Jamie Thingelstad

Totally bailing on the Get in Gear 5k. Tammy too.

January-like snow at the end of April!? Ugh!

Just found a wood tick crawling on my back in bed. Blaming Izzy for bringing it into the house. Seems tick season has started!

Beware, Perian 1.1 and iDVD using H.264 video sources is bad mojo. You have to remove the Perian drivers before transcoding for the DVD.

Gearing up for Tammy’s birthday weekend!

The $300,000 Watch That Doesn’t Tell Time ← Anyone up for a $300,000 watch that doesn’t tell the time? 🤪

The Internet continues to expand! I was recently at Yum! Kitchen and Bakery, a regular favorite restaurant of ours, and was happy to see my iPhone detect a new open wireless network named “Yum”.

You can now happily nosh on some great food, coffee and treats while surfing the Internet in style.

For some reason I feel like I need to avoid Facebook chat as if it were some virulent strain of bird flu.

A few days ago I got a hankering for hash browns. It seems most breakfast places have moved to potato wedges which are a far, far cry from hash browns as they were intended to be. I was thinking hash browns, and got thinking about Al’s Breakfast. It had been a few years since I had been to this college mainstay so I emailed Jim and Kent to see if they wanted to hit Al’s for breakfast before work soon. Off we went!

Photo from Al’s Breakfast page.

It turns out that this was a big trip to Al’s. Jim had never been and had wanted to go for years and years. Kent wasn’t sure if he had been there. He thought no but let’s just say his recollection was foggy. We all had a great breakfast. I couldn’t resist ordering a single “whole wheat wally black” and one of their great omelets. And of course, with a side of hash browns.

Aside from the food, the place is a total dive. 🙂

Totally ecstatic about the warranty repair job on my Aeron chair today. Like new!

Just submitted a serious bug in iMovie to Apple.

Finally watching Paris-Roubaix. Thanks TiVo.

Just imported my first DV tape from the Canon HV30. Quality is amazing.

iPhone just restarted itself while syncing. 😕

Just converted 240 images from CR2 to DNG. First ever use of DNG. Attracted by the 10-20% reduction in file size.

File copy was taking forever and I just noticed I was on my 802.11g network. Flipped to 802.11n, much faster.

Spent the entire evening playing digital librarian. Moving photos and home movies around to their proper spots. Tedious, but necessary.

Would someone come and add metadata to 50,000 photos and home movies?

Surprising number of birthdays at Hickory Park.

Just watched “Run Fatboy Run”. Nice feel good movie.

(Lawrence, Kansas) When doing her research for places to check out in Lawrence, Tammy ran across an interesting restaurant called Local Burger. Local Burger is attempting to create an “old school” fast food experience based entirely on local food sourcing and organic products. The menu is grass-fed locally raised free-range beef. The same in bison if you like. Prefer Elk, they have that too. Everything is raised by known ranches and done right.

And let me tell you, you sure can taste it. We only eat grass-fed beef at home and the taste is so different, and better in my opinion. Taking one bite into that grass-fed burger at Local Burger was just delicious. I wish I could have had a few meals there. I applaud everything they are doing and noted only one thing missing, they don’t seem to compost their trash. Every recycling option possible was present, but no composting.

For the morning we hit Milton’s. Milton’s served an incredible breakfast that I have a hard time imagining can be beat in Lawrence. In fact, we are changing our Sunday morning plans so we can have another shot at their menu before leaving town. The french toast was stunning. :-)