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Just wanted to give you all a heads up about the end of the world on September 23. Thank me later?

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Okay … as soon as my computer was up a few weeks ago … it was down. Fatal System Error.

• Tried Window Repair
• Tried System Restore
• Tried booting from USB
• Tried booting from another hard drive (I have 6 connected to this monster, yo)
• Tried unplugging everything (USB, drives, external, monitors [but one, obviously])

NOTHING.

Freakin’ got fed-up and purchased another SSD (1 tb) and reinstalled. Had a couple of days off, rewired everything on the desk, ensured cord management was tight, everything connected (now have a ‘server closet’ in the new house – where all of the automation hardware/hubs/external storage/printers — CONNECTED!). Also connected a Hue Strip to the back of the monitors – and with the help of DynamicHue, the lights will change colors based on what is on the screen. Sweet!

So – now I just have to transfer all of my old files from back-up and the old SSD and life will be somewhat back to normal.

Well – it’s been a little over a month now for my desktop computer to be alive. With the move, it’s been sitting in a box for some time now – along with a lot of other things. Slowly we are unpacking – tonight the beast was fired up in my new office area of the house.

Looking back at the calendar, I realized tonight that this whole process has been in one state or another since February! Wow. It’s been a long 6 months, folks. Will have more time to reflect as we get closer to the annual holiday update – but for now, we have more boxes to unpack this weekend.

It has been about 5 months now since we started our journey of moving into a new home. 5 months ago (ish) we started the process of looking. Then the offer, then getting our old home ready for market, etc. It was pretty tough, overall. More mental than physical, really. Things have settled down now.

Yesterday the internet was down in the house. It was weird as we all migrated closer together and hung out for the day … we were playing ping pong together as the evening came.

I will admit, I didn’t really try to spend much time trying to figure out the internet issue. Pretty confident there were issues in the area, but it could of been just the cable modem or router. Oh well – didn’t matter really.

Interesting article on the economics of ordering pizza.

In summary …

The math of why bigger pizzas are such a good deal is simple: A pizza is a circle, and the area of a circle increases with the square of the radius. So, for example, a 16-inch pizza is actually four times as big as an 8-inch pizza.

And when you look at thousands of pizza prices from around the U.S., you see that you almost always get a much, much better deal when you buy a bigger pizza.

Unbelievable! We’ve had our garage door up for about 7 years – 7 years of sun, rain, hail, etc.

ah … my first email address was toelius@aol.com. The memories …

Lucy DID NOT like Wallie getting near her rawhide candy-canes on Christmas morning …

This is actually quite entertaining …

Ugh. Been 16 months since my last post. Here’s why: Database was corrupted.

Was one of those “I’ll fix it when I get around to it” things. I finally got around to it. Sheesh!

More updates coming! I’ve been away so long – I’m going to have to find myself around here …

Been wanting this for some time … a nod to Monty Python:

Most should know this already; however, an interesting read on the psychology of the Beats product. Very similar to Apple.

Good Partners.

As a former Mac user (13 years sober) who sees a lot of glowing fruit logos on silver laptops at airports and Starbucks while traveling, I was pretty surprised to see this news regarding Operating System share. It seems OSX is still stuck in the single digits.

I realize that many Mac users boot into and use Windows (which seems really silly to me, but I digress); however, I would expect Apple’s OS share to be greater than shown below:

As a matter of fact, Apple’s OS has actually DECREASED from 1992-94 levels of >10% …

This past weekend, we said goodbye to our old SUV as we drove it up to Colorado Springs … got a Rover! Here they are, side-by-side.

Goodbye ML430, Hello LR4!

… and you get the urge to attend a taping of the Price Is Right, please refer to this study. You can thank me later (in the form of cash, if you wouldn’t mind).

When staying at a hotel that has food you can take to your room – you know, to heat up and eat in your kitchenette …

Avoid mixing burritos and asian food.

So by using Microsoft’s new face-recognition software site, it tries to determine your age and gender using pictures you upload …

I guess it’s been out for a while (I deleted my Jailbreak after 8.0 – but have REALLY missed it), but the 8.1.x Jailbreak can be found here.

You’re Welcome.

An interesting video making the news today – while Amazon states their intent is not to replace human labor, it is interesting to see how few humans are in the video.