Here are some before photos taken quite a while ago:
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This summer I'm betting we don't go over $4 again, but I expect we see $3.50.
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Secondly, I have uploaded some photos of the kids carving pumpkins. You can find these on Anne's Flickr
site.
Aaron took all those pumpkin photos, with the exception of the photo of the three kids, so don't blame me :P.
Thirdly, today is Halloween dress-up day for August and Paige at school. Paige also has her Halloween parade today.
I will take photos when I go down to watch it. Paige's and August's costumes that they are wearing today are different
than what they will be wearing for Halloween (I will make photos of that too).
flickr (mikergibson) site.
one of many songs. This is not even her best song, or even one of her many originals, just the last one
I listened to before deciding posting about her. Yes, I am an ABBA fan too.
With the release of probably the most successful Batman Movie ever, there
is an interesting interview in
Scientific American with a professor of
kinesiology and neuroscience (and a 26-year practitioner of Chito-Ryu
karate-do). The question was, how much training would it take for a normal
person to become Batman? The professor says: "You could train somebody to
be a tremendous athlete and to have a significant martial arts background,
and also to use some of the gear that he has, which requires a lot of physical
prowess... In terms of the physical skills to be able to defend himself
against all these opponents all the time, I would benchmark that at 10 to
12 years." The problem is, even after that amount of training, no one could
remain on top of their game for more than a few years. And "Batman can't
really afford to lose. Losing means death - or at least not being able to
be Batman anymore."
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Better yet, because I purchased a 2007 model in
2008, I got the mower under $2000 (18 something).
So for my collection, I Now have a Craftsman Gas
powered weed eater, a Craftsman 6 HP 22" push mower (best I have ever had), and now a Craftsman riding
mower. But what is a mower without attachments? I additionally purchased a pull-along yard sweeper
for all those leaves that my 100 + trees drop. But with
the money I saved, I could not stop there, I purchased a snow plow for my really long driveway.
Note: This is my Anniversary, Fathers day, and Birthday gift all rolled into one. ;)
mencoder input.avi -o output.mp4 /
-of lavf -ovc lavc /
-lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 /
-lavfopts i_certify_that_my_video_stream_does_not_use_b_frames
mkdir DVD dvdauthor -o DVD movie.mp4 dvdauthor -T DVD mkisofs -dvd-video -o DVD.iso DVDThen burn the ISO. pretty darn simple. ;) Yes, making DVDs professionally on Mac OSX is much better. But I call this the quick and dirty "get-r-done" method. :)
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to this 
to this 
to this 
to this 
CBS,
Showtime
and others have their own channels on YouTube.
There is one channel,
MinisodeNetwork
, that specializes in all sorts of remade TV shows for the Internet.
But over all, there is a lot of originality on YouTube. But I will not try to hide the fact that
there is also more "waste of time garbage" on YouTube than one would find on TV. None the less, I love it.
At any time I'm subscribed to between 45 and 60 channels.
As a small sample, I have made a list of channels that have 15 or more shows that I love by category:National GeographicHousehold HackeroskayWHAT THE BUCK!?gettyimagesEntertainment News MagazineThe OnionThe GuildROCKETBOOMLasagna CatRing Taleshttp://www.youtube.com/user/cutewithchris
Flickr site.
Yes, it is Heart Day!
The day of flowers, candy, hugs, kisses, stuffed animals, and more.
So, to my family and friends,
or whoever might read this,
Happy Valentines Day everyone.
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Something I noted after reconstructing this email, there are 51 letters on the left, 51 letters on the right.
linklink. I guess Brady
really underestimated the Giant's defense. What makes this funnier is the fact they could only score 14 points.This,
or this,
or this was probably my favorite commercial.
Well..... I has to be the one with Richard saying "...squeeze those buns..."
Vol 1 ep 6 Note: this audio log contains a sound clip of
"Group 1 Crew" live at Winter Jam 2008, Jan 24th.video, I just could not stop laughing. Nothing against Romney,
I rather like him as a candidate. Just too funny.
