http://sonicchicken.net/blog/wordpress Information, opinions, ideas and rants from my family and friends in Sacramento, California, US. Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:45:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Andy pointed me to a pretty amusing video: the [LHC (Large Hadron Collider) rap][lhc rap]. If your favorite [FoxTrot][] character is Jason, you'll probably love this! [lhc rap]: http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1452197391/bclid1453516501/bctid1753815421 [FoxTrot]: http://www.foxtrot.com/ "FoxTrot comic strip online" http://sonicchicken.net/blog/wordpress/20080910/lhc-rap/ I haven't' had the chance to blog since last weekend. So I'm once again doing a Jott blog. We are going to ____ wood and the jelly belly factory with Caroline today. I'll post pictures of our San Francisco trip tonight or probably more or likely tomorrow. Hope we will ... http://sonicchicken.net/blog/wordpress/20080808/i-havent-had-the-chance/ (NB: We went to San Francisco on Sunday. I'll write about the rest of the trip later, but right now I need to vent!) Coming home from San Francisco yesterday got a bit too adventurous for my tastes. We made it to the Powell Street [BART][] station on time, but the ... http://sonicchicken.net/blog/wordpress/20080805/no-love-for-amtrak-tonight/ We made it to the Richmond Bart Station right on time, but the Bart schedule didn't say anything on the website about not running until 8 o'clock. So, we're standing here in the Bart Station in the breeze, it's 15 feet and very cold while we wait an hour for ... http://sonicchicken.net/blog/wordpress/20080803/we-made-it-to-the-richmond/ It's 7:00 in the morning and we're just about to Richmond, California. We're taking Amtrak down to Richmond and then we'll take Bart(?) in there in San Francisco already been up for 3 hours, guying(?) the San Francisco VPAD(?). listen Powered by Jott http://sonicchicken.net/blog/wordpress/20080803/its-700-in-the-morning/ Caroline arrived about two hours ago, and we promptly whisked her out of the airport and over to Leatherby's Creamery. She's pretty exhausted from the trip, so I think we'll wait until tomorrow to get some pictures. http://sonicchicken.net/blog/wordpress/20080802/carolines-here/ Caroline, our French exchange student this summer, left Paris a little over five hours ago. She should be somewhere over the Atlantic right now. She's scheduled to arrive in Washington, DC in about three hours. Unfortunately, the final leg of her journey from DC to Sacramento was rescheduled, and her ... http://sonicchicken.net/blog/wordpress/20080801/caroline-en-route/ I was just checking out [Mailinator][], and I wondered: if I posted a "throw-away" email address here, how fast would the spam start rolling in? Well, there's only one way to find out! M8R-3cqng3@mailin8r.com Once this post has been online for a while, I'll post the number of spams I've received at ... http://sonicchicken.net/blog/wordpress/20080729/spameter/ [Caroline][]'s flight is scheduled to arrive next Friday evening at 19:53, and we're all pretty excited. It's almost like Christmas, except it'll last three weeks! Several people have been asking us about hosting, how we found out about this, etc. Our daughters took/are taking French at [Rio Americano][Rio]. Their teachers, [M.][] ... http://sonicchicken.net/blog/wordpress/20080726/caroline-arrives-fri/ While upgrading some software on one of our [FreeBSD][] servers at work, I ran into the following problem with openssl-stable: # cd /usr/ports/security/openssl-stable # make clean ===> Cleaning for openssl-stable-0.9.7m # make ===> ... http://sonicchicken.net/blog/wordpress/20080604/freebsd-openssl-stable-broken/