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June, what June?

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

I just noticed that the entire month of June passed, and I’ve been hidden away from the world – off work, off writing, off any community activities – caring for my wife while she goes through some tough times. She’s not out of the woods entirely yet, but clear fields are in sight and I’ve [...]

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Sadly skipping SCALE 9x, too

Friday, February 25, 2011

Similar to how things worked out for me and FUDCon this year, I have to cancel attending SCALE 9x this year. I had a talk to give, “Decentralized Collaboration with Open Source Tools: Technical and Cultural Implementation“, which thankfully Robyn Bergeron is giving on Sunday, and I’m sure it will be at least three times [...]

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FUDCon from far afield

Sunday, January 30, 2011

While it’s great to see all the enthusiasm and noise from FUDCon, I am sadly observing it all from a far distance … along with 99.9% of the rest of the Fedora Project. I had to cancel my plans to be there in Tempe, AZ this weekend, as well as an earlier this week in-person [...]

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Sad mad Dad feels bad and what else is new?

Monday, September 13, 2010

Feeling 3x worse than before I hammered on the kids. Build up and relief of anger rarely feels good. I KNOW the girls can see the build up, as I move, sometimes over the course of _days_ from reasonable, nice, conciliatory, consensus seeking to upset, sad, frustrated, and vocally angry.  Temper still as short as [...]

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Happy birthday Ray

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Author Ray Bradbury turns 90 years old on 22 August 2010.  The Planetary Society is presenting him with a huge birthday card with good wishes from people such as you and I.  You can post your birthday greeting for him until 9 August. http://www.planetary.org/special/fromearth/bradbury The greetings are limited to 250 characters, and I took advantage [...]

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Video and notes for Art of Invention 2010-03-16 – History of Electronics

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

This post is a home for my notes and video links for a class I am co-teaching/assisting with today at AFE in Santa Cruz.  The class is Art of Invention for kids in the age range of 8 to 11 (3rd to 5th grade), and last week was the first part of the electronics section.  [...]

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Mental breaks while working at home

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Over the years I’ve tried not to make a big deal out of being a remote employee, or remotee in Red Hat lingo. I’m a big proponent of distance work, and am now fairly experienced with the last seven years as a 100% telecommuter and distributed team member. But … the topic is a risky [...]

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Out and back again – returned from Sutter’s Fort

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

(Catching up with this post, since I started it but didn’t complete it when we got back from Sutter’s Fort.) We returned to the 21st century on Wednesday 28 December, driving back with both girls and their good friend Mikaela. We stayed overnight on Monday at a homeschoolmate’s brother-in-law’s house in Sacramento. Thanks, Dylan! With [...]

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Showing tonight on home science theater

Monday, December 3, 2007

Tonight I’m lining up these pages for some science video fun to watch with my girls. We’re looking for cool experiments to be inspired to try. Also, Malakai asked to see an old favorite we used to call “The Packet Movie” when she was three and four. http://www.krampf.com/ Robert Krampf’s really cool science videos Warriors [...]

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Off to Sutter’s Fort

Monday, November 26, 2007

In a few hours I’m leaving with my daughters for a California History class trip to Sutter’s Fort, in old town Sacramento. The entire class are dressing in period costumes and acting as docents for the various exhibits all throughout the day on Tuesday. I’ll be playing “Owen Sumner”, who came to Sutter’s Fort in [...]

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