Tim In a Nutshell

28-May-2008

The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round

Filed under: Notes, Personal — Tim @ 1:20 pm

I’m back to being a bus commuter. The trip now is about 2-3 times longer than at my old job, but it is relaxing. The end result is more time traveling with the benefit now of having a fairly solid I-can’t-work-any-later-than-this time.

With the extra time comes a need for something to do. I have a few podcasts I listen to, but they only run about an hour each. The podcasts only last for a single one way trip and I have only enough to last about half the week. I have 5 hours or so of time to fill up. Reading is a possibility, but reading on a moving vehicle can result in a sick feeling I would like to avoid.

So what I would like from my readers our there are some podcast or audiobook options. I am pondering getting an Audible subscription again, so anything off of Audible.com would be an option.

11-Aug-2007

A Letter for Those Asking for Tech Support

Filed under: Notes — Tim @ 12:24 am

Here’s a letter for those asking for tech support. He says it much better than I ever could.

An Open Letter to Anyone Asking Me For Computer Help

10-Aug-2007

Cleaning Fun!

Filed under: Notes — Tim @ 10:44 pm

So with dogs becomes accidents. And with messy accidents comes a wife telling you to clean them up. :) She does have a good excuse there.

So we got some cleaning tools to help us out. We needed a replacement dust buster, ours stopped taking a charge long ago. We picked up a Dirt Devil Scorpion Turbo at Home Depot. I like it. It works great, has a lot fo power, and gets the job done. Only real downside I see is the exhaust vents on the side of the have some high winds coming out of them. If you are vacuuming something that can be blown around easily, use the extender attachment or the dust is gonna fly everywhere.

For the messier… well.. messes, we got a Spot lifter PowerBrush Handheld Deep Cleaner. Gonna have to say avoid this one if you can. The biggest downsides are a small liquid cleaner tank. Seriously, why would the pickup tank be about 4x the side of the cleaner tank. Plus to deploy said cleaner onto said stain, it’s a manual sprayer. You can get better coverage with a pump bottle with more liquid cleaner available. The suction and scrubber is good, but in the liquid deployment area it is very weak.

Both tools will help for spot cleaning. Though my wish list is to get a good wet cleaner that has some good brushes on the end of it. We borrow the local parents steam vac, but it doesn’t have any scrubbing action. It cleans, but takes a lot more passes on the carpet that I think is needed. A good steam vac with some good scrubbing brushes at the bottom would work wonders.

On the dry cleaning side of things, the wish list item is to get a vacuum with a bagless system that I can see how full it is getting. The current vacuum takes bags and it’s hard to tell how full it gets. Plus with how much hair we have in the house (3 huskies and 4 cats, hair-o-rama), it fills up fast so it takes a lot of bags. Something like this Bissell vacuum might be a good option. It has pet specific attachments and a clear dirt bin.

23-Jul-2006

We’re Torified!

Filed under: Server — Tim @ 10:27 pm

Good News! This server is now acting as an end point for the Tor privacy network.

What is Tor? Good question! If you are worried about people snooping on your Internet traffic for nefarious purposes, here is a way you can safely email, chat, and more. Visit http://tor.eff.org/ for more information.

The Tor network is run by volunteers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. They are working to help protect your freedoms on the Internet.

17-Mar-2006

Fenrir Site Live!

Filed under: General, Server — Tim @ 12:31 am

I took some time and found a great use of the http://fenrir.us site I have not been using a whole heck of a lot.  I found a great solution, reBlog!

reBlog lets me see all my favorite sites and news stories, then post the really interesting ones for everyone to see.  Wander over to http://fenrir.us to find out a bit of what I am reading.

For more random entertainment, http://fluffy.fenrir.us -)

Cheers,

Tim

23-Feb-2006

Tim on Friendster & My Space

Filed under: General, Notes — Tim @ 11:03 pm

If you are on My Space or Friendster, make me a friend!

My Space:   http://www.myspace.com/uwflatlander
Friendster:   http://www.friendster.com/profiles/uwflatlander

World of Warcraft

Filed under: General, Notes — Tim @ 10:53 pm

WoW has been a great destressing tool for me. It’s a fun game and I am able to play with some friends from work. If you are a Wow player with the Horde on Hellscream or an Alliance player on Uther, drop Earthbane on Hellscream or Weatherwax on Uther a line.

6-Jan-2006

Pasha!

Filed under: General, Notes — Tim @ 12:34 am

Thought I would throw this out there, a picture of Pasha. He was an old family dog from when I was born. Pasha has made me today really want to get an Alaskan malamute. Hopefully, Leah and I will be getting one soon. Stay tuned!

Madison Flag

Filed under: General, Notes — Tim @ 12:05 am

I have been wanting to get a flag from Madison for some time now, looks like I will be able to do that now! From an article in The Capital Times, I have found a place to go to. I have a quest now. :)

J Taylor’s Rare Maps, Notable Books and Antiquities on North Carroll Street
Source Article from The Capital Times

1-Jan-2006

Extra Websites, What To Do?

Filed under: General, Server — Tim @ 6:58 pm

After a few server moves and multiple servers, I have two spare domains I need to do something with.

Madtown.cc is my old RSS news feed site. All the sites I normally read were fed to that site so I can see everything in one nice page. Though, now I use Bloglines for that, so I disabled the old software I had running. The old software also really slowed down the server at times. I never tracked down why it did that. I just became fed-up with the performance issures and went to Bloglines.

Fenrir.us is a site I registered for a new server I leased. The one you are connected to right now.  The Fenrir.us site just says hi, and nothing more.

What should I do… a few ideas:

  1. Move my photo gallery to one of the sites
  2. Set-up something to collect all the comics I read on a daily basis to one place.
  3. Some random weird random quote generator… Hmmm, that sounds like fun…

 

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