100,000

Back when I was a kid, a car turning over 100,000 miles was a big deal. The odometer on most cars back then didn't even show 100,000. Today it's pretty common for a car to "roll over" as we used to say. I was able to catch it happening on my car the other day. Still a cool thing to see.

Summer Safety Tip: Vinyl Siding and Gas Grills

I suppose this happens to folks now and then, we forget to turn off the gas grill after cooking up some burgers for the family. Just be sure your grill isn't close to the vinyl like we see here. Fortunately for this person (who will remain nameless) the job to fix the siding cost about $30 at the local home depot and about 3 hours of time.

In Normandy

While here in Amsterdam I took a side trip this last week end to Normandy where the liberation of Europe started on June 6th 1944. I visited Pointe-Du-Hoc where the US Rangers climbed 100 foot cliffs to neutralizer an observation point which could have brought down devastating artillery fire on the landing beaches of Omaha and Utah. I also visited the Omaha beach where the US 1st and 28th divisions landed and suffered the worst casualties of the day. And I saw the US cemetery behind Omaha beach. I've read about the landings and battles across Europe for years, so this was a great event for me.

Too early!

This morning at 6:33 my alarm starts blaring... Now, this is my second night in this hotel, yesterday morning nothing happened, and I did not touch the alarm clock.
This is not the first time this happened to me. So I'm suspecting a conspiracy. Or is the cleaning staff punishing me for not leaving a tip yesterday?

Going to Amsterdam

I'm going to Amsterdam next month to teach a couple of classes, so I thought I'd ask Google how to get there. Over all thing looked ok until I got to step 29:

Google TiSP: Going with the Flow

Google provided a nice April Fool's prank this year. I even thought the press release was real for about 5 seconds...then I looked at the installation page. The guys at Google must have the 2nd best job on the planet (2nd only to mine, of course!) if part of their job is to come up with stuff like this!

Which one are you?

PC, Mac or Linux? I had to chuckle at this.