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I got my $25 glasses from 18dollarglasses.com - wow, they kick ass. Compared to the old scratched up ones I’ve been wearing, it was like putting crystal on my face. Nice!!!

This is Renee.
I gave her some change, most of a pack of Marlboro Lights, a strawberry Frappucino drink, two fruit cups, a (clean, metal) spoon, a Clif bar, and a hug.
I had most of those things with me (aside from the cigs and the hug) because of a different homeless person who said he was [...]

Late last night with grandpa, I had the best fast food experience ever.
We went to Jack in the Box for a couple of the Steak & Cheddar Ciabatta sandwiches.
First, the drive through person was perfect - repeated things clearly, understood what I wanted, all good. Not repeating everything, just what was needed, e.g. “coke [...]

Burning Man is the most beautiful thing ever made by the hand of man
I have spent the last week in a place of indescribable joy
It is the sum total of human kindness and good in π square miles
It is every dream you have ever had, all at the same time
Christmas and New Years and Hallowe’en [...]

For those who might not already know, I’m going to Burning Man this year. I’m leaving Saturday for Bakersfield to pick up my Jeep, and then two more people are meeting me there. We’re going halfway on Sunday, then the other half on Monday, and we’re returning the next Monday.
I’m rather nervous about [...]

Effective early September, I will be taking a new position as Chief Information Officer for MobileGates in La Palma, CA.

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 [...]

Justin Hall has been blogging forever. 11 years, by his own count. I remember him from back in the early days of the Internet, he was from Chicago, went to Francis Parker. I remember his post, for example, about a piece of drug paraphernalia he had signed by Oliver North (a dugout, [...]