New ‘world land speed record’
Thanks to pacing this morning by sweet spouse Linda who patiently (!) walked the 2 miles with me, I did the ‘stop sign’ circuit in one hour and ten minutes, shaving 7 minutes off my previous personal best. Even better, I walked the first 1.5 miles (also a new personal best) without the cane…
Gold and green, up and down
Linda and I jogged/walked our much loved trails in the Arastradero Preserve today, and I took the opportunity as I doddered along the path to try to peel back the layers of gloom that have descended upon me on this sunny, pleasant weekend.
And the day was indeed very pleasant: summer is here, and the oak [...]
New mascot
So, we decided that Pixar’s Wall-E was our new mascot. Figuring that Wall-E and his maker, Buy’nLarge, Inc. would be online and receptive to orders, we quickly negotiated for our very own Wall-E, who is now happily roaming the house, looking for junk to pick up.
I really like Wall-E’s work ethic: whatever happens (which, in [...]
Blogger block
There have been a million (well, many) things I’ve wanted to blog about recently, and somehow have just not managed to get brain to fingers to keyboard - maybe some cybernetics hacker who is also a Wordpress fan can do a little hardware/software hack to make this process easier?
Actually, the real problem is mental inertia [...]
The iPhone 3G, and how to take it apart
Aaron Vronko has not only already got ahold of an iPhone 3G, but he’s taken it apart and published a HOWTO guide. You’re a braver man than I, Aaron…
On faith
We’ve been busy writing, not blogging, lately, as readers can plainly see by the infrequent recent posts. I’ve finally whipped an essay on faith that I started some 18 months ago into some sort of presentable shape. Input gratefully received…
Flip-flopper, I, nailed by hard-charging reporter
No, it’s not some Republican attack-dog PAC that’s making this claim: rather it’s friend and former colleague Cathy Healy, who notes on her NewStoryTelling blog that I have radically changed my position on the Kindle since she interviewed me some months ago. Absolutely guilty as charged: since I’ve actually had one, it’s become part of [...]
This has been a wonderful 4th of July. It started Thursday afternoon with a movie-and-dinner date with spouse Linda. We saw Wall-E: the first 45 minutes may be as good movie-making as I’ve seen, and the rest of the film isn’t bad, either. I’ve decided Wall-E, who repairs himself when need be, is my new [...]
Hanging with the Baylands set
Linda and I did our respective Baylands loops this Fourth of July morning, sharing the space with the usual crew of egrets, cormorants and geese, none of whom were showing much in the way of patriotic colors. I walked 1.8 miles in an hour and 20 minutes, a considerable improvement on my last Baylands outing [...]
Kindle, a very satisfactory device
So, here’s my Kindle on the breakfast-nook table this morning. Despite the fact that we are long-time subscribers to the print NY Times (and SF Chronicle) I do most of my newspaper reading these days on the Kindle, and this after only 3 weeks since its arrival on Father’s day.
I like it, and it’s dropped [...]