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Bit Better

We moved arond the desks. Slightly less cramped now. We can now both sit comfortably. As it was originally we were only three or four inches apart when sitting.

I am at the desk in the back left.

New Office

Feels very cramped. Oh well.

MiniTakes 6

I’ve got a backlog now, and must catch up… then perhaps stop these. We shall see.

UN Broadcasting Treaty seen as severely limiting essential freedoms
(Anders Bylund, ArsTechnica)
via SlashDot

“Innertube” leaves local affiliates in a rip tide
(Terry Heaton, POMO Blog)
via Techmeme

Mount St. Helens: There She Grows
(Elizabeth Gillespie, AP on Seattle Times)

In Washington State, Online Poker Players Equal to Sex Offenders
(Wil Wheaton, Card Squad)
via WWdN : In Exile

What’s a little debt between friends?
(Finlo Rohrer, BBC News Magazine)
via Digg

MiniTakes 5

Some more…

Fired for Blogging? — Extraconstitutional Speech Protections
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy)

Feds Go All Out to Kill Spy Suit
(Ryan Singel, Wired.com)

The Perform Act: Anti-Satellite Bill Attacks New XM2go Devices
(Orbitcast)
via Digg

Walk a Quarter-Mile or Die
(LiveScience)
via Digg

The GOP and Limited Government: Do They Have a Future Together
(David Frum, Bruce Bartlett, David Boaz, Reihan Salam, Ross Douthat – Cato Unbound)
via The Daily Dish

Moon Over Bellevue

image Tonight was the night where for my location the moon was directly in front of the location of the DirecTV satellites. I had planned for weeks to go outside and look when the moon was in front of the middle of the three. And there it is. The moon from a spot where we could put a dish. Clear as a bell. Basically, this means we shouldn’t have a problem getting a signal when Brandy and Amy move out here and we get the dish installed here. I specifically chose an apartment complex that was clearly dish friendly. The only remaining question was if we could see the satellite from a location where we could put our dish. Yup. Sure can.

The view there is actually of the location for the 110 satellite. The 119 satelite had it’s moment a little later in the evening. It isn’t quite as clear a shot, but should be fine too. Because I didn’t think of checking all three until after the time for the middle one, I missed checking the first of the three, the 101 bird. I actually was outside around that time, just didn’t know I should be looking. I think it was fine though, with perhaps an even clearer shot than the other two. I’ll get a second shot at the 101 tomorrow though, so I’ll double check. 101 is actually the most important if I recall correctly… quite a few channels are on that one.

In any case, a quick double check tomorrow, but looks like we should be good. Whew!

This will carry us until the HD Cable Card Dual Tuner Tivos come out late in the year. Then it will probably be time to dump DirecTV and go with that. We shall see. All depends what everything looks like in 6 months or what not. I like DirecTV, but I have DirecTV for the Dual Tuner Tivos, not the other way around. (The new Dual Tuner SD Tivos are cool, but aren’t 100% if you have premium channels… the cable card one will be the way to go for sure.)

Sam Eats Things

A sample seven day period logging all items with calories that I knowingly ingested:

Wednesday – 3 May 2006

* 5 UTC: Chicken Club, Fries, Coke from McDonalds
* 17 UTC: Cheese Omlette, 1 Sausage, 1 Slice Bacon and an OJ
* 20 UTC: One bag Microwave Popcoirn and a Pepsi
* 22 UTC: One small bag Doritos and an orange soda

Thursday – 4 May 2006

* 6 UTC: Half pound pasta with margerine and cheese
* 19 UTC: Chicken Cordon Bleu, Brocolli, Rice and OJ
* 21 UTC: Sierra Mist
* 22 UTC: 2 Recees Peanut Butter Cups and Orange Soda

Friday – 5 May 2006

* 0 UTC: Klondike Bar
* 2 UTC: One medium bag of Kettle Cooked potato chips
* 4 UTC: 2 Strawberry Nutri-Grain Snack Bars
* 17 UTC: Donut and OJ
* 19 UTC: Slice of Pepperoni Pizza and an Apple Juice
* 22 UTC: Big Amazon travel mug thing of coffee with lots of sugar and half and half

Saturday – 6 May 2006

* 2 UTC: Chilli’s chicken crispers, corn on the cob, fries and two cokes
* 10 UTC: 1 Nutri-Grain Strawberry Bar

Sunday – 7 May 2006

* 1 UTC: Denny’s fiesta chicken with corn, green beans, rice, garlic bread and 2 iced teas with sugar
* 7 UTC: 2 Strawberry Snack bars
* 8 UTC: 1 Strawberry Snack Bar
* 23 UTC: One can of beef stew

Monday – 8 May 2006

* 2 UTC: Red Robin Bacon Cheeseburger, Fries and two cokes
* 18 UTC: Big Amazon travel mug thing of coffee with lots of sugar and half and half
* 20 UTC: One slice cheese pizza, one yogurt, one coke

Tuesday – 9 May 2006

* 2 UTC: Cheddar Cheese Omlette with 3 pancakes and an OJ
* 7 UTC: Two Strawberry Snack Bars
* 18 UTC: Coffee thing with lots of half and half and sugar
* 20 UTC: Plain Cheesesteak and an Apple Juice
* 23 UTC: Bag of Skittles and a Pepsi

MiniTakes 4

Five more for the road:

Speed of light may have changed recently
(Eugenie Samuel Reich, New Scientist)
via Digg

Cargo of nails spills onto I-95
(Juan Ortega, Florida Today)

Archaeoacoustics – pipe dream or possibility?
(Christer Hamp, Phonograph Makers’ Pages)
via Digg

McCain Says “Clean Government” More Important Than First Amendment
(Mark Tapscott, Tapscott’s Copy Desk)
via Instapundit

UN cooking podcast-killing treaty
(Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing)

Wanna Buy a House?

Our listing is up on Brevard MLS now.

The listing should start showing up on other online locations soon.

I’ve been looking at the pictures the last few minutes, along with some others Brandy sent me that didn’t get into the listing, and I sure will miss that house. :-( I do hope I get to visit it at least one more time! (Yeah yeah, those of you thinking I should stop whining about the house can just suck it…)

It really is too bad I can’t just commute to here from there so I could have this job but still live there. Oh well! I asked about just moving the whole house here, but apperantly that would be hard. :-)

A bunch of pictures are on the pictures link off of the listing. But I’ll also just post them here as well as the others Brandy sent me. I don’t have the originals at the moment, just the low res ones, so these don’t look as crisp as I’d like, but here they are. If you want to buy our house, let us know!

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Empty Lot

Friday I got to work at 15:15 UTC. I was the first one in the lower lot. Wow!

Ten Dalla

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A few weeks ago I got one of the new tens for the first time. HATE IT. Too much red. But I’m sure I’ll get used to it.