Anime Review: Last Exile

April 17, 2012

Solid story with great animation. Thoroughly enjoyed watching and have already watched again.

Number of seasons: 2
Episodes per season: 26
Content: Very clean in Season 1. Dirty opening sequence in Season 2 but otherwise seems clean.

Kenya 2012 Summary

March 10, 2012

So I wanted to give a little summary of everything that happened. If you are interested in some more of the details and hear some more of the story there are about 4 or 5 posts that I wrote during my trip. As I write this it has been about a week since I got…

Leaving On a Jet Plane…

March 3, 2012

(Updated 3-3-2012, added more info about Safari trip) It’s Saturday morning local time. Fady and Hany flew out at 4am. Jeremy and I fly out in a few hours, at 8:30am. What a whirlwind week. We managed to get almost everything done and functional. There are probably about a dozen phone lines out of 170…

When it rains, it pours. Literally.

February 29, 2012

It happens figuratively too. As I write this up for posting in the morning when I can get Internet access, I am finishing up one very long day. It started on Tuesday. I don’t remember much of Tuesday except that it rained a lot and we had to pause our phone system work to help…

Sometimes things don’t go as expected

February 27, 2012

And those things can sometimes happen with a bright flash of lightning and a sonic boom of thunder. Although, God usually finds a way to work them out. But that would be getting ahead of myself. Sunday was a pretty relaxed day, as well as kind of short. We were tired from the long flight…

The Eagle has Landed

February 25, 2012

It’s hard to believe that I have to fly all the way to Amsterdam in order to listen to Dutch music. I’m on an airplane flying at 600mph over the United States. The in-seat personal entertainment TV has a music selection with includes “KLM fm”, “CD jukebox”, “Audio books”, and “Dutch music”. My friend Matt…

Ready or Not…

February 24, 2012

It’s early… Really early… God isn’t awake yet. Okay, maybe 5:30am isn’t that early, but it sure feels like it to me. I’m all packed and ready to go, I hope. 🙂 At this point it is all in God’s hands (was it ever not?) so I’m just waiting for my ride and trying to…

Apple finally lets me close files!

February 7, 2012

With the 10.7.3 update apple has “fixed” the non-local-HFS save issue. I say fixed in quotes since they haven’t really fixed it but they did make it manageable now. Recap of the problem: Basically if you open a file on a non-local-HFS volume (i.e. a file server or SD card), your Autosave/Versions aware application would…

The 5 Ws of Kenya

February 2, 2012

So later this month I will be traveling to Kenya to install a phone system at a missionary boarding school. Since I despise Facebook and Twitter so much I decided to try and keep people up to date on my trip via my blog. While normally I try to keep my blog posts long enough…

Ongoing data-loss with Lion

January 17, 2012

So I got an official response from the bug reporting team over at Apple about the Lion data-loss bug with non-local volumes (see here and here). There response was short and extremely unhelpful. Currently, if want to close and undo any changes, you must hit Cancel then Revert to Last Opened/Saved, or use Versions to…