Posted in Computers, Computers and Internet, Entertainment, Hobbies, Internet, Life, Music, News, News and Politics, Science and Technology, Technology on April 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Wireless. It’s hip, it’s modern, it’s what’s new. It’s also retro, quaint, and old fashioned. Radio has been around for more than a hundred years, had its “Golden Age” before television “killed” it years ago. Not so much killed it, I suppose, as severely wounded it.
And yet, radio endures. Commercial radio, however, is now as [...]
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Four and a half months. It’s still early April and the weather is unpredictable, the air still carrying a winter chill much of the time. Even so, it was good to gear up and actually get out on the motorcycle a couple of times this week. Last fall seems like ages ago.
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Another entry from the “late to the party files”: PC driving games. More precisely, auto racing simulation software. Games don’t have to ground themselves in reality. Simulations are a completely different story and, for me, the history of the PC and simulation software go hand-in-hand.
There is something deeply satisfying in mastering a new skill, in acquiring and developing [...]
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As I’ve observed elsewhere, I don’t exactly live on the bleeding edge. That said, I am not new to the world of online music services, whether it’s a radio station streaming live, audio archives of a favorite program, Hearts of Space, StillStream, or MSN Radio (now Pandora). The kids are all on iTunes - so [...]
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For almost ten years Mark Bittman has been writing for The New York Times as “The Minimalist.” Though I have been a regular (mostly online) reader of the Times for a while now, it’s only recently that I have really paid any attention to his writing and online video. (Never let it be [...]
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Posted in Books, Catholic, Entertainment, Health and Wellness, Hobbies, Life, Motorcycles, Music, Photography, Religion and Spirituality, Spirituality, Wellness, Writing on January 11, 2008 | 4 Comments »
In my previous post I intended to talk a little more about the sometimes jarring experience of returning to work after an extended vacation. Whether two weeks constitutes an “extended vacation” is, of course, debatable, but let’s just stipulate to that, okay?
During vacation I was able to do more of the things that make me [...]
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Posted in Hobbies, Life, Photography on January 2, 2008 | No Comments »
As an exercise, I decided to take photos from the same spot during the course of a year. I had originally thought about doing them monthly, but time got away from me a little bit, so now it’s quarterly (or at least seasonally). The first one was in October (see post Fall 2007). Because of the [...]
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Nope. Sorry. This is not about the kind of slot machines you might find in Vegas, but this kind of slot machine, or slot car.
For me, anyway, this is the one of the greatest Christmas presents that was, and wasn’t. When I was maybe seven or eight I remember getting a slot [...]
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About ten years ago we were driving along on a clear, cold December late afternoon. The moon was just a thin crescent in the darkening sky and one of our kids said, “Hey, look! You can see the rest of the moon!” My wife agreed, but of course I was too smart for this and said [...]
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A few years ago a co-worker gave me a copy of Big Shots: The Men Behind the Booze for Christmas. It’s an interesting little book full of witty, earthy, and sometimes sophomoric, anecdotes involving some of the legends and actual history of liquor. Now, I’m not sure this is a good thing, but the nuggets of [...]
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