I recently had to clean out my digital paperless archive — a task made much more difficult by encrypted PDFs and a bunch of lint in my directory. We have been paperless since 2001 and have many gigs of files in a hierarchical file structure that was becoming difficult to use and maintain. (i.e. Where … Read more
First I installed tim@Lincoln:~$ sudo apt-get install envyng-qt with all its crazy dependencies. Then I ran lspci | grep VGA to find my video driver. 00:0a.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1) With envyng, I took their recommendation of: 173.14.12-0ubuntu5.1 and installed, restarted. On restart I had access to the … Read more
The first thing we considered, was the different functions we wanted out of our lighting and how different layers combine in an overall lighting plan. First, we wanted general downlighting with the flexibility to be in full-clean/bible study/game mode (I want to see everything in the room), but also wanted a dimmer discussion mode and … Read more
Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs officials are working out the details of a new education benefit recently approved by Congress that goes into effect Aug. 1, 2009. “The absolute most important part of the new G.I Bill is that none of it takes effect until next year,” said Rita Hughson, the chief of education … Read more
interesting how to lead change crazy number of PhDs — way above the air force (how did the army get this?) iraq is in trouble — with lots of thorny directions ahead we really did make some big mistakes in completely misjudging how iraq would adapt — still what is the failure here? how are … Read more
kinda absurd regarding the war presented an interesting thread through the future — consider it one of many great strategic thought — didn’t get bogged down regarding people . . . bismarkian — really seeing nations in conflict like the idea how unexpected the future is and how we don’t know who our enemies might … Read more
In order to do more workouts at home, I decided to put a chin-up bar in my basement. I looked around at amazon and saw three real options: over the door mount, on the ceiling mount or wall mount. Three examples shown below: Chin-up bar examples Wall mount Wall Mount Ceiling Mount In a pull-up … Read more
Who understands what love is? The ancient greeks used variants of the word for love to denote increasing levels of altruism. Medieval love was said to focus on the suffering that one feels “derived from the sight of and excessive meditation upon the beauty of the opposite sex”. Think of the sad, but pure, suffering … Read more
How is risk factored? Pr{Detect}? Essential Question: How bad of a mis-characterization is this? What specific scenarios create the greatest mis-characterization? What happens as you lengthen orbit? How much does directionality matter? How do speed and the various RF parameters matter?
After noticing lots of loose mortar in our front retaining wall, I decided to try and tuck-point with the mortar repair kits sold at the local home store. I found the work tricky and knew my work was a little sloppy, so I hired a local handyman to do the job. I removed all of … Read more