Orion at 2700 miles in altitude. As frequently stated by NASA today, this is the furthest a human-rated space vehicle has gone on over 40 years.

Orion has restarted its engine and has increased its apogee to 3608 miles, it’s perigee is now at -23 miles (below surface) bringing it to a high arc and back to the surface.

Finally got to see the launch through the replays. Beautiful. Reminds me so much of Apollo.

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What the hell! I’m watching the Orion spacecraft launch and just as they say “one” the stream dies.

Ugh.

I want to click the middle button on my text predict until it starts looping.

I am repurposing a three ring binder of you who are you going to be a partial solar eclipse on the 23rd of the sun is shining through the forest and I are going to the Pink Arrow game is at the moment I am a beautiful person who is the only cheddar pierogi I could find a way to get a majority of the governed begin to disown the government does not have to be a partial solar eclipse on the 23rd of the sun is shining.

So… how about the weather?

Ryker’s 6 month check up was on Thursday. 23 pounds and 27.5 inches. He’s in the 99 percentile of infants.

This video of the man singing to his dying newborn after his wife died has me in tears… and I haven’t even watched it. It’s too much - just too much. When they carted Kerrie away in a hurry when Ryker’s vitals crashed, I had 10 long agonizing minutes to entertain every possible horrific scenario. A c-section may be common, but surgery is still surgery. My heart breaks for this man.

So Ferris has a pretty nice looking InfoSec program… oh, a 50% acceptance rate. :(

The lander has successfully made contact with the comet’s surface!

Ryker was fussy until I began playing the new Pink Floyd album. That’s my boy! :)

Good bit of trivia for football fans: What is the rarest method of scoring in American football?

The greater of two evils won a small majority last night. Nothing changes.

Do I go with Information Security? Or keep on keeping on with Network Administration.

Choices, choices…

Final score: New Zealand 74, United States 6.

Yeah, never mind. US down 24 to 6 already. Yikes.

Thus far the Americans are playing very well against the #1 team in the world.

The US Eagles vs the New Zealand All Blacks begins in 5 minutes on NBC. The largest crowd for a Rugby game in the US is on hand to watch this international match.

If you’re watching the game and have questions about Rugby, I’m more than happy to answer :)

Ryker is now in size 4 diapers. At 5 months old.

Size 4…

I turned Kerrie Bartel-Christensen to the dark side… she’s an Android user now ;)

HBO Go without cable is coming next year!

Wife is headed to Pearl Jam.

Ryker is sleeping.

Belle is watching TV in her room.

The salsa in the fridge is calling me.

I’m too cool for school.

Ugh… ‘9ers :(

The Bengals-Panthers game today was the highest scoring tie game in NFL history.

Is computer camp still a thing? I think Belle would love it.

I want to thank all of my adoring fans for wishing me a happy birthday. :)

I’m doing homework and watching the New England Patriots getting absolutely thrashed.

Today was Isabelle’s first day of homeschooling. We took it easy for day one, covering math, reading, a quick overview of the Brazilian government, French, and javascript programming. We received Belle’s desk today, so will have a place to work in the future.

Very excited about her future. We order her new textbooks tonight.

Yesterday’s Bears Packers game was only the second time in NFL history that neither team punted in the entire game.

Bonus vacation day for the punters.

I am not sure that I will ever feel safe until there is civilian oversight over police departments.

Nothing makes you feel smarter than when you’re testing Khan Academy and you get early math questions wrong.

DOH!

Temperature rising, ears ringing, hacking cough, sore eyes…

fun.

My family has spread their disease to me!

I have a small, private, white-listed Minecraft server running. If you’re interested in playing with the world my daughter and I plan to play, let me know!

The world is brand new, so there is nothing built yet. Nonetheless, the world is open to explore :) This is an unmodded vanilla server version 1.8.

Server address is: mine.dsgo.us. You must first be added to the white-list to join!

