http://iridesnow.com Playing fast and loose in a regimented manner. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:13:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I drove down to LA on Friday to see kHz live at The Viper Room in WeHo (that's LA-speak for West Hollywood). My LA friend Roxanne came with me to the show. Even though kHz only got to play for about half an hour, the fact that Roxie came with ... http://iridesnow.com/2008/10/06/khz-the-viper-room/ With just over a month until the 2008 Presidential Election, the news broadcasts still often focus on voters who have yet to make up their minds about who they're going to vote for. Seriously? We've seen well over a year of daily, almost constant, media coverage of these candidates. Who doesn't yet ... http://iridesnow.com/2008/09/28/the-undecideds/ I was never a fan of the old Knight Rider show that starred David Hasselhoff. But I was aware of it. As such, I was curious about how the new Knight Rider was going to be received. I even thought to myself that if they were able to do a ... http://iridesnow.com/2008/09/24/knight-rider-2008/ One of the best parts of Barack Obama's nomination acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in August 2008. http://iridesnow.com/2008/09/23/individual-responsibility/ The Dow Jones Index had a greater than $1,000 trading range this past week (actually, just the last two days of the week!). That's nearly a 10% move in the price. And the volume of the market was close to, and perhaps even was, at an all time high. But ... http://iridesnow.com/2008/09/20/wall-street/ http://iridesnow.com/2008/09/16/the-front-fell-off/ I spent a good chunk of my Sunday lugging, by hand, probably close to 1000 pounds of wood (oak) down my path to my wood pile. I still need to cut up the larger pieces and then split it all so I can burn it in my wood stove. But ... http://iridesnow.com/2008/09/14/lumberjack-rob/ There's been a fair amount of speculation about whether or not the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that was just fired up today in Switzerland will destroy the earth because of the possibility that it might generate tiny black holes which would somehow run amok and gobble up the earth and ... http://iridesnow.com/2008/09/10/will-the-lhc-destroy-the-earth/ I have an Apple iPhone. In case you weren't aware, the iPhone now has the ability to run software developed by third party developers. This software can only be purchased via Apple's "App Store" ('App' is short for 'Application'). The way it works is that software developers write an application ... http://iridesnow.com/2008/09/08/business-acumen/ I live at The Mountain Resort™, which is just a silly name I use to describe my little cabin in the middle of this forest of redwood trees. To the left is the Google Maps picture of my place. As you can('t) see, my place is totally hidden by the ... http://iridesnow.com/2008/09/01/google-maps-vs-me/