PS Test
13
Oct
Oct
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Dog Days of Summer
02
Oct
Oct
I thought I had written about this even though I hadn’t posted all these pictures. But I guess I haven’t.
I thought it would be good to get a dog for you girls. I just thought it is a wonderful experience for a child to grow up with a dog. Yes, it has been good and you girls would be devastated if i decided to get rid of Shasta but it is not all roses. You girls don’t have a lot of time to spend with Shasta as you are at school all day and then have homework to do when you get home. And I am just way too busy with work to spend the kind of time with Shasta that I would like to. So she does get bored and I feel bad about that.
So far we have taught Shasta a few things but we are still not confident that she is house trained. She doesn’t seem to poop in the house anymore but she does pee at times. We don’t let her stay in the house unless we are around her so I don’t know if she would pee without us around.
She is also a chewer so I am afraid to have her in the house without us being there to watch. When she was younger and we left her in the house and she ripped the wallpaper off the wall along with other things she chewed.
But we plan to keep Shasta until she gets old and dies so we will figure all these things out.
Tortured Past
01
Oct
Oct
“Set Goals as the person you want to be, not as the person you are.”
- Jim Coundal
We had a great day girls. I decided to get you girls out of the house and spend some time together. A few days prior to this I had discovered an interactive tourist booth in the subway where it sugested places to visit. So I thought we would go to one of the places they suggested.
I was surprised to find the place is relatively close to where we live but to get there by subway you have to take a long way around.
So, the place we ended up is the prison where the Japanese imprisoned and tortured Koreans during their occupation and colonization of Korea. It was a very sad place for you Sudona and you and I did a lot of talking about it. Avya, you didn’t really understand it and were just happy to be out doing something.
It just blows me away how cruel people can be. How people can justify the cruelty. I hope I would handle things differently under the same circumstances. The problem is you keep seeing it over and over again. From the Germans torturing and killing of the Jewish people, to the Japanese killing and torturing people all over Eastern Asia to what is going on with water-boarding at Guantanamo right now.
Cool new toy – Apple TV 2!
30
Sep
Sep
Do you even know what this thing is girls? It is probably so antiquated by the time you are reading this. But right now this is kind of on the forefront of technology. This thing is called an Apple TV 2.
But before I get into what it is and what I think of it let me tell you about how I got it.
It is always hard figuring out what I should get your grandmother for her birthday. So, I decided I would get her and Apple TV 2. There are several reason that I thought it would be a good gift for her. First, I know she is trying to cut her cable tv but still wants to be able to watch some TV. Secondly, she has an iPad 2 and you can send video out to the Apple TV with the iPad 2. And now with iOS5 you can even do mirroring so everything you see on your iPad will be shown on the TV screen. Plus, I knew she would never buy herself a toy like this.
Well, when she ordered her ATV2 she bought one for me also. It was so surprised and really excited. It was fun because using FaceTime we got to watch each other unbox and set it up. Thank you so much for the gift mom.
So what can it do? Well, you can watch content from the net on it (YouTube, Vimeo, Netflix, NHL, NBA and more) You can view the photos on you mac, iPhone or iPad and now due to iOS5 and photostream you are able to see the pictures you took with your iPad or iPhone almost instantly on the TV. And as I have the ATV2 longer I am finding more ways to use it. For example I do home sharing with my iTunes library on my mac and that way I can watch the podcasts I subscribed to.
But the ATV2 does feel quite restrictive at times as you can only do the things which Apple has enabled. I tried jailbreaking it so I could stream the movies I have my my mac to the TV but I could never get the jailbreak to see the movies on my network. I finally gave up and just updated to the latest software so I could use photostream and iPad mirroring.
I found a little workaround so I could stream movies through my ATV2 but I don’t like it all that much. I use the Boxee app to watch movies from my mac on my iPad. Then I airplay from my iPad to the ATV. It’s pretty cool and saves me from having to hook my MBP up to the tv but when I am doing this I lose the use of my iPad and that’a a huge bummer to me as I like to surf and read as I watch movies.
So I am still going to go ahead and build my HTPC and maybe even get a little Roku 2 box to play around with. They start at $50 and go up to $99 which isn’t bad for a Christmas gift toy. I will have to ask my wife to get me one for Christmas and then I will ask your grandma to ship it. The $99 one seems like the best and is still pretty cheap so that’s what I will shoot for.
I know girls. It’s crazy that I have all this TV stuff when I am not even that into TV. But I guess it’s a fun toy to have as I don’t have the space for a shop over here in Korea.
Put the SSD in my MBP
29
Sep
Sep
Dang, I have been meaning to do a blog post and video about this for the longest time. The problem has been that I just haven’t had the time to work on any personal projects so I haven’t gotten around to it. What am I talking about girls? Well, I finally got around to putting the SSD into my MBP. Avya, you took the video of me doing it which I think is really cool. Hopefully the video is actually good enough to use because I haven’t even had the time to check that. But I will tell you that I am very happy with the SSD. But I won’t spoil the real blog post with getting into just a few details here.
Here is just a picture of the parts.
Full test results
28
Sep
Sep
“Reduce everything you want to do to an action you can do right now.” – Jason Randal (Quote originates from a talk he gave)
I have scanned and put up some of your tests in the past Sudona, but I never actually did a full set of your tests. I thought I would do a full set at least once. From now on you can see the photos of your tests in the photo directory on our backup drive because I don’t think I will be doing anymore posts about them. I will continue to do more posts if you get awards though.
I just think it is so amazing how well you do on your tests. And I would still be amazed if they were in your first language but to think that this is your third language and you still do this well just blows me away. I was a pretty average student until I made it to university, then I was above average. So it’s cool to see you doing so well at such a young age. I think this is setting up a good foundation for the rest of your life. Who knows how your teenage years will go but at least you will always know you could be at the top of the class if you wanted.
