On Saturday there was what’s hoped to be the first of many Hawai’i Mini Blog Con picnics; you can read about it here. Some photos included; more to follow. Then Sunday afternoon between innings of the Pirates-Astros, I added a page of photos to my newly-created site for The Willows, the restaurant we went to …
Here’s the whole crowd.
Tomorrow is the first Hawai’i Mini Blog Con! In other news: Can you spell lousy security? Apparently Ford Motor Co. can’t; how else do you explain its loss of a code enabling hackers to steal 13,000 credit reports? When I lived in Virginia I remember visiting Williamsburg, but not the way it is now portrayed; …
Unless you watch C-SPAN, you missed this, but here’s an interesting insight to American-European differences from the UK Foreign Minister: “But Europeans tend to see the United States through a different prism.” If the Europeans were perusing Salon’s article about online dating services, that prism might be even more distorted. Other culture meldings of note: …
If any of you are antique electronics scavengers, you’ve got competition; NASA’s buying on E-Bay. Other innovative government ideas in today’s news: Bees as bomb-sniffers. Non-governmental ideas: how about an alternative to Microsoft’s Office which comes at a very good price? Or, really, at no price at all; yup, it’s free and open-source. Yet another …
The family on Mother’s Day (I took the picture). We went to a restaurant which had been open for 50 years, closed, then was purchased and re-opened about three years ago. Nice watery grounds and flowers; maybe I’ll put up some pictures of it, too.
I thought of this this morning; the ultimate Mother’s Day Song? JAMES JAMES MORRISON MORRISON from AA Milne The Kingston Trio James James Morrison Morrison Weatherby George DuPree Took great care of his mother though he was only three James James said to his mother: “Mother,” he said, said he “You must never go down …
Cash flow per screen; here’s a small primer on the movie theater business. The theater may soon be showing you that movie via digital projector; alas, there goes the projectionist job. I once did that for a few weeks as a part-time job in an outdoor theater on Kwajalein; you gotta pay attention towards the …
Here’s some fascinating reading: FBI FOIA files on subjects as diverse as Mickey Mantle, Einstein and Winston Churchill. Mickey Mantle? High school seniors apparently would be hard-pressed to even recognize most of the names in that index, if a recent report is to be believed. Those of us of a certain age group might more …
This is a twelve-string. I bought a six-string version for $200 in 1973 from a friend. Mine is identical to the one in the photo, other than the peghead. It cries out to be hung on a white wall in an apartment with highly-polished wooden floors, dontcha think? In other news: I am worth exactly: …