Archive for 'Musings' Category
Return to a long lost hobby
17 August 2007From 1993 to 2000, I spent lots of time photographic Masonic Lodges as we traveled by car and motorcycle. In 1995, when the World Wide Web was born, I started posting those photos on my site. At the last, I had over 600 photographs of over 100 lodges in about 20 states. Somewhere around […]
Portland, and northbound
10 August 2007Saturday, August 4 found us traveling into Portland for the day. We attended the Saturday Market, an eclectic collection of arts and crafts, as well as music and food. We drove to a park and ride, then took the Max light rail into Portland. I’m impressed with Max. They did a good job. One spooky […]
Travelin’
3 August 2007Well, I posted back in late July that we were on the road to the Autoharp Gathering, and, indeed we were. The Gathering was all that it usually is, if not more. Cathy Britell, Tom Schroder, John and Kathy Hollandsworth and Harvey Reed were our featured performers and workshop leaders. Pete Daigle, a very fine […]
Posted from an iPhone
1 August 2007This is posted from an iPhone.
Where I’m up to on the Satpoint app
23 July 2007Well, I finished rev 0.1 of the satpoint app and sent it off to about ten beta testers. Of these, only one fed back.
The app is still very basic, but it now handles the different way that Starband and Hughes display the skew parameter. It also will show the true vs magnetic heading, and has […]
Back on the road… Oregon
22 July 2007We’re heading to the Willamette Valley Autoharp Gathering. I go every year, though I’m not much of a player. I strum chords, play rhythms, and try to melody-pick without much success. If I practiced more, I’d have a better result.
We left Friday night, overnighted at Camping World in Cordelia Junction, then drove to Weed, CA. […]
Beginnings of my latest Palm app
9 July 2007I was asked to show a screen shot of my latest Palm app… so here it is, in early development.
There are countless ways to find a satellite, mostly via web sites or PC applications. There’s one nice Java app for the purpose which is good for Linux and Macs. My feeling is that one may […]
My Linux Laptop
3 June 2007I got a question today about my Linux laptop, so I decided to write about it here. About six months ago, I got a Dell Latitude D820 with a Dual Core 2.3GHz processor. It has 2 GB memory and an 80 GB SATA disk, turning at 7200 RPM. It also has the NVIDIA premium video, […]
Sidewalk Astronomy at CAG
21 May 2007On Friday Night at the California Autoharp Gathering, I found that most people were noticing the close conjunction of the Moon with very bright Venus. Our second planet was sitting up-from, and right between, the points of the crescent moon. Even with the attraction of concerts and friends, the sky was getting more attention than […]
Who Are All These Old Men?
14 May 2007or: Where am I going, and what am I doing in this handbasket?
I went to the lab today. Showed up at 6:00 AM to be first on line. Wound up being second. A fellow no more than ten years older than I was sitting there, as we both waited for 6:30 to roll around.
The other […]