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Music translated to ASL. It’s worth your time.

Stephen Torrence has done a great service by recording and sharing a number of his translations of songs that catch his attention into American Sign Language (ASL). HowStuffWorks.com interviewed Stephen to get some insight into the process he goes through in writing his translations and the details may surprise you.  The effort he puts into each [...]
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Renaissance Fest Ho!

A staple in every nerd’s diet, I’m off to the Minnesota Renaissance Festival. I’ll bring you back a turkey leg and a flagon of mead! Update  This pic summarizes my festival experience:
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Happy Father’s Day!

Being a dad can be taxing, but I’d definitely do it again (commit to being a dad, that is).  This one goes out to my beautiful wife and daughter, thanks for making the journey an interesting one! Also to all the other dads out there… enjoy your day and make the most of it!
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How Adam Savage Made My Day

Having over 24,000 followers on twitter at the time of this writing, Adam Savage (of MythBusters fame) is no stranger to the venerable “@” tweet.  Having been directed (by his Twitter feed) to his outstanding TED talk, I became immediately curious as to how he managed his “Creative Projects” repository of images, having recently begun [...]
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Proof of Concept: The Economic Server Build

Last weekend I had just received all the parts to complete what I felt was a pretty exiting build.  With the primary goal of low power consumption and secondary goal of fits-in-my-house, I chose MSI’s new “Nettop” barebone: MSI Wind Nettop 100 Intel Atom 330 (Dual-core with Hyperthreading!) Small Form Factor (11.8″ x 9.5″ x 2.6″) Low Power Consumption [...]
Posted in Computers, PC Builds | 5 Comments
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