neener neener

Today, I went to work. I sat in Monday morning meeting until 8:40ish. Then found out that the well that feeds water to our grounds has a problem somewhere, and we have no water at work. So we all got to go home. Tomorrow they expect to have bottled water for us and maybe a porta potty... ha ha.

I did a bit of work (until I had to pee) and then left work.

So I've been home since 10:45am or so, and it's just wonderful. I could handle working 3 hour days...

polaris vrs BMW

I try to ride when the weather allows and when I don't have to haul a bunch of crap cuase I dn't have a carrier yet. well..... that results in me riding so far, about once a week.

today was the big day. weather was good. I continued my exploration on a mostly offroad route back from work. this afternoon I worked on a section north of carson. I found two girls riding 4-wheelers. I explained where I was trying to go, and the older one (maybe 13?) said.. .ahh.. yeah.. thats where we are going.. follow us.

then she said "wait.. is that a dual sport?" you see it doesn't really look like it. 1200CC's compared to her 250 cc polaris. her friend was riding an 80cc 4wheeler. it had trouble on even the most basic of grades.

riding behind these two girls gave me confidence that what ever route that had found I'd be able to make it. the first big rut and the girl on the 250 had to get off and pull the front end out of the ditch to continue the excursion. it was quite a big rut, but I forgot what additional troulbe and extra set of wheels can introduce.

For most of the 3 mile trip I followed behind, in first gear, pretty much at walking speed (remember the 80cc?) I didn't want to push the girls and get them hurt so I just took it easy. half way up one hill I just couldn't take it any more and speed past them to wait at the top. the girl on the 250 said "I bet my polaris can take your BMW". I just had to smile =)

so... I added another 3 miles of offroad up and over a mountain range to my return trip. I'm up to about 30% offroad 70% street for my return trip, a very good progression to my goal of all offroad on fridays.

my name is...

Remind me I don’t want my last name to be Assman, and I surely wouldn’t make my email bdassman@----.

Amusing, but not appropriate, especially in the church setting…

Fun People

we flew southwest for our trip to riverside (flew into ontario airport, no not canada) . on the way down keith went to put our bags in the overhead bin and we were toward the front of the line and so were surprised that a bin was already closed, like it was full. so keith opened it up to see if it was really fully and out popped one of the ladies working as a flight attendant. it was pretty funny. then the guy doing the announcements had a pretty good spiel including, "the flight attendants will now come through the cabin to make sure your chair is upright, tray table locked and up, and to make sure your socks match your shoes..." and some other stuff that i can't remember.
on the way back, the pilot was saying what the weather was in oakland (we didn't have to change planes there but did stop to let people off/get new people) and said it was 12 degrees. and just stopped. waiting for people to process that he just said 12 degrees. and then continued with "celsius, or 54 degrees farenheit." he also got on to say the seat belt sign was now off and you could wander aimlessly about the cabin but not to congregate in the lavoratory.

Not that I'll be awake...

From Nadine:

On Wednesday, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06.

That won't ever happen again.

You may now return to your (normal ?) life.

confidential

i really like this picture. can anyone figure it out?

cute and wrong

c64 on a chip

checkout this link

apparently the c64 has been compressed to a single chip, packaged with about 35 games, and is hackable for external memory, keyboard, and video support. anyone know about these? a pic micro controller has potential, but this is awesome. anyone know if ruby has been ported to c64?

layer instead of virtual machine

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/installation/hack-attack-safely-install-software-in-a-virtual-layer-162910.php demonstrates a new tools to install a program into an isolated layer to it won't destroy the rest of your OS if something goes wrong. this looks very nifty.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1941342,00.asp

the 120 day eval here http://www.altiris.com/Products/SoftwareVirtualizationSolution.aspx

google video soldering

google video can teach you to solder... kind of. I didn't see where it explained wetting, flux, or the need to clean with alchol but it gets you started.

can you fold my shirt?

food poisoning

a pretty good summary of food poisoning 'remember, the danger zone is between 40 and 140'

Have a look at the symptoms and take a stab at what you got. its not just meat. theres ones from starchy foods, sandwich spreads, canned food, something fertilized with manure (yeah.... thats probably what you got =), mushrooms, tofu, and cheese.

1. The first step in preventing food poisoning is to assume that all foods may cause food-borne illness. Follow these steps to prevent food poisoning:
2. Wash hands, food preparation surfaces and utensils thoroughly before and after handling raw foods to prevent recontamination of cooked foods.
3. Keep refrigerated foods below 40 degrees F.
4. Serve hot foods immediately or keep them heated above 140 degrees F.
5. Divide large volumes of food into small portions for rapid cooling in the refrigerator. Hot, bulky foods in the refrigerator can raise the temperature of foods already cooled.
6. Remember the danger zone is between 40 degrees F and 140 degrees F.
7. Follow approved home-canning procedures. These can be obtained from the Extension Service or from USDA bulletins.
8. Heat canned foods thoroughly before tasting.
9. When in doubt, throw it out

Nested VNC

Nested VNC's go good with hash browns. is your VNC running? check it gotomyvnc.com

Dirt

I passed a sign on the way home today. It got to thinking theres more than one way to 'sell land', you can sell the whole thing, or just part it out.

finance.google.com

finance.google.com a new addition to the google empire is very intuitive and brings a similar interface with the one found in maps.google.com. the ability to seemlessly scroll around and get 'just what you want'. way to go google! one very interesting feature is the syncing up of headline news with stock price. very cool.

dualscreen?

whats with the dualscreen pic link at the top? thats not very nerdy tale-ish.

sam spade

I ran across a link to samspade.org and it looks like one of the programs may allow you to surf the net without rending the pages. useful for debugging pages and what not. I thought that was real 'matrix' style. maybe worth a look.

dan's dream

dan's dream of a quality accounting software package that is web based and availalbe to churches has not been forgotten, at least not by me.

http://www.theartofennui.com/ rekindled the spark in me.
this framework seems 'interesting' to say the least.

A job potential

i recieved a call from la sierra university this morning. the head of the chemistry dept. is looking for a new person and my undergraduate institution gave them my info. which was pretty cool of them. it is an interesting prospect as i would enjoy teaching at an sda college but i don't forsee myself persuing this job. 1. LA 2. LA 3. not great timing since keith is still working on his MBA 4. La Sierra campus isn't my favorite 5. low pay
but it was still flattering to get the call. so anyways pray that if God does want me to do this he better make is super obvious by getting keith a job he would dream of having, without him even looking for one, because LA certainly isn't motivating.

T-day 06

if people want to do thanksgiving at our house this year we'd be happy to have you! we have 3 extra bedrooms, and if everyone lets me know ahead of time I'll make sure theres a decent bed in each one. bring the welt makers.