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2013-05-20 14:50:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

There's a nice still of the fish pond..

2013-05-20 02:11:25 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

The "fish" pond out back..

This spring there's no fish, last year the Herons and Racoons cleaned us out!

I made the mistake a couple years back of planting those lilies in the middle, which became a landing platform for Blue Herons to fish from.
 
You can see that some of them are flattened out this spring, probably by herons. Nothing to eat but water striders at the moment, although we've had native crayfish in the pond as well.

I'll be buying some more "feeder goldfish" when it gets a little warmer and restock the pond. 

A couple years ago I woke up one summer Saturday morning and heard racoons out in the pond chattering away at each other. 
I quickly got dressed and out there to see a mom in the pond and three cubs watching from the shore as mom demonstrated her fishing techniques. 

I grabbed thegard... more »

2013-05-18 16:35:16 (13 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

Thunderbirds Intro!  (now I need some dry honeycomb in a bowl)..
It's +Lauren Weinstein 's fault for posting all the Gerry Anderson clips..

2013-05-18 01:10:21 (3 comments, 4 reshares, 7 +1s)

"Grizzly bear eats video camera: close up of terrifying maw" http://feedly.com/k/10a199n

2013-05-18 01:03:59 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)

This is a winner!!! LOL

2013-05-17 20:32:39 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-16 21:28:31 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Rats..

2013-05-16 19:02:30 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

Facepalm..
Economic lesson in play.

When self driving cars become mainstream (probably by being so much safer that insurance rates will plummet for them) here's one group that will oppose them wholeheartedly..

2013-05-16 07:02:40 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Dubrovnik Rooftops.. +Michael Ireland 

2013-05-16 06:36:57 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

One of my own of Dubrovnik for +Billy Wilson ;)
(It's a great place to see!)

This is a shot of a cafe/bar that has a doorway through the castle wall out to the ocean. I didn't get a chance to try it out unfortunately..

2013-05-15 06:07:26 (9 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

Ok, the beef is sliced. Where's the bread? I feel like a sandwich!

2013-05-15 06:05:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Strawberry waffles from our Mother's day brunch..

2013-05-14 20:06:56 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 5 +1s)

Microsoft. Spends a fortune on an ad campaign to warn us that Google scans your email. Scans your Skype messages.

2013-05-14 15:37:33 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

No. I. Am. Not. Not upgrading to the top of the line looper pedal. Not.
I don't spend near enough time with the one I do have. 

(This is a very creative use of a looper pedal, by the way!)

2013-05-14 05:03:47 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

In the '80s I took a course on broadcast video at Ampex in Silicon Valley, and wandered through their museum. They had a couple old Nazi real to real recorders, and of course the story of how Bing Crosby invested in Ampex. 
Apparently the Allies could not understand how Hitler got around so fast to give speeches all over Germany. Tapes were send instead and broadcast on radio..
Fascinating museum.. I wonder if it's still there in Redwood City?

2013-05-13 19:39:33 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Well, maybe. CPU power is certainly (still) doubling every 18 months, but software development hasn't.. 

2013-05-13 03:17:12 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

With deference to the genius of David Bowie, here's Space Oddity, recorded on Station. A last glimpse of the World. Space Oddity

2013-05-11 17:41:53 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

2013-05-11 06:03:08 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

Loaded up for a wedding and Mother's day!
Our walk in used to be a bank vault, so we have lots of space..

2013-05-11 02:07:03 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Setting up for live music!

2013-05-10 07:31:16 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Our live cover of Home by Daughtry. 
Hope you like it!
liquidcourage.ca

2013-05-10 07:28:46 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Here is a live cover of Home by Daughtry, from my band Liquid Courage.

Hope you like it!

liquidcourage.ca

2013-05-10 06:44:45 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

2013-05-09 21:51:24 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Some very cool lighting products! (the bad news, they're pricey and mostly 220 V).. They have some great steampunk style work..

2013-05-08 07:53:19 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Garden fencing at Burnaby Lake park. 
This is what I need to do in my back yard to separate my garden patch from the "lawn" area..

2013-05-08 07:51:30 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Gnarly tree, dude!
Since I signed up to play Google's "Ingress" game, and a handful of my portals got accepted at Burnaby Lake park, I've been hanging around the park at lunch in this great weather. 

2013-05-07 06:32:04 (27 comments, 8 reshares, 20 +1s)

People are still arguing the specifics, but several different article lately are showing that Solar Power is about to match, then become cheaper than coal and natural gas fired electric plants, at least partially thanks to Germany and China for taking Solar Power seriously.

2015, plus or minus. 

Since the old guard power utilities are already starting to complain that solar and wind are eating into their profits, there must be something to this..

(Via +Tim Bray 's bookmarks post..)

2013-05-06 00:54:44 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Classic Photo: Jack Nicholson and The Monkees

2013-05-05 19:01:27 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

I'm starting to think the name Poppy is meaningful.

Yesterday I had one, today there are three.

