Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Out on the broad lake (Lake Champlain)

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  1. Howard Dean is the Captain of this ship, ever First!

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  2. The photo out front there was taken on Monday as we crossed Lake Champlain. That's Vermont behind the sailboat. I'll have a lot more photos to share from this trip in coming days. :-)

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  3. End of a very nice day here; Miyoko let me be lazy and hang around the house, which is just what the doctor ordered. The weather yesterday was less hot, and today was actually cool (bye Fresno standards). New computer just about all like I want it--have a call in to the Apple tech rep for advice about drive allocations, which is about the last thing of any importance. Got a new Japanese word processor installed that is compatible with the latest version Mac operating system, and it looks very promising. Made a kind of tunnel from one desktop to the other, which should make file transfers easy. (Mac can have multiple desktops for multiple users, almost like multiple computers. Nice.) Cables all straightened out. A couple of doors on new computer desk adjusted. l Got the iPod Touch working and music files transferred. Will figure out how to operate it some other day. I see that both the iMac and the iPod are speech enabled, although I haven't given it a try.

    Now to go back and do a little catching up with the blog...

    Buckwheat pancakes with maple syrup for breakfast this morning--leftovers for tomorrow. Yum!

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  4. Susan--you must REALLY like Avatar!

    listener--I am much more than merely impressed with the conduit of your gubernatorial candidates. "Envious as all get-out" probably conveys the idea…

    Cat--real records are the way to go. The electronic versions, although convenient, lack both the dynamic range and the data rate of analog. Much of that is theoretical talk on my part, since I have fairly severe high frequency hearing loss. But so I am told. They go in and electronically increase the volume on the soft parts for the electronic versions. And the iTunes versions don't even have the data density of regular CD's.

    puddle--interesting about Rick and the (evidently tissue-matched) platelets. Never heard the like, but never worked at a hospital doing that sort of work for that sort of patient. It's nice these days that the platelets are single-donor, in a good-sized bag equivalent to ten of the old size. We used to have to combine ten small bags into one large one, which was a significant amount of work and also increased the difficulty of identifying the donors if something should not be right. Surgeons will opiate with a platelet count of 60 [thousand per cu. mm.] if they must, but generally want 100 [thousand per cu. mm.] or more.

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  5. the conduit of your gubernatorial candidates. =

    the conduct of your gubernatorial candidates.

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  6. Thanks, Alan! I posted your message (though not your name) on Doug Racine's Facebook page. :-)

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  7. Buckwheat pancakes with maple syrup for breakfast this morning--leftovers for tomorrow. Yum!


    YUM!

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  8. Cat--real records are the way to go. The electronic versions, although convenient, lack both the dynamic range and the data rate of analog. Much of that is theoretical talk on my part, since I have fairly severe high frequency hearing loss. But so I am told. They go in and electronically increase the volume on the soft parts for the electronic versions. And the iTunes versions don't even have the data density of regular CD's.

    I'll have to take your word for it on the technicalities, Alan. All I know is that listening to vinyl is much more satisfying. But, digital is the wave of the future. Engelbert's new single is only on iTunes, which is of course why I had to get iTunes. Certainly never would have bothered otherwise.

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  9. This week's labor quote:

    "Down in Tyler, Texas, [Sarah Palin] is talking about--and I quote-- 'union thugs.' What? Her husband is a union man. Is she calling him a thug? Sarah Palin ought to know what union men and women are. "
    - AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka speaking at the Alaska AFL-CIO Convention about former AK Governor Sarah Palin, who he took to task for using poisonous and potentially dangerous rhetoric for political purposes.

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  10. You could identify me as a failed outside agitator... ;)

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