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Rocketry is the key to receiving The Holy Spirit?

2008-12-03T15:01:16Z

I love this album cover, found via LP Cover Lover:

i wonder where that places Wernher von Braun or Goddard?

Ex-Cat Photos Unearthed

2008-12-02T20:09:14Z

Leahpeah has been doing a great job putting up photos around the new place. Yesterday we found a pile of old photos, including this gem of my ex-cat:

Happy Thanksgiving

2008-11-27T13:51:15Z

If my memory is correct, I’ve spent Thanksgiving in California, Louisiana, Virginia, Utah, and the Philippines. Today I’ll spend Thanksgiving in Nevada with a bunch of family who probably also have never spent Thanksgiving in Nevada. Hoping for the best.

The photo above is of my Grandfather and me and some dogs—the Collie mix is Kimba, a dog I loved, and who was not quite as excited about me. I was the first grandkid on my Dad’s side of the family, so he was not impressed.

My Grandpa turned 90 this year.. Thanksgiving in Nevada is his wish, and so here we go!

So much to be thankful for this year. Happy Thanksgiving!

“Friend Requests”

2008-11-26T02:30:36Z

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Ventura County Tech: Reskinned

2008-11-25T16:11:37Z

Simi Valley’s Border 7 provided a wonderful reskin of venturacountytech.com. If you are in Ventura County and in web/tech/design/internet/mobile drop me a line—I’d love to meet you!

Los Angeles Tech Networking

2008-11-25T01:47:17Z

For the past year I’ve ramped up my own tech networking. Someone asked on the excellent and long-running Web405 list for places to network a la VIC (Venice Interactive Community) of the old days (late 1990s) and these were the answers:

BarCampLA: http://barcampla.org/
Dealmaker LA: http://www.dealmakermedia.com/la.html
Digital Family Reunion: http://www.digitalfamilyreunion.net/
Dorkbot: http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsocal/
ExecTech: http://www.meetup.com/ExecTec/
Geek Dinner: http://www.g33kd1nner.com/
LA Flash Group: http://laflash.org/laflash
LA Friday Coffee: http://www.lafridaycoffee.com/
LA UX Meetup: http://ia.meetup.com/55/
LA Web Application Developer Meetup: http://web.meetup.com/34/
LINC: http://www.linc-networking.com/
MindShare LA: http://mindshare.la
Mixergy: http://www.mixergy.com/
MySQL Developer Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/The-Los-Angeles-MySQL-Meetup-Group/
SIGGRAPH LA: http://la.siggraph.org/html/
Twiistup: http://www.twiistup.com/

Moved, Worn Out, Ready For Action

2008-11-24T18:24:24Z

The move was completed without too much fuss. Upcoming: Job interviews, more box extraction and home setup, Thanksgiving, seeing my folks, and a memorial for a dear friends wife.

The Universe may be speaking to us. I wish it spoke more clearly, but hey, it’s the Universe. Size of the entire universe man, usually kind to smaller man.

Moving

2008-11-20T14:30:28Z

It’s all about boxes. Moving today. Moving. Oi. I think we need it. To top it off, we’re waiting on 5 weeks worth of checks. I hate that. Wish us luck.

The Reluctant Sysadmin

2008-11-19T18:54:28Z

This morning I had a compile that was hanging and/or calling itself. This made the server, and more importantly, the “yes people use it” webserver unresponsive. This was not fun.

Here are the tools I used to kill the processes:

ps -aux | grep -i make | awk '{print $2}' ps -aux | grep -i make | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9 ps -aux | grep -i make | awk '{print "kill -9 "$2}' |sh -x
killall make

The final 2 commands I think did the best job.

I seem to be learning more server administration. I still don’t like it, but I can do more of it if I need to. Maybe installing Xubuntu on my machine at home really has been useful as I spend more time on the command line.

Penguin Project: Go on an adventure in Antarctica!

2008-11-19T14:29:01Z

My friend Pinguino is going on a trip to Antarctica and is inviting cool folks to go with her, check it out!

Here’s more info:

You could party in Vegas, Ibiza, Rio, Bangkok, Sydney, or even Marrakesh. But one continent remains overlooked when it comes to having a good time. That’s right, we’re talking about Antarctica. Could you imagine a better adventure? Twenty of your best friends sailing to the furthest destination in the world, partying the whole way. Being surrounded by tens of thousands of penguins, dancing on a glacier. An overnight camping trip or an ocean plunge, resulting in stories you could retell a thousand times. We’re going, and we want you to come with us.

Through the next year, we’ll be drawing 1,000 penguins on postcards. Each penguin will be photographed and posted online. They’ll be put up for “adoption,” and we’ll bring them all to Antarctica and take pictures of them there. When we return to Tierra Del Fuego in South America, we’ll mail the penguins to everyone that adopted them.

This is the Penguin Project. We’ll be updating this site regularly, so check back often!

If you’re interested in coming along, please email penguinpalace@gmail.com