Jamie Thingelstad

Indian-style Potatoe-Spinach soup with Chicken. Yum!

I’ve been thinking that my MacBook Pro’s battery has been especially lightweight lately. To be honest, none of Apple’s laptops do great with battery life but it’s been an especially poor contender lately. I fired up CoconutBattery to check out the state of affairs and it was shocking. I’m currently only getting 39% of original battery capacity. The battery is only sucking up a measly 2,187 mAh out of a rated 5,500 mAh.

I’m going to try a series of battery conditioning cycles and see if I can get this thing back. In January I was right around 90% of capacity and the battery has only gone through 237 cycles in its 20 month lifespan.

Time to do a cycle on my battery. Only 51% of capacity available!

Fun day at Minnetonka Orchards with family.

Running DVDFab inside of a Parallels VM working on a DVD. Seems to be working.

This was from a couple of weeks ago when iPhone OS 2.1 came out. It’s so common on the web to research a product and find completely contradictory opinions. One person will say it’s horrible, doesn’t even work. Another says it’s amazing. Rarely do you see those differences right next to each other in Twitter though.

This is a sign of bad housekeeping on your computer. Exactly what were in those 74,959 files anyway? Hmmm…

Today I turned this “fireplace cord” that I got the “special” delivery of the day, about 20% more than I ordered from Firewood.com.

Into this, 5 feet in the air and there are two rows deep:

And this, for the Big Green Egg Chiminea that is on the way, and maybe to try cooking with some wood in the Big Green Egg:

And this, for ample fires over the next few months:

Whew, tired out!

A couple of days ago I was grilling some chicken breasts on the Big Green Egg and opened the top too fast without “burping” the egg and letting some oxygen in more slowly. A huge burst of flame shot out and took care of a good patch of hair on my arm! Smelled gross.

Painless automated install of both Vista and XP in two VM’s went great. Walked away and came back in an hour. Thanks Parallels!

Just got a CrashPlan connection going with my neighbor. Speed looks promising. May be able to stop worrying about offsite backups of photos

Bracing myself to setup Windows XP and Windows Vista virtual machines on my Mac Pro.

• Creating a 4TB volume (with 2.03TB of free space) on my Drobo. Future home for my iTunes library.
• Funny how the Drobo setup process is all in the 1st person. “I will update and reboot.”
• Starting the very long process of moving iTunes library to the Drobo. Will just let this run for a few hours.
• iTunes library still migrating, about 90% done but moving big video files now.

The arrival of two pit bull/bull mastiffes to the dog park added much stress.

My buddy Dan has issued an SEO challenge to the students in his class. I thought it was pretty cool and could use some spice to see how base PageRank affects search rankings. I’m curious to see where I would fit in, so I put this post out there. Google, come and get it.

I see the search results already have a hit from blog.lib.umn.edu. That is going to be tough since Google loves .edu and .org so much more than .com, but we’ll see.

No Wikipedia hits for Abalastow Compendium either.

The image at the right is what I imagine an antique Abalastow Compendium to look like.

Update (9/25/08): Proving some theory of the Internet™ or human behavior true some enterprising individuals have actually put a trump card and bought the Abalastow Compendium domain name, both the .com and even the .org version. Nobody grabbed .net it seems.*

Trying Twittelator on iPhone. Like the more advanced features.

Commercial defending high-fructose corn syrup = the definition of corporation over health.