My First (real) Open Water Dive

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Brian Gallimore

It was about 10 years ago when I took a class in college and became scuba certified. Being that we were in west Texas, my certification dive occurred in a pond that was about 15 feet deep. On our honeymoon, we did a little off-shore dive in Mexico, and that was about 7 years ago. Yesterday, I went out with a few of the guys I work with to see if I could remember how to do it. Ken and Lisha just went through their class and had brand new equipment:

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Vacation Pictures

Posted on July 20, 2009 by Brian Gallimore

Air boat tour by the Miccosukee tribe, then the Vizcaya, then the freak show known as South Beach. A busy day for sure.

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Trip to the Florida Keys

Posted on July 20, 2009 by Brian Gallimore

Amber and I busted out of the hotel at 6:45am, which was an hour late from our plan, to make an 8:00am appointment to go snorkeling in Key Largo. The drive didn’t take as long as I thought, and we even had time to get a breakfast sandwich at the Circle K. We floated around just above the White Shelf coral reef for about an hour and saw lots of cool ocean life. This is our picture on the boat ride on the way back to shore.

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Bryson Learns About Brownie Batter

Posted on July 16, 2009 by Brian Gallimore

My boy seem to think chocolate brownie batter is pretty good stuff. Amber said it was hard to get pictures because he was eating it so fast. She says he tried to stick his tongue in the bowl too.

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The National Debt Road Trip

Posted on July 15, 2009 by Brian Gallimore

How much debt are we getting into? This short video is helpful.


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Americanism

Posted on July 14, 2009 by Brian Gallimore

I can’t believe I’ve just learned about JBS. This is great material. This is what I should have learned in high school, but I was probably not paying attention. I highly recommend everyone watch this!

Overview of America – from the John Birch Society

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104 Degrees

Posted on July 12, 2009 by Brian Gallimore

This was how hot it was on the way to the grocery store.

We spent most of the day indoors, and I don’t think the A/C ever stopped running.

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Linux Mint

Posted on July 12, 2009 by Brian Gallimore

I just installed Linux Mint, and I am VERY impressed. I feel like I’m using a Mac now. All my hardware works out of the box, there are lots of little eye candy and actions going on. The interface is clean and cool. This is a slick distribution. If you have ever tried Linux in the past and become frustrated, I encourage you to give this one a chance.

On my last netbook (returned when the keyboard stopped working), I installed Ubuntu netbook edition. I was impressed with it, because it installed easily, found all the EEE-specific hardware, and was easy to use. The big problem came when I tried to watch some videos online. I had to install flash, then I learned that most online videos are in flash format, and wouldn’t play correctly on the low-powered netbook hardware. I was expecting the same issue with Mint, but no, it just worked. All the plugins I needed were already installed, and they worked! (sounds like a Mac to me). Mint has all the multimedia plugins and codecs already installed. In fact, I think it already has everything I need and want, but if not, that great package manager is just a click away, begging me to install something else.

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The Ant and the Grasshopper

Posted on July 10, 2009 by Brian Gallimore

Aesop‘s fable as told by my friend Jack:

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Bush vs. Obama

Posted on July 9, 2009 by Brian Gallimore

I received this email recently (and edited it slightly). It brings up some questions I think are interesting.
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If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?

If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent “Austrian language,” would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?

If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current on their income taxes, would you have approved?
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