Whenever I’m in a store and I see one of those blood pressure monitoring stations I’m drawn to it like a moth to a light bulb. It’s like a video game only the results actually matter. I often take the reading over a shirt and am surprised that the gadget gives me any reading at … Continue reading ReliOn Automatic Blood Pressure Monitor
Back at the end of September, I splurged and picked up a Celestron SkyScout Personal Planetarium through Amazon. This gadget is amazing! Once its GPS acquires your position it can either direct you to pretty much any celestial body you are interested in or you can point it at anything you see in the sky … Continue reading My Personal Planetarium
I haven’t had a chance to try to figure this out myself, but I recently posed the following question to “The Skeptic’s Guide to The Universe” to see if they could enlighten me. The item they were discussing was the announcement that scientists could now, for all intents and purposes, image things that were viewed … Continue reading Email to “The Skeptic’s Guide to The Universe” – FMRI
If you’ll recall, due to some changes in my lifestyle, I’ve lost a bit of weight recently (about 22 lbs so far). As a result I’ve found that many of my clothes no longer fit very well. Also, my closet has been mysteriously filling up over the past decade or so and was sorely in … Continue reading Closet Cleaning
As I mentioned before, my 12 year old TV consumes far less power than I expected. My whole system is rather dated. I was originally going to replace my TV on a 10 year horizon but the widescreen/flatpanel TV market was in such a state of flux a couple of years ago that I decided … Continue reading Kill A Watt EZ P4460 – Entertainment Center
Michelle and I want to take this opportunity to wish you well during this most festive time of year. Here’s hoping that the new year has all of our retirement and other investment accounts recovering and our federal government’s hands removed from our pockets! Let 2009 be your most successful year, a foundation from which … Continue reading Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all!
Ritter’s is an excellent restaurant that has great food but seems a bit confused about its identity. I sent the following letter to them after receiving one of their emails again offering that theirs is the place to bring the whole family. I am pretty sure that I am not alone in wishing for more … Continue reading Ritter’s Restaurant in Marietta
Michelle and I decided that it might be nice to have a picture of us, our 35(!) year old Christmas tree and the two cats. Yeah, I we probably need some practice working with posed cat pictures. But I thought it looked funny, so I made an animated GIF of most of the attempts so … Continue reading Catmas picture…
John Snider over at “American Freethought“, source of a podcast I very much enjoy, posted a message asking how folks deal with the holidays. i.e. do we avoid all things “Christmas” or go with the flow… Here is my response: Hi John, I enjoy the whole of the winter holiday season. There seems so little … Continue reading The Christmas Season
From the timestamps I see that this gem has been available since June of 2006 but I certainly had not heard about it. Microsoft (M$), always there with useful products, also always manages to make things *just* different enough from standard that you can’t really seem to call them on it but they make it … Continue reading Winmail.dat file issue in Lotus Notes workaround (finally)
