so, this morning was the dawn patrol and mass ascension… the dawn patrol was pretty damn cool, but, the mass ascension was indescribably amazing… it was pretty much impossible to count, but, there were definitely over 100, but definitely not 200… and there were a few “special shapes”, like a cow, a bottle, a scarecrow,…
Read More AIBF – day 2the “Fiesta Challenge Competition Flight”… a bit underwhelming, i must say… it was cool, at first; a whole bunch of ’em taking off at once, but, there weren’t THAT many (c’mon, people, you said seven hundred!), it took up a very small section of vision, and they only went a very short distance and then…
Read More AIBF, day one, second eventfirst, let me get this out of the way… here are three resources for webcams in albuquerque… ABQcam, AWS cams, and KOBTV’s city cams… and here is the schedule of events… if you show up at the right time, you may get lucky… there were a few visible on abqcam this morning, of the others,…
Read More AIBF, day 1, first eventyup, we spent all day yesterday driving all over town, looking for a real cam for the balloon fest tomorrow… long day of comparison shopping at pawn shops, camera shops, even thrift stores… the last place we went was a cam shop at the mall across the street from us (after spending some seven hours…
Read More WOO HOO! we finally got a real digital camera!!i said i’d be ready next time and at about 9am i walked out on the balcony and had to dash in to grab a camera… and then it was gone… but, the Albuquerque International Balloon Festival starts friday morning! expect lots of pics!
Read More HA! got one!The Debut September 24, 1999 Salon Arts & Entertainment | In with the out crowd “One of the most promising new series of the fall season.” September 28, 1999 The Eyepiece Network: The Darker Side of Those Not-So-Wonder Years: High School “Because of its insistence on aiming for realism, Freaks and Geeks has a thin…
Read More links – Freaks and Geeks, chronologicallyThe true cost of free iPods – Engadget Boing Boing: Lucas put malicious Xbox trojan on Star Wars DVD Star Wars DVD Grosses $115M Google Search: star wars holiday special [not only do i remember the fam rushing home so my brother and i could watch this over 25 years ago, i have always rather…
Read More links – couple of star wars dvd bits, a few variousnothing in-depth, just going to c/p the notes i took of what we saw as we watched the three movies… this is just about the dvd/transfer quality, not about any changes to the movies (there are countless sites for that)… nor comparisons to the laserdiscs or “did they fix [insert notorious problem] yet?” stuff (short…
Read More star wars dvd notesthis was in the march 2004 issue of Nybble, and it has taken me this long to post it… Hey, since we’re now living in the time of e-mail and the more common use of the written language, it is time for an English lesson, mmmkay. So, with tongue firmly in cheek, here are some…
Read More an english lesson for the internet ageWaxy.org: Links Miniblog Pioneer CLD-D704 notorious for streaking problems???(!!) Bartender Magazine Webtender.com – “In My Bar” – “Tell The Webtender what you have in your bar, and get a list of all the drinks you can make.” Earth and Moon Viewer: Expert Request the following links come from my LiveJournal Friends page, which i use…
Read More links – a few various, a few from site feeds, and a .name