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Obligatory 9/11 post
My brother, my mother, and myself (yellow shirt), on the World Trade Center (WTC) observation deck circa 1985.
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Good light show coming…you just won’t be able to talk about it
Watch for some fascinating Northern Lights coming this Friday.
Satellites have just detected a powerful X1.6-class solar flare. The source was active sunspot AR2158, which is directly facing Earth. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the extreme ultraviolet flash. Ionizing radiation from the flare could cause HF radio blackouts and other communications disturbances, especially on the day-lit side of Earth. In the next few hours, when coronagraph data from SOHO and STEREO become available, we will see if a coronal mass ejection (CME) emerges from the blast site. If so, the cloud would likely be aimed directly at Earth and could reach our planet in 2 to 3 days.
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R.I.P. Toogethr
Another website I’ve never heard of is closing.
Whilst carsharing is on the rise, Toogethr can’t find a path to revenue…
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R.I.P. HipDial
Another free service bites the dust.
Hiya,
I wanted to let you know personally, that we’re discontinuing the free HipDial service one week from now on September 17th. It turned out that it wasn’t economical to give the service away for free, after all. If you’re not interested in using HipDial moving forward, you can safely ignore this email.
If you’d like, I can set you up with a month-long free trial of our paid service, at a specially discounted rate of $9/month (instead of $19). Just send me a quick response to this email and I’ll get you set up. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions or if there’s anything else I can do for you.
Cheers, Jonas
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From the mouths of babes
Evan singing “la la laaa la”
Me: how do you know that song?
Evan: “Wreck it Ralph” “Help! I need somebody. Help.”
Me: “is that from Wreck It Ralph too?”
Evan: “No, Dad. That’s the Beatles!” -
From the mouths of babes
Evan, 9 years old: “I like being high!” “Everything looks different when you are high. It’s so beautiful.” “Being high is awesome!”
We were driving the rental truck home.
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Weekend Project: Bunk bed v2.0
- Lumber – $175
- Tools – $513 (woot!)
- Spending every last rebate and gift card in my wallet – priceless! (or $513 depending on your interpretation)
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Saturday
Who needs an alarm clock when you have pets! I awoke far earlier than I wanted this morning but eventually yielded to the obnoxious behaviors of the hungry animals.
With such an early morning, I thought perhaps I could accomplish some technical stuff and work on a client’s website. However, my computer is running like a slug and I discovered one of my websites has been compromised so now I have to play security person on a machine that refuses to function.
Things I have to do today: buy Tommy a cookie cake and celebrate his birthday. Yesterday he turned 24!
Things I want to do today: play games with the children, go to a park with the children, ride bikes, clean the house, clean the yard, finish hole two of the mini-golf in the sideyard, work on the club house, clean the driveway, clean the cars, program something for the raspberry pi, learn HAM radio, do a personal website, work on a client’s website, take online training for scouts, plan scout meetings, update calendar, write, read, and relax.
