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This post marks the beginning of my “professional” blog. Any posts prior to this one are backdated posts copied over from an earlier “personal” blog.

I recently went camping, for the first time in my life, at the Deep Creek Hot Springs in Hesperia, CA. I didn’t bring my camera down to the clothing-optinal hot springs area, a 45 minute walk from our campsite.
This panorama I took at the campsite is REALLY cool, click for the HUGE high res [...]

Even more surprises! I got another email informing me that I got TWO MORE patents, bringing the total to nine!
#6,882,853 “Method and arrangement for arranging, selecting and displaying location data in a cellular telephone system, and a terminal of a cellular network”
(a way to show GPS maps and stuff on your phone and navigate [...]

Wow, what a nice unexpected surprise!!! I just got another patent!!!
#6,907,568 Tangible Icon Representing Network Objects
A tangible icon is permanently encoded with a URL of a first network object. Links (”shortcuts”) to other network objects are assigned as the contents of the first network object. A person in possession of the tangible icon [...]

I just realized something incredibly bizarre and random.
I can’t remember the last time I was on an elevator.
I don’t mean “I’ve been on one but I can’t remember it,” I mean I’m wracking my brain, looking through my Quicken file to see when I went somewhere with an elevator recently. LA is rather spread out, [...]