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Sunday, February 07, 2010
We got a pretty good dumping of snow this weekend. About 14" by my measurements here at the house. Love the snow, looks amazing, just a bit tough to push around (unless you have a mini-bobcat!!!)    Friday, January 22, 2010
Getting a good amount of windshield time for customer meetings in the valley area, my car is quickly getting littered with little LCD screens. Started with the IPOD, then a small GPS, then that GPS failed on me, so I started to see why rally drivers use multiple units (different manufacturers as well), so long trips find me with 2 GPS units, and my Blackberry chirping on Trapster, the K40 going (although usless against laser).... That being said, car has a nice 'glow' to it at night, however, nothing like the 144A car of Alex Roy: Sunday, January 10, 2010
So, it has been a week of travels, lots of windshield time, and the first week of the Mac's life in corporate america. With Fusion and Unity...things work out very well, and just stumbled on this video that I thought captured it perfectly: Saturday, January 02, 2010
Dad came over today, and we spent ALL day in the back garage on I think the coldest day of the year. GOOD time spent however, as we were fabricating new mount for the Snow Plow that I wanted to mount on the Bobcat. The goal was to take the plow I had for the ATV, and fashion/fabricate a homemade universal mount that mates up to the Bobcat universal system. After some quick mock ups, some disassembly of un-needed hardware from the plow mount that was used on the ATV, we were ready to start piecing things together. Now, if you have in the last year or so purchased any steel stock, you know it is NOT cheap. Well, Mom and Dad both live in Dublin, and they always walk the neighborhood. Being a rod guy, and all around good scavenger, dad would see folks throwing away old bed frames. Steel. Free. So he stock piled some, and when were ready to mount the plow, we had all the free steel would could need. THANKS DAD! Working with steel takes times. Time to cut, time to torch, weld...in the end, we have a completely removable and fully functional Bobcat universal mount built for the ATV plow. Tonight on the way home from dinner with the Fem and offspring, as it started snowing...I yelled out the van window in Ace Ventura style "Bring it father winter, I am ready!" :) Fabing up the mount with clamps:  Pops welding it up:  Just a couple of quick snaps as I was off to the showers before dinner. We spent 7 hours in 15 degree weather (the garage was warmer with the 88,000 BTU burner, but we ran out of propane)...   So now, I say bring on the snow. Bring a ton of it. The articulation of the boom with the blade should allow me to pile some seriously high snow. That with the weight of the cat, and the sheer torque it has...a snow machine made in heaven!! Friday, January 01, 2010
Just started the P2V.... Remember folks. Any OS, from ANY device, from ANYWHERE. A mantra I heard from Steve Riley at Tech-Ed 2006... Quite the irony for my to have laptops side by side, new sucking the OS of the old off it ... just in case I need/want to run it. Doubt I will. Next work related project... my home vSphere 4 lab needs built. I treated myself to a new tool for 'work' today. Fem swears, it is just because I wanted it, but who am I to argue??? I have taken a new role within the company, one that has found me transitioning everything I have done for the last 3 years in the last month or so. Starting Monday, the final accounts I cover will be notified of the changes. I can't wait to start the new gig, so in doing so, I thought I needed a new machine to do so. Enter the new monster. I wanted small. I wanted a 'deal'. I wanted a mac. I wanted a ton of ram so I could P2V my corporate image to Fusion. Enter a deal I could not pass up:  First things first, it was time to crack the case. 1 -- NEEDED to see what it was like under that shiney new eggshell... 2 -- NEEDED to double the RAM (I will be running Vm's on here after all)  And I thought this was great. My XP (shell.dll hacked to Win7) corporate tug boat...doing it's best to not be P2V'd to its new home on my MacBook:  So far, I have Leopard fully patched, Office 2008 for Mac installed, patched, I have been tinkering with the Cisco VPN (built in not working yet), just installed Vmware Fusion -- going to P2V tomorrow...too tired tonight. Till next post... Wednesday, December 23, 2009
 Stormtroopers' Perpetual Winter, originally uploaded by Avanaut. I just found the worlds best flickr set. http://www.flickr.com/photos/40195501@N06/ Saturday, December 19, 2009
Out with the old:  And in with the new:  Fem has her new ride, now that means the good ol pathy becomes my second vehicle. Nice to have for winter, but will be real nice during the summer as I can now modify it for race transport and some camping duties! Friday, December 18, 2009
Thursday, December 10, 2009
O H M Y D O G ... (she made me write it like that) I sit here listening to a Fem labor over the easiest decisions...one DVD screen, in the new van, two DVD screens in the new van, or four screens in the new van...does this really need to be discussed. F O U R. Readers, don't take this the wrong way. Women don't get it. Ask a question, get an answer, move on. Next question. The universe was NOT built on ask a question, get an answer, come back, ask the same question, and repeat until someone puts their head through the drywall that said person will have to add to their project list... (in addition to the "add window blinds to a window no one sees in my closet"). So, while all of this is taking place, some guy, somewhere, is driving this rediculous ( R E D O N K U L O U S ) exige...men, sympothize with me, and enjoy the show... Thursday, December 03, 2009
