I haven’t found anything worthy of a post in recent months, so I thought I’d just post a little summary of events, so everyone knows that I’m still here.
Obviously the big news around the water cooler is the economy, associated credit crunch and bailouts. Like everyone else, my portfolio has gone down the […]
I’ve had my new iPhone 3G for almost a week now and I totally love it. It’s easy to carry in your pocket and works flawlessly. I’m particularly impressed with the way the applications work together, and don’t under-estimate the usefulness of the GPS, even if it doesn’t do full turn-by-turn directions yet.
Here’s an example. […]
After a year and a half of us trying to sell our old house, we finally did so, a little while ago. What a huge relief that is. Although we had decent renters looking after the house, our costs exceeded the rent and in 18 months we have chewed through a substantial chunk of savings. […]
Is Doomsday upon us? Is the world ramping up its natural disasters? Is climate spiraling out of control? Is the world economy on the brink of collapse?
Recent media coverage would have us believe such things, with an astonishing variety of “end-of-the-world” what-if documentaries. Great floods, asteroid collisions, supervolcano erupting, polar shift, polar flip, hot-house Earth, […]
Six months after the wildfires of 2007, I took some photos of how the landscape is recovering. Yesterday we went hiking at the Blue Sky Ecological Reserve east of Poway, and saw significant evidence of the huge Witch Fire. (The largest red area on that map)
Most of the grassland had re-grown but the trees that […]
Zelda, our eldest cat passed away yesterday. She had been very sick for about a year, and despite regular vet visits, medication and treatment, the time had come to ease her obvious discomfort.
Zelda was our beautiful and adoring female domestic medium hair Calico, who had been with Tamara since before I met her. Apparently Zelda […]
Take a look at this teaser video of Spaceship Two, presumably put together by or on behalf of Virgin Galactic. That looks like incredible fun and maybe closest that I might get to orbit in my lifetime, unless we accelerate our manned spaceflight projects. Not sure why you need those whacky helmets though.
Cynic that I […]
OK, so Halloween was a while ago. I wanted to post these photos the day after, but I lost the ability to post on my own blog. Damn computers! Well now that I have access again, here are our costumes. I went as what was supposed to be a Gauze Zombie but everyone thought was […]
Below is another fire map from today that shows the current extent of the fires. As you can see, an incredible chunk of San Diego County burned this week. Our thoughts and well-wishes go out to those affected by the fires.
oh, and welcome to the new look Burrow.
Well first things first: We’re safe and ok right now and there are a lot of people in far worse situations although I haven’t heard of any friends who have lost their houses yet. As we reach the end of the third day many of the fires are still uncontained, but CalFire are confident that […]
