stiff peaks photo: GeorgeTown Liquor Company Exhibit

stiff peaks photo: GeorgeTown Liquor Company Exhibit: "I am consistently taken by the enormous amount of images that are waiting to be captured. All I have to do is leave the house and I become ..."

Elliott Bay Book Company mobile calendar page

The Elliott Bay Book Company here in Seattle has a full schedule of author readings and other literary events. I wrote a mobile web page with the Elliott Bay Book Co. calendar of events. Use it from any Android or iPhone (haven't tested it with Blackberries yet).

Mercury Retrograde

Mercury goes retrograde today. For what it's worth...

Casey Heynes is my hero!

New Seattle mobile web page

I finally got around to starting a Seattle mobile web page with weather, maps, and a webcam image of the Space Needle. Next up, Seattle trivia and restaurant reviews. Bus schedules & traffic cams too!

Today is Pi Day!

3/14 is Pi Day, get it?

And if you need a little reminder or to brush up on Pi try: this Pi tutorial.

Happy Pi[e]!

Rock Paper Scissors: man against computer

Try playing rock paper scissors against the New York Times' web site.

Not that we don't all know and love Rock Paper Scissors but playing against a robot hand is too cool for words!

Unusual lost password security questions

My complaint with most sites' lost password log in security questions is that they're usually bullshit. If I'm serious about stealing your identity, your mother's maiden name and the city you were born in are trivial.

Huntington Bank has the usual plus some with a twist, not to mention a sense of humor:
What is your favorite musical instrument?
What was your first job?
What is your greatest fear?
What is your favorite historical figure?
What sports team do you love to see lose?
What is the last name of your favorite author?
What is the name of your favorite comic book hero or cartoon character?
What is the first name of your best friend from childhood?
What was the make and model of the first car you owned?
What is the last name of your favorite teacher?
What is your favorite fruit or vegetable?

Even AARP Likes Meditation

Imagine my surprise when I read about AARP endorsing meditation. Have we see meditating go mainstream? Is yoga part of the reason why?

RSSmachine, a free RSS feed template

RSSmachine is a free RSS feed template. Write your own RSS 2.0 feeds and then host your new feed on Dropbox for free. Sweet hack!

Dowload free mobile web page templates

Azalea Software + QRdvark have released two new free mobile web site templates. These are XHTML Mobile Profile 1.2 compliant files you can use to begin designing your own mobile web pages.

“Tofu” is a basic mobile template that works on a number of phones in Android, iPhone, Blackberry, and others. You can download the Tofu web template for free.

“Whiteboard” is a free template to embeds a Google Spreadsheet into a mobile web page. If you edit the Google Spreadsheet, the web page is updated too. Download Whiteboard web template for free.

Guided Meditations on Your Cell Phone

I uploaded a set of guided meditations you can hear on your cell phone. Ideal to help you meditate every day.

There are also sounds like waves, crickets, waterfalls, and wind chimes. Not to mention white noise, pink noise, and brown noise.

Valentine's Day & Online Dating

Online dating in the modern era involves one or more horny people and the internet. Usually craigslist instead of those other sites that advertise on TV. At least when craigslist is on the tube, it's part a juicy Law & Order plot.

Ready to read some "did they really say that?" craigslist ads? I've gathered up some good ones for your reading delight.

Mallomars

Going home to see Mom next week. Know what that means? MALLOMARS!!!

They're not sold in Seattle but you can beat your bottom dollar I'm buying a case this time. (The boxes I brought back last trip were someone's kids' favorite Xmas present.)

Nokia & Microsoft

Nokia + Microsoft. 2 dogs = 1 mutt

Black Eyed Peas @ Super Bowl

Dear Black Eyed Peas: If you aren't George Clinton, don't even *think* about doing the Mother Ship thaing.

Happy New Year!

Tashi dalek losar! Gung Hay Fat Choy Happy New Year!

May peace and compassion rule the next year and eons upon eons to come. May we all nurture the flame in the hearts of others.

Oh, and given that I believe in floating holidays and we got married *last* losar, "Happy 1st anniversary to my lovely wife Lisa!"

