Jules recently spotted a pair of hawks that seem to be nesting over by the golf course, and I wanted to try and catch them with the new lens before the trees fill up with leaves. Unfortunately, I didn’t catch the hawks, but on the way I heard a woodpecker and while scouring the tree, [...]
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Warning! This tale may make you feel old. It’s not an uncommon phenomenon for more mature folks to get frustrated while trying to make sense of some of the new fangled high tech gear. Even I, uber-techno geek get frustrated at some of the unbelievably idiot user-interface decisions that are made by some equipment designers. [...] One of the more popular genres on the net is personality tests, and I stumbled across an interesting variation on digg this morning. This particular test consists of about a dozen pages with a simple statement at the top such as “Art Is…”. Below that are fifteen images such as the Mona Lisa, a tattoo, [...] I was never a big Peanuts ( the comic strip, not the legume, those I love) fan growing up, but as I perusing Digg this afternoon I spotted the headline Charlie Brown Goes Anime and decided to check it out. There are a bunch illustrations of the various Peanuts characters done in the Anime style. [...] I love the island of Kauai, Jules and I got married there and it’s an amazing place. Going scuba diving or snorkeling and encountering green sea turtles is always a treat. These big lumbering creatures that struggle on land, just glide majestically through the water. I stumbled across a cool little video, of some [...] As we pass yet another arbitrary day in time, I don’t want to dwell on what’s done. Let’s focus on now and moving forward. We now a slightly more sane congress that will hopefully gut the military commissions act, prevent an attack on Iran and acknowledge that global heating is real and we need to [...] |
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