At Madagascar with Mazie. She is “excited”.
Cold out today, but not too cold to fire up the Big Green Egg for some burgers.
Checking out Art Attack in Northeast. Loved this painting from Eddie Hamilton so much it is coming home with us.
Mazie is absolutely in love with this mornings snow! Pretty morning walk with the dogs earlier.
Contribution to High Resolution Album Art
I’m a big fan of high resolution album art. It improves the overall music experience for me. I like having a high-quality album cover while listening to Apple TV. It’s a must for cover flow in iTunes. I recently went through and tried to close to 100% coverage of album art, which meant scanning some covers that I just couldn’t find anywhere on the Internet. I figured I should share that work, so that others can more easily put the right art on their music. Here are 11 covers all at 1,600 by 1,600 pixels that I scanned for my collection.
Tammy out tonight and what do I watch in the background thread on TV? Nova “Fractals”. Frontline. Man I’m a geek.
Mazie's 2008 School Picture
Mazie’s 2008 school picture just came in. Here is Daddy’s little girl. Last years scowl seems entirely gone.
Double Espresso
Just had one of those coffee shop experiences that drive me crazy.
barista: Hello! What would you like today?
me: Double Espresso please.
barista: Ah, what exactly do you mean by a double espresso.
I mean really? What is hard about this?
And then, just to highlight how uncoffee they are, the smallest ceramic mug is a 12 oz. coffee cup. Oh the humanity of it all. 🙂
My MacBook Pro is up to 133 °F. No wonders my arms are sweating. Time to shut it down for the night. Time to sleep.
- Glued to election coverage. This will be the rest of the night.
- Yes! Congrats Barack Obama. Now comes the hard part.
- Somebody with the right font, quick whip up a “Yes We Did” poster!
- Is there a glass wall in front of Obama? Saw a reflection in one of the shots from behind him.
- Coleman/Franken race is amazingly close. This won’t be settled for a while.
I Voted, 2008!
I got out and placed ballot #382 this morning around 8:30 am. Contrary to what I’ve heard in many precincts there was almost no line and I was able to walk in and out in about 10 minutes. I talked to my mother who said it took her about an hour and she had to stand in lines over a hundred people long. There was a longer line in 2006, but I also voted right at poll opening that day with ballot #37.
I can’t seem to convince Mazie that it’s Barack Obama day. She keeps saying “Mom said it wasn’t Barack Obama day.”
Conversation with Mazie.
Awesome!
Facebook Election Widget
This election year is the first with a very well established social networking world. I thought this real-time counter that Facebook put up today was really cool.
You can watch the number go up and up in as people report in. This was a screen shot at 9:44 am central time.
I love this trend. Socially we know that people tend to act in groups and if they see a million other people on Facebook have voted it will encourage people who might not take the time to vote, to get out there and do it.
Just got my deposit back from the London rental company. Happier!
Just got two backdrafts in one session from my Big Green Egg! 🔥💨
Just finished a great 18 mile bike ride. November rides without jackets are great.