Every day we have the opportunity to plant seeds in a life. All of us do really. Sometimes we give breakfast to a homeless man, and in that moment he see's hope for change. Or we give a Rose to a stripper, and for some reason it puts a chip in her hard heart.Sometimes we get to go to an impoverished...

I admit to an almost perverse fondness for command line environments. So I decided to jump onto PowerShell as my default command line environment because its way more cool than the cmd shell and even a nerd with a penchant for undead languages sometimes worries about being cool to some tin...

As ya'll know Evangeline serves the homeless every Thursday morning for homeless breakfast, well on Sunday, Vince and Frank got a wild Holy-Ghost hair and decided to go do a soup outreach on Monday night since it was going to be cold. Of course Evangeline had to be a part of the Soup giving, after a...

My husband Dean works for Coca Cola here in Baton Rouge. Before most LSU home games Coke has a big tail gate party where they invite local vendors, visiting executives, etc. Dean works this party for extra money. He usually tells people we know to come by the tent if they are going to the game and g...

So this story has been all over the place (at least if you read computing/HPC news). Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer and designer of the historically significant Apple I and Apple II, took a job as chief scientist at a startup I was already aware of, Fusion-io. They’ve been designi...

"It's a bunch of scientists that don't know enough about system administration to realize that systems need administration." -- Daniel O. Cummings on scientists with supercomputers....

Young ladies hands with ribbon tied on their pinkies to remind them to pray for Midnight Outreach. Tomorrow night a team of adult woman will go out looking for hurting and lost woman who need to be told they are special, they are loved, they have value. They will look in the streets, strip clubs, ba...

The last couple of weeks before the holidays I worked on an interesting project. It involved assembling pretty much everything Sun offers for HPC into a single coherent demo and throwing in Amazon EC2 to boot. This post will explain what I did and how I did it. Let's start at the beginning. One of t...

Over 600 blog post published this year.. (At least 50 unpublished..maybe I will put them out there one day.) Here are just a few highlights from the year, blog addict style, Click and enjoy... January 17th - Our first post about moving forward on adopting Abel January 18th- E's first day cooking and...

This morning we were up at 5:30am, had Christmas with the kids done by 6:30am, got to the outreach at 7:00am and arrived back home by 11:30am. I then promptly took a two hour nap with Steele and now we are cooking Christmas dinner. THIS has been a great Christmas so far!! Last night at 8pm we got a ...