PureNRG Rated B- Group 1 Crew Rated A Mandisa Rated B+ New Song Rated A- Skillet Rated A BarlowGirl Rated B+ Connersvine Rated B+ Mercy Me Rated BThe POP teen group "PureNRG" tried their hearts out to put on a really good show, but fell a little short of doing so for me. I appreciated the effort on stage, but I felt like I was watching Nickelodeon. Maybe if I was 10 I would have liked it better. I had to give them at least a B-. How many bands do you know that do more than 5 backflips?
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It was also made to celebrate the 30th anniversary of
the Star Wars franchise. (Yes, I missed it) This episode drew 10.7
million viewers, and earned the highest Nielsen rating of any Family
Guy episode since the show returned to air in 2005.
Here is a
clip off of you tube. This is a video I will
at least want to rent with it comes out later this month. |
post 201 and
post 203 (need to be in Anne's list to see).
Where I keep asking my self, "Princess like Prince?" OK, I'm sure no-one
finds that funny, including Dad ;) Here is the direct link.
Watch :)
Link
Link to photo directory with buck (tongue and all)Link to photo directory of newspaper article
photo of August at daycare before her parade.
Here is a 
photo of August lining up for the parade. The one in the elephant suit is her boyfriend. ;)
photo of Paige at the dentist office where she got her "gravity" (or as some refer to as a cavity) filled.
She was a brave little girl. Anne and I became worried about the pain medicine they gave her when she saw kites.
Then we looked up at the ceiling of the photo of the kites Paige was looking at. The assistant was worried about
how much Paige talked and was wondering if they would get her quiet enough to work on. :)
photo
and another
photo of Paige and August in the costumes.
photo of Aaron's class in the parade and
another of Aaron dropping back to get his photo taken.
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photo of last years pumpkin.
photolink
photo
3GP movie of
Paige dancing. If that does not work for you, try this slightly larger
MP4 version of the
movie. If you are a Microsoft Windows user, you probably need quick time installed. Paige is the one
in the dark and light purple.
photo of Aaron
in Tae kwan do class. The instructor is teaching Aaron how to 'pull' the attack of the other student
(see the other kid's hand in Aaron's arm pit?).
Viewable
is little G's arms, legs, and even fingers. The Doctor and Anne decided to play
a prank on me and tell me Anne was going to have twins. Supposedly, according to them,
I turned white. :)
photo I find humorous. It was taken in Wisconsin at AirVenture in July.
It was to be proof that Aaron saw and listened to Chuck Yeager. You can tell that
is Chuck, can't ya?
picture of Aaron in his white uniform. Aaron looks kinda Bruce Lee like.
Also a promise of a 
picture
of Paige in her tutu. I took a lot of photos of Paige and even a movie, but between the glass and the motion -
most did not turn out well. I'm taking the Aaron and Paige tonight so I'll try again. I'll try to do a small (15sec), low-res
movie again of paige dancing.Picture 1
Picture 2
Picture 3
Cubs are *still* in first place (holding breath
til October). If Soriano comes back hot, the cubs might have a chance.
I had to post that :) If
you had asked me in late May, I thought it would have been impossible with the way the season started.AirVenture 2007 in Wisconsin!
For those that don't know, this is the largest (number of planes and acres) and the
"WHERE IT HAPPENS" airshow with thousands of airplanes. I have not made it since 2003. This time I'm taking Aaron and Dad
(whom have never been) and we will be camping at Camp Scholler (hopefully). I also hope to meet Jim and walk the war birds. So
like the last time, I'm sure I will have tons of photos and stories.
in memory
*sigh* Genealogy in the information age is disappointing for all average Joe or Jane
that use Windows, Linux, or Mac OSX :( Interfaces are hard to use. There are no good XML
format standards. GEDCOM 5.5 is not scalable and built off some bad ideas. Some of
the better saving formats are proprietary and don't work between programs.Just for fun, I have created my own XML format that I like much better than GEDCOM XML 6.0
and GEDML, but if I'm the only person using it, well, not very useful.Currently the only application I know that works on all
three platforms is GRAMPS.
