Monthly Archives: January 2006

Things I must teach my daughter

1/30/2006 – 10:46 am

Everytime the doorbell rings or someone knocks on a door, it is NOT ALWAYS a man delivering pizza. Just sometimes.
But we do know her favorite food, I guess.

By Keith Garner | Posted in Fatherhood | Comments (3)

I have no problem admitting it

1/30/2006 – 10:43 am

I am a giant sandwich fetishist.

By Keith Garner | Posted in Food | Comments (5)

Snakes on a plane!

1/26/2006 – 9:32 am

Have you heard Micheal and Evo?

By Keith Garner | Posted in Entertainment | Comments (1)

Top ten reasons geeks make good fathers

1/26/2006 – 9:26 am

Parent Hacks pointed me towards a blog entry that makes a top ten reasons why geeks make good fathers.  It seems dead on to me.
Okay, maybe not, the you can’t go wrong with list that includes legos, video games, and gadgets.

By Keith Garner | Posted in Fatherhood | Comments (1)

Firefox and Thunderbird extentions

1/23/2006 – 3:22 pm

I thought I’d document which Firefox and Thunderbird extensions I’m using. This is as much for me to remember should I have some disk failure or something as it is to generate discussion.
Firefox extensions

User Agent Switcher - easily change the user agent for sites that work with Firefox but don’t think they do
GooglePreview [...]

By Keith Garner | Posted in Geek, Internet | Comments (0)

Things we have relearned today

1/18/2006 – 12:28 am

Regular backups are your friend. Also, if you can’t normally back something up (i.e. data in open ldap’s backend) do a regular dump and back that up.
rsync/unison/scp data off your co-loc to a local machine, and back it up again, just for good measure.
The new drive is the drive most likely to die first.
Losing [...]

By Keith Garner | Posted in Geek, Linux, Unix | Comments (0)

I need more free time…

1/16/2006 – 11:18 am

At a dinner party a few weeks ago, the subject of Sting and his powers of 6 hour tantric sex came up. It prompted one of those attended to ask:
If we’re having sex for 6 hours, how long do I have to fucking cuddle?
It seems that Sting was lying about the whole thing. [...]

By Keith Garner | Posted in Omphaloskepsis | Comments (0)

Crystal’s Party Bar

1/12/2006 – 11:10 am

In the Tempo section of the Chicago Tribune was an article on Crystal’s Party Bar in Crystal Lake. This sounds like a place that 1) needs to be closer to me and 2) is close to the vision I had if I were to open a bar.
But the multi-player games are a little [...]

By Keith Garner | Posted in Bars, Entertainment | Comments (2)

Really Slick Screensavers for FC4

1/8/2006 – 2:02 pm

For those who haven’t seen them, the Really Slick Screensavers they really are some nice eye candy. A number of years ago, Tugrul Galatali ported them to Linux, primarily for use with XScreenSaver.
I’ve been pretty busy the past few months, so I was living without the RSS on my desktop since my move to [...]

By Keith Garner | Posted in Entertainment, Geek, Linux | Comments (1)

Maintenence fun

1/7/2006 – 2:32 pm

I just upgraded to Wordpress 2.0. It looks like everything went okay. For some reason on firefox the rich text editor isn’t working so well, but that’s something that effects me, not you as a reader.
Let me know if you see anything weird.

By Keith Garner | Posted in Geek, General | Comments (1)