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A recent survey shows that agnostics and atheists know more about religions that religious people.

Link: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10271/1090895-84.stm.

I watched - to my wife's dismay at the number of times the word "cock" was used in varying forms ((cock, uncock(ed), re-cock(ed), cocking)) - the first of the three discs in Lynn Blake's Alignment Golf DVDs.

95% of the stuff Lynn says is simple fact and dead on accurate. He's probably right that it's "simplest" to set the right forearm on plane at setup as well, but that's one of the things I don't particularly care to see done in the golf swing. I also don't care for the left arm being "blasted off the chest" (completely losing pressure point four) just past impact at the follow-through position.

But those are in the 5%. Call the disc TGM 101 and you'd be somewhat close to accurately describing it, I suppose.

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Our evolvr service for online golf instruction is going pretty smoothly. Here's a sample analysis from the service early on. This particular student went from shooting in the high 90s to shooting in the high 70s and low 80s pretty quickly this year.

I'm looking forward to this.

There will be coarse language, raw emotions, maybe a bit of gore if there is an injury.

That might be off-putting to those whose uncensored moments would be beamed into people's living rooms, but the Penguins see great benefit to participating in an HBO "24/7" reality miniseries in December and January that will chronicle them and the Washington Capitals as the rivals approach and play in one of the NHL's premier events, the outdoor Winter Classic.

I'm also looking forward to the re-airing of Game Seven of the 1960 World Series, recently discovered in Bing Crosby's media room.

P.S. Pens fans sometimes call Sidney Crosby "Bing" as a bit of a joke. And that's how I made the leap from one Pittsburgh team to another.

So iTunes with Ping has been out for awhile now. Do you use it?

I don't. I did at first - I added five or six people - but I have two major issues with it:

1. No tabs. I see the list on my Ping home page and I want to command-click ten things to check them all out. Navigation without tabs in Ping is t-e-d-i-o-u-s.
2. I'm pretty much done expanding my musical taste. I don't buy many songs, I don't check out new artists, and I'm turning into the younger version of my parents only listening to Neil Diamond songs or, when something new comes along, it's Michael Bolton. 😛 I just have more important things to do in my life than listening to music, and my music collection stage is over, probably permanently.

I do use iTunes daily, but it's to listen to a few podcasts here and there.

Thoughts on any of these?

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If I can't catch up on my old blog entries by the end of October, I'm going to abolish my promise of writing a blog post at least daily and will just update this blog - in a timely fashion - when something is relevant.

Or maybe I'll just post a bunch of YouTube videos. 🙂

It's just not worth it.

The bedroom for a certain seven year-old is now done. This is the bedroom in which we put real wood floors and, well, lots of other stuff.

The idea was largely Carey's, but I contributed a fair amount as did "DD" in the language of online moms. The entire room was based on a bed spread that the two women in my house really liked. The color palette, the furniture, the hardware, the curtains, etc.

In no particular order:

• The large dressers and desks were refinished from Carey's grandmother's house and had all new silver hardware attached. Carey sanded, primed, and painted them over the span of a few weeks.
• The fan is a Hunter fan from Lowe's. Simple enough. Quiet too.
• The headboard was made by stretching some batting and some extra curtains over a picture frame. It's nailed to the wall.
• The shelves with the monkey on them are from IKEA and look nice. They're really level, too. 😉
• The 5 x 5 thing is really nice and will provide a lot of storage. It's bolted to the wall and solid as a rock, and the four storage cubes and four drawers are pretty sweet.
• The quote in the rainbow picture says "Count your rainbows, not your thunderstorms" and was made by the room's occupant. 🙂
• The butterflies on the wall are just push-pin type and $20 from Target.
• The recliner in the reading corner has a bear sitting on it in these pictures, but will work well for reading.

The things which are new include: floor, wall paint, night stand, hardware, all dressers, bed cover, sheets, pillow sham, shelves, curtain rod, curtains, headboard, rainbow painting, butterflies, desk light, desk chair, 5x5 Storage, 5-color light, butterfly mirror, nightstand light, picture frames, basket, and probably a few things I'm forgetting.

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Are there any? I want to be able to log into several Twitter accounts, each with their own timelines and things, and be able to post to them separately.

Currently the only way I can really think to do this is to have one app for each account running. Surely there's a single app out there that can do this (for Mac OS X), no???

Wow.

Homemade Spacecraft from Luke Geissbuhler on Vimeo.

I've now played in one Western New York section PGA Tour event, and I've come away a winner. I'm one for one, winning 100% of the time, and am happy to announce my retirement. I'm going out on top!

Okay, not really, no. I started off apparently aiming somewhere around 90 degrees to the right and consequently hooking the bejeezus out of the ball. I had a solid back nine and contributed on a few occasions. Our 68 was good enough to edge a number of the other 29 teams by a stroke or more. No playoff needed.

P.S. Keenan texted Rich to point out that I'd won more section events than he had. Sorry, Rich: choose better partners you can ride all the way home. 😉

Grrrrrr.

We finally have software (on Mac OS X) that can play back and analyze golf swings with videos in portrait orientation (which makes sense for golf) and I discover that the otherwise venerable Casio FH-25 can't or won't rotate video - it doesn't set the "rotated" flag in the video file so that playback on Mac OS X is automatically rotated the right way.

Our next car purchase is not slated for another three years, but I'm writing down some cars I like now so that I can get a bit of a head start. It'll also be interesting to see whether these cars even exist in three years or what changes they've undergone.

In no particular order:

• Acura RDX
• Nissan Rogue
• Nissan Juke
• Honda Crosstour
• Ford Escape Hybrid
• Ford Explorer
• Kia Sorento
• Buick Enclave
• Subaru Outback
• VW Jetta Sportwagen (or TDI)
• VW Tiguan
• VW Passat Wagon
• Volvo XC60
• Hyundai Veracruz

I may update this list from time to time.

In the past, any software I've written has either been freeware or required only a basic registration scheme - a serial number that was validated against not only the registered user's name and email address as well as a standard formatting pattern. Some of it's been pirated, but I didn't want to spend a lot of time making the registration scheme more complex for the few extra sales I might get from the people who pirate software, and I didn't want to annoy our honest customers. Basically, I relied on people's honesty, and for $10 to $40 apps or so, it worked out well enough.

I've said bits of this before, mostly here, and I still feel the same way.

I'm preparing to ship and sell some software later this year that will cost around $500 for a Pro version and $50 for a Home version. The product name starts with "A" and we'll want to sell licenses for Pro which allows for up to 1, 3, 5, and 10 licenses. This isn't software pirates will be after like they might for, oh, a DVD ripper or an $800 graphics software or a video game or whatnot. It's a niche product.

The main goal here is to stop casual piracy. Basically, we want to stop the guy who buys one license and then gives it to his friends or installs it on a bunch of computers used by his peers or employees.

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