Jun 11 2012
For today’s Apple keynote address at this year’s WWDC at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, I set up my computer with four browser windows, three in Firefox to watch live blogging from Engadget, The Verge and MacWorld, and one window in Safari to watch TWiT Live’s coverage of the event. Everything worked flawlessly. Just …
May 28 2012
After we finished our Memorial Day dinner, Sylvia was accommodating enough, and still had enough energy, to give me a much-needed haircut. As with all the other haircuts through the last twenty eight years, I was very pleased with the result. I can finally take pictures without always pushing the hair from between my eyes …
May 05 2012
Got some decent shots with a damaged telephoto lens of the Super Moon tonight. I’m just glad it wasn’t overcast or cloudy like it always seems to be whenever we have a meteor shower. Full Moon at perigee: approximately 221,800 miles at 8:34 pm PT. 14% larger, 30% brighter, and 22% more Lycan.
May 01 2012
This afternoon I watched a live, fifteen minute address by President Obama. That alone is nothing extraordinary and it doesn’t matter whether I agreed with him or not. What I found to be absolutely amazing is that I was watching the President of the United States speaking live on my computer from Bagram, Afghanistan, a …
Apr 14 2012
147 years ago today, my favorite president was mortally wounded and doomed to death a few hours later. Also on this day 100 years ago, the finest ship of its time hits an iceberg and is doomed to sink a few hours later, taking with it the lives of over 1,500 people. Each year on this …
Mar 28 2012
For the last couple of days there has been a small army of city workers and contractors clearing brush as a fire break from around the canyon down the street from our house. I do believe they may have been all Hispanic for some odd reason. My mother said they all gather in a circle …
Mar 07 2012
Watched some live blogging and podcasting about this morning’s Apple announcement of their new iPad, conveniently called the new iPad. I had four browser windows open simultaneously, one with TWiT doing their live commentary coverage, and three others from MacWorld, Engadget and The Verge, all of which were doing an amazing job live blogging the …
Feb 26 2012
Finally finished reading (my signed copy of) “Wyatt Earp In San Diego: Life After Tombstone” by Garner Palenske. The book is packed with fascinating early San Diego history, which I loved learning about, and the first half is very interesting. But the second half slowed down a bit because it seemed to be more about …
Feb 19 2012
We never had anything this cool and terrifying when I went to school.
Feb 09 2012
Wish there would be an easy way to find out why this Marine Bell Huey equipped with FLIR (forward looking infrared radar) flew over our house not once, not twice, but three times! Maybe they’re finally looking to ask me to help fight the Decepticons and they just couldn’t find a level area to land.
Feb 08 2012
Every few months, after collecting all my empty plastic water bottles along with other miscellaneous recyclables in large plastic bags, I go to the Miramar Landfill Recycling Center with my mom. Today was one of those days. It was filthy, stinky, loud and unfriendly, but for our minimal troubles we received $20. Seems like a small …
Jan 27 2012
Got another one of Sylvia’s patented “really good” haircuts. In almost thirty years I don’t think she’s ever given me a bad one, even when she was mad at me that one time in 1992. Great thing about knowing your barber so well is that you can spend the entire time talking behind the backs …
Jan 25 2012
Normally I don’t like talking about politics. When stating opinions you are either preaching to the choir or infuriating the opposition. Rarely do you ever change a person’s view. Each side knows that they are absolutely correct. This post is not exactly about politics, but here is a perfect example of why I can’t stand …
Jan 24 2012
Watched the President’s State of the Union address tonight. Without getting into any actual political opining, the most amazing thing for me was that I watched it streaming live on my computer, not on network TV, with the address being enhanced with support graphics. Much like watching a business presentation. And seeing Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords …
