The Leland High School Junior Prom was this last weekend. Mark took his friend Melissa. They are in ASB together and have been friends since Williams Elementary School. Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer ASB Election results are in and Mark Syn will be the new Student Body Vice President next year. As he pulls…
Having taken the last week off for our son’s Spring Break. it didn’t dawn on us that he would rather play golf everyday than to hang with us for the week so we decided to go visit the Central Coast for a few days. Frank and Kim, two of our close friends moved there…
I can’t believe how the sticks (bareroots) that we planted only months ago are now all green and leafy. Hopefully I can document the progress of our grapes in Flickr. Our vineyard consists of 50 Zinfindale Plants and 10 seedless table grape varieties–Concord, Perlette, Thompson. and Ruby. At the ends of the Trellis’…
We are now semi off the grid…. 5.7 Kw of Solar panels went live at 5PM today. We shall see what the energy savings will be in the coming year.
My son is officially a better golfer than I. I think it might now be more beneficial to aim for a Division II golf scholarship versus an Ivy League College for him. The other day, I bought a used P3Pro Swing golf simulator which we can now use to accurately get feedback about our swings.…
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I been to many of these shows but this show was a little different. I met my old friend Bob Von Raesfeld at the fly casting ponds as I entered the show. Together we spent most the afternoon casting the new Loomis NRX rod-20% stronger and impact resistant. Bob ended up with the 10…
Happy Birthday to Nick Gray, my father-in-law and the coolest guy over 90 that I know. Nick is a veteran of WW II and earned a Bronze Star on D-Day as a first wave infantryman on Utah Beach. Healthy and still joking around, we celebrated his 95th at Kioyto Palace. Get the flash…
Lee Hartman passed away last month. She was my friend and art instructor. Lee always had a way about her. Ive taken over her web site and will be hosting it on my servers from here on. With the help of Carol Couper, I will be putting together her life’s work on a web site…
Its been three years since I attempted to load OSx on a PC. Why is apple so against this. After browsing Lifehackers ten best videos of 2010, I found the Tonymacx96 Blog. Putting OSX on an Intel I3, I5 or I7 has never been easier. Finally , I can say that I have a 100…
Now that the motorhome is prime, and after last years SCALPED yosemite camping reservation adventure in which Mia managed to get us some last minute prime camping reservation in Upper River from Craigs list, its time to try to get some legit reservations. As it has been always, Yosemite camping reservations are made 6 months…
Recently our good friends, the Durands, introduced us to ESPETUS Brazilian Steakhouse in San Mateo which is now my favorite restaurant in the Bay Area. It’s an all you can eat steakhouse that features over a dozen different rotisseried meats. The drive is worth it.
The LA TV stations called it the biggest rain storm in 70 years! Mark and I called it Nirvanna as we rode rides with no lines and had our way with the park till midnight dressed like fishermen. In all the years of going to Disneyland the week before Christmas to celebrate Gina and…
What would you say if you had the opportunity to fish a lake full of gigantic trout that had not seen a fly in over two year? On December 4th, my cousin Wayne arranged a trip to Eagle Canyon Trout Ponds near Shingletown in Northern California. The Ponds are a pay to fish ,…
I doesn’t seem that long ago that I was neck deep in HDV tapes. Then came the Xacti HD sd card cams. What Ive come to respect, editing video these last years, is a better appreciation for bitrate over resolution. There are major differences between 1080p videos taken with a flip camera vs a…
I remember back to 1997 when we use to transfer WAV files via 1200 baud modems through “Fear and Loathing in Silicon Valley”–our BBS pre internet. In those days, its was about size and not quality (thats what she said) and thus WINAMP grew out of the need for a better way to play back compressed…
Its hard to be impartial when it comes to critiquing film and editing when you are analyzing you daughter’s work. I am usually pretty critical and even more so with Mia, but I am really proud of this piece that she wrote and edited. Mia has researched this piece for over a year and knows…
What a great day. My first Giant’s game was in 1966 at Candlestick Park. My cousin Kenneth Tan and his dad took me. I was so into those giants having collected the entire roster in baseball cards and keeping scorecards of games–my first math papers. Having attended many games with Mark and Mia since 2003…
It’s as if the stars aligned and alll of a sudden the Giants are in the World Series playing on Halloween night and the colors of the day are Orange and Black. Unreal. Well this is about Halloween. This year Megan dressed up as Paris Hilton or in her words “any rich girl”. That costume…
Yeh, my parents are cool……Maybe they will remmeber this game for ther rest of their lives, I can only hope. Mark and Mia were at the World Series Game II today. Probably the last game that will be played at SF. What a game! Cain and Suffering, WE Caine We pitched We Conquered, Caine is…