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Here’s some video of my Asus Eee PC that I shot yesterday:

You can see the Eee next to my large orcish hands to give you an idea of how incredibly small it is. Also, I rather clumsily toggle through the screens to show you the cool cube effects that Ubuntu can support on the Eee. [...]

I miss New York. I also miss my birds, Misha and Sonja. They’ve been staying with Kristin’s parents during these first few months of us being out here. Kristin flew back to New York last week to visit with her family and our friends, and before she left, she set up having the parrots shipped [...]

So, we bought a parrot cage on eBay last week for about $24 and a little over $100 to ship (and btw the Buy It Now listing didn’t note the exorbitant shipping cost, so it was a little bit of a bait and switcheroo), so that we can finally bring the rest of our family, [...]

Nicole put together another great how to: How to Fly With Pets - Mahalo

This one’s great. I wish I’d had it when we first took Thatcher cross country. It would have saved me some time digging around online and on the phone. With our upcoming move to LA, it’s already saved me the time of [...]

Sonja (Female):

Misha (Male):

And check it out, there’s an Eclectus Flickr pool!
UPDATE: Thatcher (Female):

Recently, Sonja (the red one) has been unhappy, and screeching quite a bit as a result. Kristin and I didn’t know what was the matter. We tried showing her more attention. Less attention. Everything we could figure out, but she still kept having these freak out sessions where she would just scream and scream.
Yesterday, [...]

I put together a little birthday podcast of me rambling a bit about my pets, life, and Netscape. Be forewarned. I drop a few expletives in the mix.
Sample the Web Podcast 01-11-2007
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So, Kristin and I are heading up to Connecticut for a party later tonight and we’re spending the night, so the pets are all hanging out with their great grandparents. Kristin left for work a little while ago and took the puppy and the two birds to drop off with her family.
It’s so quiet [...]

This morning, I shot a few pictures of the parrots roosting on their new perch in my new office. The green walls really compliment Misha’s green nicely and make Sonja’s red pop. They seem to like it too, as they stay pretty quiet when perched in here.
Here’s the full photo set.

So now, everything is packed (at least everything that is packable). I also called this morning and changed all the utilities to the new place. Cable gets turned off here tomorrow and gets installed at the new place on Thursday. I’m going for the triple play action as cable + internet + voice < just [...]

After we move to the new apartment, we may get a new house for the birds as well. If we have the room, this might just be the one: Split Level House Bird Cage w/ Playtop & Divider. This corner cage is running a close second…

Today, I’ve been sick. Here’s a movie:

*Don’t worry… this will be the last YouTube Parrot vid for a while… I promise…

This is a 5 minute video of the parrots. Particularly boring if you aren’t a fan of parrots and my parrots in particular. I shot it with the Sanyo VPC-HD1 that I’m testing out in regular non-HD recording mode:

Just got back from the vet. Sonja passed with flying colors and she doesn’t even have to finish her antibiotics! Yay!

The downside of birds…
Originally uploaded by C.K. Sample, III.

Earlier today: Sonja, who was contentedly chilling on my right shoulder, was knocked off by Misha who walked around from my left shoulder and goosed her in the bum. She flew into the side of my nose and scratched me. Note: the glistening in the picture is [...]

So the girl who gave me the medication for Sonja last night called to double check and subsequently found out that, yes, it is true, she did screw up the order, pre-mixing both bottles when she only meant to pre-mix one and not telling me to use one before the other, so that I re-mixed [...]