March 27, 2011
Wii Party
Good morning! It's a bright sunny one here. I spent the first bit looking for a decent Android app for uploading to Flickr. The Sprint HTC EVO 4G has had this feature built in since day one, but an update in January recent introduced a subtle bug/annoyance: your photos are always uploaded as private. So many Flickr apps are available but went with Flickroid because it didn't try to slice and dice. It's just a small Flickr uploading app and is a simple workaround for this glitch.
Interesting graph: The triumph of coal marketing
Back with the family from Mass at St. Patricks followed by our Sunday morning behave-and-you-can-have-donuts "bribery" breakfast at DFE.
We're had Wii Party since Christmas but only in the last day has my family discovered how much fun it is. Abby & Michelle are playing now.
Even though it's only ~10% cheaper, mail ordered Claire some eye contacts just to have the convenience of having them delivered to the house and get the automatic reminders for renewals.
Ran a few errands with Claire to get out of the house for a bit. Now getting my geek on by refreshing my brain on Calc Mode now that it's been updated and is included with Emacs. Last time I looked at it was about a dozen years ago when it was buggy. Meanwhile Claire's giving Michelle a heart attack by researching what it would cost for the seven of us to fly to Los Angeles this summer. Driving to Indianapolis just keeps looking better...
We had some takeout Chinese from Kowloon Wasabi for dinner. Afterwards I took Claire and two friends to their Confirmation class. (Later I found out that they watched one of my favorite movies, Bella, at class.)
While the kids played more Wii Play, I was still going through the Calc Mode tutorial. It reminds of decades ago learning all the things one could do with the powerful HP calculators (the HP-41C series, the HP-28 series, …), especially when they added symbolic math manipulation and graphing. Calc Mode is incredibly powerful for being just something thrown into the Emacs editor. Eventually though I got the boys all tucked in bed with their prayers. After a couple of shows of Disney's "Good Luck Charlie" the girls went off to bed too. Good night all!
Snapshots I took today:
