Richard's Notes

Looks like Nemo was found. Dang, I used to like sushi.

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“Back in 2000, a Republican friend of mine warned me that if I voted for Al Gore and he won, the stock market would tank, we’d lose millions of jobs, and our military would be totally overstretched. You know what? I did vote for Al Gore, he did win, and I’ll be damned if all [...]

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A Group of tech execs rallies around Bush and maybe, just maybe those of us who are not Bush supporters ought to think about not buying products from companies who’s CEOs are supporting him. Steve Jobs is supporting Kerry and I’m a Mac user, thank god, but numerous other tech CEOs are supporting Bush for [...]

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Moving from MovableType to WordPress has been “interesting” to say the least. Many weblogs have documented issues that come up. But, there’s another issue which is that 6 apart, the company that makes MT has just changed the licensing of their software, making it a bit more expensive and a bit more restrictive. The interesting [...]

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firehydrant.org is a collection of photos of, well, fire hydrants and some on the history of fire hydrants. Check out Some Fire Hydrants of Japan for some amazing pics.

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A few years ago I was out in San Francisco at the music store Lark in the Morning and saw this and a few other drums made out of wood. I fell in love with the dryness of the sound and tucked “wood” into the back of my head. Later I discovered cajons which are [...]

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This is a surfing movie/documentary but the surfing culture has changed (like most sports cultures) since I used to surf in Southern California in high school. This movie is about finding and riding big waves, the biggest on earth and they’re not just on the north shores of the various Hawaiian Islands; they’re all over [...]

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I cooked this vegetarian Indian dish again and this time got a picture of it. This time I left out the garam marsala and it was still plenty hot but not over the top. Fantastic. aloo = potatoes gobi = cauliflower Recipe here: Aloo Gobi Recipe from Bend It Like Beckham

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This documentary is about the issues involved in the 2000 Presidential election and specifically about what happened in Florida. Just reading the customer reviews at Amazon will give you an idea of how divided we still are about this issue. If you rent or buy this DVD, I strongly suggest watching all of the extras [...]

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My friend David Clark has been struggling to get a personal web site up for a long time and was never satisfied with tools like MovableType (the engine I’m using here) and others. He just discovered WordPress, an open source, php/mysql content management tool that he likes. We’ll have to keep an eye on both [...]

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Just saw the first male gosbeak on our feeder yesterday this season. His “wife” was there too but I didn’t get a shot of her.

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This is one of many chores I have in the next month. Splitting this pile, which when split will amount to close to 10 cords of finished firewood, will be a daily grind, er split. The four rows in the back are all shagbark hickory that I split once last year and let dry an [...]

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MacDailyNews is a useful aggregation site of feeds from many computer and Macintosh-related news sources. It’s now on my daily scan.

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