Day: October 14, 2009

The Delightful Storm Now Passed

The storm has passed, meaning we had a slow steady rain here all day. It was wonderful. I so miss the long, dark rainy days of the southeast! At sunset I went to the Pacific and shot these two little videos with my iPhone. You can’t tell how dark and thick the clouds were, or how interesting the fog was.… Continue reading

The Face of a Nation in Poverty

“For the first time in more than 35 years, the U.S. military has met all of its annual recruiting goals, as hundreds of thousands of young people have enlisted despite the near-certainty that they will go to war. link: Military reports historic recruiting success // Current Image: by BL1961 @ Flickr History of Rosie the Riveter (Norman Rockwell‘s “Rosie the… Continue reading

More 10.6 Keyboard Shortcuts

Each of these keyboard shortcuts works with the [Command] + [Shift] keys: K – Network C – Computer A – Applications H – Home D – Desktop O – Documents folder U – Utilities And, for the record, I knew Desktop, Applications, and Utilities but have always wanted one for Documents! Having one for the computer hard drive is also… Continue reading

Airlines Bleed Revenue? Meet Owen!

I am delighted to report that United Airlines lost a whopping 21% last quarter! I couldn’t be happier after the way they treated me: charging me more for my bag to return home than they charged for the entire ticket. I swore then, and I have gone out of my way to keep this promise, I will never fly on… Continue reading

CNN: Crime News Network

This has been bothering me lately.  I’m sorry, has the crime rate shot up or is it just too expensive to do real, substantive investigative reporting and journalism any more? CNN seems to be becoming more and more like a police blotter.  Kids shooting, stabbing, beating to death and setting other kids on fire; jealous lovers killing their boy friend’s… Continue reading