Our curling club, Granite Curling Club in Seattle, hosted the annual April Spiel. This event is a massive blowout to celebrate the end of the curling season. It's designed to wear people out and make them feel good that the curling season is over. There is a long break between now and the start of the next season. The crew of volunteers that ( Read more... )

We got a crock pot recently. Our first meal cooked in it was a three pound roast with potatoes and carrots (an homage to my east coast roots), The dog was at home over the eight hours that it cooked. When we got home at 0200 this morning, the dog was in a frenzy, we ate some roast (a very small amount) and then the dog got some. She must have been ( Read more... )

There's an article over at Macworld that describes integrating electronics (specifically audio devices) in your house with your computer (presumably a Mac w/iTunes). After watching this video, I decided to try out the AirPort Express Base Station with AirTunes from Apple ( Read more... )

I'm not sure if many people have heard of the Earth Liberation Front, or ELF, but their name seems to come up in our local news frequently. In about 1996, some of their members allegedly burnt down a building on the UW campus. Yesterday, they reportedly burnt down some houses in what's known as the "Street of Dreams" in Snohomish county. The Street ( Read more... )

Recently, I came across an article on boing boing documenting a new church of the Jedi that's forming in the UK. The article seems absurd because these people come across more as fanboys than legitimate worshippers.

The brief article ends with the following statement, "Obviously, if someone starts to try and use the good force for greed and power ( Read more... )

I attended a meeting yesterday at the Curling Club to discuss facilities maintenance. While the meeting is ripe with good information for discussion, I'm not planning on writing about that here. Instead, I want to write about a tool that the meeting chair had. It was a tablet PC (bias: I'm linking to one that runs OSX ( Read more... )

I hope everyone had a chance to see the Apple keynote presentation today. If not, it's available at Apple.com. I've collected some of the stories from Mac Rumors and Macworld in my Google Reader for you to review if you'd like to see what I'm excited about.

One of the very interesting items from the note is Garmin's additional Mac support which ( Read more... )

We've owned a Honda Civic Hybrid for a few years now. Over that time, we've been collecting data on the gas mileage that we've been getting. Our methodology is to write down the date, the quantity of gas pumped and the car's trip odometer. Afterwards, we clear the trip odometer and start over ( Read more... )

Tuesday is a big day for Mac users and Apple supporters. The keynote address by Steve Jobs of Apple will occur at Macworld Expo. I for one, am anticipating some exciting news such as the release of iPhone software 1.1.3 which includes (or is rumored to include) such updates as cell phone tower triangulation in Google Maps. This feature would help ( Read more... )

Anyone whose ever used MUDs, IRC or IM with emoticons will understand it when I say ( Read more... )