I finally got around to get a film developed that had been stuck in one of my cameras for a few weeks. It was a pleasant surprise to find the pictures below among a random collection of shots I took during December on my way home after work. I remember that it was an icy [...]
I’m originally an electronics guy from since before computers as a hobby were even an option. I fondly remember the days of building small transistor radios from scratch, etching my own circuit boards and soldering the hell out of all the components. I also had several of the amazing Philips electronic kit sets that made [...]
The web is abuzz with the latest outrage from ABC/Disney. There is a hate-filled talk radio station here in San Francisco called KSFO, owned by ABC Radio, and a local blogger got ticked off enough by their programming to go and do something about their hate speech. The blogger – Spocko – posted MP3s of [...]
Here’s a history of video game consoles in pictures. It’s almost scary how many childhood memories were surfacing while I scrolled through this parade of now-ancient consoles. Ahh… to be young and having time to waste…
Markuz has posted a commented compilation of his amazing art project on the Momentarium site. I am amazed at the amount of work and creativity Markuz has invested in this project and this compilation shows touching moments where he interacts with everyday people who have been pulled out of their shell and who put their [...]
I wrote about the Quiet American‘s One-Minute Vacations before in one of my early blog posts, but I have a reason to write about it again: A few months ago I recorded a minute’s worth of two Chinese operas that were performed in neighboring buildings in San Francisco’s Chinatown and I thought it might be [...]
Just stumbled over this picture on the CERN website. In Science Fiction movies you always see those huge machines that dwarf all the humans in or around them, and this picture of the new Large Hadron Collider at CERN shows a real-world machine that is as close to Science Fiction as we get nowadays…