Son: Dad, I need help. Me: With what? Son: I’m trying to make a peanut butter and jelly but I can’t open the jelly. It’s too hard. Me: OK, I can help you with that. Son: And the second problem is I can’t find the bread! Me: We’ll find that, too. Come on. Son: Thanks, [...]

Working on a project for my wife to create an abstract representation of a modern dance piece to project behind the live performance. If it all works out I’ll post a video of the performance. I’m writing the app in Processing with the OpenCV library (the v2 beta because the movie() function wouldn’t work for [...]

I have no idea what it is but it came out of my imagination today. Maybe my subconscious is trying to say something about the economy. Look, I signed it and everything! Also, it’s cc-by-nc.

Me: You’re the bee’s knees. Daughter: … Me: It means ”you’re awesome.” Daughter: I know what it means, Dad. I speak “old people.”

Last month I ditched rdiff-backup (which saved my bacon on a number of occasions) for CrashPlan+ with the Family Unlimited plan so I can backup all of our computers (one Ubuntu desktop, two Macs) locally and offsite. Used their seed service. Already had to do a small restore. Love it. Works great. The only problem I’ve [...]

A side-effect of installing the Tomato firmware on my router—which I installed so that I could get an accurate picture of our household bandwidth usage across 9 devices—is that it tells me when my kids wake up in the morning. My son’s activity is mostly games. My daughter’s is mostly Netflix.

Amazon sure makes it hard to terminate your App Store account. Because they don’t allow you to delete apps, I manually edited each section of my app profile with blank information. Then, on the Help menu of the developer portal, there’s a Contact Us choice and one of the subjects you can choose is “Contract [...]