Archive for December, 2009
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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+Bob Hays
- I'm a father and husband, have two schipperkes, like to read, compose music, travel. And I manage a couple software development teams at DIRECTV.
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December 30th, 2009 by alephnaught