Month: November 2005

Had some quality time with Noah teaching him to play Go. And updated New Hampshire’s Lottery Results Blog.

So I am trying to have a calm relaxing yet productive day. Something I’ve delayed working on I declare "I’ll spend the next hour working on this and be very satisfied" so of course my development server falls off the network. I suspect the network card has failed but who knows. My hour now gets to be spent troubleshooting hardware.

Update:etho-: PCI bus error, bus status 00000020

Resolved: Reseated 3COM 3c905b-tx in a different pci slot.

I was holding Evan during my previous post so I got distracted and forgot to make the last paragraph.

With his flipping over comes a certain amount of pride to mom and dad. It’s so cute! And he seems so pleased with himself. And here’s the lesson to the new parents. If you turn your back to get a wet wipe when changing a dirty diaper when you turn back the baby won’t be where you left him! Ewww.

I love that Evan has figured out his hands. He loves that he has figured out his hands. But man is he quick! Coffee, waffles, keyboards, printed specifications, or anything in front of you while holding an Evan on your lap is in severe danger. Reflexes must be sharp!

This morning I put a toy in front of him so I could eat my waffles while holding him in my lap. The toy was in now way as interesting as what Dad had and in a millisecond I almost was wearing my waffles. Nice work Evan!

In other realms Evan has learned to flip over at will. He’s like a Weeble. Put him down on his back and before you’ve fully released him he is on his stomach again! Now he roll back. He has tasted freedom! Crawling is not far off. He can already pick a direction and move himself o an object of desire. Time for major throw rungs in the house!

Appalachia Alumni Association brings us 10 Reasons Gay Marriage Should Be Illegal (which in turn came from TBogg who found it on Craig’s List)

Speaking of "Craig"s, anyone know the whereabouts of Craig Howard?

Time to cook dinner. All I really want to do is chill out. I think I’ll cook dinner and work on a hardware issue at the same time. I also need to do one small thing to the house.

Would your children know how to save themselves in a school shooting? I’m not even sure I like the idea of having to teach this to a young person. I try to teach trust, honesty, confidence and following the rules yet to prepare a child to deal with such a situation we have to teach them insecurity (look over your shoulder), awareness (not a bad thing but in this context we are teaching suspicion), lack of trust, conspiracy and fear.

In college I pranced across the lawn at UT and looked at my surroundings and thought, "wow, if a snipper were in that tower or atop any of those buildings I could die right now." But I chose to embrace my moment and enjoy life rather than rush from bush to bush and shadow to shadow trying to evade the imaginary killer. Is a child capable of such a decision?

So you want to include a Google Map on your site? With ColdFusion you can do it in two lines of code using CFGoogleMaps!

<cfscript>
    //Create the object
    cfgm = CreateObject('component','cfgooglemaps');
    //Pass the init function your google key and the
    //lat and lon on which the map should be centered
    cfgm.init('INSERT GOOGLE MAP KEY',38.898748,-77.037684);
</cfscript>

<cfoutput>
    <!--- Now just output the map --->
    #cfgm.getMap()#
</cfoutput>

7th Heaven and Arrested Development have been cancelled.

I used to be
I am
If I can
I will be.

The Famiglia Cristiana weekly has apologized for showing a naked bottom in a country where nudity is common in non-religious magazines. If you want to see what the fuss is about, Speigel’s Daily Take has published the photograph toward the bottom of the page.

The advert, for a maker of ventilation machines, shows a naked bottom through a misty glass shower door. “If you want to see clearly, call an electrician now,” reads the text.
…
Editor Antonio Sciortino initially defended the magazine’s decision to run the advert but backed down after complaints from readers.

Instead of apologising, shouldn’t he have just asked for forgiveness?

Come one ladies! Let’s feel good about ourselves! Body image, not menopause, causes lack of desire

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Women who lose their sexual desire as they age may not be the victims of hormonal changes but may be reacting to their own body image, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday. The more a woman perceived herself as less attractive, the more likely she was to report a decline in sexual desire or activity over the past 10 years…

If we tell you that you look good, we aren’t lying!

Nearly 21 percent of the women could not think of even one attractive feature and reported an overall sense of dissatisfaction with their bodies…disliked their stomachs or abdomens, hips, thighs and legs.

The result?

Two-thirds of the women said they either desired sex less than 10 years before or that they had sex less often.
The women reported that when they did have sex, there was a high level of enjoyment, with 72 percent saying they were physically and emotionally satisfied in their sexual relationships.

"A high level of enjoyment" so feel good about yourself and, well, feel good!

I was in the car with a friend of the mine the other day and we came upon a green light and he stopped. The light turned red and he drove through the intersection.

I was scared to death and agast cried out, "Where’d you learn how to drive?!"

He said, "My brother taught me."

I said, "But you’re supposed to stop on a red light and go on a green light."

He replied, "But my brother might be on the other street."

Student: Must I wear a mask for everyone?
Master: Once you don a mask, removing it only reveals another mask.

So my … ahem… naked wife just strolled down here and was busying herself with laundry when she suddenly realized the camera was pointed directly at her. Her calm response, "Honey! Could you please turn off your camera?" The only thing preserving her integrity and the PG-13 rating on this blog was…the cat sitting on my keyboard!