Archive for January 2009

The monthlies.

• Lectures

  Work IMs make the day… Co-worker: hows it going? reyonthehill: it’s good to see you are still alive Co-worker: yeah they decided to hole me up out in the field office again for a while Co-worker: I was kinda pissed when I wasn’t able to make those last two seminars reyonthehill: yea, it pissed off [...]

• Other People’s Grandparents

  A Facebook chat with a very old childhood friend (best friend from age four through seven)… I remember the cottage we visited at Cuba Lake. Is it the same place? That was a lot of fun. I also remember stopping by your grandma’s house on the way home once. That was awkward. It is weird [...]

• Gen-Y

  I was asked to complete a Gen-Y survey for the research arm of our HR division… Are they kidding?

• The Music Died

  Amidst the democratic primary in April 2007, Jake Tapper made reference to the day the music died on his blog… “I’m told this is the airport where the plane crash took place that took the lives of Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens. Their last show was at Surf Ballroom in nearby Clear [...]

• Post Office

  As readers of this blog know, from time-to-time (or “time after time” depending on your affinity for Cyndi Lauper), I like to prove how smart I am, and not just how smart I currently am, but how smart I was. If you’ll recall, it was me that suggested the NFL should stage its Pro Bowl [...]

• Meeting A Movie Star

  I was hiking with my wife near the Haleakala Crater on Maui, carrying my newish digital HD camera, the Zodak Zi6, when a man and woman crossed our path along the trail. He stopped and turned. “Is that the new Kodak camera?” I told him it was. He asked me when I got it, and [...]

• Digital Regression

  Leave it to the democrats (or a strong democratic majority) to hold back technological progress. I received my two converter coupons months ago when I experimented with an antenna on my roof. The reception was poor, so now I don’t have any use for them. I keep telling myself though that all I really needed [...]

• Currently Reading

  Enough with the pro-Communist mumbo-jumbo.* On to more exciting and relevant issues, John Perkins bestselling Confessions of an Economic Hit Man… Image: Amazon (I’m pretty sure that is Harvey Keitel from Reservoir Dogs on the cover.) I am a fan of political intrigue. I find it intriguing, and political. I am not entirely sure what [...]

• Drinking Hawaiian

  It wasn’t my intention to make this a blog about beer; so it goes… As my readers know — and are painfully and often reminded of so — I try to drink local when I travel. (I also try to eat locally, at least sample, but that is less exciting, unless you consider the time [...]

• A New Day

  I survived the Bush administration and all I got was this lousy blog post.

• O

  Nothing new on the email front. Let me tell you WHY we are going to Hawaii this week. It all starts with a man from Hope. That is right. Obama. We are on a pilgrimage to his home-state, where the next president — the best president ever — was raised (outside of his time spent [...]

• OAK

  My wife and I are en route to Maui for a week. We are in the Oakland airport, which now offers free wireless. I knew it was a good idea to bring my new MacBook. It has already paid for itself. First, I checked my email during breakfast. Then I checked Flickr. Then email again. [...]

• Extensa

  Saying goodbye is never easy, even if it is to a worthless piece of junk. I’m recycling my first laptop — the sturdy Acer Extensa 367T (the ‘t’ stands for TFT screen). I got it during the first semester of my freshman year in Syracuse, and I split the cost with my parents. I used [...]

• Two For Tuesday

  As of last night, I had two of everything.. – DSL (through AT&T) and Comcast cable internet; – DirecTV and Comcast cable; and – AT&T home phone and Vonage. My head hurts.

• My Name Is Dick

  I think I’d actually read Dick Cheney’s book. “I’ve got a lot of stories to tell. And a few scores to settle.” That should be the title. Cheney was easily the most controversial vice president in the past 100 years or so, but he also may have been the most important.

• 13 Months

  This is not just the quarter-pagan in me speaking; it just makes sense. There are fifty-two weeks in the year, each of seven days. That is thirteen four-week periods, with one extra day every year (let’s call it New Year’s), and a second extra day every four years, except every 100 years, except every 400 [...]

• Geotagged

  Working one on my resolutions (the easiest one); finally less than 1000 remain to be geotagged… Image: Flickr

• Sourced

  As far as I know, I am not the source for the Post’s story that includes that “some see the potential for chaos within the administration” as a result of the all-star cast that Obama is assembling (Daschle, Clinton, Emanuel, etc.). I could be, but again — as far as I know — I am [...]

• A meeting

  I met with this guy last night. We sat at a table in the nearby Starbucks for ninety minutes or so. I didn’t order a coffee, although he offered to buy me one. I am not a “coffee-person,” I never have been, but it has never been easy turning down coffee. It is still not [...]

• Not Yet Resolved

  I am not one to make public my resolutions, but then again, I have a blog. I have not yet told my wife about these; she’ll learn soon enough. Also, these are my public resolutions, and not personal self-improvement ones… – Use Flickr more. A lot more. And start geotagging photos. It may be a [...]

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