Scott Francis Baker

Old stuff!

2009-10-17T05:12:22Z

I watched a guy open a Zendikar booster tonight an pull out a Mox Ruby. Pretty nuts.

Of geekdom et all

2009-10-05T21:31:12Z

None of my geek friends, or I had ever played D&D before. I don't know how we truly called ourselves geeks not having done so. We sough to remedy that a couple weeks ago and have been playing once a week since. I thought it would be "too much" geek, but it turns out to be a lot of fun. I think the part that's most appealing is sitting around the table with my friends again.

What started out as a trial, has turned out to be pretty fun.

Windows

2009-09-30T15:14:15Z

Everyone knows Windows is awful. Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it. - The Guardian

Windows 7 parties!?!

2009-09-30T15:00:33Z

Is this for real? Do they really expect people to have Windows 7 parties to show all their friends how nerdy they are?

Spam subjects

2009-09-23T20:20:47Z

Spam subject of the day!

Have a concrete thing in pants!

What's he smoking?

2009-09-22T22:09:04Z

"MySQL and Oracle do not compete at all," Ellison said, "If you look at where we compete it's with DB2, Microsoft's SQL Server, Sybase, and a long list of others. We never compete against mySQL, it addresses very different markets." Ellison is worried about the delays, explaining it only hurts Sun. "The longer this takes, the more money Sun is going to lose," he said. - OSNews.com

I heart crazy people

2009-09-16T20:39:14Z

Usain Bolt

2009-08-28T15:30:04Z

Usain Bolt, who holds the world record for the 100 meter dash can run 23 miles per hour. Last night while biking home from work I decided to see if I could match his speed (on my bike). There is a stretch of straight road with no traffic that is about 300 meters long between Ivy and Fir street. From a complete stop I hammered my bike as fast as I could get it, I hit top gear and pedaled until my legs ached. I hit 21.1 miles per hour.

Sad.

Western Digital TV-2 Media Player

2009-08-19T21:07:53Z

I really really really want one of these! I have the original WDTV and I love it. It plays media off of USB stick or HD. It will play any media file you can throw at it. Output is full 1080p via HDMI. It's a really solid box. The only thing it's missing is an ethernet port, which it looks like they've added in this revision. I can't wait until this comes out!

Life choices

2009-08-19T16:13:26Z

David Brooks' Advice for High School Graduates:

The most important decision any of us make is who we marry. Yet there are no courses on how to choose a spouse. There’s no graduate department in spouse selection studies. Institutions of higher learning devote more resources to semiotics than love.

The most important talent any person can possess is the ability to make and keep friends. And yet here too there is no curriculum for this.

The most important skill a person can possess is the ability to control one’s impulses. Here too, we're pretty much on our own.

These are all things with a provable relationship to human happiness. Instead, society is busy preparing us for all the decisions that have a marginal effect on human happiness. There are guidance offices to help people in the monumental task of selecting a college. There are business schools offering lavish career placement services. There is a vast media apparatus offering minute advice on how to furnish your home or expand your deck.

Well said!

Chilly!

2009-07-27T22:55:06Z

Thank goodness for the windchill... according to canbyweather.com it's only 98.8 with the windchill. Otherwise it would be 101.9.

We've found USPS's weakness

2009-07-14T23:18:55Z

The USPS apparently won't ship anything that's in a box that says Whiskey on it. We have a bunch of booze boxes that I got from the liquor store (to move) but USPS says no go.

Volume

2009-06-09T03:20:30Z

Only on Linux does 0% volume not mean mute!

