Hold the home nukes: a Mac dual G5 will do just fine
The cell phone call went something like this: “Sorry to bother you dear, but the big Mac’s screen just went dark, and now smoke is coming out of it. What should I do?” My advice (”unplug it”) may have saved more unfortunate damage to the computer, if not the household.
When I returned, the house was […]
The home nuclear reactor
Toshiba has announced its Micro Nuclear reactor designed for small, remote communities, apartment buildings and small businesses. the 20 by 6-foot device produces 200 kwh and is completely automatic. Designed to run unattended for up to 40 years, the reactor produces electrity for 5 cents a kwh, about half the current grid price. Do we […]
Editing, USB et al.
I’ve decided that the editing post is going to be an essay, and it needs work. So, I’ve moved it…
We’ve been having USB problems (a recurring ‘Device Removed’ dialog) on our Intel Mini: a Google search produced a suggestion that a bum hub could be the cause. Sure enough, when I pulled my D-Link 7-port […]
Spring and I return to Baylands
Our Baylands walk this morning couldn’t have been prettier. Shorts-and-T-shirt weather has (finally) returned, and I made the roughly 1-mile walk 10 minutes faster than last time.
Spring wildlife abounds: Linda spotted goslings and a pheasant, and I had fun photographing a flock of Commorants and an Egret that was posing photogenically near the dam that […]
A virtual high tech yard sale
We have a bunch of slightly dated software and (rather more dated) hardware we’d like to move on down the user chain. Stay tuned for the list…
VMware Fusion 1.1.2 has shipped, according to VMware’s Peter Kazanjy. We’re currently running Windows XP on Fusion.
A really big Ice Cube
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory consists of a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice some 2,500 meters below the surface. The ice, said to be about 60,000 years old, will eventually hold 80 boreholes (made by pumping hot water at high pressure), each holding a 2.5 kilometer string of optical detectors. IceCube, though only partially complete, is […]
Working on our look and feel
So, as you may be seeing, we’re working on the theme for our WordPress blog. WordPress makes it very easy to change themes, but I haven’t found a way to park the new theme on another URL while I twiddle with it.
Just made our first (successful) fix to this, the Modernpaper Theme. Coming up (we […]
Closing out a very hard week
A ‘chick flick’ (Linda’s description, not mine) shows (L to R) Linda (a lay eucharistic minister), the Rev. Frannie Hall-Kieschnick and the Rev. Beth Foote presiding at Sunday’s 10:30 service at Trinity. The sermon, which beautifully helped us walk through the stages of lamentation over rector Mike Spillane’s death, was delivered by Stanford’s Rev. […]
A Windy walk, a fond goobye
We walked an hour and twenty minutes at the base of Windy Hill today, scene of many cherished hikes with Linda and Cassie in years past. Good workout for me…
Mike Spillane’s public memorial service is today at 3:00 PM at Trinity. Saying goodbye to a great guy…
Hard day, good news
Today we attended the first memorial service for Mile Spillane, which was hard, despite his valiant widow Julie’s charm and gracious spirit. Earlier in the day I’d had a MRI and consult with my neuro-oncologists at UCSF - the news was good - which hadn’t been the case for Mike in weeks previous. I still […]
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