Author Archives: bturnip

Gabe and the pumpkin patch

Posted on October 16, 2010 by bturnip

Gabe had a school trip to a pumpkin patch: The kids had free reign to pick any pumpkin from the field they wanted.  Gabe really weighed his options, and prolly went through almost a dozen before he found one that … Continue reading →

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Graydon and Granny snapping beans

Posted on October 15, 2010 by bturnip
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Gabe and Graydon in the leaves

Posted on October 14, 2010 by bturnip
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Gabe Anderson, MD

Posted on October 13, 2010 by bturnip

Gabe got dressed up as on ophthalmologist for Community Helper day:

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Gabe, soccer, cats

Posted on October 12, 2010 by bturnip

Gabe likes playing soccer, though he is mostly taking part in a cat herding exercise:

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Workbench project complete

Posted on September 16, 2010 by bturnip

Sturdy workbench built on the cheap: Laminated 2×4’s construction for the legs Through tenons on legs and stretchers Large oak dowels pinning the tenons came from an old broom handle Heavy-as-lead top is a solid core door rescued from a … Continue reading →

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Catching up with Gabe

Posted on September 5, 2010 by bturnip

Gabe has hit the big 4.0 and is doing all kinds of 4 year-old stuff: First day of pre-K. This was the only picture the jaded scholar would allow to be taken. Finding cool walking stick looking bugs in the … Continue reading →

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Nerd Alert: Trim trailing LF/CR characters in Oracle

Posted on August 23, 2010 by bturnip

Lots of Nerd Alerts lately, but I haven’t unloaded the camera to see which family pics turned out to be in focus… PROBLEM: Your data has zero or more trailing commas followed by a non-printing character, typically LF/CR. SOLUTION: regexp_replace!

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Nerd alert: exit code 32512

Posted on August 20, 2010 by bturnip

Means file doesn’t exists or the path has been defined incorrectly.

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Nerd alert: Trimming Leading/Trailing Whitespace with Regular Expressions

Posted on August 5, 2010 by bturnip

Find leading whitespace: ^[ t]+ Find trailing whitespace: [ t]+$

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