Expedition Oregon

2014

2014-09-28T09:03:00.002-07:00

Fall has fallen upon us once more here in Yamhill. It is now 2014, or something

Still Here.

2012-04-08T06:07:00.000-07:00

Yep.

10/31/2011

2011-11-01T05:26:00.000-07:00

The stall guard is down, the barn door is open, the gates are opened. The fence is off.

Your spirit is free. Thank you, Wren. i love you.

Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-13T07:17:00.000-07:00

Godspeed, Dennis Ritchie. News of his death reported at ZDnet.

R.I.P Steve Jobs

2011-10-05T18:31:00.000-07:00

Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

-Steve Jobs 1955-2011

9/29

2011-09-29T22:09:00.000-07:00

Fall is upon us. Almost.

While the air is starting to get chilly here at F.O.B-Y.F, some warm days have snuck into the remote Yamhill valley. i suppose we needed our Summer.

The leaves remain defiant. Clinging to their branches and their spring colors, they have yet to begin the inevitable plunge to earth...to be raked or blown into burn piles, maybe a mulch pile to continue the circle of life(tm).

July 4th 2011

2011-07-04T22:20:00.000-07:00

i think there are fireworks being set off near FOB Yamhill Freedom...i am reminded of the sound of bubble wrap popping. behind a wall.

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated:

Column 1
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett
Lyman Hall
George Walton

Column 2
North Carolina:
William Hooper
Joseph Hewes
John Penn
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge
Thomas Heyward, Jr.
Thomas Lynch, Jr.
Arthur Middleton

Column 3
Massachusetts:
John Hancock
Maryland:
Samuel Chase
William Paca
Thomas Stone
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe
Richard Henry Lee
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Harrison
Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Carter Braxton

Column 4
Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris
Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Franklin
John Morton
George Clymer
James Smith
George Taylor
James Wilson
George Ross
Delaware:
Caesar Rodney
George Read
Thomas McKean

Column 5
New York:
William Floyd
Philip Livingston
Francis Lewis
Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton
John Witherspoon
Francis Hopkinson
John Hart
Abraham Clark

Column 6
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett
William Whipple
Massachusetts:
Samuel Adams
John Adams
Robert Treat Paine
Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins
William Ellery
Connecticut:
Roger Sherman
Samuel Huntington
William Williams
Oliver Wolcott
New Hampshire:
Matthew Thornton

The Case For The SSD

2011-06-19T08:08:00.000-07:00

Watch live streaming video from oreillyconfs at livestream.com

OpenBSD, FTW!

2011-03-09T17:23:00.000-08:00

One admin's OpenBSD experience:

my OpenBSD story

Do You See Music

2011-03-01T21:09:00.000-08:00

i've been playing music for quite some time. i am aware of all the emotions and goosebump sensations vibrations of air have upon the human psyche. Can any of you out there "See" music? Any notation jokes, standard or otherwise, will be -200 hit points...

Synesthesia Spotlight: 3 Visualizations Of Music

Tips For Food Bloggers

2011-02-27T17:18:00.000-08:00

Ok. Reading the article several times, i realized that this is a good read for writers, period. The food part is a bonus.

David Lebovitz gives the skinny on Food Blogging.

Writing In The 21st Century

2011-02-26T20:27:00.000-08:00

I was tempted to open this post with Snark(tm) perhaps along the lines of, "You too, can write epic Gothic novels of love, vampires, ninjas, corrupt corporations, evil hackers, noble hackers, and the lone scientist that nobody is listening to, and looks like the scientist from those two movies."

Or something.

But i won't, instead we will celebrate the success of a young author who is making waves in the book (electronic) industry.

Clicky Linky

The Very Rich Indie Writer

2/12/08

2011-02-12T11:19:00.000-08:00

Hello dear Intertube readers, here are some interesting conversions:

3 years = 1 095.7266 days

3 years = 1 577 846.3 minutes

3 years = 94 670 777.9 seconds

3 light years = 1.76354994 × 10¹³ miles

Looking back over some of the older blog posts have put some perspective over the three years that will pass, as of 2145 HRS PST, here at F.O.B:YF. While the posts have not been as consistent, ( i do enjoy typing to the Internet as much as i like whispering to the trees...) i will dutifully carry on my task to document the goings on in Yamhill.

To many more years in Yamhill, NaZdrowie!

R.I.P Joe G

2011-02-04T08:22:00.000-08:00

The music scene in Hawaii is mourning the death of one of its sons, Joe G.

For all the mayhem in TT, BP and everything else, i thank you from the bottom of my heart. i will miss you.

Godspeed Joe.

Setting The Table

2011-01-08T18:00:00.000-08:00

A thoughtful blog post on change by Greg Knauss.

Setting The Table

An Essay On Geek Culture

2010-12-30T11:32:00.000-08:00

Wake Up Geek Culture, Time To Die

and the rebuttal:

Nerd Culture Is Thriving, Patton Oswalt Is Old

This is like the Klein Bottle of nerd essays!

Kit Car, Art, or Other...

2010-12-26T15:13:00.000-08:00

There is car customization and then there is car customization. Behold, the Fiura.

Tyler's Fiero

2010-12-16T10:59:00.000-08:00

Tyler's Pontiac Fiero via carlustblog.com

Evolution

2010-12-15T08:58:00.000-08:00

The Evolution Of The Blogger, via flowtown.com

Flowtown - Social Media Marketing Application

Rumors Of Snow

2010-11-20T07:12:00.000-08:00

The week of Thanksgiving is soon upon us. There are rumors of snow among the various forecasters. Of course, i am looking forward to that powdery possibility.

Interesting how all of the geese decide to bail before the weather gets really bad...

The Ring Taxi

2010-11-05T07:34:00.000-07:00

http://jalopnik.com/5678750/this-woman-is-the-fastest-taxi-driver-in-the-world

What Your Phone Says About You

2010-11-05T07:30:00.000-07:00

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/04/iphone-android-blackberry/

Rain.

2010-10-23T06:08:00.000-07:00

The rains have begun. Most forecasts are reporting rain for seven days straight.

Playing guitar is a good idea for those rainy days, yes?

Things i Learned About Hawaii From Watching Hawaii 5-0

2010-10-03T07:48:00.000-07:00

Here is what i've learned so far from the first two episodes:

Hawaii is an Extremely Dangerous Place! For God's sake, Don't Go!

Selective Fire Weapons practically grow on the palm trees there, it's true i tell you.

Detectives drive new Camaros, or ride Sportbikes. Helmet and Seatbelts are optional.

Super Hackers live in Ka'a'awa or Kahala.

Apparently only three members of the H.P.D can speak. The others, sadly, are mute.

There is only one Shave Ice place on the entire island of Oahu and it is run by a militant racist with an eating disorder.

Locals, born and bred, cannot pronounce Kalakaua.

Sunset

2010-10-03T07:26:00.000-07:00

A picture of the Sunset. Gaston, Oregon