Technology -- making one item match to another -- that has been my work and frustration of the day. We went out today to Best Buy and picked up a Chromecast. We knew we didn't have an HDMI port on our old HDTV, but there was an HDMI port on the DVD player, and we … Continue reading Chromecasting — a cast of problems and resolutions
What is the Sound of Music?
The thing about seeing a musical play of something that a popular movie has been made is that you have the movie to compare everything to. But the play isn't the movie. Things are staged differently. There are even different songs. That was part of the impression I was dealing with in The Sound of … Continue reading What is the Sound of Music?
one fingered typing.
Today I take a great leap forward. This is the first blog I try writing from the Nook Color tablet as opposed to from the laptop computer. typing is a lot slower when you use single fingers instead of two hands. I can see how it os necessary for texting, but for full article writing … Continue reading one fingered typing.
John Wayne, Swing Out, Sweet Land
A friend shared one of his friends videos on facebook -- which was a short clip from this featured video. So I decided to just share the entire show -- even if I haven't watched it as of the time I am posting it. A John Wayne special on America. I don't have to watch … Continue reading John Wayne, Swing Out, Sweet Land
Keep Calm…
Well did Kipling say "The female of the species is more deadly than the male..." An excellent case for not being a sheep, but living as free men and women.
Chromebook casting — a Best Buy saga
Saturday afternoon we were out shopping around for computers. Betsy wanted a light, portable computer that she could write on, check e-mail. Her dream would be the Surface Pro 3, but that was in a price range of $1K or more to get what she wanted. We could replace her main notebook computer twice with … Continue reading Chromebook casting — a Best Buy saga
A Year’s Difference
My niece Sofia returned from her year as an exchange student in Latvia. We had a party a year ago when we she left, and Saturday we had a party to celebrate her return. At the first party we took pictures with her and our two kids. Saturday I took a similar set of pictures. … Continue reading A Year’s Difference
Price Point
Okay, today's column is on informal economics. At what price will we decide that a purchase is worth going for? Retailers are doing this all the time. It even gets discussed about the pricing of ebooks. At what price will you not buy the ebook but the hard copy or no book at all? What … Continue reading Price Point
Remakes #2 — Parent Trap
This is one of those remakes where I like both movies. If made to choose, I would rate the Haley Mills original over the Lindsay Lohan remake -- but there are sections of the remake that are definitely better done than the original. Watching the opening credits of the Haley Mills version of The Parent … Continue reading Remakes #2 — Parent Trap
Remakes — #1
I thought I would put together a short piece on a movie remake, and maybe sometime soon put together another comparison of another pair of remakes. Somewhere a few years back we picked up That Darn Cat! on sale on DVD. It was a two-disk set:the 1965 Haley Mills version and the 1997 Christina Ricci … Continue reading Remakes — #1
