January 17, 2010

Short Updates

Posted by Scott at 10:47 PM

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. 5:57am

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. 8:44am

The room painting bug has bitten Michelle again. The kids' bathroom is getting painted for the 2nd time since we bought this house. Red. 11:41am

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. 2:24pm

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. 6:31pm

Watched season one, episode two of "Chuck" with Michelle and the girls. 9:03pm

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! 9:08pm

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:
Thumbnail of Michelle and Michael  Thumbnail of Timothy  Thumbnail of Michelle and Claire  Thumbnail of Scott  Thumbnail of Snickers and Abigail  Thumbnail of Michelle and the Twins 

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