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39 of 52: A Reminder a Day

We are leaving Tesla in the care of Mie's mother while we go to Burning Man this year. That will be Friday until Sunday after the Burn ...ten days. We've never been both away from her for even 24 hours before.

I made a little box with a photo of Mie or I on it for each day and we will put a treat in each one. Hopefully she won't think we've abandoned her completely this way? Parental guilt starting to to get thick...

38 of 52: A Goose Dreaming of Moose Juice

Mie's nephew Tyler brought out some Dr. Seuss books this weekend while we were having a paint the RV day in Alameda. He pointed out a particular passage in Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book that he liked:

A moose is asleep. He is dreaming of moose drinks.
A goose is asleep. He is dreaming of goose drinks.
That's well and good when a moose dreams of moose juice.
And nothing goes wrong when a goose dreams of goose juice.
But it isn't too good when a moose and a goose
Start dreaming they're drinking the other one's juice.
Moose juice, not goose juice, is juice for a moose.
And goose juice, not moose juice, is juice for a goose.
So, when goose gets a mouthful of juices of mooses
And moose gets a mouthful of juices of gooses
They always fall out of their beds screaming screams
So, I'm warning you, now! Never drink in your dreams.

I thought it odd that the otherwise adventurous Seuss was so conservative in dream juice segregation. I mean, come on, fall out of your bed screaming screams just because you drank the wrong juice? Doubtful. I decided to draw a goose dreaming of moose juice on the RV.

Flying 0th Class

Telstar Logisitics has a photoset and blog post about his recent PR ride on Emirate Air's brand spanking new Airbus A380. It looks like a jaw dropping air travel experience that makes flying first class look like coach. It's got showers.

A380 photo by Telstar Logistics

A380 shower room

Y: The Last Man - Tesla Mod

Tesla decided to improve my copy of Y: The Last Man book 10. I'm impressed by the fact that it was an entirely non-random piece of work for her. Usually I don't see such an obvious pattern. I'm sure someone with more knowledge of cognitive development could point out how it limns a new stage in her abilities.

Y_the_last_man_tesla_mod

CLI editor for ICS files?

I'd really like to find an open source command line editor for iCalendar (ics) files. I generally maintain my calendars using iCal on OS X, but the iCal client does not allow write access to calendars you've subscribed to even if the server settings allow it. So sometimes I want to edit a calendar directly on the server and all I have is ssh terminal access.

I've gone on google hunts (and sourceforge, rubyforge and freshmeat hunts) for this several times but somehow can never come up with one even though I know one must exist. I could probably write one in under an hour using a ruby or perl library, but there has to be a more robust full-featured one than I could do in an hour out there.

Anyone know of one?