My son was watching me re-organize my fort in dojo mojo
So he quickly ran into the living room to build his own…
And here is hiding during an attack…
My son’s dojo mojo fort
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Happy or sad news?
But weird to see strewn on the street
Chicken Brains part deux
So in my earlier post I shared the tale of the smart chicken, but I didn’t realize how smart.
The chicken that died was nick-named Twister. She was an awesome chicken who was a very reliable egg layer AND she was very nice.
My wife loved that chicken.
On the other hand, Kiwi our new pet chicken laid eggs, infrequently. They were fancy eggs mind you but, the last 6 months hadn’t laid a single egg.
So my wife was planning to off her. No eggs, no feed. We have rules in this house.
But apparently Kiwi had plans. The minute Twister died, she immediately seized the opportunity to become the new pet chicken thereby earning a permanent reprieve from the soup pot.
Chicken has brains
My wife keeps chickens to feed my fresh egg habit. One of our favorite chickens, used as a pet by our son, died of an infection a few days ago.
Fortunately a replacement stood in immediately… after all the replacement doesn’t become soup…
The sign of the time
My son was given a small model SR-71 blackbird. The plane was already pretty beat up because the toy was a hand me down from another toddler.
After having fixed the SR-71 for the fifth time, the writing was on the wall, Nicholas needed a new one.
So I went to Amazon.com and bought him a new plane… And since I was there, I could not resist buying him a model F14 …
A symbol of US military supremacy … built in …
China…
The irony is not lost on me… Our military might, as toys, built in China…
Moved.
After 8+ years on Yahoo!’s hosting site, I moved. No longer www.krung.net/blog … I am daytodaynonsense.kostadis.com …
Was it the crappy interface, the poor customer service, the lack of tools, or the price?
Nope.
None of the above.
Database errors. I started getting database connection errors when I tried to access my blog.
Doesn’t really inspire confidence that they know what they are doing there…
I’ll eventually move the www.krung.net domain to hostgator and I’ll recreate the www.krung.net/blog URL… but good bye Yahoo!…
You will not be missed or even pissed.
Wet suit
Battlestone Toddler Swipe Destruction of Spires
One of the games launched this year is Battlestone. A critically well received game where the player navigates through levels swiping and destroying monsters and these purple spires.
Below you can see a hero destroying three spires.
So here’s my son doing the same thing…
Battery life low on Android – EAR SPLITTING SOUND – Battery life low on Android – EAR SPLITTING SOUND
I love my Samsung Galaxy S4 except for the ear-splitting, marriage destroying notification that the battery is low.
The sound is loud enough to raise the dead. Thankfully I know how to use an axe.
So what’s the problem, you ask – just disable the notification.
Well it turns out that the notification is a system sound. Unfortunately there is no option to disable system sounds.
Enter google.
So I spent some time looking for the answer, and found many many other folks who were just as tormented as I was.
There were folks who proposed I recompile the entire Android kernel, then there was the folks who recommended I root my phone and remove the offending sound, and then there was the folks who recommended I discard my phone and buy an iPhone.
Fortunately, just as I was imagining what kind of ritualistic violence I could practice on my phone, someone recommended Sound Manager on the Android app store. Apparently this app, can disable system sounds.
The ear-splitting sound is a thing of the past.
And the folks at Samsung need to learn a lesson on usability… Or maybe they are deaf from the tone…
The miraculous mundane
My son and his cousin eating together separated by thousands of miles