For eight years now, Susan has been waiting on (at least) one kid hand and foot — and, since 2005, she’s been waiting on two. (Some would say three.) Whether it’s cooking or doing laundry or cleaning up buckets of puke (last night’s gift from Morgan), Susan spends the vast majority of her free time working for the kids. I… read entire post
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Winter Snowstorms bring Spring Cleaning
… or, something like that.
2010 is the year I “go digital,” as much as I can. That means getting rid of dead weight, and some of that weight comes from old books. Last night, after everybody else went to bed, I went out to the garage and began sorting books into piles.
By the time I was done I… read entire post
The Creek
Directly behind the house I grew up in was “the creek”, a large ditch that was roughly 20 feet across and 10 feet deep (just a guess). During the summer, the kids of Sun Valley (my old neighborhood) played a lot of “Army” back there. It was full of weeds and trees and all kinds of cool things to climb… read entire post
Winter Storm 2010
“This is the worst case scenario, folks,” the weatherman informed us last night. Sleet and freezing rain, followed by snow, followed by possible thunderstorms. Expect horrible driving conditions and power outages. Wednesday night (while it was still 65 degrees), Southwest Airlines announced they were cancelling Thursday’s flights out of OKC. Long before a single snowflake or ice pellet hit the… read entire post
The iGood, the iBad, the iPad.
Yesterday, Apple unveiled the iPad.
That’s it on the left, with a Kindle 2 on the right. It’s not hard to fall in love with the iPad. What’s hard is figuring out what market Apple is shooting for, and what to do with it once I (inevitably) buy one. Although my gut reaction was to compare and contrast the iPad… read entire post
Spelling Bee 2010
Today was Shedeck’s second-grade spelling bee. Each of the school’s four second-grade classes had their own spelling bee, and the top 3 finalists from each class got to participate in the second-grade school wide spelling bee.
Although Mason placed first in his class without studying the list of words, both Susan and I told him he might not be so… read entire post
The Third Wave of 3D
The third wave of 3D entertainment is, pardon the pun, heading right for us.
Historically speaking, with each new technological advance adopted by the film industry, we (the general public) receive two distinct waves of films. The first wave consists of movies that simply exploit the new technology, while the second involves good movies that make use of that technology… read entire post
Old PCs — Free to Good Home
I bought these to play with, but never got around to it.
The top one’s (I think) a 286/10, the bottom one’s a 386/16. I actually have a 486/100 upstairs which is plenty old enough for what I need.
If you’re in the OKC area and are older than old school, drop me a line and come get these.… read entire post
Game Over
Today was “game over” for two of my arcade machines. Troy, Terry and Darry from the Phoenix Arcade stopped by and picked up my Q*Bert and Zaxxon machines.
I bought the Q*Bert machine four or five years ago at a garage sale. My friend Tim saw the machine for sale at the garage sale and called me. A few minutes… read entire post
iTechnology
For years, my family somehow managed to make the yearly drive to Chicago and back to visit family without the aid of technology. It’s really not a complicated route; from Oklahoma City you drive to St. Louis, then to Joliet, and then hang a right until you hit Grandma’s house.
I got my first GPS unit in the fall of… read entire post