Friday, October 30, 2009
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Good lord...very cool video of the M3...rumor on the forums is this was done by amatuers... Just listen to that engine plant... http://www.banditobrothers.com/bmw-m3-garage/ Monday, September 21, 2009
Week in and week out, the kids in our club are some of the most determined and the fastest. They are all riding bikes and having a blast, with extremely supportive parents. In the next 6-7 years I see mini-me in a very similar situation. For the kids out west, here is a very cool initiative. John Boucher is putting this together, and the premier episode is great. Check your local SPEED channel listings...could be coming your way: http://www.nextmotochampion.com/ Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Ben was filming, and caught 'checkers or wreckers' from another angle: That is me going first with Sean right behind me... Great weekend at the track...day ended early after tossing in the last turn on lap one of the second F3 heat...was in third...then I dump it: Thanks to Sean for the onboard video: Thursday, August 20, 2009
I could wish this was signs of things to come, but she insists she has NO DESIRE TO EVER RACE... ok kiddo... Sunday, August 16, 2009
Sunday, August 09, 2009
Long hours, long days, long weeks, long months. I am approaching a one week vacation coming up and will soon find myself spending time with the family, relaxing, and even getting back out on the track to do some mini-road racing in PA. Can't wait. I don't care if you ride big bikes (still), minis, or anything in between. If you ride, you will enjoy this film students project to document (in a somewhat artistic way) your track day. Very cool...just reminds me how much I love doing a track walk at 6 am with fog rolling out, just having rolled out of my tent with a hot cup of coffee... It is time for me to get back to some speed and track to reset my mental health: Saturday, August 08, 2009
Mark your calendars and come out and see some mini racing and support the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Central Ohio. September 12th, 2009, races begin at 11!  Wednesday, August 05, 2009
On the off chance you are a new reader (and in case you are an old one, never hurts to revisit), here is a quick post from the past. The first video, while almost an hour long, is worth every minute. If you happen to be at work, go get some coffee, fire this up on your second monitor, and get "back to work". Alex Roy discusses his quest to beat the cross country time ... The second video here, (also entertaining) is Alex going over another rallier's R8. Enjoy, I did: Tuesday, August 04, 2009
H O L Y ..... Unbelieveable. Having a 1080p capable box. I have been watching 1080p movie trailers since 10pm. This is unreal. I am thinking in my head of mounting this display on the wall, plugging in a wireless keyboard and mouse, and making the office a small viewing room! :) I am sure she will love it! HA. Have to say, having my backups sitting up in the cloud, VERY handy. To recover my itunes library (really migrate it to my new machine), all it took was installing the Mozy client, downloading and waiting. To just over 15 hours for over 30GB of data restored. Not bad I don't think.  Monday, August 03, 2009
So for once, I succumbed to just not trying to nurse the old pc back to life. 2 weeks ago my machine was toast, no boot, when it did, it would overheat, then the machine would lock...I mucked a bit, but it was 5+years in the tooth, so it was time to consider a new machine. Lots of time on the net, trying to determine, Mac or PC. Made a phone call to the only guy I know that is a Mac user. Still struggling to justify the prices...even for mac mini. $599, 1GB of ram, 120GB hard drive... Or, a new HP for $680 with: Windows Vista Premium X64 5GB of RAM 1/2TB hard drive 22" 1080p HD display Memory card readers Intel Dual core 2.4Ghz.... So, I stayed PC. Mac was too much money for me to justify. How could I? I get a free upgrade to Windows 7 come October too. Cool stuff there. So now, I find myself taking ownership of over 32GB worth of digital pictures on the NDAS box...the XP perms, all wonked up... Also restoring 49GB worth of data back from Mozy (my itunes library). Other than that, it is just the standard, what am I missing exercise?? Friday, July 24, 2009
My damn pc died. I am sitting in the kitchen on Fembots netbook, having a glass of wine to ease my whine.... Not happy...but can't complain too much, I bought that machine back in 2002. ...so with my wine, I browse apple.com for a potential new machine. Fem not going to be happy to hear this one... On the off chance that you are reading this site, have recently called, and I have not made it back to you....many apologies....we have been through few rough weeks. The last three weeks have been very tough for us personally. Many things going on, and to add to what we have had going on, in the last 48 hours, I have had mini-me in children's hospital for breathing issues and xrays (we now know everything is ok) and today Fembot had a same day visit to the hospital after an earlier morning appointment. Today was a very scary day that in the end worked out, but still the emotional toll has been taken....it is finally time for the weekend. Let this past week of continual challenges be over. The last three weeks have been quite the emotional roller-coaster, and we continue to take one day at a time. We base decisions on facts. That helps us move forward. Right now our loved ones look good, and that is great news! Saturday, July 18, 2009
