Posted in Technology on October 31st, 2012 No Comments »
I paid the $20 extra to remove "special offers" on my Kindle Paperwhite and was disappointed to see the bottom half of my screen taken up with stuff like this: Fortunately, others complained and apparently Amazon may "fix" this in a future firmware update. For now I've disabled the Kindle Store on my Kindle PW, […]
Posted in Miscellaneous on October 30th, 2012 No Comments »
Posted in Recreation on October 29th, 2012 2 Comments »
It's barely 25 seconds long and has commercials running over top of it for most of the segment, but the disc golfers on some forums are pumped that their "sport" has achieved "recognition." 🙂 P.S. I agree that it's a sport. I don't agree that this is really "recognition," though for them, right now, this […]
Posted in Technology on October 28th, 2012 No Comments »
Just bookmarking this page for later. I've got the Paperwhite coming and this kind of stuff may come in handy at some point to keep books I have purchased.
Posted in Recreation on October 27th, 2012 No Comments »
Earlier today my brother-in-law Brandon and I ventured out into the cold and rain to check out a few possible disc golf course locations. We found what we consider a GREAT location in North East. The full name is "The North East Township Community Conservation Park" or "NETCCP" as an acronym. We walked and measured […]
Posted in Apple on October 26th, 2012 6 Comments »
Earlier today in prepping my Mac Pro for sale, after I'd de-authorized the computer in iTunes and after I thought I'd turned off iCloud syncing ((Obviously I hadn't.)), I inadvertently selected all of my contacts in Address Book and deleted them. Almost instantly ((Seriously, has iCloud EVER worked this fast when you wanted it to?)) […]
Posted in Blogging on October 25th, 2012 1 Comment »
I last posted about this back in 2009, I think. Here are the updated numbers… Filtered Mail 337,649 Good Messages 470,361 Spam Messages (58%) 157 Spam Messages Per Day SpamSieve Accuracy 1,396 False Positives 3,705 False Negatives (73%) 99.4% Correct Corpus 11,991 Good Messages 14,656 Spam Messages (55%) 1,145,282 Total Words Rules 34 Blocklist Rules […]
Posted in Blogging on October 24th, 2012 1 Comment »
I'm selling my 23" Cinema Display and my Mac Pro (Facebook link). Mac Pro + 23" Cinema Display for Sale Mac Pro (2006): • 2 x 3 GHz Dual Core Xeon Processors • 10.7.5 installed (latest available OS it can run) • 13 GB RAM • Dual SuperDrives • 4 500 GB Drives Included (and […]
Posted in Apple on October 23rd, 2012 3 Comments »
BusyCal 2.0 is out. It's a $29.99 UPGRADE. Yeah. A year or two or three ago, I used (and enjoyed) BusySync and BusyCal. It synchronized my calendar with my wife's, and worked quite nicely where iCal came up short. But with iCloud, Calendar in Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) works well enough. About the […]
Posted in Blogging on October 22nd, 2012 No Comments »
A Sporting Life has named The Sand Trap one of the five best golf blogs on the Intertubes. We agree! Thanks to A Sporting Life for the recognition. We appreciate it!
Posted in Miscellaneous on October 21st, 2012 No Comments »
Gary Carter is said to have invented the phrase "F-Bomb." The funny thing is I remember the game he's talking about. I was (and still am) a Pirates fan.
Posted in Miscellaneous on October 20th, 2012 No Comments »
I'd heard this story, and knew it to be true, but I didn't know until today that there was a video about it: You can buy your own disc with a dude's ashes (the "father" of disc golf) right here. $200 gets you a driver and a putter.
Posted in Miscellaneous on October 19th, 2012 1 Comment »
He said people who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds. He doesn’t think consistency of thought is a particularly positive trait. It’s perfectly healthy — encouraged, even — to have an idea tomorrow that contradicted your idea today. Good advice from the Beez. Inability to change your […]
Posted in Recreation on October 18th, 2012 No Comments »
I'm looking forward to Skyfall. November 9. I've made a reminder in my calendar. 🙂
Posted in Miscellaneous on October 17th, 2012 No Comments »
I've been saying this for years. Here are some stats to back that up. Ouch.