I have been a hearty and enthusiastic user and advocate of 1Password. It is an awesome bit of software that greatly improves the security and experience using the internet. A password store, one of its strengths was the cross platform package, and the plugins and apps for your phone. I used it on my macs and my work PC, using dropbox to keep it all synchronized everywhere I was at. For $40, to...
I hate to sound like I am complaining, but alas, it is hard to not whinge. I am getting old. Latest victim: a repeat offender, my left foot. I have battled plantar fasciitis, and a sprained big toe in the last year. But today, it is feeling like it might be a stress fracture. Yesterday, I did a mild 4 and a half mile walk. Felt OK. Sometime yesterday afternoon, my foot started bothering me. Sharp...
I am beginning to think that someone is slipping psychotropic drugs into my beverages. Last night’s dream was wild. I had changed jobs, and was doing something at the beach on a tropical island in the south pacific. I am not sure what I was supposed to do, but it entailed chasing “something” around while riding a minibike. The problem was that I had expenses from my last job...
Today I turned off my Spotify premium account. It was not a step taken lightly, as it had thoroughly trounced Google Play All Access when I was comparing them. Spotify was/is a solid player, with a large library, and great radio option. But the one downside was what they didn’t have in their library. Led Zeppelin? Not there. Paul Gilbert and Racer-X? Nope. The Beatles? Nein. Yep, I could...
I have been battling with what I originally thought was an injured thumb. A couple weeks ago, I went to my GP, and alas, the tendons seem fine, but the x-rays show that there is a bone spur, and what is likely the beginning of arthritis. Groan. Heavy anti inflammatories and a brace to immobilize the thumb. A week later, the brace was not helping (if anything, it was beginning to damage the...
Last night, I had vivid dreams. This is not unusual in itself, but the subject of the dreams were “odd” to say the least. I dreamt that I was in France, riding (for fun) stages of the Tour de France. On an old, unreliable 3-speed bicycle. So unreliable that I was breaking cranks, pulling spokes, and snapping chains. Yeah, that is pretty bad. But add to that we were using these same...
I am a huge SciFi fan, been reading it since I was in high school. I have lately become a fan of Neal Stephenson (ok, not so recently, I read Snow Crash shortly after it was published), but it has taken me forever to read the the books in the Baroque Cycle. Today, I finished the second novel, The Confusion, thinking that I was finished with the set. WRONG. It seemed like a funny place to leave...
I spied it gingerly. It was a couple seat away from me in the waiting area at the Southwest gate in the SanJose Airport. I wasn’t sure what it was at first, but I finally figured it out. It was the first Microsoft “Surface” tablet that I had ever seen that wasn’t part of a store display. Someone was actually using it. Not sure if it was the RT version, or the PRO version...
The other day, walking my dogs in the morning, someone was taking their early 1970’s Monte Carlo out for a drive. Ah, the sound, the rumble, the rough idle of a carbureted 454CID engine in a sedan was enough to make me wax poetically. There is something about late 60’s and early 70’s heavy metal (American muscle cars) that just goes to the core of my being. The mechanical...
(well, poopies. This is post # 300) I travel a lot for work. (well, usually, when we don’t have restrictions). This morning, I was taking the early flight, PHX to SJC, easy 1:40 hop, but I had a day chocked full of meetings, so I took the 6:25 flight. Ugh. That means I needed to wake up about 3:30 and get my butt out the door. Ok. I get my pastry and starbucks coffee, and sit in the gate...