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Reno Airshow Crash

2011-09-18T11:22:00.001-07:00

The sound on this video is haunting, even more than the images

These races used to be held in Mojave, they are amazing to watch but this is tragic!

Prayers to those personally impacted

2011-09-18T11:22:00.000-07:00

Ice storm in New Jersey

2011-02-02T03:35:00.001-08:00

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2010-05-30T16:59:00.001-07:00

Be Ware of the Double Wide Cat Scratcher!
Dave was a single wide cat until we bought the Trader Joe's Double Wide Cat Scratcher.

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2010-03-15T20:06:00.000-07:00

A little social commentary

2010-03-14T14:19:00.001-07:00

Blair Valley still had some mud... and we found it!

2010-03-14T14:17:00.000-07:00

2010-02-21T16:32:00.001-08:00

Mining for gold

2010-01-30T22:44:00.001-08:00

New York

2010-01-30T08:28:00.001-08:00

Flying over the storm

Have Gun Will Travel

2010-01-03T21:26:00.001-08:00

Over the New Year weekend, I had the opportunity to watch a bunch of old western's called "Have Gun, Will Travel". The premise is simple Richard Boone, as Paladin, travels the old west handing out wisdom and morality one job at a time... Western Style.

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2009-10-16T13:08:00.001-07:00

These Red Hawk guys pack a ton of stuff.

2009-10-03T18:41:00.000-07:00

More birthday surprises... LaJolla picnic

2009-10-03T17:22:00.001-07:00

A birthday ride in a limo... A GIFT FROM MY LITTLE BROTHER

2009-09-27T15:29:00.001-07:00

More Hoover Dam

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2009-09-27T15:17:00.001-07:00

Hoover dam

2009-09-25T12:25:00.001-07:00

Las Vegas @ MGM Grand

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One down, two to go...

2009-09-20T17:58:00.000-07:00

My oldest daughter left for college today. Something that many people experience at some point in their lives but when it happens to you its hard to believe that anyone can understand the mixture of pride, love, excitement, and a little loss that your feeling.

She now lives near UC Rivers ide where she will study statistics.

I'll miss her sneaky, sarcastic sense of humor and her GIANT hugs that we all became accustom to enjoying on a daily basis. She is smart, tough, and very sweet and I'm sure she will succeed at what ever she puts her mind to. Hopefully the knowledge that her dad is extremely proud of her and that he is always there to back her up will make her journey a little more enjoyable.

They got to the Church on Time

2009-07-17T10:07:00.001-07:00

Our nine year old videographer captured this sweet moment at a friend's wedding

2009-07-13T07:50:00.001-07:00

Todd and Robert on the Summit of San Gorgonio Mountain, 11,499ft!

2009-06-22T07:54:00.001-07:00

Ready for camp

Monster Truck

2009-06-20T17:47:00.001-07:00

Roller Coaster

2009-06-20T16:47:00.001-07:00

Roller coaster

Line Standing

2009-06-20T16:42:00.000-07:00

Fun House

2009-06-20T16:28:00.000-07:00

Fun house

Big Slide

2009-06-20T16:23:00.001-07:00

Big slide

Puma... always on the prowl

2009-06-13T15:18:00.001-07:00

The winner of the eagle nation sand castle contest... I think!

Update! The Puma tribe won, no one came close. I do have to say that the Maco tribe made a grate sand sculpture of a shark eating one of the Brave's sister. They won the prize for most creative use of a condiment. but there was one really cool

2009-03-29T17:13:00.001-07:00

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Wind in Sedona

2009-03-07T09:52:00.000-08:00

I've been using this site called Mapmyride.com to capture my cycling habits. The below is a map showing my commute. I'm stoked because with the time change this weekend I'll be able to do it more often without taking time from work.

&amp;lt;a href="http://www.mapmyride.com/ride/united-states/ca/san-diego/438770881004"&amp;gt;Commute Route&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href="http://www.mapmyride.com/find-ride/united-states/ca/san-diego"&amp;gt;Find more Bike Rides in San Diego, California&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;

2008-12-26T11:50:00.001-08:00

We've been invaded by a cat from outer space.

