Family Life

POST OF AN OLD DRAFT. Originally dated Tuesday, April 15, 2008. I bought Debbie a puzzle for her birthday. She loves puzzles, and I didn’t want to insult her intelligence with something too easy. So I picked one I thought would present a bit of a challenge and hoped she’d find it interesting. Little did [...]

We visited the Grand Canyon over a year ago and took lots of photos (of course). I dealt with all of them last year, tagging, cataloging, printing, uploading and archiving. All except one small set: a panorama composite of 130 individual pictures. I’d started to do something with it way back then, but it was [...]

Doors everywhere say H

There’s no gentle way to explain this, and Debbie certainly didn’t hesitate to fill me in on all the gory details. She was in full blown rant mode before I even had a chance to take my coat off, when I walked in the door this evening. I asked if she wanted to tell the [...]

There’s this electronic gizmo I’ve been tinkering with for half my life. The problem with building such devices is that they never stand still. Technology races on ahead while you’re not looking. My digital camera, for example, was out of date before I finished figuring out the manual. In this industry, you’ve barely finished a [...]