Logan & Amy’s Blog

Is it because we give him all the doggy toys he wants? That he gets two full size meals on a daily basis? Both meals being the best doggy food that we can afford, and it’s organic. Maybe it’s because we let him sleep in our room? (The cat’s don’t even get that luxury). Our little Odin has apparently become a bully at doggy daycare. We’ve had to take him in twice so we could go on vacation, and both times we get reports that Odin finds little dogs and and steals their toys and tries to pick fights. How can this be? What’s a loving father to do? Does this look like the face of a bully?

Ok, I think I’ve nearly got the design complete for my personal site, Pacifickid.com. I hope to have the layout done this weekend and start slicing/dicin it up into CSS/html. I’ve also been working on my own site framework in Perl for this. Got some interesting classes for dbi handling, can’t wait to share.

Ciao

My friend Nate has put together an interesting documentary on church culture in the northwest. He has interviews with people who helped start Ruch community, a little old country church that I grew up in, and also with people in punk rock church communities here in Portland. Dig it

Everyone needs a hobby. I just have more geekier ones than most. So here’s what’s cooking in my oven, mmmmmmmm…

• Orchardtech.com: This was my consulting/business site until I got employed with real jobs. I would really like to get this updated. Currently have some photoshop candidates, just need to make a decision and get this launched.
• No more techy posts on loganandamy.com. After being disabled for a year I renewed pacifickid.com. Originally this site was a collaborated effort with a good friend , I think I’m going to convert it into my techy blog. I plan to write my own blogging software, either in Perl or Python (been slowly teaching myself Python).
• Finish the latest version of my Picture Browser aka Blogan (Blog + Logan) . I think I’m going to ditch CGI::Application and write my own MVC with template toolkit. I have also grown in love with JQuery, plan to exploit that more. This subject deserves a post unto itself.
• Redesign loganandamy.com. We just need to do a good spring cleaning on this design, it’s 2 years old!
• Continue to learn guitar

For those that know me, I’m not a very athletic person. I’ve attempted competitive sports before, but I’ve lacked the needed killer instinct and or God given ability. After years as a sedentary computer programmer, I have managed to pack on a few extra molecules of triglyceride joy. So to get the fat out of my life ( I topped out at 245lbs last Christmas), I’ve began running…. Believe it or not, running has some amazing health benefits, one of them being immediate weight loss. Starting with a goal to complete the Great Columbia crossing, I began running July 4th. After putting my poor dilapidated lipid rich body through a self prescribed training program (and with the encouragement of my loving wife), I have knocked over 25 lbs off and now officially weigh in at 218lbs. After running across the bridge, the crazy 10k mentioned prior, I ran like hell in the Portland Run Like Hell 5k. Anyways, I haven’t quite reached my weight goal of 198, but I post this that if this lazy @#!3 can do it anyone one else surely can. Also, a great book which has inspired me further is The Complete Book of Running by the late great James Fixx (trust me, read this, and your life will be transformed).

Well it’s been one year since Amy and I tied the knot. We celebrated this milestone by basking on the beaches of Kona, Hawaii. As I write this post, thinking back to everything that has happened in the last year, I get chills thinking about how we have both changed and have grown even more in love with each other. Hawaii was a perfect setting for our anniversary, particularly the Big Island. The island is one of the most diverse places I have ever visited; containing tropical forests, lava fields, high deserts, and beautiful sandy beaches. (The big island actually has white, black, and green sand beaches) (Also the big island is actually named Hawaii..interesting??) With a perfect mean temp of 80 degrees and ocean water nearly as warm, it’s probably the closest place to paradise. We spent our time doing various things as horseback riding through the Waipi’o Valley, snorkeling in the clear waters of Captain Cooks Bay, and taking a hella cool copter ride over Mauna Loa (she’s been unhappy for 20+ years!). The trip was amazing and so was this last year. What’s that you ask? Oh, yeah my point, why the Big Island was a perfect spot for our anniversary? Amy complements me as a person in many different ways that life without her would be, well, incomplete. Without sounding too sappy, thinking back through the year, we have both grown and have been stretched in many positive directions. Just as we have grown, the Big Island is actually growing day by day. There is earth there that is less than a day old. I guess what I’m trying to say in an extremely cheesy metaphorical way is that Hawaii represents us united and the lava is the love that spills out on a daily basis creating a new platform for beautiful things to grow (no we’re not expecting yet - this is a metaphor!). I simply wouldn’t be the same without her, and we have both emerged after this year as different people. This last year has has truly shaped me into a better person, and it wasn’t possible without Amy. Ok, ok, now that you’ve wiped the tears from your cheek let me conclude with this, basically, if you haven’t been to Hawaii, you need to go. It is an amazing place, with a rich history and a diverse climate that is really hard to beat anywhere on the mainland.

Here are some misc. links I found interesting/thought provoking this week.
Excellent article by Steve McConnell on How to Self-Study for a Computer Programming Job. I’m still mulling through Code Complete (Go buy it).

Donald Boudreaux one of the writers for Cafe Hayek, a favorite Libertarian political blog of mine, sums up nicely how I feel and many pro-freetrade/humanitarians feel on immigration. (It has nothing to do with the Republican party).
Funny stuff…
Laughable.

Even funnier, I’ll be running in the Great Columbia crossing this October, my goal is to just finish.

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I know I have been very bad lately at posting on this site. I’m really not trying to neglect my dear old blog, but nothing inspiring as of yet has led me write anything useful. Well in the last couple of weeks I have discovered some interesting Vim tips, which I hope someone out there may find useful.

:g/^\(.*\)\(\r\?\n\1\)\+$/d

That’s it. A simple “:help :g” will reveal that this is an ex command in Vim, which performs a global match operation. How this command could become useful is when incorporated with the above regex.  Simply, what we’re doing is searching the entire buffer (default is 1,$) and looking for matches. The regex also has the special /d modifier which directs Vim that with any match found to delete that line. The regex broken down is basically looking for any character anchored to the beginning of the line, followed by an optional carriage return (\r - ), followed by a new line (\n), followed by another line that matches the first grouping (first line) and if exists 1 or more times (this is what the + sign is for). Whooo. Ok, have fun and until next time.

Cheers!

This is a little outdated, but we were put in our hometown newspaper.

Last weekend we loaded our car with all our camping gear and headed out on a rock n roll pilgrimage to the Gorge Amphitheatre to commune with other devote followers at the holy Sasquatch festival. For those who are not yet practicing believers of the alternative music scene, please enlighten yourself at the altar of wikipedia. Overall it was a very positive experience, saw some incredible bands such as Arcade Fire, Bjork, and the Beastie Boys. Also discovered some new bands, such as Ghostland Observatory (my favorite), Neko Case (apparently has been around for a while), and The Hold Steady. The festival is a 2 day event, we arrived Friday evening and left Monday morning. Instead of going into great detail here is the skinny version of the pros/cons.

Pros

• Discovered new bands (mentioned above).
• Great weather, until the wind storm on Sunday night.
• Quality time with Amy and my brother in-law (check out his blog on the venue).
• Beautiful scenery

Cons

• The campground was a 24 hour frat party and your neighbor was less than 12 inches away.
• The Wild Horse Campground, apparently this is the more luxerious alternative to the dusty grounds at the amphitheatre.
• $10 beers, $7 meals, and $5 cokes within the amphitheatre.
• No civilization within miles, except for George (most of the residents appear to resent concert goers).
• The last night the winds picked up and they had to shut down the main stage for over an hour. The temp dropped ( or felt like) 20 degrees.