Kathleen Charters and Lawrence Charters
Explorations large and small
Even if you are not a big fan of horse racing, the 2015 Preakness Stakes in Baltimore was nothing less than thunderous. Imagine, if you will, a mild-mannered scholar, spending a gentle, spring afternoon reading a book. Suddenly, the NOAA Weather Radio Continue reading Thunderous Preakness 2015
A reinstall of WordPress after a switching of Internet host providers. Let us hope for good things. The joys of dealing with unwanted advertising, broken links, hosting providers, DNS transfers, and other things normal people think are magic.
While standing in the checkout line of a geeky store, we noticed some trail mix for sale. Trail mix goes by many names, but is generally considered to be a combination of dried fruit, nuts, and possibly cereal of some sort, Continue reading Designer trail mix
It is early in the school year and you’ve reluctantly concluded that the thousands of dollars you spent on clothing, fees, supplies, and whatnot failed to cover every expense. Reluctantly, you drag yourself to Costco and get: A computer? Nope, Continue reading Pointlessly Pointed iPoint
In retrospect, I should have used LOLcats photos as the metric. Photo scanned in from things on my desk (now less cluttered). Cats and memories (full size).
Yes, I know Microsoft’s explanation, but their explanation makes no sense at all. Real meaning of Bing (full size)
Fact: you can get 24 CDs worth of information on a single 16 GB SD card; it would take just 8 such cards to store all the information on these CDs. Yes, these were my CDs (since recycled). CD-ROM retirement (full size)
Apple touts Time Machine, their backup technology, as a marvel. But there are other forms of time travel. (The moiré pattern is a result of taking a photo of a laptop screen; the laptop was rather busy at the time.) Mac Continue reading Time travel in Mac OS X
I cloud? No, I strive to clear, not cloud. Nothing ever goes away on the Internet(full size).