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.
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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 a VUDU box and it
Read more“Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” Movie Trailer
Coming in December 2011. Looking soooo forward to this one! — — Drive Safe! Never Forget.
Read more“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 at a video store while
Read more“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 goes horribly wrong and Bright
Read moreiCloud
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 the iStuff (even though uHave
Read moreFunny Pictures That Show Life’s Irony
i·ro·ny/ˈīrənē/ Noun: The expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite. Chau sent me these pictures via email a few days ago. When I got up off the floor (LMAO) and cleared my eyes from the tears….I thanked her for sending them. OMG they are super funny (at least to me…I guess I have that weird sense
Read moreCool 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 cool thing to do is
Read moreWordle 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 with the colors, fonts, and
Read more“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 minutes EVER where the entire
Read moreQR 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 a specific matrix barcode (or two-dimensional
Read moreVolcano in Chile: June 2011
Chau sent an email the other day with pictures of the volcano in June 2011 in Chile. Stunning. I did a Google search and found this web site at National Geographic. I grabbed a few of the pictures using the wonderful Snipping tool, but for the rest…please go to Nat Geo. Very powerful images showing the awesome power of mother
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