Malibu Hindu Temple and metal animals at Oasis Imports
We decided to go for a drive yesterday; Aviva had rediscovered the Malibu Hindu Temple and we both wanted to check it out. So we bundled all three of us, including Iggy, into the car and drove to Malibu.
The temple is quite impressive as you can tell from the pictures below. Best of all, the [...]
January 2nd, 2010 by alephnaught
Iggy’s first long car ride, the Chemosphere house, and the Hollywood Bowl
Yesterday we took Iggy for his first longish car trip; we decided to drive down Mulholland drive from Laurel Canyon to the 101.
Our first stop was the Chemosphere house; this is a famous architectural landmark designed by John Lautner, a student of Frank Lloyd Wright, in 1960. It looks like a space ship landed on [...]
January 1st, 2010 by alephnaught
Iggy chasing his leg
Iggy gets excited when he sees his reflection in the mirror – today he got so excited he chased his leg.
You see, they dock a schipperke’s tail as very young pups, so they chase their legs instead of their tails (naturally).
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December 30th, 2009 by alephnaught
December 27th, 2009 by alephnaught
Iggy! Our new puppy!
Our beloved dog Basil died three weeks ago, and we just couldn’t be without a schipperke. We contacted all the schipperke breeders in southern California and found two puppies. One of those pups is Jake, who is now Iggy (yes, after Iggy Pop) and a member of our family!
A made a little video aggregate of [...]
December 24th, 2009 by alephnaught
December 20th, 2009 by alephnaught
Confessions of a Public Speaker
Title: Confessions of a Public Speaker
Author: Scott Berkun
Hardcover: 238 pages
Publisher: O’Reilly Media; 1 edition (November 10, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0596801998
ISBN-13: 978-0596801991
I saw the previews for this book on the author’s site. I’m heavily involved with Toastmasters International so I had to read this book.
And I’m so glad I did; Mr. Berkun provided a lot of information [...]
December 12th, 2009 by alephnaught
The Bliptronic 5000 from @ThinkGeek – A Tenori-on for the rest of us
I first saw the Tenori-on in a video by Little Boots; it is a real-time, matrix input musical instrument. It is also very expensive (to me at least) at $999.00 (a less expensive plastic cased version is coming out soon). I got the regular “what’s new” email from ThinkGeek and I skimmed it. I saw the [...]
December 1st, 2009 by alephnaught
Spykee, the spy robot, by Meccano
I got a Spykee robot kit from http://www.woot.com on sale; I had some time recently so I assembled the robot.
The kit comes in a square box about a foot on each side; inside are lots of small parts including screws and the tools required to assemble a robot. I choose to assemble the default robot [...]
November 29th, 2009 by alephnaught
Bug robot
I got this robot a while ago, somewhere in Chicago. Its modeled after an insect as it has six legs and wings (but not a tri-part body, hummm). And its claim to fame is that it will identify obstacles with its antenna, back to the side and then go forward, eventually going past most obstacles.
Here [...]
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January 4th, 2010 by alephnaught
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