Fri Apr 18 09:02:30 PDT 2003

A couple of things. Last weekend we picked up about 20 pounds of buffalo meat from Aleta and Jon. Most of it is ground meat to use in burgers, and there are a few steaks and ribs too. I wanted to jot down Aleta’s mixture for buffalo burgers since buffalo meat is incredibly lean, it needs a little help to make good burgers, and they turn out incredibly good:

2 pounds ground lean buffalo 2 small eggs 2 tablespoons french dressing (other types work also) 1 teaspoon garlic powder some lemon pepper.

I also have been working some with importing even more photos into the photo gallery. I scanned in some of Laurie’s stuff and I’m trying to import all my old digital photos. I first tried doing it all in one big chunk, but that turned out to be a very bad idea ™ as it corrupted the database. I ended up having to quickly hack the .dat files back into shape and I’m now trying smaller chunks. I’ll hide the albums and slowly organize them into events and other sections.

I also tried out freevo again after realizing that the MythTV packages for RH8 were just too much of a pain to install and I’d have to recompile the whole thing again anyway. I actually got the music part working fine and the photos mostly work with the gallery directories, but all the thumbnail and sized photos show up as well, which is mildly annoying, but it shouldn’t be too hard to add a minor patch to fix that. The annoying thing that I didn’t realize until now is that it appears that my Hauppage TV tuner card did not get the /dev device entries created for it, or the modules aren’t being loaded correctly under RH8! It might be possible that my playing around with the webcam interfered with the loading of the drivers. I’m planning on rebooting soon anyway, that might clear it up, but I suspect that I’m going to have to do soem more serious work to get the tuner back up and working correctly again :-(