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  • geoffand

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    Mail Theft

    A few months ago, we moved into a new (for us at least) house in South San Jose. After a bit (ok, a LOT) of work it was very home-y. One of the charms was that instead of a central mailbox shared by a block of residents, the mail delivery is personalized here. The carrier…

  • geoffand

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    9 months of the Specialized Crave

    I have been living with a 2015 Specialized Crave Expert since last fall. As the move is complete, and other zaniness of life is gone, I am spending more time in the saddle. My prior reviews have covered the hardware and the first few months of riding. With a couple hundred more miles in the…

  • geoffand

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    End of an Era – Passing the Torch

    For the last three and a half years, I have had the pleasure of running the Southern Arizona Greyhound Adoption web page. I was there at the beginning when Diana Hansen, then acting as the Communications Director, hosted us volunteers in her house, to discuss the public facing image of the brand spanking new organization.…

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  • geoffand

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    Cursing Apple – trying to lose data

    My old MacBook Pro has seen better days. For far too long it has been my “main” home computer. All my photos, music and videos were stored there. However, with iTunes Match (and now the new streaming service), and the moving of all my photos out from under Aperture to Photos (grrrr) and more importantly,…

  • geoffand

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    Medium Format Camera

    I have long been a bit of a photography bug for almost all my life. I started early in High School with a photography class, and have been a bit of a shutterbug since. Mostly 35mm film and now digital, I always was envious of the medium format cameras. About 10 years ago, when DSLR’s…

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  • geoffand

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    I’m back from a 3 week break from Facebook

    A little over three weeks ago, I deactivated my Facebook account. No particular reason, but not the first time. However, since my last “vacation” in 2009, a lot has changed, and not being part of the Facebook community was difficult. There is a frightening number of applications and websites that don’t work well if you…

  • geoffand

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    More notes on LA Traffic

    As a recent post mentioned, I was traveling to visit family in San Diego, and having foolishly chosen to drive, I had to twice navigate the LA Basin. Always entertaining, and somewhat frightening, the drivers in LA are somewhat insane. Modern Jaguar – As I was entering into the valley on I15, this jackass was…

  • geoffand

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    Drivers – and Sucking

    Having relocated back to the SF Bay Area a little over a year ago, I have commented on how the civility and the sanity of drivers on the freeways and highways had taken a turn for the worse. Really bad, selfish behaviors had become more prevalent and ingrained, with the trend to trying to get…

  • geoffand

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    Vacation Time

    Yep, since there is a little revenue problem at work, we have been “encouraged” to take 4 days of FTO in this fiscal quarter. With not so subtle hints that the week before the 4th of July holiday would be grand for this. So, I am taking the week off. Woo hoo. Not a great…

  • The Original Star Trek Episodes

    geoffand

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    The Original Star Trek Episodes

    I am probably going to piss off a lot of people with this, but I am wondering why the 1960’s version of Star Trek is a cult classic. Really painful to watch. Far more than the awful acting of the Shatner, the stories just suck. I just began watching it again via Netflix streaming, and…