Is it Friday yet?
Not so much madness actually because aside from one hiccup things went pretty smoothly.
First some comparisons:
Original Mini, first generation model from January 2005:
512MB RAM PC-2700 DDR SDRAM
40GB disk
1.25 GHz PowerPC G4
ATI Radeon 9200 GPU with 32MB VRAM
Two USB ports
Firewire 400 port
10/100 Mbit ethernet
1 modem (remember those?) port
Hard disk and CD/DVD drive both (P)ATA
Then in comes [...]
This Zits episode sounds far too familiar… The kids’ handwriting is bad enough that we occasionally wonder how the teachers can read their handed in homework at all, but nothing seems to be done about it.
A few articles that confirm that this is not limited to the local school district:
Schools debate: Is cursive writing worth [...]
And now we’re back. Unpacked. And resting. More later, or at least that’s my intention.
The last time I visited the Netherlands was when I went back to clean out my apartment, cancelled the rent, and stuffed all the important things like clothes, CDs, books and computers into a few suitcases to take with me to the US. So that would’ve been, oh, Fall of 2002.
Ouch.
In the years since [...]
A bit embarrassing that the first update of the year is in February, but so be it.
Since the last post I’ve had my share of fun. Aside from the usual social obligations around the holidays we were also kept busy for a week in early December by the fall-out after an ice storm that [...]
That is all.
Carry on.
When you do a subtraction like 13 – 7, you probably don’t even think about it anymore, you just spit out the answer, right? And just to be sure, that should be 6.
A surprised me this evening with a trick that he apparently figured out by himself. Instead of trying to do 13 [...]
It’s for M’s birthday, but of course something that’ll be used for the entire family. We got her a Panasonic GS80, a handy camcorder. It’s a bit of a starter model, as we’ve never owned one before and I didn’t want to buy something entirely too complex or overpriced.
So far she’s done some [...]
A week ago all four of us headed to Kansas City to meet up with M’s dad and step-mother. After a night at a hotel there we began our road-trip.
First stop was Omaha, Nebraska, where we visited M’s dad’s aunt. She’s 90 years old and still quite talkative. This is [...]