Sunday night

U remember Uncle Joe? He was the one AFRAID to cut the cake...

Headin home

Helllo from SDSU

Test test

The next Andretti?

Big brother Sam is watching...

I see the green van had a little mishap, too.

A VHS tape

One time, I loaned out a video tape. Just a tape of some camcorder stuff. The person never returned it!

I'm not too happy about it to this day!

Big bro sam cams

The next Andretti?

New Job!

The new job seems to be going very well. First day flew by.

Jerrie ran across this last night. This was me job skeeking a out 2 jobs ago in 2000 (I think).

Yes, kids, we actually used to look in the PAPER for jobs. The newspaper, you know? The Sunday ritual! Heck...they didn't even used to HAVE a Technology Jobs section. "Computer and Data Processing" jobs were just another heading.

fuel

14.47
3.881g
3.72 per

93949 Miles

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Urban Landscape on Lyndale at about 48th

Sprint up!

Just goofing around...this overlooks I-94 at 3rd Ave S.

I took the right picture with my HTC Mogul phone.

The left picture is from maps.google.com street view!

more D40 pix

Just a pic

"long hair" kick

Nice pic

He's pretty silly tonight. He did this on purpose.

Pit stop!

FW: Gas prices - New record - 3.65 per gallon!

This was at Penn and 60th.

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Trying a series here...

Pix of and from the D40

I stole this picture of the D40 from http://www.digitalcameratracker.com/
Which seems to be a good place to gather info on digital cameras.

Picked up a Nikon D40 camera last night. Took the picture on the bottom this morning.

So far, I'm very impressed. It's a REAL camera with a real lens and real controls and indicators.

It does what you want it to do (if you chose) or it will do it all for you.

A cushman?

New battery charger comments.

See the http://bardyland.blogspot.com/2008/04/ray-o-vac-ps3.html page for NEW comments on the battery charger subject.

And speaking about it...here's another good place to buy batteries and chargers.
http://www.thomas-distributing.com/

Also: http://www.nicdladyonline.com/

All of these I've purchased from.

DTV converters - Sears

I went to Sears tonight to look at their offers for DTV converters.
For some Stupid reason, they are not releasing them for sale till "May 4"

The guy told me they will have a Magnavox box of some sort for $49.95.

I still haven't bought one. I'm most interested in getting one to record off the air a few shows that Austin likes on KTCA-HD.

Um-bow-a-cowa. -from John Lennon's " #9 dream".---at least that's what it sounds like to me. I love the melody of that song, but the lyrics are lost on my feeble brain.

At MOA

This was a little kid "bus" ride at the Mall of America. Once he found the horn and bell, whatever else that might have been going on didn't matter.

Jerrie and Austin were looking down at the rides at MOA.

Cherokee Sirloin

...at Cherokee Sirloin Room...Jerrie's birthday. This is covered wagon they have out front for decoration.

On the bench

in front of Cracker Barrel. It was windy and cold!

We need to buy one of these to take to other places when he gets bored

Here's a pic from 2005

Think I will ever learn how to rotate these correctly?

He always wants to drive

A video

a WAY cool review of the Ruckus modem

Here is a WAY cool review of the Ruckus modem by a couple guys in Singapore.

It is really quite good.

http://theory.isthereason.com/?p=1650


Thanks, Mark!

Old video I ran across

Not sure when this is from...maybe last summer?

Apparently the camera date wasn't set. Which leads me to believe it was from when the camera was new last summer.

Ray-o-Vac PS3

I have a Ray-o-Vac PS3 charger. Seems like a good charger...popped it open tonight and each pair of batteries has a set of transistors associated with it. I measured voltage across each pair of cells and it was different...which is probably good since each pair had been in there a different length of time. The thing has quite a circuit board in it. Not a simple circuit.

ANYway...the ISSUE is when I leave batteries in there for a long period of time (days/weeks) they continue to trickle charge up to about 1.450 to 1.480 volts. My camera does not seem to like that. It shuts off shortly after turning it on. If the cells are closer to 1.3 V then it's happier.

I pulled some cells out tonight that were good and cooked for a number of days.

I'll have to see how they work after sitting out a day or two and see how the voltage looks.

The batteries are cool, but I hope this higher voltage trickle is not harmful.

I also hope the way this thing is charging is not negatively affecting the useful capacity after charging.

Doesn't make too much sense since the camera works with 1.5V alkaline cells. Apparently they sag low enough under the load and maybe the NiMH are staying closer to 1.5V.

My charger looks like exacly like the one above, but different.... in that it's black with a clear cover.

:P

Reading books.

Is he "reading?" I don't know. But he sure likes looking at the books.

Viewing audience

Hey you people...
If you are viewing the blog....drop in a comment!

I'm curious who reads this thing....

well...there's not much to read, but there are pictures!
Sounds like certain magazines.....people read the articles...yeah...that's it.

GIMME DAT DING

I didn't fully appreciate Pipkins till a few years ago. This song ROCKS.