Category: miscellaneous

My family and I went to Walmart on Sunday to pick up a few groceries we had forgotten at our trip to the “real” store the day before.  We’ve had a rash of bad weather around Cincinnati the last few days and on Sunday everyone was gearing up for it.  So it wasn’t much of…

Since I was in China last week, the Superbowl was aired live Monday morning local time. A bunch of ‘the Americans’ got together in one of the hotel rooms and cycled through the 40 channels on the cable system trying to find a broadcast. Eventually we found it on ESPN (which I thought was odd…

This one is gonna be short as I am typing it from a publicly accesible iMac in the Air France lounge at the Paris airport. Let me apologize now for any mis-spellings as either the French or Apple or both hqve decided that the keyboard layout the rest of the world uses is insufficient in…

Left Tokyo on Saturday morning after a relatively calm Friday evening consisting of dinner at a Shabu-Shabu restaurant near the hotel and an early bed time.  Took a Cathay Pacfic flight into HK that arrive around noon local time.  Immigration and customs wasn’t a big hassle (that was saved for later when we went to…

.!. When we walked in there were 12 fish in this tank.

We went out walking last night to find something to eat and stretch our legs after being on planes and buses for 20 hours. Outside the back of our hotel near Shinjuku a new eatery has opened up that seems to be quite popular with the locals. This picture was taken at around 8:30 PM…

I’m blogging this from seat 1D on DL flight 55 (yes, the boarding door is still open).  This will be the longest flight I have ever been on.  Fortunately I am in business class, so it shouldn’t be so unbearable.  Still 14 and a half hours is a long time to spend in any one…

.!. While I (and I imagine a lot of people) thought that PDF was already managed by ISO or some other standards body, evidently I was wrong.  According to a press release issued today they are routing a version of the PDF spec through a process that will result oversight by ISO.  Of course the…

I’m not out of the woods yet, but things are looking up for me getting some use out of the extended battery I bought from Battery Geek. As I posted previously, I had a terrible time at first with them getting a battery that worked.  I sent an RMA in that was gone of more…