Storage is good and accepts GEDCOM files. But.... As far as I'm aware, no one else uses
their format, the interface is difficult to use, and not all that easy to install on Windows
because of dependencies.The partial answer-- I believe an Open Source application written in .net/mono would be the answer
for this with a XML format that is more flexible than GEDCOM or GEDML.
wedding photo
that I have recieved (Thanks Mom :) ) Our official ones may not be here for a little bit.
I will post more or alert when I have some to put in my online photo album.
photo
of our cake. Another thank you to Mom.
Hiking [photo of Aaron]
and have a picnic. I'm really glad Heyworth has such a great park for a small community.
Later I grilled out on my new grill and I had my
Fathers Day Dinner [photo of kids].
Lastly I opened my Fathers Day gifts including this spiffy
tie [photo of tie]
:)
picture
of me in the bathtub with my present. I then opened August's present to me.
She just happened to know that I like
Justin Temberlake [photo of CD].
Aaron got my a Sudoku game. Here is a
picture
of Aaron and I playing the game. Lastly, Anne gave me some cool Cubs pajamas :)
Here is a
picture
of me in the kitchen with them holding the last of the cake.
Mom and Dad called me and I opened my gifts from them while they were on the phone.
I got sheet music and
a tuner. The tuner is light years more advance than the last one I had.
Not only does it recognize single strings, but will recognize whole chords
when strummed. I finally got my
dulcimer [photo of tuner]
tuned and played with it.
Later the Gibson gang all went
to Clinton to eat at the Three Star Restaurant with Amy and Mark. I got
a 'Computer Genius' coffee mug and Carlos Santana's Music CD, Cologne, and deodorant.
Here is a
picture
of Amy and I at the Restaurant. Next, Anne, the kids and I went to Weldon Springs.
The park was very busy so we went home and all got our swim suites on and went
to McGraw park for some water fun.
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Photo of
Paige playing at the water park
Photo of
the baseball game at Wrigley Field. Cubs beat Atlanta braves 10-1.
Photo of
Anne after the game standing out side of Wrigley Field by the statue of Harry.
Photo of
Paige and August at the top of the Arch in St. Louis.
Photo of
Aaron, August, Paige, and Anne outside by the Arch.
Photo of
Anne, August, Aaron, and Paige walking away from the Arch.
Photo of
August and Paige playing with a brass king cobra and her eggs at the St. Louis Zoo.
Photo of
Anne at the ball game. Cubs win on her birthday!
Photo of something Anne
and I found humorous.
Chicago Cop parks and leaves car not only in a no parking zone, but in front of a hydrant.
Photo of
Anne at the Old Chicago Inn on Day 2.
Photo of
me on Michigan Ave by a rare R2D2 Mail Box.
Photo of
us saying bye Wrigley Field....
Sen. Mike GravelPlay Participation 4/16/07 A+ Play practice 04/18/07 A+ Play practice 04/20/07 A+ Play practice 04/23/07 A+ Play performance 04/24/07 A+His teacher wrote:
here.
If you like this format, I will post Easter photos this way also.
Here is a photo of Amy, Deana, and myself.
The three of us visiting Tim at the hospital after he smashed both ankles.
Here is a photo of Tim and Tracy goofing around at her home.
Here is a photo of Dolores and I taken by Tim
at our wedding.
1 Department of Housing and Urban Development 2 US census 3 CNN 4 Yahoo.
http://putative.typepad.com/putative/2007/01/fedex_refuses_s.html
www.Dilbert.com
The ifilm movie clip
Christmas 2006
in an animated slide show. Let me know what you think.
Surplus City.
Always a must stop in Paducah, KY :). For instance, I purchased the
Dragonology Game for $4 and it was for sale at the Paducah mall for $39.99!
Jennifer Daniels.
I had never heard of her. Actually I don't think most people have.
She had 3 different CDs for sale. The guy stated that they normally sold them for $15 but was selling them for $10.
I thought about it and decided that it was worth the chance for good driving music, so I purchased two of them.
Toy 1 Toy Tool Kit
Toy 2 My little pony
Toy 3 Candy Land
Toy 4 Easy Bake Oven
Toy 5 Lawn Darts
Toy 6 Toy Cars
Toy 7 Stuffed Animals
Toy 8 Dolls
Toy 9 Clue
Toy 10 Lab kit
http://www.fakeyourspace.com/. You can get a friend for only 99 cents a month.
