Monday, 25 June 2012
I really like our simplehuman™ dish drainer.
Except. Except the fancy draining design (vaguely visible at left) accumulates…crud…and periodically needs disassembly and cleaning. Which is a pain.
I see they’ve redesigned the dish rack, but I’m guessing I’d still have the crud accumulation problem…. Maybe, just maybe, it’s mostly the water.
Tuesday, 12 June 2012
This beastie strongly prefers being an indoor cat, I’m convinced. Still…he train-watches.
In part, this is for you, Jeff.
Monday, 11 June 2012
I know these aren’t the only two pointy-bridges, but we traversed one northbound, and here’s the southbound one…effectively bookending our trip.
Thursday, 24 May 2012
Sometimes you are lucky, and even when you are traveling between metropolises, you can take non-interstates, and find architectural gems like this bridge across…um, yes, the Ohio, right by the somewhat scary Rockport Generating Station, which WikiPee says has the one of the highest smokestacks (not cooling towers) around.
Farther up the road, we dined in a German sausage restaurant—thankfully, with a salad bar (three dollars extra, mam), and passed through the town of Loogootee. John hypothesized that the name came from a native term or phrase, and I, to be contrary, said, oh, no, it’s corrupted French. Which seems to be likely—ha! (Like I said, ya get lucky once in a while!)
Friday, 20 April 2012
Carrier. Container. The side (shown here) and the top used different terms. Either way, you stack your devils if you buy one of these.
I didn’t.
Mental exercise: think back to pre-plastic days, when you had simple organic materials at hand. What did you do for containers? Most organic materials didn’t seal the way plastic does. What’s the impact of that? Submerging in salt water (think sauerkraut) or sealing in fat (a surface layer in a ceramic vessel)…that kinda sealed stuff. But a flexible plastic skin? Nothing like it. And…?
Now, eggs back in the day. Well, you could keep it at room temp, or hard boil it. I remember with great fondness boiled egg sandwiches we had the day long ago we toured Calakmul. Hit the spot!
Pardon for the wandering post; I could have…oh, never mind, I’ll save it to use in a day or two….
Thursday, 19 January 2012
Distracted by Lion upgrade* to laptop (only) and bulbs preparing to bloom, I “made” this picture at 6pm and forgot to post it until later. Hrrrumph.
Early report on scrolling reversal: give it a few minutes and stop thinking about it and your hand-eye coordination will kick in and make the change.
Wednesday, 14 December 2011
Mower and willow tree (I think) posing today in Piedmont Park.
Yesterday’s relatively early post managed to miss the big news of the day under this roof. Or, actually, the news was aborning, but I/we hadn’t realized it.
Some time around 5:30PM, shortly before I blogged, we had a power hit. Then, when I tried to restart my desktop, it…um…didn’t restart, but tried, and finally, appeared to be almost there.
Long story short, the Guru made a rescue mission to a computery big box store out in Gwinnett Cobb, and came back with a solid state hard drive. Or something.
Shortly thereafter, I fell asleep on the couch while the Guru performed drive-replacement surgery on my machine.
Angst reigned as it…um…wasn’t enough.
Early afternoon today, the Guru had a lightning bolt idea, updated Safari to the latest version, and all is now well. And my machine is faster, quieter, and, well, working properly!
Time Machine did its thing, I want to report. If you don’t have a leetle hard drive sitting next to your Mac with Time Machine running, well, you’ll get what you deserve. I lost maybe five minutes worth of work. And that’s all.
Saturday, 12 November 2011
Today an enterprising engineering wizard (aka The Guru) exposed the guts of Blue/Blu (in English/Italian), used high-powered regular air (not in a pressurized can) to blow off the sensor or whatever had accumulated at least five dust-nasties that made the images…have blotches.
No more! Blue/Blu* is resurrected!
Thank you, Fix-it Guy!
Blue/Blu is our second Lumix point-and-shoot. The first one had a black case, and you can guess the color of the “new” one.
Monday, 11 July 2011
Just in case you were wondering, that phone in your pocket that you think of as pretty tightly sealed? It isn’t. But it is a filter for only the finest dust and lint particles.
Not that that’s any consolation.
