The Leica M8 shows up…

So, we ordered a Leica M8 before Christmas. It was madness, I know. Leica held up shipment, and I probably should have cancelled the order. I didn’t, so now there’s a giant charge on my credit card.
My film Leicas have sat all but unused for the better part of a decade, and the Leica […]

Dotcom garden first steps, and a cool new machine

We had been searching for a tool just like this: a 6-inch wide, 1/3 HP electric tiller, to help with the hard annual job of prepping Dotcom Garden - digging out the dense accumulation of roots that grow up into the boxes from below. Surrounding trees are the culprits I think - it used […]

We’re going (we went) to Disneyland!

Adobe gave plane and Disney tickets and a day off to the Acrobat 8 team when we went GM, and I have to say, given what else we have been dealing with for the last 4 months or so, this was a really welcome break for the Gulkers. As you can see it started at […]

A Mac ‘Get Things Done’ client appears

Imagine my surprise… while netsurfing last night I somehow stumbled over Ghost Action, a Get Things Done client app for Mac. I downloaded the trial and began noodling with it, not really intending to start using it and figuring I’d have to go back over my GTD course on the iPod Shuffle where I’ve been […]

Sundown and instrumentation…

The sun may not have been actually setting when I snapped this pic, but it was certainly headed in that direction this evening. Yesterday I set up this part of our new Oregon Scientific weather station, and it’s working like a charm. It uses 433 MHz (interesting) to update a base unit once every […]

Sunrise and instrumentation…

The rising sun and clouds made an interesting sky as I made my way to the Marguerite shuttle this AM. I think the tower has weather instrumentation… I’ll look a bit more closely tomorrow (I was hustling this AM to make an early meeting). Linda had earlier snapped a very pretty picture nearby on her […]

An interesting winter sky…

A high overcast and a jet contrail added interest to this morning’s winter sky as Linda, Cassie and I made a circumnavigation of the (currently) dry Lagunita at Stanford this morning. This was my second trip around this favorite, oft-traversed path since surgery, I’m informed, after Ms. Hubbard-Gulker researched the topic on her blog.
We passed […]

A few thoughts about the Lumix DMC FZ50…

Our new Lumix DMC FZ50 has been with us for a month now, and I’m really finding it a very useful tool. Its Leica DC Vario Elmarit takes very good pictures, and shows its Leica heritage in both good sharpness and contrast in the 10.1 MP images it produces. It’s amazing to be able […]

p2, aka the Paperless Project, finally gets a descriptive page

We’ve been promising to document p2 a little better than just a series of blog posts: done. It may be more than you want to know, but is, in my opinion, an easy to set up, easy to use system that makes documents much more accessible than they ever were as paper. It also clears […]

The Levy, Gulker, Hubbard Gulker and Getze gang on their big night out…

So, I’m going to be unapologetic about donning a tuxedo and supporting UCSF’s Rasing Hope fund raiser. Some of my Valley friends who make a point of not owning a tuxedo (or a suit, or matching socks for that matter) have been ribbing me about attending Raising Hope. Sometimes, a guy has to do what […]

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