Big Sis
I DARE you to even TRY and tell me that this isn't ADORABLE!
Big Sis and Little Bro.
Nice.
Big Sis and Little Bro.
Nice.
4/29/2006
4/28/2006
Camden
7lbs 15oz and 20 inches of newborn (pictured here at 5 hours hold). David Camden Baden Dawe - son of David and Julie Dawe. He is precious - and, as you can see, enjoying life outside the womb!
Des and Ainsley
My little god-daughter and I! She is going to be a PHENOMENAL big sister. Look how excited that little one is! She is precious.
Des and Camden
I don't hold many newborns. I'm usually scared. This guy, however, is very strong. Watching him in the nursery - he would dig his head and his ankles in to his bed and arch his back. I was impressed. I can barely do that now!
Kristy and Camden
My wife and our (friends') baby. Obviously, the woman in this picture didn't just give birth. Just taken lil' C for a test drive! I'm sure she's going to be a wonderful mother!
Big Sister
Ainsley was VERY proud today - she is going to be an AWESOME big sister! She loves her little brother very much.
4/27/2006
Super Awesome
This is an amazing video from Gordon College - of some guys reenacting the world of Super Mario Brothers . . .
Very cool
Grace,
Des
4/25/2006
Doing my Part
Just doing my part to get free software to the masses!
SubEthaEdit is a great text editor for the Mac OS.
MacZot and CodingMonkeys are going to be giving away $105,000 in FREE mac software. Not too long ago they gave away a great program for macs called AppZapper and now this promotion is bigger and better. Every blogger that posts about this promotion will help make this app free - for every blog the price is reduced by $0.05 . . . until it's FREE!!!!
Check out the deals here:
SubEthaEdit from CodingMonkeys
BLOGZOT 2.0 on MacZOT.com
Thanks - hopefully, soon, I'll have some free software for my new iMac!
Des
4/24/2006
Shocking Warfare
So, at TMI a couple of years ago, Bernie Dake introduced this game that, to put a long story short, shocked your hands if you lost. There were handles for up to 4 people to play. They watched a light and listened to annoying music - when it stopped they had to press a button on their controller or get their hands shocked.
Well, this is cooler.
Two remote-controlled tanks that shoot each other with an infrared cannon. When your tank gets shot, your controller shocks you - up to six times, at which point the game is over.
It even comes with a wrist strap so that when you get shocked and your hand contorts, if you drop the controller it won't get bashed on the floor.
I need one of these.
Find it at http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/rc/7485/.
Des
Well, this is cooler.
Two remote-controlled tanks that shoot each other with an infrared cannon. When your tank gets shot, your controller shocks you - up to six times, at which point the game is over.
It even comes with a wrist strap so that when you get shocked and your hand contorts, if you drop the controller it won't get bashed on the floor.
I need one of these.
Find it at http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/rc/7485/.
Des
4/22/2006
A busy week
It has been a busy couple of weeks. Things are going well with us in Asheville and the surrounding area. Things are busy. Camp is coming up. We've got conferences and things to do all over the place - no sign of slowing down yet.
And, of course, my parents have been in town. That was awesome. It was so good to have them around and just hang out with them - to be in the same country as them, even. I'm glad they got to make the trip.
We've gotten the first phase of approval on our quest towards permanent residence as well. One more to go (granted it could take as much as a year). Right now, we're in that we can't travel anywhere because we're in "limbo" phase . . . but we're probably a couple of months out from being able to at least travel home again. That's a good feeling. It's been a while . . .
I was at a Catholic Church yesterday and will be again today for a wedding. Catholic churches amaze me because they (as Jonny Gainey said) "create a sense of awe of God." This wasn't an old Cathedral, this was a very new building - but it was still created/decorated/respected in such a way that it just commanded this sense of reverence and repect.
Next week, Julie & Dave will have a new cute baby.
Like I said, no sign of slowing down!
Grace
Des
4/20/2006
Parents at the Lake
It really was awesome having my parents in town for a few days!
This is them sitting at Lake Lure, NC.
They look pretty good themselves!
Grace,
Des
This is them sitting at Lake Lure, NC.
They look pretty good themselves!
Grace,
Des
My wife and I
Today was the last full day that I have my parents around. It's been great to spend so much time with them - it's been great just to SEE them after so long!
One of the things we were able to do this week was to go visit Lake Lure and take a tour of the area.
This shot was taken there. Isn't my wife beautiful?
Grace,
Des
One of the things we were able to do this week was to go visit Lake Lure and take a tour of the area.
This shot was taken there. Isn't my wife beautiful?
Grace,
Des
4/17/2006
Biscuits and Gravy
Mmmmmm . . . . I love the sound of that title. My parents are still in town, which is great! What's also cool is that today I got to make for them a wonderful southern delicacy - biscuits and gravy.
Now, before you get too far down my throat about a Canadian making biscuits and gravy, I've been told by many-a southerner that I make FINE gravy. It was the mentorship of a southerner that got me to this point (thank you Mr. Mike Michels!).
Most Canadians that I know that have come down this way aren't too fond of this wonderful treat. Thank goodness it grew on me. My parents loved it. That's what I like to hear.
