2008

Aug

Play Doh

These are all over the web, but here’s my recipe: 2 cups flour 2 cups water 1 cup salt 2...

This is NOT how you print files.

So I have a thumb drive that I’ve been using to back up files on this computer I’m...

Whoa - Lenovo builds the mother of all...

Jul

We spent the day at Carter Caves state park. Here’s a...

Hard at Work

“Mom, I need you to come into my office for a minute.”She says, as she puts away the toy...

Plans

Tonight, I’m going out for a bit by myself. I know, you’re all going “so?”...

Random Kiera Musings

Kiera quite often pulls things out of nowhere and will tell me something that has nothing to do with...

My little geek’s growing up *sniff*…(click the...

Dalek Fred - quite possibly the most competent Dalek ever...

Jun

Two Dreams

So last night, I had not one, but two dreams with my friend Thea in them. We talk daily, but we...

Can you hear me now?

Kiera and I were cleaning her room earlier. This is normally a task she undertakes by herself, but...

Anger Management

So last night, after dinner, I went outside to shoot some hoops and clear my head. After 20 minutes,...

Duct Tape: Is there anything it can't...

Came across this on the Mayo Clinic web site earlier. In a well-publicized 2002 study, duct tape...

She's such a sad and mopey child...

Kiera: My computer’s hooked back up?Rich: Yep.Kiera: I can use it now?Rich: Yeah, you’re...

Ear Tubes - I'm certain we're headed for...

Kiera’s ear tubes came out a month or so ago, after being in there for just over a year. Her...

Getting back to work has been harder...

I’ve been trying, over the past week, to ease myself back into work. I have a few projects...

Snap Circuits = Awesome.

Kiera and I spent several hours today doing projects with the Snap Circuits set I got her for her...

May

Kindergarten graduation

Read More Sci-Fi

New album from Chris Trapper: SONGS FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE WORLD SOLO ACOUSTIC RARITIES VOL.1

Most of the web is still inaccessible,...

Let me start off by saying first and foremost that no, I don’t have any actual statistics. I...

Here there be dragons.

Some kids ask for siblings, some kids ask for ponies… Mine, from the time she was 2 years old,...

Working on a poster for her Kindergarten graduation.

Better, but not out of the woods...

I’m seeing better, though my eye still gets tired very easily. I’ve started working...

Prescription drugs I've taken this...

Alphagan Timoptic Travatan Pilocarpine Prednisolone Atropine Vigamox Diamox Mannitol

More Eye Stuff

Still can’t see. I had to have more surgery done on my eye. No lasers this time, just an...

Happy Birthday To Me

So today’s my birthday. The big 30. My alarm goes off at 7:15 because I forgot to turn it off...

Weird Dream

I dreamed I was going on a service call with my dad to fix some lady’s computer, and Dad was...

Kiera made me the most awesomest...

Kiera: “Here, Mom. I made you a brick wall out of LEGOs.” *sets it down beside me*Me:...

From bad to worse to worse to better

So I posted last week about the sudden onset of Closed-Angle Glaucoma that nearly blinded me in the...

Two things: That part where he says there’s no pain? Total BS. Two days later and I’m...

Very scary couple of days there...

On Monday, I had a headache and my vision got a bit blurry, but everything went away after a couple...

Apr

Looking forward to the new album… Finally, a studiio recording here.

To care or not to care

The lid of my nifty white MacBook got scratched, because I looked at it from the wrong angle....

Busted.

Kiera: Mom, what are you doing?Me: Don’t worry about what I’m doing and go to bed....

A simple JQuery color picker using a swatch...

Oops....

I realized tonight that over the past week and a half the number of orders coming in from...

Mar

Kiera and I have been having a lot of...

Once we got it off the roof of our house, where it landed on its maiden voyage, we’ve been...

Well, enough of that.

I’ve stopped importing my Twitter feed into the blog. When I set it up, I thought I would be...

I just freed up 100m of ram on a 256m slice. Not sure if I should be happy or embarrassed that my...

I can’t do this anymore… *breaks down and consumes caffeine* Oh well, once a week is...

My dog got into a fight last night with some stray that wandered into the yard. She’s fine...

I just bought an airplane. My own personal jet. Business is going well.

Day 4 of no caffeine… WTF was I thinking!?

I think I need to raise my rates.

Having a hard time getting started today. I think I’ll get away from the computer for a couple...

VLC Error Messages Amuse Me.

main debug: audio output is starving (403111), playing silencemain warning: timing screwed, stopping...

Kiera scored six goals tonight, and then cut her leg up on what must have been a stray rock when she...

Today I wrote my first bash shell script. Amazingly, I’d never had a need to do one before.

RoR, SQLite3, Nginx, Mongrel in Ubuntu

Everything On Rails

I’ve freed myself from the clutches of PHP, at least for my own personal projects. In the past...

Swiping PayPal order processing code from Admiteer so I can finish rebuilding DesignMagus in RoR.

Making chick, bunny, egg, and lamb pencil toppers with the kid, out of craft foam and pipe...

Extremely Large Imports

Expecting to get a ton of photos dumped in here in a bit that I’ll have to go back and remove...

New blog feed URL: http://thecyanpepper.com/rss

www.kellishaver.com - new layout.. might have to shift+reload if you’ve been there recently,...

Kiera’s first soccer game was today. She did great. really went out there and played her heart...

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Apple-Cinnamon cookies

2c flour 1c sugar 3tbsp cinnamon 1 egg 1/2c butter 1/4c dried apple finely chopped 1/2tsp vanilla...

Chillin'

We made fruit smoothies earlier and Kiera took a big slurp of hers and, well, basically, she locked...

Feb

I froze to the ground.

The temperature dropped 40 degrees in a period of about an hour and 15 minutes last night.Before the...

A good day

Today was a good day… New cookware, kitchen cabinets cleanedout, lots of good quality time...

Jan

Pathetic Fan-Art Moment

Fairly Odd Doctor (click to see the full-size image). There’s a slight possibility that i...