Water Levels at San Luis Reservoir

Tuesday June 11, 2013,  Vaughn Willett had a great day  “lots of 3-5 pounders and a 10 lbr to the boat”  He also mentioned that the lake level is still dropping fast and that the docks and ramps would likely be out of water by the weekend and that the forebay might be the only…

Eye Socket Extasy

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…

Mia goes Ivy League, Mark gets his Geek on…

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…

The Ultimate Portable HD Cam

This last year Ive taken an Xacti HD1000 around the world,  from Kirabati to Alberta.  I am a big fan of the Xacti Series of High Def SD cams from Sanyo that record to QPIXEL H.264 at 720p and 1080i resolutions.  I decided recently that I need a second camera to make my editing more interesting so…

Who is Bob Parsons?

While renewing my domain names, I stumbled upon the blog of the CEO of GODADDY.COM. You might remember them from the mega expensive super bowl adds they use to run with the good looking girls. This guy is like on of the most successfull CEOs around. He grew up poor in Baltimore where he dropped…

Gadget Alert!

The other day my buddy Frank turned me on to a cool device that allows you to boot and load Mac Leopard OS X onto a PC from the standard retail CD!.   Its called the EFI-X.  Optimized for several Gigabyte motherboards.  No more messing with hacked kernels.  A must do install.  Wonder if Final Cut…