Breakfast with a really nice guy
Scott Loftesness and I have exchanged blog links, comments and email for years, but have never met, despite living in the same town. A couple weeks ago, Scott pinged me and suggested we get together. His office is right by Menlo Train Station and the hip, busy Cafe Baronne.
I admitted I liked Ann’s - a [...]
The Tesla roadster… Wow!
Here’s the red Tesla Roadster prototype that I rode in this afternoon thanks to Rob Coish and the crew at Tesla Motors with pilot Ernest Villanueva at the wheel. The car’s Ferrari-beating 0-to-60 in 4 seconds acceleration is not only real, but you can punch it at any speed and get the same [...]
Cool KFOG show this morning
Linda’s blogging the really cool ‘vinyl’ show KFOG’s broadcasting from Village Music in Mill Valley this AM. Lotsa 60s music to warm our 50-something hearts…on the air until 10 if you want to tune in…
A giant New Yorker with a big shoe on the cover
…showed up in the mail yesterday. I suspect this is a gift from friend Michael Rosenberg, who is perhaps leary that I’ll jut be laying about in my new life (I only wish, Michael - Linda will never allow that particulare scenario).
I am trying to polish my journalistic skills as part of the new regime, [...]
iLife ‘08: completely useless?
The screen shot above shows what iLife ‘08 did to a 7-year-old collection of photos and albums - some 30,000 pictures that used to work flawlessly in iPhoto ‘06 are just unrecognized by iPhoto ‘08. Dozens, if not a hundred albums, including thigs like John and Julie’s wedding just show blank squares where thumbnails once [...]
Tripod work
Priest Frannie Hall-Kieschnick, above, celebrates at Trinity Episcopal Church this morning. I took the Lumix along, mounted on its lightweight tripod, and found that, by positioning myself carefully, I could cover the altar, lecterns and many other spots from a single positon. Trinity unveiled a vibrant new forum and services this morning, and a photo [...]
Wall St. Journal goes ‘Leet’
The Journal, of all publications features a story this A.M. on ‘leet,’ the preferred language of hackers and gamers. TEh INTeRn3T i5 THr3@+EN1N9 t0 Ch@n93 thE W4Y wE $p34k…
iLife ‘08
Well, we upgraded to iLife ‘08 and find iPhoto ‘08 works very differently from previously. I can’t seem to find a way to size pictures to the 450, 300 and 225-pixel sizes that fit the www.gulker.com blog body - that used to be an ‘export’ feature. I’m not sure the ‘events’ feature is very useful [...]
Barry, at last
I was up and tapping away on one of gulker.com’s Macs when Mr. Bonds stepped up to the plate at 8:51 PM last night. Linda and I both turned and watched as Nationals pitcher Mike Bacsik ran the count to 3 and 2, before seeing that amazing Bonds swing and hearing Duane Kuiper’s call: “Bacsik [...]
Paperless journalism
Here’s Tony Perkins at the start of the Democratization of Media session on day 3 of the Stanford Summit, holding up a piece of paper. I came back from the summit with several pounds of handouts, press releases and very nicely printed-and-bound Summit documentation, all of which is now in my recycle bin.
I didn’t help [...]