Archive for the 'Variety' Category
Comments(1)June 27, 2006
Voyerism is in…
It’s true; ordinary, everyday living can be very entertaining. Here are a couple of sites that prove this point.
May 22, 2006
Apple Store on Fifth Avenue - “Ushci Lang, Will You Marry Me”
You may have noticed but the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue opened last week. Very cool. If you click on the link you’ll see a time-lapse series of photos showing the people in line. One of the coolest things about the series of photos is that there is a guy that proposes (5 AM time slot). Gotta love the Apple-geek Romeo.
(digg it)
May 17, 2006
sshd problems in SuSE 9.0
I recently ran into problems with sshd on SuSE 9.0. In trying to access the machine remotely, I kept getting “access denied” when I entered the password for the specified user. I found that commenting out the line “PasswordAuthentication no” in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and then restarting sshd via “/etc/init.d/sshd restart” fixed the problem.
(Note that it’s sshd_config, not ssh_config.)
SkypeOut free through 2006
Very cool…
Free calls to all landlines and mobile phones within the US and Canada
“We just announced that SkypeOut is now free within the US and Canada to all landlines and mobiles until at least the end of 2006.”
April 28, 2006
Bad kids kick the dog and laugh
(Via 43 Folders) USA Today: Smart CEOs watch how you treat the staff
This is one of those “common sense” reports. David Wilcox helped to popularize this truth in this song Rule Number One in which he sings of a date that treats the waiter poorly. It’s like those kids that kicked dogs for a laugh…you just knew something wasn’t right.
March 10, 2006
Killing your pet
i think pet stories like marie’s are great to tell kids, a real descriptive way to teach a lesson. i’m saving the “i helped kill my dog because i didn’t obey my parents story” for elliott and ethan. not that i like telling the story, it’s just a terrible lesson that i learned about consequences, and i don’t want my boys to experience that. it goes like this…
when i was a kid (0 - 12), we lived in a rural area in knoxville. our house was up a hill at the end of a long gravel drive way. dad and mom had 3 acres in the woods, and it was a great place for boys. unfortunately though, the road curved around our property, so it was difficult to see oncoming cars when you pulled out of the driveway. i can still hear my mom preaching to me and my brother that we should never, ever play near the road. this was particularly tempting because there was a creek on the other side of the road.
so, one day i slowly worked my way toward the road. i can’t remember specifically why, but i do distinctly remembering that i was disobeying; but i was careful and what could really happen. i was almost to the road when i heard the squeal of tires. i then realized that my dog, a beagle named patches, had followed me to the road and was hit by a car. even though i was young, i quickly realized that my dog was only near the road because he followed me. i felt terrible.
the driver of the car stopped and was very apologetic. my dad told him that he understood, then put patches in a wheel barrow and rolled him up our driveway to be buried later. i ran to my room crying.
i later went to look at patches in the wheel barrow and noticed that his eyes were open. i ran to my dad with the hope that patches was still alive…that’s when i learned that you could be dead and your eyes still open. it was a sucky day, but for the following few weeks i was a perfect child. later we got another beagle, lucky, and i never made the same mistake.
it kills me to think that elliott and ethan may have the same experience, and that’s why they will probably hear this story more than once in their life. i don’t want them to feel that pain. as a parent, i can now better understand how in the same way God gives us the Bible as a guideline for living. there are many rules/laws in the Bible that are designed to help show us that we aren’t perfect and that God requires perfection. but many of those same rules are to protect me from the consequences of sin. in many ways i’m still the 6 yr old robbie wanting to play near the road and God my Father is reminding me that there are consequences to disobedience. i need that reminder every day.
February 2, 2006
EVDO signal booster
I have poor Verizon reception at my home. This signal boosting product was introduced at the consumer electronics show (CES) last month. It’s due in Q1, so there are no reviews, but it looks promising. And at $499, it seems like a better solution than standing beside my large and long-living aluminum foil ball for that necessary reception.
