These were taken at the ACS Christmas Party… 

Amazon

Awesome.  The hackintosh is really complete now.  :)  I got Bonjour and Time Machine working now with my Time Capsule.  I was following some instructions on how to set my ethernet adaptor into “promiscuous” mode which would supposedly fix it, but it wasn’t working for me.  I could access shares by doing the normal “Connect to Server” stuff in Finder, but shares weren’t being magically found via Bonjour– even after setting en0 to promisc mode.

Why wasn’t ‘ifconfig en0 promisc‘ working?

….  Turns out the ethernet jack I was plugged into was en1.

There’s my blonde moment for the week.  Anyways- that’s fixed now.  :)

That’s right! I’ve been in Athens since Tuesday, as part of a collaborative meeting for a PO1 grant that our lab was just awarded. I gave a presentation over my research so far in the lab, and received a lot of good feedback. I met our main collaborator at Stanford, who has Rb-/- mice and see a really large thymus like my mice have! Very cool stuff! All of the presentations have been interesting, but one that stood out was some embryonic work done in Scotland on human fetal thymi – since we’re not allowed to work on human embryos here in the states, it was nice to see that a lot of the work we do in mouse models correspond well to what they are observing in humans.

Though I have had a good time here, I am ready to get back home. Our lab is moving to a new building (yay!) and there is lots of packing and cleaning to do! Woo hoo!

Oh hells yeah… I edited a couple of lines and recompiled my DSDT.aml file… voila!

1024mb GTX 280.

“VRAM,totalsize”,

Buffer (0×04)

{

0×00, 0×00, 0×00, 0×40

},

My hackintosh is now almost officially complete.

Things that are working:

• Full 1920×1200 resolution with full accelaration on my GTX 280.
• Ethernet
• Sound
• 64bit kernel
• Wireless!  (this one took some work!)

I even got wireless working with My Belkin F5D7050B (v3000) USB 802.11g dongle!  That one took some doing…  Belkin doesn’t release OSX driver so I had to download drivers from Ralink who makes a USB dongle with the same chipset.

Things that still need work:

• System Profiler only shows 512mb on my graphics card.  Is it using the full 1024mb?
• See if I can get wireless to be treated as an “airport” card.

Here she is!  :)

Snow Leopard on My PC

More important than Asian Smileys…

Michelle got an engagement ring worth as much as a small car… and she doesn’t even bother to post pictures of it on our blog.

What’s up with that?

^_^;;

With All Hallow’s Eve making an appearance tomorrow, Bryan and I got in the mood by carving some of our very own Jack o Lanterns.  Here are some pictures, as well as the history behind this tradition.  Enjoy!

Bryan cutting a hole in the top!

He chose a skull cut-out

I opted for a tombstone

Our finished products!

Roasting Pumpkin Seeds!

The History of the Jack o’Lantern:

The story of the Jack o’Lantern comes from Irish folklore. Jack was a crafty farmer who tricked the Devil into climbing a tall tree. When the Devil reached the highest branch, Jack carved a large cross in the trunk, making it impossible for the Devil to climb down. In exchange for help getting out of the tree, the Devil promised never to tempt Jack with evil again. When Jack died, he was turned away from Heaven for his sins and turned away from Hell because of his trickery. Condemned to wander the Earth without rest, Jack carved out one of his turnips, took an ember from the devil, and used it for a lantern to light his way. He became known as “Jack of the Lantern.”

In Ireland and Scotland, people began to make their own versions of Jack’s lanterns by carving scary faces into turnips or potatoes and placing them into windows or near doors to frighten away Stingy Jack and other wandering evil spirits. In England, large beets are used. Immigrants from these countries brought the jack o’lantern tradition with them when they came to the United States. They soon found that pumpkins, a fruit native to America, make perfect jack o’lanterns. (History.com)

I think its unfortunate that our site has been overrun with spam comments. Perhaps Bryan can make them go away??

And no, we haven’t died. We’re still here, and I promise to get better at updating on a timely basis. I mean, come on! We have soooo much going on right now planning for this wedding! Might as well share it all!

– Chelle

Bryan and I have great news – we’re getting MARRIED!!!  It’s been nearly two weeks since he popped the question, and I figured we might as well share the news!

