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I like to make things – my Toastmasters speech
Our local Toastmasters club selected me to compete in this year’s International Speech Competition. So, I got up early one Saturday and competed. My speech was entitled, “I Like to Make Things,” and I hope it captured how important creativity is to me; I talk about building a theatre organ from a kit when I […]
February 28th, 2009 by alephnaught
Glasses, books and Formosa Cafe
We headed out late after doing some cleaning around the apartment. First stop was Retrospecs, a nice glasses shop on Melrose in West Hollywood. Aviva ordered a new pair of glasses there, and I found some nice circular frames. The Bodhi Tree book store was nearby so we walked over. I got a book on […]
February 22nd, 2009 by alephnaught
Dinner, some shopping, and “Revolutionary Road”
We did a bunch of apartment cleaning (always made interesting by being skrunched into a one bedroom apartment while still looking for a home). We dropped Basil off at our dog sitter’s and did some errands. We ate dinner at Bistro Ka’s at the local (huge) mall, Topanga Canyon Mall run by Woodfield. The food […]
February 21st, 2009 by alephnaught
Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for Rich Internet Application Developers
Title: Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for Rich Internet Application Developers Author: David Tucker, Marco Casario, Koen De Weggheleire, Rich Tretola Paperback: 446 pages Publisher: Adobe Dev Library; 1 edition (November 24, 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 0596522509 ISBN-13: 978-0596522506 I found this book very useful for someone just starting out with Adobe Air […]
February 14th, 2009 by alephnaught
Some pictures from Little Tokyo
On Valentines Day Aviva arranged for his and hers shiatsu massages. So we drove down to Little Tokyo separately (Aviva was volunteering at a MOCA event that evening) and had our massages. A traditional massage is done through clothes, so make sure to wear loose fitting comfortable clothes. And the massage did wonders for both […]
February 8th, 2009 by alephnaught
“The Wrestler”, Magellan’s and dinner in Santa Monica, CA
I had a manicure and pedicure at 8:30A (those that know me know I’m a morning person) and a haircut at 11A, so we lost our morning, although I certainly enjoyed both. So Aviva and I headed out for Santa Monica after lunch. Our first stop was the cinema, as we both wanted to see […]
February 8th, 2009 by alephnaught
Learning all the time, really
While blowing through RSS feeds this morning, I found Seth Godin’s latest post, Learning all the time. I had two reactions. First, I wouldn’t equate reading blogs to continuous learning; I know people who go through blogs and don’t seem to learn anything – there’s no change. You can gain knowledge or you can learn; […]
February 7th, 2009 by alephnaught
February 1st, 2009 by alephnaught
A great movie and dinner with a friend
We decided to see “Slumdog Millionaire” yesterday; that movie almost made me cry, its really moving (at least to me). I loved the use of the questions in the game show as the driver of the action and ultimately the plot. And the ending Bollywood sequence even worked for me. You have got to go […]
January 26th, 2009 by alephnaught
My new toy hovercraft!
I ordered a toy hovercraft from Thinkgeek, and I think its really cool! The instructions are in Japanese, but I figured out how to charge it up and make it go. And here’s a video to prove it!
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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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April 2nd, 2009 by alephnaught