Brotherhood Tree
photo.
No, I was not there to make sure his top button was unbuttoned and that background kinda clashes with
his shirt.
photo
of me and the kids in front of our house on Sandburg. It was taken for memory sake given
that we close on that house Friday. This second
photo
was taken earlier that day at Sears. Additionally, here is a
photo
of Paige solo. and a
photo
of Aaron solo. August and Anne also took a really good
photo
together.
Paige's sash tied for anything. That photo is what
she looked like by the time we got home.
pumpkin lit. Looks pretty scary, heh.
Halloween ;)
White n Nerdy
Here is the pumpkin we started with.
I helped out a bit, but as you can see
here and
here -- Aaron, with the help of
Paige , did most of the work.
With her short arms, Paige had to really
dig in while Aaron would hold the pumpkin :)
A good chunk of the time was spent
separating and
sorting
the seeds.
starting the carving. final product. 
baked them on a pizza pan. The seeds turned out not half bad.
Smelled better than they tasted, but tasted OK.
Halloween.
Paige, Aaron, and August
Paige, Aaron, and August
Me, Paige, Aaron, and August
Me, Paige, and Aaron
Here is a photo of me showing Mom how to work my camera phone.
Halloween.
Internet Explorer 7.0 and
FireFox 2.0. Over all, the press has given
FireFox 2 a score of 64 out of 75 and Internet Explorer 7 a 47 out of 75. But for me, both were impressive. For
novice users I highly recommend both browsers for their new security features. As far
as RSS features, both browser have different advantages. I'm not going to go into the details.
JUST UPGRADE! It is worth it :)
humor
humor
this average slashdot (/.) reading, Linux loving guy.
But then there is the next level, like
this guy! Wow. He is my idol - boy does he love Linux.
There are also people that use their
children to display their passion of Linux.
Lastly, here are a couple of
kids; most likely paid to like Tux the Linux
penguin... enough to hug that penguin.
post.
The cieling has been completed and moding has been put back up.
A new light fixture has been installed in the family room.
Lastly, I retiled the front landing. 
photo.
the vinyl record will survive,"
. The article explains how the younger generation of indie customers are drawn to vinyl because
"the tactile joy of owning a
physical object that represents your attachment to a band is infinitely more enjoyable than entering a
credit card number into iTunes.""Pictures of concert
Bo Bice concert at the
Last lap with Amy on Friday.
I hope he puts on a good show and does not do many song from his sorta lame album. :P
ReactOS Operating system
for at least 3 years now. I really have never like Windows much, but this project
has always held my attention. Recently ReactOS launched a new release of 0.3.0.
I downloaded it and ran it. I'm quite impressed. By far this is the most stable and
nicest looking version that has come out. Nicer looking than Windows 2000.
I have found one interesting bug with the Firefox browser in ReactOS; Pages don't
refresh unless the mouse is in motion. In the forum people have complained that
you can not download using firefox either. So there are still problems with this OS.
But if I had a Windows 95 or ME (the worst modern Windows OS ever) machine, I would
consider replacing the OS with ReactOS. Well, I might wait for ReactoOS 0.3.1.... or later :).
.
We stayed most of the day and night
right till the drunks were ready to leave. :)
(Aaron's horse) for the first time.
Open Office. This product can be freely downloaded
or you can buy CDs/DVDs from on line stores for as little as $7.
All software in Open Office is fully compatible with Microsoft and Corel Office.
This includes a very powerful word processor, Spread sheet, and presentation software.
In addition, Open Office has a great graphic tools, database and much more. If you don't like
the Microsoft Windows platform, unlike Microsoft Office, Open Office is *fully* compatible in the
Apple OSX, Linux, Sun Solaris environments, not just Windows. Of course Microsoft does not
even release software for competitors like Linux and Sun Solaris.Writely. This product is by another one of Microsoft's
big rivals, Google. Even better than the fact this product is free, this product will work on any
computer that has an Internet connection! Why? Because there is nothing to download, you just need
Fire Fox or Internet Explorer! Even on my slow dial up connection at
home this applications works really well. In fact, I'm writing this post with Writely now.
