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Continue reading →: Cool sites
Great stuff that you can find on WSJ: Itemizing your home for insurance and disasters. The sites they recommend are knowyourstuff.org, stuffsafe.com Tracking your mileage points. gomiles.com, mileport.com
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Continue reading →: Learning Chinese
Well the resources are really improving. I’ve been using Qingwen on the iPhone, Chinesepod for audio and Chinesedict online, but a quick search shows there are lots more now. Like http://popupchinese.com/chinese/news And lots of reviews like http://learn-chinese.mychinastart.com/
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Skis. Wonderful skis.
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Continue reading →: Skis. Wonderful skis.Ok la Nina is coming and even if the kids don’t want to ski much, I sure do. Quick trip to Sturtevants and here r recommendations. I need a goo all mountain ski and praying for la nina a great powder ski o complement the gotoma and six star I…
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Continue reading →: Silicondust HDHomeRun Prine
This is a box that takes cable input and then distributes over your internal network to various network devices. So that for instance you can watch anything on say Comcast from your iPad 2 or from your Windows PC. Sadly these appear to be the only devices supported right now.…
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Continue reading →: Gifts for the kitchen
Wel gizmo’s are wonderful, I have a Chef’s Choice 120 and it is a great knife sharpener which Cooks Illustrated recommended, but here are some other choices: Chef’s choice 110. Is decent a step below the 120, but cheaper. City Kitchen’s carries the 115 which looks pretty close to the…
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Continue reading →: Raw processors
If you are really into it, don’t just use the JPGs that your camera produces, but take the literally raw output of the sensors and process it yourself. You get a lot more depth as JPGs support 8-bit color while most modern cameras actually take 12-14 bits color, so that…
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Continue reading →: Staged?
My bubble is burst. My favorite reality shows are fake. Oh well, I guess I’ll go back to watching Youtube… Storage Wars Kitchen Nightmares. Controversy here, he did win a libel suit in 2006 saying he didn’t fake things. I actually saw the Dillon’s episode and if it was so unbelievably…
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Continue reading →: Trip to Maine
Haven’t been there in years but terrific place. Some notes or the early fall. For me anyway falls into three categories 1. Lighthouses. Nubble Lighthouse. Just inside Maine. On a mini island. Great views and if ur lucky y will meet Bill Hamilton painter. Two Lights. Great state park. And…
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Continue reading →: Golf Instructors
Ok now with cool clubs, you actually have to learn how to play (just reading Harry Penick might not do the trick). So like most sports (skiing for one), I’m thinking that one really good instructor is key…so here are some lists… Ron Hansen was 2007 Western PGA Professional of…
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Continue reading →: Mac Office 2011 Activation Ugh!
What a pain. Have Mac Office 2011, it is very restrictive on activation, so have lost a few hard drives and now when I try to activate it says too many times, but there is no way in the interface to reset activations and when you try to call on…