“Malicious compliance” has now become one of my favorite phrases.

Edit for Definition: Malicious compliance is the behavior of a person who intentionally inflicts harm by strictly following the orders of management or following legal compulsions, knowing that compliance with the orders will cause a loss of some form resulting in damage to the manager’s business or reputation, or a loss to an employee or subordinate.

“Most of us have been conditioned to regard military combat as exciting and glamorous - an opportunity for men to prove their competence and courage. Since armies are legal, we feel that war is acceptable; in general, nobody feels that war is criminal or that accepting it is criminal attitude. In fact, we have been brainwashed. War is neither glamorous nor attractive. It is monstrous. Its very nature is one of tragedy and suffering.” - Dalai Lama

CAN’T SLEEP!!!!!

Waiting for my classes to come online.

So I did it, I changed my major to Systems Administration. Yay :)

I’m an antisocial drinker.

Thinking of changing my major to Network Administration. Programming is fun, but me thinks net admin may have more solid jobs. Hmmm….

Someone needs to give me an idea of software to program. Small or large, I don’t want to get rusty.

I dislike Visual BASIC… I have two semesters of it to look forward to.

So they’re saying the kid stole some cigars before he was gunned down by police. Even if it is true, does this mean that theft is now punishable by summary execution? Well, at least for non-whites it seems.

Heard sirens in the area, turned on my scanner app, someone has a fire in their oven.

Technology!

Heads up Kelsi Ann, Diana Hyvarinen, Roseann Hyvarinen … The strongest stuff is predicted to be east of you all, but that could change through the day.

From the Storm Prediction Center:

Severe thunderstorms are expected today into tonight across much of the Ohio Valley and Mid Atlantic Coast region. The most concentrated and significant severe weather threat area will be across eastern Kentucky, southern Ohio, southwestern West Virginia, and southwestern Virginia this afternoon. A couple of strong tornadoes will be possible along with swaths of damaging winds and large hail.

You would think that a people with a history of unjustified horrors would have learned how to be better humans and not try to act out the injustices applied to them in the past on people today.

There is a Rugby 7s tournament here in Grand Rapids this weekend!! Can’t wait.

Why are Republicans against the incandescent light bulb ban?

“The many impeachable offenses of Barack Obama can no longer be ignored."

Yeah? Name one.

Kentwood tornado was given the rating of EF-1 by the NWS.

What what WHAT!? A new Pink Floyd album!!

Wish I could remember the name of the flying green insects I would see all the time in the U.P. I always thought they were so cute.

Now I have to figure out how to boycott a place I would never step into in the first place.

The first tropical system of the Atlantic basin season has formed. The National Hurricane Center has begun to issue advisories on Tropical Depression One this evening, and is expected to become Tropical Storm Arthur pretty soon.

That moment when a musician you like is following you on Twitter… and you had never followed them in the first place.

Whoa! The federal copyright on the Washington football team had been canceled. Name change soon?

Hey! Who wants a new Iraq war!

I have a feeling our foreign policy has a bad case of sequelitis.

A Halo game collection containing all 4 Halos? I’m sold.

This kid has drank 22oz of pumped breast milk and formula combined, plus over 6 hours of breastfeeding. He’s just over 3 weeks old!! The hunger in him is insatiable.

Ryker had gained another 12oz in the past two days. He’s just shy of 9 pounds now.

The eating machine that is my son has gained about 13oz in two days and is now 8 pounds.

“I divide my officers into four groups. There are clever, diligent, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and diligent – their place is the General Staff. The next lot are stupid and lazy – they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the intellectual clarity and the composure necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is stupid and diligent – he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always cause only mischief.”

■ Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord

The fact that Reading Rainbow was funded by the first day, and double its goal by day two really speaks volumes to how important the show was to the kids who grew up watching it.

Home with Ryker!

I’m streaming my game play of Minecraft on Twitch. Playing with over 200 mods! :) No camera or microphone yet.

http://www.twitch.tv/dubhghlasscott

Internet Explorer, the number one Web browser for installing other Web browsers.

