November 2011
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September 2011
1 post
I must find the time to do this someday. →
April 2011
1 post
Read the article first, but then read the... →
March 2011
3 posts
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Breakfast Sausage
Here is what I do for breakfast sausage.
two pounds ground pork
one tablespoon salt
one tablespoon pepper
one tablespoon sage
Mix it up, and store it in those ziplock bags that let you evacuate most of the air. That’s it.
I get my spices from Penzeys. Unfortunately, I’ve never found ground pork (or any kind of pork) at the two closest farmers markets, so I get it from the meat...
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Bread
I have been using this recipe for bread:
http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/classic-100-whole-wheat-bread-recipe
In case King Arthur Flour stops hosting the page, here are the ingredients:
8 to 10 ounces lukewarm water*
1 3/4 ounces vegetable oil
3 ounces honey, molasses, or maple syrup
14 ounces King Arthur Premium 100% Whole Wheat Flour
2 1/2 teaspoons instant yeast, or 1...
My favorite coffee shop just celebrated their one year anniversary, and my favorite client just sold an essay.
Things seem bad, but they’re not all bad.
June 2010
1 post
Homeopathy →
March 2010
1 post
No more sam.falkner@sun.com
As of today, I can no longer send email from sam.falkner@sun.com. I was curious about the last email I ever sent from that address, so I checked. It was a reply, apologizing about not having much in the way of automated test suites for NFSv4 ACLs.
December 2009
2 posts
As far as I can tell, there is no mention of “Heckler’s Joke Shop” on the internet. I hope I’m wrong, but just in case, I’m mentioning it here.
If memory serves, Heckler’s Joke Shop was near 39th and MacArthur in Bethany, Oklahoma. In the 70’s, it was the place to go if you wanted a ring that squirts water or plastic vomit.
October 2009
1 post
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Here is how I cook ribs in the Bradley Smoker:
Set the smoker for high heat; aim for 200-225
Remove membrane from the back side
Cover both sides with Penzey’s BBQ 3000
Put ribs in the smoker, and turn on the smoke generator.
Maintain the smoke generator for 1 1/2 hours, checking temperature occasionally
Mix one part oil and one part apple juice in a spray bottle
Spray ribs every...
March 2009
1 post
Last night, my kids had the choice of whether to spend the afternoon playing with friends, or going to a movie with me. They picked going with me, hands down. I want to remember that.
February 2009
1 post
Yesterday, at Grant’s basketball game, someone sheepishly asked me who was playing in the Superbowl. Of course I didn’t know, but never fear, I have an iPhone! Thrashing around between Google, Wikipedia, and superbowl.com, I couldn’t find anything (although the failure with superbowl.com may have been because of the lack of a flash player for the iPhone). On the way out, we...
January 2009
1 post
December 2008
3 posts
I take it back. He’s been doing it all morning, and now it’s starting to get on my nerves.
Someone I don’t know just rode a bike past my office. I have an interior office on the third floor, with carpet and all that. I love working close to the holidays!
Win Ben Stein's Mind →
November 2008
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October 2008
1 post
I’m in the San Jose airport, waiting to board a plane back home, using the free wi-fi. A bishop in full mitre and robes just walked past me. I don’t know whether or not it was a Halloween costume.
September 2008
2 posts
Ardith got her app working on a Solaris zone hosted at her ISP yesterday. Yeah!
American cheese isn’t.
August 2008
5 posts
We got an account on Entic. So far, very nice!
Solaris and OpenSolaris VPS ISPs
Here is a list of ISPs that will give you root password on your own Solaris (or OpenSolaris) virtual box. Could be xVM (Xen), could be zones; either way. In no particular order:
Stability Hosting
Avantic
Beacon VPS
Entic
Gangus
Joyent
Amazon EC2
“Perhaps to be a Teer is to see in new ways.”
– Maab
Sun’s stock is at $9.22 per share. Wow. How low can it go?
July 2008
1 post
Last night we bought a piano, and today (while I’m at work) it was delivered. It’s a Vogel, which is made by Schimmel; a grand, 177 cm long. Of all the pianos that I played while piano shopping, this was my clear favorite.
June 2008
4 posts
“A cheerful loser is a hero, even if his team gets zero”
– A “Clifford” poster in my second grade classroom
I’ve been into clocks with my last two posts. I wish I knew where to get high quality audio of the Westminster Quarters for a small project I would like to do.
Excellent Clock Screensaver →
My new start page →
May 2008
3 posts
My daughter is now a professional writer. The Boulder Valley School District awarded her a Readers’ Choice award for her contribution to their literary magazine, and the award came with a savings bond. :-)
The combination of my rental car (a GM SUV) and the parking garage at the San Jose Hilton are making me a sad panda.
The Scientology convention next door is inspiring me to take the Solaris NFS server in breathtakingly new directions.
April 2008
1 post
Watch
March 2008
1 post
February 2008
2 posts
I like the iPod shuffle, and understand its interface. But wouldn’t it be great if, on command, it could speak the name of the song being played?
On my way to the Denver airport yesterday, I saw that they had built a blue sculpture of a horse beside the road. It was terrifying.
January 2008
1 post
When I was in high school, our concert band played Symphony in B-flat for Band by Paul Hindemith. It’s been rattling around in my brain ever since. Last week, I got it on CD. Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I...
December 2007
3 posts
As so often happens, I got sick while traveling. This time, mega-sore throat. But today I’m pleased as punch: it’s strep! Finally, I can do something that doesn’t involve waiting six weeks.
Yesterday, my family reached an important milestone. We now have a laptop (Apple) and an iPod for each person.
Yahoo! Did I just putback the DTrace provider for NFSv4? Yes.
November 2007
4 posts
Yahoo! Did I just putback the DTrace provider for NFSv4? No, Grant and I finished Super Mario Brothers 8-4 this morning! :-)
The DTrace provider for NFS is getting mighty close to being finished…
Last night, our family survived the Multiple Piano Festival, in Longmont. Grant, Julie, and I all participated, while Ardith watched from the audience. It was really fun!
My new start page →
October 2007
3 posts
I installed leopard last week. I knew most of the new things, but imagine my surprise when today I find that the terminal app has been updated!
I like “sync”. I don’t like “synch”.
September 2007
8 posts
Late last week, I took an amazing step. I actually got my very own cell phone! Wow.