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Text totals

November 13, 2008 | By Patrick | No Comments | Filed in: CMS, Geek, HKS.

The girls each received an early Christmas present of a cell phone and they were added to our family plan. US Cellular also offers a reasonably-priced family-wide unlimited text messaging plan so we signed up for that, too. We hadn’t really used text messaging before, but the girls used it a bit on their previous • Read More »

Freaky aerial view

November 6, 2008 | By Patrick | No Comments | Filed in: Geek.

Thank you, Google Maps, for reminding us that the works of M.C. Escher are alive and well. http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.758156,-73.977664&spn=0.002913,0.005997&t=k&z=18 The magic Google elves stitched it together quite well. Obviously, the angles just don’t work. But it looks really cool! For context, here are a few of Escher’s works:

One year of posts

September 15, 2008 | By Patrick | 1 Comment | Filed in: Geek.

The start of the school year has kept us in a constant state of hyper-activity. I’ve been so busy that I completely missed the one-year anniversary of this blog which happened the other day. Hip hip, hooray! Yes, it’s true. On September 14, 2007, the first post went up with absolutely NO fanfare. Some stats • Read More »

Where’s the video?

September 9, 2008 | By Patrick | No Comments | Filed in: Geek.

Believe me, I’m working on it. My new HD camera has been causing me fits as I try to get the video off and into an editor. The format of the file is relatively new so there aren’t many options for converting it into something usable. I think I finally found something that will work, • Read More »