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Our friend Jeff Soyer is at the time of year when he could use a small hand. While we not only can’t help, but are not out of the woods ourselves, I can at least point people there.
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Voluminous
I have 19 pictures queued of Henry… just from the latest set off the camera. So much for his being neglected compared to the girls, if I post all those. I’m debating whether to just post them normally, split them into multiple posts (I’ll already be doing multiples as I am working backward through the last few sets and won’t put them all up together), or make a big post with an extended entry. I’ll just have to emphasize the need to click to expand the post.
Anyway, stay tuned for that in somewhere between a little while and a day. Meanwhile, perhaps I’ll start with a few I have starring Henry and Valerie together.
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Happy Birthday
To my cousin Chad, who is 40 today. Or not, and someone will correct me and I will edit this…
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Happy Birthday
To my cousin Wally’s wife Cheryl.
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Happy Birthday
To blogger Phil Bowermaster, who is 46 today.
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Val Pic I Missed
Again, one from earlier in the month.
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Henry and Cousin
Had this queued and never posted, from earlier this month.
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If He Were Still With Us…
My maternal grandfather would be 102 today. Which means he’s been gone just over 12 years. Time flies…
One of my big regrets about not starting to have kids “on time” was how much he adored babies and little kids, and wanting him to get to meet them. On the other hand, if you subtract these years plus the worst of his being out of it, that means I’d have had to start before I was 30. Oh well.
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Condiments: The Other Food Group
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You Are Barbeque Sauce |
 You are a social person. You enjoy cooking for other people. You are both skillful and competitive. You enjoy mastering hard tasks. You appreciate complexity more than simplicity. Your taste in food tends to lean toward interesting flavors. |
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Happy Birthday
To blogger Todd Sattersten.
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Happy Birthday
To blogger Baldilocks.
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Seriously Sadie and Henry
In addition to the noted xtremeware.com offering, I have put xtremecomp.com for sale. I’m not stressed about selling it, but I also have no special need to keep it as a souvenir of the former business. The content is also available via xtremecomp.elhide.com and won’t even have to be moved. It’s not the killer domain that xtremeware.com theoretically is, but it is the number two Google hit for xtreme computing, it’s Page Rank 4, and it’s an 11 year old domain that’s shorter than some of the available alternatives one might use for what ended up being a weirdly popular business name after we adopted it in 1996 (especially if you include variant spellings/words like extreme and computers).
This is to help promote it and make the URL of the auction easier for me to fetch. It’s on 90 day offer/counteroffer with buy now. The buy now price is a steal at $1000, and the minimum bid is insultingly low at $300. Probably adequate enough, but priced relative to the other one and not minding ditching it relatively cheap, rather than what it might potentially fetch. I mean, if I were to accept the minimum, that’s what one might charge for a few link ads on the site for a year, but for total ownership.
We’ll see what happens. I could use the money, duh, and that’s not going to change until long after I develop more of a steady income. It’s a no marginal cost way potentially to liquidate an unneeded asset of some value.
Partly to promote it and partly to make the URL easy for me to fetch, I want to note that after the 7 day fire sale auction, which actually did attract a single, last minute bid that met the minimum bid but not the reserve price, I have put xtremeware.com for sale on the slow boat. It’s up on the offer/counteroffer with buy now plan, listed for 90 days or until it sells. No bells and whistles, just a single category, no theoretically prominent placement, no extra cost above my already existing auction account. Buy now is a reasonable $2000. Minimum bid is a steal at $500, and while I might entertain that, I’ll be sad to see it go for that little (which is probably why I originally typed here that the minimum was $1000, that being the low end of what it should fetch). It’s the original xtremeware, a very old if underused domain, with Page Rank of 5 currently.
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Lopsidedly Hypothetical
There’s another Instapundit poll I just had to point to because the results are so fascinating (and it’s an interesting question, which I’d love to see the results of if the 1st place finisher were excluded). The question:
If you could choose one of these recent presidents to be elected in place of McCain or Obama, which would it be?
The options are every President from Eisenhower through Clinton.
The overwhelming choice is obvious, and underscores where the Republicans have gone awry in the past several years, both rhetorically and in practice.
What’s fascinating is not who is a solid second, which probably takes the preceding paragraph and amplifies it. No, the intriguing part is who came in third and fourth, and how strongly.
I’d love to see the distribution if 82% dude’s votes were divided up to all the respective second choices.
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Valerie Collection
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Sadie Collection
These are pictures focused on Sadie from the last couple sets off the camera. I’ll try to do something similar for the other kids, prehaps one each of the next couple days or perhaps sooner. Or later. I might even skip the big production and do some standalones. As usual, click for bigger versions.
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VP Poll
I participated in this interesting RWN poll regarding McCain’s VP selection, featuring the questions of who he will pick, and who we’d most and least like to see him pick.
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Happy Birthday
To blogger Glenn Reynolds.