Getting Ready for the Whittling Chip
I’ll be helping my son’s den get their “whittling chip” so that they’re allowed to carry a pocket knife to scout activities not held at the school.
Here are some resources that I’ve found that will help in teaching the boys about the “whittling chip”, projects and knife safety:
- The Whittling Chip Award from the Desert Pacific Council.
- Soap Carving for Children of All Ages shows how to make wooden carving tools and presents a number of simple projects.
Sunday November 16, 2003 · Permalink
Guinness <em>is</em> good for you!
Guiness drinkers knew it all along, but now it’s official: Guinness good for you – official
The researchers told a meeting of the American Heart Association in Orlando, Florida, that the most benefit they saw was from 24 fluid ounces of Guinness – just over a pint – taken at mealtimes.
They believe that “antioxidant compounds” in the Guinness, similar to those found in certain fruits and vegetables, are responsible for the health benefits because they slow down the deposit of harmful cholesterol on the artery walls.
(Thanks Happy Software Prole)
Thursday November 13, 2003 · Permalink
Wasting Time
While reading a short article on brickfilms.com in Wired (11/03) I found this quote from Bertrand Russell that struck a chord with me:
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
—Bertrand Russell
Thursday November 13, 2003 · Permalink
Moving email off a retiring mail server
If you’re already using the mailertable feature of Sendmail, it’s quite easy to move any undelivered email off an old server by adding a mailertable entry like the following:
. relay:[192.168.97.21]
where 192.168.97.21 is the IP address of the new mailserver that is now in place.
The dot entry is the wildcard for the mailertable entries that will match any resolvable host name.
Not sure how to deal with host names that are temporarily not resolvable, but since all the ones I had to deal with were bounces from spam, I ended up just deleting them.
Tuesday November 4, 2003 · Permalink
Sliding Doors of CSS
A List Apart has a nice article on improving the visual characteristics of CSS generated tabs
(Thanks Heal Your Church Website)
Monday October 27, 2003 · Permalink
Interactive Color Scheme Choosers
I’m not so good a picking out color schemes (as can be seen here, of course) but I do know what I like when I see it.
Kottke’s Remaindered Links points to a couple of nice interactive color choosers:
Sunday October 26, 2003 · Permalink
Casey Stengel on Managing
Steven Den Beste over at USS Clueless had a number of quotes from Casey Stengel in an entry.
One of them particularly stood out to me as good advice to managers (baseball and otherwise) everywhere:
The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.
Friday October 17, 2003 · Permalink
Lego My Dream Job!
If your dream job would be building models out of Legos all day, then LegoLand California is looking for you…
According to the official requirements, the “role of the master builder exists to offer design, build, repair and service functions to all models and animated features within LegoLand California and selected external locations.”
Who are they kidding?
“You get to play with toys for a living,” summed up LegoLand spokeswoman Stacey Slingerland. “It’s the greatest job in the entire world.”
The search will make a number of stops where applicants get 2,000 Legos and 45 minutes to impress the judges.
I wonder if Eric Harshbarger will be interested?
Tuesday October 14, 2003 · Permalink
In boring training? Try this...
I certainly could have used this game during my week of SunCluster 3 training last week.
Enjoy.
(Thanks Gadgetopia)
Saturday October 11, 2003 · Permalink
Freely Available Software for Windows
A discussion on Slashdot about essential software for a new home PC led to a comment about Pricelessware.org which contains a list of software that are thought to be the best of the freely available Windows software as determined by the Usenet alt.comp.freeware readers.
I’ll have to keep an eye on this list for when I’m forced/required to use Windows for extended periods of time.
Wednesday October 8, 2003 · Permalink