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Posts from the “technology” Category

In the age of the stream . . .

Posted on June 2, 2026

There are “album listening sessions,” which is pretty cool. I have this image of a darkened room, pot smoke hanging in the air, plush cushions around and people with long hair and beards sitting around listening to an album, A side and then B side. Reminds me of the ’70s perhaps? And . . . once again, Review Week, where the print shop prints so many posters for pin-ups around the College of Design. The student employees that I have and work with are just *so good.* It is the color to the day and the light in the room; their humor, tenacity, professionalism – it all just shines and I am always grateful. <nowlistening>You Are The Everything – Redbird version</nowlistening> BYOV (I think?).…

Late July (not the chips)

Posted on July 30, 2024

Back to work and doing stuff with family and friends . . . photos below . . This was a customer’s MacBook Pro with a swollen battery. Yikes. It was replaced. 🙂 A baseball game with tickets provided by Sara’s work. The photo was a slight surprise . . . Jonah’s robotics team was presenting their robot, “Marvin,” at the Eugene Asian Celebration at Alton Baker Park this past weekend. Here are few of the South Eugene Robotics Team (SERT) kids being silly on a break . . . . Clouds over the valley from my morning run to the top of Spencer Butte. It was a rare cool day in Eugene for July. We’ve had a couple of them now, but we are…

Astronomical Delights & other items

Posted on July 18, 2023

Jonah and I went to the Pine Mountain Observatory last Friday evening for one of their summer season star gazing events and it was just incredible. Jonah has been into astronomy for a long time so this was a treat for us to do together. The next night we went to the Eugene Astronomy Society’s annual Star Party which was also fun and quite different (think: more people, more telescopes, longer lines, but still great). Photos below. These are two of the observatory domes that house telescopes. We were there well before dark, so we had a chance to look around, plus see a fantastic sunset over the Sisters Mountains to our west. From the top of Pine Mountain, which sits at 6300 feet…

Seattle/Bellevue Travel & Robots

Posted on March 27, 2023

This post has more photos than usual, all taken with the trusty orange GM-1. The bridge that crosses the Columbia River is one that I have been traversing since I was a kid and we would come from Seattle to visit my grandmother in Portland. When we were little we nicknamed this “Goofy Grandma’s Bridge,” after her. It still stands and still works, though there is talk of a different one taking its place one day. The town I grew up in, Bellevue, was transformed by the high-tech industry with Microsoft’s campus being just one town over. Now it is a reflective town that I do not recognize anymore, for the most part. Then Robots – Jonah’s South Eugene Robotics Team was in competition…

Seattle Thanks 2022 part 3

Posted on December 3, 2022

Final installment of the holiday weekend. Jonah and his Uncle Jon and I went to the Boeing Museum of Flight. We spent the whole day there and had a great time: A model of the lunar rover. I learned from Jonah that the lunar rover could only go as far away as the lander so that if the astronauts had to walk back to the lander, they wouldn’t run out of air. So even though it could have gone further, it was limited so the fellas survived. Interesting! This was Air Force One for Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon: