Jun 30 2013
What was supposed to be a scheduled Skype video chat between my family here and our relatives in Hungary became more of an impromptu stand-up routine with only half the participants. My mother, sister and I exchanged prop-comedy with my cousin, Gábor, and his wife, Kati. A half-hour exchange became, as usual, twenty-five minutes of …
Jun 29 2013
Had me a full day of some good, ol’ fashioned pet-sittin’. Lilo and Stitch, Theo and Gordon, and Faith and Hope. A surfing troublemaker, an alien without a family, a Huxtable, a Flash and a couple of religious optimists. It all sounds like a Disney movie. Just not a very good one.
Jun 26 2013
Had a brief Google Hangout today with Rodrigo and his two fur-babies. Ten years ago this would have been considered impossibly expensive science fiction. Now, thanks to Google (and others) we can video chat with friends almost any time we want to for free. This was double cool because he was video chatting with his …
Jun 26 2013
Heard this guy (apparently from Arizona, judging from his license plate) going through our neighbor’s trash this morning. He was keenly focused on collecting whatever glass recyclables he could find. At first I was kind of appalled by his audacity since he wasn’t trying to hide his rummaging at all, but as I watched him …
Jun 25 2013
Another neighbor asked me to watch her two really pretty cats, Faith and Hope, while she’s away for a few days. Apparently I am slowly becoming the neighborhood animal-sitter. Must be my lower functioning brain. This will be much easier than my other cat-sitting stints because it’s only two cats as opposed to eight and …
Jun 25 2013
My mom’s first ever attempt at baking a pineapple cake from a recipe she found online. She added a layer of strawberry jam in the middle and fresh strawberries on top. It tasted pretty good, but just became really thick and heavy. It never really rose in the first place. Was a good first try, …
Jun 24 2013
Found out today that Foursquare has introduced a cool new service called Time Machine that displays a person’s check-ins using infographics and even an animated map of their travels. The check-ins are broken down into data points that among other things include categories, most recent and most visited check-ins, as well as badges earned and …
Jun 23 2013
Partook in another Skype chat between my mom and me and my cousin and his wife. This one lasted just long enough to see some of the inside of his house and to set up a more involved chat for next Sunday with additional members of both families on either side of the planet. This …
Jun 22 2013
Attended the latest Comic Fest 2013 planning meeting at the Town and Country Resort with department heads and various other volunteers such as myself, although at this meeting I was finally designated as the Fest’s official photographer, so I guess that kind of makes me head of the photo department. Many topics were covered, some …
Jun 21 2013
While I was taking a shower this morning my neighbor from across the street came running over and started chatting with me through the bathroom window (something that I will never be able to come back from) and said that a chick had dropped out of its nest in front of her house and she …
Jun 21 2013
After all these years of listening to and/or watching a multitude of tech podcasts, Cali Lewis is still the one podcaster/tech journalist that gets me all twitterpated. And, after a long drought of not contacting her, I sent her a short tweet which she quickly replied to. So you’re saying there’s a chance…
Jun 20 2013
Came time to transplant the California Poppies (I first wrote poopies by accident, thought it was funny) that I grew from seeds I got for free from a San Diego Zoo horticulturist during their annual Garden Fest celebration. Out of the five pots I planted seeds in only two actually grew. Here is the original …
Jun 19 2013
Finally, after wanting to update my blog to a new theme for a very long time, I found a really good free one that I liked called Graphene. Spent a good chunk of my day creating a new header from one of my photos and adjusting all the settings that the theme offered, but I …
Jun 16 2013
So I signed up for an account with Vizify, which then gathered my Twitter data and created a short animated infographic that showed me information like what I tweet about the most, what was my most popular tweet, what times of the day I most often post, and the three Tweeters I interact with most. …
Jun 16 2013
After this morning’s Flamingo Fest photo group meet-up at the San Diego Zoo, I got together with my friend Bryan (who was also at the meet-up) to enjoy a Father’s Day lunch at The Galley at the Marina in Chula Vista. Since his family was out of town and my father stopped being a few …
