Welcome to Mike.GastonFamily.org
Home Photos Archives Subscribe
|
Welcome to Mike.GastonFamily.org Home Photos Archives Subscribe |
More cool stuff from maps.google.com - Street Views show you a dynamic image of the place you click on. Any road outlined in blue has a photo available. The little person icon shows the current location on the map. The green arrow under the person points in the direction you're looking in the photo. By dragging the image of the street view, you can look around 360°. Use the arrow buttons on the screen, or on your keyboard, to navigate down the street. Here's a handy demo video, along with some sample street views.
Traffic uses color codes to show you reported road conditions in certain areas.
—Mike @ 14:49
Hail, hail -
"the gang" was all there at the wedding of Jim & Laura (our friends Susan & Mike's son) last month. That's our Aruba crew.
—Mike @ 16:57
Cars aren't the only good hybrid transportation candidates - GE is looking at hybrid locomotives!The energy dissipated in braking a 207-ton locomotive during the course of one year is enough to power 160 households for that year.Labels: green power
—Mike @ 10:45
The hazy oozy sun - This interesting video clip shows how the Sun's surface oozes during a single hour.Labels: space
—Mike @ 21:01
On the other hand, this may definitely catch on - Invisibiliity -- the real thing. As odd as it sounds, researchers are continuing to experience some breakthroughs in creating materials that may ultimately render things effectively invisible to human sight. Imagine the possibilities. (And like any technology, imagine the abuses.) Another example of science fiction pointing the way for reality.Labels: technology
—Mike @ 21:55
Twitter: What are you doing? - OK, my age must be showing. Here's a new Internet trend I truly don't get: it's called Twitter. It was written up in today's paper, so I had to check out the web site.
The idea is that people send updates regularly throughout the day via computer, cell-phone, whatever, all answering the question, "What are you doing?". Blogging I get -- online journals, voicing opinions, sharing details people might consider interesting (or not), but these one-sentence blurbs about daily minutia? "What am I doing?" I'm not sure I care myself; why should you?
I predict it won't catch on. (Caution: I'm the same guy who laughed at the prospect of people paying money to subscribe to television channels a few decades ago, so a trend-spotter and predicter of human interest, I'm not ;-)Labels: services
—Mike @ 21:34
E-paper gets color - South Korean company LG Philips has announced the world's first full-page-sized color electronic-paper, "which works as a paper-thin, bendable viewing panel." Very interesting! [Thanks, Mace]Labels: technology
—Mike @ 19:44
Compact Flourescent light bulbs may not be the ultimate answer after all - The more promising technology might actually come from new advances in LEDs, those little light-emitting diodes we've become accustomed to in all kinds of electronic devices.By 2027, LED lighting could cut annual energy use by the equivalent of 500 million barrels of oilLabels: green power
—Mike @ 16:03
Know any kids just getting started with computers? - About.com has a nice hanbook of tutorials as a place to start: Net for Beginners.Labels: services
—Mike @ 20:32
Weekend whirlwind - Let's see, along with the rest of the movie-going world, we caught the opening of Spiderman 3 (a verry lonng movie in need of some editing, but generally fun), we celebrated our goddaughter Cheryl's weekend up from Florida with a dinner with her family (hi, girls ;-) and we were treated to another super innovative dinner at Phil's house. In between, it was yard maintenance and replacing the burner on the backyard grill (an annoyingly complex task that's truly not worth the effort, for future reference). A 3-day class during the upcoming work week will seriously put me behind the 8-ball on getting things done, so no relief in sight for awhile. Faster, faster...Labels: family, friends, movies
—Mike @ 22:08
Horseys! - My niece Sarah has come a long way with her horse riding lessons. On Sunday, my brother Joe shot a couple of videos of her riding Slappy, and riding Slappy again... nice job, Sarah!Labels: family
—Mike @ 18:34
Life extremes - After some emotional days supporting our neighbor Mary's family at home, at her wake and her funeral, we drove directly from there to one of the best weddings we've recently attended, as the son of our friends Mike & Susan got married up in Bergen County. The food was perfect, the band was great, and we danced more than I can ever remember dancing in a single day (notwithstanding the stiff hips of the next few days). We then stayed overnight with many of the guests at the hotel (it was nice not having to worry about an hour-long drive after a celebration like that), and ended the happy part of our weekend with a delicious Sunday brunch there. Thanks Jim & Laura -- enjoy your honeymoon!Labels: friends
—Mike @ 22:53
More? - There's additional reading available in the Archives.
Subscribe to this weblog via e-mail:
 |
|
|
