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We celebrated UltraBob’ permanent residency at a steak restaurant last Sunday. It was Mitsu’s treat. Thanks for the dinner and also being the photographer!
Steak always makes UltraBob smile.
At a waterfront park with J-Grandpa the other day. It was a nice day, and Linc enjoyed looking at the water and running around without a break, which was a good work out for old us. It’s getting warmer each day and it’ll soon be Spring time here. How’s the weather where you live?
This harness is so useful, especially in large public places. Without this, Linc would dash out right away and we wouldn’t be able to catch him.
After months of hearing about instapaper from a number of different sources I finally decided to try it out. For those of you who don’t know, instapaper focuses on one thing: “A simple tool to save web pages for reading later.”
This is something that I’ve never found a good solution for. I’m not yet completely convinced that instapaper is the solution either, but it looks promising. In order to really give it a good try though I needed to find a way to get my read later list added. Adding my Pinboard read later list was easy enough, there weren’t many of them, and when you click on links there it opens the page allowing the use of the read later bookmarklet supplied by instapaper. My big list of items to read later though, comes from fever. When I find an item that I definitely want to read, but can’t read at the moment, I click to save the item, and I had amassed a list of 193 read later links in fever.
Beside the fact that I didn’t want to go through and manually add 193 links using the bookmarklet, fever makes it more difficult even than that. When you click to view an item in fever on the iphone where I was doing my list creation, it opens the item inside a frame so that it can still display the fever navigation. This meant that I ended up bookmarking the same url a number of times before I realized what was happening. You can click to view in Safari, which opens the actual url so you can them add it to instapaper, but then you lose your place in the fever navigation and have to scroll through and find the next item to mark. In a desktop browser fever opens items in a new window without the fever nav, so it would be easier to do, but it was still too much work for 193 items.
I looked up the Instapaper api which turns out to be very simple, I ran a few tests to be sure I knew how to use it, and then moved on to figuring out how to get the links out of fever. I logged into the mysql server for my fever install and did the following (stripping out all the stumbling around figuring out how the db is set up)
use fever_db; select link from fever_items where is_saved=1 into outfile "/tmp/fever.txt"; exit
This dumped a list of links, one per line, into a text file in my /tmp directory. I had to put the file in the /tmp directory because that was one of the few places the mysql user had permissions to write to, I moved the file into my home directory and fired up emacs to write the following shell script in my home directory:
#!/bin/sh # Set the field seperator to a newline IFS=" " # Loop through the file for line in `cat fever.txt`;do #encode the link and then send it through to instapaper url=`urlencode $line` curl "https://www.instapaper.com/api/add?username=ultrabob&auto-title=1&url="$url done
Note: This shell script won’t work for you directly. Where it says ?username=ultrabob you’ll need to replace ultrabob with your own username or e-mail address and if your account is password protected you’ll need to add &password=your_password_here. When I wrote this script my account wasn’t password protected. Now it is.
I had named the script heatinstapaper.sh so I just needed to set it to be executable, and then run it since it was in the same directory as fever.txt.
chmod +x heatinstapaper.sh ~/heatinstapaper.sh
Soon I started to see a series of 201’s show up in my terminal, which is the code for success so I was happy. After the script finished a quick count of the 201’s showed that it had imported all 193 links. This is a one time script. From now on I just need to add my fever items directly to instapaper instead of the more convenient step of saving them in fever, but that is a minor issue when dealing with links one at a time. I’m now happy that my saved for later links from fever are in my instapaper and I can start whittling down the list. I hope this helps someone else.
Last week, UltraBob took a day off to get his permanent residency stamp on his passport (yay!), and on the way back we took Linc to Anpanman Children’s museum. He loves Anpanman cartoon very much, and he had a blast.
Greeting his hero
Having a good time at the play area inside the museum. He played there for a long time. Even refused to go meet big Anpanman who just came near by.
This is the dude. Linc, Daddy got to see him!
So many Anpanman books. Linc loves to read books, especially instruction manuals (seriously!). We are thinking of providing him with a new book every week or two.
Trying to catch the pigeon. Nice tongue!
Looks like he had a fantastic time!
EM still has no interest in Anpanman whatsoever. Pigeons though - chasing those he can get behind.
