Pirates: A Reality Check – 9 Pirate Myths Examined | Geekdad from Wired.com.
Work has been busy, lots of 2blog folder catching up to do…
As usual, starting with things overheard:
- Overheard in the Office | You’re Not Properly Formatted
- Overheard in the Office | And They Keep Slipping Out Of the Child Seats
- Overheard in New York | The Day New York Stood Still
- Overheard in New York | Jeez, Even They Can’t Understand Each Other
- Overheard in New York | Can’t We Just Have Anonymous Anal at the Gym Like Normal People?
- Overheard in New York | Yuppie Child Enters Lifelong Apprenticeship
Plenty of geeky things (lots of these also fit into other categories):
- Binary Codes: New to Linux? Make sure you bookmark these
- 10 Best Science Fiction Planets | Science Not Fiction | Discover Magazine
- You’ve got jail! AOL spammer sentenced to seven years
- Form Elements: 40+ CSS/JS Styling and Functionality Techniques
- How To Block Porn Pictures And Images With SafeSquid Proxy Server | HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials
- zlatanova: The Disney Goatse Collection
- UNIX tips: Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits
- 30 Free High Quality WordPress Themes | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine
- 10 Principles of the CSS Masters – NETTUTS
- PEAR :: Package :: Calendar
- Slashdot | Any Suggestions For a Meaningful Geeky Wedding Band?
- 9 Amazing Firefox Add-Ons That Will Save Your Time! – Opensource, Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers
- BBC – Science & Nature – Sex ID
- UNIX tips: Learn 10 more good UNIX usage habits
- Pimp your Ubuntu desktop in 7 easy steps! :: The Tux Geek
- Technology Review: Flawless Vote Counts
- xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe
- 10 Great Webcomics You Should Not Share With Your Kids | Geekdad from Wired.com
- Abstruse Goose » A Wise Man Once Said…
Parenting things:
- Coney Island Owner Confirms Closure – TIME
- 12 New Rules of Working You Should Embrace Today | Zen Habits
- Fat into muscle – how to turn a beer gut into a six-pack – Telegraph
- 21 Easy Hacks to Simplify Your Life | Zen Habits
- Is your kid really gifted? Probably not – CNN.com
- The Disturbing Origins of 5 Common Nursery Rhymes | Cracked.com
- ‘Peanuts’ animator Bill Melendez dies at 91 – MORE NEWS AND FEATURES- msnbc.com
- Platypus – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Science Blog: Top Eight (8) Most Poisonous Animals
- The 9 most eerily cultlike kids shows | Blog of Hilarity
- The Geophysical Institute Auroral Forecast Page
- 21 Easy Hacks to Simplify Your Life | Zen Habits
- 10 Things Millionaires Won’t Tell You (new-new-new) at SmartMoney.com
- Interstate Highway System – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Port Aransas, Texas – TX beach lodging, accomodations,vistor info
Golf things:
Politics/Secularism:
- 101 Atheist Quotes – The Atheist Blogger
- ImageShack – Hosting :: ichatimage891131384xf6.jpg
- Why the media should apologize – Roger Simon – Politico.com
- Words They Used – 2008 Political Conventions – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com
- Take A Drink …
Just funny:
- Joe. My. God.: Working In
- Welcome to the ICBE — The International Center for Bathroom Etiquette
- Easier To Just Walk Picture
And one film link:
Because I’m forever looking for this, and never have it when I need it:
On a cisco switch, enable, and show mac-address-table to find out which host(s) are connected to which ports.
If you know the port (for example, this evening I need port fa0/22), do a sh mac-address-table interface fastEthernet 0/22
Then, from a host with decent broadcast ping, do a broadcast ping, and grep -i for the mac address from the output of arp -a.
Oh, so *that’s* the host that is going overboard, eh? Gotcha.
Now, all I have to do is search my blog for cisco, and I’ll have the answer. Quickly.
What could make the first day of school even bigger?
When you lose your third tooth that evening…
(This one was the upper passenger-side.)
My latest million dollar idea
Piranha sushi
All that work…
And we had overcast skies for the meteor shower.
There is good news, however — Grace was truly understanding. She is willing to wait and try again next year, and we’ll also try in October for the Orionids.
Catching up more often…
Fewer overheard links (I’ve been busy!):
Lots of geeky things, however:
- Linux.com :: ssh-xfer: Quickly grabbing files over an existing SSH connection
- DNSSEC HOWTO
- nagios2cacti – Google Code
- Iyov: Notes to myself: Firefox 3 features — allow right click, always save password
- Linux.com :: Quickly put data from MySQL to the Web with DrasticGrid
- Linux.com :: Using free software for HTTP load testing
Political things:
- Candidates for Sale : Rolling Stone
- Morton’s Fork – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Berkeley Breathed – Salon.com
A few things about being gay and parenting:
- More gay men now ‘married with children’ – Kids and parenting- msnbc.com
- » Orson Scott Card Wants YOU (To Rise Up Against The Gay Menace) | Cracked.com
And some just about being Grace’s daddy:
- Grocery Suck Ray: Hershey’s “Kissables” No Longer Legally Considered “Milk Chocolate”?
