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Basil Likes Gelato!
I little video I shot with my Blackberry of our little schipperke eating some gelato during a break from walking him along Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks.
January 25th, 2009 by alephnaught
Kicking around Sherman Oaks
We decided to take the dog for a window shopping trip on Ventura Blvd. in Sherman Oaks. Aviva got to have her picture taken with President Obama (well, almost). A golf shop was under construction and they had some cool machines inside. And I bought a really cool tee shirt at one of the shops.
January 23rd, 2009 by alephnaught
Scrum Master training
I am now a Certified Scrum Master after attending two days of training down in Costa Mesa. The class was given by Michael James from Danube Technologies. The class was very practical and pragmatic, as befits training for an agile process in my opinion. We learned about the three roles: Product owner Scrum Master Team […]
January 17th, 2009 by alephnaught
Walking around Sherman Oaks
We took the dog for a walk on Ventura Blvd. in Sherman Oaks and I took some pictures…. A very very cool tee shirt I bought at a store on this trip Aviva with President Obama (well, a likeness anyway) A very cool machine in a (future) golf shop
January 10th, 2009 by alephnaught
Videos of Basil – Blackberry on AT&T finally hits 4.5 …
… and I don’t mean on the Richter scale (although there have been some earthquates in SoCal yesterday), I mean the operating system version for the RIM Blackberry with service from AT&T. A friend I walk with at lunch often also has a Blackberry with AT&T service, and he found that the latest OS was […]
January 2nd, 2009 by alephnaught
A drive down Mulholland Highway
New Years Day 2009 – we decide to take a drive, which we haven’t done in a long time. We decided to pick up Mulholland Highway at Topanga Canyon and drive towards the coast. We packed the dog and Aviva and I into the car and took off. There are a few treacherous sections of […]
December 31st, 2008 by alephnaught
New Year’s Eve dinner at Angelini Osteria
Aviva found this restaurant somewhere, and I’m glad she did. An Osteria typically serves food somewhere between the quicker trattoria and the all-out restaurante, while also offering more localized, seasonal, special dishes. Angelini Osteria (323.297.0070) fills that niche perfectly. We started with the fried calamari; the plate is huge, definitely share any appetizer among two […]
December 21st, 2008 by alephnaught
Another day in Pasadena
We didn’t know what we wanted to do yesterday, so we finally decided to go to Pasadena; we wanted to go to the Burlington Coat Factory there (we’d heard it was a large store) and the Norton Simon Museum to see the Vermeer that’s on loan. So, we dropped the dog off with Jeff, our […]
December 14th, 2008 by alephnaught
Free lunches
We worked through lunch reviewing architecture materials my team have been creating; we’re taking on a bunch of new responsibilities and this is the best way I know to learn enough to start taking responsibility – start at the top and bottom and work to the middle. So we brough in lunch, from a local […]
December 14th, 2008 by alephnaught
Chakra Restaurant
Yesterday we ran errands, purchasing a new iPod for me (I could have done with a black and white screen and a better scroll wheel, but having 120Gb is a huge upgrade given my old, dead iPod as a 20Gb model – hey, I use it for music, I put photos on my phone; I […]
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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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January 25th, 2009 by alephnaught