Yeah, we went again. Got a lot of great boat and people pictures. They’re in the photo album.

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Over the last few weeks, Kelsi has been talking about her friend, Owen. Being the doink that I am, every time she mentions the name I do my best “Throw Momma from the Train” Momma voice, yelling at the top of my lungs “Owen!!!”. There’s something about that that is just really funny to me.

Needless to say, something goes through your head long enough, you have to rewatch the movie. So we rented it last night.

This is a movie that never gets old. While Billy Crystal and Danny DeVito are great in it, the one that steals the show is Anne Ramsey, who plays Danny DeVito’s “Momma”. Every single scene she is in, she completely steals the movie from the other actors. The way she plays the part is brilliant, and I find myself laughing my ass off and anticipating the next time she shows up.

Keith The Team Lead recently recommended a podcast called Cinecast by two thirty something movie reviewers in Chicago, which I have recently started to listen to. They talk quite a bit about “quotable movies” on their show, and I have to say this one is one that definitely has to be considered in that category (at least in this family). Whether Momma is yelling at the “Bingo Bastards” or explaining her need for salted nuts, “because the unsalted ones make me choke“, or even her dream about “Louis Armstrong was trying to kill me“, she has some of the best and well executed lines in a comedy that I have seen for a while. I could watch this movie a thousand more times and not get sick of it.

If you haven’t seen this movie, pick it up. I guarantee you will enjoy it.

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Somehow, a frisbee got caught on the top of the house (it isn’t ours). Andy has been obsessed with it and decided to try and remove it from the roof with a soccer ball.

See the pictures to watch his progress (or lack thereof — it’s still on the roof).

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Those who work with me have heard the tales of great sacrifice Jonna and I make as parents by keeping our dog, a psychotic, afraid of storms, always wanting to go out, and “always sitting square in front of the TV” Weimaraner.

I get asked a lot what kind of dog she is, and when I say “Weimaraner” get a reaction like people have never heard of them.

So, here is a huge collection of pictures on Flickr of Weimaraner’s around the world, for your viewing pleasure. As you look through these, just imagine one of them that is as “dumb as a bag of hammers” sitting square in the middle of you and the latest episode of Mythbusters, and you will have an idea of our plight.

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• Weimaraner Club of America
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Jake shot me this picture through email that he found on the kids machine upstairs that wound up not being uploaded to Flickr.

Since I showed them this post, the kids now go out of their way to call my attention to pictures they’ve taken like this.

Too funny.

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I went to my Wordpress dashboard this morning and saw an incoming link to the article Building Subversion 1.2 on Solaris 9 that I wrote back in May of this year. When I click on the link, I see this complete copy of the article with what seems like no attribution whatsoever, until I get to the bottom. Then I notice the posted by links from the site is included. I also notice that the header that was copied does link to the original posting, even though the posting is still copied word for word.

So as I sit here thinking about it, I realize that I’m not really sure how to feel about this. On the one hand, I’m flattered that someone thought that the article was informative enough to post word for word on their site. On the other hand, it looks like a sloppy attempt to assume content that the site owner didn’t write, with only accidental attribution because it was copied and pasted from a web browser that happened to include the links with attribution.

From time to time, I actually go back and update certain articles if I learn more about the subject I was writing about at the time. Wouldn’t it make more sense to just link to the article in case new information becomes available or additional comments are posted telling me how completely off base I am?

The bottom line is I realize that I don’t really care that much as I think about it, but I wouldn’t be thinking about it at all if I understood the intent. It seems kind of stupid to post content like this if you haven’t done it, rather than link to something where a conversation can begin about whether the diagnosis is right or not.

It just seemed weird. I really don’t care about “ownership” of the content very much. It just seems odd behavior considering the subject matter.

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Matt Mullenweg, founder of Wordpress is interviewed on the latest InfoTech Podcast.

I just synched the iPod and I’m ready to go listen to it during my 1+ hour commute to a training centered around The New Art of The Leader.

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This morning as I was browsing around I ran into the home page of Dan Bricklin, the co-creator of Visicalc (the first computer spreadsheet program) and Dan Bricklin’s Demo II, a really useful program for creating interactive screen demos of products (a product which I still miss because I used it a lot to get ideas in front of users quickly without having to code anything). Boy, I’d love to have a product like that around again!

As I read through some of the stuff on his site, I started getting a little nostalgic. The early days of the PC was such a cool time. I decided I might do some searching on where the hell Peter Norton ended up, who as goofy as it sounds, was someone I really looked up to as a young 13 year old getting into programming.

In that search, I found this article on denounce.com that made me laugh. For those old enough to remember (I can’t believe I have to say that now), this historic pose was on every book worth anything on computers at the time. The article was funny, and I thought I’d post it up.

I still haven’t found any good information on what happened to Peter Norton except that he apparently collects art or something now. If anyone has any links shoot them over in the comments section.

As a side note, Dan also goes through his current podcasting setup, for those interested.

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