No Kings!

Author: Mike Pihlman

  • Lu Chen Magician

    Chau sent me this a few days ago.  Amazing!  I wonder how he does this…. For more on Lu Chen, go to this WikiPedia article on him. — — Drive Safe!  Never Forget.

  • “He’s just not that into you” Movie Review

    “He’s just not that into you” Movie Review

      — — We watched this on VUDU. A cast full of stars agonizing over the fact that if a guy wants to call you back (or marry you), he will.  If he does not want to call you back (or marry you) he won’t. DUH. A fun movie, funny in parts, angst ridden. With…

  • Gabe the Bulldog

    Chau sent me this link yesterday via email.  If you love dogs, you gotta love this.  Bulldogs rock…they have great personality.  Gabe the bulldog is very well trained… — — Drive Safe!  Never Forget.

  • VUDU Now Streaming on the iPad

    If you have read our Movie Reviews on this blog, you may have run across the fact that we sometimes watch movies on “VUDU”.  As an engineer, and blogger, several years ago, I tested a new Internet-based streaming technology and LOVED IT!  That was VUDU (see my original blog post raving about it). We own…

  • “Take Me Home Tonight” Movie Review

    (fun coming of age movie) — — We watched this on VUDU and really enjoyed it.  If I would have known how good this movie was when we went to see the awful “Rango”, we would have seen this movie instead. It’s 1988, and recent MIT engineering graduate, Topher Grace (as Matt Franklin) is working…

  • “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” Movie Review

    “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” Movie Review

     (tense, frightening, realistic) — — James Franco (as Will Rodman) is a brilliant scientist testing the effects of a drug he has developed to, hopefully, cure Alzheimer’s.   The mission is personal since his father (the brilliant John Lithgow as Charles Rodman) has that disease. Franco’s latest breakthru is a chimp named “Bright Eyes”.  But something…

  • iCloud

    I was surfing the other day when I ran across an announcement of an upcoming feature from Apple called “iCloud”. iWas interested in what that might be, so iTook a look at their web pages, and what iFound was that this is a pretty cool service, and that iWould probably like it. OK, enuf of…

  • Cool Things To Do In Tracy, CA by Caitlin Dong

    Cool Things To Do In Tracy, CA by Caitlin Dong

    I thought  it  would be cool to compile a little list of things to do around Tracy. I asked a few friends and here is what they said: Cynthia: “having coffee at Baristas & relaxing over good conversation (: “ Monique: ” id have to say going to our fabulous mall… no just kidding, i think the…

  • Wordle Word Cloud: An Introduction

    Alex Hillman from the coworking location Indy Hall sent an email showing us his Wordle Word Cloud of Indy Hall member communcations over the past several years. It was awesome! Soooo, I asked him for the website of Wordle and then I played around for an hour or so. VERY COOL!  And you can play…