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October 7, 2011 Jamie Thingelstad

Building git, so I’m installing about 200 packages first. That makes sense. 😕

October 7, 2011 Jamie Thingelstad

Got my iPhone 4S pre-ordered!

October 6, 2011 Jamie Thingelstad

Great night for Minnedemo! Thanks to St. Thomas for hosting. 8thBridge demoing tonight! Watching Mike Bjerkness changing the code on the demo. 14 mins to go. Hope the git push works! 😀

October 6, 2011 Jamie Thingelstad

Always Connected — I’ve talked to some of my super-wired friends about what I call “digital fatigue”. This is it.

October 6, 2011 Jamie Thingelstad

gapingvoid: Rays

My daily gapingvoid cartoon showed up in my mailbox this morning with Gloop. It seemed like a good message for the day. This is a character I created when I was in college named “Gloop”. Still, he turns up as a makeshift alter ego in drawings every now and then. Gloop represents …

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October 6, 2011 Jamie Thingelstad

Steve Jobs, t_hero.png

My friend Kent found this and commented on Facebook about it. I wanted to capture it for posterity. On Apple’s website the tribute to Steve Jobs has an appropriate file name, t_hero.png. (see the highlighted code in the inspector window under the page.)

Black-and-white portrait of a man in a black turtleneck, hand raised to chin, on Apple.com memorial page showing 1955-2011
October 3, 2011 Jamie Thingelstad

Seems one of Google’s best known bloggers is copying Tammy and I on his most recent 30 day challenge: going vegan!

October 2, 2011 Jamie Thingelstad

Detect Slow Cacti Polling

I’m a big fan of graphs, and as such am a big fan of Cacti. I’ve used it at work and at home. It’s a wonderfully powerful, and ridiculously complicated front-end to RRDTool, which is also wonderfully powerful and ridiculously complicated. I’ve used Cacti to graph hundreds of …

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October 2, 2011 Jamie Thingelstad

Marathon Morning

It was a beautiful morning to walk over to Minnehaha Creek and watch the Twin Cities Marathon.

Runners in a road race pass through a tree-lined street in autumn while spectators watch from the sidewalk on a sunny morning.
October 2, 2011 Jamie Thingelstad

Remodel Update Week 17

This was a big week for the project! The painting is mostly done now. The final colors are on all the walls, the tape is off, the trim is all painted. The railing is finished above the mudroom and I’m really excited about the space up there. I’m completely sold on putting a door …

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