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Spam of the day
I have a new spam filter that really cuts down on the spam that ends up in my inbox. So these days since I don’t see as much, what I do get often catches my eye. Long Legged THRANNY In Pgantyhose With Bdig Tfits – I want to meet this person. What do you suppose
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Backyard 3.0
This past weekend, along with wrestling our new Apple TV unit into submission, we also decided to take on the problem of the backyard pond. Well, it was no longer so much a pond as a breeding ground for the West Nile Virus, and that was the problem. The basin or the plastic sheeting under
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Hello, Apple TV! Goodbye $2600!
Chuck and I pre-ordered an Apple TV right after MacWorld back in January, and it finally arrived late last week. We had already received and set up a new 802.11n base station (and it is a VAST improvement over their earlier models, for anybody who’s pondering a switch or upgrade). We plugged it in and
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Another day, another dollar
I’ve been busy working, my nose to the grindstone all week. I had to go to Pasadena on Monday, Sacramento on Tuesday and Wednesday, had a meeting here yesterday, and am working on regular stuff today. That’s a pretty average week. The thing that continues to blow my mind as I approach the first anniversary
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The big birthday week in review
When it takes a week to celebrate a birthday, it takes a while to get all of the various media taken of said birthday together. So here are more photos of our biplane ride over Carlsbad, taken with our Canon digital SLR. These are really spectacular shots, and as we had the big telephoto lens,
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An embarassment of riches
Thursday was Chuck’s 60th birthday, and we started celebrating in style on Wednesday night. The true celebration, in my opinion, started on Sunday when we finished all 26.2 miles of the LA Marathon pretty much on a lark. As I pointed out, it’s the rare darned-near-60-year-old who can even think about completing a marathon, much
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