Personal on Evan Hoffman

Rocking Horse Ranch review - Spring 2013

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:29:24 +0000

My family and I went to Rocking Horse Ranch in Highland, NY from Sunday 3/31/13 to Tuesday, 4/2/13. Overall we had a great time and would definitely go back again. I was a little apprehensive about going, since a friend had gone and complained that it was “boring and old,” but that wasn’t our experience at all.

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We left Long Island around 11 AM and arrived at the ranch around 1 PM. Check-in was scheduled for 4 PM, but we got our room number around 2 PM. It’s important to keep in mind that on your check-in day, breakfast and lunch are not included, but dinner is. We were aware of this (RHR states this plainly) but when we were eating lunch on our check-out day, we saw lots of people who had just checked in trying to get in for lunch and acting shocked that they couldn’t (on your check-out day you have breakfast and lunch, but not dinner, so you get all the meals you’ve “paid” for).

The little man who follows me

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:46:16 +0000

I’m not usually one for introspection, but I found this a few years ago and it’s stuck with me.

A careful man I want to be; A little fellow follows me. I do not dare to go astray For fear he’ll go the self same way.

I cannot once escape his eyes, Whate’er he sees me do, he tries. Like me he says he’s going to be; The little chap who follows me.

Fedora Core 15 & Gnome 3

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:27:22 +0000

Shrinking partitions, installing/upgrading to FC15, and systemd/chkconfig.

Hurricane Transistor Radio

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:14:20 +0000

With hurricane Irene passing through this past weekend I quickly shopped for an AM/FM radio. I found this one: Sony ICF-S10MK2 Pocket AM/FM Radio. Cheap, runs on 2 AA batteries, and worked great. A++, would buy again. I actually bought 2, one for my mom. I ordered them on Friday and paid the $8 to bump each one up to overnight with Prime, and they were both delivered Saturday morning. Unfortunately I wasn’t home to receive it, and the package weathered the storm on my front step.

Chaos theory and Google's crawler

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:30:38 +0000

I’ve been moderately perplexed by the recent spike in traffic on basically unrelated keywords. Apparently this site is currently the #5 result for “fedora 15 beta download” despite my having never written about Fedora 15. In an attempt to funnel people to a useful page I created the previous post with links to the FC 15 ISOs. I feel bad if people come here looking for an answer that’s not to be found.

My first trip to Walt Disney World - March 2011

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:25:24 +0000

Last week I returned from my first trip to Walt Disney World. We had a great time, and I figured it might be helpful to relay some of the things that helped make the trip better.

Walt Disney World with Kids 2011 - I had my doubts about this book but it had lots of good info for someone who’s never been to Disney World before, like which rides are best for kids. If you’ve never been to Disney World, this is worth reading. I didn’t know Fastpass existed until I read this.- Disney World Wait Times Free iPhone App - GPS-integrated iPhone app with wait times reported by other app users. Very helpful.
- Disney’s own mobile phone site - Disney’s smartphone page. They have wait times here, but I found them to be pretty inaccurate. E.g. the page may say a wait time is “see now” (i.e. no wait) but there’s actually a 15 minute wait. However, this page was very useful for finding character locations and Fastpass availability.

The best tip for maximizing park enjoyment is to get there as early as possible. We got to Magic Kingdom at 8:30 AM, which was already kind of late compared to the book’s suggestion of arriving 30 minutes before the park opens, but the lines were pretty moderate and we got almost everything we wanted to do (Dumbo, race cars, Philharmagic, Buzz, a few others) done by noon and spent the rest of the day walking around exploring.

Back to Cablevision (upcoming downtime)

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:59:18 +0000

So the credits are finally wearing off my FiOS bill. I was paying $49/month for about 8 straight months for all 3 services plus HBO & Cinemax (a ridiculous price) with great phone & internet, plus HMDVR and 2 boxes. My most recent bill was $127 which includes a $40 credit that ends this month, so next month’s bill will be $170 or so.

Cablevision’s been beating down my door for weeks to come back, but they couldn’t come close to the deal Verizon had given me so it was easy to fend them off. But after this recent bill I gave them a call and signed up for the Optimum Triple Play. They have a special deal for people coming back from FiOS: $69/month for all 3 services plus Boost (30/5 Mbps) and a DVR. I added another box and HBO and it came to $100.30. So as of Friday I’ll be on Cablevision and this website will probably be down until I find a new home for it - maybe Wordpress.com.

I'm pissed.

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:10:41 +0000

Learned something today that pissed me off. Makes me wish I had an anonymous blog so I could actually bitch about it.

I'm pissed.

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:10:41 +0000

Learned something today that pissed me off. Makes me wish I had an anonymous blog so I could actually bitch about it.