A new park

So last November some friends of ours were moving and we purchased their playground that they had in their backyard for our backyard.

It's a really cool playground and nice and big and sturdy. It took me about 6 hours just to disassemble the thing.
















Since Thanksgiving, it has been laying unassembled in our backyard. Until this week. The kids are super-excited that I am finally putting up their "park" and really want to help. So my son gets to use his plastic hammer and bang on things. And the girls kick their "bouncy-balls" at me, and we play soccer while building a park.

It's a great life.

Sweet!

So I finally got the project that I have been working on completed last night.

This program will record a webstream (in the wmp format) for a specified number of minutes. When the recording is complete it will transcode to iPod video format and mp3 audio simultaneously. When the transcoding is complete it will transfer the files to their appropriate directories. When the 'mv' is complete, it will remove any files that are in the directory that are older than a certain number of days. When the 'rm' is complete, it will then generate a podcast for the audio files and a vidcast for the video files.

Separately from that my iTunes is setup to download from these *casts that I have just created.

So automatically I get webstream programming downloaded onto my iPod when it's ready.

Sweet!

Overheard at the dinner table, part 2

This time it was our two-year old boy. As his five-year-old and three-year-old sisters head upstairs, he was heard to say "Do I have to go upstairs to bed with the kids?"

Overheard at the dinner table ...

Last night, as we were beginning our meal of Sesame Fried Chicken, Buttered Rice, and Boiled Fresh Spinach, our three year old was heard to say, "I'm going to wait for my food to get yummy."