Steve Fischer's Random Blog

Author: fish1964

  • Daily Napkins

    There’s an article in Mashable today about a mom who illustrates her kids napkins for lunch every single day. She has two sons, now 6 and 10.

    Her sons go to my daughter’s school, are the same ages and are in my daughter’s classes. Tori and Ansel are good friends. I’ve seen these napkins for years. As a daily project they are frankly quite impressive.

    The Mashable article led me to her blog, Daily Napkins, where she displays them. That blog led me to a NY Times article from a year ago on the same topic. So she’s been somewhat famous for this for a while.

    A napkin for lunch every day since 2006. Crazy? Artistic? Amazing? Persistent? Choice D, all of the above.

  • Riding on the Moon

    Via Slate, some amazing photos with a biker silhouetted in front of a full moon. While in German, the photographer’s site is rather awesome.

  • Fairness

    Even monkeys don’t like inequality…

  • The First Website Ever

    Today is the 20th anniversary of the first web site ever. Via The Verge, the original website has been restored to its original url:

    http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

  • I Hate Time Warner

    This post may or may not actually make it to the internet because my Time Warner Cable internet is so slow. I reboot my cable modem about every other day. And we reboot our DVR just as often.

    We get FIOS a week from tomorrow. Internet twice as fast and two DVRs cheaper than Time Warner gets me lame internet and one DVR.

    I just went to speedtest.net. 4.7 Mb download and 0.9Mb upload. That is so lame.

    I can’t wait to dump Time Warner…

  • Happy Birthday Ella

    Google has a nice doodle for what would have been Ella Fitzgerald’s 96th birthday. No matter what your musical tastes, if you do not own any music by Ella, you are missing out. My 10 year old can tell you that she is my favorite singer ever and always will be.

    I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned that her Christmas Album is the best Christmas album ever. Any of her stuff with Louis Armstrong is great. Twelve Nights in Hollywood is a brilliant two CD set of live performances (she’s especially good live). Oh seriously, you can’t go wrong with any of her stuff.

    Just listen and enjoy…

  • Origami Risk is #1

    Dave Tweedy is the most prominent consultant in the Insurance Risk Management Software niche. Every year he publishes a review of RMIS (Risk Management Information System) Vendors.

    This year the top vendor was Origami Risk. We rock.

    The top 5 (like golf, low score is best)

    Vendor Score
    Origami Risk 1.50
    Riskonnect 1.62
    CS STARS 1.75
    Aon Risk Console 1.81
    Risk Sciences Group 1.84

    To download the review, click here.

  • Wet Washcloth in Space

    These videos from the International Space Station are great…

  • New Bed #1

    Victoria’s bed arrived yesterday, so I put it together this morning. She wanted a bunk bed, so that is what she got (small room, tall ceilings, makes sense).

    She’s a happy girl…

    ToriBed2

  • Life Continues

    Origami Risk has taken the bulk of my attention for the past several years. In the early years it also took the bulk of my extra income.

    So lately we’ve been playing catch-up with some family stuff. I mentioned the bedroom split out. This involves new beds for both girls, some new bedroom furniture and new carpets (the current carpets have an interesting collection of stains).

    And today we did the initial orthodontist appointment for Danielle. This is my genetic fault (big teeth, small mouth). We’ve known this was coming for a while, so we’ve set aside some cash.

    It just feels like life moving on. New bedrooms, braces, furniture, life. Expensive, but all good.

    How come when I had braces there were no color options?…