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Amishgeek.com now with more Cloud Power

Sep 27th, 2011
by Amish_Geek.
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I recently decided to migrate some of my sites to the amazon ec2 cloud.  Now this site (www.amishgeek.com) is hosted entirely on Amazon’s EC2.  I’m using a triplet of micro instances behind an Elastic Load balancer to serve up this site and a couple others.  I’m using GlusterFS as a distributed filesystem to keep files synced between my instances.

I also enabled w3-total-cache which greatly speeds up pageload times and caching, as well as using S3 + cloudfront as a content delivery network (cdn) for delivering static content.

Look forward for another post with greater in-depth details on how I accomplished this.

Bike ride in Lester Park

Jul 23rd, 2009
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The other day, my roommate and I went for a bike ride in Lester Park (one of the many wonderful parks in the Duluth area).  It was my first time ever biking on an off-road trail like that, and even though it kicked my butt, I thoroughly enjoyed it, and look forward to doing other such excursions again!

Getting rid of the Beer Belly

Jul 12th, 2009
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I bought a bike this weekend.

It’s a 95 Trek 970 Mountain Bike

  • Older shimano (XTR and Deore) components
  • RockShox Quadra21 shock in the front
  • Specialized Strong Arm cranks
  • Specialized seat
  • new Scott grips
  • ZX welded aluminum frame thats guaranteed for the life of the bike

(I have no clue what any of the above really means, other than it’s some name brand stuff)

I’m hoping that biking the mile to work and back every day will help me get rid of my gut, and help me lose a bit of weight.  I’m also going to cut back on certain foods/drinks, try to eat more healthy, and drink more water.

Another revolution around the sun

Feb 9th, 2007
by Amish_Geek.
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Well Tuesday was my birthday.  This year was rather uneventful, but pleasant.  I went to the cities for a meeting for work, and afterwards I met my parents for dinner.  We ate at Champs, and I had this really good spicy jambalaya.  Other than that, I didn’t do much.

It’s been so cold out I haven’t had time to work on my cars lately.  This is a sad thing because my SPG needs some more attention, and my NG900 wants more power.  I ordered myself a birthday present for my NG900, an Autometer Sportcomp II boost gauge (30hg/30psi) so I can tell how much I’m boosting with the turbo.  The OEM boost gauge doesn’t have actual PSI values.  I’m also tempted to get a MBC+A (Manual Boost Controller + Anticipator) so I can crank the boost up, but I’ll only max out at 15psi with my current ECU.   Most likely I’ll set aside a little bit each paycheck for the car, and then in April/May go straight for a Stage3 Nordic Tune.

I can’t wait for the weekend, then I can take my mind briefly off work and relax.  I’ll probably finish my book this weekend and start another one.

Roommates… oh the love!

Dec 13th, 2006
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Having roommates can be quite humorous at times.  For example, just tonight, my roommates Steve and Jacob were arguing about fantasy football stuff.  Steve was making fun that Jacob was all of a sudden in last place in their fantasy football league.  All this in the midst of watching the Colbert Report together.  Jacob and I decided it would be kind of fun to make a “Colbert Report Drinking Game”.  So we might have to do that over the next week.

To talk about how random the stuff we do, Jacob put in the “School of Rock” DVD just to watch the last scene where the kids play at the battle of the bands.  Steve thinks that if he could just play drums he could do it all.

Meanwhile, here I sit with my laptop, playing around with photobooth and my isight camera taking before and after pics of my haircut. (no i’m not narcissistic).

Ok, so I’m bored on a Wednesday night and have nothing to do.  I need a garage so I can work on my car.

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