Mr. Polehn writes

Its a little late but here are a collection of photos from when  +Amanda Polehn , our girls and I went to Wallowa Lake for a few days.  All and all it was one of my favourite vacations we have had as a family. This deer was a little infatuate with Amanda followed us around until a dog finally chased it away. Giant chair for the "Resort" we stayed at. We did eventually get out on the lake in a boat.  Lucy conquered her fears and claims it was her favourite part :) This is apparently what you do when you get a hole in one. It's kind of funny to me how you can live in a state for your whole life and still find great new places to go.  I didn't even realize that there were mountains this big this far east in Oregon. I'd definitely like to do this again.  Spending time on the lake and just hanging out in our cabin was nice and relaxing.  Not only that but the town of Joseph was a pretty neat little pla...

This is my bicycle there are many like it but this one is mine. Since roughly the beginning of summer I have been exclusively riding my bike to work as opposed to driving.  I'm starting to see that I may not need that second car to get from my house to my job everyday .  Here is a nice little four part list of why I've decided bicycle commuting is for me. Its good for my body It is recommended that adults have at least  150 minutes per week  of moderate exercise per week.  Without biking I'd have a hard time justifying taking time away from my family or job to go run on a treadmill or do whatever other boring thing people do to stay in shape.  Biking to work takes me about 15 minutes down hill, coming back 20 something minutes uphill...  I'm sure I have 150 minutes of moderate intensity excessive in there somewhere ;) It's pretty incredible to see the difference I have in endurance after just one week of picking up the bicycle again.  ...

If you love shooting zombies and poking fun at hipster culture, there is one way to satisfy both of your cravings.  Hipster Zombies is a fun light hearted game for Android (and iOS, but ehh) in which you fight off undead hipsters armed with what else but a gun that fires cans of PBR and other hipster paraphernalia. As you kill the undead you gain coins which you can use to upgrade weapons or buy new ones such as vinyl records and mason jars.  You can also purchase coins from the game store. Occasionally you gain extra coins for "ironic kills" destroying the brain munching scenesters with a taste of there own medicine, pipe smoking hipsters with tobacco pipes, biking hipsters with a "fixie fork", etc. You unlock different location to defend the more zombies you kill.  These locations become more and more difficult to defend as you go along.  The area you need to defend grows larger giving the zombies more points of attack. In the most recent update ...

Ender's Game follows Andrew "Ender" Wiggin and his two siblings Peter and Valentine, though you may be able to guess from the title primarily Ender. Ender is a child prodigy in warfare who is brought to an academy for children to learn to be soldiers.  Its  required reading in a lot o of schools but I don't recall it being in mThis is partine, though i can't say i would u have read it if it were. Ender's Game is set in a future in which a united earth has narrowly repelled an invasion by an insect like race of aliens known as the buggers.  Earth has spent the last several years preparing for the next invasion. Ender is put through a series of lessons/tests by his "teachers" all in the form of games.  Starting with video games and progressing to a zero gravity competition between different "armies" of children.  Ender is quickly made a commander one of these armies pitting him against much older kids.  Things are unfairly stacked again...

    I have only been seriously investing for about sixth months now.  I say "seriously" because I have attempted to invest for about 5 years but it looked a lot like this ...  So my only successes have been in investing in index funds.  Which If you don't have the time or energy to pick your own investments is the best way to go, in my opinion.       Almost all of my "education" has come through reading a handful of books. The Richest Man In Babylon     The Richest Man in Babylon comes all the way from the deep dark past of 1920's America.  It is series of stories and parables set in ancient Babylon and designed to teach financial wisdom.  The book stresses discipline and prudence, consistently saving, avoiding debt, not investing in risky ventures etc.  I have to wonder if people in the 1920's had taken his advice if the whole financial mess that followed wouldn't have happe...

Installation     Installing +Arch Linux  was honestly a little more work than I was expecting.  I for some reason was under the impression that Arch LInux was a works out of the box sort of distro.  I was sorely mistaken, installing Arch was a lot more like fighting balrogs; trying to get Gentoo working.  Not the simple insert cd come back in 25 minutes and your done kind of install that I am accustomed to with  +Ubuntu .     I had to try and try again to get grub2 to actually work, mostly because I wasn't very good at following directions... Though in my defense I believe that the installation guide for Arch could use a little clarifying.     I was somewhat suprised that after initial install Arch Linux has no network up by default.  So after getting that worked out it was just a matter of installing the correct drivers for my wireless card, which I have to do in Ubuntu actually though the process much simpler, still not...

    Pacman is the package manager for Arch Linux.  If you regularly use Debian or Ubun,tu like me, you are probably much more familiar with Apt.  If you are new to Arch Linux it may be easier to think of Pacman commands in relation to similar Apt commands.  Here is a list of the most common Apt commands (that I can think of at least) and their Pacman equivalents. apt command pacman command apt-get update pacman -Sy apt-get install pacman -S apt-get upgrade pacman -Syu apt-cache search pacman -Ss