And while we were waiting…
for gulker.com to come back, we realized, looking at the creation date for the domain (January 20, 1995) that we have just passed the 18th anniversary of www.gulker.com - we were live on a modem link and IP address before we registered the domain - ahh, the good old days.
Anyway, things we’ve been thinking about […]
gulker.com woes
Yes, yes, we are aware that gulker.com - email, web site et al. - has been screwed up for the last couple days. I renewed the domain for 5 years (as I recall) and with the turmoil of last year forgot it was due. My spam filter dumped all of Network Solutions (HTML) warning emails, […]
Is time an illusion?
A New Scientist article suggests that time is an artifact of the macro-scale world. Two scientists have cooked up a version of quantum physics that doesn’t need or use time. Hmmmm….
Why things suck
33 things that make us crazy: Wired Mag’s lead article this month digs into why things like air travel, tomatoes, software support et al. just suck. One surprise entry: science. Science sucks because it reveals the limitations of humans. We’re best adapted to a ‘campfire culture.’ No grok quantum dualities…
Grace checks in
A very cheery note in an otherwise sad week: John and Julie added this very cheery portrait of granddaughter Grace to the family album. I still think she’s the prettiest baby…
Yesterday
So, if you were in the parking lot of Sequoia Veterinary Hospital yesterday around 10, you might have noticed a 50-something male sitting in a Ford Escape Hybrid, bawling like a baby. That would have been me.
Cassie was such a good friend and family member that I couldn’t bear to think of her being put […]
A sad chore
We’re off to the vets to see our dear dog Cassie for the last time. She’s been failing in recent months, and took a sudden turn for the worse a couple days ago.
The hardest part of having a wonderful pet is always making the hard decisions at the end, and the better the dog, the […]
“Apple could shock the naysayers”
Apple is a ‘buy’, according to Fortune. At $140 or so, 30% off December’s high around $200, it seems a bargain to some. Last time there was a slowdown, Apple came up with the iPod…
Cold and wet in Menlo
The rain arrived just in time to ‘baptize’ our newly-delivered patio furniture. It’s made of teak, so rain should be OK, adding to its patina. If temperatures were to drop 5 degrees, we might be seeing snow instead of rain…
Snow in the Bay Area
It rarely snows here, but one of the Bay Area’s tallest peaks, Mt. Diablo, has a healthy dusting of snow today, and the snow level was said to have fallen as low as 1000 feet.
In the past, a snow level of 1000 feet has meant snow on Windy Hill, a nearby geographic feature. That’s Cassie […]