Author Archives: Mickey

Calling Jack Bauer, On Redial

    It may be a small deal but I still got a great sense of accomplishment finally being able to change my ring tone. Especially considering it caused me such trouble when I first tried. I had the MP3 … Continue reading

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Nesting II: Feeding

    It’s official. The baby robins have hatched. I was uncharacteristicaly outside today, where I was able to capture the following video. I didn’t know robins ate so much. In the time I was out there I swear different … Continue reading

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Speechless

    Forget the You Tube stuff, let’s get back to good old-fashioned QuickTime. This happened Monday, I saw it Tuesday, and got my chance to encode it on Thursday.    Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, … Continue reading

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Nesting

    We haven’t had any more ducks take up residence by the porch, but the motion detector by the deck has become a perennial domicile for some robins. Here are this year’s tenants. Mama Bird… …and her babies

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Another in a Long Line of Brilliant Moves

    I know! Let’s get some fleeting vindictive pleasure against Joe Wilson by revealing his wife is a CIA operative.    Who cares that her work — and the untimely stoppage of that work — has great ramifications now.  … Continue reading

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Contagious

    There was word last week, during Apple’s annual shareholder meeting, that there would finally be a marketing push to advertise OS X and Macs (rather than iPods). I saw the commercial tonight and was very disappointed. It was … Continue reading

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His Majesty is Not Amused

    The White House Correspondents Dinner was last night — you know, the one where President Bush showed that tasteless video of looking for WMD around the Oval Office, a couple years back? I missed the live showing but … Continue reading

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April Showers

    Late Saturday night, we had a lightning storm with no rain and no thunder. (I assume it was storming over Canada, to the east of me.) I had my camera set for five-second exposures, and took over eighty-three … Continue reading

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Happy Earth Day 2006

    I don’t mean to use the day to pimp a movie, but this trailer pretty much says everything that needs to be said…

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Random Musings

    • Fox should become an infomercial for DVD sales    • On of the strongest smells has to be that of burnt microwave popcorn. I was smelling it on my way out of work today. It had traveled … Continue reading

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