Author: rcragun
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Weedon Island Preserve
Having spent far too much time at Busch Gardens over the last few months, I decided to do some hiking with Toren on Sundays instead. Last weekend we visited Weedon Island Preserve, just across the bay in St. Petersburg. Toren wasn’t interested in hiking and rode in the backpack the whole time, but he seemed…
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water breath
Debi was complaining about my coffee breath this morning in front of Toren. Toren thought it was funny, but he was clearly paying attention. Just after Debi said that I have coffee breath, Toren told her, “I don’t drink coffee so I don’t have coffee breath. I have water breath.”
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Linuxmint or Ubuntu: Crashplan backup using headless Synology NAS
If you’re using a Synology NAS box and would like to back up your files to offsite storage service Crashplan (which is relatively inexpensive), there is a relatively easy way to do this. However, you need to think about the Crashplan software as having two components. There is the backup engine, or the software that communicates…
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LinuxMint or Ubuntu: How to Automount Synology Shares
UPDATE: As of Ubuntu 13.04, these directions no longer work. I figured out a way to get this to work, however. See the updated directions at the bottom of this post. ——————Old Directions———————————— If you’d like to share your network attached storage from a Synology file server with your Linuxmint or Ubuntu machine and have…
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Toren’s latest tool for tricks
Toren’s grandmother bought him a Spiderman scooter for Christmas. He played with it a lot, and even started to say he was doing “tricks” on it (great – broken bones, here we come). His Uncle Steve filmed his initial foray on it while I was cooking:
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Historic Spanish Point
Another adventure over the holidays took us to Historic Spanish Point in Sarasota, which was actually quite nice. I took a few pictures, but mostly just took everything in and carried Toren around as the tour started right during his nap time. Toren wasn’t all that interested in most of the tour, but found other…
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Weeki Wachee
Debi’s mother and brother came to visit us over the holidays and we decided to go on some adventures. Included on the itinerary was Weeki Wachee State Park, which is most famous for its mermaids. It was, undoubtedly, an interesting experience. The park is rather rundown and definitely not of the caliber of either an…
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booty time?
We don’t know where he picked it up – we think daycare – but Toren has been saying the word “booty” nonstop for the last month. Everything is “booty-this” or “booty-that.” When we ask him what “booty” means he says “bum,” but he never uses it in that context. So, he’ll say things like, “booty…
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catching bugs
Debi took Toren to Busch Gardens in November while I was away at a conference and he sat on Santa’s lap. At that time, he told Santa he wanted two things for Christmas: a bug catcher net and a robot. So, planning ahead, I bought him a bug catching net and Debi bought him Iron…
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Toren at the top of the nets
I’ve filmed Toren climbing the nets a bunch of times at Busch Gardens. But this time I convinced him to climb to the top of the nets: