http://blog.randy-hall.com Or, how a geek becomes a man. Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:57:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 50 inches long. 24 inches wide, and about as deep. Sides nice and straight, bottom flat, probably not deep enough, but it will have to do. After all, I'm an overweight, middle-aged computer geek living in the country. The grave seemed to take forever to dig, and broke one wood-handled ... http://blog.randy-hall.com/2008/07/30/ode-to-a-good-dog/ So we've been building a goat barn, right? Well, unfortunately (for me), it's not done. The story goes that this goat barn was supposed to be completed before the rains came in 2007. Then we ran out of funds, and the barn was (at best) a covered shelter that kept the ... http://blog.randy-hall.com/2008/07/19/the-things-i-do-for-the-boss/ ...we still don't have "real" Internet up here.However, we have gotten better with the fake Internet than I think we could've possibly imagined. It all began with replacing the P.O.S. (code for "ultimately inadequate") Kyocera KR-1 router with (of all things) a Mac Mini running OS X 10.5 ("Leopard"). Our ... http://blog.randy-hall.com/2008/03/28/if-you-can-believe-it/ "Vi, what have you done with your diaper?" The Boss, uttered just before hanging up the phone with me while I was returning from the lumber yard this afternoon. http://blog.randy-hall.com/2007/10/06/famous-last-words-283/ So, The Boss is about to have a kid. No, not that kind of kid. One of her Nigerian Dwarf goats is pregnant and about to give birth. So, The Boss is hustling because we just can't seem to keep Mr. Handy engaged in building the goat barn. Oh, see, there I ... http://blog.randy-hall.com/2007/10/05/how-deep-is-this-rabbit-hole-really/ I'll be doing my friend's radio show this next Monday, all by myself. Turns out he has a football mini-camp he's leading (seeing as he's a coach and all), and he wrote to me in a panic at the beginning of the week. The last time I stepped into a ... http://blog.randy-hall.com/2007/07/19/first-solo-flight-in-something-like-18-years/ Time passes. The Boss gets chickens. My sister moves in. The dogs "play" with the chickens (or at least all but one of them). The fiber optic shows up. The enclosure for the media converter shows up. Things are starting to move again on the Quest for Broadband. http://blog.randy-hall.com/2007/07/13/somewhere-in-a-hidden-memory-images-float-before-my-eyes/ JD 450C crawler, right side Originally uploaded by randy_hall Oh man, what a sweet ride. Or at least, what a hunk of heavy machinery. 14,000 pounds of steel, oil, diesel and hydraulic fluid. The hydraulics leak like a sieve, the bushings at just about every pivot point are shot, the seat is ... http://blog.randy-hall.com/2007/06/27/crawler/ As I sit patiently and wait for my evening Summer class at Napa Valley College (Current Topics In Winemaking — cruel irony is that the "current topic" is "Historic Wineries"), I look out at miles and miles of hillsides in Napa Valley, covered in bright green canopies of grapes. Some ... http://blog.randy-hall.com/2007/06/26/the-street-of-broken-broadband-dreams-chapter-26/ I'm not usually given over to spending any time promoting other blogs and/or podcasts I like. Part of that is in my personality, a flaw I will likely carry to the grave. Also, I don't particularly care for blogs and people who do spend tons of time promoting other sites. ... http://blog.randy-hall.com/2007/06/26/giving-mad-props-when-due/