Cap'n Crunch Whistle & June 1972 Ramparts (John Draper) eBay auction

Bid on an original Cap'n Crunch whistle and the June 1972 issue of Ramparts magazine with the article on how to build a black box. Details are online.

Videos on Your Cell Phone

I just uploaded several videos onto my newly relaunched mobile website: BubbleWrap, Koi Pond, and Mickey Toast.

Enjoy!

Mobile Site for Those That Meditate

I just relaunched JetCityOrange Mobile, a web site designed for cell phones. This is a great resource for those that those that meditate.

There's more coming...

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Kalachakra 2011 in Washington DC

Our tickets for the Kalachakra in DC this July came today. 11 days with His Holiness the Dalai Lama!

I'm long overdue for some Dalai time.

JetCityOrange is now a geocache too

JetCityOrange is now a geocache listed with both OpenCaching and Geocaching.com

You can find the JetCityOrange geocache at 47.590107, -122.385872. Look for the cairn.

What If The Tea Party Was Black video

I *love* this video. Big thanks to Jo for pointing it out to me.

Azalea Software's Free Calendars Are A Hit!

Seems like folks like Azalea Software's free calendars. Any wonder? They're beautiful!

Free Calendars from Azalea Software

SEATTLE-Once again, Azalea Software has release a series of four free calendars. The 2011 calendars are in PDF format and feature photographs with food visual puns. These free calendars can be downloaded from Azalea Software's website [ http://www.azalea.com/calendar/ ] and printed on any inkjet or laser printer.

For almost 10 years, Azalea Software's founder and owner, Jerry Whiting, has designed calendars from family, friends, and business partners. All except the first year's have featured Whiting's photography. Every year's calendar has a distinct theme. Past calendars have highlighted graffiti, neon, orchids, and humorous signs.

"I've tried to quit making calendars a couple of times and my Mother and her friends insist otherwise. I'm not about to piss of my Mom and her friends." says Whiting. "Last year we stopped printing physical calendars due to rising costs. Instead we gave the calendars away online. Not only did we save money, we were able to share them with countless people around the world. The response was overwhelming!"

The 2011 calendars are one page, feature all the major holidays as well as the Azalea staff's birthdays, and offer humorous images throughout the year. [ Facebook photo gallery ]

The calendars' names hint at their punchlines: key lime pi, nuts & bolts, diversity fish, and hot duck.

Download one or download them all. Link to them on your Facebook page. Give them away to strangers. Make your own if you think ours stink.

Azalea Software [Seattle WA], founded in 1992, sells barcode fonts and barcode software. They maintain The Barcode FAQ and have been known to mouth off in their blog, BarcodeNerds.blogspot.com

JetCityOrange Radio is now a podcast too!

JetCityOrange Radio, 101.9 FM in West Seattle, now has a podcast going through Feedburner.

And if that wasn't enough, there's a blog too: JetCityOrange-Radio.blogspot.com

The JetCityOrange Geocache on OpenCaching

The JetCityOrange geocache is now listed in OpenCaching.

Come look for the cairn and share something with others.

Azalea Software's Free 2011 Calendars

Once again Azalea Software, publishers of barcode software in Seattle WA, is giving away free 2011 calendars online. Because the cost of printing physical calendars grew too expensive, Azalea began distributing digital-online calendars in 2010.

All four of this year's calendars feature food, in the broadest sense. One is a hot devil duck, another nuts and bolts, the third features diversity in goldfish, and the last is a rebus you'll have to see for yourself.

The 4 calendars are in PDF format and can be downloaded and printed on any inkjet or laser printer.

JetCityOrange Radio, 07dec10

The Dec 7th JetCityOrange Radio show is now online and broadcasting here in North Admiral at 101.9 FM.

Download Free 2011 Calendars

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There are 3 free 2011 calendars you can download from JetCityOrange.com/calendar/

This year's calendars all have a Buddhist theme. One is of a cairn, stone markers used on trails. Another is a photograph of "The Angel of Kyushu", a statue at The Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The last is a photo of the three jewels and a mala.

