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Carey and I just watched "My Kid Could Paint That" and I've got to admit I'm pretty skeptical. Even "Ocean," the painting Marla Olmstead is seen painting end to end in a DVD, looks little like most of her other paintings. Who knows?

It's an interesting movie, and I think others should watch it. If you've seen it, what do you think?

The back yard is already beginning to feel a lot more spacious. Today, topsoil was put down. Tomorrow, the topsoil will be spread, some holes will be filled in, and the seeds, fertilizer, and mulch will be put down. Then, some day later this week, our bushes will be put in along the edge of the property.

So much more room. I think I might look into getting a hitting net so I can practice my golf swing at home. Hmmmmm…

Pictures to come at some point in the future.

We just purchased a little keyboard, and after "oohing" and "ahhhing" at the number of songs that are included, the various instruments, etc. I checked what I'd long ago heard was an important thing in choosing an electronic keyboard for learning: "velocity."

It's my understanding that "velocity" is a measure of how hard you hit the key. Tap it softly and the sound is quite different than if you strike the key violently. The same song can sound very different played with different key-striking velocities.

This keyboard doesn't support that. Not that we're getting ahead of ourselves or something - this is just a "see if someone is at all interested" type of thing - but how important is it that an electronic keyboard have the ability to play different "velocities?"

Whispering Woods, one of the two courses to which I belong, placed third earlier today in the EDGA's Interclub tournament. My score acted as a tie-breaker to edge out Kahkwa, as we both had 399 totals.

I played like crap and really need to put my swing on video to eliminate the one or two lingering flaws. I suppose I should have, after ingraining my swing last year, kept it up over the winter. I've learned my lesson.

Versus is owned by Comcast. Comcast is headquartered in Philadelphia and owns the Flyers.

Now it all makes a lot more sense.

Update: Worth a read.

Judi has more of the details, but suffice to say that a project I've been working on for about 15 months is finally just about wrapped up.

Yippee!

As I mentioned before, Carey and I have recently decided to turn one wall of a downstairs playroom into a craft room/mini-office. We spent the better part of Mother's Day weekend (and the days before it) working on such a project, and, as promised, here are the before and after photos.

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This is the scene of a Family Buck Night only 20 minutes before the first pitch is thrown.

Handheld and stitched together automatically with the Photoshop "photomerge" command. No doubt I could have spent time doing it manually, but eh.

So, Powerset has been in the news lately, but so far as I can tell, it kind of sucks.

"Who is the CEO of Apple?" results in Steve Jobs' name first appearing fourth. In first place? Gil Amelio.

Uh hmmm.

My partner in the Golf Talk Podcast uses a Windows machine. He has a Samson USB condenser mic, and just recently we've decided to try recording both sides of the conversation.

I use Audio Hijack Pro to record both sides, currently, and would likely continue to use that same setup to record my side, but we aren't sure of the best way to record his side (on his Windows machine). Can anyone recommend a setup?

I edit the audio in Soundtrack Pro, so recommendations should likely produce a lossless (AIFF, WAV, etc.) file with good clarity and have the ability to adjust for gain and other things. The better the source audio, the better it'll sound when edited.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

I'm on the lookout for a Dremel type tool. Does anyone have them? Are they worth it?

There have been several times over the past several years when I've wanted one: as a handy screwdriver that can fit into smaller places than my regular cordless drill, to get those little sanding and cutting things to smoothly cut through baseboards or nails or whatever, and things like that.

So again, are they worth it? I'm sure there are several "Dremel-like" tools out there, and I'm not stuck on the "Dremel" name (if it even exists anymore?), so should I look into one brand over another? What's recommended (again, if they're even worth it)?

Why can't Safari's "undo" undo closing a tab? Just open the tab back up, scroll back to where I was, and let me forget that I finger-twitched on command-w a bit too quickly.

Gah!

For mother's day this year, I bought Carey some cabinets (kitchen cabinets), a laminate countertop, and all the assorted goodies that are needed to install it (some wood, screws, a pry bar for the baseboard, a knife to cut the carpet, and so on. We also picked up some paint.

The plan: convert one wall of the downstairs playroom into a craft table. We'll put one 18" three-drawer cabinet on each end. In the middle, we'll have a 30" cabinet (one drawer, two doors). That will create two desk areas for scrapbooking.

We're currently trying to decide between cutting the carpet to put the cabinets right on the subfloor or setting them on (preferably "into") the carpet. I think we'll go with the former.

I'll try to post some before/after pictures later, but since we've already moved stuff either out of the room or into the center, any before image is bound to look pretty silly.

I can't be the only person who enjoys a potato chip…

• … on top of some pizzas.
• … on burgers.
• … on a hot dog.
• … with ice cream, preferably chocolate.

Okay, maybe the last one, but I know enough people that eat them with the others. Are you one? What unusual combos do you make with potato chips?

The latest (beta 5) version of the iPhone SDK was released, and in a move that surprises absolutely nobody, synchronizing (or even copying) with a desktop app is still not possible.

There is still no way to even copy data from a desktop app to the iPhone (or vice versa). The most likely avenue for this would be via iTunes.

We simply need the ability to copy an XML file from our desktop app to our iPhone app's "space" and to copy a file from our iPhone app's space onto the computer. Why is this not possible?

Not everyone will have a "network" to send data, yet everyone will, from time to time, plug their phone in and synchronize it with iTunes.

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