I’m sitting on the couch here at home trying to get some work done before I get into the office. Pablo jumped up beside me to squeeze into the five inches I left him between me and the arm of the couch. Suddenly I see smoke coming from my laptop! I immediately went into rescue [...]
Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
1 Sep
False advertising
The Brightly Colored Brit noticed the other day that my other blog had these advertisements and thought that I might want to file a complaint. Seems Google has formed conflicting opinions about me.
19 Jul
iPhone to the rescue
The bus driver got a little lost trying to pick up a guest. The upside is that we saw cattle and ducks and horses. The iPhone came to the rescue as a well-dress guy (stop thinking what you’re thinking, he seems to be with someone) whipped his out and used the GPS to discover there [...]
16 Jul
안녕하세요 !
I'm learning Korean while flying to Bozeman, MT! The biggest benefit of the iPhone that escapes many Americans is the software keyboard. I wrote that subject by turning on the Korean keyboard. With one press of the globe button on the software keyboard, I can switch the keyboard to another language. If you find yourself [...]
16 Jul
Nostalgia
A few weeks ago, I convinced my grandmother to start sending me The Piscataquis Observer, our hometown newspaper. I'm fascinated with how newspapers are going to survive, so I thought it fun to get inky hands and relearn how to manipulate and fold those large pages. They are unmanageable in an airline seat. It just [...]
6 Jun
Tesla Motors
I’m in love. I sat in one of these today. It was beautiful. It spooned me. It was almost better than sex. A friend of mine finally had his delivered after a year and a half. Does anyone have $101,500 + $19,500 I can borrow?
15 Jul
Wii for sale
I played the Wii when I first bought it. A novelty. Fun. Much better than most video games. But the more I played it, the more I wondered why I wasn’t out bowling, or playing golf. So I started golfing again in real life. I’ve been bowling occasionally. I have a tennis court where I [...]
22 Feb
Elmer Fudd
Go to Google Click on Preferences Under Interface Languages, select “Elmer Fudd”, or “Bork, bork, bork”, or “Hacker”, or “Klingon”, or “Latin”, or “Pig Latin”. (I don’t know how many other fake languages there are. The names start sounding crazy.) Click the Save Preferences button Enjoy!
