I Loved Last Sunday

Not in the city anymore.

This is CFB Borden, our Forces largest training facility, and birthplace of our Air Force. I came to cheer on my friends who competed all weekend in a long range rifle competition.

En route to the range, I saw this.

They were filming a helicopter scene, kinda neat. Here’s the IMDB page, here’s some good photos at BlogTO.

I doubt this applies to me. Carry on. Keri on.

Found my friends, watched the award ceremony. The ORA is 130 years old this year; that’s old.

That’s how long range rifle wins are celebrated.

Bet you an Eos has never before been photographed in this setting.

We always go to Tim’s after. 

These guys have been my pals for years, and they know me well.  Left is Mark and on the right is Andy, to whom I gave the first quilt I ever made, click here to see.

While I was away from the table they put part of my cookie in a tiny ziploc bag. Then when taking this photo, I turned back and they’d been holding it up for the camera.

I’m not even gonna try to explain the joke, but all of Borden heard my laugh. That ziploc is on my fridge now.

Then I came home to these giant Twitter threads.

I found this extremely funny.

The green arrow points to what kicked it all off, and this will likely make zero sense to you, but just know: the top right was how it was.

Twitter has changed a lot, back in 2008 it was just… different. If you don’t use Twitter you won’t understand this.

Actually, if you don’t, I don’t understand you. It’s the great equalizer!  Like, you _do_ realize you can now reach anyone in the world.  That’s never existed before.

Then to cap off my fantastic Sunday, random fireworks #GoodSign

 

 

 

Inside DefCon19

Quite proud of this video.

I’m 98% sure this was the only footage in the *world* of inside this year’s DefCon – the world’s largest hacker conference.

Which happened all together far too fast for my liking. I realize it’s trite to say it, but…. did that just actually happen? That’s how I’m feeling.

Here’s the full video of the snippet you see at the end. This was looped on a giant screen in the rotunda.

Spent the Weekend Rebuilding Things

Regularily, my stuff gets so melted, I have to wipe and start fresh.

That’s what I did this weekend.

(that should say ’10 oops)

That was a good one, that crash. See my hard-drive in intensive care under the arrow, separated from its casing bottom left?

Above:

– that’s what your laptop hard drive looks like

– that’s an anti-static bag, to protect the drive from electric discharges

– top right photo sums up my luck – that’s 15 minutes into having booted the new machine for the first time.  Looks like the ribbon needs tightening, shows up on the camera too.

That’s better than this alternative though.

Did the same thing to my phone, too.

When was the last time you cleaned yours? Organized your files, delete or update applications, you’d be shocked at how it feels after, how it reacts (like new).

Bottom right – see that?  Allow Facebook to go in and take copies of my Contact list, and then let them send stuff back?  Give Facebook editing power over my Calendar :|.  I hope you don’t do this.

Here’s the old desktop, for those of you who switched to Lion and miss it.

I uploaded it at best quality, click on through.

Some of my tools.

I have a burn in my shoulder from mousing so much, and I got into the zone a couple times during this where I was typing like 75 wpm with 95% accuracy BOOM.

Then I went for ice cream.

 

Sit Up Straighter

I noticed this yesterday, look.

See how my green strap is showing only on the left side?

My dress slides left, because my entire self is crooked. Not being dramatic. Actually am down-playing it.

It’s from being bent over my laptop for years, probably more time than a human should be. This may sound familiar to you.

So here’s our reminder for better posture!

Did you just gain 3 inches in height from sitting up better? I did.

But by the time I hit ‘publish’ on this post, it’ll be back to a ball, hand over my mouth in concentration, so bad.

Holy Crap I Cooked

Happens about once a year, not being dramatic.

I have not-cooking down to a science. Teenage boys probably have better diets than me.

Read the last line of my bio, over there —–>

I made a diorama in my microwave.

One time I was tricked into baking a pie.

I originally documented it here, but I decided to re-blog it, really complete this one lone cooking post.

This post is so getting it’s own catagory #NerdJoke

PS – sorry about the grainy photos below, it was 2009, the internet was different then. These may have been taken with my Razr.

PPS – this was during Obama’s inauguration party, click here.  I said he looked like he was on MTV, and the first thing he said as President was, “My wife is hot”. Brillliant.

And THAT right there, that’s one of the best parts of blogging.

KeriBlog’s Beautiful Apple Pie Recipe

From July 2011

Follow along from left to right:

– Ewww, why did I agree to this? Now is not the time to tell them I don’t like fruit. Sucking it up.

– Ha, got out of taking the skins off.

– Might not be in the clear. Now the cores have to come out. And they don’t have a little machine to do it, I asked.

– Chris showing me how to “core an apple”. Then he hovered over me while I did because “watching you use a knife is kinda terrifying, Keri”.

– Now you make lemon rind using this grater.

Jim: Push harder Keri, have you never done this before?
Me: No, never.
Jim: Okay, you know what a lemon is right? I mean, how far back do you want me to go here?
Me: [jack-knifes]

– Hey Jim painted all these, pretty eh!

– Get instructions how to roll out dough. You wanna do it as fast as you can

– Take a break to watch Michelle and Obama’s first dance. We loved it when he added in that little leg kick

– Get back to eating dough

– Look what I found! It’s a steel machete with the handle made by folding over the bottom

– If I ever bake again I’m gonna use this thing from start to finish

– Now have Jim pour the fruit into the crust

– Decorate the top of the pie. Really take your time to avoid…

– … the dishes. It works.

– Tada! Jim put the American flag on the pie, I made the new First Family

– That’s Jim

– And Chris

Then we served it with some ice cream and you know, it was a good feeling to feed people. Kinda get it now.