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Some people think kids like Ramune for the marble. I'm thinking the suction is a big part of it too.

The boy at Kapai Sushi messin' with his second bottle of Ramune.

This was the first stop of our short roadtrip with @robots4change and his brother-in-law.

Thanks, Mark for an awesome meal!

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Posted November 28, 2009
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The boy is all packed and ready for his 4-day camp.

He heads off to his 6th grade camp in the mountains tomorrow. Sure is going to be weird without him in the house for so many days but I’m sure he will come home with lots of great memories.

I'm gonna miss him.

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Posted October 12, 2009
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The boy decorates his room with some of his Euro Delivery souvenirs.

         
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I’m really glad the M3 came back with both plates in tact. Always wanted to keep them as souvenirs and now we get to. The boy wanted to put it in his room, so we mounted it on his bed. We also mounted the original M3 emblem from my car which we took off this morning and replaced with the monochrome one. And next to the license plate, we hung up a bunch of the keychains he bought while we were over there, including ones for Porche, Ferrari, Nürburgring, and of course, BMW.

His other souvenirs (cars, cars and more cars) are displayed on the other side of his room.

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Posted October 10, 2009
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Having no car really stunk. Read on for a delightful series of events.

Last weekend I had to return the borrowed Accord since my Mother-In-Law was coming back from her San Jose trip this week. Because of that, we were back to having just 1 car for the family, and let me tell you, it was no picnic. Here’s some of my tribulations the past week:

Monday:

  • I had to go to Cincinnati on a business trip so I needed to get to the airport.
  • The flight was at 8am, so I had to leave the house by 6.
  • Elsa couldn’t take me since she had to get the kids ready for and take them to school.
  • $42 later, a cab dropped me off at the airport (this all after waking up at 5am).
  • I flew pretty much all day since there are no direct flights from John Wayne to Cincinnati. Both flights were completely full, and I ended up in the middle seat both times.
  • Arrived in Cincinnati, got to the hotel, started working since I hadn't had adequate internet access all day.

Tuesday:

  • Not going to blame this whole trip on the lack of having a car, but just for establishing my state of mind, here’s some details.
  • The west coast-to-east coast time change always makes it really difficult to sleep “on time.”
  • I ended up working late the previous night and couldn’t sleep until 3am EST. 
  • I had to wake up at 6:30am EST since I was carpooling with one of my bosses who needed to start his day at 8am (my meetings started at 9), so I basically got about 3 hours of sleep.
  • 6:30am EST was really 3:30am PST, so I had also been up for about 21 hours the previous day since I got up at 5am PST to catch that flight.
  • Day goes by. I had my meetings. Internet access stunk all day. I take a cab to the airport to fly home.
  • Another full day of flying, and I arrive at John Wayne around 10:45pm PST.
  • I had no car, so $43 later, a cab dropped me off at home. It was 11:30pm and I had $85 less dollars in my wallet because of this lack of car ordeal.
  • I had been awake for another 20-some-odd hours straight again.

Wednesday:

  • As usual, when we have just 1 car, my wife has to take me to work.
  • But first, we needed to take the kids to school.
  • Which is not a big deal since my first meeting was at 9:00, so the dropoff should give us plenty of time.
  • Incidentally, that meeting was originally scheduled for 9:30, so again, I had no reason to believe dropping the kids off first would be a problem.
  • During the drive to school, I get an email stating my meeting had been moved up to 8:45.
  • This isn’t just any meeting. It’s a meeting with just about everyone I report to and their bosses, and their bosses’ bosses.
  • At this point, it would appear that I have JUST BARELY ENOUGH time to barely make it there by 8:50. 
  • I realize, I’m going to be late for a very big meeting where I have to present to two CEO’s and the senior management team.
  • Well, turns out, the boy forgot his trumpet so after dropping the kids off, we had to go back home, get his trumpet, then drop it back off at school since music is the first class of the day, and I can’t let the boy sit there without an instrument.
  • This made me even later.
  • The meeting started without me. Thankfully, my staff was prepared to take over the first part of the presentation. 
  • I walked in late, like an idiot, and resume on slide 3.
  • Not a good way to start the day.
  • Of course, with no car, I also have to bum a ride home.

