One thing Kathy and I noticed while we were down in sunny Southern California is that they have Donut Shops. In fact, they have a lot of Donut Shops and while we didn’t do a scientific survey we did notice that it was very difficult to drive more than 2 miles on city streets without [...]
Posts from ‘November, 2007’
We are home!
All back, safe and sound. It’s always good and bad to be back. It’s great to be back home because … well, you are back HOME! Home means so much including your own space, own stuff, own bed, own zone. Comfort! That is good. It’s bad to be bad because … well, you are back [...]
Vacation News
We had an uneventful trip to SoCal to visit our family. Thanksgiving was great. My parents even made it though they were clearly aching (my dad from surgery recovery from a few weeks ago and mom from some other thing). Cindy’s (Michael, my brother’s wife) parents were there too. My niece, Kirstin and her family [...]
Mitchell playing Basketball
Check out a new video of Mitchell playing basketball with his team, The Wolves. You can get to you via our Gallery at the top of the page, then Videos, 2007 or follow this link: Mitchell’s Basketball Enjoy!
New Pictures
Kathy has uploaded 2 months worth of pictures. Go check out our Gallery (top of the page for the link) then follow it to Photos, 2007 and go to October and November. Here is a shot from November when Mitchell has joined a Basketball team called the wolves: He really thinks he’s a point guard!
Getting Ready for a Trip
My normal system is a Mac Pro with a nice 24″ monitor and a smaller second monitor. It’s a killer system. Now that I’m going on a trip though, I need to get an older PowerBook up to snuff. It’s pretty painful given what I’m used to. The screen size and it’s limitations are bad [...]
HTTPMail for Leopard – working great!
I was using Daniel’s HTTPMail plugin which allows Apple’s Mail App to send and recieve Hotmail under OS X 10.4. It is a great plugin that I had come to rely on. When I installed Leopard, OS X 10.5, the previous version stopped working. Daniel, who doesn’t do this app (or the other couple of [...]
New Video Camera
I got a new video camera today. I still need to play with it some more to give it my complete verdict. It is a Panasonic HDC-SD5 which uses SD-HC memory instead of tapes, hard drives for the movies. It is also an HD camera doing true HD video. In my sample below, you will [...]
Family!
I talk about my immediate family all the time on my site here. I post pictures. I tell about my trials, my triumphs, and all the stuff that happens in between – of course that’s most of it. I don’t talk much about my extended family. I have a few friends that talk about cousin’s [...]
DigiDesign/M-Audio M-Box 2 Pro Vs Roland/Edirol FA-101
I’ve had an M-Box 2 Pro for about a year now. I’m a hobbyist and use it to record practice sessions on my guitar so that I can help myself get better (not sure it helps but hope springs eternal!). DigiDesign/M-Audio who is the manufacturer of the M-Box 2 Pro is very well know for [...]
Looking for a lense for Kathy’s Canon camera
We have a friend who is a professional photographer. She doesn’t profess to be an expert on all things camera but she does know her camera really well and what she likes in pictures. She is steering us towards cameras with F2.8 rather than higher numbers so that we can do better with less light [...]
Whole house surge protection
We had an electrician out today to install a whole house electrical surge protection system. That sounds like a really complex thing when I say it like that. What it turns out to be though is that two breakers in your breaker box (electrical panel) are moved (they need the top slots) and replaced with [...]
Is Leopard (OS X 10.5) becoming like Windows (any version)?
I’ve been using Leopard since it came out now. I have posted some of the initial application incompatibility which to be truthful is something one can expect with anything new. In my experience, the application incompatibilities are pretty minor though my experience seems counter to some of the louder “complainers” out there. Upgrading the day [...]
Ordered a new camera
We ordered a new video camera. It’s on back order but hopefully will be here before our trip to visit our family. The camera is a Panasonic HDC-SD5 which is a High Def camera that records to solid state media. I’m pretty excited about it as it should improve pictures and the like but also [...]