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JetCityOrange Radio, 16nov10

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JetCityOrange Radio, 07nov10

Thanksgiving Movie Suggestions

T'giving is one of my favorite holidays. Family'n'food. This year we ain't hosting, there are three count 'em 3 grandkids to hang out with, and I don't do diapers.

No matter what your plans there are two wonderful Thanksgiving movies I highly recommend: "What's Cooking" and "Pieces of April" You can thank me later.

My New Low Power FM Radio Station Is Live!

Now you can hear JetCityOrange at 101.9 FM, as long as you're within a block of my house (98116-1661).

Another piece of the ever-evolving JetCityOrange lighthouse.

Vote on Nov 2! Stop the Tea Party!!

2011 Buddhist Calendars (free download)

After years of making calendars for Azalea Software I finally made some for JetCityOrange.

These free 2011 calendars all have Buddhist-inspired photographs. They're PDF files so you can download them and print them yourself.

One image is of a cairn, another is "The Angel of Kyushu" a statue in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, and the last is entitled "Mala With 3 Jewels".

Be sure to tell your friends to go get theirs too!

Write-in Candidate for King County Prosecuting Attorney

My name is "Elmer J Whiting III", I live in King County WA and I'm writing myself in as Prosecuting Attorney. My qualifications? I try my best to live by The Five Precepts and I fully embrace the Black Panther Party's 10 Point Program and by extension the White Panther State/meant. I am a proud revolutionary Buddhist and feel I would be a good Prosecuting Attorney. As long as non-lawyers can serve.

Online Meditation Timer for Cell Phones

Now you can use your cell phone as a meditation timer. No application to install, it's a web page that works with phones with browsers including Android phones, iPhones, Blackberrys, and other feature phones.

If you meditate you can use this page to time your meditation sessions. There are also ambient noise files (white noise, pink noise, & brown noise), video of the surf, and an FAQ.

Nov 2 Video

Keep the word "compassion" in mind as you watch this. Remember that feeling on Nov 2.

Free 2011 Calendar Download

I just created my first (of many) 2011 calendars you can download and print.

This one features "The Angel of Kyushu" statue in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Click here to download this free calendar (PDF).

enjoy!

Natural Herbal Mouthwash Recipe

Make your own organic natural mouthwash. It's both antiseptic and antibacterial.

How to Build a Kite or Balloon Camera Rig - wikiHow

How to Build a Kite or Balloon Camera Rig - wikiHow

If you've ever thought about putting a camera or GPS up in a balloon or attached to a kite, you'll have to figure out how to attach it. I discovered the picavet cross used in Kite Aerial Photography (KAP) and made my own out of recycled materials and misc. hardware store parts for under $10. It worked too!

Spamarrest

DIY Picavet Cross for Balloon Photography

A few weeks ago I did aerial photography shooting video with my Canon camera. I used a homebrew picavet to hold the camera and helium balloons. This is like Kite Aerial Photography (KAP) but with balloons.

Onaway Elementary School class photos 1961-1966

I went to Onaway Elementary School in Shaker Heights OH. I just uploaded my class pictures from 1961-1966.

See yourself in any of them? How many names do you remember as in "how many names have you forgotten?"

Homebrew Laser From A Dead Computer

I need this. I need to make me one of these. Or a couple of 'em.

I'll never look at another dead computer the same again.

Ghettolicious

Ghettolicious, adj. a DIY homebrew hacker design aesthetic characterized by reuse and recycling of cast off consumer gadgets and computers, Altoids tins, Arduino boards, solar power, and a liberal amount of elegant & creative juice. That's ghettolicious.

Barcodes in Crystal Reports

Learn how to make barcodes in Crystal Reports projects using Azalea Software's barcode UFL.

Seattle Green Bikes

Barcodes in Excel Spreadsheets

Put Code 128, UPC, Code 39, and other barcodes in Excel spreadsheets using Azalea Software's barcode fonts and free spreadsheet templates.

Read about how to put barcodes in spreadsheets.

Craigslist & Online Dating

Dating on craigslist worked for me. It's how I met my wife. My page about dating on craigslist was just linked from this website on weddings. Ironic, ehhh?

Dharma in Seattle: monasteries & temples

I love stumbling across monasteries and temples in Seattle. Compliments my photographing prayer flags in my hood.

