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Today was Lilas first time at the zoo, and as you can tell she was pretty excited. While we didn't get to witness any monkeys throwing poop, it was probably for the best as I'm sure she would eventually mimick it. She did get to chase down the peacock, see most of the animals, and get first hand experience of how rude other kids are. That's right, I went there. I'm already the judgemental dad who thinks all other kids are jerks. But seriuosly they were all rude to her, what kind of parents let their kid get that way! A return trip is required as we missed the butterfly house, reptile house, and the meercat interactive bubble of joy.
Today was a rare day of rain in this 90+ degree summer, and it was making up for lost time. Heavy downpouring made for some intense puddles along I-96 and after a few minor ones I finally hit a major one that stalled out my car. I immediately regretted my cold air intake, and realized should the zombie apocolypse have happened this would have been my death. As I pulled over and cranked my engine a few times I determined tonight is the night I eliminate this weak point. As I struggled to get the engine running again, a cop pulled up behind another stallout but the rain was so intense I don't think he was planning on getting out. I also assumed he read "supercharged" on my car and knew I was invincible, which would be a correct conclusion as after several revs to 6,000 I finally flushed the water out of my engine. Now steamcleaned and fancy free, I finished my drive to work and bragged about how totally awesome I am for getting my waterlogged car up and running again.
I was greeted with the Brad Lloyd Space Station at work when I returned from Cougarfest. There was an A in the acronym as well but I forgot what it stood for. I'm told I'm in direct competition with NASA and they had the forsight to equip it with dual satellite receivers in the event of an outage.
The cancellation of the dyno at Cougarfest meant I had enough participants for the Enorym suggested trip to
Centralia, PA. I had never heard of the place until Myrn mentioned it on our conference call on my way to Cougarfest. Intrigued, and motivated by the cancellation, I got overly excited and infected 4 other people to brave the trip. The city has an
interesting history that lead it to the abandoned sinkhole it has become, but over time the exciting ruins have been overgrown so that now the only really exciting thing left is the abandoned stretch of highway covered in penis graphics by the local kids. I took two Photosynth murals and explored a bit, but nothing extraordinary stood out. The road alone was worth the trip.
Photosynth 1 |
Photosynth 2 
Another year, another
Cougarfest. Surprisingly my 14 year old Cougar continues to survive despite it's
best efforts otherwise. The trend of declining attendance continued this year with a total of 28 actual Cougars, but only 10 non-Cougars which means the 50% threshold has yet to occur. The smaller group meant we could all travel without endangering the public and fit in resturants reasonably well, yet we still managed to scare hotel security who couldn't figure out why anyone would want to sit in a parking lot and drink. Their response was to tell us to move further into the woods until we eventually passed out in the adjacent campground which became our starting point the following nights. I rode along on my first rally and had some good quality conversations instead of running around trying to talk to everyone thanks to the lower turnout.
The
North Atlantic Oscillation is to blame for making my summer an unbearable heat wave, and I intend to sue it for incompetence. Every year it brings cooler air to keep the weather closer to the mid 70s but this year it's not doing it's job and I'm taking action! Join me in my class action lawsuit, only together can we bring change!
Last year Lila was only
5 months old for the July 4th celebration, but this year she was fully aware of her surroundings and ready for some $29.99 Wal-Mart grade entertainment. We started the day with a patriotic photo shoot, eventually convincing Lila her star glasses look better on her head. The evening consisted of Lila alternating between pulling Lisas hands off her ears and clapping at the fireworks while the constant mortar fire from the neighbors didn't really bother her until the very end of the night. While she won't be ready to upgrade to full on mortars and bottle rockets anytime soon, I can tell she'll probably become a pyromaniac.
On my way home today I passed an ambulance followed closely by two police cars and decided it was an odd caravan. About 3 blocks later I saw
this and was informed by a few bystanders it was a police chase that ended with the corvette slamming into the building. While disappointed I missed the event, I'm also glad I wasn't between the building and the Corvette.
My
last experiment with storage speed involved a single 60GB SSD which turned out to be slower than my
last upgrade to the motherboard controller for my dual Velociraptor drives. Today I found a sweet enough deal to go dual SSDs using two Crucial M4 128GB drives and it handily
blows away the velociraptors. The Windows 7 experience index is
pegged at 7.9 (the highest it goes) for storage and everything I do so far is instant. I went from ~260 MB/s to over 500 MB/s sequential read while the burst hit almost 650 MB/s. At this point I'm fairly confident my limit is the on-board RAID controller but I've lost my desire to push something I rarely use anymore to the absolute limit. Is this me getting old, or is this a shift in technology to mobility and convienience over performance? I'm sure I'll read this in a few years and realize it's both.
Almost 2 months after my Focus ST
initial order I finally received confirmation my order is
ready to build. While there is no mention of when it will be built or when I can expect to take delivery I feel better having the confirmation. At this point even if I have it a few days before it snows I'll be happy, but hopefully sooner than that.
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Today was Lilas first time at the zoo, and as you can tell she was pretty excited. While we didn't get to witness any monkeys throwing poop, it was probably for the best as I'm sure she would eventually mimick it. She did get to chase down the peacock, see most of the animals, and get first hand experience of how rude other kids are. That's right, I went there. I'm already the judgemental dad who thinks all other kids are jerks. But seriuosly they were all rude to her, what kind of parents let their kid get that way! A return trip is required as we missed the butterfly house, reptile house, and the meercat interactive bubble of joy.
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