Thirty-nine years old. Who would have ever thought.
My Mom baked every one of my birthday cakes that I can remember. Thirty years ago today, she made this one for me:
“Happy Birthday, Robbie.” (That’s me.) By the nine candles on the cake I can tell you this was in 1982. The action figure on top of the cake is… read entire post
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Our First Geocache
Over the weekend, Susan, the kids and I had lunch at Grandy’s off of 39th and MacArthur. While eating, the kids mentioned geocaching again and we decided to check our new geocachine phone app to see if there were any geocaches hidden nearby. Much to our surprise, there was one hiding right across the parking lot! The cache was called… read entire post
Geocaching
August 18th is International Geocacher’s Day (who knew, right?) and in honor of this, our local Community Center put on a small presentation covering the introduction of geocaching, followed by a small geocache hunt of our own.
Geocaching is an activity (a game? a sport?) where people hide things all over the United States that people can find using GPS… read entire post
The Summer of Bugs
I think for the first week in three months now, we haven’t had any 100+ degree days. The constant, unrelenting heat keeps more than just people inside; it moves the bugs there too.
Around the rear of our house, we’ve had an ant problem for a solid month. Repeatedly setting down traps and spraying spray doesn’t seem to keep them… read entire post
New Water Fountain
Susan’s Mom found this water fountain for us and delivered it over the weekend. It’s deceptively light — it’s plastic, but still looks cool. For now, Susan set it up in the corner of the kitchen.
There’s only one issue with the fountain. As you can see in this picture, there’s a large scratch on the front of the black… read entire post
CFFA3000: Initial Thoughts
The CFFA3000 is a new card for vintage Apple II computers that allows users to load Apple II .DSK files directly from Compact Flash or USB storage. It also allows for the dumping of physical Apple II media to .DSK files. In spirit, it is the Apple II version of the 1541 Ultimate for the Commodore 64.
I got mine… read entire post
Fun, but Frustrating
Over the past week I’ve been working on two different tech-related projects. The first of which was, I’ve been working on setting up a BBS. It’s telnet, not dial-up based, and it’s pretty much working although there’s still lots of little tweaks I need to do to it. The other was, last night my CFFA3000 arrived. It’s a new card… read entire post
New Phone Backgrounds
When I got my new phone a few months ago I spent a few hours scouring the internet looking for some new backgrounds to use. I have since decided that it’s more fun to make my own. Here are three that I recently added to my phone.
The first one is a picture that Morgan drew for me last week… read entire post
A New Day, A New RAID
A few years ago when I decided to build my first data storage RAID for the house, I didn’t have enough room in my server’s case to add four additional hard drives … so I went out to the garage, pulled one of my old computer cases off the shelf, and added four hard drives to it. I then bought… read entire post
How Hot is it?
Last week it was hot in Oklahoma. Sunday, I snapped this picture of the temperature inside my truck.
106 is hot. It’s miserable hot. It’s the kind of hot that saps your will to live, or at least move. Yesterday, I took this picture.
It’s tough to explain the difference between those two temperatures. At 112, stepping outside feels like… read entire post