Thursday:

  • Still no car. I had a doctor’s appointment in the morning so I walked.
  • The appointment takes longer than I expected and when the nurse goes to draw blood, she can’t find my vein, so she ends up not doing it at all and tells me to make an appointment to get it done at another facility. No one has ever had problems finding my vein before.
  • But, since it’s getting late and I have another meeting to get to...whatever...I walk home.
  • Elsa couldn’t take me to work because we’re waiting on a guy to come fix the dishwasher.
  • I can’t wait since I’m already running late for a meeting with...you guessed it, my boss.
  • I took the family car, figuring I’d just drive home for lunch and my wife can drop me back off at the office.
  • I walked in 15 minutes late to my meeting. It had already started. I felt like an idiot.
  • The meeting went over by an HOUR so now, my lunch hour was shot.
  • I had another conference call scheduled at 1pm, but I needed to get the car back home so my wife could pick up the kids from school later.
  • I cancelled my 1:00. Called Elsa to heat up a coupla slices of pizza since I knew that once I got home, we’d have to turn right back around in order for me to make it back in time for my 1:30 meeting.
  • I ate in the car, then was 10 minutes late for my 1:30 meeting.
  • The 1:30 meeting also went a tad long (partially because I was late), so I was 5 minutes late for my 2:00 conference call, which just happened to be with another high ranking official in the company. 
  • I felt like an idiot again. In 2 days I managed to make myself late in front of pretty much everyone ahead of me in the chain of command.
  • Call wrapped up, but now, since I had been gone or in meetings all morning, a bunch of my staff was waiting to get to me for one thing or another.
  • It was a hectic rest of the day.
  • I had no car, so I needed to bum another ride home.

Friday:

  • Got a call from my dealer that the M3 was delivered to the dealership that morning!
  • Three days earlier than promised but there was one issue...the right front wheel had a gouge in it. 
  • Fortunately, all of my paperwork validated the fact that it was not damaged when I dropped off the car so the dealer is going to fix it.
  • Car is now in hand. All my car troubles are over...hopefully?

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Posted October 10, 2009
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Proof that facial recognition in iPhoto is a bust.

Faces in iPhoto is a really cool idea and it HAS actually worked a little bit for me on occasion, but it’s clearly not working on this specific photo library for some reason. I don’t think it’s actually doing anything at all other than just pulling any face it senses into this “Kyle may also be in the photos below” list. This was definitely not the behavior I experienced on another iPhoto library (using the same computer) so I really don’t know why it’s doing this now. 

I can understand it having a hard time distinguishing between all of my kids faces since they do sort of look alike, but...

The boy does not look anything like Patrick from Sponge Bob…

Or Sailor Mercury…

Or his grandpa...

Let alone a bunch of other girls. There are several other images pulled into this set: A multitude of adults with with blonde or brown hair (or no hair at all), other kids from his soccer and flag football teams (both boys and girls of varying ethnicities), and even some of statues and other inanimate objects. It’s basically not doing anything at all.

What kills me is the other library that Faces works on is much bigger. Over 11k photos vs 5k. The only difference between the two is the resolution of the images and the source camera. The larger library is shot with various small point-and-shoots while the smaller library (the one that doesn’t work) is shot with a digital SLR (canon digital rebel). And, Faces takes FOREVER on the smaller library to pull the “may also be in” photos whereas the larger library is almost instant. Something just seems wrong with this equation.

Nice work, Apple. I love your company and pretty much all of your products, but this is just not worth the time to even bother using.

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Posted October 3, 2009
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Oakley Magnesium Four S from OakleyVault.com - Perfectly kid-sized.

I’ve been looking and waiting for smaller-sized Oakley’s to get back into the Employee Store pretty much ever since I started working at Oakley back in July of 2006.

Needlesstosay, the Fives XS have never been re-stocked, but I was thrilled to see these Mag 4’s come up on OakleyVault.com recently so I bought three of them for my kids. Just in time too. I think we sold out of them pretty fast. We had several hundred, but they all went within the first few hours of being up. It’s good to have the inside track, hehe.

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Posted October 1, 2009
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Perfect belated bday gift from my brother: New car care supplies for my new car.

In the box:

  • Lexol Leather Conditioner 
  • Lexol Leather Cleaner 
  • 2 Lexol Applicator Sponges 
  • Meguiar’s Water Magnet Microfiber Drying Towel 
  • Meguiar’s Quik Interior Detailer 
  • Meguiar’s Ultimate Quik Detailer 
  • Meguiar’s Ultimate Quik Wax 
  • 12-pack of Zwipes Microfiber Automotive Cloth 

Some may wonder why anyone would want a present that makes you work, but this is a gift most auto enthusiasts would appreciate. Now, I can throw away all the old supplies I had which definitely have had their share of use.

Thanks, Ben!

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Posted September 30, 2009
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Teaching the boy how to make parmesean cheesey toast for breakfast.

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Posted September 26, 2009
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The bunnies have bonded.

The first few days Biscotti seemed a little uninterested but I guess Bunny Foo Foo finally won her over.
 
They were grooming each other in the cage this morning. It was cute overload. Kids went nuts.
 
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Posted September 13, 2009
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Another crazy position. Yoga + Nintendo DS?

She sure is flexible, LOL.
 
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Posted September 13, 2009
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