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Here’s another entry in my famous Pond series. This one is in Tokyo. Taken with my original lousy Sipix digital camera. Strangely, they don’t make it anymore.

I think I may have mentioned before that that camera is so bad it has a chance of becoming immensely popular. Don’t laugh. It’s happened before. As in this example.

Which brings an idea to mind. Somebody needs to produce a Photoshop/Gimp plugin giving the “Holga effect” to a photo. Shouldn’t be too hard.

Which brings another thought to mind. Have a look at some of the Holga photo galleries. These people do some pretty amazing work with quite primitive tools. Great Art doesn’t require expensive cameras, does it? Except mine, of course.

No post yesterday – sorry about that. The Loyal Mom was spending her last evening with us and we were busy.

Speaking of the Croc Hunter movie, I really like it. It got some bad reviews back in the day, but I think they generally missed the point. It’s just about goofy fun. Recommended.

We’re off to Las Vegas tomorrow! Maybe. Loyal Readers Numbers One and Two are still quite sick and we’re not sure whether it’s a good idea to leave them home. We’re going to make a decision tomorrow morning.

I took LRN2 to the doctor‘s office this evening while Loyal Reader Number four was taking the LM to the airport. He appears to have an ear infection. He has antibiotics now, so there’s hope for a quick recovery. LRN1 also went to the doctor today, but he only got a throat swab, so we have to wait for the results before he goes on the amoxycillin. If he needs it. Which I’m guessing he does.

Anyway. Should we both go? Should LRN4 go by herself (she’s not excited about making the long drive alone, but the wedding is on her side of the family, so she should be the one there)? Should I go by myself (I have no trouble with the drive and would love to be there and to see Loyal Readers Numbers Three and Fifteen along with many others, but I’m second priority)? Should we skip the whole thing? Only time will tell.

We really enjoyed the LM‘s visit and are sorry to see her go. It was just a really comfortable thing to have her here.

I started reading Simply Einstein: Relativity Demystified at the doctor’s office. I’m only a couple of pages into it, so it’s a little early for a review or even a preview, but I’m cautiously optimistic. Could be very interesting. I’ll let you know more later.

Better get to bed. I (possibly) have a long drive ahead of me tomorrow. Friday post doubtful, but I’ll try to use the Wonders of Blogger on Saturday morning. See you then.

Here’s the governor’s air conditioner. This is claimed to be the third commercial air conditioning unit ever manufactured – serial number three. And it still works. If true, that would be really cool. If false, it’s still really cool, since it still works. Although it blows a circuit breaker every five minutes. I guess the governor could afford to have one of his lackeys stand by and push the button all day. That sign on top says “DO NOT TOUCH.” I didn’t touch.

Slightly fuzzy picture due to the fact that they didn’t allow flash. Sorry about that, but I needed to record this important event for posterity. Well, this important machine, anyway.

Extremely Short Shrift tonight. It’s late. So, here goes.

Got up.

Rode the train to work (rain predicted).

Worked (like a dog).

Rode the train home (rain prediction came true).

Got home.

Ate dinner (soup and homemade bread – very good).

Went to Tuesday night meeting.

Got home.

Ate a bowl of ice cream (moose tracks).

Blogged.

Went to bed (currently only a prediction).

See you tomorrow.

Here’s the California Governor’s toilet. At least it used to be, for former governors. The Governator uses other facilities.

Took the day off today. Loyal Readers Numbers Four, Five, and Twelve, the Loyal Mom, and I went to Sacramento and took a tour through the old Governor’s Mansion. It’s a very old building and was in use until shortly after Ronald Reagan became governor. He lived there for three months. The building is beautiful and the tour was very interesting. We even saw the governor’s toilet (see above). The only downside was that the building is being renovated and the entire structure was covered with scaffolding and draped with some kind of protective cloth. It didn’t effect the inside, though.

The day was otherwise quiet. I’ve been spending a lot of time the last few days moving my web server over to Moe, which is now running Ubuntu Server. Its clock speed is less than one fourth as fast as Larry but I think it serves pages way faster now. Ubuntu Server has no GUI, and that has to make a speed difference. The plan is to get everything hosted there, install Ubuntu Server on Larry, move all the sites back to Larry, and install FreeNAS on Moe. We’ll see how long that takes. In the meantime, Morrowlife, Spinfo, and the HRVA are up and running (speedily) on Moe. Do any of my Loyal Readers see a speed difference?

Otherwise, the weekend was busy but undistinguished. We hung around and enjoyed it. Loyal Readers Numbers One and Two went “to the snow” today. I asked the Loyal Mom if she wanted to go, but she declined and said something about getting plenty of snow starting on Thursday. I don’t know what she’s talking about.

It’s supposed to rain the next few days, so I’ll be on the train. In fact, I’m way late for bed, so I’m outta here. See you tomorrow.

Here’s one of San Francisco’s lovelier docks. I wouldn’t be surprised if cruise ships stop there. Photo courtesy of Loyal Reader Number One.

Wonders of Blogger again. We were having such a nice evening (link warning: auto-playing videos with sound on both sites) I didn’t get a chance to sit down at the computer.

Not that we were all that busy. We had hoped to go out to dinner, since I was planning to leave the office no later than 3:30. Things didn’t go according to plan, though, and I ended up having a meeting that ended at 5:00 and then didn’t get home until almost 7:30. Dinner out was canceled. Fortunately, dinner in was delicious. Not that Loyal Readers Numbers One and Two got any of it. They got a last-minute invitation to a last-minute get-together at a friend’s house, so it appears they had leftover pancakes (yum!) and got out of Dodge. That left Loyal Reader Number Four, Loyal Mom, and me to enjoy the spaghetti.

Don’t worry about us, though. We’re going out to eat tonight.

Thanks for the shoutout, Anon! I was worried we wouldn’t hear from you.

Not much new today. Loyal Readers Numbers Five and Twelve came over this morning to spend the day. We don’t have much in the way of plans, other than to enjoy the day.

And now, a word from LRN12: ffcjgvjjfddddddddddddddddddddddddd dddddddddddddddddd ccccccccdx aqqqqqqqqk (editorial disclaimer: spaces added by me)

Thank you, LRN12. We appreciate your contributions. In fact, we’re having a bit of a hard time getting you to finish your contribution. Apparently, I’ve created a monster. The scary part is that she’s discovered the backspace k

Time to finish. Have a great weekend and I’ll see you on Monday.

Here’s Loyal Reader Number One and one of his brassier (copperier? bronzer?) colonial friends. Picture taken in Philadelphia just before we moved away.

Happy Valentine’s Day! We had a quiet time at home this evening – had dinner, jacuzzified, had our traditional Valentine’s cherry cheesecake, and watched Father of the Bride (the Steve Martin version). Pleasant time.

But a bad commute this morning. There were two pretty major accidents, and it took over three hours. Sigh. I’m hoping for better things tomorrow.

That’s it for today. See you tomorrow.