2023-06-29T14:03:12-04:00 http://nicholasstudt.com Nihcolas Studt nicholas@nicholasstudt.com 2013-07-07T00:00:00-04:00 http://nicholasstudt.com/posts/2013-07-07/boom-boom <p><img src="/media/2013/20130704-7041072-600px.jpg" alt="Boom" /></p> <p>I attempted to take pictures of the Lawrence fireworks again this year. It worked slightly better than it had on previous occasions, but mostly because I had a working tripod and had spent a couple minutes reading the camera manual before going out. The hardest part about the entire event was convincing Zooey that the tripod was not a footrest.</p> <p>This was also the first year that we watched the fireworks from the riverfront rather than the bridge. I have no doubt that we'll be down by the riverfront again next year, unless Karen really does buy a kayak.</p> 2013-06-29T00:00:00-04:00 http://nicholasstudt.com/posts/2013-06-29/adventure-time <p><img src="/media/2013/20130628-6280906-600px.jpg" alt="Adventure Time" /></p> <p>The <a href="http://www.game-nut.com/">Game Nut</a> in downtown Lawrence creates elaborate window displays, currently it's characters from Adventure Time. Previously, scenes from Zelda and Rampage spent time in the display window.</p> 2013-05-13T00:00:00-04:00 http://nicholasstudt.com/posts/2013-05-13/tiny-fists <p><img src="/media/2013/20130512-5120625-600px.jpg" alt="Tiny" /></p> <p>Trapped on the soup can he can only shake his tiny fists of fury.</p> 2013-01-29T00:00:00-05:00 http://nicholasstudt.com/posts/2013-01-29/baby-its-cold <p><img src="/media/2013/20130129-7129-600px.jpg" alt="Brr" /></p> <p>Yesterday it was 76, tonight we are expecting snow.</p> <p>Ah but it's cold outside.</p> 2013-01-02T00:00:00-05:00 http://nicholasstudt.com/posts/2013-01-02/fancy <p><img src="/media/2013/20130101-7287-600px.jpg" alt="Fancy" /></p> 2012-12-17T00:00:00-05:00 http://nicholasstudt.com/blog/2012-12-17/jekyll <p>This is how to install rbev, rake, and jekyll on an OS X, or *nix, machine to create a local testing version of your jekyll based website. The process was pretty simple once I stopped trying to deal with the local system ruby.</p> <h2>Install rbenv</h2> <p>Pull both the rbenv and ruby-build source.</p> <pre><code>git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build.git \ ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build </code></pre> <p>Update your bash to include rbev and local gem files.</p> <pre><code>echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$HOME/.gem/ruby/1.9.1/bin/:$PATH"' \ &gt;&gt; ~/.bash_profile echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' &gt;&gt; ~/.bash_profile </code></pre> <p>Actually install ruby and change the global ruby, if you don't do this today you should probably <a href="http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/">pick a newer version</a>.</p> <pre><code>rbenv install 1.9.3-p327 rbenv global 1.9.3-p327 </code></pre> <h2>Install jekyll</h2> <pre><code>$ gem install --user-install rake $ gem install --user-install jekyll </code></pre> <p>Assuming all of this completed successfully you should now have a system with a working version of jekyll, rake, and ruby that is independant of the system ruby.</p> <h2>The Payoff</h2> <pre><code>$ git clone git@github.com:nicholasstudt/nicholasstudt.com.git $ cd nicholasstudt.com $ rake preview </code></pre> <p>Visit <a href="http://localhost:8080">http://localhost:8080</a><a href="This">^neverworks</a> to view a local version of the site. Yes, I know, jekyll defaults to port 4000 but 8080 calls to me like a siren song.</p> 2012-12-12T00:00:00-05:00 http://nicholasstudt.com/blog/2012-12-12/simpler <p><img src="/media/2012/20121122-7054-600px.jpg" alt="Simple and Bold" /></p> <p>I've switched how I deal with this site again, hopefully simplifying for the better. Rather than using my simple Django based blog, file-manager and template expander I've moved the whole thing to <a href="http://jekyllrb.com/">jekyll</a>. In theory this would allow me to host the site on <a href="http://pages.github.com/">github</a>.</p> <p>Zooey has been creating an unbelievable amount of paintings, drawings, and sculptures at preschool. The picture above is one of these masterpieces. Several weeks ago, we took pictures of each piece so we could save the ones we liked and delight the city sanitation staff with the rest.</p> 2012-09-27T00:00:00-04:00 http://nicholasstudt.com/blog/2012-09-27/im-coloring <p><img src="/media/2012/20120927-6780-600px.jpg" alt="Watching" /></p> <p>I had the camera out tonight. When the camera was down she was bouncing around and smiling, each time I lifted the camera she put her head down and started to pout.</p> <p>You will also have noticed that she upgraded from a sock to a glove, we get slightly fewer stange looks now.