a.k.a. Little L

Good morning from day 2. We’re playing a team from Tennesee. It’s currently 4-2 top of 4th.

Mitch pitched first couple innings, Liam the next couple. Jaz finished the last three. PT wins 9-5

Jaz came in to pitch. First two pitches were swinging strikes. They were so behind! But then Jaz walked him

PT up 5-3 in bottom of 4th against team from Illinois. Jaz in right field. Mitch & Liam pitching.

Yea!

Sorry for the silence. My battery died. Both teams had some pitching struggles. But PT wins 19 or 20 to 8.

Jaz played left field. Saw no action.

Mitch does a good job pitching. PT has good defense. 3 up, 3 down

PT put some runs on the board. Jaz singled on a dropped fly ball, bringing in 2. PT up 13-8, middle of 8

Mitch pitched that inning. Got knocked around, walked & hit a batter. Bullets pull up within 1. PT up 9-8 after 7

Jaz hits beauty double to far left field for double. Steals 3rd. Comes in when they try to get Cole as he steals 2nd. PT up 6-2

Jaz throws lots of strikes. Gets a strike out. But a few are hit hard. Including in the park home run. PT up 4-2 after 3 innings

Jaz walked. Then he scores first run on a single by MJ, coming in from second. Good hustle!

First batter walked. Next batter singles. He’s thrown out when next batter singles. A couple more strike outs. Good inning.

He was eventually tagged out trying to steal 3rd. Jaz batting last in the lineup.

Jaz pitching well. Struck out first batter. Next 3 popped up. One of them reached first on a dropped fly.

Go PT!

Looks like Jaz is warming up in the bullpen. He’ll be starting pitcher for today’s game in Ridgefield. 59°, overcast, breezy

We have about 30 printers at work. I have an OmniOutliner doc that I use to keep track of printer models and locations.

I can get into the printers, remotely, via a web browser. I can also admin some of them with a vendor’s utility. 

But, both of those can be clunky when I need to work on more than one at a time, or when I need to adjust a group of staff’s printer settings.

I found this article on Mac OS X Hints whilst looking for some SNMP tools.

Managing multiple printers via the command line - Mac OS X Hints:

For a couple of weeks, about the same time every day, I would get a call from the lab coordinator that the computers were having problems connecting to the Internet.

The network pref pane said that the Ethernet connection was Connected.

Symptoms: A user would try to get to a website, like ixl.com or pbskids.org and the progress bar would stall about mid-way, and the browser window was blank.

I could remote in via ARD and look at the Network settings. All were correct. They all had a unique IP address, within the range of 192.168.0.2-192.168.1.253.

Using Terminal, I could ping outside servers.

I could launch VMWare Fusion, and using a browser, running on Windows, I could reach those same sites.

I tried resetting Safari, clearing the caches in Firefox, reinstalling the browsers.

Then I found this thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4093878?start=0&tstart=0

Solution: Turn off IP6 (!)

Open the Network Pref Pane, unlock using the pref pane

Click on "Advanced..."

Change the value for "Configure IPv6" from "Automatic" to "Off"

Click "OK"

Restart the iMac.

It works!

My metal moods eventually incorporate the middle era of Skinny Puppy.

This video has the album version of the track, but it’s video from a live show.

But it also feels like the tamest performance. No makeup, no spewing body parts, no whips, no chains, no giant bugs with knives. Crazy visuals and vocal effects, though.

It is a true representation of the song, but not the performance.

Skinny Puppy “Tin Omen”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTIq2HyLThA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

This video is more like the Skinny Puppy I know and love. Same song, different time & place.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngQP8-gjK_k&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Daring Fireball is always a good source of commentary and thought.

Gruber picked this gem from Via Michael Lopp. It’s a post from The Guardian’s Ben Goldacre.

On Linking to Primary Sources: "

Ben Goldacre:

But more than anything, because linking to sources is such an easy thing to do and the motivations for avoiding links are so dubious, I’ve detected myself using a new rule of thumb: if you don’t link to primary sources, I just don’t trust you.

I know that my internal radar is always suspicious of blogs and news sites that don’t link. The Web = Links.

Woohoo!!

I just revived my home network! A power outage last week borked an access point in the front of the house.

This meant that half of the devices in the house could not “see” the ‘Net. This included the AppleTV, which meant we were Netflix-less. (Just as I’m starting to sell its virtues to the rest of the family.)

That also meant that there was almost no wifi signal in the front of the house. Which not only sucked because I couldn’t get on the ‘Net, but, I also couldn’t control the AppleTV, which meant we couldn’t stream any of our music or videos or photos. It drove me crazy all weekend, since I kept fiddling, but I couldn’t get it to work. Eventually, I had to reset the access point, and re-configure it. And now it works!

Time for bed–Hey look at the time!

Update: Just as I was going to publish this, I saw that it was 1:11 on Jan 11, 2011. (1:11 1/11/11). But as I hit the Publish button, it failed. It took me a few minutes to re-authorize this iPod, bit the moment passed. Sigh. Time for bed!

On the way to school, The Boy mentioned that the girls in his 4th grade class would choose a song every week, and then they would sing it over and over.

It was annoying, as that what girls are (of course).

I asked if they were singing the new Lady Ga Ga.

“Which one?” he asked.

“Y’know, ‘My Photograph.'”

“Which one is that?” he asked, perplexed.

Me singing… “My-my-my-my-my Pho-to-graph. My-my-my-my-my Pho-to-graph.”

He had this quizzical expression, the way a dog looks at you when you are showing off your use of opposable thumbs.

“You mean ‘Pokerface?'”

“Uh… yeah…”

I’m so cool.

One of the things that I really like about this, is that it helps to illustrate an arcane topic. In the past, I’ve seen people’s eyes glaze over when I start to explain TCP/IP. (Makes you want to hang out with me at parties, huh?)

This is a clever way to help show the different parts of an ingenious invention. Coolness.

Hal Pomeranz, Deer Run Associates Tell me what this is: If you said, "Hey! That's a TCP header diagram in Lego(TM)", or perhaps, "Holy &^%@! That idiot made a TCP header diagram in Lego(TM)!", then you're exactly right!  This is another one of those wild, wacky ideas that we dreamed up in the middle of one of my SANS classes (note to the S … Read More

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