By RangerRick, on October 23rd, 2006%
…I’m now Mr. Benjamin Reed.
Er, waitaminute… <grin>
On October 7th, I married Cynthia Fulbright at the Longview Center in downtown Raleigh. We had our reception at the Matthews House in Cary. We honeymooned in Scotland. (It was awesome!)
It was an incredible ceremony, we got a ton of compliments on it, which means a lot since we put it together ourselves. Cynthia was stunning. I’m glad we did the “you can’t see her in the dress until the wedding day” thing, it was wonderful seeing her dressed up like a princess, coming down the aisle. We both smiled the whole time (I’m told I “grinned like an idiot”), and while I was nervous before everything started, once we were up there it was like it was just the two of us and the rest of the world didn’t exist anymore.
Cynthia, I love you, and I can’t be happier to spend the rest of my life with you!
We’ve put up a web site for the wedding, although it doesn’t have much on it . . . → Read More: It’s Official…
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By RangerRick, on August 9th, 2006%
I finally got around to switching my blog over to point to RacoonFink.com, instead of ranger.befunk.com/blog. I’ve had the domain for some time (and have been using it for Fink e-mail) but had never gotten to updating the blog links.
Unfortunately, I noticed too late that it made RSS readers see everything as new. Please excuse the spamming, it won’t happen again. 🙂
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By RangerRick, on July 24th, 2006%
I’m here in Portland at OSCON until Friday night. If you’re here, send me an e-mail and we can try to find each other and say “hi”. I’ve gone ahead and set up a “Birds of a Feather” meet-up, at 8:30pm Wednesday night, in room F150. If you’re interested in Fink, give us a visit.
If you’re not at OSCON, well, you’re missing out. 😉
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By RangerRick, on July 13th, 2006%
So I’m going to veer away from Mac stuff for a sec.
I went to a Carolina Hurricanes game late in the regular season with my fianceé, mom, and aunt, and I got totally hooked (we’ve already got season tickets for the next season). The Hurricanes made it to the playoffs, and I heard about the tradition of not shaving until you win (or you’re eliminated).
Now, I’ve had facial hair in some form pretty much continuously since junior high, I’m all about not having to shave. Not to pass up yet another excuse not to shave, I thought “what the heck, I can grow a playoff beard!”
The Hurricanes went right to the end, and won the Stanley Cup this year! In the process, I managed to grow a nice substantial amount of facial hair. Of course, I couldn’t let that much hair just pass without having a little fun with it…
So I present to you: Operation: Playoff Beard!
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By RangerRick, on April 13th, 2006%
So it turns out the little dinner with my fiancee, mom, and aunt I was going to have last night was, in fact, a surprise 30th birthday party!
I was most definitely surprised, and tons of folks showed up at Rio for a yummy all-you-can-eat meat extravaganza. Thanks, everyone, for showing (and even for those that couldn’t make it). Cynthia must have spent a lot of time getting it all put together. (Thanks, sweetie! It was awesome!)
The cake was pretty impressive. It was from Cinda’s Creative Cakes, and it pictures me on my laptop, working on Fink and KDE. Frickin’ sweet!
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By RangerRick, on February 9th, 2006%
So I’ve got news I totally wouldn’t have expected to have even a year ago. Last week I gave my 2 weeks’ notice, and I’m going to be going to work for Raritan. So you’re thinking, “that’s not so strange. A new job? Happens to lots of people.” Hah! Well, Raritan is the company that ended up with the Oculan intellectual property. 🙂
But wait, there’s more! This time around, I’m going to be a Java developer (which I’ve been doing a little on the side at my current job, and really actually enjoying). I’m really looking forward to giving the Oculan codebase another chance at life, and to work on it a little more deeply, rather than just making RPMs and twinking perl scripts. The technology was always good, so it will be nice to see what Raritan can do with it.
Wish me luck!
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By RangerRick, on October 10th, 2005%
This weekend my girlfriend (well… now fiancée!) and I went to the mountains to get away.
I had arranged to have a florist deliver a ton of flowers to the cabin so they’d be there when we arrived. We went inside, Cynthia turned around, and I had the ring ready.
I proposed, and she accepted!
We haven’t figured out where or when yet; when will probably depend on where since it seems like nowadays you have to book so much in advance. There’s plenty of time to work out the details, the important thing is… I love you Cynthia!
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By RangerRick, on November 2nd, 2004%
First, if you’re a U.S. citizen, get out there and vote!
Second, been doing a lot of work getting things cleaned up package-wise in Fink. I’ve worked through a lot of bugs and am doing final testing on fixes for the KDE packages that some folks have had problems with.
Coming down the pipe:
more tiger fixes PostgreSQL 8.0 (beta) + PostGIS KDE/Mac work ??? PROFIT! Share on Facebook
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By RangerRick, on July 19th, 2004%
In Memoriam, Puff Reed, 1986-2004
Shortly after I’d moved in with my buddy Larry, I took my cat in for a check-up, and found out that she was in renal (kidney) failure. It’s treatable (for a time, anyways) with saline injections under the skin. For almost a year I’d been taking her in to get that done, and she’d responded to it just fine — she was her usual self, attacking my roommate’s cats and everything. (Yes, my 6-pound, tiny grandmother of a cat kept Larry’s much younger and twice-to-nearly-three-times-as-large cats at bay.)
Recently, though, she just hadn’t been herself; she wasn’t active at all, her eyes were weepy pretty regularly, and she just plain didn’t look very happy anymore. Today I had to take my companion of 18 years to the vet to be put to sleep. She’d been with me for almost 2/3rds of my life, it’s going to be hard to imagine her not being around.
She was a good cat, and a great companion. She was always spunky and active, but loved being a lap cat, too. She . . . → Read More: Three Cheers for the Porf!
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By RangerRick, on July 9th, 2004%
I accepted today an offer with PinPoint (well, PowerByHand), doing freaky perl stuff. 🙂 Whoohoo!
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