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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US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs

Posted on July 9, 2009 by Brian Gallimore

This material is from here.
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a convenient way of measuring and comparing the size of national economies. Annual GDP represents the market value of all goods and services produced within a country in a year. Put differently:
GDP = consumption + investment + government spending + (exports – imports)
Although the economies of countries like China and India are growing at an incredible rate, the US remains the nation with the highest GDP in the world – and by far: US GDP is projected to be $13,22 trillion (or $13.220 billion) in 2007, according to this source. That’s almost as much as the economies of the next four (Japan, Germany, China, UK) combined.

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Bryson at Southfork

Posted on July 7, 2009 by Brian Gallimore

We all went to the TEA party out at the Southfork ranch on Saturday night. There were something like 35,000 people there. I got to hear Michelle Malkin speak. Below are a few pictures of Bryson.

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