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Author: Davin Granroth

  • Where does chicken come from?

    We were just eating our dinner of mac and cheese and baked beans, and Lila saw the piece of pork in the beans. “What’s that?” she asked. “Pork,” I said. “Do you know where pork comes from?” So ensued a conversation of how ham and pork are meat from a pig and how hamburger is…

  • Lila painted this in Photoshop CS 2

    Lila (my five year old daughter) painted this line art using Photoshop CS 2 on the Mac laptop I have from work. Yes, I I’m bragging a little. She used the color-picker, paint bucket, eraser, swapped the foreground and background colors a few times, used the Undo command and generally used the basics of the…

  • Global nav is phooey?

    I guess I’m a little behind, but I just read this October 19th, 2005 post by Jared Spool: Global Site Navigation: Not Worthwhile? Jared makes the quick claim that global navigation is unnecessary and rarely helpful. Naturally, a discussion ensues. Some in favor of global navigation argue that it is needed for people to form…

  • Swimming in Superior

  • Salmon dinner

    I could live off frozen food, being a single guy. I’ve had weeks where dinners consist of a can of tuna and saltine crackers. But, as the song says, You don’t have to live like a refugee. So, today after church today I actually cooked a decent meal. I’m eating it now. It is very…

  • I miss my girls

    I was walking through campus back to my apartment yesterday afternoon. Children and parents were playing near the ducks by the Administration Building. I found myself scanning the crowd for my girls, hoping they would be there so I could see them. Of course they were not there. They would not be. After work today,…

  • A timeless quote and a relentless question

    The quote. My car smells like one chicken enchilada. ~ Paolo Tiseo The question. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie-Pop?

  • Shooting is humbling

    Adam and I ran a practice 900 point match today. It consisted of thirty shots of slow fire at fifty yards, thirty shots of timed fire at twenty-five yards, and thirty shots of rapid fire at twenty-five yards. We scored each ten-shot target, and ran it fairly close to how a real match would go.…

  • Overview of PGP, S/MIME and the evolving versions of secure e-mail

    I just read an article by Jim Galvin, published March of 2000 in Information Security Magazine, (IN)SECURITY FROM END TO END. The article provides an overview of the origination of secure e-mail and how the technologies have changed over the years. It also provides context for digital signatures, e-mail certificates, and PGP versus S/MIME. Here’s…

  • Video of Lila painting in the bathtub

    Video of Lila paining in the bathtub (SWF). This is a video that I just found on my hard drive. I had put it together a few years ago, from when Lila was painting (it washes off) in the bathtub. On the first clip, you can see her mouthing “Where my hand go, Mommy?” She…