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April 30, 2009

FlipVideo Update

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I have got an older model (i.e. one year) but need to use it more, even if just to capture ten minutes of commentary or my dog - post it to free mobileme webspace or even YouTube.

Do you make personal podcasts? And if so, what is your method?

April 29, 2009

Hang it Up Brett

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And not for another interception.

Even you Favre fans must be cringing at this point. Let go from now from the N.Y. Jets after coming back from a tearful retirement and blowing his good image from all those years with Green Bay.

Now, what's to prove except to limp over to the Vikings and end up joining the club of embarrassing superstars who outstayed their glory?

April 27, 2009

Darn, Some Kid Won the Contest

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Okay, so they are mostly games.

Swine Flu Mania

Always nice to wake up to another pandemic.

April 26, 2009

Taylor Swift

Think she will turn thirty in about thirty years?



Star Trek 2009

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This is going to be so cool.

April 24, 2009

Rocket Science

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As a NASA guy, wanted to share this cool little java virtual tour. :)


I love the plane in the city view.

April 23, 2009

Mosquitoes

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This is not my backyard, but could have been last Saturday.

So let's count the days: 1,2,3,4,5...


Bzzzzz - *SLAP*

April 22, 2009

Some Spell it "Czar," some "Tsar," but not "Star"

What's with all the czars lately?

Is there not enough harkening back to russian totalitarian terms around here? Now we have nine appointed "czars" from Washington to supervise various degrees of government control?

That is not hype. That is a fact. I've even seen it written "tsars" before, which reminds me of the Romanov family dynasty.

A little too much executive control going on, thank you. Slightly reckless.

April 19, 2009

World's Worst Lip-Sync

Oh you know you love it.

Don't tell me she is playing the piano. Not even really trying to fake it.

I am thinking her hair also is like some bounce or pert product of plastic on a given morning.

Orchestrates itself whenever she moves her head.

The Captain is not helping much.

But they are having fun!




Water Anyone?

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Rain was unbelievable yesterday.

The street out front turned into a torrential river.

Fortunately, my Macs and I stayed dry, although the power knocked out DirecTV and Facebook for an hour.

Talk about roughing it.







As for Houston Texans cheerleader hopefuls, check out these future Madam Curies.


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April 18, 2009

Alison Krauss

This rendition is that good.

And if anyone out there knows the Rubic's Cube secret to replacing windshield wipers, clue me in to the puzzle.


Too Small

I have lost my car keys. Can Hannah help me find them?



I am almost certain she can.



April 17, 2009

Time Warp




Herbie

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Ah, Volkswagens.

My Dad owned a light blue beetle when I was nine years old and living in Guam.

The car was named "Herbie," of course.

"Where are we going to dinner tonight? Can we take Herbie?" - common family refrain.

This was 1974 - way before "The View," so don't stress yourself out.

April 13, 2009

Score One for the Good Guys

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Now that this man is safe, why don't we flex a little american muscle and blow apart every Somalian toy boat Google Maps can find?

This world is like a federation of teachers losing control over kindergarten classes.


April 12, 2009

There's a Soul in the City Watching Over Us Tonight

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When the girl figures out I am talking about her, first impressions might resemble shock, or a soul in our city.


That dude redefines mental alacrity trapped inside a rented apartment.

Rod Stewart need not be afraid, but I am.

Where was I before pretending a raspy voice dead-on key?

Oh yes, back to Melissa.

Columnist from Houston Chronicle.

A saviour, just when you thought hope quivered in the People's Republic of Obama.

Walk outside before the rain hits, keep family close, munch delicious snack, envelop yourself in a great book, check out Joel Osteen, maybe even learn how to program your DVR?

Put that iPod down.

Or watch Hannah's demo again...



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<--- I wish she could deliver my software inspection quality report in two weeks.

That would be the presentation I have not yet created.

Have a great Easter.

Flowers are bursting up everywhere.









PS Did you know Dinara Safina is now the number one professional female tennis player? I thought so.

April 11, 2009

Dinara Safina


dinara1.jpgWay to go Dinara.

Not just Marat's kid sister anymore.


Number one. Ever seen her play? She is quite good.

Girl not a short stack.

Despite rumors to the contrary, tall girls are nice to date.

Just know she can always beat the crap out of you if your glance drifts the slightest wrong way.

Then big brother wants answers.


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I really don't need the hassle.

Fun fact: Never have a brother and sister in professional tennis both been number one in the world.


April 10, 2009

Liberty, Freedom - Nice Knowing Ya

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That basically expresses my sentiment.

