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 [...]
A half-mile with Linda
Sweet spouse Linda was kind enough to walk with me this morning, despite my very slow pace. Trainer Heidi Engel has been encouraging me to walk longer distances without my cane, and this was my longest jaunt - a half mile.
I’ve been walking without my cane in the house and at the gym, but I’ve [...]
A walk through Arastradero
A deer and her fawn greeted me as I made my way along a dirt path through Palo Alto’s Arastradero Preserve this morning. I was much anticipating this, only my third visit to the Preserve since cancer struck. The park’s flora is now in full, gold-and-green summer dress.
I was eager to try out my new [...]
A Sunday morning sketch
This bright morning finds me at the kitchen table with a plate of eggs scrambled with a freshly diced tomato, a pan-grilled chicken apple sausage from Biancini’s market, a mug of freshly-brewed Peet’s coffee, a cocktail of ten pills (Lyrica, Keppra, Altace, fish oil, vitamin D3, a ’senior’ multivitamin and Alleve), a glass of water [...]
More on Martian ice ‘mystery blob’
Here’s a lightened, cropped version of the lower image in the post below, showing no Sol-20 type clumps in the shadow, but clearly showing the ‘mystery blob.’
Re-reading a couple of MPL press releases makes me believe that additional digging was done in the trench pictured on Sol 19, resulting in the images of Sols 20 [...]
Ice on Mars: first look
Ice clumps on Mars? The recent announcement, first spotted on the MPL Twitter blog reports that the small grayish clumps visible in the lower left of the trench in the photo marked Sol 20 above, have disappeared by Sol 24, a discovery that is consistent with water ice sublimating into the thin, very dry Martian [...]
The Smart way to Caltrain
Spotted this Smart ForTwo at the Menlo Park Caltrain station when I returned from physical therapy this afternoon. Gotta say that, other than a bicycle, this is probably the best way to get to CalTrain. My Escape Hybrid is good, too…
Image issues
This is bad.
This, however, is fun. I’ve been trying out the new, fast Mac by pouring over satellite images of Mars, looking for crashed spacecraft. Really, it’s fun…
Further ponder
We’ve started to master the OsiriX open source DICOM image viewer for Mac OS X. It really flies on the new Mac Pro, and I was flipping through the images from my most recent MRI, and trying to compare them with one of the first images, taken in 2006, before radiation and chemotherapy started.
I’ll have [...]
Totter and ponder
Our walk this morning looped a mile over the bike-and-pedestrian path that runs adjacent to the Stanford golf course. As usual I pondered many weighty issues while I walked at a determined pace.
One momentous issue is whether the default Radeon HD 2600 graphics card in my new 8-processor-core Mac Pro is sufficiently powerful. I’ve handed [...]