What I Listen to
Most of you know that I’m a big fan of podcasts. While listening, I often get questions about them. Why do you listen? What’s so great about them? And mostly, what are you listening to? Rather than explain it to everyone over and over again, I thought I could do a better job in a [...]
Fireworks photography
As usual, the family attended the fireworks in West Bend, WI last night, but for the first time I set up to take pictures. The threat of rain didn’t manifest itself, so I would get to snap some pics this evening. After setting up, I confirmed some notes I read earlier in the week from [...]
Lightning photography
Of the many podcasts to which I subscribe a few are photography-related. They cover all sorts of random topics, and once in a while one catches my ear. One specific episode dealt with trying to capture lightning bolts. How can this be done? In the words of Doc Brown, you never know when or where [...]
goodasnew
After cracking the screen on my iPod Touch a while back, I underwent the task of replacing it myself. Fix in progress: Now that I’ve taken it apart and had a chance to look at it under the covers, I’m much more knowledgeable about how it fits together. The glass LCD touch screen is held [...]
One of those rare days
I use iGoogle as my home page in my browser. Love it. One of the features of this arrangement is the ability to add widgets to the page and plug in RSS feeds from blogs (like this one ). As you might imagine, one of the built-in widgets shows the weather. This one allows you [...]
Oh, the humanity!
If you’ve seen me lately, no doubt you’ve seen the headphones or ear buds in my ears. I’m a huge fan of podcasts and always (yes, always) listen to something when I’m not doing anything else. Heck, I’ll listen even when I’m doing something else. It’s just audio, right? Very easy to multitask. In fact, [...]
Name that car…
Clearly, I know nothing about cars. Found this on The Oatmeal. AND FAILED! F Quiz Created By Auto Insurance
Roku Rules
Beginning the day before Thanksgiving, I love my Roku player more than ever. You may know the device as a way to stream Netflix movies to your TV over your home wireless network. By itself, it’s worth the $99 to be able to sit down and watch any movie in your streaming queue whenever you [...]
Playing with SlideFlickr
Hey, look what you can do! I came across someone else’s Flickr slide show embedded in a blog and thought to myself, “Self, you should do that with some of your pictures.” There are a couple of free slide show makers that I came across after very little research. Here’s what SlideFlickr can do: I [...]
Savings
It’s amazing what you can get just for asking. Somehow, some way, I wanted to lower our overall bill for TV/Phone/Internet. Everybody has a deal, and everyone touts their lowest possible price for what you think you want. “Less than $100 for all 3!” or some such thing. Until you tell them you want a [...]
