La vie Milwaukeeienne
Friend, former classmate Greg Bird emailed me this sketch of life on the shore of Lake Michigan:
…just went out and bought a 50# bag of sand today for about $2.75 - salt is now at a premium and selling at around 10 bucks for 10# bag. The stuff is poison for this freshwater environment, so […]
A meeting of cultures
So, we’ve begun working out at the Palo Alto YMCA, another small step forward in our physical rehab. A side benefit of the workouts is that Fry’s is across the street. My pent up desires to walk the aisles of the legendary Palo Alto store have finally been given vent now that I can drive […]
Anti-depressants and rampage killings
Our friend Sara Bostock was over for dinner last night, and the topic of the role of anti-depressants in rampage killings, like the recent tragedy in Illinois, came up. Sara, who lost a daughter to suicide shortly after she began taking an anti-depressant, is a founder of ssristories.com which collates public accounts of killings and […]
More on virtualization
Continuing our virtualization adventures, we’re sitting here blogging in Firefox running on Ubuntu Linux, which, in turn, is running in Parallels 3.0 virtualization software (yes, we finally got it running). At the same time, VMWare Fusion is running Windows XP on the same Mac Mini.
On the one hand, I can see what my blog looks […]
Return to Baylands
Spouse Linda dragged me out of bed to Palo Alto’s Byxbee Park this A.M. where we both walked for an hour (Linda making considerably more distance than I). I hadn’t been to Baylands for more than a year - it was good to be back, mobility problems notwithstanding…
VMware Fusion, virtualization for Mac
VMWare Fusion for Mac appears to be a worthy competitor to Parallels (the 3.0 version of which reliably produces a kernel panic on my Intel Mini). Installation was straightforward, with just a little bit of OS juggling required to install Windows XP from CD (I needed to insert my NT disk to prove I had […]
Palm OS and Mac sync: still a train wreck
Much of the time I would have spent blogging yesterday was consumed trying to get my Treo 650 to sync with my Mac Address Book. The Treo had previously been set, via the Good software package, to sync with my previous employer’s Exchange server. When my account went bye-bye, the Treo stopped allowing me access […]
Back to the blog…
So we’ve been off the air since Tuesday. Gotta say, being ‘retired’ is exhausting, and I’ve been busy as heck for the last couple of days. Won’t bore you with the details, but a new commitment to walking for 40 minutes every day (on top of our A.M. exercise regimen), the usual household chores, shopping […]
Mac OS X Leopard on Demand
Mac OS X Leopard on Demand (Que Publishing, 2007, ISBN-13 978-0-7897-3654-3) is a very good training resource and tutorial manual for OS X 10.5 users. The book rightly categorizes itself as ‘Beginning-Intermediate’ and is a particularly good choice for ‘Switchers’ and others who, new to Mac OS X, want a printed manual. Help desks […]
Aliens with an attitude
“If aliens have the same attitude as us, we’ll all just be sitting round listening, but nobody doing any talking”
From a New Scientist report on “The Sounds of Silence” conference at ASU. SETI researchers are consideing new tactics, including broadcasts aimed ‘out there.’ The planet has hardly been silent for the last half-century. Radar, […]