Tour Yellowstone NP
Camp in Gros Ventre campground, GTNP.
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Wind Rivers – July 11
Drive to Grand Teton National Park (GTNP) 300 mi, 5 hours.
Visit interpretive sites.
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Wind Rivers – July 10
Depart Knoxville (TYS) 6:04 pm Frontier Airlines flight F9 601.
Arrive SLC 10:20pm, MDT, Frontier flight F9 589.
Overnight at La Quinta Inn, Salt Lake City West, 3540 South 2200 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84119Update: SLC flight delayed until 11:00pm.
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Wind River
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion."
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Doug Reboot
So I’ve taken July off. Well, most of it. I return to work on July 24th. My goal is to clear my mind and to take on the world on July 24th with renewed vigor. The time off will consist of attending my sister’s wedding (happened this past week), to clean the house and work on home projects, and to hike the mountains of Wyoming’s Wind River Range for 8 days including crossing the Continental Divide twice and visiting a glacier then having 2 additional days in the Grand Tetons.
The trip to Cincinnati for my sister’s wedding began with an evening meal with the visiting relatives.
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Receipt – Great Wolf Lodge
On June 28, 2013 at 6:40pm we purchased 4 MagiQuest games at greatwolf.com in Mason OH while visiting for my sister’s wedding.
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No, I won’t use your CMS
So I’m doing some ColdFusion research (the Adobe kind not the physics kind) and thought it might be time to bring CFNinja.com back to life (not that it ever had much of a life). I hesitate to turn CFNinja.com into a WordPress site since CFNinja originally started with the intent to be a central location for ColdFusion developers to collaborate and it seems silly to use a PHP driven application for a CF site. The recommendations for a CF CMS seems to be Content Box. I figured I would install it real quickly and compile some of my research using Contentbox on CFNinja. First, the online documentation goes to a 404 page:
Not good for a content management system to not be able to find its own documentation. Even the older docs 404. Ah! Just went to reproduce the problem and found another path to the docs. Hmm. Maybe I’ll do this afterall.
Any other alternatives for ColdFusion CMS systems?
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SQL Query Conundrum
Here’s a interesting SQL challenge:
Say you have a query returning a result set that in some cases one row cancels out another. For example, let’s say there are 5 columns: A B C D E. One result possibility is: row 1- A B C 4 E with row 2- Z Y X 9 E Naturally those are completely separate data elements. But when row 1 is A B C 4 E and row 2 is A B C -4 E row two is a data correction to row 1 (think double entry accounting) and row 1 and row 2 need to be excluded from the result set. So, right now if the result set returned 20 rows and had the situation above, we really only want to be returning 18 rows. What’s a good approach to this?
Here’s a better representation of the problem:
Row Name Account Rank Value Status
- G H I 5 J
- A B C 4 E
- A B C -4 E
- Z Y C 4 E
- A B C 7 E
- Z Y C 22 E
We really want to return rows 1, 4, 5, and 6.
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Happy Father’s Day!
I tried writing some sappy Father’s Day post and it sounded so forced and fake. I love my father! He’s my hero. As I’ve gained wisdom in life, I’ve both apologized to my father (for my shenanigans) and thanked him for allowing me to live (how he restrained from selling me to the gypsies is beyond me). Thank you Dad for everything!
So, in lieu of sappy, I give you video!
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This NSA thing is old news
Can’t believe I forgot about this! I watched this story with great interest in the wayback. This started in 2003 and was publicly outed in 2006:
"the NSA built a special room to receive data streamed through an AT&T Internet room containing “peering links,” or major connections to other telecom providers. The largest of the links delivered 2.5 gigabits of data — the equivalent of one-quarter of the Encyclopedia Britannica’s text — per second,"
Google "Room 641A" for more information.
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On waking up
Most mornings I find that if I awake on an odd number, like 9:27, that it is better to go back to sleep for another 5 minutes. This also applies to even numbers.
