Saturday, February 25, 2012
Thursday, February 23, 2012
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
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Saturday, February 11, 2012
Betsy's work at the Weavers and Spinners Guild Open House Show and Sale
Just some of the work Betsy has at the show and sale.
Friday, February 10, 2012
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Geek, Heal Thyself: Treating Yourself Like a Client
When I run into a banal issue with my own technical device, it can be extremely irritating. The audacity of my own device! How dare it malfunction! Why doesn’t it “just work”? It seems especially bad since I fix these issues as my job. All my work days are filled with helping others to fix these very issues. How can they happen to me?Today I started down this path when I had an issue printing. Printers and I have a special dysfunctional relationship. I don’t want to believe printing, on stuff made from trees, still exists, and I’m baffled as to how it functions at all, given the huge melange of protocols, drivers, disorderly manuals, installation software, and general crap that surrounds printing. I desperately want computer printing to die a sudden death. I pray that e-paper, e-books, personal devices, or something, soon takes over the universe of printing. DIE PRINTER DIE!So, today, a sense of dread settled in when my own Chrome browser reported, many times, "Print is unavailable because the page you were trying to print has crashed". No matter how I tried to print, this message would be the only result. Why did this work before and not now? I knew I didn’t make any printer changes, I so rarely print as it is. Why would Chrome not print?WHY, MY PRECIOUS CHROME, WHY?When I get to that special angry-red space, I try to treat myself like I would any other client. I remind Ken that, yes, technology should "just work", but sometimes things break. I settle in to solving the problem for Ken, with the same happy enthusiasm that I would deliver to any client. Often that’s enough to drive away the frustration. In this case it worked. I dug in, and in spite of not finding a working solution online, I managed to fix Chrome so it would print again. Turns out something was wrong with my default printing, I changed my default printer to another printer, then changed it back. Doing that weird voodoo thing, which should never fix a problem, fixed my problem.If there’s a lesson here, it is to treat yourself kindly and just as special as you would others. It's a lot less frustrating, and may even help you to focus and fix your issue more quickly.
Monday, February 6, 2012
kengribble.com reaches 10 million visitors! #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Camp One Mushroom Foray
As part of a coastal visit by G³, Betsy, Rachelle, and Ken, visited Camp One, in the Jackson State Forest ( http://www.jacksonforest.com ). Our hope was to find and identify many mushrooms. It was quite dry -- for this particular forest that means damp, but not dripping -- so not as many mushrooms were found as times before.
Glass Beach
Glass Beach is in Fort Bragg. It's a beautiful beach born from the dumping of garbage into the Pacific, decades ago. The sands at Glass Beach are made of bits of wave polished glass. A rainbow of glass colors, from the differing bottles dumped there, can be found. It's a fun place to beach comb.
I found the metal junk, that was left behind, to be fascinating. One could tell the calcified and fused geometric shapes were formed from various thrown away products, but only the imagination could guess what they once were.
Friday, February 3, 2012
Thursday, February 2, 2012
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