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My personal devolution in shaving

Shaving Cylinders March 14, 2010

Back in ye olden days, when peo­ple still used the word “ye” in a non-ironic fash­ion, folks shaved with knives.  That is, when they shaved at all.  Arche­ol­o­gists have found shav­ing blades dat­ing back to at least 3000 BC.  In the late 1700s a French­man was look­ing at a car­pen­ters’ plane — that thing used […]

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The simplicity of WordPress upgrades

March 5, 2010

One of the com­plaints I have heard about not run­ning your own Word­Press instal­la­tion ver­sus going with a man­aged ser­vice like Blog­ger or Live­Jour­nal is that it is dif­fi­cult to main­tain.  Specif­i­cally, that it is dif­fi­cult to upgrade.  This is why, about six months ago, a worm went around and took down a bunch of […]

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The things I have taken past airport security

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There are a small hand­ful of sur­pris­ing things I have taken past air­port secu­rity in recent years.  Some of them were know­ingly, some of them were for­get­ful­ness.  This is a pic­to­r­ial chron­i­cle of those items.
One of the first ques­tion­able items I man­aged to get past secu­rity was “The Bill of Rights — Secu­rity Edi­tion.”  I got this back in […]

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The fractal martinis

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The fol­low­ing pic­tures are of frac­tal mar­ti­nis.  They are extremely poor excuses for frac­tal mar­ti­nis, being recur­sive only two gen­er­a­tions, but tech­ni­cally they are still frac­tal.  They are frac­tal in the same way as “yo dawg, I heard you like mar­ti­nis, so we put a mar­tini in yo mar­tini…” but I still find them enter­tain­ing.
Dirty, […]

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Yes, I can has cheezburger

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I like to poke fun at Etsy.  It seems that for every one rea­son­able prod­uct, there are thou­sands of crafty prod­ucts that are a lit­tle too “craft.”  These include items made with pop­si­cle sticks, puffy paint, shrinky-dinks, rhine­stones, and assorted garbage.  I am also a big fan of Regretsy for this rea­son.  Until recently, I […]

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In which I try not to feel creechy while looking at girls in their underwear

January 30, 2010

Long-time read­ers of this jour­nal may know that my wife is a fash­ion designer.  She has fash­ion designer friends and as such, we occa­sion­ally get invited to fash­ion shows.  Last night was one such event.  Although I often feel a lit­tle out of my ele­ment at fash­ion shows, I take it in stride and always […]

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My harrowing adventures with Mozy, TechTools, and Jungle Disk

January 24, 2010

I have exper­i­mented with online backup solu­tions over the past few weeks.   I keep local back­ups, but the say­ing goes that any impor­tant dig­i­tal data should exist in three places or you should con­sider it nonex­is­tent.  In fire, flood, or EMP, the backup drive across the room is not going to help.
What I have
I have two main computers […]

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Friends & Foster Burger

January 10, 2010

I had a great din­ner with great friends at Fos­ter Burger tonight.  Liam ordered a deep-fried avo­cado that we all split.  The nat­ural fat­ti­ness of the avo­cado plus the deep-frying made a con­coc­tion that was hard to eat just one slice of.  There were not many main courses to choose from, but I believe our […]

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iPhone + Meowmania = most expensive cat toy ever

January 2, 2010

A few months ago at Ignite Port­land 7, a few of us on the bal­cony were com­par­ing silly cat-related iPhone apps.  My take­away from that dis­cus­sion was Meow­ma­nia (iTunes link). 
Meow­ma­nia does one and only one thing.  When you touch the screen, a spin­ning cat head appears and meows.  That’s it.  No real point.  Buuuut… […]

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#10yearsago, a time-lapse glimpse

December 31, 2009

There is a #10yearsago meme going around Twit­ter.  Because I am unable to fit my response into 140 char­ac­ters, you get a blog post.
I was liv­ing in Cal­i­for­nia in the afore­men­tioned cot­tage house.  I was a lot more gothic/industrial back then (at least, on the out­side; I think I will always be on the inside).  I […]

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Putting the “material” in non-materialistic Christmas

December 27, 2009

This Christ­mas at the Enigma/Sakkara house was very sim­ple, very under­stated.  In fact, Christ­mas vaca­tion really does feel like a vaca­tion (or “stay­ca­tion” as the hip young’uns say these days).  Since our fam­i­lies are 1,000 miles away, there was no itin­er­ary for hop­ping around the homes of var­i­ous par­ents, grand­par­ents, uncles, or aunts.  There were […]

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Flashback: thump, scraaaape… thump, scraaaape…

December 19, 2009

I started blog­ging in 2001.  Prior to that I had a cou­ple of web­site on which I wrote things in a fairly unor­ga­nized fash­ion.  I had netninja.com, my main site since 1997, and used to have diedrichs.org, a site cel­e­brat­ing a gang of cof­fee shop bud­dies, from a few years after that until I finally […]

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