My new heart

My new heart: sweet spouse Linda gave me and dear friend, priest David Perry new hearts when we met for lunch near UCSF Cancer Center Wednesday. She then retreated to a table across the room so I could talk to David: I wanted his counsel on forgiveness, and letting go of a poisoned situation. David’s […]

The play of light and shadow

The pedestrian tunnel at San Jose Diridon train station displayed this bright and interesting play of light and shadow as I made my way to Adobe earlier this week. The late summer light is pretty in the morning…

The workout, redux

UCSF Osher Center Physical Trainer Heidi Engel has been advising me on a rehab workout for just over a month now.
Unlike most PTs, who deal with orthopedic and other issues, Heidi focuses on people with stroke and tumor damage to their neuronal pathways. The program she has given me is already producing results.
Every time I […]

A pretty sunrise

Linda offered this photo on First Blush yesterday: it’s that time of year when her morning jog catches the rising sun. Dark days of fall and winter loom ahead…

Wall St. Journal goes ‘Leet’

The Journal, of all publications features a story this A.M. on ‘leet,’  the preferred language of hackers and gamers.  TEh INTeRn3T i5 THr3@+EN1N9 t0 Ch@n93 thE W4Y wE $p34k…

Dragon dust

So, while we were up at UCSF’s Center for Integrative Medecine earlier this year, Linda pretty much signed me up for the whole ‘integrative’ (aka ‘alternative’) medicine stuff.
The Physical Therapy has been really good, and I’m already starting to feel stronger. But I’m also doing Chinese medicine (witness my twice daily potion, affectionately dubbed ‘Dragon […]

Working out

We’ve been doing a set of exercises recommended by a physical trainer at UCSF’s Osher center for 3 weeks now. Already I’m finding I can stand up, lift my left foot and do lots of other things that have been hard thanks to the weakness caused by the massive steroid dose I was given […]

Hurricane tracking

Folks interested in tracking this year’s hurricanes might be interested in the resources at the National Hurricane Center.
The screen grab above is from a GOES satellite looped animation that you can find here. That’s Hurricane Dean, left bottom, and you can see a tropical depression forming on the right. There’s lots more info available, as […]

Sunday in the garden

While Linda and Cassie went on their Sunday constitutional, I returned to Dotcom Garden, and spent another very pleasant morning watering, sipping coffee and just sharing the space with the dragonflies, bees and other pollinators.
I’m already envisioning a winding path and a new placement for the planters - I think we can squeeze in one […]

iLife ‘08 redux

So, Linda and I are both just having a hard time with iLife ‘08, mainly beacause of the ‘Events’ paradigm it introduces, and the kind of random shuffle of all the existing tools and interfaces. The introduction of ‘events’ makes iLife 08 a kind of modal package: what it does depends on what mode you’re […]

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