2008-11-16T14:21:00.001-08:00

The glider port

2008-11-14T16:57:00.001-08:00

The view on the way home.

2008-11-14T06:33:00.001-08:00

My ride to work

2008-11-08T12:02:00.000-08:00

The exciting life of a goalie

2008-10-09T21:09:00.001-07:00

Life is good

2008-09-28T17:09:00.001-07:00

We got booted from our house this weekend because we were having our house tented... so we went to the beach. It was cold and gloomy all weekend but we manager to have a great time with my little brother nd his family. What a great time.

2008-09-08T17:26:00.001-07:00

Its nice to be back in the old neighborhood.

Sarah Palin on Glenn Beck

2008-09-05T22:14:00.001-07:00

Great interview monologue by Glen Beck. Governor Palin and Glen go over the sacrifice that the polar bears would happily make (I assume they are legitimate Alaskan's) to save the country from sky rocketing gas prices.

Good Stuff!

Big Blue is Gone... RIP

2008-07-13T09:37:00.000-07:00

Back in 2004 I bought a truck, for the first time in my life I decided that I would get the truck I wanted, it had the big motor, the right color, matching camper shell, seating for six, it had everything I needed and everything I wanted ... it was a nice truck! But as we were using it to move back from the East coast we ran into a little trouble; as I sat sleeping in the passenger seat, the PA turnpike collaborated with two semi trucks to drive Big Blue into the cement median in the middle of the Turnpike. Thank God no one was hurt, the truck absorbed all of the impact my Mom (the driver), myself, and two dogs in the truck were not injured at all. So far the only damage we have noticed to the content of the truck was one broken glass in the back.

The truck on the other hand was a complete loss. Even though the cosmetic damage was repairable and the engine still ran, the impact bent the frame of the truck making it to expensive to repair. I'll miss having an all purpose vehicle capable of hauling kids, bicycles, dogs, and people in relative comfort without any reconfiguration. Our next car will most likely be much more fuel efficient and not nearly so useful.

Rest in Peace Big Blue, and may your salvaged parts keep 100 trucks working hard in southwestern Pennsylvania for years to come.

Sunset over Iowa

2008-07-13T09:13:00.000-07:00

Being from Southern California I've seen many incredible sunsets over the Pacific Ocean, but reciently we had the opportunity to drive across the U.S. on Interstate 80 and at about 9:30 pm was greeted by this sunset... Amazing

2008-06-15T11:02:00.001-07:00

What is a trip to New York without getting trapped in traffic by a parade!

Going Mobile

2008-06-14T07:13:00.000-07:00

I'm going completely mobile! I've joined the millions of people around the world who have kicked the wired lifestyle.

2008-06-11T18:55:00.000-07:00

A test of my new glide phone.

2008-06-01T11:43:00.000-07:00

Knot lessons with den 4

2008-05-26T17:51:00.000-07:00

Why Does Google appear as if reflected in a Mirror? And what are those Chinese characters doing at the bottom of the picture?

Oh... ya... I was inside Google China. Very cool, and very different than the Silicon Valley version.

China = enigma

2008-05-18T06:54:00.001-07:00

Performance in the Drum Tower, While this is not my video, I witnessed the same performance in this tower - awesome! Upon returning from China a couple of days ago, I have to say that China is fascinating, where else in the world can you see ancient culture like the drum tower performance in a country with perfect cell phone coverage but no drinking water...

2008-05-01T14:38:00.000-07:00

Hair cut

2008-04-21T08:37:00.001-07:00

Monticello, Jefferson's anchor - walking around his hilltop you can feel the inspiration he drew from this place as he wrote the Declaration of Independance.

2008-04-10T18:52:00.000-07:00

Taking in a Ball Game at AT&T park. SF vs St Louis.

2008-04-09T13:41:00.000-07:00

Googleplex

2008-04-05T11:14:00.000-07:00

2008-03-30T06:40:00.000-07:00

Cardinal in my tree

2008-03-29T07:11:00.000-07:00

The birds back here are just as spectacular as the ones in my back yard in San Diego, although a much smaller scale. You never know when you might get a one to hold still long enough to grab a camera.There are Robins

And Cheshire Dogs

Your never quite sure what you might find in our back yard... It's spring

Springtime in Arlington

2008-03-29T07:04:00.000-07:00

It's spring here in Arlington, the birds are out the dogwoods are blooming and the Cherry trees are at their peak today. So I thought I would share some pictures from my back yard.This dove was sitting on our air conditioner, watching us mill about looking for our camera.

