Cock in a box!
Today marks 43 years since ARPANET switched from NCP to TCP/IP and the Internet was effectively born.
Happy New Year! Going through Free to Choose, by Milton Friedman, and the 10 part TV series that aired on PBS is also good.
Merry Christmas! Itās been a while since Iāve done much woodwork, but the Hymn Holder turned out pretty good!
What is this little guy?
Haha, he was in one of my calculus classes.
Check out this license plate. Peak confidence!
I'm a sucker for time travel movies, About Time (2013).
New TV installed todayā¦
https://blossom.primal.net/830a5b017ce9621a02e44152f6903832e7c5981a9379d62eff1a06e174f52dae.mov
Nice! Also, Ready Player One is such a fun book.
I used to go to this church and someone's been very faithful in archiving the sermons...
This could be the best Rick Roll yet...
"While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973.
Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist.
We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum."
-@ricci@discuss.systems
After a mostly effortless data retrieval from a borderline abused 3.5ā floppy (27 years old), I just found out that I can fit about half an hour of opus encoded audio on a disk. That is amazing!
After years of seeing people achieve success with āwitching sticksā (Iām still a skeptic), Iām having one of my employees do some actual science. He is surveying some 40ish locations where āhitsā happen and they are going to dig, expose a pipe, and measure their accuracy.
Bowden Spacelander C. 1960
"You never change anything by fighting the existing. To change something, build a new model and make the existing obsolete."
- Buckminster Fuller
Anyone remember the series Kung Fu from the 70's? They made a continuation of it in the 90's about the protagonist's grand and great grandson. The 90's show was alright, if not a little cheesy at times. The one thing that stuck with me about it was that the main character kept his grandfather's, father's, and his own journal, receiving and passing down wisdom. That was such a cool concept to me at the time and still is. I journal sporadically, but have never been able to maintain a daily journal over long stretches of time. I've had the best success with text files, but even they are sprinkled all around. I've recently tried journaling in a physical notebook and there is something very pleasant about it. Do any of you journal?
My wife always keeps tabs on Dick Van Dyke because we want him to make it to 100 in December.
Keep dancing folks!
The family and I had a wonderful evening out yesterday with a friend from church. We sat in the back courtyard of a small local brewery and enjoyed some food and drinks with the pups. The weather was perfect and later we walked all around our small, but lately modernized downtown. Lots of people were out, business was good, but it wasn't crowded. The community was alive and healthy. Evenings like these make me glad I never put down roots in some remote place. This morning we're having a baby shower and saying farewell to a friend heading off to medical school. Community is so important.
This song's been stuck in my head, I think the only way to get it out is to share.
My youngest daughter named her toy mermaid Maria today, so I showed her this.
Smoking a 10 lb Boston Butt tonight for the 4th. Representing NC with some red slaw too!
It is usually eaten with pork BBQ in the Lexington area, but works well with a lot of dishes. 
Here's the recipe if you want to give it a try:
- 3/4 cups ketchup
- 1/3 cup apple cider vinegar
- 1/3 cup white sugar. I used a little less this time and also added a spoonful of pineapple juice concentrate.
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1/2 tsp salt
- a few drops of your favorite hot sauce, I use Texas Pete
Mix these ingredients in a small bowl then, in a strong sealable container, add a grated cabbage.
I've used red cabbage before and, although not traditional, it is prettier and a little more nutritious.
I use the larger holes on the cheese grater, and it ends up looking like a rough pulp that's ~2 lbs.
Dump the sauce in with the cabbage, seal, and shake/mix the contents thoroughly.
Refrigerate or keep in cool place overnight. Enjoy!