January 17, 2010
Short Updates
Yawn! Good morning! Almost time to get up and get the family over to Mass. Do you have any plans today? There's a storm coming tonight, expected to give us 8-12 inches of snow. The law of averages is trying to play catch up. ☃ It'll give the kids plenty to play in for their Monday/Tuesday days off from school.
Back from Mass and breakfast. “Do whatever he tells you.” (John 2:5) I've restocked the stoves and setup the pool table for Timothy. While the twins work in their workbooks, I'm going to research the topic of bootable flash drives.
The room painting bug has bitten Michelle again. The kids' bathroom is getting painted for the 2nd time since we bought this house. Red.
Down in south Nashua with the family. The girls are at the mall. Michelle is at Bed Bath & Beyond. I'm with boys at Toys 'R Us.
Took the family for a buffet dinner at Lu Yi House. Taking 7 for dinner is much more $$ than lunch there even though it's the same buffet.
Watched season one, episode two of "Chuck" with Michelle and the girls.
Imagine the irony I felt in seeing one of those short Windows 7 ads while browsing YouTube -- on Ubuntu Linux running as a guest OS under MacOSX via VirtualBox. It's about as far from Windows as you might get. I am impressed with how well this runs on a Mac with virtualization. Video, audio, seamless mouse, and I can pop in and out of full screen mode. Shweet!
Bookmarks I made today:
Crash Test 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air VS. 2009 Chevrolet Malibu
Comment: While we like to think of cars from fifty years ago as being *solid* these slow motion videos show us why we should be glad that "they don't make 'em like they used to".
Excerpt: In the 50 years since US insurers organized the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, car crashworthiness has improved. Demonstrating this was a crash test conducted on Sept. 9 between a 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air and a 2009 Chevrolet Malibu. ...
Snapshots I took today:
