Because everyone else is doing it…
Archive for August, 2006
Not a smart idea
Aug 30th
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If you look closely to the upper-right of Zoe’s whiskers you’ll see what she’s staring so intently at. Yes, it’s a bee. Every once in a while I catch her chasing after them, and I have to think that this isn’t a smart move on her part. I’m shocked that she hasn’t been stung so far, given the number of times she’s swatted at them. Being a cat, of course, she doesn’t listen to my warnings.
The Presidio with primes
Aug 28th
Yesterday I grabbed my (loaned) Nikon D80 and Pentax K100D and two lenses — a Nikkor F1.8 50mm for the D80, and a Pentax F3.2 21mm for the K100D — and headed to the Presidio. I walked for miles, starting near the new Letterman complex (which is a must-see), heading through the Main Post and ending up at the Warming Hut. I then turned around, walked all the way past East Beach, then through the Marina district to my favorite sandwich place in that area. After grabbing some lunch I hiked it back to where I started and enjoyed my lunch.
Click the link for some pics from my walk!
Mac Pro is here!
Aug 21st
Soooo exciting! I changed my original Mac Pro order to get it here faster (by just getting the stock video card — the better one is on order) and it arrived today! After a few hours of file transferring I’m up and running, and things seem pretty snappy so far! The biggest difference between the Mac Pro and my old G5 is the noise — the new one is silent, while the G5 sounds like a jet plane.
My first program is to get the extra gig of RAM into it, and then move over a hard drive that’s in the G5.
A few pictures after the link!
Nature’s lawnmower
Aug 20th
While driving past the park near my house the other day I noticed something strange behind the soccer field. Upon further inspection I realized that it was goats — and plenty of them. Turns out that these “rent-a-goats” are being used to get rid of the dead grass that would make great fuel for a brushfire (and believe me, we don’t want that around here), and I guess this is the “organic” way to do it. There’s an electric fence around them so they can’t leave, and a dog keeps them in line, though he was sleeping under an oak tree when I walked over. There were probably a hundred of the little guys just munching away, and they’ve been doing so for two days thus far.
Here’s what I want to know: who cleans up all that goat poop when they’re done?
Too high tech
Aug 18th
If there’s one place that doesn’t need to be high tech, it’s the gas station. Today I went a little out of my way to take advantage of a 10 cent/gallon discount that I earned at Safeway gas stations (yes, as in the grocery store). When I pulled into the station the cheap stuff was $3.05. When I drove out, the price on the electronic signs now read $3.01.
I think it’s time to back to the days of signs that had to be adjusted manually.
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