Kwas is the Polish word for ‘acid’ and the name of a Christmas Eve soup made from sauerkraut & juice, dried mushrooms, and noodles or dumplings. My dad used to make the soup when I was a kid but I…
Going Home
Last February, I was lucky enough with the help of my job and a co-worker to visit Pakoszówka, Poland. This is the small village, with a population just over 900, in south east Poland where my great grandparents emigrated from…
City of Light
50 years ago my late father spent most of 1962 and 1963 in Paris as part of his obligation to the United Stated government (drafted into the army). I spent about a week scanning in almost 500 slides from his…
Mini photo shoot
Jim asked me to take some photos of a corner of his Lego layout before he needed to dismantle it (to make room for a new modular building). Since he had to shift a few existing buildings for the photos…
2001: Discovery One
The Discovery One from 2001: A Space Odyssey was the most ambitious and complicated model I have ever undertaken. The model has 3,861 pieces and is over 6 feet in length. I wanted to do something to celebrate both the…
mongrel based puppetmaster and strange error messages
Earlier this week I did a portsupgrade(8) on my FreeBSD puppetmaster. After the upgrade was completed, puppet stopped working and was displaying these errors: err: /File[/var/puppet/lib]: Failed to generate additional resources using ‘eval_generate’: No format match the given format name…