Recycled Electrons - Blog of Keith Horowitz

Balancing Rock - About 100' from where Rampart Range Road Begins Uphill - Both Ways Not for Low Clearance Vehicles Plaque For Rampart Range Road Blooming wild Cactus GOG Rocks View across Southern Part of GOG, to downtown Colorado Springs Leaving behind GOG View North East over a Fence Shooting Range 2 Miles Cracked Rocks Pikes Peak - From Rampart Range Road Made it to the Gun Range - right about 8,000' Microwave and Cell Tower along The Road Unusual view of the Scar Rocks and Strata on the side of the Road Cheyenne Mountain Through the Rocks GOG - The Jogger is Closer Than She Appears GOG Tour in Progress I want to hike up Pikes Peak again this summer. This time I want to do it from the Barr Trail side. A much longer hike. So I decided to start with a bike ride. I had gone for an hour bike ride around my neighborhood a couple of weeks ago. And while there are some hills in the area, it is obviously not as much of a challenge compared to hiking up a 14,000' mountain. I ...

Sunset Picture This Evening Leaving Olive Garden at Chapel Hills

Slashdot | Is Science Fiction the Opiate of the Geek Masses? "...speculative fantasy..." that says most of it to me.

I noticed about Tuesday morning that my laptop was making odd crackling noises. I thought I was hearing things. But when I went to use it Tuesday evening, it was acting very oddly. Then I noticed it wasn't making any sound at all. This was not good. I got some more clues to the problem as the evening went on. Sometimes I would hear a crackling noise from the speakers. Sometimes Palm hotsync would complain about a port not being available. As the infrared port was in the same area as the sound plugs, it make me think it might be in the same area. When I pressed or flexed the PC on the left-front area, I was able to make the crackling noises appear and go away. If I pressed in with the earphones, sometimes I could hear that the microphone was working. This suggested to me that the sound chip was having power problems. So I took a bunch of screws off the back of the laptop. I couldn't get to the area where the problem seemed to be. So I put the screws back in and put of...

Went to the Ren Fest today. We didn't have a long time there. We sandwiched the visit between lunch and getting one of my boys off to a dinner/birthday/sleepover. I've had an unhappy experience in the past at a Ren Fest, so I don't love going to them. And spending money after money there can be depressing. But I was determined not to let it get me down this time. And I didn't. I debated going up the climbing wall. I think I might even have had a shot at ringing the bell. But I decided not to go up a wall this time. We had to leave before the joust. This was disappointing to some in our crew. I offered to take my son to his friend's birthday, and come back. But I was not taken up on that offer.

Cucumber Sushi in home-made Tortilla Wraps I was feeling oddly creative for dinner tonight. I started with cooking rice. I was thinking about veggie sushi. But we didn't have some of the ingredients: no sushi vinegar, no wraps and no wasabi. Well the kids wouldn't miss the wasabi, so that was ok. But what to wrap it with? Perhaps a thin dough? So I made a thin dough, with soy sauce in it for color and flavor. I rolled the dough thin and cooked them one at a time in a small non-stick frying pan. A couple turned out too brittle, but most of them worked well. I made 'sushi' vinegar by mixing sugar, water, white vinegar and a tiny dash of salad vinegar. I also added a little salt to bring out the sweetness. I probably could have used a dash less sugar. But overall it came out okay. My eldest liked them a lot. My little guys mostly ate just the cucumber.

Play Burger King's Darth Vader 20 questions The Sith Sense It took some time, but 'he' guessed I was thinking of Shampoo! Thanks to Anna Banana !