Man, Dell is ridiculously cheap. HP doesn’t even try to compete. They told me on the phone, “We can’t beat them on price.” And I don’t even think HP boxes are anything better than Dell. Gateway has servers too, but they are just as expensive as HP and they are totally untested. You can go no name brand, but then you take some risk on support.

Listen to this spec:
Dual 2.8 Gz Xeon Processors (1MB L2 Cache)
2G of DDR 400 mhtz ram
Dual SCSI 15k RPM 36G Hard drives (Raid 1 Mirroring)

Cost: $2100

Warms my heart to see such wonderful equipment being sold for so little. I am saving up my money to buy a new computer in late May. It will be groovy. I am excited.

Last night, Jared woke up about 7 times. I kept bringing him into his room. I said, “Don’t come back until it’s light out”. Next thing I know he is tapping me on the head, “Daddy, is it light out?” (Of course, it was pitch black). Then this morning at 6:00am the three of them were jumping around us like Cirque de Soleil.

I was having a nice dream too. I was having a fling with Paris Hilton. I mean a terrible dream! A nightmare! Who wants her?!? No way. I love Katie. I love Katie. Bad Paris Hilton! Bad! I love Katie.

Here is the improved SuperGrid. Notice how you can hold the ALT key down and select a large group in the Checkbox grid.

I really need to break this all out. This supergrid has an enormous amount of features. I need to get detailed and show each feature one page at a time.

This is a list of the Top 100 Gadgets of All Time. I think a list like this shows how inspired design can change the world, or at least change pop culture. Design is such an important part of civilization. It is so hard to design with real craftsmanship. And what philosophy is backing the design. What assumptions went into that design? Are those assumptions based on hate and prejudice or community and sharing?

How was our government designed? How was our defense department or CIA designed? How are our roads and highways and water supply designed? Everything you see, everything you interact with has been designed. Even your body. The human body may be my number 1 on the Top Gadgets of all Time. (See how I brought it back to the subject?)

Hunter Thompson commited suicide yesterday. I don’t know why. Here is a nice rememberance by John Dvorak. I like him.

It’s a long weekend. President’s Day. I am getting alot done. Cleaning, Burning CD’s for people. Im going to go bike riding with Jared shortly. Today is a nice day.

Matt has been getting better and better at crawling. On January 17, Bapu said that Matt would be pulling himself up to standing in four weeks.

Well, its about 4 weeks later, and he crawled over to the bath tub and pulled himself up to standing.

Bapu was right. I was wrong. I am sorry I insinuated that he was on crack. He is not nor has ever been, on crack.

I haven’t told him yet and he doesn’t read this. I wonder if I should. I don’t want him to say, “Told you so” in person. I would rather he blogged it.

I made a cool new feature to the supergrid. I made it so you can select many at a time in the checkbox type. I know this probably doesnt make sense, so I will upload it and show it to you all tomorrow.

In this MSNBC article, it states how most Americans (including Democrats) think that torture is ok, sometimes. Here is the passage:

Last June, in the immediate aftermath of the Abu Ghraib revelations, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said at a hearing of the Judiciary Committee, “If we knew that there was a nuclear bomb hidden in an American city and we believed that some kind of torture, fairly severe maybe, would give us a chance of finding that bomb before it went off, my guess is most Americans and most senators, maybe all, would say, ‘Do what you have to do.’”

The world is a scary place. People dressed as spiritual leaders molest little boys. People presented as responsible and visionary corporate leaders steal trillions of dollars. People we elect as our chosen representatives approve the torture and repression of our own citizens. Countries with enormous power and wealth also have a thousand nuclear warheads pointed to every corner of the Earth.

We must evolve as a nation. As Spider-man said, “With great power, comes great responsibility.” I wish we all took that lesson more seriously.

Finally, a website has a picture of our street. It isn’t labeled, but it at least there. Check it out: Look near the middle. We are the street off Sycamore, facing Teraya terrace. Woo Hoo!

We had a rough weekend on all fronts. The house is a mess. Katie is mad. (She will probably get mad at me that I even mentioned it.

Today is Valentine’s day. It brings to mind all the normal things, cards, flowers, jewelry, lingerie. I wish there was something more I could give to Katie to show her how much I care. I know what she wants…She wants to collaborate more and wants me to clean up the house more and appreciate her more. But I was thinking more, like a bowling ball that says Glen on it. I think she would like that alot.

Ok ok, maybe a bowling ball that says “Appreciation” on it. I love you, honey. You are my density.

Two visits to the hospital in three days.
First Jared feel at pre-school into a triccyle and gashed the inside of his lip. Part of his lip was just hanging off. At the ER, the doctor said they rarely do anything with inside mouth lacerations because they usually heal quickly on their own, but this looked bad enough for a stitch. So they wanted to knock him out to do it. He was such a good boy, opening and saying ahhhhhh, when they wanted that considered using a local and holding him down with a papoose sheet thing. He was fine until the doctor stuck him with the needle. The he started to panic and cry. 5 minutes later, the stitch was done and we were hugging him. It looks ok now. Healing nicely.

The all the sudden, Ethan starts peeing every 30 minutes. We think it’s a bladder infection so we go to the hospital. The doctor does the test and says he is fine. She thought it is more likely physiological. I guess the decision to pull him out of pull-ups and into diapers at night was a bad decision. He was so stressed out about it that he was peeing every time there was the least bit of pee in his bladder.

I feel terrible. I am thinking about every look I gave him or any unintentional body language I used when he said he peed in his bed. I need to give him a more positive message. No stress.

Wow, this weekend was a bad one for the kids.

On the brighter side, Ethan had his first T-Ball “game”. I wasn’t really a game, it was chaos with bases. The coaches were very inexperienced, which frustrated me. They let a kid swing the bad with his hands the wrong way and they let the kids fight over a ground ball. To me the most important thing is “participation”. Everyone is supposed to touch the ball alot. Swing alot, throw alot, run alot. You shouldn’t have a kid or kids playing with dirt for 20 minutes. I will give the league some slack and keep my opinions here on the blog, but not on the field. Hopefully it will improve year-by-year.