No surprise that there are so many Buddhist temples & monasteries in Beacon Hill. Ones that Google Maps knows nothing about.

Lincoln's Toe Truck, the pink tow truck in Seattle

Lincoln's Toe Truck, the pink tow truck, in West Seattle's Seafair parade 2010.

Google Instant 1-Letter Abbreviations

Google Instant has 1-letter abbreviations. Here's a list of Google Instant shortcuts.

Penny Arcade Expo Video PAX 2010 in Seattle

Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) video highlights

My first 2 balloon video flights

We launched my Canon point'n'shoot camera with a handful of helium balloons. Here's the video that little Canon caught. Too bad it was zoomed in so close.

I built a picavet rig to stabize the camera. And it worked!

How to print UPC barcodes in Excel spreadsheets

A short video about printing UPC & ISBN-13 barcodes in your Excel spreadsheets using UPCTools. Use our free sample spreadsheets with macros that convert your data into a scannable UPC or ISBN-13 barcode.



www.azalea.com/UPC/Excel/

Print Code 128 Barcodes in Excel Spreadsheets (video)

A short video about printing Code 128 barcodes in your Excel spreadsheets using C128Tools. Use our free sample spreadsheets with macros that convert your data into a scannable Code 128 barcode.

www.azalea.com/Code-128/Excel/

Android news, gossip, & rumors

I like Android. I love my G1. And let's not forget that QRdvark is an Android app.

Use this page to find links to the Android world.

Buddhist Blogs

It's only a beginning but I started a list of links to Buddhist web sites & blogs.

Please send me additions & corrections. TIA

Sand Mandala Video

Done by the monks from Namgyal Monastery in Ithaca NY at Seattle's Tibet Fest.

Thrangu Monastary in Richmond BC

Emerald City Search

It's time for Emerald City Search, associated with Bumbershoot.

Follow them on Facebook.

Buddhism, Meditation, and Binaural Beat MP3 Files

Links to pages about Buddhism and meditation on JetCityOrange.

A new QRdvark video

Hear all about QRdvark, the free Android QR app, by watching this new YouTube video.

QRdvark, the video

I've been talking about our free Android app that scans barcodes. QRdvark has been available in the Android Market for a couple of weeks. We finally got a video together that begins to explain what QRdvark really is.

The new way to rickroll

Rickrolling never grows old. There are so many ways to do it, like this video game version.

Barcode Beasties, an Android barcode game

You all know I love barcodes. Can't get enough of them. I'm not a game player. That is until I discovered Barcode Beasties.

Download Barcode Beasties from the Android Market, scan a barcode to configure your monster, and then FIGHT!

Unlike older barcode games, Barcode Beasties doesn't require a special handheld device or decks of cards you have to buy. Use what ya got and play with barcodes. What could be better than that?!

Microsoft Street Slide, new and I want it!

A great way to navigate panoramic views using a more intuitive UI. It's like pressing your face against the car window while someone drives you down the street.

How odd they've ported it to the iPhone. Why not the Kin? And how soon before Google Maps not only copies this but does them one better with a new and improved street view?

QRdvark Android QR app dev notes

No sooner than QRdvark hits 1000 installs in 10 days than we release dev notes highlighting the API. QRdvark uses intents and can be called from other Android apps.

I-Dose. Another word for binaural beats

Oklahoma parents have been warned that their kids are getting high listening to digital drug music found on the internet. They call it "i-dose". The rest of us call these "binaural beats".

I've been providing free binaural beat MP3 files on JetCityOrange for years now. People from all over the world download and use them. They're mediTAtion aids, not mediCAtion.

My response? To write a web page about i-dosing.

DIY Satellites for only $8000!

Santa, I've been a really good boy so far this year. And we're already more than half through 2010. So if I keep it up can I have a homebrew satellite kit for Christmas?

I know it's $8000 but it's all I want. I don't need any other presents. And I know I'm Buddhist, not even a plain vanilla, non-church going Christian. Did I mention I've been a good boy?

iPhone 4 Spoof Video

Whether you have an iPhone or not, this video is hilarious.

If I only spoke Chinese...

