Category: Miscellaneous

Shock Waves

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 …

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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.

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 …

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Fog In The Canyon

The kind of fog that’s been creeping in every night for the past few days.

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.

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 …

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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 …

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Green Gifts From NRDC

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 …

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So This Almost Pooped On My Head Today

The airship, “Snoopy Two.”

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.

One Thing Leads To Another

Two mind-expanding videos. The first one led to the second one.

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.

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 …

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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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