The Warriors just swept the Cavs in the 2018 NBA Championships. What a great year it has been. As dominating as the Warriors seem now, I think next year may be a tough one. Seven games against the Rockets and LaBron’s amazing 50 point game that was as close as it gets means some…
I was waiting for my LASIK preop appointment with Dr Bindi, I couldn’t help but notice a Samsung Tablet on the wall with a light communication system.running on it. I took a close look at it (with my blurry vision) and discovered it was running on office communication software that I had tried years ago and…
Fourteen years ago, after wearing glasses and hard contact lenses for over 15 years I took a chance on a new type of surgery called “Soft Brush” Epi-LASIK (PRK). After I did a consult call Touch Up Laser clarified for me that Flap LASIK surgery was first approved in the US in 1999 and when I…
You know your getting old when the kids in the neighborhood start sending you wedding invitations. This year, several neighborhood “kids” tie the knot and set out on there own neighborhood experiences with there own families. Congratulations to Elizabeth and Chris Dang. Thank for inviting us to a great event.
This July 31th marks our 31st wedding anniversary and we decided to celebrate it by attending some local concerts at the Paul Mason Winery and San Jose Broadway. Last Month we saw Steely Dan in Concert, the Jersey Boys at the San Jose Theater, the Tubes on the 4th of July , Last week Foreigner…
One of the coolest places Gina and I have ever lived was the Northwestern Dental School dormitory know by us as Lakeshore Hall. Northwestern purchased the old Lake Shore Athletic Club in 1977. The Lake Shore Athletic Club was designed by Jarvis Hunt and gained national attention when it hosted the 1928 Olympic swimming trials.…
The first thing that crossed my mind when I saw this was “why in the world do we need to spend 10 million dollars to fluoridate water in Santa Clara Valley?”. As published in Yahoo finance. 1. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, Calif. > Median household income: $90,737 > Population: 1,894,388 (32nd highest) > Unemployment rate:…
Check out this REAL live air broadcast by our own KTVU Channel 2 News Station in the Bay area. She didn’t even get it when she read it. The correct names of the pilots in the cockpit were Lee Gang-guk and Lee Jeong-Min. What ‘s more disturbing is that they reported that NTSB officials…
Mark’s Girlfriend–Phoebe Hsieh–graduated from Leland High School today and impressed the crowd with her excellent commencement speech. Rumor has it that Apple Stock took a late rally after her endorsement of the IPHONE 5 and beyond. Congratulations Phoebe from the Syns. Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer
Dr Wai Yun Syn 1932-2013 I think it was the late 80’s when my Uncle Yun, the last of my dad’s generation of Syn Brothers that fished was diagnosed with Cardiomegaly and given only a few years to live. It was Uncle Yun that catalyzed my love of fly fishing when he gave me a…
What are the odds of a meteor and and asteroid entering the atmosphere in the same day on earth? Answer is 100 million to 1 chance daily. Imagine if this had happened on Mayan apocalypse day! It might as well have in relation to astronomical events. “…and there will be signs in the sun, the…
To understand why I follow Northwestern Wildcats Football, you had to have been at that fateful game in 1979–my first Northwestern football game–a 61-14 loss to Michigan State and the 29th loss in a row, breaking the record for consecutive losses by any college football team in the nation. I remember sitting with a bunch of first year…
To all the wonderful friends and family in my life, I wish you good fortune, good health, and lots of fish (because fish live in great places). Let us not forget those who are less fortunate and remember that we all have ways to help each other in small and big ways every day. Flash Mob Christmas…
We have these neighbors that are pretty special. Claudia is a fantastic baker. The kind of baker that makes wedding cakes that have their own airline ticket. Marcello is an audiophile\dj\technology wizard that has one of the largest most eclectic collection of lossless audio media I know and that is a huge amount of music…
For all great upsets, there is an equal and opposite despair. So ends the perfect season. Ducks football will survive and get stronger with three more years of eligibility for key players. There is nobody to blame. So many close plays. I just can’t bear to think of it right now but time will heal.…
Friday after work, after a really busy week, the office decided to take it out on bowling pins, The teams split between Gina, Me and Irena vs Delyne, Kathy and Maureen ended in a tie with the tie breaker TBA. It was a great way to end the week and we discovered that Maureen can…
The Grapes are ready!
Last years half a dozen flies that Bob V. took to Christmas Island are somewhere in the South Pacific hanging off a Giant Trevaley mouth. This years dozen recruits look nervous and they should be. The blue and white rattled “Synheads” will be committing suicide in mid May in the waters of Kiribati.