2008-03-21T11:26:00.000-07:00

There is proof that Steroid use is not new to this century

This statue of Stonewall Jackson, one of Robert E. Lee's most trusted Generals was Juicing up, with his horse during the civil war. Check out the before picture...

2008-03-20T13:36:00.000-07:00

Magical... This is what the first day of Spring feels like in Arlington

2008-03-19T13:06:00.001-07:00

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Food Fight

2008-03-12T15:40:00.001-07:00

This video is an entire course in Military history, combined with international cooking. I've got to talk to the Dean to see if we can get this added to the cirriculm.

2008-03-01T10:31:00.000-08:00

Call me - GrandCentral

2008-02-24T10:43:00.000-08:00

Mobloggin might have gotten a little more mobile.

When I started this blog it was based on the premise that my phone could talk to my blog (I know most of you thought my motivation was much deeper), now my blog can talk to my phone...

... If you look to the right of the screen, there should be a "Mr. Call Me" button. That is a new service I'm trying out called "GrandCentral". Basically it allows anyone who wants to leave a comment by voice mail ... to leave a comment by voice mail. When you click on the button, it asks for a number where you can be reached, the software then calls you.

From that point on, I can configure the software to connect you with me at any phone number I designate, or it can put you into a voice-mail system. Once you finish recording your voice-mail, GrandCentral sends me an alert on my phone and also sends the voice mail to my email account. I can listen to the voice mail from my phone or from my computer.

The software is in beta right now after being bought up by Google.

Give it a shot...

2008-02-24T10:24:00.000-08:00

I've been goofing around with GIMP the open source image editor, it has many of the same capabilities as Photoshop, but it is open source and distributed to both windows and Linux users. As you can see comparing this image with the one I posted last week from William and Mary, you can do a number of interesting things to pictures with this software. To get the more dramatic colors in this picture I increased contrast, and then used a tool called color curves to make the reds and greens pop. The tools are not as easy to use as Photoshop, but for the price you can't beat it!

Shopping for colleges

2008-02-19T13:53:00.001-08:00

William and Mary

What a great campus, We took the kids down to check it out. Second oldest college in the country, and can claim Thomas Jefferson as one of it's alum, they must have had a great government study program back in the day.

2008-02-10T14:20:00.000-08:00

Chinese new year in Washington D.C.

We got to the parade late, so we went to an Irish Pub to wait for the return of the Dragon and the fireworks. I other words it was a great opportunity to enjoy Irish beer, while celebrating a Chinese holiday in the capital of the United States...

I'm Free!

2008-02-03T11:18:00.000-08:00

I need to post before I loose my place as Apian Apostle

A good friend of Mobloggin works the keys for KT Cat at the Scratching post but I have been slack'in in my posting behavior here on this blog. I send my apologies to the maximum leader and offer this post ...

I'm Microsoft free!

I took the leap a couple of weeks ago, took an old PC and reformatted the hard drive. The new platform is UBUNTU - 7.10 - the Gutsy Gibbon -Linux,

It's amazing... this old clunker I got from my daughter when she upgraded is nearly as fast as her new Vista platform. Gutsy Gibbon installed much more quickly than any MS platform, there is tons of free or cheep software available. It recognized all of my hardware, with minimal anguish (a problem I have had with other Linux installs).

Bottom line, if your thinking about buying a new PC, look into upgrading the operating system on your old system, it's way more fun.

Pandora

2007-11-28T19:34:00.000-08:00

This won't be a fancy post, as I'm a little distracted... I've been listening to a website I just came across called Pandora. It's a music site that lets you start your own radio stations by seeding it with a song or an artist. For example I've got a Pink Floyd station, a Kate Bush station, a Christmas station, a Marty Robins Station and my Kids sent me a Cake station.