</p> 2012-08-26T00:00:00-04:00 http://nicholasstudt.com/blog/2012-08-26/y-o-d-yoda <p><img src="/media/2012/20120825-6731-600px.jpg" alt="Yoda" /></p> <p>This past Saturday we made it down to Wichita to see the Star Wars exhibit. It seemed like they had all of the props used in the original trilogy and even some from the lesser set. It was a pretty cool, except for being trapped in line for the "Millennium Falcon Experience" near a noisy couple that had the most entertaining opinions about how video games were the devils work.</p> 2012-07-07T00:00:00-04:00 http://nicholasstudt.com/blog/2012-07-07/x-toddler <p><img src="/media/2012/20120707-6487-600px.jpg" alt="X-Toddler" /></p> <p>The water was completely calm until the tantrum started. This was definitely not a fountain. In her defense it was very hot outside, and completely worthy of a tantrum.</p> 2011-10-31T00:00:00-04:00 http://nicholasstudt.com/blog/2011-10-31/elusive-weresmirk <p><img src="/media/2011/10/were-smirk.jpg" alt="The weresmirk" /></p> <p>Tonight we took Zooey downtown for her second trick-or-treat event. We even remembered to get down there earlier so there was still candy.</p> <p>At each shop she approached the staff and very quietly said, "Trick or treat." She even remembered to say thank you to everyone who gave her candy. No stopping at two suckers this year.</p> 2011-10-09T00:00:00-04:00 http://nicholasstudt.com/blog/2011-10-09/status-delayed <p><img src="/media/2011/10/lincoln.jpg" alt="Lincoln" /></p> <p>It seems I may have forgotten to mention that Karen and I went on a trip to Washington, DC in May. I attended the Liferay East Coast Symposium while Karen ran all over the city. The convention was held at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_Conference_Center">The National Conference Center</a> which was made in the 1970s for Xerox and looks like an aztec temple in the middle of a forest.</p> 2011-02-27T00:00:00-05:00 http://nicholasstudt.com/blog/2011-02-27/you-know-im-two-right <p><img src="/media/2011/02/im_two.jpg" alt="I'm Two" /></p> <p>You know I'm two now, right?</p> <p>Tonight we had Zooey's second birthday party. She spent a lot of time directing everyone to their proper seating assignments. I think she gets that from Karen, though she seems to disagree with me.</p> 2010-10-31T00:00:00-04:00 http://nicholasstudt.com/blog/2010-10-31/dubious <p><img src="/media/2010/10/cookie_monster.jpg" alt="Cookie Monster" /></p> <p>Zooey was originally dubious about her costume. However, she was persuaded to tolerate it when presented with cookies and candy.</p> 2010-09-11T00:00:00-04:00 http://nicholasstudt.com/blog/2010-09-11/django-blog-131 <p>Version 1.3.1 of the blog is now available for <a href="http://code.nicholasstudt.com/wiki/DjangoBlog">download</a>.</p> <p>This release fixes several problems that multi-site enabled blogs were facing and problems with the tag feed displaying the wrong content. A new template was added for the display of listing entries by tag, along with a new setting to specify the pagination size of the tag list.</p> 2010-08-14T00:00:00-04:00 http://nicholasstudt.com/blog/2010-08-14/ouchie <p><img src="/media/2010/08/ouchie.jpg" alt="Ouchie" /></p> <p>Last week Zooey got an ouchie on her wrist. Several times since then when she finds a sticker she puts it on the ouchie like a bandaid, like she's doing here. It's terribly cute, I wonder if it makes her feel better.</p> 2010-07-20T00:00:00-04:00 http://nicholasstudt.com/blog/2010-07-20/django-blog-13 <p>Version 1.3 of the blog is now available for <a href="http://code.nicholasstudt.com/wiki/DjangoBlog">download</a>. The latest version includes RPC support for Blogger, MetaWeblog and Moveable Type; a template tag to display months linked into the archive; and rss feeds by tag.</p> 2010-06-07T00:00:00-04:00 http://nicholasstudt.com/blog/2010-06-07/moving-again <p>It's time to update the bookmarks, I've moved domains again. This should be the last time I move domains baring unforeseen name changes. The photodwarf will not go away completely until the domain expires at the beginning of September.</p> 2010-02-28T00:00:00-05:00 http://nicholasstudt.com/blog/2010-02-28/zooeys-first-birthday <p><img src="/media/2010/02/birthday.jpg" alt="Birthday :: Nikon D90" /></p> <p>I think she liked her cake.</p> 2010-01-24T00:00:00-05:00 http://nicholasstudt.com/blog/2010-01-24/recently-updated <p>Earlier this month I moved this domain and Karen's domain from a real server to a VPS. So now everything should be endowed with cloudy goodness, milk and honey.</p> <p>As a result there are now updated version of <a href="http://code.nicholasstudt.com/wiki/KrKit">KrKit</a>, <a href="http://code.nicholasstudt.com/wiki/AlchemyWebMail">WebMail</a>, and the <a href="http://code.nicholasstudt.com/wiki/DjangoBlog">Blog</a>.</p>