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Today at work I exchanged a few texts with Kyra:

That’s my girl.

Today I was heading west into town, and the mountains looked absolutely stunning. They’re coated with the snow that fell last night, and the sky was a crisp blue with some light clouds. I grabbed my cell phone and took a hasty shot out of my horribly dirty windshield:

That’s Longs Peak on the far right, and the Indian Peaks on the left. This photo doesn’t really do it justice, of course.

Later, as I was heading home after work, there was a fading crimson sunset… also spectacular. I was heading north this time, so I rolled down my window and stuck my phone-camera into the cool air:

Longs Peak is out of the shot, but you can see the same profile of the Indian Peaks on the left half of the photo. Again, this picture isn’t nearly as impressive as the real thing, but not too bad for a cell phone out the window of a moving car.

Congratulations, Thom and Katie!

And may I say it’s about freakin’ time, heh…

Today at church I gave a lesson to the little kids, aged 11 and younger. My lesson involved some photos of famous people, Jesus, and one of me when I was about eight years old. Anyway, at the end of the lesson a bunch of the kids asked if they could have the photos. It was funny to see who wanted the Jesus pictures versus those who wanted the other people (like Hagrid, for example). At the end of it all, I was left holding my own photo… apparently no one wanted a picture of an eight-year-old Jeff.

I handed it to my friend Franz, who is one of the teachers. He took it home, framed it, and put it on the stairwell in his house.

He’s waiting to see how long it takes the women in the house to notice it. Hilarious.

Ahh Zack… always having fun with Amazon when he buys things.

I must admit it’s pretty funny when a package shows up with a label like that.

I just found this in the man page for resize2fs, a Linux filesystem tool:

Ahh, geek humor. I love it.

I’m installing Mediawiki for a client. This is the same platform that Wikipedia uses (they make the source code available for free) so it’s a familiar interface and it’s surprisingly easy to use. As I’m going through the installation process, I found myself at this step:

That’s hilarious. I wish more installation programs were honest like this.

January in Colorado:

I guess it’s time to head out for some ulty.

Old TV, meet new TV.

In the front we have our 50″ Samsung plasma TV. It’s been a great unit for many years now, but I decided it was time to be a little bit ostentatious. So we bought a new 70″ Sharp LED TV. By my math, it has almost (but not quite) twice the image area. We can’t go any larger because an 80″ display wouldn’t fit in our little alcove. And come on, 80″ is just obscene, isn’t it?

Last night Kyra made a fruit smoothie and brought it upstairs to drink. Our house rule is “no food over the carpet”, so as soon as she came upstairs I told her to go back down. She protested that she would never spill the smoothie on the carpet, and why did I treat her like such a child, and so on. Zack (correctly) pointed out that there have been many occasions when he and his friends have broken the rule, and managed to stain the carpet with their food. Don’t even get me started about The Takis Incident.

Anyway, she turned and went downstairs, fuming. At the landing on the stairs, she dropped her smoothie. Pink stuff went everywhere on the carpet. I’m not sure if that’s karma, or irony, or what.

Today we’re still working on cleanup… the landing and adjoining stairs have been thoroughly scrubbed and now we have fans moving air over them to help them dry a bit.

It reminded me of the scene in The Matrix where the Oracle tells Neo not to worry about the vase, he turns and knocks it over, and then she says “What’s really going to bake your noodle later on is: would you still have broken it if I hadn’t said anything?”

Would Kyra have spilled the smoothie on the carpet if I hadn’t told her to get off the carpet?