First Rain
Saturday, October 4th, 2008We had our first rain of the season last night. It's always soothing and everything just seems cleaner the next day.
Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
We had our first rain of the season last night. It's always soothing and everything just seems cleaner the next day.
If it’s not a single on iTunes or Amazon then it doesn’t exist
Friday, August 29th, 2008There's an article on Techdirt discussing the motivation of some musicians for not putting their albums up on iTunes. My personal experience is that if it's not on Amazon or iTunes then it simply doesn't exist. My family's entire music infrastructure has been based on the ipod and apple tv. ...
Great new author
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Stumbled across a new author, John Scalzi, when perusing recommendations on my Kindle. I made the mistake of reading his second book first, but it didn't ruin anything to read it that way. Since I started reading his books I haven't been able to stop. I've raced through 5 books ...
ABC’s Wipeout wiped out
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008Watched a few minutes of the new show tonight. Looks like the producers were going for some sort of mix of MXC and Ninja Warrior. It missed on every count. Was not funny at all. The challenges just weren't that challenging. I predict a very quick demise for this show. ...
Hello Baby
Thursday, July 17th, 2008While watching the first two episodes of the HBO John Adams series tonight I felt my daughter kick for the first time. It's still early, so it was a subtle movement. But it was definitely exciting.
The best way to wake up
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008Nothing tastes better than a cold Diet Mountain Dew as you sit down to read the news in the morning. It cuts through the fog of sleep and brings your brain to the proper state for getting the day started.
Apple TV doesn’t see recent YouTube content
Thursday, June 19th, 2008As I've mentioned in previous posts, I'm a big fan of tv as an alternative to broadcast television. However, today I noticed an interesting video on YouTube on scalability. I started to watch it on my laptop, but watching a long video on laptop just isn't all that great. So ...
Saw my first Tesla Roadster
Monday, May 19th, 2008Wish I could have gotten some picks, but it was moving pretty quick. I was in San Carlos today to pick up some items and it went tearing down a sidestreet. Can't wait till there are more of them out on the road.
Macbook Crashed
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008Hmm, just finished the update to the latest version of Safari. Afterwards, I was doing some work and then everything suddenly froze. A few seconds later a screen came up saying that I would have to hold down the power button to restart my laptop. Upon rebooting it asked to ...
Adding a few people to follow on twitter
Monday, March 3rd, 2008Determining what the best way was to find new people on twitter wasn't exactly intuitive. I wasn't going to open up my email address book to twitter and finding the people search option wasn't obvious. Added a few people that I'm interested in hearing from. I'll have to see if this ...
The Teaching Company is now offering downloadable audio
Monday, December 17th, 2007I'm a huge fan of the courses from The Teaching Company. It's a great way to make better use of a commute into the city and I'm especially happy that they're now offering mp4 downloads that you can put on your ipod. I had ordered several courses on CD awhile ...
Audiobook update
Sunday, November 25th, 2007Wow, the narrator makes all the difference. We picked up a different book for the drive home from Thanksgiving, "Basic Black" by Cathie Black on business. The 6 hour trip was over before we knew it. We've still got 3 hours left in the book, but a good audiobook makes ...
Malibu Fires
Saturday, November 24th, 2007We spent the weekend in SoCal with family for Thanksgiving and got to see what a California Forest Fire looks like close up. The Malibu fire was about 15 miles from where we were staying, but it looked like it was right over the next ridge. Took a couple pics ...
My intro to audiobooks
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007For Thanksgiving this year we drove down to the LA area to visit family. It's about a 6 hour drive for us which isn't too bad. To make it go a bit quicker though we picked up a couple audiobooks from Audible. The first one that we listened to was Stephen ...
Webshots is sold again
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007Well, this makes it twice now, that Webshots has been sold while I was working there. This looks like it will be the last time that I will get to go through a sale of this property since I won't be making the move out to Cleveland to join the ...