I am the Chicken Tender Ninja.

You should only look in other people’s bowls to check if they have enough, not to see if you have as much as they do.

Today I bought the components to build my new computer. Can’t wait for them to get here.

16GB of RAM, and a GeForce GTX 750 TI video card with 2GB of memory. Processor is an AMD FX-4300 3.8GHz Quad-Core Processor.

By the time you have finished reading this post a few people in the world will have died, some will have been freshly born, a few will have fallen in love, and others will have a devastating event happen.

We’re all stuck on this ball of rock hurling through space together. Shouldn’t this be enough of a reason to be kind to one other?

Lots of tornadoes down south. :-(

I had to start timing contractions in the theater. We’re getting close. :-) Counting down the days.

“Don’t try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-already-are.” -Dalai Lama

I did 3 miles on my bike this morning… and my app only tracked 0.3 of it. :/

First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.

May I become at all times, both now and forever A protector for those without protection A guide for those who have lost their way A ship for those with oceans to cross A bridge for those with rivers to cross A sanctuary for those in danger A lamp for those without light A place of refuge for those who lack shelter And a servant to all in need.

×× Dalai Lama ××

Steven Cobert to take over the late show!? I’ll miss his comedy central show, but this will give us an hour with him. What’s not to love!!

Expect to hear a bunch of people going ape shit crazy over lunar eclipses for a while. Lots of “the end is nigh” talk.

The thermometer says it is 53° outside, but it feels so much better than that.

Just to mess with me, my computer blue screened overnight with just the one stick of RAM. :/

My computer problems just became odder. I was convinced that maybe my problems was coming from the RAM slot in my motherboard. I ran the computer fine all night with just one stick in.

So today I moved that stick to the other slot……… and it’s working perfectly.

Huh…

My computer runs fine with only one sick of RAM in. I was afraid of this…

Just watched episode 4 of Cosmos. Science is beautiful.

My computer is one blue screen after another, even after completely replacing both RAM sticks, installing Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. When installing Ubuntu, it just locks up at random points.

I don’t like where this is going.

“Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That’s when I will be truly dead - when I exist in no one’s memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that person dies, the whole cluster dies, too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?” - Irvin Yalom

Feeling a little better today. No fever, but so much congestion and sinus pressure - I still feel like I’m thinking through a fog. Plus, it’s moved more into my chest now. Wheezzzzzzz.

Ugh, I’m sick. Full blown fever sick. Uncontrollable shivers sick. Fevered dreams that seem to go on forever, but only lasts a half hour sick.

Tonight is a full moon, a time for insight for Buddhist. I thought it might be fun to answer any questions regarding buddhism. Therefore:

Am I the only buddhist you know? Anything you’re curious about? Ask away!!!

Just watched Cosmos with Isabelle. She loved it.

Took a 7 hour long timelapse of today’s snow melt. Waiting for it to render.

That is born will die, What has been gathered will be dispersed, What has been accumulated will be exhausted, What has been built up will collapse, And what has been high will be brought low.

This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky, Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.

》Buddha

Dishwasher :( Water heater :(

First essay had come back. 98% :-)

“Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted.” ― Alan Watts, The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

I did poorly on my first test in Java Programming at the beginning of the semester. After looking over all of the assignments left, it has screwed me over. It is mathematically impossible for me to get an A in this class, highest possible is where I’m at now: A-. No president’s list this semester, I’m going to have to slum it with the dean’s list folks ;)

I still have a beta code for Elder Scrolls Online to give to anyone who wants it. The beta begins tomorrow at noon.

Oh my, I’m old. Went outside and slipped in the snow and landed on my side. Now my back and hip hurt.

Nom nom nom, yum! Thank you Amelia Rhodes for a delicious dinner! It truly was fantastic.

So hungry. Face numbness needs to go away soon!