Name: Hannah, aka "hannah"
Web Site: http://geekgrl.net/
AIM: hannahgray
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Bio: I'm a web designer/programmer by trade, recent(ish) graduate from UC Santa Cruz where I earned a BS in Marine Bio and a minor in journalism. I love reading, diving, travel and photography, and am, obviously, a bit of a geek...
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Yeah.
April 30th, 2009It has been pointed out to me recently that, indeed, I really suck at updating this thing. *shrug*
fossil hunting apron / bucket
December 29th, 2008This is a fossil hunting apron that I made as an x-mas gift for my father. It hangs off a standard sized belt, includes one lined pocket (for delicate finds) and a larger unlined pocket for the rougher pieces, plus a pocket for tissues to wrap up individual fossils and a small pouch for plastic baggies, a pocket lens, swiss army knife, etc. When the velcro flaps are undone, it converts to a bucket to allow for storage of larger fossils.
Profile Pic Plugin Release
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Back in California…
June 14th, 2008
I came home to California to find eight barrels of wine in the garage. My folks give me the stink eye every time I so much as glance at the stash, and I think this may explain why my mother has switched to buying me only the half-size little red cocktail straws. (Little do they know I have aquarium tubing in my closet, muahahahaha!)
But no, really, as good as their wine generally comes out in the end, this stuff isn’t done yet. Just kinda wild to come home to EIGHT BARRELS of high quality grape. The wine from my folks’ co-op always used to be stored elsewhere – never got to witness the whole process before.
a new neighbor
September 18th, 2007Meet ‘Stumpy’ — the resident lizard. He lives somewhere around the condo and I routinely see him chillin’ out on my way to/from the car.
introductions, farewells
September 17th, 2007I’ve been putting off writing this entry for quite a while now, but, I think the time has come. In early July, Mango was hit and killed by a car in front of Rust Op Twist. It was the second time my mother has been the first to see a family cat along side the road, and the second time she has rushed out as I scrambled for my shoes (to avoid the inevitable). We buried Mango on the beach side of the house, and, appropriately, planted a mango tree to mark her burial spot. The mango tree is doing well, and should bare (bear?) fruit as soon as next year.
Following Mango’s death, Tigger appeared quite depressed, not his usual bouncy self. So… I decided to treat loss with distraction, and brought home a kitten from the shelter. I named her Mocko, as in Mocko Jumbie. The name means “protector.” She was just a little squirt when I got her, and she really hasn’t grown much. Tigger out-weighs her at least two-to-one, but that doesn’t stop the two from wrassling and racing around the house like a herd of elephants. Crazy beasts. Tigger seems to have taken to Mocko and visa versa. The two are usually not far apart. Mocko is a little snugglepuss, she likes to cuddle up in bed and is slowly training Tiggs to do the same. And she is on her way to becoming a well-seasoned flopper — she falls at my feet, often on my feet, multiple times a day. sudden bouts of weakness, only treatable with belly rubs. she has me well trained.
Visitors
August 4th, 2007Patrick (a family friend) and his buddy Kennith came to spend a week on island. Below are a sampling of pics.
We rented a bobcat to do some stump removals. Patrick knows how to operate heavy equipment, so we thought we would take advantage…
I had my fun with the bobcat too. I’m filling in the hole post-olive-tree-removal. This is also post-DPNR ’smack down’ where we got in trouble for moving some beach rocks without a permit. Crap. Potentially big fine. They had police men with guns and everything. pretty exciting…
For our rain-forest adventure, we took the windows off the jeep, safari style. Here’s Patrick posing as a tourist.
Then we paid a visit to the turtles up in the rain forest.
Happy turtles indeed.
Herds of them, in fact. Here they are stampeding.
Settling in
March 31st, 2007
Nap Time
Mango is underneath there somewhere
They both like exploring the Gallery.
Believe it or not, they’re sleeping.
wow, I did that?
January 19th, 2007I just got a request recently to add some features to a PostNuke module I developed for a client about 2 years ago — my first PHP project ever… I was kindof dreading the whole process. But low and behold… I’m finding things like:
// include ‘modules/’.$modinfo['directory'].’/pnincludes/swtypes.php’;
// include ‘modules/’.$modinfo['directory'].’/pnincludes/manufacturers.php’;
// include ‘modules/’.$modinfo['directory'].’/pnincludes/software.php’;
Holy Cow! I commented the daylights out of this project. Yay for me.
Find Low Resolution Album Art – iTunes AppleScript
January 7th, 2007
Brief Introduction:
iTunes 7's Cover Flow makes low resolution, older album cover art stick out like a sore thumb. iTunes won't search for high res artwork if the track already has artwork. SO... One needs to be able to sort out the albums with low res art and strip them in order to make their library look shiny in Cover Flow. This script finds tracks with low resolution art. You can then use a script like this one to strip the artwork, and then use the built in iTunes tool to search the iTunes store for better art.
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