Acerbic Resonance

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Author: kimball

  • Résumé or not to Resume

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    I don’t know what my problem is, but I really don’t like to dust off my résumé.  I know that from time to time it is a good idea to pull it out and brush it up, but each time I think about it my first reaction is a stout “meh…” accompanied by a shoulder…

  • Updated Square Foot Garden Information

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    For those of you (all 2) who read this little blog regularly, you know that I have planted a garden this year.  Well, I finally finished all the construction, and got around taking some pictures. I was actually quite surprised about how much work there was to set up the garden in the first place:…

  • Invisible Shelves

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    The other day my wife mentioned an article on wikihow that explained how to make “invisble shelves”.  I have to admit that I am a sucker for simple and innovative projects such as this one, so when she also mentioned that she’d like something like that for her recipe books, off to the local thrift…

  • Wheeler Farm

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    On a recent vacation in the Salt Lake city area, we took the kids to Wheeler Farm.  It’s a real, working farm with places to have a picnic lunch, feed the animals, take ride through the rolling hills, see examples of farm machinery old and new, and sample some of what is produced there today.…

  • This horse needs a dentist!

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    I admit it.  I’m not from the country.  I was raised in suburbia, USA, where seeing corn still on the stalk involved a 40 minute ride on the interstate, and horses were something we only saw up close at the fair. Now I live in an area that was very recently mostly farmland.  My whole…

  • Ohhhh – Sparkly!

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    So, as you may know, I’m building a pretty large garden this year.  Some of what we want to grow needs a sturdy trellis to climb, so off to the hardware store I went to find some steel conduit to use as a frame. Tonight I am finally to the stage of cutting the conduit…

  • Square Foot Gardening

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    This is the summer. We’re finally going to do it right.  The garden is almost complete. In years past we have tried several times to grow a decent vegetable garden.  First, in Eagle Mountain we tried more or less marking off a small garden plot and tossing some seeds in the ground.  I watered it…

  • Launching RealBasic Apps in Ubuntu 8.04 on 64 Bit Hardware

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    For work I have recently needed to be able to compile RealBasic applications to run on Linux.  The support for Linux from RB is decent, but requires the 32 bit versions of several libraries for the build apps to run.  Specifically, I had to install the following extra packages to let things work: libc6-i386 ia32-libs…

  • Win32 Error Codes for LastErrorCode

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    I am not a windows programmer.  I just play one at work. Actually, I write apps for both windows and the mac, but I do it all on a mac using RealBasic – it will cross-compile. Today I ran into a problem on windows with one of my projects – I was trying to read…

  • Dog Tags

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    Tonight was a full lunar eclipse that was visible at the perfect time of the evening for me to enjoy it with my kids.  So there we were – hanging out in the front yard with camera in hand waiting for the clouds to thin out a bit.  I was holding the baby and Erica…