Geek Family

Being home over the holidays I had the opportunity to do some geocaching. Dan, Dad, and I went to Big Spring State Park to grab 2 caches. This gives you an idea of how the week was spent. We’re pretty big geeks. It’s rather sad.

On Christmas morning the nail was put in the proverbial coffin of hope for our family emerging from geekhood. As we opened our stockings I realized that they were rather light. Mine contained nothing more than a slip of paper folded in half. I looked around and Dan and Bridget had the same thing. We opened the paper and there, written in blue ink in my mother’s handwriting, was a set of coordinates. My parents geocached our stockings. Each in separate locations. Amazing.

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p>If anyone can top a geek story like that I’d love to hear it.

Quote from Slashdot

"Using Windows is like buying random illegal drugs on the street to treat a headache."

What’s that noise?

As Bridget and I sat and ate dinner tonight we heard a "boom" sound coming from outside. We chalked it up to the neighbor shoveling the sidewalk of the snow that was pouring down. It became more and more consistent though. I went outside to investigate and I snapped this picture. Unfortunately the flash makes it very difficult to see what was making the noise. Look very closely and you may see it. Has anyone else seen this? Keep in mind that when I took the picture we had had about 4 inches of snow on the ground and it was still coming down hard. If you didn’t see it in the previous picture, take a look at this one. That should make it obvious.