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Another WoW Video
This is a great version of “She's Too Fat For Me”, an old polka song.
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Zombie Song
So last weekend I was listening to NPR and this guy Jonathan Coulton was on. He has lots of cool songs, one about zombies. His music is released under the CCS, and I found this cool WoW video some guys made
Winterizing
Winter is coming… slowly. Thanksgiving weekend in Michigan had highs in the 50's. I have started to get things ready for winter. The canoes are washed, but the royalex boats need to be brought to the basement, which means there needs to be a rack built inside. This winter is supposed to be mild, so I may just leave them in garage.
The windows are all new Pella windows so they shouldn't need anything. The two doors are what are going to need weather stripping.
Kid Update
So Elijah was a soccer ball for Halloween. Bridgit and I went in our Soccer Jerseys. He also got Baptized at Holy Trinity the weekend before Thanksgiving.
The exciting news (at least for his parents) is that for the past few nights his first chunk of sleep has been for about 6 wonderful hours.
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Northern Forest Canoe Trail
I have been eyeing this new canoe trail that stretches 740 miles of through New York, Vermont, Québec, New Hampshire, and Maine. It has gotten a good amount of press since it officially opened this spring. One person so far has through tripped it and it took him 55 days. There is some upstream poleing required and up to class IV rapids, but looks like a fun couple of months. Bridgit just bears with me when I mention the possibility of doing the whole thing at once. Eli thinks it's a great idea.
I think that we need to start doing a piece at a time every summer.
More kid stuff
Over the weekend Bridgit and I put together a Birth Announcement webpage with a movie and pictures. You should check it out.
Elijah Joseph Cook
So on Thursday, October 5th at 2:10am we got the coolest present ever. I am working on a longer write-up of events, but wanted to get the stats and some pictures out for people in the meantime.
Elijah Joseph Cook
8lbs 6oz.
21 1/2″
Pictures are available now.
Parallels
I have been playing around with Parrallels Desktop For Mac on a MacBook. So far it has been pretty cool.
In the past if you wanted to run Windows on a Mac you had to use VirtualPC and it had to emulate the intel processor and using it sucked. The new macs have an intel processor so there is no need to emulate. Apple supports dual booting with BootCamp, but I need to use both at the same time, and having to reboot to do something doesn't sound like fun.
The first thing I have noticed is that it likes RAM, lots of it. It's pretty basic: two operating systems need twice(or more) the RAM. So you have the MacOS and it really likes at least 512MB to do its usual things. Then you run Parallels and it loads the multi-gigabyte hard drive file. Then Parallels lets you adjust the amount of RAM that you want to give each virtual OS and it defaults to about 500MB. When I did this the computer freaked out. The CPUS were at about 15 percent each, but the computer only has 1GB of RAM and it was paging like crazy. I had to scale it back to about 300 to get the Mac useable. Then you get to feel like you are using Windows XP with 256MB of RAM!!!!
There is also a < a href="http://www.multisolar.com/software/PDTweaker/" target=_blank>hack that adjusts some things and makes it a bit faster. Hopefully this will be integrated into a newer version of Parallels.