Aaron’s Area: The Life of a Texas nerd in California.

My dad is known for his smoked turkeys on Thanksgiving. He’ll take the whole turkey put it in his smoker and cook the thing overnight. Usually he uses cheap root beer to put in the water pan. Yesterday though he had another idea that I personally liked a LOT better. I’d got a green tea…

I left my bento on my dash board today while i worked. Went to lunch and my baby carrots had steamed themselves! I knew they would be warm did not expect perfectly steamed carrots though. Good stuff. Going to be posting hopefully a wireless network and e-mail troubleshooting guide this weekend. Look forward to it!

I got a bento box from Japan today, won it on eBay. The brand name is called “Lube Sheep”. I find that extremely funny. The implications are hilarious. I just wonder how they came up with the name in the first place and what it was supposed to mean. Was it meant to appeal to…

I tried learning CSS today. Took a free tutorial. I think I have a pretty good grasp of it now. Seems really useful to website design. Wish I had known about it a long time ago when I very first started on web design. I’ve been using GUI based web design programs like Frontpage for…

All I have to say is, working tech support isn’t the most pleasant experience I’ve ever had, but it’s far from the worst job I’ve had too. That particular honor goes to working at a plumbing company. I’m sort of in the progress of coming up with a basic troubleshooting guide right now. There’s no…

I recently found out about Marvel’s Digital Comics subscription service. They’ve got a lot of their classic comics on the web now and you can read them for ten bucks a month, or sixty dollars a year. They’ve got everything from comics published in the early sixties, maybe even before, to some stuff that was…

Well I set up my very first ‘real server’ yesterday. Still haven’t figure out how to use it with my existing computers though. I’m using the 64 bit Ubuntu Server on a PC with 1 gig RAM and a Celeron processor. I figure for home use that should be plenty of machine to run tests…

I love it when you buy one thing, as opposed to something else. Then you find out what you really wanted was cheaper. I got a Black&Decker power screwdriver at Home Depot the other day in lieu of one of their VPX sets. I was told the set with the screwdriver, saw, and flashlight did’t…

Well it’s 2008. I’ve made my resolutions already. Some definite prayer time will be needed to keep them I think. I’ve been reading the Anita Blake series of books since November, I’ve gone through the first several, “Guilty Pleasures”, “Lunatic Cafe”, “Circus of the Damned” and “The Laughing Corpse”. I’m finding them to be entertaining,…

Testing lalala