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Author: Mike Pihlman

  • 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…

  • “Crazy Stupid Love” Movie Review

    “Crazy Stupid Love” Movie Review

    We have seen a number of great movies lately.  When you are swept away in a world of fantasy for 2 hours while the cares of the real world drift away…that is a great movie. This is a great movie, complete with the most surprising twists I have seen, and the funniest 7 or 8…

  • QR Codes

    Ever see one of those square barcode like looking thingys? You can see them now in magazines and on office doors and even on T-shirts. So what is it? Well I did a bit of searching, and found that  WikiPedia, has a nice, concise, explanation which I quote below: A QR code (short for Quick Response) is…

  • Android Running Tracker

    Android Running Tracker

    UPDATE June 2023: I’m now walking (and fully electronic), but…..we kept buying the log book. Below is the latest picture from 2022 (yes, I now am writing in the 2023 book). 🙂 I have been running since 1978 (or was it 1977?).  Some years I run more than others, some years (especially the last 10)…