I LOVE these pictures! Thanks for the nice video chat last week and the complete anpanman museum picture/video viewing!
I love all of the expressions on Linc’s face! You can tell he is enjoying life.
Linc and I went to the rhythmic class last week, but he was more into the cars and toys than the lesson.
This is his favorite car that he got from J-Grandma. Loves so much that he carries it everywhere.
Playing at the park!
My first creation for Linc (on the back of the car, it says ‘Linc’ in Japanese). Pull the little ball to make the car vibrate. I’ve wanted to give him something handmade, and finally I’m trying out some felt crafts. Big project is ongoing for his birthday.
First!
I’m very impressed with the car you made. I can’t believe it vibrates too. Good work!
I got to see the car in action last videochat! It’s great! Linc looks so cute at the park; I love his plaid jacket. What is rhythmic class?
Try to guess what Linc’s doing before it becomes obvious.
Where is his gold medal? I especially love the ‘spin’ finale. This is so dang cute. Thanks so much for the video chat, or more accurately, the video view of Linc running around with his car. I loved it!
Adorable. I think he out-skated the competition.
I noticed some nefarious characters trying to use member profiles on our site to increase the search engine juice of their spam websites, so I went through and did a purge of several hundred member accounts on the site. If you signed up for an account, but never contacted me to let me know who you are, it is highly likely that your account was deleted. Please see an earlier post for more information on the steps to take to make sure your comments don’t need to go through moderation. Following these steps will also ensure that your account doesn’t get deleted in the future.
Linc enjoying his new chair
Linc loves the massage chair at Grandma and Grandpa’s house
Enjoying the zoo with Daddy
Viewing the seals at the zoo
Here are some pictures for you fans. I’ll try to post more often!
Nice start........keep it please!
Oh dear, I had absolutely no idea he was just a little boy and not a baby now. He is one good looking little boy!
I agree with Chenoa. He gets cuter and cuter each time I see him. Really hope you guys can make it this summer. He is growing up far too fast.
LInc of course! He is utterly adorable and has done nothing to offend me, which is not always true of my own offspring. Plus, he is now cleverly eating solid food and getting new teeth! What a smart boy.
Fairly Good Dad. Enabled me to videochat with the ever-awesome Linc today. Unfortunately, cannot give him a perfect score, because of lavish candy demands. Sorry.
The mother of my favorite grandchild, and by all accounts, an awesome one.
Chats with me once in a while on Skype. This is the kid I call when I’m feeling a little down. Whether it’s telling corny jokes or indulging in a gender-bashing fest, he can always make me laugh.
Had lots of fun with this guy in SLC last weekend. He spent half of his Saturday with two ‘mature’ women (UltraMom and Ima) and was charming and lots of fun. He graciously accepted Ima’s offer of homemade spaghetti leftovers. What a good son.
I don’t get to talk to this girl NEARLY enough, but she did email me an invite to a Women’s Seminar she will be attending in Pocatello. Unfortunately it is the weekend of my big Weight Watcher meeting. I miss you, honey!
Going on third week of wearing a plastic cone on his head to prevent scratching open the sore on this face, poor little guy. UDad says it is his Halloween Costume: Funnel Man,,,,,,er Pup
Has no plastic cone on his head; unlike Rowdy, does not spend first 5 minutes of each and every walk jumping and grabbing his own (and others) leashes. Has developed a rather cute trick of standing in the kitchen and barking when he wants a treat. After a false start, am determined to not give in to his extortion.
Dropping to the bottom. She has ruined another couch with her lethal claws, despite huge scratching post prominently displayed (and largely splayed) in the vicinity.
At the Zoo
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Congrats, UltraSon on your permanent residence! The steak reminds me of the dinner we had at the Jailhouse restaurant on your birthday last year. Great pix, UltraGirl! I really like the cute dalmation backpack/harness. Great idea.
Thank you UltraMom, but I have to finally stop holding my tongue and speak out. I’m appalled at the blatant racism/sexism at work in the comments on this site! White guys don’t have a chance here!
I just scrutinized my comment with a fine tooth comb,and I see no racism/sexism there. Please tell me to what you are referring???
UltraMom, I think UltraBob is whining since he gets no comments on his posts