2011

    Good Commies Hi-Res Cover Art

    Four of my friends from the B-Squad Softball team are in a band called the Good Commies. I was finally able to add some of these wonderful tracks to my iTunes collection. I insist on high resolution cover art so I fired up the scanner. Here are the files for anyone else who is looking for them. I couldn’t find anything other than thumbnails online.

    Album cover for Good Commies Three Houses featuring a red star overlaid on a grayscale photo of damaged buildings and debris. Red Rug album cover by Good Commies featuring a bronze terracotta warrior figurine against a vivid red background

    I think I might be getting “over the hump” with nginx. Had to debug something in my config and it actually made sense. 🙂

    Upgraded to iOS 5.0.1 this morning and have more battery at 5p on iPhone 4S than I’ve ever had. By a big margin.

    The lua-nginx-module is very cool.

    Typing Big Green Egg on iPhone

    Have a Big Green Egg? Have an iPhone with iOS 5 on it? Then you absolutely need to go here Settings - General - Keyboard - Shortcuts

    Then create this shortcut to save your thumbs significant effort.

    iPhone Shortcut settings screen showing Phrase field set to Big Green Egg and Shortcut field set to bge with keyboard visible

    Garage Reclaimed

    While doing our remodel we lost the use of our garage. We used it for storage and the contractors had a big dumpster in the driveway. For most of the summer there was also a small lumber yard in the driveway and a portable toilet. So we parked on the street all summer. Best time to do it but an inconvenience.

    This last weekend we got the garage cleared back out and I was irrationally excited to park both cars in there again.

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    First Snow of 2011

    First snow of the year just started falling. Really big flakes slowly floating down. First snow is always special. I hope it is still on the ground for Mazie in the morning.

    The other day the coffee maker in the office was out of commission. From this note you can see the situation was dire.

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    Just made my annual contribution to the EFF. You should too!

    Watching Jeremy Messersmith on NPR Tiny Desk podcast. Very good.

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