I've never seen one in between the fuzzy pod state and full bloom...

2013-05-04 20:06:38 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Aha,
Google have an online converter to take any panorama shot and turn it into a photosphere shot. 

http://photo-sphere.appspot.com/?

I converted my White Rock beach panorama to a photosphere..

It's a little warped, and I'm not sure there are enough controls to "fix" it, but it's a start!

Try one of yours +J.C. Kendall :)

2013-05-04 19:43:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

This "Normal" shot of the beach is a bit easier to see.. :)

2013-05-04 19:42:34 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

I decided to try out the Galaxy S3 panorama mode after seeing some of +J.C. Kendall 's examples..
Here's yesterday's view at White Rock beach. Vancouver Island off to the right, the San Juan's in the middle and the Semiahmoo Peninsula to the left. 
When it's really clear you can just see the mountains on the Olympic Peninsula out behind the San Juan's..

2013-05-04 04:17:53 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Ever wonder where Kathrine McFee got her beautiful arrangement from? :)

2013-05-03 19:37:47 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I would like something like these for the restaurant, but I need it about two or three times wider, and my feeling is these are too expensive. If I could find those black metal frames I could build my own glass rack and shelf custom fit to my space for a lot less cash..

2013-05-03 18:51:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Music Monday soon - I'll be practicing this weekend. Fill the skies w/music! http://youtu.be/lTOaXrwatmI  http://www.musicmonday.ca

2013-05-03 06:23:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

And remember, these are 1964 dollars!

2013-05-02 04:19:01 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Just around the corner.. :)

2013-05-01 17:14:43 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

The primary reason why I find this experiment to be so bloody useful is because it may finally offer us some real insights into what gravity is.

At this point we know a heck of a lot more about anti-matter than we do about gravity, the latter's knowledge mostly limited to observations and poking around theories such as that of the Higgs field.

2013-05-01 14:37:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

The screenplay won't win any awards, but making a short stop motion animation by moving individual atoms around is cool!
(-268 degrees C cool..)

2013-05-01 04:12:30 (13 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

So, I ordered an "oddball" circuit breaker from Amazon.com and when it showed up, I discovered it was used, and that it was missing parts. 

Of course the seller has a "No Return" policy. 

I left a negative review hoping to at least warn others off of the vendor but Amazon rejected my review. 

It's negative, but fairly tame. 

For what it's worth, I'd say don't buy from Amazon.com in general, there seems to be no legitimate avenue to complain about a seller.

Here is my negative review for Connecticut Electric, and really for Amazon in general.  +Amazon.com  Get Stuffed.

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Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Connecticut Electric UBIP120 1-Pole 20-AMP Pushmatic CircuitBreak... more »

2013-04-27 07:51:49 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 12 +1s)

Never grumpy enough.

2013-04-25 02:51:34 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

3 down, dozens to go.. 

When we first got this property the previous owner advised us to cut off last year's growth from the ferns in the spring before the new growth started up. 

Of course we ignored the advice since the last year's growth was still nice and green. 

But as soon as the new leaves are established the old ones die off and turn brown, and if you want the dead ones out you have to trim each one out without damaging too much of the new growth. 

(The last photo shows two year old dead leaves, last year's green ones and this year's new leaves in the fiddlehead stage) 

This year we're more than a little busy so it's too late to take the hedge trimmer to them. 

Cutting them out one at a time. Kind of Zen though..

2013-04-24 19:22:54 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

This.

I'm thinking that mistaking confidence for actual knowledge is a common human trait..

2013-04-23 06:40:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Oh yeah!  

2013-04-23 05:56:16 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

I noticed the sunset light outside so I decided to wander around the yard with the camera. This one came out to my satisfaction. I forget what these are - I planted them last fall..

2013-04-21 02:25:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

+Liquid Courage Band is ready to go! Just waiting for the bass player...

2013-04-20 17:00:04 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

A very handy programmer's web site: http://rosettacode.org/

I needed a sleep function in the embedded software language used at the office (Forth.. don't ask..) and landed on this page via search. 
Excellent!

Examples of many tasks/functions implemented and cross referenced by hundreds of programming languages.

They have a spot for VHDL and Verilog but no contributions.. 
I was thinking it might be interesting to add a couple.

2013-04-28 20:44:20 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

Live music at +Jan's on the Beach Restaurant tonight :)   All set up to gig.
 
Saturday night Peter and I are out gigging with our dance rock band +Liquid Courage Band at a private function, but the weather's turning out nice down here at the beach. 

I'm having the Pork Ribs special tonight :)

2013-04-16 16:59:36 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

For all the news services asking for more photos of Boston.

2013-04-15 20:21:13 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

It has been declared. The call of the Moose has been seen.

(my badly doctored image blatantly copied from this website :
http://lovelettersandpaperhearts.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/man-cannot-discover-new-oceans-unless-he-has-the-courage-to-lose-sight-of-the-shore-%E2%80%9D/

What odd stuff you find when you type Batmamoose into a Google search..)

#moosemondays!