I saw this video (Made here in Dallas by Element X Creative) and I just have to share. This is far more than a model train video although it seems to start that way. It’s called: Stop. Watch. Love. Enjoy. Oh yeah, pay attention to all the subtle (maybe not so subtle) advertising promotion in the scenery. You need to “watch” this a dozen times!
Continue reading...Visit The Morning
This is a nice morning for an August (12) day in Texas. It is in the high 70’s which is cool this time of year and it is wonderful to sit out on the back porch viewing our small lake. The three remaining Russian geese are sleeping a few meters away. (I choose metric because if I said yards I’d have to explain the 3 foot kind.) I see I did that anyway. Ha! The...
Continue reading...Windows 8 First Look
For the last few days I have been entertaining myself with Windows 8 Release Candidate Beta. I installed in clean on my “play” computer where I have been running Linux. I named the computer “Sandbox”. It asks for a name when you install. A new version operating system, especially a pre-release version is too dangerous to install on a computer for which I must depend. That’s why I have the Sandbox. My old dependable “office”...
Continue reading...Niagara Falls ?!
Slowly I turned, step by step, inch by inch. I remember this being said in a Three Stooges short movie whenever the words “Niagara Falls” was mentioned. I assumed (when I was a kid) it was a famous quote from a book or a movie. Do a search today on the Web and it will show the quote was used in Vaudeville acts and by other comedians. I guess you had to live back then...
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