Since I did so many touristy things this past week, and took so many pictures, that today I spent almost the entire day working on some of those recent photos so I could start adding them to my text-only posts. So for today’s entry I will just link to one of the coolest videos I …
Category: Miscellaneous
Jan 18 2012
SOPA/PIPA Protest Blackout Day
Thousands of Internet sites either went black or found other ways of showing their solidarity for anti SOPA and anti PIPA protests today, including me with my Flickr and Tumblr pages. Looks like we’ve won this round. But the fight is far from over.
Jan 09 2012
Microsoft Keynote At CES
After some on-and-off viewing of press videos during the day from CES, which opens to the public tomorrow, I watched the live, online keynote address by Steve Ballmer. Except for maybe a few minutes of the Xbox 360 presentation (which I don’t play or even own), I would have to say that it was one of the …
Jan 01 2012
Fog In The Canyon
The kind of fog that’s been creeping in every night for the past few days.
Dec 20 2011
This Was A Good Year For Blimp Flyovers
Had yet another blimp fly over our house today. At least this time it was a different one. It was either larger or lower than the Met Life blimp because it filled a lot more of the sky. Literally heard coming from a mile away.
Dec 16 2011
Two Very Different Sky Shots
Took only two photos today. Both of the sky. Couldn’t be any more opposite from each other. One man-made, the other 100% natural. One without color, the other aflame with hues. One moving west to east, the other in the opposite direction. One without any landscape, the other with hills. One at the brightest point …
Dec 12 2011
Lines No More
AT&T was out in force in our neighborhood again this morning, even though it was raining pretty hard. They already had taken down most of the phone lines heading to the houses and today they were busy removing the telephone pole rungs. Guess I’ll have to find somewhere else to practice my poles dancing. Won’t …
Dec 10 2011
Total Lunar Eclipse
Went out at 4:15 in the 40 degree morning to start watching the lunar eclipse. Was first approached by a curious skunk who startled me, which then startled it, and it spun around to take the “jettison the juice” position. Luckily it didn’t perceive me as a real threat and it just scampered away. Then …
Dec 07 2011
In Remembrance
Spent quite some time today looking through old and astonishingly brutal photographs from the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack while listening to World War II music. My own way of remembering those who were tragically lost that day.
Dec 06 2011
One Thing Leads To Another
Two mind-expanding videos. The first one led to the second one.
Nov 30 2011
Can’t Leave It At 59
I had 59 blog posts this month and there was no way I could leave it like that. It would have bothered me like a hair in a sandwich. (Lobby, lobby, lobby…) So here is blog post number 60 to bring balance back to the universe.
Nov 27 2011
Moving Day For A Stranger
Went up to Orange County with my friends Mary and Sylvia to help Mary’s uncle move some of his belongings down here to San Diego. The day consisted of us driving up to Cypress, stopping first at a Starbucks to refuel ourselves before any heavy lifting, then stopping at a motorcycle shop/U-Haul rental business to …
Nov 22 2011
Just Glad They Were Ours
Witnessed a formation of military planes, consisting of a C130 Hercules and eight F-18 Hornets, circle over our neighborhood three times today. There actually was one more C130 and another F-18, but they were flying off to the side and not in formation. Couldn’t find any information about the reason for the flyover. Maybe a …
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