Listening to Crooked Still from todays On Point. They are so good.
Really confused why my Mac Pro hangs on boot if my external firewire drives are plugged in. Unplug and boots right away.
Is there any way to tell OS X to never, ever try to boot off of a drive? I have 6 drives and it takes it forever to scan them all at boot.
Reading about Ubunty 7.1 to 8.04 upgrade. Thinking about just doing it. What the heck?
Brand new snapshot backup created with Slicehost. Time to upgrade! Yeeha! 🤠
Just slapped a new 2TB Western Digital drive on my Mac Pro. HD video just eats up drive space.
Iron Chef Minnetonka - Egg
Tammy just hosted/produced the most recent Iron Chef Minnetonka night. This time around was a very special theme. You’ll have to wait 3 months though to see the video from it. In the meantime, enjoy the just released video from the last Iron Chef Minnetonka – Egg edition! Tammy did this video and its great!
Also check out Battle Yogurt…
iPhone App - SleepOver
I haven’t posted anything about the release of iPhone 2.0, but the approximately 20 applications that I’ve installed on my phone show that I’ve been pretty immersed in it. Developers are still figuring the platform out and there is some cool stuff, as well as some really lame stuff, out now. SleepOver is a cool little utility that I think is a great idea for the iPhone. SleepOver is a simple paid application ($2.99) that has one function, waking up other computers. I’ve spent some effort to reduce electricity usage and my computers are big offenders. To help, I’ve set them to go to sleep when they can. This is great for energy saving, but inevitably you will need to access it over the network and find that it is asleep. You may be accessing it from your Apple TV and need to wake up iTunes. SleepOver provides a nice iPhone interface to send the “magic” Wake-on-LAN packet that will bring the other machine out of its slumber.
Just a couple of days ago SleepOver combined with the Remote application allowed me to switch on my Mac Pro, start playing a playlist on it, and tell it to use the Apple TV upstairs as remote speakers – all while standing at the stove. Pretty cool!
This is a great example of a small, purposeful and useful application that makes great sense to have in your pocket all the time.
Don's 70th Birthday Party
This past weekend Tammy and her sisters Corinne, Angie and Michelle threw a surprise birthday party for their Dad, Don Olson.
It was a very nice party and Don was totally surprised. Denny and Corinne made some awesome food and about 70 people were there. My job for the event was to get a video together. We did interview scenes with all the girls and mom, along with a bunch of pictures.
Of course if you get people in front of a camera you get some silly moments. I had enough to remix it back into this outtake video.
Angie put a post on her brand new blog about it. This morning I whipped up a quick video from the birthday party itself!
Olympics on. Hanging out around home. Pancakes for breakfast.
Starting the Big Green Egg for todays brisket cook! Smoke!
11 hours from now we’ll have brisket.
Having hard time keeping Big Green Egg at 200 °F. Ranging up to 230 °F but working it. Anything under 250 °F is fine, but I want 210 °F.
Brisket cooking nicely in 215 Green Egg. Mop sauce made. Cooking up BBQ sauce now.
2.5 hours in, added more chips and looks great!
Feeling intimidated.
“For what it’s worth, brisket is generally regarded one of the hardest cooks in barbecue circles.”
Started soaking wood chips for tomorrows brisket. Half hickory and half black cherry wood.
Just got nVidia GeForce 8800 GT to replace overheating ATI Radeon X1900 XT in Mac Pro. Got the special one for “legacy Mac Pro”.
Mac Pro up and running with nVidia GeForce 8800 now. Hopefully this is “Bye Bye” to random freezes and video artifacts.
Found the hornet nest Chase got too close to yesterday. Need RAID.
Now the proud owner of minnewordcamp.com.
Downloading and applying iPhone 2.0.1 update. Suggest the 2.0.1 release should re-use the title “The Audacity of Hope”.
Whenever iTunes shows ‘Backing up “Jamie’s iPhone”…’ I should just get up, walk away and come back an hour later. It takes forever!
Maybe I need to push the Turbo button in on my iPhone. (Still backing up after 30+ minutes.) Soon I will hopefully upgrade to 2.0.1.
Is there a name for the syndrome where you sit waiting for a task to finish because you are sure the second you walk away it will be done.
Backup completed. iPhone updating.
I hope that Apple plans to take the next 12 months just on stability. Nothing new please. Just make it all work as well as it should.
Lunch at Tejas after picking raspberries in Lakeview.
At Honda dealership after dropping off Odyssey. Waiting for Tammy and Mazie.
Computer Overloaded
Rare change this afternoon with me feverishly working on my Mac Pro getting a bunch of stuff done. Running a ton of apps and everything working hard. It’s clear I need more cores though. It’s all just busy.
