I’m not here.

Ramaria, another new genus (for me) I found growing under a Douglas-fir.

The Harvest Fair isn’t all cider making and sheep wrestling, there’s also a hotly contested pie baking contest.

I’ve been pushing my wife to enter because she’s the best cook and baker I know — and she proved it. Her entry of a sour cherry pie took home not just Best Sweet but Best Crust too! It was the first double winner in the contest’s history!

I love my wife and I’m very proud of her.

It used to be Mac upgrades were straight forward and safe, but no longer. I’m continually experiencing some problem or another, though fortunately most are pretty easy to remedy — here’s another and my most recent.

I have an extensive backup strategy which includes backing up to two different external drives. When I upgraded to 10.5.6 I had no issues with Time Machine on the first of the drives but when I got to work today I was greeted with this lovely and informative message:

You do not have appropriate access privileges to save file “.0022xxxxxxxx” in folder “Island”.

It’s an easy fix, open iTerm or Terminal and follow along:

$ cd /Volumes/{volume name}
$ sudo chown $USER {file name}

I haven’t been drooling over maps as long as others I know, but I do enjoy them. Since a picture is worth a thousand words I wanted a way to put our travels on the map. I think geo-mashup is just the solution.

So from now on I’ll be geocoding our travels (and back-coding those already posted). To view a post with a map entry, follow the link to the right of the date in the post header (this post is geocoded) and/or go to the new Wandering page to see those posts already geocoded and on the map.

Via Agile Testing:

• Grab the nearest book.
• Open it to page 56.
• Find the fifth sentence.
• Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
• Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

Here’s mine, from Edible and Medicinal Plants of the West, discussing the Evening Primrose:

Fruits are presented as four-celled capsules.

Sentence four had a lot more to say, oh well.