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January 17, 2014
Obi-Wan Chakmakjian
I think this is a fair assessment. I’ve spent a lot of time like the young Kenobi. When I grow my beard, I start looking like the older one. Also, I’ve been known to pop up and disappear randomly. Filed under: Random
January 14, 2014
AppleTV what should be next…
Originally posted on I was reading a post today that I saw float by on my iPhone on Google+. Mike Elgan writes about how Apple is going to kill cable TV. I agree that if apple turns its eyes to fully try to solve the cable TV problem, it will not be the…
AppleTV what should be next...
Reblogged from The Urtaru Chronicles: I was reading a post today that I saw float by on my iPhone on Google+. Mike Elgan writes about how Apple is going to kill cable TV. I agree that if apple turns its eyes to fully try to solve the cable TV problem, it will not be the AppleTV […]
December 30, 2013
2013 Urtaru Chronicles (WordPress summary of my activity)
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,300 times in 2013. If it were a cable car, it would take about 38 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the […]
The 2013 Wind Down…
With about 26 hours to go in the year 2013, I’m doing what I’ve done every year since 2008 and write about what this year meant to me. This year started with massive snowstorms. On February 9th, I went out there for 4 hours cleaning up the snow. My Facebook update said it best: “Spent […]
December 27, 2013
One last thing for tonight…merging iPhoto libraries
I had a dilemma. I was running out of space on my Macbook Air. I also had stuff on my old 15″ MacBook Pro that I never moved over because the flash memory on the MBAir was less than that the hard disk on the old machine. and I did a lot of video editing […]
Xmas Product Review #3 – Fitbit Force
Ok folks, I’m back on the bandwagon again. I’m monitoring my health constantly, including in my sleep. I don’t have much to report at the moment except that I don’t walk enough but I seem to walk up and down the stairs in my house a lot. I slept 4:44 last night and only was […]
Xmas Product Review #2
I received a pair of Bose Quiet Comfort 15 earphones. Actually both my wife and I “received” them from the gentleman in the photo to the left. His reasoning was that after their recent trip to California in coach, that any subsequent trips they take, that they ought to have the decent airplane engine noise […]
Xmas Product Review
This is a first in a series of new technology stuff I’ve gotten during the Holiday period. Of course I could go on and on about Google Glass, but there are other things in life and that was the day after Thanksgiving. I won a door prize at our department party at work. It was […]
More on Costco and Fine Scotch
In a previous post I mentioned that it appeared the Costco had discovered scotch. Not the blended junk, not just the ubiquitous Johnnie Walkers but also the Platinum in addition to the Blue, not just Glenlivet an MacAllan 12′s, but all kinds of 12′s and 15′s and 16 single malts and an occasional 18. About 2 […]