The date is December 18th, 2010, so mark your calendars! Here’s our wedding website on theknot.com:

Look out for more info to come!!

This is the newest addition to our menagerie – meet sweet Sadie!

Snuggle Bugs

"This is my comfy spot!"

Stealing my markers

Take THAT!

Playing UNDER Lucky

Full of P & V

. . . so stay tuned for many cute photos. 

Yep, its official – we’ve moved in at 3908 Yarborough!  Here’s a rough tour of the house (mind the boxes!):

Lucky says “Wipe Yer Paws!”

Dining Room – in the works

Kitchen, take 1

Kitchen – looking into the Living room

Living room

Living room, looking back to the Kitchen

The Study – a work in progress, or a disaster zone?

You make the choice

Guest Bathroom

Guest Bedroom, almost finished!

Garden Tub in Master Bath.  There’s also a walk-in closet and shower stall in here. 

And a big ol’ backyard for the Luckster!

The master bedroom, and a better shot of the master bathroom aren’t up here at the moment, but I will post them once those rooms get unpacked!  Leave us some love, and any decorating ideas!

I’m finally posting, yay!

Its been two weeks since Bryan moved in, and today we celebrated our TWO YEAR anniversary.  That’s right.  We’ve been attached at the hip now for 730 days, officially.  So, Bryan told me to meet him at an address in downtown Austin.  We eneded up meeting at a little Italian restaurant called Vespaeio, which was absolutely dee-lish!  I really do recommend it if you’re looking for a new twist on Italian.  We also walked South Congress afterward and got to listen to lots of live music, all thanks to SXSW.    We realy enjoyed listening to Matt the Electrician, which were having a show at the Caritas of Austin Soup Drive.  Also got serenaded by a homeless man with a guitar who made up a song about Bryan and I.  He made us kiss.  It was bueno.

In other news, we get the keys to the house on Saturday!  I’m very excited, but still have three exams to get through next week before we move.  :/  So. . . .

Until next time!

Happy Anniversary, Michelle!  Two years and many more to come!

Took the Revo out for some fun yesterday.  It had rained which made it even more fun…  mud + revo = win.

<dirty Revo>

I am soon to be the proud owner of an Align T-REX 450 V2 SE…

I’ve been reading the Helifreak.com forums a lot lately and been wanting to learn to fly R/C helis for a while now.  So… yesterday I made an offer on a helicopter and the seller and I were able to come up with a pretty good deal.    My new heli should be in the mail Friday.  I’m very excited.  I got a my brand new Spektrum DX7 transmitter a couple of days back and my copy of Phoenix R/C Simulator arrived yesterday.  I crashed thousands of dollars worth of helicopters and airplanes last night. 

In other news- Michelle and I signed on our new home yesterday!  I’m super excited about moving in closer to my new work.  It’s going to be much nicer driving 20-30 minutes to work instead of 50-60 minutes every day.  We officially get the place on the 21st, but Michelle has like three tests that week so most likely we won’t be moving in until the following weekend.  Anyone feel like lifting boxes?! 

Our new home!!  My new heli!!  Check it out:

I’m living in Austin!

Alright… there.  Is that enough of an update for you, Michelle? 

Just kidding… just kidding.  Michelle has been nagging me about something I really needed to do a long time ago.  So- here’s the scoop.  I’ve moved to Austin.  I’m living with my amazing girlfriend in Bastop, Tx.  This is a temporary living situation.  We’ve already got plans to move into a home in South Austin by the end of the month.

Michelle and I will soon be renting a cute little house together.  The house was built in 2005 and has three bedrooms and 2 bath.  It’s got a two car garage and is in the perfect location for Michelle and me, right near the intersection of highway 173 and 71.  She’ll be 30-40 minutes from her school/work and I’ll be about 30 minutes to my work– much better than the hour drive I’ve been doing every day to my new job!

Ahh… a new job?  Yep!  I’m now officially working in Austin.  I don’t want to get into the same issues that I did by talking about my previous employer on the blog so I won’t talk much more about it, but I’m enjoying the change.  I’m still a “Software Engineer” and so far everything is going great with the transition.  I think everything will be even better once the move into Austin is over and Michelle and I can start exploring the big city together.

Alright.  I’ll update again soon.  It’s been way too long since my last update…  I know I’m a slacker.