One of my frens got sent here for work.
She gets to see this from her hotel, I hope…
Bad Sports Weekend
Hmmm. Let’s see what happened. The All Blacks lost so no semi-finals. SC lost so no BCS. Green Bay lost so no perfect season. And of cors, the 49ers lost.
I think I’m going to lay off sports for a while. Sigh.
Digressing to 10 years old
People travel here for Fleet Week from all over California. The Canadians were well represented as was the US Coast Guard. The US Navy arrived earlier in the week.
The real draw of Fleet Week is the air show. And of course, that makes everyone go “ooooh” and “ahhhhh” while pointing at the sky and digressing to ten year olds.
Of course, a show is not just the main act, but also the openers too.
A Raptor made a brief appearance. Not one from the Colonies. Two rounds and then he was gone.
Before the main event, there’s an appearance by Fat Albert and its all Marine crew.
A new Airbus A380 buzzed the city.
And to end the day, a guy on a jetski on the Bay
Nine, ten, a big FAT hen
This monstrosity was flying over my home so I had to get some nice pictures!
This is the ninth production A380 doing a round the world trip for engine certification. I wonder how SQ380 (the first revenue flight of the plane) will be like? Big flight crew, I figure…lots of stewardesses!! YAY!
Various Things online
Here’s a Yum Cha Rap in Chinese. Good to learn what the names of the dishes are!
Rappin’ about yum cha! Wish MY yum cha house looked kinda like this…
Out here in these parts, we have a free bulletin board called craigslist. You can buy and sell things as well as hook up. Because it’s a free service, the flake factor is very high. But it’s free to list so lots of people use it. This also applies to the personals. Check this out and tell me if this is the kick-ass response to the original poster….!
The Sounds and Sights of Freedom!
They’rrrrre Baaaaaack!
Twas Fleet Week here in SF and the Blue Angels are paying their annual visit! YEAH!
Football Season!
Blast from the Past
I went to a seminar tonight about digital photography.
GOING DIGITAL: THE ABCS OF DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
MARK RICHARDS, Photographer
SCOTT BUDMAN, NBC 11 Technology/Business Reporter; Host, TechNow!
STEWART BUTTERFIELD, General Manager and Co-founder, Flickr
LARRY MAGID, Syndicated Technology Columnist – Moderator
More than 3 million U.S. consumers will buy digital cameras this year. Whether you are an absolute beginner, a photography enthusiast or a professional photographer, join us as our panel of experts leads us through the latest trends, techniques and innovations in this digital field.
Sounds interesting, right? Wrong. The event’s description sounded a lot more interesting than the actual event which had the co-founder of Flickr, a broadcast “journalist” and a baby boomer photographer whining about the injustice of how people without computer skills will lose out on sharing photos that are on computers, yadda yadda. About a third of the audience walked out after the first 20 minutes (the under 40 crowd). What was left was the over-40 crowd. Fun! *rolls eyes*
The event was held at the Computer History Museum that had a lot of (guess!) old computers inside. Very retro!
The computer that started an empire, the US$666.66 (in 1974 US$) Apple 1!
I think this is a very old ATC system…
Here’s an almost as old IBM mainframe (ask your grandparents what this is)
This is a Cray-1 Supercomputer, circa 1976. I think it’s a neat piece of furniture!
Modern day high end PC processors, like the ones in your lappy or desktop are 100 times faster than the Cray-1. Amazing lah.
Here’s some other “amazing” stuff. Although it’s more of the “wah lau” kind of amazing. While eating dinner, I saw people in polo shirts with their collars turned up. A lot. Is it the 80s’ again?? When I was in the PRC, I saw a lot of this. Maybe the techies that go there to manufacture computers goods brought back this style??
Geez…
Poetry at Rest
…and she’s mine. MINE! WAHAHAHAHAH
Still alive!
It’s Art, I tell ya! Art art art!
Of cors it’s always “art” at 0300!
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