It was too crowded on South Cape Beach on Saturday. There must have been a dozen people sharing the sun with us. As usual, we did not catch any fish, and the Metal Detector didn’t find anything. I drove the whole way back and I’m tired.
We get a pretty good dinner at Spanky’s here in Hyannis. Voted 2012 best restaurant in Cape Cod Magazine.
We made it to Hyannis after lunch in Plymouth. The Gorey house, home of Edward Gorey, was closing at 4 so we had 10 minutes to wander around. I will be going back tomorrow if I have a chance.
If you have trouble with the slideshow, you can go to the my Gorey Album on Picassa.
Larry and I are going fishing.
In order to test out creating a POI (points of interest) file for the GPS, I wound up with this as a byproduct. Still there is no easy way to do this since Yahoo Maps went out of business.
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I’ve got mine! Shaun started selling them online.
Why should you buy this? Because it has my name on the back.
It seems to be somewhat abated, now, but for most of yesterday and today you could not access any of my sites due to traffic issues.
I traced what I think was a “race” situation from one of the spam robots spidering the sites. It used some odd get parameters and my permalink finder plugin was getting confused. I had fixed this a few weeks ago, but I never distributed the plugin so it started happening on some of my domains where it had not occurred before.
I uploaded the new plugin and the storm seems to have passed. I am not getting thousands of hits on the same web page in the space of a few seconds.
I now have to clean up the plugin and publish it so other sites can use it.
Hugh Laurie singing Little Walters’ amazing “Mellow Down Easy”. This is how to do the blues.
My old friend Bob Rucker has had to deal with a heart defect his whole life. It caused his heart to enlarge and as of late, he has been suffering from heart failure. A few weeks ago he went into Westchester Medical Center on the heart transplant list. On the 30th he got his new heart.
Bob is doing well, but is on lots of medication and I can’t go see him, yet. I figure Monday or Tuesday I’ll stop by and check out his new heart.
Heart transplant surgery is getting to be routine, and Bob was otherwise in perfect health. But, this is not a slam dunk by any means, and Bob has been in my thoughts.
Send Bob your best wishes.
I’ve been reading Firespotting pretty regularly for the last few weeks. The idea is ideas. You read the ideas and rate them. If you have an idea that you’d like someone to develop, you put it on the list. Good ideas bubble to the top and bad ones fall off the bottom. There is also a time factor so that ideas are constantly new.
The ideas are mostly technical rather than practical. Some are silly, some are impossible, some are diabolically clever. I look every day for an idea that I can implement, or an inspiration for a better idea.
Right now there is a problem that not enough people are adding new ideas and rating ideas. I think if this ever took off in a big way, people like me would be mining it regularly for the next big thing.
I leave at about 10:30 this morning for a 1PM interview in midtown Manhattan.
6:47am the post office called to tell us that our new chicks had arrived from Ohio. They were a day late. I went down and got them. The chicks were cold and lethargic.
I put them under the heat lamp. two could not stand on their own and I started giving them water with honey and vitamins. The sugar shot woke them up. The temperature is about 90 in their box, now, and they are cheeping away.
Here is a picture of one.
Richard Powers painted many of the Science Fiction covers in the late 1950s and early 1960s. I have always admired his work.
I would love to own this painting.
Spring Sale Richard Powers Original Surreal Painting “A Break in The Clouds” | eBay.
