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Making, baking, and (un-)breaking things in Southeast Michigan.

Moblog Update

August 4, 2006


Intestine found at Holland Ponds
(Click for more moblog photos…)

Yesterday Danielle and I went wandering around Holland Ponds {Park | Nature Center} over near my house in Shelby Township. The original idea was to look at the nicely swollen (from the rain) Clinton River, but we ended up finding a few other interesting things. All I acquired photos of was the large piece of intestine seen above, and a number of pictures of snails:

· A handful of snails.
· A snail on a board.
· A snail eating some poo.

Also, here are some other moblog photos:

· Three enclosures for MIDIbox SID-NUXXs.
· Tasty banana nut bread from The Daily Grind in Utica.
· Apple Hardware Test running on my G5.
· Quick chilling some Jolly Pumpkin beer.

Uhm, yeah. That’s all for now. Time to get back to trying to figure out something…

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DreamHost… Again…

August 3, 2006

So, I’m in a bit of a tough spot. I’m trying to figure out what to do about DreamHost. I haven’t heard anything back from my support ticket with them, so I’m pricing out options to get my server back in colocation with Waveform.

My current thought is to replace the likely-to-fail-soon 5x 120GB ATA-6 drive assembly (running software RAID1 and RAID 0+1 via GEOM) with a 3ware 8006-2LP and a pair of fairly commodity (probably WD or Seagate) SATA drives.

Total cost for this will be around US$300, plus resumption of US$50/mo colocation payments.

Gur. I don’t know what to do. I want to stick it out and see if DH gets better, but if I need to build an entire server and move things back to it, I need to get going soon.

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DreamHost’s MySQL

August 3, 2006

What the hell?

jawbreaker:~> mysql -uc0nsumer -hmysql.nuxx.net -p nuxx_net
Enter password:
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A

Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 1125434 to server version: 5.0.18-standard-log

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql> select * from mw_user;

...

1 row in set (18.07 sec)

mysql>

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Front Panel Express

August 2, 2006

Whoops. Someone from Front Panel Express just called to tell me that my design for the MIDIbox SID-NUXX rear panel I had drawn the slots in a manner which caused some problems with the milling. One of their engineers fixed the drawing and re-cut a new end panel, but they wanted to tell me that in the future the drawing should be done a bit differently.

(The problem was that I drew the angled slots by taking a milled hole, slanting the sides 45°, and making the corner radius that of the tool. In the future I should draw a line and rotate it 45° instead.)

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Tomorrow’s Lunch

July 31, 2006


Tomorrow’s Lunch, and a few other meals…

Yeah, I know, the photo is crap. Right there is where a daylight fluorescent, two halogen cans, and some normal incandescent converge. I think I should have turned off the incandescent, but I wanted to get them wrapped up and sort of forgot the importance of decent light. Then I stuck the grey card at the wrong angle… etc.

Anyway, that will hopefully be tomorrow’s lunch, and maybe a few other meals. It’s a baguette which I first brushed with olive oil sprinkled with freshly ground pepper. Then I added brie slices, basil chiffonade, and topped with seeded roma tomatoes.

Hopefully it’ll be good, and hopefully the oil will keep the bread from getting too soggy, even though the cheese and tomatoes aren’t especially moist.

UPDATE: I played with the white balance a bit… I think the food itself was lit more by the incandescent lights and reflections from the living room, so when it is colored appropriately the countertop looks off. Ah well.

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