Jason on Boxxy

2009-05-27T15:44:31Z

(08:39:55 AM) Scott Baker: I dare you to watch the whole thing without slitting your wrists - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yavx9yxTrsw
(08:40:32 AM) Jason Dietz: Is it worse that pickle surprise?
(08:41:16 AM) Scott Baker: kinda
(08:41:37 AM) Jason Dietz: I only made it a minute and 2 seconds.
(08:41:53 AM) Jason Dietz: I'll probably die tomorrow like in that movie where they watch that VHS tape and die the next day.
(08:42:10 AM) Jason Dietz: I think part of me just died.
(08:42:17 AM) Jason Dietz: I've never wanted to kill someone so badly in my life.
(08:42:42 AM) Jason Dietz: When shit like that ends up on the interent, the terrorists have won.
(08:43:06 AM) Jason Dietz: That's like the video equivalent of brown noise.
(08:43:13 AM) Jason Dietz: I literally just shat myself.

Kool-aid vs Coca-Cola

2009-05-16T18:32:33Z

Kool-aid consists of 2 quarts of water, kool-aid mix, and 1 cup of sugar. 1 cup of sugar is 196 grams. 2 quarts of water is 64 fluid ounces. That means that Kool-aid has about 3 grams of sugar per ounce.

An eight ounce can of Coca-cola has about 27 grams of sugar. Which works out to about 3.4 grams of sugar per ounce.

Kool-aid is usually made from real (cane) sugar not corn syrup, and doesn't contain any caffeine.

New house

2009-05-13T17:23:39Z

A good chunk of the stuff in our house is packed and in the garage. It makes our house less "full" but it just makes me want to move more!

Sony on Sony

2009-05-12T15:39:32Z

"Sony hasn't taken open technology very seriously in the past. Its CONNECT music download service was a failure. It was based on OpenMG, a proprietary digital rights management (DRM) technology. At the time, we thought we would make more money that way than with open technology, because we could manage the customers and their downloads," Stringer said, "This approach, however, created a problem: customers couldn't download music from any Websites except those that contracted with Sony. If we had gone with open technology from the start, I think we probably would have beaten Apple Inc of the US." - OSNews.com

House hunting

2009-05-06T20:25:07Z

Angie and have been house hunting for about a month now. Now that we have two kids it's time to upgrade the house so we have room for everyone. I know it's only been a month, but I'm kind of getting bummed that we haven't found anything more exciting yet.

We've looked at about 15 houses, and only found one that we got excited about. That houe is a short sale, so we put an offer on it. Another person put an offer on it before we did so they have first dibs. It's not looking good. We packed all the "clutter" in our house into boxes to make it more compelling to sell. It just makes me more anxious to move!

60 Minutes Podcast

2009-05-05T15:54:08Z

I just found that you can get an audio podcast of 60 Minutes. It's the audio of an entire TV episode, so they're about 45 minutes each. Pretty cool.

Pets

2009-05-02T16:03:37Z

Gabe wants to get a pet in our next house. He knows Angie's really allergic to animal fur, so his solution is to get a spider and put it in the same room as the pet. Angie is scared of spiders and thus won't go in the room with the pet, and thus won't be allergic. Genius!

Software

2009-04-20T16:12:18Z

Oracle bought Sun? I wonder what that means for MySQL?

Small town livin'

2009-04-15T22:47:36Z

The Associated Press

CANBY, Ore. (AP) — CANBY, Ore. (AP) ? The Canby police chief has resigned while facing possible termination resulting from FBI and city investigations into whether he concealed or failed to investigate an officer's steroid abuse.

Greg Kroeplin had been chief of the suburban Portland farming community since January 2006.

The Oregonian reported the 48-year-old Kroeplin had been on paid leave since Nov. 17, a day after the Portland newspaper ran a story with details of the allegations.

The FBI alleged Kroeplin failed to address numerous complaints about former Officer Jason Deason's steroid abuse, enabling Deason to buy steroids on the job and in uniform without any serious investigation.

Two down, million more to go

2009-04-09T04:10:57Z

Things I got done today:

Sprayed a bunch of moss killer on the back yard
Repaired and painted bathroom wall

Oldness

2009-04-08T15:48:36Z

The Matrix came out 10 years ago? Wow I feel really old now.

Value of body parts

2009-04-02T20:26:30Z

The question of they day is, "would you have your pinky toe removed in exchange for $15 million dollars?"