Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 31st, 2012
I’m in a quasi-contemplative mood (and sick with a cold) and I wanted to add my own version to go with all of the 2012-in-review stories I keep seeing on the news. To be honest, 2012 has been an exercise in existence and not so much actual living. The good: After basically a decade of […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 10th, 2012
This summer I discovered the Arduino and was completely fascinated by how simple it was to rig up things like circuits, sensors, motors, servos, whatever and make it do real things. And it was cheap! I never have really tried my hand at microcontrollers or hardware hacking despite having a bit of the ham radio […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 1st, 2012
Tidy Cat “multi-cat long lasting” (orange) litter + Felix = endless digging and flinging of litter all over the bedroom, despite even weekly changing of litter and soapy wash of litter pan and daily scooping Tidy Cat “multi-cat instant action” (cyan) litter + Felix = instant, overnight stop to flinging; vacuum cleaner rejoices, litter lasts for weeks […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 16th, 2012
Gather round, it’s time for the old person to tell a story about how things used to be! Mid-Late 1990s: no such thing as mobile, I stuck in my 3com PCMCIA card and dialed somebody like CRIS or long distance into my own ISP’s modems. I have flip phones through US Cellular and they frequently […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 10th, 2012
I can’t believe it’s Friday again already. I feel like I’m swimming through the week now. I don’t really understand what’s going on the past few weeks. Am I so busy that I ignore half the day, is it so routine there’s nothing to remember, or is the universe contracting?
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 5th, 2012
I can’t believe it’s already August. AUGUST. I’ve lived in California for 6 months now and time has just flown by. I’m having trouble accepting that. I feel like I need to be out exploring all the time since it’s all new, but man, it’s nice sitting out on the balcony in the sun and […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 24th, 2012
I frequently eat weekend/late night breakfast in diners alone, with iPad in tow to catch up on books I’m reading or browse Wikipedia over few cups of coffee. Despite iPads being out for a couple of years now and practically all over the media, strangers sitting next to me frequently stare inquisitively and ask what […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 15th, 2012
Firefox is dead to me. In the early days, Firefox was leaps and bounds better than anything else out there, and that was fantastic. Now it feels incredibly slow and every time I turn around I’m being nagged about wanting to apply an upgrade. We’re jumping major version numbers like some sort of Microsoft Office […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 22nd, 2012
Looking through old photos I often wonder how I had so much time to do and see things in Texas. Then I realized that I lived there six years and I’ve barely been here a few months. The weekends fly by so fast now. Hot weather finally arrived and it feels fantastic! Completely clear and […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 25th, 2012
A couple of weekends ago I happened to catch Richard Misrach’s Oakland-Berkeley firestorm exhibit at the Oakland Museum of California. I was only vaguely aware of the firestorm since it happened in ’91, long before I met anyone here, so it was interesting to learn some local history. Basically something started a fire, and intense, […]
