Writings

  • Hypocrisy Not
    BnmnG - Wed, 2012/02/08 01:8
    Keven Drum makes a good point that not only is Obama not hypocritical for supporting a Democratic super pack, but If you’re a Republican governor who objects to the stimulus bill, you’d be actively irresponsible not to take your share of the money once it’s there. If you oppose earmarks, you still have an obligation [...]
  • TV Everywhere, All of the Time
    BnmnG - Mon, 2012/02/06 01:6
    Yay! I can watch TV everywhere, all of the time. And I should encourage my kids to watch TV, everywhere, all of the time. What a wonderful world! Now nobody ever has to not watch TV. Ever! Geez, is anyone else a little disturbed by tonight’s Hulu and Ipad commercials?
  • Paxus of Twin Oaks
    BnmnG - Fri, 2012/02/03 22:3
    I’ve been using more graphics as per the advice of Paxus, of the Twin Oaks community in Mineral, Virginia. I enjoy reading about Twin Oaks and occasionally think about joining such a community, but Sasha and I are going off in our own direction, and when I stop obsessing about politics and economics I’ll get [...]
  • Good, Low Cost Dental Hygienic Services for Hampton Roads
    BnmnG - Fri, 2012/02/03 19:3
    If you have any kids age 5-12 in need of a dental cleaning, please consider Old Dominion University’s School of Dental Hygene, and especially consider Sahar Asif, my hygienist and a student. Don’t let the word “student” scare you. ODU dental students have plenty of training in the art of dental assault and can claw [...]
  • An Overt Display of Dishonesty
    BnmnG - Fri, 2012/02/03 15:3
    A while ago I expressed my concern about the cross-the-board spending cuts that are scheduled to kick in if a budget deal can’t be reached. As Republicans get ready to brazenly renege on a deal that they never really intended to keep, I find myself even more concerned. But I was off on one point. [...]
  • I’m always changing things
    BnmnG Computing - Sat, 2012/01/21 19:21
    And I’ve decided to try combining blogs. See more posts at bnmng.com, which also includes my left-leaning political rants and information on raising meat and veggies in Suffolk, Virginia.
  • Feed Combining: Yahoo Pipes / RSS In Page
    BnmnG Computing - Thu, 2011/11/24 14:24
    On Tina’s old blog, which is still online but not updated since she moved to WordPress, there is a blog roll on her sidebar which shows her blogs in order of most recent update. I can’t find anything that works as well for WordPress. There are various feed combiners for WordPress, but all that I [...]
  • Merging with my Main Site
    BnmnG Farming - Sun, 2011/11/20 21:20
    For more of my exquisite writing, go to BnmnG.com
  • Installing Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)… All I had to do was check the friggen box!
    BnmnG Computing - Mon, 2011/10/24 23:24
    Installing 11.10 from scratch (erasing the hard drive) on a Dell Inspiron e1505 with Broadcom wireless card … When you see the checkbox about installing third party software, go ahead and put a check in it. You won’t get a chance to install the Broadcom driver later. Using software-center or the command line, everything I [...]
  • An improvement, and another use for the safetags function
    BnmnG Computing - Mon, 2011/09/05 01:5
    A while ago I wrote a function which checks HTML snippets and ensures that tags which should be closed are removed unless they are actually closed. For example, if user types <div style="whatever">Blah Blah and forgets to close the div tag, then that div tag will be removed. Sure it would be better if the [...]
  • Passing by Value or Reference
    BnmnG Computing - Thu, 2011/04/21 14:21
    I’m a function, perhaps I’m main(). I have an integer named Nicky, which has a value of 4. I want that value doubled, and there’s a couple of ways I can have it done. I could just do it myself, but that’s too much work, so I’m going to call a function. By Value One [...]
  • The Hay Bale
    BnmnG Farming - Sat, 2011/04/09 20:9
    Ben turned his pickup around carefully because Wayne’s dog was barking and running circles around it. When the truck was in a good spot, Ben got out while Wayne, with a hay spear on his tractor, picked a large round bale of peanut hay from his warehouse. The dog watched Ben carefully. A large, black [...]
  • Feeding Goats during a Drought
    BnmnG Farming - Thu, 2010/07/29 21:29
    Except for Winter, when we buy peanut hay, we feed the goats by moving them around. We can usually leave them in one spot for about three days but there’s been so little grass growing lately that there isn’t even enough food in a paddock to last a day. So we’ve been augmenting with trees [...]
  • Cute but Stupid
    BnmnG Farming - Sat, 2010/06/05 12:5
    hardware_ramp Originally uploaded by bnmng Ducklings will drown in a container, even if you’ve ensured that they can get out of the container by waving your hands around and scaring them out. After you leave, they’ll hop back in and, without the wavy-handed boogie-man threatening them, will swim around until they get too tired to [...]
  • I’m not afraid of snakes… I’m not afraid of snakes…
    BnmnG Farming - Sun, 2010/05/30 17:30
    But I’ll admit to a bit of discomfort from these two big guys lounging above the doorway to my 8×8 feed shed.

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