Recent content by crazyfingers

I ventured out today looking for birds and got a lifer! An American Woodcock. Must add a new page to my PowerPoint. Funny looking thing and it walks funny too.

With the family away in Canada for a few days I made one of my favorite meals that no one else in my family likes. It's really easy. Fry some pork chops. Put some tomato sauce on top and some cheese. I made 3 nights worth. But a week ago my wife had made some real chunky home made pasta sauce so...

We've been watching SG-1. We're in season 7 now. It's staying steadily very good to excellent. There are more than a few mind possession or earth intrigue plots that we've endured but for the most part it's still about exploring other worlds/fighting the Goa'uld.

Amateur max Eclipse glasses over my phone. And a colander.

I remember getting off the long flight from Tokyo to Toronto, going into a Starbucks asking for a large coffee with cream and the "deer in the headlights" look I got from the employee behind the counter. It's like she was brainwashed.

Ukraine would never do something like this attack in Russia. Western support would crumble.

I recall meeting with a tech company in Kentucky and they were explaining that their sustainability efforts were handicapped by, at least at the time, Kentucky law which required that all electricity needed to be generated by coal fired electrical plants. That was maybe 20 years ago + or - I...

Our cat Chester is a pain in the ass trying to sneak (or run) out the door when I go out to the driveway. We keep a water sprayer there on the floor. He backs off when we spray in his direction but he keeps trying. We can't let our guard down. He can go in the enclosure but not roam around...

Oh, if it counts I was at a Canon dealer event at a trade show in Las Vegas in the late 1980's/early 1990s. Canon invited their dealers and some industry analysts and Canon hired Dolly Parton to play a set. Not really my thing but I guess I can say I saw Dolly Parton. I wonder what Canon paid...

In 1980 I saw The Kinks at Umass Amherst. Starting 1982 to 1995 I saw about 100 Grateful Dead Concerts Saw Warren Zevon at a bar in Amherst. He came out after midnight totally drunk I saw a few The Dead concerts in the early 2000s Then from 2019 to 2023 I saw 7 Dead and Company concerts...

The best business dinner I ever had not in Tokyo but north of London in a small city called Luton. Venison steak with some special dipping sauce.

The First one. Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone if you are in the US. Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone in the UK. Don't know about elsewhere.

When I saw it I thought it was a takeoff on Voldemort on the back of Prof. Quirrell's head. Voldemort was a bad guy. He's basically saying that he's possessed by a an extremely evil person.

I had originally gone remote around 2009 because my kids were so out of control that I needed to be home just in case. I grew to like it so much because of the flexibility and because I got an hour and a half of my life back. Besides, pre-pandemic, 90% of the people in my division of the...