New Shop is Online
The new San Diego Media Network store is now online for all of your (odd) gift-giving needs. have you ever wanted a large poster print of a Sony 1″ Reel to Reel Video Tape Machine? If you aren’t into the mid-1980s, how about some framed pictures of WWII radio gear?
If your tastes run more towards nature, why not pickup a few Kauaii photos?
There is something for almost 5% of the people who purchase things online; perhaps you are in that top 5%? Show your individuality! Help the economy. Spend, Spend , SPEND!
Oh, and then save some money, because what this country needs is a nation of savers. But do this AFTER you buy some stuff.
12:53 pm | Updated Photo Galleries!
This directory contains recent fax images received from the NOAA via shortwave radio. Yes, people still use this service, and you might be surprised at the quality of the images. Then again, you may not be. In any event, enjoy!
In what may be the LAST of the authorized visits to this location along the California-Mexican border, a meetup.com group ventured out into the remnants of World War II gun batteries. Yes, guns. They’re all gone now, but the bunkers remain. Check them out here.
Who doesn’t like dogs? Well, if you don’t, be sure to not visit this gallery. Coco is the big dog, Jojo is the small one.
This gallery would have been filled with really nice high resolution pictures, but in my haste to get to the venue, I neglected to charge my digital camera’s battery. Doh! Still, I got a nice picture (and was able to talk for a bit) of Naoki Mori (Toshiko from Torchwood).
12:55 pm | Long Time Between Posts (and Why is this Even Here?)
Yes, it HAS been a long time between posts. I am not a writer by trade, so I do not have the ‘must….. write…… now’ urge that many bloggers do have. But every now and then I’ll bash something out.
Since the posts are so few and far between, I figure that now is the time to explain some of the categories and topics that you will find here.
From top to bottom….
Crawfish
Every Arbor Day (or nearly Arbor Day) for the past four years I have thrown a crawfish boil/get together, either at my house or nearby Mission Bay Park. Entries in this section might even include some ‘twitter’ updates from the crawfish as they are tossed into sacks, tossed into boxes, boxes into airplanes, to my car, and finally into some nice boiling water. If you are lucky, you might even find a code that will let a few readers gain access to the party (though it is not a ‘blog’ party). If you are reading this and you were a San Diego Gulls hockey fan in lower level 22, contact me for your code. Minor league hockey fans always get in. Well, some of them.
Foreign Correspondents
Originally this was setup for guests to post on this blog. No guests ever took me up on the offer, so it is going away. Sorry about wasting 30 seconds of your time reading this sentence.
Gallery Updates
I maintain a 20k picture archive over at http://photos.sdmedia.net. Every now and then, a new sub-gallery is created and announced here. This section is very out of date (sure… tell your readers the good news), but will be updated later today (and going forward). The pictures are not for everyone, and some of them are NOT work safe. You have been warned. But you probably already clicked on the link before reading this…
GBS.TV
There was once a thriving Internet television station called GBS.TV. Go ahead, look it up if you like. It was down for so long that people simply forgot about it, and it was taken over by a bunch of 13 year-olds who posted Japanese animation. I have nothing to do with this group now.
Personal
It probably won’t take too much imagination to figure out what goes here. For new readers, the column named “The Voices” is not to be taken seriously. Please.
Rants
Think “Personal” with more feeling. If you are sending a resume to a hiring manager online, however, please read the entry
A Few Common Sense Resume Rules
Uncategorized
If the post don’t fit, it must acquit (or go into this area). I have tried to NOT use this area, but that doesn’t mean that I won’t (try and figure out the meaning of THAT sentence).
Video Projects
If my off-work time, I assist people with conversion of old videotapes, audio tapes, records, etc… onto a more recent storage devices (DVD, MPEG, DIVX, etc…). Every now and then I’ll just bust out the camcorder, shoot some footage, edit it, and post it on youtube. You can find this material here, or HERE, or HERE, or even HERE. And to answer the question that you MAY have asked, “yes, I did do all of the graphics and animation (except for “Day of the Subgenius”)
Working for the Man
Items that have to do with working, culled from the other categories in the whole blog.
That’s about it for the ‘table of contents’ posting. I’ll have some REAL meat tomorrow. Really.
5:35 pm |