If you ever wonder why I document things so religiously; this will explain it in part (I lived in Japan for three years, and was in the USAF for 10): Some Perspective On The Japan Earthquake I learned a lot about safety conditions, documentation, and training. Training to the point of boredom.
Tagged documentation, earthquake, Japan, safety, training, USAFWhile we were loving the delicious anniversary dinner at Evo Bistro last night, and stunned at how quiet and empty it was; we asked wait staff why, and they guessed Oscar night. Â We replied: “oh was that happening now?” Â Cool. Â I would like to thank the academy for a lovely, romantic, quiet night at […]
If you are a Firefly fan and you would be interested in a costumed shindig, perhaps in June or July, please send me an email with the email address you would like the invite to be sent to. Please title the email “Shinding, Yes Please” and I will get you on the list. My scottnolan.org […]
Woo hoo! We have used for years Suunto Cobra dive computers when SCUBA diving, they are awesome, but they only connected to Windows software. Apparently a very geeky fellow decided he was so frustrated with Suunto ignoring many divers who are Mac users that he’d address the problem directly by writing his own software to […]
During the summer of 1999 my friends and I all purchased the coolest laptop in the world, the lovely Fujitsu B142 Lifebook. I got many years of great use out of that tiny laptop until I had to upgrade to a bigger, faster machine. I am trying to restore my old B142 Lifebook for nostalgia […]
Audio stopped working on my work-provided MacBookPro recently, and I was able to fix it by reading this thread and applying the suggestion (I used a coffee stirring stick/straw). http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3255575 Basically using my regular stereo headset confused the headphones/digital audio port into thinking I was connected for digital audio only.
Tagged digital audio out, Mac, MacBook ProWe’ve been using XBMC to view movies and videos on our first generation AppleTV for a while, but it has always been a pain to manually copy (via scp) the files to the AppleTV and then remove them once they’ve been watched because the disk space is limited. So I finally got around to setting […]
Tagged AppleTV, NitoTV, XBMCThis morning I went by the house to check on things and feed the cats and found that the power was back on at the house; and that by some miracle I do not fully understand most of our treasured marine aquarium livestock appears to have survived! We also still have some propane though the […]
Tagged House, Marine Aquariums, snow, TrafficTwenty years ago today, was the angriest I remember being in my entire life. I was at a friend’s house going over SCA heraldic arms submissions with a friend and our host, when our host’s wife shouted down (we were in the basement) to turn on the news. All channels were broadcasting that the United […]
Tagged warErci and I attended Yuletide Ball Championships with our teachers from The Ballroom, Darryl Adams and Michele Kearney. The championship is typically 3-4 days of competitive dancing and showcase exhibitions. There is also always a New Year’s Eve Gala Ball, which we attended with Ann Marlow and Dan Van Bey. The Gala is always lots […]
