Jamie Thingelstad

• At the dome (early) for the Twins game.
• Batting practice for Cleveland Indians.
• The Twins mascot is named “T.C.”? Really? They couldn’t think of anything more creative? Wow.
• Star Spangled Banner always gets me chocked up.
• Slowey is a shockingly good name for a pitcher.
• First pitch thrown!
• Imagining I was on the B-Squad.
• Twins are, shall we say, “suckin’”.

At Uptown Art Fair again.

At The Bad Waitress!
Bad Waitress has open WiFi.
I 💚 open WiFi.
I 💚 Bad Waitress!

At Uptown Art Fair. 🙂

Has anyone “fully” IPv6 enabled their home network? Curious for some info if you have.

So far I’m really liking the move to OmniFocus. So much more GTD power. iPhone version is nice too. Only gripe is syncing is too touchy.

A few months ago I took the plunge back into aquariums. I got a small, mini-reef setup and put it in the basement. We were trying to figure out where to put it and considering a lot of things including shade from natural light, viewing options, cleaning clearance and very importantly proximity to electricity. Relative to the last item we placed it conveniently 1-foot from an outlet. It is important to note that up to this point, we had never had an occasion to use this outlet.

We put the tank in place, filled it with water and salt, and went to start it up but nothing worked. We quickly figured out the electric outlet wasn’t working. Noting that we have dozens and dozens of switched outlets (however only the top plugs) we tried a bunch of stuff and nothing worked. There was no electricity there. Needing to get the tank running I ran the cord in front of some stairs and plugged it in a few feet away to deal with later.

Today my father-in-law, Don Olson, came over and lead the charge dealing with this. I’m more than happy to dive head first into the most complex of networks and spiders web of 10Base-T cables, but when it comes to 110v AC I haven’t got a clue. Don on the other hand is the reverse and feels totally at ease with these odd white and black wires.

We spent 2 hours flipping switches and breakers and trying to reverse engineer what the three sets of wires were that came into this box. We found out it was switched, but the whole outlet was switched, and the switch was upstairs while the outlet was downstairs. We needed that to change but had to first figure out what everything did. After ruminating about future legislative requirements to leave an electrical blueprint of a house after construction, Don was able to reconstruct what was going on.

Drawing that picture and putting the right 1’s, 2’s, 3’s and 4’s next to each thing took a little over 2 hours. Getting it working the way we needed it to work took about 10 minutes. Reminded me of debugging a network problem. Same sort of ratios.

Anyway, I now no longer have an extension cord running across the stairs and the tank looks better, at least the outside of it does. It’s still a mess inside the water. Big thanks to Don! Great to have handy father-in-laws!

Switching to OpenDNS (who needs to try when Hadar says it is great!)

Just switched to using Comcast’s DNS server. I’ve always ran my own on the local LAN, but trying to reduce server count at home.

Listening to Tammy deal with insurance crap, COBRA, etc. Sounds like complete nightmare.

Mac Pro video card/freezing issues have started again. Time to pull out the X1900 and replace it. Fans are already jacked trying to cool it.

Just called AT&T and got my options for iPhone usage while in London. Ugly.

Started reading Shaping Things by Bruce Sterling.

iTunes 7.7.1 seems to see a lot more AppStore updates than 7.7 did 5 minutes ago. Hmm…

Seems like a lot of “spam friends” coming on Twitter lately. It needs to be easier to identify these and block them.

Your friends list on Twitter.com should show basic stats of friends and provide 1-click actions. That would help a lot.

Clearly Twitter is going to need to deal with a recent sharp increase in spam activity.

I love logging onto WiFi at Caribou Coffee as foo@bar.com. Always makes me smile.

Lightroom 2 was just released today and I immediately got the upgrade. After waiting a bit to get the serial number for the new version I installed it and upgraded my catalogs. Everything worked perfectly.

One of the first things I wanted to test was using Lightroom in 64-bit mode. My Mac Pro has 7 gig of RAM so enabling 64-bit would give Lightroom some room to stretch. Here is the 32-bit snapshot of memory usage after some extensive usage.

and here we are after unchecking the “32-bit” checkbox on Lightroom 2.app.

Note that at launch Lightroom loaded into it’s typical footprint. After I scanned through a few thousand photos though it had allocated itself out into some nice 64-bit space. And as a user, it’s very noticeable. I was able to flip around in my catalog so much faster than in 32-bit mode and I noticed that I seemed to be thrashing the hard disk a lot less.

Lightroom is the first application that I’ll use on a regular basis where 64-bit makes a big difference. Sure server applications benefit from 64-bit, but seeing Lightroom perform so much faster in 64-bit makes me really hope that most of my applications are there soon.

Congrats to the Lightroom team for getting this milestone in!

It’s odd that sometimes Finder initiated restart will hang forever, but /sbin/restart will work from a terminal launched via Quicksilver.

Just test drove a Toyota Prius. Pretty nice. A bit boring though.