benlog

I got a new phone and now I’m trying to write on it.

Sometimes I amuse myself a little too much. Now I have to figure out how to actual build or program the game of Toe Curling.

Bah, another benlog waiting for posts. Neighbors, I just can’t think of anything to say.

I’m writing this up in the hopes that it will someday help someone avoid going through what I have for the last several days. I will attempt to describe how to use Visual Studio 2005 to create a Windows Installer msi file that will install asp.net files, create a virtual directory in IIS, make sure that ASP.NET is installed and enabled for IIS, and also make sure that the script mappings for ASP.NET are installed. I’m using C# for coding where needed.

Just to cut to the chase, the real challenge is figuring out and correcting the state of ASP.NET and IIS. Depending on the order of installing IIS and .NET, and probably with some other unknown factors thrown in, IIS may be all set up with ASP.NET and ready to go or it may not have anything from ASP.NET installed at all. ASP.NET may be installed but the script mappings might not be in place, or maybe the script mappings are there. IIS 6.0 adds a twist in that you can have everything installed but the ASP.NET extensions might not be enabled - because, you know, usually when you install something you don’t want to actually be able to use it. Read the rest of this entry »

Storm Edge

Originally uploaded by benjaminlevy.

A week ago I left work for home at the end of a storm, and on my way I saw the most complete rainbow I had ever seen. A full 180 degrees of shiny rainbowy color filled the sky ahead. Today, a huge storm was following me home and everything was reversed. As the storm caught up to and overtook me, I decided there was something just as beautiful here today.

Shortly after this picture was taken the temperature dropped about 15 degrees, the wind picked up about 20 or 30 miles per hour, and the rain came down as thick as fat free yogurt.

wet out

Originally uploaded by benjaminlevy.

Curling season is over. I’ve been working on some good things to write about that experience.

Today was a dreary sort of day, although this picture I took at work has a certain color quality to it that adds some cheer. In fact, by the end of the day I was feeling a bit cheerful for no particular reason.

Cheers.

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originally uploaded by benjaminlevy.

Today is the last day of regularly scheduled curling. Later I will write more about that. This here, though is a picture I took while in Yellowstone over new years. I was on a nature tour with my family. Mostly, I’m just testing out what it’s like to use this feature of flickr where you can post directly to your benlog.

The other night I had a dream that I had a job writing lyrics for R. Kelly. I can’t quite remember any of the songs now, but in the dream they were pretty good words at least. It reminded me of when I was younger having a dream that my dad taught me how to play a new song on the piano and then when I woke up I could play it. Only, that’s such an old memory now that it might have been a dream within a dream. Sometimes there’s not much difference between dreams and memories.

Tomorrow is my birthday. Events like birthdays and new years days are a great reminder of time. Time is something that doesn’t really make sense to people, I don’t think. Time is a great circular reference to itself - defining time in terms that aren’t themselves a function of time is nearly impossible and almost always incomprehensible. Time marches on, as they say on TV, and yet all measurements of time are through cyclical observations.

“What time is it? No time to look back.”

On my last birthday I put my top secret three year plan into action. I let it slip just a little bit once, but nothing too specific. I think I’m about a half-year behind schedule, unfortunately. I think I might start a new three year plan this year, and take last year as a practice run and a bit of a head start. The biggest challenge will be to see what happens when the curling season ends.

How’s that for some cryptic personal rambling?

From Aftenposten Norway, Norwegian news in English:

“There’s a lot of power in a good cow,” Eriksson explained. “Even though our police officers pump iron, it’s not easy for us to assume control over a cow weighing several hundred kilos.”

“…we had to call in people who had better cow competence than we did…”