We went to see Stanford yesterday and had a nice time. As we were going back to the car I realized my car keys were missing. After my heart started again, we decided the kids (Abigail, Matthew, Jared, and Gramma Susu) would stay with the car in a shady area and Bapu and I would…
This weekend, we went to the Sequoia National Park and saw Giant Sequoia trees, which are the worlds largest trees by volume. The largest one we saw was the General Grant Tree, which is the worlds 3rd largest Tree. We didn’t have enough time to visit the General Sherman Tree, world’s largest. We walked through…
I have been a fan of Microsoft software for a long time, and I remain a fan. However, I feel like they dropped the ball with MS Money 2006. The UI is just not intuitive and easy. Katie constantly gets frustrated with it and finally last night, I officially announced my condemnation. MS Money is…
This looks cool. It takes a jpeg or other photo and turns it into ASCII art. Ill give it a try. Of course, this post will be delayed. DSLExtreme, normally pretty good, changed my IP address without telling me. Nice, huh? I have been down all afternoon.
I am becoming disillusioned with Vista (Longhorn). I can deal with stuff being broken, that is not the problem. The issue is that the “new things” just do not seem all that valuable. The UI is much more confusing. It is hard to find things. The fonts seem blurry. There used to be a sidebar…
My new Dell showed up and I got to work. First I swapped out the native HD for a better, faster, bigger one. Then I admired the Precision 380 case. Very nice. It opened and closed very easily. The form factor was excellent. Next, I installed the 64-bit version of Windows XP that came with…
I recently saw a special on TV about the Beach Boys. It spurred me to give Pet Sounds a listen. I have listened to it about 10 times in the past 2 days. This album is really special. I think it may be my favorite album. Others in my list would be (no particular order)…
Yesterday was the first flight, I really believed I could die. The plane was approaching Vegas en route to Dallas. All of the sudden the air stopped blowing from above and we started bouncing around like crazy. If I had eaten anything it would’ve come up. The shaking was not just shaking, we were being…
This blog will be the most politically incorrect thing I have written. I will understand if you do not wish to read any further. Have you seen the recent news articles about hot teachers being arrested for having sex with their 13-16 year old students? Pamela Rogers Turner (Beauty pageant winner) – Nine months in…
I need to take a trip to Texas next week, so I told the boys this morning. The very first thing they both said was, “Daddy! There are COWBOYS in Texas! They might think you are a bad guy! They have guns!” Initially, I thought it was cute, now I think it was bizarre. Why…
Why do I have a mail server and a web server in my garage?The servers cost (when I bought them) about $1200 each. Hosting of email is pretty cheap. Less than $50 a year. Hosting of Web is also pretty cheap. With a $2400 budget, why do I bother buying when I can host with…
Dell had this pretty amazing deal. Quadruple Ram on select systems. Here are the details: Pentium D 2.8 ghtz 2mb L2 Cache 4 (FOUR) gigs of Ram SATA Hard Drive (I will upgrade this to Sata-II HD soon) 48X/32XCD-RW AND 16XDVD+/-RW 128MB PCIe x16 nVidia Quadro Price: $1400 The deal is because of the ram.…
Jared has recently learned to pronounce L. He emphasizes it in every single word. “Daddy, Can we go pLlllllay tennis?” “My name is Jared CoLllllle Llllipka.” He also started teasing Ethan about it. Ethan says W instead of L. Wipka. I don’t think it is a problem. He will certainly grow out of it. I…
I set up my 2005 NFL Football pool using http://www.officefootballpool.com. Decent Interface, pretty fast. Written in Cold Fusion. Lots of options for setting up the pool. Nice statistics information. Everyone you want in a football pool with participants scattered about the country. I am going to be picking the Jets every week. Nothing can stop…