Pandora takes the seed song or band and creates an entire station with similar music form artists that your familiar with and others that you might not be so familiar with. Either way We are loving it!

If you join and get a user name, shoot me a comment and I'll send you a couple of the stations I've mentioned above.

2007-11-02T15:39:00.000-07:00

I've got a paper to write so naturally I can think of about a thousand things to do instead. I've been drawing some of our guest lecturers in class and thought I would turn my new found distraction on my family. My brother and his family recently came out for a visit and we have a few of his picture on my computer still, so since our boys had such a great time together during this last trip, I thought I would commit them to pencil.

2007-10-29T14:35:00.000-07:00

Brian has been taking skating lessons after school, he's doing pretty well, but unfortunately this is Virginia and not Southern California so the lessons have to shut the down for the winter. This post is a short clip that I took using my phone. Sorry for the Grainy look.

Dr. Strangelove - I wish we had one of those

2007-08-25T21:09:00.001-07:00

We just had a lecture on containment strategy and It reminded me of this scene from Dr Strangelove

Strategy during the cold war

2007-08-05T16:27:00.000-07:00

Some cousins back here in Virginia. Great folks, good food, now I'm convinced that this Virginia gig is going to be a good thing.

2007-08-04T09:24:00.000-07:00

You may not be able to tell from this angle, but Holly is an angel. Holly and Billy put me up for two weeks while while I was waiting for our house to empty out. What a blast they took such good care of me that I gained five pouds while staying there.

2007-07-30T19:37:00.001-07:00

Old haunt

When I was a kid, we lived down this road about 30 miles. Unfortunately we didn't stay long.

2007-07-30T19:33:00.000-07:00

Send off...

Rather than leaving at 4:30am, I decided to hang around to get a last look at the family. It's hard to believe I'm leaving paradise for any time at all.

2007-07-26T19:28:00.001-07:00

Dinner in Southern California with my brother in law, one of my favorite guys in the world, I hope Leslie takes good care of you while we're gone.

2007-07-23T20:27:00.000-07:00

I' heading Heading out next week

I'm going to get started soon on my trip across the U.S. I've charted the approximate path, which roughly traces the old Route 66. Now days it's route 40 out through St Louis, which is where I part ways with the "America's Main Street". I'll try to post a few snap shots of the trip, although about half of it will be traveling through blazing hot desert in the middle of the summer.

Time is ticking, better go hang with the family.

2007-07-04T11:43:00.001-07:00

You'll never guess where this picture was taken...

2007-07-01T09:43:00.001-07:00

Orlando, fl

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A perfect day with my wife, daughter and motorcycle

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Dorky Kids

2007-03-14T20:28:00.001-07:00

This is what it looks like at my house during homework time. The short one with the big head blows through homework while the cute blondie takes her time... sometimes to much, there is always something else to do.

V day in Mojave

2006-11-25T10:49:00.000-08:00

Veterans day celebration in Mojave CA with my daugter and dogs. The event was at the Mojave Airport/Spaceport.

We watched quite a bit of the show from Stuart Witt's office that looks over the tarmac. Stuart grew up near lake Isabella about the same time I was attending Mojave High School .

Judging from the web page, there seems to be a lot of diet problems at MHS that didn't seem to be a problem there when I was a kid. In fact I think there was only one fat kid in the whole school back in the 1970's.

Mojave Airport has become a hot bed for aerospace innovation, with the most recent accomplishment being the launch and recovery of the first commercial space craft the Spaceship one. Burt Rutan still runs Scaled Composits from Mojave, I can hardly wait to see his next project.

2006-11-25T10:42:00.000-08:00

There was a repeat post here, but that's the way it goes.

Yahoo! 360° - Mark S 50/50 Trip Blog

2006-10-14T23:53:00.000-07:00

Yahoo! 360° - Mark S 50/50 Trip Blog

Cool adventure

2006-06-09T23:10:00.000-07:00

Congrats Geoff

2006-06-08T20:51:00.000-07:00

50 years

Green eye

2006-06-06T21:30:00.000-07:00

Eye

Sunset in newport

2006-06-06T21:20:00.000-07:00

View from Newport CA