Want to know something even better about Writely? Check out the Writely save capabilities.
Not only can you save in HTML, RTF,
Word, and other normal formats, but also in PDF! Super cool in my book. This Application works
very well with Firefox, but if you are using Microsoft Windows, even better with Internet Explorer
because of additional plugins to the Operating System. Lastly on this word processor, something I think might
be popular with people I know is the fact you can 'share' your documents or work on a document with other people
over the Internet. But if you simply just want to work on your own documents on your local hard drive [shrug],
works great for that also.
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pic 2
pic 3
Family room
Family room
Hallway
minimo (Mini Mozilla) and it works like a champ with the web pages that did not work with IE.
Additionally I installed
pocketputty and I can now do work with my phone!Forgiveness - grudges and anger Love - hate humble - pride trust - distrust Others first - Yourself first sharing - selfishnessEveryone is guilty of being on the wrong side of that list at sometime. But it does not mean you must stay there. In fact, when you are on the wrong side, it may mean someone is being hurt, but it always means you are hurting yourself.
Chicago Cubs jokes:Mammoth Cave in KY.
This was one of the open ended goals that
Aaron and I had set for our vacation.
Aaron and I was aiming for a long tour
(4 or greater hours) but because of weather delayed travel,
we settled on a 2 hour tour that neither of us had done before.
This tour was worth it.
Mammoth Cave is the largest cave in the
world. So far only a little over 360 miles of it has been explored, so there is plenty
for Aaron and I to see the next time we go.
My new phone camera did not do well down there.
This shot
and 
this shot are the
only two that came out. On our way out of the Mammoth Cave National Park, we
crossed the 
smallest ferry
I have ever been on.Grand Rivers.
I did not take many photos there but have this one of Paige
getting personal with an angel :)
Aaron, Dad, Pistol, and Muncher.
Muncher is a standard American pony and Pistol is half Tennessee Walker and American Quater Horse.
In this photo of
Aaron getting Muncher ready by putting his lead halter on.
The next photo is of
Pistol checking Muncher's halter out.
Everyone's walking but Paige :)
Photos of Paige doing laps on Muncher 
lap 1 and
lap 2
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NEWS RELEASE OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY WESTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI TODD P. GRAVES Contact Don Ledford, Public Affairs ! (816) 426-4220 ! 400 East Ninth Street, Room 5510 ! Kansas City, MO 64106 www.usdoj.gov/usao/mow MAY 14, 2004 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JEFFERSON CITY MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO FALSE MILITARY IDJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Todd P. Graves, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Jefferson City, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to producing false identification that appeared to identify him as an officer in the armed forces of the United States. Mark Lee Lavine Fowler, also known as Col. Fowler or Dr. Fowler, 41, of Jefferson City, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Nanette K. Laughrey this afternoon. Fowler admitted that he impersonated an officer at a "Support the Troops" rally at the Missouri Capitol on Aug. 2, 2003. Fowler wore a U.S. military dress uniform to that event, with the insignia of a colonel and a U.S. Navy identification badge. Fowler claimed to be part of the U.S. Aircraft Recovery Team, a unit he claimed assists in airplane crashes. "In reality," Graves said, "there is no such organization as USART in the United States Navy, and Fowler has never been a member of any of the armed forces, let alone an officer." Fowler, who has attended various events dressed as and impersonating an officer, also displayed many photos with him in his military uniform at his place of employment. In a search of his home, Graves said, law enforcement officers not only found the uniform, but various medals, award ribbons assembled for wear on a dress uniform, and dog tags in his name with a false unit. Fowler admitted he had constructed the fake ID badge himself after doing some research on the Internet. Under federal statutes, Fowler could be subject to a sentence of up to 15 years in federal prison without parole, plus a fine up to $250,000. His sentence will be determined according to the United States Sentencing Guidelines. A sentencing hearing will be scheduled after the completion of a presentence investigation by the United States Probation Office. Fowler was originally charged in a two-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury meeting in Jefferson City on Oct. 3, 2003. This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Anthony P. Gonzalez. It was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Missouri State Capitol Police Department.