This is for anyone who might be curious about what I've been doing with my time for the last few months.
Some of it has been driving Patty (my wife) to and from her Master's degree classes. She's working on a Master of Education with emphasis on emotional disturbance. I also put together booklets for the Kindergarten class she's teaching, that she gets from the Internet and from materials at the school. I posted earlier about the work I've been doing on the computers.
Some of my time has been spent in an Internet discussion, posting ideas from some research I'm doing on the gospel of Jesus. Jesus calls His gospel the "gospel of the Kingdom." I've noticed in previous research that what He says and does in the gospels is full of implicit references to Old Testament writings. I'm going through the gospel of Matthew, trying to take a fresh look, using the Ocean Software Library to search for Old Testament writings that might be relevant, with two questions in mind:
1. What kingdom is He talking about?
2. What good news is He bringing about that kingdom?
Some of my time has been spent working with a friend of ours from France whose been staying with us. We've been working on some problems he's been having with his computer, and on some of his projects.
Some of my time has been spent on some work I've been doing for my Baha'i Local Spiritual Assembly.
Some of my time is spent enjoying life with Patty.
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Quest for a humane egg
A friend of mine has been trying to practice a humane diet. She says that giving up eggs is especially hard. I thought maybe it was possible to find places to buy eggs that are only from chickens that are treated properly. When I bought eggs this morning, I noticed that some are labeled "Free Roaming." I bought some, just to help me get into the right spirit, not that I trusted the label or had any idea what it might mean.
After I got home, I did some research and found some examples of what it might mean:
My Quest for a Humane Egg
by David Sudarsky
http://www.thevegetariansite.com/ed_eggs.htm
Maybe I can find a some people who raise chickens, who take good care of them, and who will sell me some of their eggs.
A friend of mine has been trying to practice a humane diet. She says that giving up eggs is especially hard. I thought maybe it was possible to find places to buy eggs that are only from chickens that are treated properly. When I bought eggs this morning, I noticed that some are labeled "Free Roaming." I bought some, just to help me get into the right spirit, not that I trusted the label or had any idea what it might mean.
After I got home, I did some research and found some examples of what it might mean:
My Quest for a Humane Egg
by David Sudarsky
http://www.thevegetariansite.com/ed_eggs.htm
Maybe I can find a some people who raise chickens, who take good care of them, and who will sell me some of their eggs.
Saturday, November 11, 2006
The last two months I've been having a lot of adventures on computers. Some of them are related to working on the old Power Macs in Patty's Kindergarten class, and some of them are related to helping Charlotte with the Gentoo system on her computer.
Power Macs
Two or three years ago Patty salvaged some Power Macs that other teachers were getting rid of, for her Kindergarten students to use. She found some educational games for them on CDs, and her students use them a lot. This year she wanted them to be able to use them to go to the Compass Learning Odyssey Web site, and to be able to print on the printer connected to her PC. The teachers all have new PCs this year. The iMacs they used last year are for the students to use now.
She has four Power Macs: three are 6250/100 and one is 6250/100 (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Macintosh_5200_LC ).
There were three of them that could go on the Internet, but they kept crashing. Also, the students keep moving system files and changing their names.
I was completely lost in Mac operating systems, and I needed more time to practice and experiment. I found out I could emulate a Mac in Windows on my computer at home, so I did. I Installed the same Mac OS that's on the computers at the school, on my virtual Mac at home, and spent dozens of hours studying and practicing so I could fix the systems at the school, and set them up to do what Patty wanted them to do. Now I'm a Mac wizard. Then I found out that it's impossible to use the Compass Learning Web site on those computers at all.
Gentoo
Charlotte has Gentoo on her computer at home because that's what's on the computers at the lab where she's been working. She was having some troubles with it, so I installed it on my second hard drive to practice using it so I could help her. Fortunately I encountered exactly the same problem she was having starting the desktop, and I found a solution. Of course that was after dozens of hours of study and practice.
Other adventures
While I was working about those projects, I learned a lot about emulators, programs that create a virtual computer and operating system on some other computer and operating system. Now I have a virtual Mac running System 7 in Windows XP on my PC, and a virtual PC running Debian Gnu/Linux, and Debian running in coLinux. I'm on my way to becoming a Debian wizard now.
Power Macs
Two or three years ago Patty salvaged some Power Macs that other teachers were getting rid of, for her Kindergarten students to use. She found some educational games for them on CDs, and her students use them a lot. This year she wanted them to be able to use them to go to the Compass Learning Odyssey Web site, and to be able to print on the printer connected to her PC. The teachers all have new PCs this year. The iMacs they used last year are for the students to use now.
She has four Power Macs: three are 6250/100 and one is 6250/100 (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Macintosh_5200_LC ).
There were three of them that could go on the Internet, but they kept crashing. Also, the students keep moving system files and changing their names.
I was completely lost in Mac operating systems, and I needed more time to practice and experiment. I found out I could emulate a Mac in Windows on my computer at home, so I did. I Installed the same Mac OS that's on the computers at the school, on my virtual Mac at home, and spent dozens of hours studying and practicing so I could fix the systems at the school, and set them up to do what Patty wanted them to do. Now I'm a Mac wizard. Then I found out that it's impossible to use the Compass Learning Web site on those computers at all.
Gentoo
Charlotte has Gentoo on her computer at home because that's what's on the computers at the lab where she's been working. She was having some troubles with it, so I installed it on my second hard drive to practice using it so I could help her. Fortunately I encountered exactly the same problem she was having starting the desktop, and I found a solution. Of course that was after dozens of hours of study and practice.
Other adventures
While I was working about those projects, I learned a lot about emulators, programs that create a virtual computer and operating system on some other computer and operating system. Now I have a virtual Mac running System 7 in Windows XP on my PC, and a virtual PC running Debian Gnu/Linux, and Debian running in coLinux. I'm on my way to becoming a Debian wizard now.
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