Do we ever have enough time? This past week was a short three days in the office...Thursday Friday I took off to tend to personal matters here at the house and watch the kids as Fem was out some. On Thursday, she had some things in the morning, which left me on kid duty, which was awesome, then we dropped them off at my parents and quickly headed to the Parade of homes. BLAH. Not even a single home showcasing automation, HVAC controls, integrated video, surveillance...nada. What is with this town, I have cobbled that together just here at the little shanty in Delaware. I was really really bored here... That night...BAM. I am whiped, barely stand I am so tired, fever, sweats...great. Fem notices...EVERY time you take time off, your body craps on you...you ALWAYS get sick when you take time off. And while I would love to argue ... she is, as always, 100% correct. Thankfully the reasons we took off have all turned out ok so far, we keep her close in our prayers. Things look good! So that leaves me with my type 'A' personality, the one that can never be late, the one that can NEVER relax, the one that is extremely competitive, that wants to please the bloody world, and that NEVER WANTS TO WASTE A SECOND of time.... So, even down and fighting off something, I looked for 'projects'. Last night was straightening the house, taking my temperature, cleaning, dishes, taking my temperature, vacumming.... Today, I was better, no fever. Small projects. New door handles. New outdoor spot locations on the house to better light at night. Surveillance video camera work (back garage), I built a stand for the proximity IR detector and installed that for driveway alarming of coming vehichles, my PC died twice -- showed now be fixed with better air flow, hung all of the bits from MiniFems room paiting and remodel (pictures, mirrors, art), moved and did final installation of the Cisco IP camera in Mini-me's room...promised I would remove it when he could stand up and potty, and would sleep through the night...did some X10 maintenance - server patching, some new walwarts up stairs.... I think that was it for the most part. Hate to say it....not enough done today. Never enough is ever done. Tuesday, July 07, 2009
There is something absolutely adorable and funny (to me at least) when you put a camera into a few young ones that want to be singers, dancers and anything related to disney. Last weekend, we had a campout here at the house, here is a couple of minutes of video from the girls ... they are getting so big, old and so...drama filled? Love 'em to death!! Monday, July 06, 2009
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Once you have a bobcat, you quickly look for ways to transport it...this guy however, takes the prize. Amazing: Sunday, June 28, 2009
Not a good OYL season for me this year....today marks the third race I have missed in the 2009 season. The more I work, the more I need the time on the weekend, and honestly, leaving the house with all of the projects behind, stresses me out to no end. Today, (as one of 10 projects I did...) I put the finishing touches on the girls bathroom:    I always say, nothing is nearly as impressive until you see the before. I will show those below, but essentially, we transformed this bathroom from a one sink, low efficiency toilet, and nasty linoleum floor to a two sink, multiple flush, intelligent toilet (one for liquid, one for solid), new tile floor, new cabinets, new granite, conversion to dual sinks, inset display 'nook'.....the list goes on and on.... Here were the before shots....   Friday, June 26, 2009
Some time back I was interested in seeing some of the infrastructure that Google uses in their data centers. I quickly found myself reading the GFS (Google File system) paper and learned how they utilize entirely, 100% commodity hardware. Pizza boxes. Just recently I was describing the GFS with a customer, and it got me interested to go see what other bits of the Google enterprise has been posted. I found the below video on their container based data center, and have to say, pretty interesting video. Now, I know, I have only 2 readers that will find this even REMOTELY interesting...you know who you are: Thursday, June 25, 2009
OMG -- today has proven to be quite wierd...just learned of the passing of farah fawcett and now, Michael Jackson: Looks like MJ passed away at 50 today....sad for sure. As I update Safari, I saw it in the view...I did not believe it at first...  Every once in a while I find a tool that I get giddy over. Just found and downloaded this cool little ute from Cisco...I am using it in the 7 day trial, but I thought it was pretty slick. Even though I have eradicated everything that provides network services away from Linksys (they are notorious for failing after 3 years), I still thought it would be cool to download and test. This utility looks very slick, here is a quick screenshot of my current network:  What is really cool....is I have found a rogue machine that at one time attached to my router. By rogue, I mean, "aint one o mine". When I started thinking about it, I remembered who was here, and who it was. That being said, very cool to pull the arp table, map it out. It also mapped out the machines in use, the security pc, the ip camera, the home automation box, the girls machines. Very slick for sure...just had to post! |
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