Some wiley coworkers turned me on to w00t.com, where they sell some overstocked bargain product until its gone every day. Sometimes this stuff is crap, other times its awesome. Yesterday (Wednesday), they had a Gyration keyboard and mouse suite for $50. These things work great with Fedora Core, or so the forums say, and that […]

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Tomorrow my big screen TV arrives. The installation guys from Shermans are calling me after their first job starts at 8 o’clock. They suspect that will be near 10 am. I told the guy on the phone that I had a finished basement and they may have some trouble running the cabling, he said that […]

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Tonight we gave Sensei Hartman his Christmas present at the Mapleton dojo. It was a very small class tonight, only a handful of yellow belts, a smattering of blue belts, , McCabe, Erbe, Garls and myself. The class got off to a very basic start, we did a few in-place basics focusing on making the […]

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This morning I was driving down Rte 29 to Peoria and the trees were all encased in ice. It looked really cool when the sunrise hit them… I would’ve taken a picture if I had my camera and it wasn’t 10 degrees.

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Last night and her boyfriend Brian came over to help assess the situation for cabling my TV/MythTV/speakers setup. Turns out the prognosis was not as good as we would’ve hoped. It appears that my rafters run the wrong way in my basement, so I’m forced to run my speaker wires under the carpet upstairs. This […]

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