More insight into kid brain development. Scarlett drew this image of a person sitting on a chair. I asked her if the little box was a tablet. She said, “No, it’s a door.” So I asked her why it was so small. “Because it’s far away.”

It’s been a long time since I last took a look at an innovative music player. Back in 2006 I explored Songbird and in 2008 I looked at some of the unique features over two posts: Taking Another Look at Songbird and Play the Web. The ability to grab MP3s off of sites, in particular seemed to be a great way to take advantage of the music blogs as a way to discover new music. Some of this has been superseded by certain browser plugins that can grab all files off a webpage based on regular expressions. In the last decade, there has been a big change in the way most people experience digital music. Most people have stopped buying music in favor of either using Youtube or a subscription service like Spotify, Rdio, Amazon Prime Music, or Google Music.

In April I took a break from playing so many games to focus on comics and books. But I still go some play time in.

Civilization V (1 hour):

https://youtu.be/Arqezzfpfso?list=PLEJrELYLxNgVwd6MWpI64II_fu14o3KpB

Cook Serve Delicious (30 minutes):

I just wanted to test how well it would work on my Linux computer with Steam Big Picture. For some weird reason, it didn’t work with the Xbox controller despite the fact that I was able to use the controller with Big Picture and with Poker Night 2 (at least when streaming from the Windows computer). It worked OK with the keyboard. Strangely the mouse was a bit offset from where it was clicking.

Crop everyone else out!

That sweet, sweet bokeh. Although, you have to remember to increase that f-stop as soon as you start moving things out of one plane.

When Danielle brought out a hoodie for Sam a few weeks ago, I knew I had to photograph him in it for the incongruity of him just being a little baby in a hoodie. But I wasn’t sure what look I was going to go for. Then I remembered my snoot. Hooked that up to the flash and boom, no need for Photoshop or anything - this is exactly how it came out of the camera.

I’ve been looking at NAS implementations for a long time. I looked at FreeNAS for a while then OpenMediaVault. But what I really wanted was to be able to take advantage of btrfs and its great RAID abilities - especially its ability to dynamically expand. So I was happy when I discovered Rockstor on Reddit. Here are some videos in which I explore the interface and how to work with Rockstor using a VM before setting it up on bare metal.