An interesting idea for flight travel
Dec. 05, 2008 Filed in: Technology
Here’s an interesting idea for your next flight; Take that barf-bag and turn it into something useful...a holder for your media player! Now why didn’t I think of that? Seriously, someone could start modding barf-bags and selling them online. I bet people would buy them!
Story courtesy of Engadget.
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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.
Back from Yosemite!
Oct. 28, 2008 Filed in: Personal
Back from my weekend in Yosemite and wishing I was still there. It’s beautiful this time of year. I was twittering while I was there but my TwitPics weren’t making it onto my site for some reason. So, I’ve posted the photos from my BlackBerry in the photos section and will post the ones taken with my digital camera later.
Most of the photos are from the hike we did to Mirror Lake and the painful hike to the top of Yosemite Falls. Still a great trip and can’t wait till the Winter trip!
Happy Anniversary Yosemite!
Oct. 01, 2008 Filed in: Personal
On this day in 1890, an act of Congress created Yosemite National Park. Taken from The History Channel website:
On this day in 1890, an act of Congress creates Yosemite National Park, home of such natural wonders as Half Dome and the giant sequoia trees. Environmental trailblazer John Muir (1838-1914) and his colleagues campaigned for the congressional action, which was signed into law by President Benjamin Harrison and paved the way for generations of hikers, campers and nature lovers, along with countless "Don't Feed the Bears" signs.
Native Americans were the main residents of the Yosemite Valley, located in California's Sierra Nevada mountain range, until the 1849 gold rush brought thousands of non-Indian miners and settlers to the region. Tourists and damage to Yosemite Valley's ecosystem followed. In 1864, to ward off further commercial exploitation, conservationists convinced President Abraham Lincoln to declare Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias a public trust of California. This marked the first time the U.S. government protected land for public enjoyment and it laid the foundation for the establishment of the national and state park systems. Yellowstone became America's first national park in 1872.
In 1889, John Muir discovered that the vast meadows surrounding Yosemite Valley, which lacked government protection, were being overrun and destroyed by domestic sheep grazing. Muir and Robert Underwood Johnson, a fellow environmentalist and influential magazine editor, lobbied for national park status for the large wilderness area around Yosemite Valley. On October 1 of the following year, Congress set aside over 1,500 square miles of land (about the size of Rhode Island) for what would become Yosemite National Park, America’s third national park. In 1906, the state-controlled Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove came under federal jurisdiction with the rest of the park.
Yosemite's natural beauty is immortalized in the black-and-white landscape photographs of Ansel Adams (1902-1984), who at one point lived in the park and spent years photographing it. Today, over 3 million people get back to nature annually at Yosemite and check out such stunning landmarks as the 2,425-foot-high Yosemite Falls, one of the world's tallest waterfalls; rock formations Half Dome and El Capitan, the largest granite monolith in the U.S.; and the three groves of giant sequoias, the world's biggest trees.
Yosemite is one of my favorite places to go. We’ll be heading up again in a few weeks and most likely again in the Winter. Every season brings something new and the scenery is completely different. If you’ve never been there, I highly recommend it. If you live in California....what are you waiting for??
Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific
Aug. 31, 2008 Filed in: Personal
Hope everyone is enjoying their Labor Day weekend so far. Had a short little ride this morning starting out with Como Street and am heading to the Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific today to look at the fishies. If you’ve never been, I highly recommend it. It’s a small aquarium but very nice and has cool exhibits. The area has undergone some changes as well and is a nice place to walk around. The convention center is close by and they’ve built up The Pike which has shops and restaurants. There’s also Rainbow Harbor that’s been there a long time with more places to shop and eat.
We’ve had a membership since it first opened and go every now and then. Our favorite time to go it adults-only members only night. Although, adults can sometimes be just as bad as kids there. Anyway, enjoy your hot, humid Sunday and let’s hope this weather cools down a tad today!
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