Kristy still hasn't been won over to the light.
Here's to biscuits, gravy, new experiences, and family!
Grace,
Des
4/15/2006
The Mountains
Kristy and I got to spend some time in the Mountains today with my parents, who are here visiting!
4/13/2006
Google Calendar Launches
Google has FINALLY launched their "CL2" calendar service. If you go to http://calendar.google.com . . . you can sign up for a great little calendar service that will be (eventually) completely integrated with Gmail. Right now, you can invite people to events, keep track of who has replied/declined . . . you can be reminded of events via text message or email.
It's pretty neat . . . and if you alread use a similar program on your computer, you can upload you calendar to the internet and have access to it from anywhere!
Check it out.
4/11/2006
Monitor is Off
So . . . this photo comes from a hospital. I took it when Kristy and I went to see Kathy and Jay, and meet Caden for the first time.
I laughed a lot when I read this.
The things you can find in a hospital room.
Grace,
des
I laughed a lot when I read this.
The things you can find in a hospital room.
Grace,
des
4/10/2006
Firefox Universal Binary
I'm obviously (if you've been reading my last few posts) a newbie in the Mac world . . . running a new 17" iMac Intel Core Duo. It's an amazing machine . . . I love it.
One of my biggest complaints, though, is that Firefox (my favorite web browser) was real slow on my mac. Now that Macs use a completely different architecture, a lot of the programs have to be recompiled to run at optimal levels of performance.
Firefox finally is! Or at least in a pre-release version . . .
I don't know if "Universal Binaries" will speed up performance on people running PowerPC macs . . . but if you (read: Phil) want to try it out, click on the title of this post to go to the pre-release download page for firefox.
iMac-ing is going very well . . . and I'm learning how much I don't know.
Grace,
Des
Naked on Palm Sunday
Yesterday was Palm Sunday - it's the day where Christians remember the "triumphant" entry of Jesus into Jerusalem - riding on a donkey. I was at Hickory with In His Grip (a drama group that I'm involved with) and was listening to the preacher who made mention of the fact that people put their garments on the road so that the donkey could walk over them - kind of like a red carpet type of thing.
I don't think there was anything real special about the way it was described . . . except that I had a thought that I had never had before.
If the people who lined the streets removed their garments . . . wouldn't that mean they were naked? Or at least in their boxer shorts? I've never really thought of that. Certainly they wouldn't have packed extra clothes? Right?
So were they there, just totally "exposed" to Christ . . . who would later die for what he "saw" in them? Was everything completely unhidden . . . figuratively and literally?
You can read about it in Mark 11:1-11 . . . or any of the Gospels for that matter. In Mark 11, note verse 8. Click on the title of this post to check out the passage at biblegateway.com.
Anyone with insight, please comment.
Grace,
Des
4/06/2006
The Public Restroom of Life
WARNING: this post has been rated as gross by me. If you read you may be disgusted.
I was in a public restroom today. Specifically - a public restroom at a Wendy's restaurant. It was disgusting. Public restrooms may be, for me, the biggest stomach turner. Now . . . I'm a guy, so I can't speak to the conditions of Women's restrooms, but finding a men's room in any kind of presentable condition is practically impossible.
Even the "nice" ones . . . are often vandalized - it's got that Sharpiti all over the stall (Graffiti written in Sharpie) saying for a good time, call me.
Honestly . . . most often public restrooms are often so nasty that I don't even want to leave my waste there. The most vile, disgusting part of physically being human is too good for this place!
You want to wash your hands, but then you can't dry them without touching something - you can't even leave without touching the door. What's the point? You'd just have to go back and wash them again.
I wonder how God feels about sin. Sometimes I think He's more tolerant of it than we think He is. That probably doens't make a whole lot of sense . . . but it does in my head. Other times, I'm reminded that maybe it's like walking into a public restroom . . . . at a truck stop.
Anyway . . . just some thoughts I had today. Getting a vision whilst you're peeing is something that may not happen that often.
Oh, while we're talking about waste . . . if you havne't heard it yet, remind me sometime to tell you the "Look what just fell out of my undies" story. Camp counselling is often fun . . . but you also have to deal with a lot of crap, sometimes!
Hope you weren't too disgusted.
Des
4/05/2006
Sharing One iPhoto Library Among Many Users
I should point out that I paraphrased an article from macosxhints.com in putting this post together. Please dont' think I figured this out by myself . . . the article was written by a guy named, elmimmo.
I don't mean to bore you with tech talk (for those of you who would be bored by tech talk!) - but this is as much for me as it is for anyone else - probably more for me. It's something I had to try to figure out and now, I don't want to forget - so if I ever have to reload my iMac, I can come back to this post and do it all again!
So here goes. My problems was that I could share photos between my account and Kristy's account and the Mac . . . i take that back. I could share them - but in order for her to access mine - I would have to log in, open iPhoto, leave it open, switch back to her account and view the photos that way. They're OUR photos, and I want there to be ONE location.
