We took the day off to head up to Berkeley to watch Mia present her Senior Research Project to Faculty and Alumni. Only 4 more weeks of UC Berkeley for her and then off to Columbia in New York. The last 4 years have flown by.
Last week, a friend of mine called me from NAB to ask me if I would like him to pick up a Rotor Concepts quadcopter, that I was curious about. Ive been looking at Quadcopter RC Gopro rigs for some time now but the technology is a bit lacking when it comes to isolating the camera…
Gina came across some old pics from 2007. Columbia’s Med School campus is a stones throw from Gina’s sisters home in New Jersey. Here are some pictures of Mia touring Columbia undergrad and Mark Skateboarding all over the place. There are some shots of the subway she will be taking to school and in…
It was nice having both kids back for a little while this past weekend.. Marks two jobs at Oregon requires a car so we sold his non speed bump friendly BMW 330 and purchased a 2009 Mazda3 Hatchback with the help of expert mechanic and friend Ryan Rich. He headed out today for school, but…
I was a bit worried at pruning time that these sticks had seen better days, but there are signs of life in the Zins. The table grapes are already rapidly growing. There was very little water this spring but I think that wont mean much. The Roses around the grapes are doing well in the…
In searching for the lightest 7-8 wgt reels with the beefiest drags and sturdiest frames, there are two standout reels to look at–the Vanquish 7.8 LT and the Nautilus NV 8/9 G7. Nautalis NV 8/9 G7- The G7 spool was designed to fit a large arbor 7wgt reel and fits nicely into the light NV…
Most thought it was impossible, but the Oregon Ducks have made it to the sweet 16. Cal as usual went down in flames and reinforced the idea that a PAC12 teams are weak. It was serendipity when Friday’s session of the tournament featured the Ducks and Bears in sequential games in San Jose with two wins…
After being defeated by baitfishermen on Saturday, I though maybe I would take a friend out fishing today and try some baitfishing. We stopped by Coyote Bait and Tackle, picked up some anchovies, sardines, bloodworms, and a dozen medium size minnows. They were out of jumbos. We launched at the Forebay around 9:00. It…
Its like the Shark’s loosing streak. I just cant win one. The last 4 weeks of fly fishing the forebay has been so slow for me that I cant remember what a big striper feels like. Yikes Again today, great weather, 8 hours of good casts and nothing to show but the smallest striper I have ever…
High quality IPS displays are no longer extortionately expensive, particularly if you buy them directly from Korea. Currently, most of my monitors (and yours) are Twisted Nematic (TN) monitors with maximum resolutions of 1080P. They are cheap and big and adequate for High end blueray playback, and photo\video editing of 1080p content. If you are…
Wow, my first fly fishing orthopedic injury. I felt it happen strip setting on a snag three weeks ago. After that incident, I fished three days on the lake and I could tell that fast stripping and double hauling was getting painful I put on a strap above my left elbow to help relieve the pain…
Last week , my son contacted me to help him with a paper he was writing for Genetics class on the genetically trans mutated Atlantic Salmon designed by AquaBounty that is facing FDA approval this year. In short -Frankenfish- is a designer salmon made from wild Atlantic salmon stock. They are fertilized at Prince Rupert Island. The…
After 30 years of hope and anticipation, thanks to a great friend, we were given the opportunity to have dinner at Disneyland’s Mysterious Club 33. For those who have never heard of this club, it is a private club located in the heart of New Orleans Square at 33 Royal Street. Club rooms that make…
Its been a really long time since I had two zero fish days in a row at The O’Neilll Forebay. What started out as a day of promise ended up with only one hookup and it wasn’t a striper. While casting to the dam at Oneill, I got a really light hit on the…
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…
I want to catch a big striped bass.by: kovacsxtranormal For the first time in years, I scored a Zero at the lake. I took my buddy Rick out and we put in a whole day looking around the Big Lake for eating fish. We saw plenty and even baitfished over a school of them for…
Yesterday, a landmark day in my daughters career – acceptance to Columbia University’s Masters Program. One of the premier masters programs in Nutrition in the country. Its off to New York before the end of the year. Congratulations to our Ivy League bound daughter. My sister and brother in law live not 15 minutes from Campus…
Well it’s official. Bass Pro has answered my letters and prayers by deciding to build one less than 3 miles from my house. Seriously, the day they hire employees, you will find me in line. Yes I know that there is more money in Private Practice, but I started in a fishing store and maybe I’m destined…
After reading and researching, I’ve decided I would prune our grapes in the Double Guyot and Cordon Pruning system. The system is essentially a spur trained version of the Guyot system that involves using single or bilateral cordons instead of canes. In double Guyot, two spurs and two canes are retained.The choice between single and double Guyot is decided…