8-bit Fonts Anyone?

Sometimes you just gotta have 8-bit fonts. I feel ya.

QRdvark 1.0 is in Android Market!

Yes, we just released QRdvark, our free QR phone app, in the Android Market.

Search for "QRdvark", install it on your Android phone, and then scan every QR barcode you see.

R.I.P. Harvey Pekar

Harvey Pekar has died. Cleveland's own cartoon genius and social critic is dead.

Thanks Harvey. You were great to read and better to watch on Letterman.

QRdvark Build 5 is now Release Candidate 1

From where I'm sittin', QRdvark Android Build 5 is Release Candidate 1. In other words, our Android QR phone app is about ready to ship.

8-bit Seattle & the Space Needle

8-bit Space Needle?

Yep. It's all part of 8-bit Seattle, Brett Camper's map project. As he says, "City maps in the style of 1980s video games".


Can you blame JetCityOrange and Azalea Software for sponsoring Seattle?

8-bit Seattle Map Goes Live!

8-bit Seattle is a map in the style of 1980s video game from Brett Camper.

JetCityOrange and Azalea Software are proud sponsors of 8-bit Seattle. Little did we know that Seattle is Brett's hometown!

Cell phone meditation timer

I just did an online version of my meditation timer just for cell phone users. Yes, now you can use your phone as a meditation timer. Cool!

HTM5 vs. Flash - The war is over.

HTML5 or Flash? No question now. The porn industry just checked in and they're going with HTML5.

Endgame.

Lava Lamp Webcam for Cell Phones

You've got a cell phone. You're bored. (aren't we all?)

What better time to check out the world's first and only live Lava Lite webcam for mobile phones. Yes, check out my Lava Lites on your cell phone.

Amaze your friends. Dazzle your date. Stun co-workers.

HTML5 & Google

Seems like Google really wants us to use HTML5 and to that end they've setup a tutorial/playground for us.

I hope HTML5 Rocks lives up to my expectations. I'm getting frustrated trying to build media-rich, cross platform mobile sites. All I wanna do is audio & video on your mobile.

HTML 5? I for one can't wait!

I love the web but I'm tired of wrestling with it. It all seems like an elaborate hack, a kludge from the git go.

HTML 5 may answer all that and here's supporting evidence.

QR phone app now in public beta

Please help bash on our Android QR phone app, now in open beta. QRdvark Build 3 runs on any Android phone with a camera.

We can't break it any more. We're hoping you can.

Analog meets Digital, CD + LP

A CD/LP hybrid.

I would buy this just to have.

stop motion animation with CANDLES!

Stop motion animation at its finest. 8-bit at that!

Grassroots Mapping Post-Oil Spill Project

This is a great project: local, grassroots, DIY, and nerdy as the day is long: 

Thermal Webcam Time Lapse of Halemaumau Crater

Azalea Software turns 18 today!!!

Today, June 3, Azalea Software turns 18!

Space Needle Webcam

Finally, I got my old Space Needle webcam back online. It's back on my balcony in its latest incarnation.

It updates every 5 seconds. Fast enough to catch boats going through. Ferries, cruise ships, container ships, sailboats, you name it.

Click here to view it live.

High speed photograhy & wet t-shirts

The science of wet t-shirts.Doc Edgerton would be so proud. I think...

8-Bit Seattle

8-Bit Seattle is a map-based project from JetCityOrange.

DIY Secure Surfing Solution

You have no reason to trust the WiFi connection at your local coffeehouse. Unless of course you think China, Tibet, Iran, and other rogue nations don't censor the web.

One solution is to setup SSH Tunnel + SOCKS Proxy Forwarding.

Now I have something else to do with my "extra" servers (in addition to Tor).

I [heart] My Mobile Website

I hereby declare my renewed support of and enthusiasm for my mobile site: m.JetCityOrange.com

Google Updates Feed API

This could be revolutionary, especially in light of AzaleaRSS2

Search Google with SSL Watching Your Back!

Search using Google and SSL using https://www.Google/com/ Now you can search confident that your government isn't spying on you like they want to.

Thank you Google!

Beer Parties Beat Tea Parties