So this is how you do it:
1. Enable ACL (access control lists) on your system. The command in Terminal is:
sudo fsaclctl -p / -e
2. You'll want to actually MAKE the folder where your pics will be stored. It needs to be accessable by all of the users that will be accessing it. I did it in /Users/Shared . . . and I called the folder - "iPhoto Shared Library." I did it by opening my "Macintosh HD" and simply navigating to the /Users/Shared folder.
3. Add the ACL rule for each user - do THAT by typing THIS in the terminal window:
sudo chmod +a "UserName allow delete,chown,list,search,add_file,add_subdirectory, delete_child,file_inherit,directory_inherit" /Users/Shared/NameofLibrary
All of the items above separated by commas have NO spaces inbetween them. Also, if your Library name has spaces in it, you'll have to put a backslash (\) before each space. Example - my library is called iPhoto Shared Library . . . so I would have to type that as iPhoto\ Shared\ Library. Get it?
Do this for every user that wants to be able to use this library.
4. Log in to each users account and tell iPhoto to use this new library. To do that, hold down "Option" when you start iPhoto - it'll ask you what library to use.
If, like me, you had already loaded pictures into your individual library before realizing that it wasn't easy to share, just COPY (not move) them to the new location . . . then delete them from the original location.
I did it today and it works stupendously. Now, though, only one user can be viewing the library at a time - I'm sure there is a way to make two copies of the library regularly, using automator or something . . . but I'll take the inconvenience of only having one user able to access it over having 2x the amount of disk space used.
That's it.
Grace,
Des
I don't mean to bore you with tech talk (for those of you who would be bored by tech talk!) - but this is as much for me as it is for anyone else - probably more for me. It's something I had to try to figure out and now, I don't want to forget - so if I ever have to reload my iMac, I can come back to this post and do it all again!
So here goes. My problems was that I could share photos between my account and Kristy's account and the Mac . . . i take that back. I could share them - but in order for her to access mine - I would have to log in, open iPhoto, leave it open, switch back to her account and view the photos that way. They're OUR photos, and I want there to be ONE location.
So this is how you do it:
1. Enable ACL (access control lists) on your system. The command in Terminal is:
sudo fsaclctl -p / -e
2. You'll want to actually MAKE the folder where your pics will be stored. It needs to be accessable by all of the users that will be accessing it. I did it in /Users/Shared . . . and I called the folder - "iPhoto Shared Library." I did it by opening my "Macintosh HD" and simply navigating to the /Users/Shared folder.
3. Add the ACL rule for each user - do THAT by typing THIS in the terminal window:
sudo chmod +a "UserName allow delete,chown,list,search,add_file,add_subdirectory, delete_child,file_inherit,directory_inherit" /Users/Shared/NameofLibrary
All of the items above separated by commas have NO spaces inbetween them. Also, if your Library name has spaces in it, you'll have to put a backslash (\) before each space. Example - my library is called iPhoto Shared Library . . . so I would have to type that as iPhoto\ Shared\ Library. Get it?
Do this for every user that wants to be able to use this library.
4. Log in to each users account and tell iPhoto to use this new library. To do that, hold down "Option" when you start iPhoto - it'll ask you what library to use.
If, like me, you had already loaded pictures into your individual library before realizing that it wasn't easy to share, just COPY (not move) them to the new location . . . then delete them from the original location.
I did it today and it works stupendously. Now, though, only one user can be viewing the library at a time - I'm sure there is a way to make two copies of the library regularly, using automator or something . . . but I'll take the inconvenience of only having one user able to access it over having 2x the amount of disk space used.
That's it.
Grace,
Des
4/04/2006
Ooooh, yeah.
There it is. It's up and running. I may be confused . . .
It's pretty different.
But it's awesome.
It's pretty different.
But it's awesome.
First Post from My New iMac
The moment has finally arrived.
My iMac arrived today - at about 5:00. I have no idea what I'm doing, but it looks sweet while I'm doing it. I'm sure I'll learn. If any mac users out there have any tips, just let me know.
I've got so much to do already. I have a bunch of programs that I want to try, and I've got to figure out how to get my pictures on there so I can edit them and keep them.
I'm pretty stoked.
I'll post some pictures soon.
Des
4/03/2006
Every Move I Make
Today was very cool.
At the Asheville Boys & Girls Club, we celebrated the opening of Boys' and Girls' club week. There were opening ceremonies, and cake, and basketball games. I've been working for a couple of weeks with a group of 8-11 year olds, teaching them to sing "Every Move I Make" with some cool (depending on who you ask . . . Kristy) moves.
They did very well.
Then tonight, as I was watching the news . . . there they were! Singing away. It was good. Most of them were pretty excited.
That's it. It was just cool that they were on there. I wonder if they saw it?
Grace,
Des
At the Asheville Boys & Girls Club, we celebrated the opening of Boys' and Girls' club week. There were opening ceremonies, and cake, and basketball games. I've been working for a couple of weeks with a group of 8-11 year olds, teaching them to sing "Every Move I Make" with some cool (depending on who you ask . . . Kristy) moves.
They did very well.
Then tonight, as I was watching the news . . . there they were! Singing away. It was good. Most of them were pretty excited.
That's it. It was just cool that they were on there. I wonder if they saw it?
Grace,
Des
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