I’m on the bus back from Charlotte now but this weekend I got to meet the latest member of the family. While I’ve been away, Maegan got a pet white rat, which she named Pixel. [Will post video when I have better wi-fi] So now we have both a rat and a rat terrier (bred [...]
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Feb 052012
Feb 012012
This morning I was a jerk and a hero at the same time. There was one open seat on the Metro this morning. A guy was sitting on the left side of the train, writing on a notepad on his right knee with his right elbow sticking way out, literally halfway into the next seat. [...]
Jan 242012
It was almost the biggest surprise ever. Late yesterday I got word at work that there was a strong desire to send me out the following day on what would have been my first business trip ever. The reason would have been to assist with a time-sensitive video shoot in another state, to ensure that [...]
Dec 032011
Yesterday I was walking back from the Metro after work. It’s a mile walk. Just because I was curious, I took out my new Android mini-tablet (more on that in a future post) and ran one of several wi-fi scanning programs I have. These aren’t hacking apps. They’re just standard apps that scan for available [...]
Dec 022011
This is just a quick test to see if my WordPress for Android app really works offline as it claims to. (Obviously needing internet access later to actually upload.)
Nov 212011
On Sunday I left right on time to drive to the Metro station and then take the train into the city to watch a certain professional football team play. (Not naming teams.) After locking up my car and walking down to the Metro entrance, a stranger stopped me and asked me if I had jumper [...]
Nov 202011
On Friday I kept getting voice mails from an old lady named Jane in North Carolina. Messages ranged from not knowing the location of the restaurant we were supposedly meeting at later, to this very strange one…
Nov 192011
This is some video I shot during the summer of Darah singing to her dandelion.
Oct 172011
This post is nothing more than an excuse to try out a few different WordPress plugins that enable me to post photos that I’ve uploaded to Picasa. So my photo excuse is that on my last trip back from Charlotte to Washington, I was the first person on the double-decker bus. After trying out the [...]
Oct 072011
First lets establish what a QR code is: You’ve seen them on everything from storefront windows to magazine articles. They are two dimensional bar codes that you can scan with a smart phone to get more information about something. It doesn’t have to be but they are most often simply a website address. So in [...]
