Posted by Doug
Mon, 07 Mar 2005 15:57:00 GMT
We finally made a move last night we’d been planning for a long time. When we first moved into this house, we agreed to let my wife have our fourth bedroom as her playroom (meaning crafts, scrap booking, etc). I had put my very large desk down in the basement and did my moonlighting from there. After about a year, I started telecommuting for my day-job half-time and needed a better working environment. So, Carla lost her room and I moved my stuff up to the fourth bed room. Now that I’m not telecommuting anymore, Carla wanted her room back.
In the mean time, we had gotten Carla a fairly large roll-top desk. About the same time I quit telecommuting we also got her a nice
LCD display. So, in addition to not working as many hours at my desk I was also using Carla’s quite a bit because of the nice display! Since our basement is pretty much a pit right now I wasn’t too excited about moving my desk back down there until we got around to finishing it off. So, I decided to get rid of my desk and just keep using Carla’s. I had someone from church who needed a desk so I gave it to them if they’d come get it.
Last night we had a group of friends over for a Bible study. This is the first time in a couple months the group has met at our hose. So, I got some of the guys to help me move the desk into the fourth bedroom. Even taken apart (the top comes off in one piece leaving two pedestals) it’s heavy and difficult to maneuver. The desk had been down in the living room and needed to move up stairs.
The net result is that our living room is now much larger! We rearranged our other furniture to give the greatest amount of open space. I’m sure the kids will like it. Also, the room up stairs got quite a bit smaller. When we got rid of my desk from out of there, all the stuff that was in it is basically still piled up in the corner. Plus we pulled all the stuff out of Carla’s desk before we moved it. So, that room will still need a lot of work to get it in shape again.
Changes like this are pretty good. It’s nice to get a different feel for our house. Carla plans to do a lot of painting this summer too. I’m looking forward to the results.
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Posted by Doug
Mon, 07 Mar 2005 15:33:00 GMT
Carla was out all day Saturday with a scrap booking thing. In the afternoon I took the kids to the
Cincinnati Museum Center. They have a great kids area that’s basically the best indoor play ground with some learning thrown in. Carla bought a membership that lets us get in free. We don’t go nearly enough. There’s a lot of great stuff there. We spent about four hours doing different stuff. I think the kids would have spent the entire four hours at any one of the centers.
I took about 130 photographs and culled out about 80 obviously bad ones. At
3 minutes per photo? that means I’ve got just under three hours of post-processing to get the photos on-line. I really wish I could drop that down to about 1 minute per photo. It just takes me a while to adjust the conversion settings for each photo. I’m shooting in my camera’s
RAW format mainly because that allows me to “save” some marginal shots. It also allows me to do a better job enhancing photos that are good to be excellent. The downside is the 3 minutes/photo to convert into a commonly usable format.
UPDATE: Here’s the entire
album of photos from the day.
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Posted by Doug
Sun, 06 Mar 2005 04:36:00 GMT
I run a locally compiled version of
CVS Emacs with the Carbon bindings. Overall it’s great. It takes me a long time to build Emacs though and I don’t update very often. My last compile was back in October of 2004. So, I decided to update today. What a nice surprise! One of my big pet peeves was fixed!
I’m getting more and more used to the Mac way of Cmd-c for copy and Cmd-v for paste. My problem has been there wasn’t a good way to do this in Emacs. I leave the control key defined as control and the Alt/Option key as Meta. My understanding was that the Command/Apple key wasn’t really available to Emacs. However, when I tried it today Emacs recognized Command/Apple as Alt. So, here are my Emacs settings to work on my Mac:
(setq mac-command-key-is-meta nil
mac-pass-command-to-system t
mac-pass-control-to-system nil
mac-command-modifier nil
focus-follows-mouse nil)
(global-set-key (kbd "A-x") 'kill-region) ; traditional "cut"
(global-set-key (kbd "A-v") 'yank) ; traditional "paste"
(global-set-key (kbd "A-c") 'kill-ring-save) ; traditional "copy"
(global-set-key (kbd "A-m") 'iconify-or-deiconify-frame) ; minimize
(global-set-key (kbd "A-`") 'other-frame) ; cycle through emacs windows/frames
(global-set-key (kbd "A-n") 'make-frame-command) ; new emacs window/frame
(global-set-key (kbd "A-w") 'delete-frame) ; close window/frame
My buddy Dave has what seems like a really old Emacs. When he does ‘C-h k Cmd-k’ he gets “A-k is undefined” back. That means his Cmd key is defined as an Alt key and all these settings will work on his Emacs too. Maybe I could have had this working all along.
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