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My wife and I watched Dark of the Moon last night. What a waste. The first five minutes before the Transformers logo was plot important, then most of what happens after they get to Chicago. The whole middle of the movie could have been condensed to five or ten minutes. I am really glad we Redboxed that bad boy. Lots of robot killing action though.

And really, "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." Come on. Then finally, "There can be only one!" I know we aren't watching Highlander (but that was a great movie).

For a good in depth review go here.

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gnome 3.2 - arch linux login problem

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:07:00 -0700

I recently upgraded my gnome 3 install to gnome 3.2. Pacman threw an error so I forced the upgrade. I am never forcing an upgrade again. :) The upgrade completed and when I rebooted I was greeted with a sad face saying I should contact my system administrator. I hate it when software tells me to contact me. After a brief google search I was left with people complaining about 3.2 being unstable and what not. Thats what happens when you install something the day its released. I decided to go on to sleep, it was almost midnight and I had work the next day. When I got home I gave it another try, this time on the arch forums. Much better info. I issued these commands:

pacman -Rdd python2-gobject pygobject-devel cogl

Then:

pacman -S pygobject-devel cogl

Once I rebooted everything worked just fine. I probably could have just removed python2-gobject and had it work. Hope that helps someone else.

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Chrome netbook

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:37:40 -0700

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It actually got here. I was starting to wonder after I found out it was originally "undeliverable" by emailing a ninja. So cool.

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Yay!

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:39:41 -0700

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Sky

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:46:27 -0700

Taken at Tulsa Spine And Specialty Hospital

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Ouch

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:29:52 -0700

Taken at QuikTrip

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rvm sinatra and passenger

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 21:42:00 -0800

My brother-in-law has been on me for a while now to convert to RVM. For those who don't know, RVM is Ruby Version Manager. It makes switching back and forth between different versions of ruby and different gemsets a piece of cake. Here are a few tips I learned while setting up RVM on my linux box.

These are in no particular order.

1. If you don't use bundler start.

2. Install bundler and passenger to the global gemset.

rvm use 1.9.2@global gem install bundler passenger

3. Add config/setup_load_paths.rb to your rails 3 app or to your sinatra app to make passenger see your gemsets. Then add the following to that file, courtesy of my brother-in-law. The key here is that it works for sinatra too. Took me all day to figure that out. :) (Rails is now Rack based.)

# RVM support in Rails 3 app for multiple gemsets with Passenger
# config/setup_load_paths.rb

if ENV['MY_RUBY_HOME'] && ENV['MY_RUBY_HOME'].include?('rvm')
  begin
    rvm_path     = File.dirname(File.dirname(ENV['MY_RUBY_HOME']))
    rvm_lib_path = File.join(rvm_path, 'lib')
    $LOAD_PATH.unshift rvm_lib_path
    require 'rvm'
    RVM.use_from_path! File.dirname(File.dirname(__FILE__))
  rescue LoadError
    # RVM is unavailable at this point.
    raise "RVM ruby lib is currently unavailable."
  end
end

ENV['BUNDLE_GEMFILE'] = File.expand_path('../Gemfile', File.dirname(__FILE__))
require 'bundler/setup'

4. For Passenger, once it is installed in the global gemset, you can setup as normal.

5. This is a good resource for item 3. http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/integration/passenger/

6. It is possible to have a default ruby version and gemset automatically load when you change into a directory.

Add .rvmrc to the directory.

touch .rvmrc

Create a gemset for the directory.

rvm gemset create

Then place the following code into the .rvmrc file.

rvm use @

7. Don't forget to switch back to the ruby version/gemset you really want to use if you don't have .rvmrc files.

I will continue to add to this list if I think of more useful stuff.

RVM is easy to install, and easy to use. Don't be afraid. Go, now, do it. See what its all about and save yourself some ruby headaches.

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Joshua 1:9 (New International Version)

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:04:16 -0700

⁹ Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go."

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Honking Fail

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:30:32 -0700

Check out this video on YouTube:

Justin

-- Sent from my iPhone

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Simple LCARS Star Trek Backgound for iPhone 4

Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:55:00 -0700

I found a link, http://www.robotthoughts.com/technology/2007/12/icars-a-star-trek-lcars-summerboard-theme-for-the-itouch-and-iphone/ that had a cool theme for a jail broken iPhone. I didn't want to jail break my phone, so I created some simple backgrounds that were inspired from the above link.

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Have fun with them.

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Mmm Goodness

Sat, 15 May 2010 16:29:23 -0700

Bacon, eggs over easy, and freshly made pancakes all with 100% Maple Syrup! Breakfast for Dinner, mmm goodness.

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Sous-Vide

Mon, 10 May 2010 20:24:00 -0700

I was spinning on Hacker News the other day and saw this post, http://www.seriouseats.com/2010/04/cook-your-meat-in-a-beer-cooler-the-worlds-best-sous-vide-hack.html. I read it and was impressed. That is something I should totally do! So the other day I did.

It turned out well. The meat I bought was inexpensive and tasted all right. Next time I am going to buy some actual steaks and do this first, http://steamykitchen.com/163-how-to-turn-cheap-choice-steaks-into-gucci-prime-steaks.html. Then I will sear them, and do the sous-vide thingy. After that I am going to put them on the grill for some nice grill marks. :)

Today, my wife was at the store and bought me some salmon. She suggested I try the cooler technique on the fish. She bought some salmon grill seasoning. I put that on the fish, put em in the ziplock. Sealed it up. And thirty minutes later pulled it out. I put it on some foil and stuck it in the oven on broil for a minute. Then pulled it out and enjoyed. It was very good. Much tastier than the beef. Now go, cook with a cooler.

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VIM

Mon, 10 May 2010 19:59:00 -0700

So my brother-in-law got me over my completely misplaced fear of vim the other day. He showed me how seriously cool vim is. If you don't know, go start learning.

Here is his cool vim setup, http://github.com/seven1m/vimfiles.

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Interesting info about GM

Thu, 06 May 2010 16:35:00 -0700

Huh, What do you know?

Originally from http://reason.com/blog/2010/04/30/reasontv-how-did-gm-pay-back-i

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