Nov 2008
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Nov. 27, 2008 Filed in: Personal
I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday with friends, family and people close to you. Enjoy the day and get ready for crazy Black Friday shopping madness tomorrow!
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San Diego Wild Animal Park experience
Nov. 26, 2008 Filed in: Personal
Hope everyone’s having a terrific holiday week so far and not working too hard. Thanksgiving’s tomorrow and we’ve got a little rain going on in So Cal right now. Yesterday, we took the Mothers to the Wild Animal Park in San Diego for a little while. We had a great time and got no rain. It was actually a little hot during our tram tour. I got great pics of the Lion Exhibit. If you’ve never seen it, I highly recommend it.
The lion exhibit was completely redone and is awesome. The old one made it very hard to see the animals. Everytime we’d go, you could never see them because they were hiding in the grass. This one puts them out in the open and there are many places to see them and get great photos.
The above photo is me trying out panoramic photos in PhotoShop Elements. I’m still working on getting good photos and cropping but I really like how easy it is to take a photo.
*Edit* I cropped the photo above to make is rectangular.
It's Thanksgiving week!
Nov. 24, 2008 Filed in: Personal
Good morning everyone. Hope you all had a good weekend and are looking forward to the Thanksgiving holiday. We went and saw Quantum of Solace on Saturday and the new trailer for the upcoming Star Trek movie.
Quantum of Solace was okay. Can’t say I was blown away but it was your typical James Bond action-filled movie. I do still like the direction they took with the franchise but I miss Pierce Brosnan as 007. He was an excellent Bond and, even though the series did need to re-invent itself, this movie felt very much like Casion Royale. And, I’m still waiting for the line, “Vodka martini. Shaken, not stirred.” Two movies now and nothing....come on!
Makes me want a kitty
Nov. 20, 2008 Filed in: Personal
Twitter is down...
Nov. 18, 2008 Filed in: Technology
Anyone else going through some Twitter withdrawal this morning? I’d read some reports early that the site was down and then back up. Seems it’s down again.
One thing I’ve noticed with Twitter is that it does seem to bounce up and down quite a bit. Also, uploading to TwitPic seems to have it’s problems every now and then. Overall, are you happy with the service or have you given up using it all together because of the problems?
Southern California fires!
Nov. 17, 2008 Filed in: Personal
Well it’s certainly been an interesting weekend. Fire season has officially become the ‘norm’ here in SoCal and, once again, the area was burning over the weekend.
Fires started last week in Montecito which is near Santa Barbara. Then, separate fires kicked up in Sylmar, Corona, Anaheim, Yorba Linda, Carbon Canyon and Brea. I’m sure I’ve missed a couple of city names in there so sorry if you live there and I did.
After a weekend of fire storm watching on TV, I’m done. If you’d like information, the OC Register has been doing a great job of updating news and even has a page that pulling Twitter updates from those in OC giving info. I posted a couple photos of what the fire looked like from my place here. Lucky for me, it wasn’t as close to me this time and the wind was carrying the smoke in the other direction. The smell of smoke however was all over Southern California.
I have to say we have the best firefighters in the world! These guys are awesome and did such a great job over the weekend. If you see a firefighter, say thanks!
RSS feeds
Nov. 14, 2008 Filed in: Personal
Happy Friday everyone! I’ve been trying out some different RSS feed programs for my mac and think I’m starting to get a little addicted here. Does anyone else use a dedicated RSS feed program or do you get your feeds the old fashioned way...by going to each website? I find the program makes it nice to see them all in one location. By my compulsion about making sure there are no new items might be my downfall. I can’t stand to see the new item indicator next to all the feed names.
50 things you may not know about Barack Obama
Nov. 13, 2008 Filed in: Personal
Meet your new President, Mr. Barack Obama. But, did you know that he won a Grammy? I certainly didn’t know that! I came across this interesting list of 50 things you might not know about Barack Obama and it was pretty cool. Check it out here.
Have to go to the bathroom?
Nov. 12, 2008 Filed in: Personal | BlackBerry
Ever find yourself on the road, you drank to much coffee and now have to use the restroom? I think it’s safe to say we’ve all been there at one point or another. And, then you have to figure out where to go. Well, BerryReview posted info on a handy little app call Sit or Squat this morning. They have a website and if you have an iPhone or BlackBerry (with GPS), there are apps for each that will pinpoint the nearest bathroom for you based on your location.
I checked it out and it’s pretty cool. There doesn’t seem to be alot of locations on it but I think that’s because it is still beta but I’m sure more locations will spring up in no time. One thing I’m not sure about yet...you can post photos of the bathrooms. That could get ugly...
Ready for Pixar again?
Nov. 11, 2008 Filed in: Personal
Just picked up this trailer from Pixar’s next movie over at Pop Candy and I now I can’t wait to see it. I admit, I’m biased and love everything Pixar does. For only a few minutes of a trailer, I’m hooked already!
New Year's plans
Nov. 10, 2008 Filed in: Personal
Bold or Storm?
Nov. 06, 2008 Filed in: Technology | BlackBerry
Now that all the election hoopla is over, back to business. The anticipation is building for the Verizon release of the touchscreen Storm. The Bold has finally been released on at&t. So, the question is, would you rather have a Storm or a Bold? Would you be willing to switch carriers for one or the other?
Congratulations Mr. Obama!
Nov. 05, 2008 Filed in: Personal
After a seemingly no-end-in-site campaign, the election is finally over and we have a new President-Elect. Love him or hate him, come January he’s our new leader and we should all give him a chance to see what he can do. Regardless or your party choice, whoever won was going to have an uphill battle getting this country back on track.
I watched all the coverage last night and thought BOTH men gave excellent speeches. I’m looking forward to seeing what happens in the coming days and hope we ALL benefit from our new leadership.
Sena Cases Ultra Slim Pouch review
Nov. 03, 2008 Filed in: BlackBerry
One day left!
Nov. 03, 2008 Filed in: Personal
There’s only one day left before this long, crazy election comes to a close. Then, we still have a couple more months of that other guy before the new guy takes over. I’ve already completed my ballot by way of being a permanent absentee voter (and recommend it for anyone who never has the time to vote!).
I’m not sayin’ who I voted for and don’t care who you’re voting for...the bottom line is...get out and vote tomorrow!! This election is to important to think your vote doesn’t count. If you think your candidate or prop is safe and you can stay home, you’re wrong.
Anyway, that’s my short rant for today. I’m sure they’ll be another one tomorrow!
LEGO stuff
Nov. 01, 2008 Filed in: Personal
This has to be the coolest thing I’ve seen. Follow this link to an article from Gizmodo about a trip to the Lego Vault where they have just about every Lego set ever sold. It’s way cool!
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