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Nice Storm This Morning

Wed, 2010-08-04 09:26 — jon

Had a nice storm this morning. I was actually awakened by the sound of yet another alert on my phone because of a server at work having an issue but after I fixed that I noticed it was quite rumbly outside so I opened the windows to watch a bit and the lightning started up.

By the time I realized I should shoot a bit of video or take a picture or two, the most impressive stuff had passed but I managed to catch a bit of good stuff:

This was toward the end of the storm. Getting pictures was really pretty tough, about 99% of them turned out just a black screen.

 

Lightning at my house!

 

A little squiggly one

 

Got lucky on this big one

(You have to click through to the full page to see the videos.)

This video is pretty quick but has some good stuff:

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This one is longer and has a good hit at 30 seconds in or so:

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This one is good at 1 minute in:

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Another shorter one with more stuff happening:

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So I Went Shooting With 2 of My Brothers.

Mon, 2010-05-17 13:04 — jon

This past Saturday (May 15th 2010) I finally had some time and wasn't on call for work so I went with my brothers Andy and James to do some recreational target practice.

We gathered up their weapons and a bunch of junk to shoot and headed out of town to the West and found a nice place past a town dump to do some shooting against a nice hill side. Seems we weren't the only ones either because the ground was littered with shells and brass from previous shooters and we saw a few other groups out doing some shooting as well. We made sure to move a way past anyone else to somewhere nice and isolated.

I don't own any guns myself so I was basically shooting their guns as I had a turn but there was plenty of ammo and plenty of guns to go around so it was really enjoyable and the weather was great, 70 to 75 degrees all afternoon.

I even got a bit sunburned for the first time this year. We ended up spending almost 5 hours relaxing and shooting and moving junk around to serve as targets (old montors, water bottles, assorted bits of junk and some clay pigeons).

Fortunately I remembered to bring my camera and got a few good pictures and videos.

Before we left, James's son helped us get the water bottles and stuff ready and loaded.

My nephew helped with the water bottles and stuff

We put all the stuff in James's truck and headed out around Noon.

We loaded up the truck and headed out

It was a nice drive out. We stopped for some supplies; Andy got a bag of licorice and James got some trail mix. I got some snap peas and carrots. Mmm. The drive was about 20 minutes.

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Why Cory Doctorow Won't Be Buying an iPad, and Neither Should You.

Fri, 2010-04-02 09:23 — jon

Jobs inverted

So I read an interesting bit this morning on the iPad and it struck me as pretty much spot on.

If you take a moment to read it you'll probably find it interesting if you have any interest in software, computers, digital media, etc. Basically the gist of it is this: buying products like the iPad and even the iPhone/iPod is bad for open software development and open distribtution of content/information.

Basically the arguement is that as Apple tightens the screws on who can develop and distribute what and how on their very successful hardware platforms, people lose the ability to truly choose how they use the devices and software they buy, and since Apple even controls what applications are allowed to be developed and distributed on the iPhone/iPod/iPad, they can keep you from ever even having a chance to install a program you want, or even keep it from ever existing in any usable fashion.

To me that is a bit over the top really.

 

Oh, in case you are wondering, this is Cory Doctorow.

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