Aussie Pasty (vlog)
My experiment of combining two great tastes, the Cornish Pasty and the Australian Meat Pie, into the hybrid Aussie Pasty.
General
Too Lazy to Blog – Don’t Watch this video
Seriously, I’m just not blogging enough lately, so I’ve decided to experiment with vlogging instead. I’ve got the camera with me all the time, so why not? Answer: This video right here. Wow, how tedious. Don’t bother watching, it’s terrible, but it gets the preface out of the way. The next one is much better.
Primeval – S04E02 – Review
I got nothing. The current series of Primeval is so ordinary that I have neither strong positive or negative feelings towards it. They aren’t screwing things up badly like they did last season, neither are they making me interested like they did in the first season. I’ve watched through this episode 3 times and still … Read more
Primeval – S04E01 – Review
All this tweeting and podcasting and suddenly I just don’t have time to review new science fictions shows – or, if I do, I do it on the podcast. That just doesn’t seem right, and one of the staples of my blog has always been reviewing episodes of Primeval. Pity they cancelled it, isn’t it? … Read more
Garmin 1490T GPS goes to DisneyLand
A couple months ago, I purchased a Garmin 1490T GPS at Costco. Although I’ve wanted a car GPS for some time, but couldn’t justify it just for driving around Phoenix. The pending trip to DisneyLand, smack in the middle of the freeway hell that is the Los Angeles metropolitan area, was ample justification. While I’ve … Read more
A Time to Feel Small and a Time to Feel Special
In this galaxy, there’s a mathematical probability of three million Earth-type planets. And in all of the universe, three million million galaxies like this. And in all of that and perhaps more, only one of each of us. Don’t destroy the one named Kirk. – Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy Ol’ Doc McCoy may or may … Read more
Flip Mino HD vs Kodak Zi8 and Apple iPad, iPhoto and iMovie
Recently in conversation, the topic of using the Flip HD and the Kodak Zi8 mini-camcorders came up, and specifically, how well do they work with Apple products, like iMovie. As it happens, I own both the Flip and the Kodak camera, so I put down a few thoughts on them. For anyone who might find … Read more
Some thoughts on the magic of the Magic Kingdom
There’s a scene in the movie Nation Lampoon’s Vacation that I never saw coming. After fighting their way across the United States, through horrible tragedies, dead grandmothers & dogs, the Griswold family station wagon barrels into the completely empty parking lot of Wally World – a thinly disguised DisneyLand – only to discover the park … Read more
Fusion Patrol Follow-up
It’s a long overdue update to my previous blog post about the tribulations of getting the audio right on the Fusion Patrol Podcast. As last you may recall, I was testing Wiretap Anywhere from Ambrosia Software. Initial tests went very well and I subsequently purchased the software. We’ve done several podcasts since then under a … Read more
FaceTime for Mac Stays Resident
Forget all the iLife ’11, OSX 10.7 Lion and MacBook Air at the Apple Event today, the really fun announcement was FaceTime for Mac. I’ve been playing with it all afternoon, and there are a couple interesting things about it that aren’t immediately obvious. For starters, video quality is good (with a caveat), both from … Read more