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Joshua on December 21st, 2009

Last Christmas I had the idea that Jillian and Wesley needed their own special stockings. We looked at some while Christmas shopping, but didn’t find anything that we fell in love with. So in January I made a note to remind myself in August that I was going to have get to work making them […]

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Joshua on November 30th, 2009

I’ve long been fascinated by photo mosaics (using small images to create a larger image), so I was pretty excited when I ran across PyMos. PyMos is a Python module that makes mosaics using both your choice of image and choice of tiny images to build it with. Just install it as you would any […]

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Joshua on November 7th, 2009

This Summer the City of Austin had a program to give each household up to three free low-flow toilets assuming you met certain conditions: age of toilet, water usage, City water customer, etc. Well we qualified and picked up our three free toilets. Now normally, swapping out a toilet should take maybe an hour or […]

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Joshua on September 13th, 2009

Well, we finally got all of our negatives scanned, filtered out the lousiest of them, and placed our final order with ScanCafe.com.  In all we sent them 3821 negatives and rejected 959 of them.  Most of the ones we rejected were either blurry or dark. I also rejected pictures containing no person or thing I […]

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