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Brian Bilbrey October 17, 2011

Sidewalks, Ringtones, and iOS5

Time for the last walk of the evening for Lexi. Up the street we go ... and a couple of nights a week, we actually go up the street, rather than use the sidewalk, because some neighbors can't help but block the way. I've even spoken to them about it, to no avail. Either they can't remember that I asked, or they're malevolent. Grrr. I really *want* to tip that stuff all over their lawn in response, but I'm too bloody nice to do that. They do the same thing, only more sprawled out, with bags of lawn clippings. Sigh.

Brian Bilbrey October 2, 2011

Day and Duty

The day was successful, in that everything that needed doing got done. Shopping, coffee roasting, further research for school project, school work, lots of dog walking. Additionally, more of Marcia's wall-mounted shelving started auto-detaching. So I pulled the balance off and patched the holes. I purchased two more 4' wide x 6' tall wire rack units (6 shelves each) to put into that space, and assembled them. Marcia's already started reorganizing all that fabric onto the new storage. * * * I was looking at the flow chart that SF Signal created for the NPR Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy…

Brian Bilbrey September 16, 2011

School's started again

Can you tell that I'm back in class. I sure can. Actually, this week and next are likely to be the "worst" in terms of time commitment for a few weeks - I'm trying to get well ahead so that when the next class starts up in a little over five weeks from now, I can cruise through the tail end of this first class. * * * The most interesting thing I read today was Jerry's analysis of NASA's new "old" plan. Sigh.

Brian Bilbrey September 9, 2011

Weather Plus

The plus part is that the sun came out today. For a while. But there are still clouds. According to the gauge, we've had just over 12 inches of rain in our back yard in the last 15 days. Yowza! * * * Things I think when driving: Those are the polite things, unlike what I was thinking about the driver of the truck sporting yellow livery on the topic of bobcat rentals ... that truck's driver was a maniac who cut people off, and exited a parking lot by the entrance-only path in order to get ahead of two…

Brian Bilbrey September 6, 2011

"Day off"

Wherein I: That last item may deserve a bit more explanation. A while back, I picked up a 160 GB SSD to muck around with. Since I was in a bit of a limbo with the Mac at the time, I chose to drop the SSD into the big workstation and load Windows 7 onto it. Because that box is a VM host (VirtualBox) and gaming machine, I put a 1TB drive in as 'S:' (for "Storage") - that's where all the multi-gig games are installed. It's a fast-booting windows box, and that's no bad thing, since it's one of…