“Eating with a spoon, they won’t give you a knife” (video)
Nathan and I went to an El Pollo Loco for a quick lunch – the food is pretty healthy, fast, and tasty (he agreed just so you kn0w). But, they only gave him a fork and spoon to eat a two-piece lunch. Of course, I thought of Peter Gabriel’s wonderful “Lead a Normal Life,” and […]
May 12th, 2011 by alephnaught
Nathan’s first day in LA; Aviva’s birthday dinner
Nathan, my son (@thegeo on ‘the Twitter’), flew in last night. Today, we drove all over the valley shopping – he was looking for some specific comic books and figures, and he ended up finding almost everything he was looking for. And of course tomorrow is Aviva’s birthday so we went out tonight for her […]
May 8th, 2011 by alephnaught
Jett jumping for treats (video)
Here’s a video of Jett jumping for treats – she really loves the dried chicken tenders, and she let’s us know clearly. Luckily this is the only time she does this, otherwise we’d have to raise a number of things even higher in our house.
May 7th, 2011 by alephnaught
The Watts Towers
We were heading to Little India in south LA and saw the exit to the Watts Towers – we hadn’t been there so we took the sidetrip, and it was worth it. Very amazing, worth the trip if you visit LA; if you want to go inside you have to go on a tour and […]
April 16th, 2011 by alephnaught
Craft vs Factory – a simple graphic
When I told my boss one day that our waterfall development method didn’t work well, he countered that it was working fine in some parts of the organization. We talked about which ones and I noticed that those were areas where repeated, configuration-style work was performed. I asked around and found that big projects, things […]
March 27th, 2011 by alephnaught
Patti Smith’s Horses and the Remaking of Rock ‘n’ Roll (review)
Title: Patti Smith’s Horses and the Remaking of Rock ‘n’ Roll Author: Mark Paytress Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Piatkus Books; Reprint edition (January 4, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 0749940263 ISBN-13: 978-0749940263 This book was not what I expected. I saw it while browsing in Book Soup, a nice independent bookstore in LA. I had hoped […]
March 8th, 2011 by alephnaught
Zen and the Art of Mixing (review)
Title: Zen and the Art of Mixing (Technical Reference) Author: Mixerman Paperback: 350 pages Publisher: Hal Leonard (October 15, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 1423491505 ISBN-13: 978-1423491507 If you’re into making music you need to read this book. Mixerman knows what he’s writing about – he claims extensive mixing experience and it shows. His/her writing style […]
March 7th, 2011 by alephnaught
Palm Desert (with pics and a video of course!)
We visited Aviva’s mom and her boyfriend; we figured we were due a long weekend away from the valley. So we bundled up Iggy and Jett, loaded the Prius and took off. The drive was easy – we left on Saturday and hit no traffic – what a nice change for LA… We had a […]
February 27th, 2011 by alephnaught
iPod and Philosophy (Popular Culture and Philosophy) [review]
Title: iPod and Philosophy (Popular Culture and Philosophy) Author: D. E. Wittkower (Editor) Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Open Court (November 1, 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 0812696514 ISBN-13: 978-0812696516 I like philosophy – I took 9 credit hours in college and have had many late night philosophical conversations. And I say don’t buy this book of […]
February 21st, 2011 by alephnaught
The San Fernando Mission
We’re finally getting back to doing tourist stuff around southern California, so today we decided to visit the Mission San Fernando Rey de España. It’s located pretty close to us; we took Iggy and Jett so they could also get out of the house and smell the, um, well, not roses. Also, Bob Hope’s family […]
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May 13th, 2011 by alephnaught
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