I can use Windows as needed like when I need to test Internet Explorer because apparently a lot of people out there are still…
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Thanks Expercom
I bought an STM bag about a week ago and took it on one trip. When I got back the shoulder strap had a huge tear in it. I’m not especially rough on bags. I basically carried the…
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Words Fail Me
http://www.kutv.com/content/news/watercooler/story.aspx?content\_id=fb5ec53b-e22b-47eb-8a03-0d06ad4c4fbf
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STM Bags Suck?
I am hoping this is an isolated instance. I went on a business trip this last week to Chicago. I didn’t have a laptop case so on Monday I rushed down to Expercom to buy something…
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New Apple Laptops – I’m so Excited
I’ve been wanting to buy a Macbook pro for a while now. I hate to be yet another one of those Apple nuts but I have been waiting for Oct 14 ever since the rumor came out that…
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My Truck Got Old
When I was in high school I drove a 73 Chevy Pickup. It was actually my grandmothers. It had a 350 V-8 and flushed gas like a toliet. I used to fill up the tank for $15. I always…
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Relativity
Time can suck. Ten minutes worth of programming is nothing. It will pass so quickly that you get nothing done. Ten minutes at the dentist which is where I am this very second…
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Outsourcing My Religion
I got up at 6:30 am this morning so that I could serve in what is know as a ‘calling’ in my church. I have done this for two years now. Anyone that knows me knows that I don’t get…
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Ajax calls using jQuery in Ruby on Rails
jQuery is the hot javascript library and it is small and it is cooler than Prototype, the default library that comes with Ruby on Rails. Ergo I plugged it in and pulled out…
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Watching for Signs
I wrote this on May 11th but never got around to posting it: We took the kids to Thanksgiving Point yesterday to look at the gardens. They had a great time. Whenever we travel…
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What Makes You Yawn?
Aubrey’s teacher asked her students to draw a picture of what makes them yawn. Aubrey drew a picture of herself doing homework. I feel the same way.
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People for the Ethical Treatment of Yeast (PETY)
The next time you take a bite out of that yummy loaf of bread consider where it came from. Sure, cutting down all that nasty wheat is harmless enough. After all it’s just a stupid…
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Our First ‘Phone Call’
My daughters are in kindergarten this year. Today we got our first call from their teacher. Apparently, Aubrey pinched someone. Callie said that Aubrey realized when her teacher…
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Lifetime Marriage
In church today an older lady stood up and said she was grateful for her marriage of 60 years. I was impressed. I think that the divorce today tends to discourage people from…
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Our Tax Date
Tonight was the first time since September that I and Callie have been alone, together, outside of the house. We were able to spend 15 minutes eating a Quiznos sub in a gas…
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A Killer iPhone App
I am not great at meeting people especially at conferences. However, the biggest reason to attend a conference is to meet people. (If you think you are paying $1500 to learn about…
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Family Search Conference
I am at the FamilySearch conference at BYU today which means that I had to get up at 5:30 this morning which is one my least favorite things in the world. Luckily caffeine is my…
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What Do You Want to be When You Grow Up?
My Nephew’s preschool class recent took a field trip to a local store. They went to the bakery and saw the big mixers and how donuts are made. They toured the meat section where…
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The COSL Guys are Disgusting
First there was the joke about bacon chocolate chip cookies. Sure somebody did it and it was funny. Then Jeremy actually made them and brought them to game night and people ate…
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Weddings So Totally Suck
Weddings suck. Everything about them, surrounding them and having to do with them is really quite inane. Although I am sure I will take a lot of crap for writing this which may or…
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Wife Got a Temporary
Every three months my wife spends $60 bucks on this nasty smelly treatment called a ‘permanent’. It makes your hair curly. My question is, even though at three months it outlasts…
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Target
On the way back from Salt Lake we stopped at Target because we always do – there isn’t one in Logan. Target is a more interesting shopping experience than Walmart. Target has…
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Jeremiah was a Bullfrog, Lucifer is a Cat
Whether I like it or not my daughters are big fans of the Disney princess world. I am realizing that most things around here are whether I like it or not. Anyway, the have seen…
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Watch Your Roomba
We left the Roomba on its own to vacuum again tonight. I had to rescue it from under the table once since the chairs were playing pong with it. For revenge the Roomba like a…
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Adult Breakfast Cereal
No not ‘adult’ I mean grown up. These kinds of cereal are easy to recognize in the store. They are on the top shelf well away from where the kids can yell, YUCK! They are…
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Indulgenc.es
My second Facebook application is up. I and Marion built something to help you and your friends enjoy the lighter side of life. Try out Indulgences.
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Top Selling Stuff on Amazon Brings Tears
I am always looking for a deal so I keep trying to find one on Amazon Grocery. The problem is that you can waste a lot of time trying to find something you would really buy. So I…
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Facebook 50 Years From Now
I didn’t build this and I don’t know where it came from but a friend sent it and it made me laugh: Update: Here’s the original from StraightFromMyBrain.com
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My Wife is Better Than Your Wife
It really is true. My wife IS better than your wife. Want proof? Here it is: \[!\[Panasonic Plasma TV – TH-58PZ700U\]\[2\]\]\[2\] 58” of pure Panasonic Plasma goodness and she…
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Just Funny
I am writing code and my wife is singing this to my son, “I’m a little stink pot short and stout when I let it rip it all comes out. I’ll knock you over and you’ll pass out.”
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Fashion can be Funny
I have noticed a lot of women in camouflage pants lately. I think this is the latest fashion or maybe they wear it because they are trying to hide something. My bet is that there…
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Salt Lake City Drivers
We are headed to Salt Lake this friday for a wedding (yuck). However, I am thinking that this will provide and opportunity to go to my new favorite bike shop (Contender Bikes…
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Jenna Again
Nature calls to Jenna frequently in the middle of the night. The other night she got up used the facilities and then went back to bed. If the kids so much as cough Callie wakes up…
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All the Dinosaurs are Killed
The other night I am trying to get Jenna to go to bed which is not easy to do. I almost get here there when she sits up and says, “Dad I want to tell you something.” I say, “OK”…
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Kids learn fast
So my wife bought my daughters some simple math books. They have add and subtract etc in them. Callie came upon Alyssa, she is 5, working in one of the books for fun and was happy…
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Well you’re a genius
I like to listen to NPR on the way in to work. This morning they ran a piece discussing what is Genius. It was especially interesting since it the commentator pointed out that…
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who knew?
I grew up in Idaho. It is a great place, really. There are LOTs of places to visit where for and entire day you can wander through the wilderness and not see another soul. It is…