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Remodel photos

March 31, 2005 Posted by mitch | house | 0 Comments

I've been promising them, and finally here they are. You can check out the remodel goodness in the pics section under the "Old_House" folder.

resizing images for web upload

March 31, 2005 Posted by mitch | projects, website | 0 Comments

I wrote a simple bash script to resize images I pull off my digital camera because resizing all of the AutoExpo images was a royal pain... Anyway, it does *very* little error checking (basically only checks to make sure you gave it atleast one argument...) so use it at your own risk!

#!/bin/bash
# bash script to automatically scale images to 25% of their original size
# using ImageMagik.

if [ ! -n "$1" ]
then
echo "Usage: `basename $0` [image path]/ [new resized path]/"
exit
fi

for file in `ls $1`; do
convert -monitor $1$file -resize 25% +profile "*" $2$file
done;

Mac Mini

March 25, 2005 Posted by mitch | technology | 0 Comments

I've been hearing alot of things lately about Apple's Mac Mini. With people putting them in cars, and with Fedora creating a PPC port. I'm thinking instead of trying to build a small VIA box for use in home automation/media storage, I think I'll buy one of these neat little boxes. I can't believe how small they are...

*sigh* I'm hoping I'll have the time for this soon.

We finally got our countertops!

March 25, 2005 Posted by mitch | house | 0 Comments

Our kitchen is finally actually starting to resemble a kitchen. My dad and little brother came over wednesday and helped put the last cabinet on the wall, which helped a bunch with how the kitchen looks. Yesterday we had our smooth surface counter top installed, and its all finaly starting to come together. I really need to get pictures up soon with whats been done. I think my memory card is just about full... Hopefully I can get that done monday or something. I will post when I get it done. As for the house.... the kitchen is nearing completion, and a worst case senario, we will be using it a week from today. The plan is to have it a "working" kitchen by tuesday or wednesday of next week. Electrical for the "fire place room" and the one light in the kitchen is planned for tomorrow, and I'm hopping we can get the plumbing in for the kitchen sink in as well. That will allow us to use the dishwasher, and water/ice from the fridge. All in all I'm really looking forward to getting it completed. It really sucks not having a kitchen... not being able to cook anything really... its horrible.

I have an internet connection!

March 21, 2005 Posted by mitch | house, internet | 0 Comments

Had the comcast guy come out and install last thursday. So I now have internet! However, the problem is, the room its in needs to have more power run. I need to have a ground for the outlets much like what we've already done for the kitchen. I've gotten as far as ripping off all of the ugly panneling, and most of the sheet rock. So that will be my plans tonight hopefully... rip off the rest of the sheet rock, so its ready for wiring.

Moving pains

March 10, 2005 Posted by mitch | house | 0 Comments

Well, its been almost a month! and I haven't written anything... mostly because I don't have internet at home anymore... also, we pretty much ripped out the whole kitchen out of our house before we moved in for some upgrading. Its been alot of sleepless nights trying to get it back together. Its still only partly finished. Cabinets are halfway done, still have two more to hang. Then its on to the floor... we bought some Pergo Laminate flooring but have been waiting untill everything else is done before we lay it down. I want to get some of the "fireplace room" drywalled and primed before we lay it down to, just so it doesn't get all dusty from that process. We will see however...