New Toy – Eye-Fi

I spent some of my birthday money on a cool new toy called Eye-Fi. Eye-Fi is all contained in a sd card for your camera and allows you to upload your photos to your camera without having to search for the USB cable if you have a wireless network(or through the Wayport network). It automatically [...]

There’s Gold in Them Thar Sewers

The town of Suwa finds hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gold in its city sewage. CNN’s Kyung Lah reports
Video – Breaking News Videos from CNN.com.

Britain’s no-photographing-cops law: even the cops hate it – Boing Boing

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s radio show As it Happens did a great job covering the new British law that makes it a crime to take a picture of a police officer or a building, where that picture might be useful in “planning an act of terrorism.” First, they interviewed Peter Murray, Vice-President of the National [...]

Local News | $1.5M condo on $20K income? Prospective buyers lose $175K in Bellevue | Seattle Times Newspaper

I can’t really decide if this is a frivolous lawsuit or not. People should take responsibility for their own actions. The fact that they didn’t speak English very well is mitigating, I guess.
This shows how the housing market got into the mess it’s in now though.
via Local News | $1.5M [...]

Home again

We arrived home in Eugene. We took the coast road, HWY 101, to avoid the forecast of snow on I-5. Stayed in Santa Nela, CA and then Brookings, OR. We ran into Christine and John in Brookings. We watched poker on TV most of the evening.
Vacations are nice but it is also nice to get [...]

Walt Disney World – Magic Kingdom

This is the park in Disney World most like Disneyland in So. Cal. That and the fact that we did the Splash Mountain ride first and got soaked first thing, I didn’t take as many pictures. I did take some pictures that highlight the differences from Disneyland.
One difference, below is the ferry to parking.

Ferry to [...]

Walt Disney World – Animal Kingdom

The last time either of us were here at Walt Disney World, Animal Kingdom hadn’t been built, so we decided to go there today. (pics and videos)

I figured out my problem with my camera and videos. Turns out it was set on time lapsed. That’s why all my videos were only 3 seconds long, doh!

We [...]

Epcot

I took some videos but they didn’t come very well. There is a lot to Epcot that isn’t shown here. (pics)

Kennedy Space Center

We decided to go to the Kennedy Space Center today and save the park for later. I was glad we did. The Space center is on Merritt Island and which is also a wildlife reserve. The tour guide said the there are between 4-6000 alligators on the island. We saw about 6 [...]

My economic stimulus package

1. Nationalize universal health care. At up to $500+ a month many employees or employers are paying for each worker, that would have an immediate effect of infusing cash into the economy. Why should health care insurance be a factor when deciding to retire or whether to by food or pay your rent?
2. Legalize [...]