April 6, 2009

Happy Monday

Now North Korea Has Gone Too Far

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One thing I left out in my recent diatribe against our non-reaction to North Korea's missile launch while their people are starving.

Look at those Brady Bunch orange chairs man.

It just doesn't get any more awful.

April 5, 2009

I Owe You

If you page down, the North Korean piece is really the best I have to say at the moment about world conditions.

But in our more comfortable and secure Sunday night world, I wish to not remain alone with observations about things I cannot change.

Let's remember snippets of hope. We have all had them. This is one of mine.



I Have Just About Had it with North Korea

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These backward ass wannabes have crossed a reckless line and we had better start paying attention.

As much as the United States has on its plate, we cannot ignore this.

I am telling you right now, wipe them out.

North Korea is a wretched excuse for a country, complete with tinpot dictator, owns hydrogen bombs and now the means to deliver them.

Merciless government, starving population, so backward as to be completely overlooked by the world, and of course, defiant like a spoiled two year-old brat.
The most dangerous kind.

Here is the official statement on behalf of Kim "I'm not Jill."

The Taepodong-2 missile, launched from the Musudan-ri base on their northeastern coast, successfully put into orbit a civilian satellite that transmitted scientific data and serenaded the heavens with songs of praise for dictator Kim Jong-il and his late father and predecessor, Kim Il-sung.

Are you kidding me? "serenaded the heavens with songs of praise?"

If that does not shock you, it should.

Folks, I am not making this up. In this day and age, that kind of propaganda is exactly taking place over there.

I know our president has threatened to take it to the United Nations. But sorry Mr. Obama, with or without your teleprompter while the press fall all over themselves to loft you into deity status.

By all means, pass a resolution.

Mr. President, you are 47 years old, a product of a Chicago cabal and enthusiastic dumbness of mesmerized masses with a willing media, tossing away trillions of dollars to expand the grasp of a benevolent totalitarian monarchy yet even as this moment of supreme, divine Godhood, you have no clue what scares birds ouside your window.

Quite frankly, I think you are in over your head.

Have you ever seen a satellite photograph of the Korean peninsula at night?

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<--- this is not a joke. I am not playing with photoshop.

China to the left, Japan to the right, Seoul and South Korea in the bottom middle, and North Korea is DARK.

They are literally in the freaking dark.

People there are starving, eating radishes. Brainwashed.

I thought Japan would not allow the rocket launch, or us. That's two chicken livers out of two countries.


Maybe backroom conversations are taking place right now.

God hopes I am not sounding like a jingoistic right-winger. I am a realist.

This is serious business.

Let yourself not lax into a soothing bed of promises, making you feel all tender and buttered up to ignore a conflagration that certainly can happen.

We should fly 5,000 B-52s over North Korea tomorrow, blow everything apart, rip the little man's clown apparatus to smithereens, and if we do not do it now, later is harder to offer the population lettuce to eat, help asian areas of concern formulate a workable agreement to the benefit of free human beings.

I am ready to be wrong, but I am not. I am right.

Possibly drop lift DVD players with music other than martial marches (i.e. ABBA or Duffy or Kelly Clarkson), wash our hands of it, then get back to Iranian bone rattling, which is growing more that irritating at this point.



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Obama's statement:

"North Korea has ignored its international obligations, rejected unequivocal calls for restraint and further isolated itself from the community of nations," President Obama said in Prague, urging Pyongyang to honor the U.N. resolutions and to refrain from further "provocative" actions."

Way to go Mr. President.

That's telling em.

April 4, 2009

Nostalgia Attack

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I was just updating my iTunes library for the ipod and ran across a bunch of 70's songs.

This one got me at the time and still stands up.

April 3, 2009

Jane Austen

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Men are allowed to like "Pride and Prejudice." We tend to have a little of both ourselves.

The site on the link is a good encapsulation of the BBC production with Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth.

God love Keira Knightly, but that recent movie, to try to condense the story into a 100 minute movie, left newcomers feeling it "dragged."

It needs six hours to race.

The World's Best Actor?

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I know a lot of people like Brad Pitt, but sometimes the press goes a little over the top.

It's been known to happen before.

Witness the general news media every day, but I digress.

I'll give this movie a chance, because WWII has pretty much been fully explored. 

But I was not a "Pulp Fiction" fan, nor am necessarily a Tarantino fan. Edgy does not always mean good.

April 2, 2009

Anyone Got Skype on Ipod Touch Yet?

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This semi-phone software is mostly meant for iphone, but apparently will work on an ipod touch (if you buy a microphone).

I dunno. Sounds a bet Beta for me, if interesting.

I'll stick with podcasts and the occasional video or music while sitting in some waiting room, such as this weekend getting an oil change.