Halle’s Smooooth Words o’ Wisdom

Michelle put up the frame herself.

When I arrived we hung the canvas and messed with the smoke flaps a bit before realizing we needed to cut and sand the smoke flap poles first.

Legend has it Kurt and Courtney first met at a Dharma Bums show at Portland’s Satyricon in 1989. A scribble of his used to be on a wall at the club. I looked for it last night at the Surfrider Foundation pint night fundraiser and think it’s a goner:

Recently I received an email from my friend Graham. Graham’s a busy guy and doesn’t email often. Check out this cool video New Belgium Brewing produced and posted recently. It’s a fun piece on Resource Revival and its founder Graham Bergh. Dig the bees.

DISCLAIMER: I own RR shares.

At least on a Mac in 2007 it is. I just canceled my subscription as I couldn’t get it to work with 4 different browsers running Max OS X 10.4.9. The customer service rep in Concord, CA was very helpful and said, “We’ve been getting a lot of these calls.”

It’s worked in years past no problem. I long for the golden age of internet baseball radio when you could listen for free to Expos simulcasts in French. Seems that while the price has risen quality has decreased. Funny that.

I just bailed Entourage and am now a Mail and iCal user. The imports went smoothly. So far so good.

The famous ‘5-minute’ Wordpress installation this time took me a day and a half. Ooops. Prior to installing WP 2.1.3 I forgot to check whether or not my site and blog were hosted on a server running MySQL 4.0 or greater and PHP 4.2 or greater. There was a MySQL incompatibility unfortunately. I realized this after loading WP 2.1.3 and running the WP intsall script. To my chagrin I received an error message that said the server’s version of mysql wasn’t compatible with Wordpress. I hate when that happens.

I spoke with my webhost and they informed me that I needed to migrate my data from a Shared-Server to a Grid-Server. Apparently Shared-Servers have problems with resource hogs and Grid-Servers have largely solved the resource hog issue.

The next step was to modify the DNS zones for the server transition. It took 12 hours for the DNS zones to modify. Once that was done all I had to do was click a button and migrate my data. My host only allows data migration between 6pm and 6am.

So I waited 13 hours for the DNS zones prep and then last night around 7pm migrated data. After that I ran the WP upgrade script. Everything worked out peachy creamy and Halle’s Smoooth Words ‘O Wisdom is up and running again. This time powered by WP 2.1.3.

Yeeemotherbleeepinghaaaa.

This is not my photograph or design. This is an flyer I helped iron out when some resolution issues arose during printing. I made a few other tweaks as well. Come to the event if you’re in Portland and want to support a worthy cause, hear good music, drink tasty beer and meet good folks. Satyricon. Portland, Oregon. Tuesday, April 24, 2007. Be there or be a trapezoid.

I triggered this class 1 wind slab avalanche skiing Sunday at 8,000 ft. near Mississippi Head on Mt. Hood. It took me by surprise. I made two turns in the quarter pipe pocket in search of soft wind deposited snow. The slab released at the start of turn 2 and I made a quick traverse to firm snow.

The crown was 3 meters wide and less than a meter deep. The wind slab was likely the result of side loading. Click here for some excellent information on wind slab and other important avalanche information.

Pat took this picture of me recently. This is a test post of sorts. I went to Pat’s Photstream and clicked BLOG THIS. The default size is a little smaller than I ‘d like. It would be nice to be able to select photo size when you blog others’ photos.

Originally uploaded by shredmaximus.

Some of our trees are infected and we’re actively removing fuel and Pine Bark Beetle larvae habitat. I never thought logging would be fun. It is. It’s hard work too.

The Oregon Department of Forestry has some useful information on the Pine Beetle here.