Michael P. O'Connor

My Life

Wild Turkeys

Categories: Biking

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Published on: May 9, 2005

Today when I started out on my bike ride today, I saw a couple of wild turkeys in the path, by the time I got my camera out they were off the path in the woods, but I did get a few pictures of them. Also I got some great pictures of the Point state park fountain, the sun to my back, making a beautiful rainbow on the face of the water. I finally finished the bike ride off with a trip up Greenfield Avenue from the Jail trail to Frank St then returned down Greenfield Avenue and though Schenley park. The great thing about biking up a long semi-steep hill is the knowledge of the trip back.

Happy Mothers day

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: Misc (no other place to put this stuff)

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Published on: May 8, 2005

Mom if you see this Happy Mothers Day, I hope you had a good one.

Biking today (new personal best speeds)

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: Biking

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Published on: May 8, 2005

I went on a nice short 1 and a half hour bike ride today. I am very happy with the speeds I made today, coming back from the city on the jail trail I was going between 18 to 21 mph the whole way, this is about 8 to 11 mph faster then my old cruising speed, and I am very happy that I kept the speed up for the whole length of the trail. Those toe clips I got for this year are really worth the money, and if any one is considering them, I would say they are worth it, I got the $20 ones, the ones you don’t need the shoes for, I have a friend that said that the ones that take the special shoes allow you to be more efficient at the pedal, but since I am not really racing I can play around with these toe clips that just are a small plastic cage you slip your feet into.

Hair Cut

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: News

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Published on: May 8, 2005

Some of my friends have been getting on my case about getting a hair cut, so I thought I would get the cut they have been teasing me about for the last year or so.

BOO!

BOO

Well they have been trying to get me to shave it for awhile so I though I would not let them know I was going to do it, and see if I could shock them when they saw me. Well unfortunately all but one was not shocked; they were a bit suppressed but not shocked. The one that was shocked I loved the expression on his face when he saw it, it was priceless, Ben this goes out to you, you made my day.

Got a great bike ride in today

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: Biking

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Published on: May 6, 2005

I went out for a great bike ride today. I got to try out the new toe clips I got on Monday, and I have to say I am impressed with them. I was going 50% faster then I did before with the same effort, and I did not have to down shift as soon as I usually have to, and I was able to keep the gears in a high setting then I normally have to. I got some good pictures at the point, also I took some videos, I might put the video up on my site later, but the pictures are up already.

The Secret of Nimh

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: Politics

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Published on: May 4, 2005

This is just scary, a movie that my sister loved as a youth, is now looking less like fiction and more like perverted experiments. The one line that a friend of mine said was odd was “immediately killing any that display human-like behavior” and then he proceed to ask “what exactly would be considered human-like behavior” All I can say is that the researchers are not themselves showing human like behavior, I just get the image of Dr. Frankenstein’s lab when I read reports like this.

The Red cross needs help

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: News, Pittsburgh stuff

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Published on: May 4, 2005

I got in email today that the Red Cross will need some help this Saturday. I would go but I have made a commitment to my church 6 months ago that involves a meeting tomorrow at the same time, I will probably tune my HT over to 146.09 to see if there is any activity on the are about it, but here is a link to more information. this was first posted about at unspace And he has put out a general request to get the word out. If you have a blog with readership from Pittsburgh please repost this information.

The Greek Food Festival

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: Pittsburgh stuff

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Published on: May 3, 2005

I just got a notice in the mail about the Greek Food Festival this year. They usually have very good food there. I will probably see if I can organize a group from work to go over for lunch some time next week. The nice thing is that the place that has this festival is less then a 5 minute walk away from the building I work at.

I Got my bike back today

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: Biking

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Published on: May 2, 2005

Well I went up to bike tech today to get my bike back. It looks good now, even got the handle bars fixed. Unfortunately it was to cool to ride today. I hope it warms up by the weekend; I would love to go biking. If I can go biking this weekend I will probably get a few pictures.

