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Brian Bilbrey July 1, 2011

Wild and Crazy Guy

Some of you may remember the Festrunk brothers, from the gilded age of Saturday Night Live. This is not my life. I've just spend my Friday evening leading into a three day weekend on What-If analysis and Pivot Tables in Excel. While I'm studying, Lexi spends a lot of time either watching the world or sleeping on the ottoman/storage bench I made for Lucy a few years back. But every once in a while I turn my head to find her sitting up and staring into a relatively blank corner of my office. I sure hope she doesn't see dead…

Brian Bilbrey June 30, 2011

Prior Art on Censorship

/. pointed me at Google Patents Censorship Of ‘Annoying’ Content I point at my email killfile as Prior Art. I point at my BIND configuration that has doubleclick and other fine purveyors of flickering content resolve to 127.0.0.1 as Prior Art. I can block annoying content. Blocking annoying content "with a computer" isn't patent-worthy, IMO.

Brian Bilbrey June 28, 2011

More bonanza from the back yard

Hey! We just got 6/100" of rain! It's been bloody dry around here - the only green grass is near the flower and garden beds. Isn't that a nice-looking bowl of potatoes? I sliced up one of those, a zucchini, some garlic, and a pepper out of the garden, sautéed all of that in olive oil, and called it supper. Yum! I also have already roasted a pound of some Kenyan coffee beans this evening. The roaster lives in a vent hood I built that exhausts out the basement window. The exhaust is mobile; It doesn't stay in the window.

Brian Bilbrey June 28, 2011

Registration not required

We'll see how comments go when registration isn't required. I'm getting registrations from Poland, which frankly feels like a spamming setup to me, so wait and see. Oh, I've deleted those Polish registrations, and I'm going to setup registration moderation. Logins make it easier for posting for registered users, and I still recommend that for people that care to comment. Be well, as Syroid used to say.

Brian Bilbrey June 27, 2011

Still choices

I first posted this as a comment over on Bob's new Daynotes Journal, but I'm going for more feedback. dSLR cameras … I’m teetering on the brink of moving up to dSLR, and frankly I don’t want to go in at the entry level. I figure I’ll outgrow a beginner dSLR long before its useful lifespan, and I’m a reasonably quick study. Right now, I’m interested (I think) in one of these two configurations: Nikon D7000 body with two lenses Pentax K-5 body with two lenses I’m leaning towards the Nikon, but I’m interested in contrary opinions and lense recommendations.