Posted by henry on Saturday, July 04, 2009 @ 11:43:06 CDT (0 reads)
Happy 4th of July! Chris and Amanda are coming over with Kindsey, Haili is already here! Bunch of dead animal on the grill, pool ready to go, what could be better?!?! Pat and David are supposed to come over for cookout as well, then we'll pack everyone up and head down to Montgomery for the Biscuits game, with super-duper fireworks to follow. Should be a great Day!
Also, the SeedlingCam has been moved... There's a bird who built a nest in a box of fire logs on our woodpile on the side porch. I haven't been able to get the timelapse going again, so the seedling cam was pretty boring. I ran the cable down from my office and out the side door, and put the camera inside the box so we can watch momma bird, and hopefully, some chicks in a little while. Click the image to watch a stream...
Posted by henry on Monday, June 22, 2009 @ 17:58:25 CDT (0 reads)
This past Saturday was the 2009 Alabama Sports Festival. Luke, Robyn, Larry and I piled in the van and drove up to Montevallo for the disc golf competition. I helped run the tourney, trying to get ready to run the one in October here in Montgomery. About 75 people showed up, despite temperatures in the high 90's, with a heat index nearing 110??. After the two rounds of 18 holes were finished, Luke had a gold medal in Juniors, Robyn a silver in the Women's Intermediate, and I took silver in the Advanced Masters division (over 40). Everyone seemed to have a great time, and we made some new friends too.
Posted by henry on Friday, June 19, 2009 @ 09:21:49 CDT (1 reads)
Excellent trip to Mississippi last weekend for disc golf, and just to get away. I was more than a little disappointed with the weather; it poured rain Friday evening and Saturday morning. All the rain made the course too muddy for Thomas to get out with us, so he spent the entire weekend cooped up in the cabin. Robyn won the Women's division, beating out two others, and Sean came in third in Juniors. I finished out of the money for the first time in my career; mainly due to horrible putting in the first round. I shot six over in the first round, two over in the second. I kinda new it was going to be one of those days when I got penalized two throws for turning in an incorrect scorecard... Tried to give myself a 67 when I actually threw 66. So, I officially ended up with a 68. I was less dissatisfied with the second round, even though I made a few stupid bogeys on easy holes. The good news is, the course is not extremely long and my elbow held up well. I threw a four-under 50 at AUM on Tuesday this week, and again Yesterday. Yesterday I missed short (<15 feet) birdie putts on 5, 14, 15, and 17, so it easily could have been 8 under. Hopefully putting practice this afternoon will get me ready for the Alabama Sports Festival tournament tomorrow!
Posted by henry on Thursday, May 28, 2009 @ 10:28:01 CDT (3 reads)
I occupied myself for a few hours last night trying to get voice recognition working on the CarPC. There seem to be several packages out there; but not a lot of development going on at present... Perlbox-voice is one I had used before (several years ago, on Slackware and CentOS), and it worked like a champ. Not so much on Ubuntu 9.04, it seems. Some of the dialog boxes don't show up correctly, which seems to be a Tk problem. Funny, when I installed it on my workstation and installed the Perl-Tk modules using Synaptic instead of CPAN, it actually displays more of the dialogs, but still just doesn't work quite right. Then the scroll bars don't work, individual lines in the select boxes are not selectable, and clicking on a heading to sort blanks the entire list! I also installed the gnome-voice-control package using synaptic, but it hates me apparently. I've added it to the panel, and it starts up (as long as the microphone is not muted), but no matter what I say it completely ignores me. There's a one page (no-)help file, which was obviously translated from a foreign language, not much assistance at all. I only played with it for a few minutes before powering off for bed; maybe I'll get a chance to test it more this evening.
Posted by henry on Saturday, May 23, 2009 @ 17:26:29 CDT (3 reads)
Robyn picked up the mail from the Post Office this morning, and my replacement memory from Kingston was in an envelope therein... Back to work on the CarPC!
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Excellent trip to Mississippi last weekend for disc golf, and just to get away. I was more than a little disappointed with the weather; it poured rain Friday evening and Saturday morning. All the rain made the course too muddy for Thomas to get out with us, so he spent the entire weekend cooped up in the cabin. Robyn won the Women's division, beating out two others, and Sean came in third in Juniors. I finished out of the money for the first time in my career; mainly due to horrible putting in the first round. I shot six over in the first round, two over in the second. I kinda new it was going to be one of those days when I got penalized two throws for turning in an incorrect scorecard... Tried to give myself a 67 when I actually threw 66. So, I officially ended up with a 68. I was less dissatisfied with the second round, even though I made a few stupid bogeys on easy holes. The good news is, the course is not extremely long and my elbow held up well. I threw a four-under 50 at AUM on Tuesday this week, and again Yesterday. Yesterday I missed short (<15 feet) birdie putts on 5, 14, 15, and 17, so it easily could have been 8 under. Hopefully putting practice this afternoon will get me ready for the Alabama Sports Festival tournament tomorrow! 
