Eugene Glover The first part of any Arizona to Taiwan trip is a misery. There’s no long and short of it, it’s just a royal pain. Arrive two hours early (at 5:30AM) for a 7:30 flight. Flight to LA, 1 hour. 6.5 hour layover in America’s most miserable airport – no thanks, we decided to take a … Read more
Honestly, how did I forget this wonderful thing? My in-laws’ house has a urinal in the bathroom!
Yesterday was the last day of school for the kids, which I’m finding an oddly bittersweet affair. The fact is, it wasn’t just the last day of school for the year, it was the last day of school at their current (now former) school. It had not been our intent when we started having children … Read more
So it’s been nearly a month or so since the iPad hit the streets in the US and 48 days since I got mine. In that time, it has become an indispensable item in my hi-tech arsenal. With the iPad reaching far-off lands and foreign shores today, it’s time for the first in a series … Read more
Low self-esteem reaches new heights. Synopsis Leadworth, circa 2015, Rory and Amy Wiliams (nee Pond) are on the verge of having their first baby when the Doctor returns to their lives, five years after leaving them. Not everything is as it seems, though as they all wake up aboard the TARDIS back in “regular” time. … Read more
I’m testing BlogPress on the iPhone. I have time because I’m bored at Old Navy. See? Boring video, too. This is, of course, a test in advance of being in Taiwan. YouTube Video – Posted from my iPhone
Yet another new frontier awaits! If it wasn’t bad enough that we invaded local television with the TV program Fusion Patrol many years ago, and now we’ve launched the almost-totally-unrelated Fusion Patrol Podcast for your Internet and iPod entertainment, now it looks like Apple is opening the iBookstore to self-published books. I had this idea … Read more
Sometimes you just have to experiment. This is one of those times. For the longest time, I’ve been using the free WordPress for iPhone app, which was recently updated to be native on the iPad, too. I’m just not particularly happy with it, and now that we’re going on a trip, I want to be … Read more
From this article from the Orange News, we learn that Austrian Motorway Authority have been rather silly. Motoroway bosses in Austria secretly hired a full-time team of druids to drain ‘negative energy’ from accident blackspots. The team is said to have reduced fatal accidents at one notorious crash site to zero after restoring its “terrestrial … Read more
Tonight I tried my fourth variation of the classic Australian meat pie. I’ve got a good recipe for the filling, so I’ts just a question of getting the pie crust working. So far, that’s been a disaster. This time, I’ve tried using pre-fabricated croissant dough and using muffin pans to shape the pies. For once, … Read more