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Spooky fun with ssh on OS X

Want to freak out your wife/husband/kids?
On a mac that you have access to:
Go to ‘System Preferences’. Under ‘Internet & Networking’ there is a ‘Sharing’ icon. Run that. In the list that appears, check the ‘Remote Login’ option.
Then ssh into your mac remotely by downloading putty if you’re on a pc or launch a terminal on [...]

Efficiency

CO

I’m in Colorado in a semi-rural area in Elbert County in the town of Elizabeth. I get a lot of work done here because there’s not much going on. This is taken from my macbook’s webcam pointed out the window.

Ever wondered how a pumpkin feels?

Took this tonight. Sister carving. Her new Canon G10 lowered inside a sloppy punkin.

Skiing down Rainier

Video from 1 week ago with Joe H and Tom R skiing down Rainier from Camp Muir. Thanks Joe for putting all the clips together! We ran out of water about halfway down and the clip about the water bottle is me holding a squeeze bottle filled with snow that just refused to melt. We [...]

Hiked up to Camp Muir on Rainier and skied down

Had an amazing weekend with friends Joe Heitzeberg and Tom Romary. We met on Saturday evening in Rainier park. The campsite at Cougar Rock was full so we drove a few hundred feet down the road, parked at a trailhead, hiked in a bit and slept under the stars. We got up to paradise at [...]

Snowkiting and Powder in Utah

CRV and Bill Tai put together an awesome weekend in the mountains of Utah snowkiting. Thanks  Jeff Kafka and team for some awesome instruction. I think the most memorable moment was Chris Sacca getting up on stage at the local bar and singing Stairway to Heaven including the screamy bits at the end. Tell me [...]

Rugby World Cup tomorrow – South Africa vs England

Got this a few minutes ago from my Dad in South Africa:

The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

One of the bloggers using FEEDJIT is The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
If you don’t know what it’s about, read this.
I just became a huge fan.

Perseids meteor shower photo

It took me about an hour to catch one of these. I shot this with probably the worst choice in camera. A Canon Powershot S50 which is awesome for everything but time lapse photography. It has a 15 second maximum exposure and you have to wait 15 seconds after each exposure while the camera processes. [...]