Disable screen flash in Photo Booth app.

Found this in info on the Apple support forums. Helpful if you have a large screen on your iMac.

“hold shift to disable flash, hold option to disable countdown, combine for both.”

working in leopard.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1053379

O.N.E. Coconut Water

The local QFC is stocking O.N.E. Coconut Water. It’s quite good. Like putting a straw in a coconut. This is the benefit of living in the future. We don’t have flying cars but at least I can drink coconut water without needing to move to a tropical Island, shake a coconut tree, and risk getting bonked on the head by flying coconuts.

Soon to be jobless…

After 10 years of service it looks like I will be saying goodbye to Pawn X-Change. This company has been my home for so long I can hardly remember doing anything else. I have helped take it from 24 stores to nearly 40 over that time. I remember when we were almost broke and working just to keep the company alive to our present day record revenues and success. It’s been nice being a part of something and seeing it grow and change. I’m not sure what I am going to do now. I wouldn’t mind helping another company plan and realize their Information Technology vision.  Cash America buys Pawn X-Change.

Facebook Username

Got my Facebook username.

http://www.facebook.com/ToddPike

Haircut Sadness

Greyson got a haircut today. He was not happy.

Greyson Haircut

G5 is gone. iMac 24″ on the way.

Sold the G5 and ordered an iMac. I am going to miss that beast.

Me and Madi

I was holding Madi and letting her play with a blue balloon. She seemed to like it.

Madi and Me

She just started crawling a week or so ago. She can already pull herself up and stand. I think she will be walking very soon. Not bad for only 8 months old.

Household Wildlife

Now that Madi is mobile she enjoys exploring and tracking down the household wildlife.

Madi and Tabby

Jeep Hardtop Stand

It looks like a lot of people are still looking for the pdf to build a Jeep hardtop stand that my brother and created a few years back. I figured I should put the files backup on here. The original design was based on a stand by kxstand. This is much cheaper and easy to build in a couple hours or less.

Download the PDF below.

free_stand

Here is what it should look like.

DNS

Pointing microbomb.com and toddpike.com to this new blog site. Once that is complete I will start working on adding some content here.

Update: Looks like my dns stuff is kicking in. Now I just need to figure out how to use WordPress.