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Re: Owen and Mason's 2nd Birthday - - A Pirate Party

Aaron — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:05:18 -0000

Suzanne - so sorry I just saw this comment. But I will reply anyway in case others have the same question. We got the red buckets at Home Depot. They had white rope handles on them originally which we cut off.

Re: A Rock N Roll 3rd Birthday Party

Aaron — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:20:33 -0000

The tambourines were from Lakeshore. These are them, but it looks like they area no longer available: http://acre.ws/VbHjav

Aaron

Re: Avoiding Dangerous Conditions through Tank Floating Roof Level Monitoring

Aaron — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:39:51 -0000

I think these types of applications are really interesting - process safety is so much more than just the SIS, and with the large volumes of chemicals in these tank farms, the consequences can be pretty bad. I try to stay on the lookout for these easy instrumentation applications that improve process safety and keep people out of harm's way.

Re: Owen and Mason's 2nd Birthday - - A Pirate Party

Aaron — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:05:22 -0000

I listed the steps to becoming a pirate list on Etsy. I created the design from scratch. http://www.etsy.com/shop/Er...

Re: Owen and Mason's 2nd Birthday - - A Pirate Party

Aaron — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:04:46 -0000

I listed the treasure hunt list on Etsy. Just getting started over there... http://www.etsy.com/shop/Er...

Re: Owen and Mason's 2nd Birthday - - A Pirate Party

Aaron — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:04:38 -0000

I listed the treasure hunt list on Etsy. Just getting started over there... http://www.etsy.com/shop/Er...

Re: Owen and Mason's 2nd Birthday - - A Pirate Party

Aaron — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:04:33 -0000

I listed the treasure hunt list on Etsy. Just getting started over there... http://www.etsy.com/shop/Er...

Re: Owen and Mason's 2nd Birthday - - A Pirate Party

Aaron — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:03:54 -0000

Whoops - forgot to add a link. http://www.etsy.com/shop/Er...

Re: Owen and Mason's 2nd Birthday - - A Pirate Party

Aaron — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 23:56:56 -0000

All that expressed interest in purchasing some of the printables - I have listed a couple of them on Etsy. If there is something else specific that you want, let me know and I will add it. Thanks!

Re: the many adventures of owen, mason, and jack!: Great Wolf Lodge Vacation

Aaron — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:08:27 -0000

Yep - we had fun. If only people weren't sick!

Re: Owen and Mason's 2nd Birthday - - A Pirate Party

Aaron — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:36:51 -0000

We didn't really worry about it - we kept the pre-made & wrapped sandwiches in the fridge until just before the party, when we stuffed the bags and put them on the table. The table was indoors.

Re: Lack of New Automation Engineers?

Aaron — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:44:08 -0000

I think that's the trouble - the right training depends on the role you take. There's a big difference in the skills needed to become a process control engineer vs a control systems engineer vs an instrumentation or electrical engineer. In general, though, I think you're right in that the best results (and most valuable results) probably come from understanding the process. As control systems get easier to use (or if you have a good systems expert on hand), hopefully the technology gets out of the way and it gets easier to implement and refine control strategies.

Re: Scripting News: Following-up on deck.ly

Aaron — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:49:05 -0000

In the official twitter client for iPhone, if you run over 140 characters, it prompts you to post with twitlonger. I don't consider tweetdeck to be more important or have more of an impact than twitter's client.

Re: Owen and Mason's 2nd Birthday - - A Pirate Party

Aaron — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:45:52 -0000

Most of those items were ordered from Oriental Trading. Glad you liked it!

Re: Scripting News: Upcoming: The minimal blogging tool

Aaron — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 10:53:00 -0000

Now all we need's a really simple server. Just a small utility that will serve up my RSS feed when tumblr goes down again.

Re: Scripting News: How Twitter and del.icio.us are alike

Aaron — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:37:06 -0000

Maybe Flipboard would be a good client.

Re: Scripting News: How Twitter and del.icio.us are alike

Aaron — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:24:15 -0000

Went to see if the domain for this kind of thing was taken, and, whaddya know, http://justthelinks.com. Add tagging to that and you're close.

Re: Scripting News: Saving del.icio.us

Aaron — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:35:46 -0000

Pinboard looks promising because you *are* a customer, and they use the delicious API. (bonus: it'll archive your tweets and the (expanded) links from your tweets). Good luck getting that domain name, though.

The big problem is that there's not an easy way to simultaneously charge people to be customers and to preserve the value in the aggregation of all those bookmarks and tags.

Here's a thought: maybe pinboard (or whatever the delicious alternative is) should be a twitter client.

Re: ‘Social Business’ is Past Retirement Age

Aaron — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:22:56 -0000

No doubt the technology part is where the innovation is. The people/process part is all about adoption strategy. It's not that you're trying to sell people and process and social business to management - you're trying to appeal to management by applying technology in the context of people and processes.

This whole argument is about technology management - we're simply ensuring that the application of technology is in service to business goals; that tools are developed, applied, and iterated as company culture shifts; and that culture begins to drive adoption of the technology.

Re: Four Executive Mindsets That Propel Process Improvement

Aaron — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:48:16 -0000

I enjoyed these thoughts. It seems like the common thread here is a kind of cultural infrastructure change. The cool thing about that kind of innovation is that it's harder to copy and reduces the dependence on your top performers. The result is that it provides a more sustainable competitive advantage than your products or technology can.

Re: Owen and Mason's 2nd Birthday - - A Pirate Party

Aaron — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 11:22:20 -0000

Have at it!

Re: A Rock N Roll 3rd Birthday Party

Aaron — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:34:39 -0000

I think we fit 5 of the inside circles (small, white) on an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet
of cardstock, so they are probably 3" or maybe 3 1/4" in diameter. We
printed a very light circle around each letter to make them easier to cut
out. The backing circles are around 4 1/2 - 5" in diameter and are made of
scrapbooking paper. I think that we just traced around a lid or something -
they weren't a measured size.

Good luck!

Re: Preschool and Potty Training

Aaron — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:48:59 -0000

Yep - they only have problems when they won't stop playing. I was
shocked that they made it the first day. I told Erin to pack 4 outfits
for the 3 hours. We went to play mini golf on Sunday and we had 3
accidents on the first three holes.

Re: Owen and Mason's 2nd Birthday - - A Pirate Party

Aaron — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:20:17 -0000

Sure! I'd love to see the results when you post them.

Re: Scripting News: A transparent change, but an important one

Aaron — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:36:30 -0000

Everything's working fine over here now.