Entry for December 25, 2006 – Amber's belly update

Here is an updated picture of the growth of Amber’s belly.

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Entry for December 25, 2006 – Shiner 97

My brother-in-law is on the short list for favorite person of all time. Look what he got me for Christmas! (he even threw in a set of heavy glass mugs)

My friend Bryan told me this years limited edition from Shiner was a good one. The name comes from the fact that this is the 97th year the brewery has been in operation. The “97” brew is rich, thick, and has a chocolate taste to it. It is great, and I recomend buying it if you can find it.

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Six Phases of a Project

SIX PHASES OF A PROJECT
  • ENTHUSIASM
  • DISILLUSIONMENT
  • PANIC
  • SEARCH FOR THE GUILTY
  • PUNISHMENT OF THE INNOCENT
  • PRAISE & HONORS FOR THE NON-PARTICIPANTS
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Entry for December 19, 2006 – Google is doing some NEAT stuff

I noticed some new buttons on the screen when I logged in to check my g-mail account. You can use google to store your digital pictures now, for free of course. See below for some pictures I uploaded.
The most impressive thing I see is the “Google Docs & Spreadsheets“. I am not sure how Microsoft has allowed this to happen. This is going to be a direct hit to thier office software. Google allows you to either upload an existing document, or start a new one. They are compatible with all the popular formats (Word, Excel, Open Office, Star Office, Rich Text, CSV, HTML) One of the coolest features is that you can either let others (or the world) view your document, or you can use the collaborate feature to allow others access to your document. It also includes revision control, and a discussion board. All of this is FREE, and doesn’t require any special software other than a web browser!

Check out the Google calendar. I am very impressed with this also. It allows you to create several calendars (ex one for work, one for personal, one for a special club you belong to) and easily manipulate how you view the combined calendar. The cool part is that you can allow others (either a list of people or the world) to view your events, or your free/busy information based on the individual calendar.
This is double-throw-down-cool!

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A PC Message from BG

For My Democrat Friends:
“Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the generally accepted calendar year 2007, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere . And without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishes. By accepting these greetings you are accepting these terms. This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for herself or himself or others, and is void where prohibited by law and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher.”

For My Republican Friends:
Merry Christmas
and a
Happy New Year!
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Entry for December 18, 2006 – Another Ultrasound Visit

We went in for our 24 week doctor’s visit today. Everying looks good. The baby weighs about one pound and is almost twelve inches long. Here are some of the pictures.

Move your mouse over the pictures to change pages (you need to have the flash plugin installed to view the pictures):

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Instructions for every Lego set made are available on the Internet

http://www.hccamsterdam.nl/brickfactory/year/index.htm
The one in the picture above was my favorite of all time. It had functional rack and pinion steering, a three speed manual transmission, coil-over suspension, and a horizontally opposed four-cylinder engine. (you could SEE IT ALL WORK!) I can’t tell you how cool this Lego set was! I think a long history of tearing things apart to see how they worked started there.

UPDATE: After I looked through the instruction set, I now remember that the car also had seats that adjusted postion forward and backward, and the seat backs changed angles. It also had a “real” rear differential with ring and pinion gears.

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Imagining the TENTH Dimension

http://www.tenthdimension.com/medialinks.php This is some cool stuff here… wish I could figure out what he is talking about!

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Paintball slideshow

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Five-day work week will double Congress's workload

http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/061216082958.vtywr9sf.html

US Democrats, who will take control of Congress next month, have outraged some of their colleagues by their decision to work five days a week, which will almost double their workload.”

Maybe I can like the Dems after all!

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