- Aargh — buried facts about pirates – CNN.com
- The World’s Strangest Theme Restaurants | WebUrbanist
And some generally funny or interesting things:
See the big meteor show while you can – Space.com- msnbc.com
See the big meteor show while you can – Space.com- msnbc.com.
Yet another story on the meteor shower — but we have a 40-50% chance of rain…
Year’s biggest (and littlest) meteor showers – Space- msnbc.com
Turning diaries into blogs…
THE ORWELL PRIZE is what we were talking about the other day.? It begins today!
More information on the Perseid Meteor Shower which peaks August 12
SPACE.com — Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks August 12.
We’re making our plans!
Here are some fun facts about the meteor shower.
Time to make the 2blog folder catchup post…
As usual, starting with all things overheard:
- Overheard in New York | What’s That on Your Shirt? A Maple Leaf?
- Overheard in the Office | Next Time Use the “Dying Fetus” Sound Effect
- Overheard in the Office | Well You Did Plan the Whole Funeral
- Overheard at the Beach | At the “That’s What She Said” Quarterfinals
For geeky things, I’m going to start off with some privacy links (to opt-out of tracking for advertising cookies):
And the rest of the geek links:
- polishlinux.org » Ext3, ReiserFS & XFS in Windows thanks to coLinux
- 10 icons sets to customize your GNU/Linux desktop
- How to Create The Ultimate Windows XP Installation CD/DVD | A New Morning
- 10 Excellent CSS Tips and Tutorials | Design Reviver
- Mike On Ads » Blog Archive » Using your browser URL history to estimate gender
- » 5 Scientific Theories That Will Make Your Head Explode | Cracked.com
- Pareto principle – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Abstruse Goose » Veritas Vos Liberabit
- Abstruse Goose » Life Imitates Art
- Review: The Dark Knight || kuro5hin.org
Political things:
- Vital unresolved anthrax questions and ABC News – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com
- Holy Controversy: Religulous Reviews Hit Web | /Film
- YouTube – What is a narcissist?
Some parenting links:
- Overly clean homes may up bowel disease risk – Kids and parenting- msnbc.com
- ‘Gen X’ author tells how guys really view age – Men’s health- msnbc.com
- and, since Grace now likes the “cloud game”: 30 Creepiest Clouds On Earth | Environmental Graffiti
Some things just for Cy:
And just plain interesting:
Comics get G reading again
catchup blogging, again
Things overheard:
- Overheard in New York | Wednesdays Make You Want to Have One-Liners of Your Own
- Overheard in New York | Jesus Wept
- Overheard in New York | Then They Both Linked Arms and Skipped Off to Eternal Damnation
- Overheard Everywhere | But If Enough Rain Builds Up, You Can Watch Me Walk on Water
- Overheard in New York | Today It’s a Lolly. Tomorrow It’s a BMW
- Overheard in New York | Is Our Tourists Learning?
- Overheard in the Office | Now That Maggie Retired
- Overheard in the Office | Which Is When He Told Me About Overheardintheoffice.com!
- Overheard Everywhere | But Odds Are You Still Aren’t Paying Attention
- Overheard Everywhere | …Roll Videotape, Please
- Overheard Everywhere | It’s Easily Mistaken for a Leak in the Basement
- Overheard Everywhere | Where Are You Going with This?
- And vaguely related: CO-ED Magazine » How To Not Be A Douchebag Tourist In NYC
Geeky links:
- Generating Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificates « UrbanSensor’s Weblog
- Chris Hall: The Perfect Margarita
- Linux.com :: Get to know Ubuntu’s Logical Volume Manager
- R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008 – Columns by PC Magazine
- Schneier on Security: Why You Should Never Talk to the Police
- Adeona: A Free, Open Source System for Helping Track and Recover Lost and Stolen Laptops
Political things:
- 8 salary-talk traps to avoid – CNN.com
- Crimes and Misdemeanors – By Emily Bazelon, Kara Hadge, Dahlia Lithwick, and Chris Wilson – Slate Magazine
- Wellington Grey — Miscellanea — The TSA Guide to Reading Faces for Security Workers
- Saudi religious police ban pet cats and dogs – Yahoo! News
Interesting/funny/parenting and golf things:
- mental_floss Blog » Pass the Knowledge: The Origins of Your Favorite Condiments
- House of lies: Is fibbing to your kids ever OK? – Kids and parenting- msnbc.com
- How to Take Portraits – 19 Portrait Photography Tutorials
- 10 Skills You Need to Succeed at Almost Anything – Stepcase Lifehack
- YouTube – Swing Vision Tiger Woods
- 1069, Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii, and other names so weird that judges forbade them. – By Eugene Volokh – Slate Magazine
That last one makes my first idea for Grace’s name (Entropy) seem positively mundane. Right?
I suppose it is redundant…
For me to link to a post about a post on The fun of fatherhood.
Myself, I was never much for D&D (I played once or twice, but have always preferred SciFi over fantasy).
Grace wants to see a meteor shower…
And http://meteorshowersonline.com/ has a page dedicated to the Perseids.
