I initially had high hopes for the raspberry pi 3 and snapped up three of them. I hoped to see one take the place of my media center, another two for monitoring tasks. Unfortunately I became less than enthused about the pi for a media center as it has no good way to stream of…

Having a bushel or two of apples on hand, I decided to make an apple pie the whole family could enjoy.  I borrowed two recipes.  For posterity i have included the actual recipe in addition to the links. For the apple pie guts I used Apple Pie by Grandma Ople: 1 recipe pastry for a…

I am currently writing custom software to create a variety of distributed media solutions.  One of these involves a raspberry-pi security camera.  Right now my software isn’t finished, but I wanted to prove the concept out using existing software.  System requirements: Raspberry pi: Broadcast audio (over the LAN) to a server Broadcast video (over the…

Here it is, my first post of the new blog! My nephew inspired the thought that led me to bring back the blog.  I told him he could easily setup something on my website if he wants to learn web programming.  Then I realized that for me to share the website, I’d have to figure…

This was a nerd get together. The only rules: eat a couple dogs before going on to lesser things (E.g. smores). The other rule: bring your wife and kids, unless your Carson. Carson was exempt. Here we have an assortment of pictures of the Hot Dog BBQ: http://www.oakenweld.com/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=35

As the owner of a brand spanking new Canon SD1000, I unpackaged the included software and found a nifty tool called PhotoStitch.  The camera itself only provides a special function which assists you in providing overlap between successive images of a panorama. The magic of the stitchery is in the desktop software. PhotoStitch does a…

As someone who grew up mainly in the 90s, many of the societal norms I learned can be attributed to one of two main sources: Cool (e.g., Saved by the Bell and The Fresh Prince) and Uncool (e.g., Full House) TV shows. Although many positive social changes have been introduced over the last half century,…

I have been wanting to write a bit about my experience as a computer scientist who switched to Mac about 2 years ago.  I bought a MacBook Pro after  talking with a coworker at the INL.  As most people, I had a bunch of misconceptions about the Macs shortcomings.  Most of all, I knew macs used…

This is my version of Cristofori’s Dream by David Lanz.  I created this using garage band, making each note individually.  Conclusion: the real version, played by a human (such as David Lanz) has much more emotion and character to it.  

A few pics from the party in the preceding post.