Aging in Place

As we age, gracefully or otherwise, our lives change. Sometimes our homes and offices don't accomodate us well. My old pal Louis Tenenbaum has the vision and foresight to work on universal design and aging in place issues. Check out his web site for details.

Having lived with Lisa during her double knee replacement I became sensitized adaptive design issues. Walkers and small bathrooms with doors on the shower. Need I say more? Getting the accessible room in a hotel on a couple of occasions was an eye opener too.

Go, read Louis' site.

Godzilla vs. King Kong

So which one is Godzilla and which one is King Kong? do we know yet?

Yes, I'm a nerd. Are you?

Yep. I'm a nerd. I' can even tell you how and why.

I've confessed to the white sock thing before. The above page discusses it in a bit more detail.

Demo in the hood & canned charity

Two things: the quickening pace of demo in my neighborhood and a constructive charity event like no other I've ever seen.

The Starter Wife & Wikipedia

I caught the first 10 minutes of The Starter Wife just now. Yawn...

Imagine my surprise when I Googled it to learn the origin of the term and stumbled across this Wikipedia article. Obviously a plant by the marketing flaks.

Sooooo, I took it upon myself to "edit" it a bit. Let's see how long my "improvements" stay up.

Talk about sleazy "social network marketing".

Speaking of clocks...

... and who isn't these days? Tick tock, tick tock,...

Origami

I'm not one for passing on YouTube clips but this one is a little, errr, unique. Yes folks, you too can make a origami vagina. Yes, you read right. Worth watching all the way through. It only gets better.

Black face comedy

How far we've come. How far we have to go.

Creationism

The last two paragraphs go far in explaining why this country is in the sad shape it is today. My kids just realized how few Americans believe in basic science, as if "belief" is necessary.

As Benjo sez, if ya don't believe in evolution, the scientific method, and modern technology you don't get to go to emergency rooms, get operations, or enjoy the other benefits of contemporary society.

Days in each month

Do you have trouble remembering how many days are in each month? When I say "September" or "July" do you know what the last day is?

And don't give me that "Thirty days hath September..." sh*t. If I could remember the damn poem I could remember the number of days in a given month!

The answer lies in you hand, or should I say on top of your hand. In my family we learned a trick that's shown here.

One down, how many more to go?

Evangelist Jerry Falwell is dead. Who's next?

Seattle: where to go, drink, eat, & play

JetCityOrange now sports several pages about Seattle: getting around, where to eat & drink, what to do, and even Seattle trivia.

Anyone have any suggestions or feedback?

When I'm 64...

JB sent this video to me. I never was much of a Who fan but this rendition makes my heart skip a beat. Perhaps it's cuz I have the distinct honor and pleasure of growing old myself. Well, at least physically old.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama in San Francisco

I put together a (very) short video of HHDL in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago. Lisa & I went down for a two day teaching. I'm in love with the man.

Attention number freaks: 128-bit integers!!!

Dewd. Got yer 128-bit integer yet? Don't be left behind!

I gots mine. B3 38 95 72 08 AA 2A 8B 28 06 D3 12 EB FB 09 7C

Can you spell "DMCA"?

Look for more frequent posts

They're gonna happen. Prepare yourself.

Do ya love fortune cookies? Well, do ya??

If ya do, then this may be the online fortune cookie for you. One at a time, as an RSS feed, or embed it into your web pages. It's a free fortune cookie server.

Enjoy!

Attention all number freaks!

Homegirl Nancy passed this one on:

At three minutes and four seconds after 2 AM on the 6th of May this
year, the time and date will be 02:03:04 05/06/07.

Mark your calendar. Set your watches.

HHDL in SF

Lisa & I came to SF to hear HHDL teach. Deep stuff. And as an added bonus I finally got to hear the Gyuto Monks perform.

Whoa...

Renting a car

I go online and reserve a rental car. I give them my name, dates and time of pickup and dropoff, credit card info, address and phone, whatever they ask for. And I've rented from them for years.

So what's the first thing they do? Ask me all of this again and type. And type. And type some more. I swear it would be faster if I walked up to the counter cold and did it from scratch. Tell me how technology is helping either side here.