Cheap software programmers

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: Geekdom, Politics

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Published on: May 1, 2005

Small But Disorganized has an entry on a company SeaCode that wants to “anchoring a 600-cabin cruise ship off of California just outside the three-mile limit” so that they can “outsource” out side of the US, so they don’t have to pay US taxes. To me I would think that they found some way to be inside the letter of the law, but they are in gross violation of the spirit of the law. I would hope that before this company is alowed to continue with this idea, that the goverment might step in and put a stop to this. But this is just my opinion.

Cleaning out some old junk drawers

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: Misc (no other place to put this stuff)

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Published on: April 30, 2005

As I was cleaning out some old junk draws I found an old film camera, it also had some film in it, and also I found a second roll of unused film. I am thinking I will use up the film in the camera and use up the other roll of film. It is that advantix film, I think I got this camera back in 1999, and I don’t think I used it after 2000. In 2001 I got my first digital camera, and since then I have not used any normal film camera. I have used a disposable camera, only because it was water resistant and I wanted to take it kayaking.

Burning up the network

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: Technology, Web Site

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Published on: April 30, 2005

I am moving some videos off of my Mac that I have put on there, I am moving them to the Linux file server, have moved 50Gb from the eMac to the Linux box, it was receiving the files at about 12.6MB/s. The Linux server has a 250 GB drive and I have a 120 GB drive I will be adding onto it in a few days. While the eMac only has a 160 GB internal drive and a 100 GB external hard drive. But during the transfer of the data, I was burning the networks internal bandwidth up. Next after I do that, I will be taking a video I took in Jan onto the computer, from the March for life in DC. I might also add it to the video section of the web site.
I think the 120 GB drive will be come a video only drive I never thought I would start to take up so much space with video files.

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: Geekdom

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Published on: April 29, 2005

I just got back from seeing the “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” movie, and I am happy to say it was good, it was worth to be named after the: book, BBC radio show, TV mini-series, the game*. And in the great grand tradition of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy stuff, it was nothing like the book, radio show or anything, just like the book was not like the radio show or the TV series was not like the book. Also for fans of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, there were some parts that they just cut out, other things they added. But I would say that they did keep with the integrity of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Also keep an eye out if you seen the TV series you might recognize a few things here and there, trust me. I would say well worth the money to see it.

*Yes there was a game, a zipcom game.

Microsoft can not win

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: Geekdom, Politics

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Published on: April 29, 2005

No this is not an anti-MS post. I feel sorry for them in this post. They are getting pressure from 2 sides of a HOT political issue. The issue is homosexual stuff. First let me say I do not believe homosexuality is a moral activity, but the contrary is an abomination to God as stated in the Bible. But what is going on is MS was backing a pro-homosexual bill, they got pressure from a local pastor (local to their area) so they decided to just pull support, and they are neither supporting it nor speaking against it. Now the pro-homosexual groups are threading a boycott, and if they were to support it, some of the people in the Bible belt would threaten a boycott. So it looks like MS in unpleasant area, and I think they are making the right decision (as they do in abortion) they have no voice on the issue, because the stock holders and employees will have all kind of options, and to take a stand on a political issue that is HOT and not part of their business is just a bad idea, and a way to loss customers and make stockholders upset. So I feel sorry for MS and co, they have found themselves where they do not belong, nor do they belong.

Exploding Toads? Science Can’t Solve All Our Probs?

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: Church, Hay it is funny, The odd, the funny, the weird

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Published on: April 29, 2005

Pastor Stiegemeyer, a pastor here in Pittsburgh (LCMS) found an article about Frogs exploding. Exploding frogs, I wonder if we could use that on our war on terrorism. Better yet, could we cross bread them with the frogs that excrete the hallucinogenic drug. LOOK OUT IT AN EXPLOSIVE HULLUCINOGENIC FROG!!!!! Sorry I could not resist that last joke. But Pastor Stiegemeyer does bring up a good point, this does not fit into the “theory” of evolution, how does this fit into the mantra of “survival of the spices”

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