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See Kim Shiver
A team from The Zoo is doing the Polar Bear Plunge on January 24th, 2009. Kim got suckered into eagerly agreed to participate.
Since this benefits the Special Olympics of Maryland, this is a donation activity. If you'd like to donate, her donation page is here. Any amount helps! Even if you don't want to donate, come out and watch the crazy ( Read more... ) -
Simpsons Did It
OK, The Simpson's referencing the 1984 Apple ad and skewering Apple and Steve Jobs was brilliant. -
Last weekend
Last weekend was supposed to be the DUI Dog Days at Lake Rawlings -- get to try out drysuit diving without making a major investment ( Read more... ) -
Homework
Just had the biennial chimney sweep done. Everything looked great. They didn't even need to actually sweep the chimney - just clean out the stove and the indoor section of the flue.
Hopefully good for another 2 years... -
More household WTF's
Yet another household mystery.... We've been painting the basement recently, and are just about done. On either side of the woodstove there have always been two electrical boxes mounted up-high, apparently for some kind of accent lighting. Yes, there's obviously AC wiring in there -- feed into one tied to the other. Reasonably sure that this is ( Read more... ) -
Pimpin' the home office
Put some more finishing touches on the home office today. Finally got stuff hung on the walls - namely, a cork board so I can get some of the random pieces of important paper off the horizontal surfaces, some Art (the "Roots of Rock and Roll" poster that I've had forever), and finally a spare old 17" flat panel ( Read more... ) -
Car update
After over a year of it sitting, I finally got the motor from the Corvette into the machine shop. There's a good change it'll be ready by the time we're back from vacation, which is good and bad I guess... Still, progress is good. -
Macbook Pro Keyboard/Trackpad
So on Thursday, I sit down at the SANS conference and fire up my laptop. (A Macbook Pro, bought around January 2007) The Keyboard and trackpad don't respond. Try the USB mouse I had, and it worked fine so the OS was still happy ( Read more... ) -
Housekeeping
Upgraded XJournal -- guess the version I had didn't like Leopard. Now when I accidentally click on it instead of Adium or Pandora it'll just stay there instead of crashing :p