• Clan: McTiVo - Geek Out!

    Geeky Googlers Have More Fun

    March 8, 2006 - By 

    We’re such geeks. While waiting for the replacement TiVo to arrive. my husband David has Snapstream set up so we’re watching the big TV through his laptop, with the sound coming out of the home theater speakers. And I have Snapstream on my laptop (which is also my main computer) and can watch shows David doesn’t follow, with my headphones on. And vice versa. So the Alton Brown show about steak was on (it’s a rerun), and I wondered what NECI on his ballcap stood for. Now thanks to Google, I know it stands for New England Culinary Institute, which…

  • Music

    Synergy Brass Quintet and iTunes

    March 8, 2006 - By 

    Got an email from the Synergy Brass Quintet website folks – it seems this excelling classical musical group is trying to get their music on iTunes, and they’re asking for help from their fans. So if you like their music, go here and request that iTunes add them. If you don’t know their music, check it out.. http://www.musicianmp3.com/stream7.cfm?id=2921&Mode=New&CFID=8380&CFTOKEN=60274713″>If Ye Love Me, Keep My Commandments iTunes: Synergy Brass Quintet: If Ye Love Me, Keep My Commandments: Masterworks For Brass From The Baroque And Renaissance [2:17]

  • Clan: McTiVo

    Amazing Race 9: My Show Is Back

    March 7, 2006 - By 

    Oh, my God, MY SHOW IS BACK. MY SHOW IS BACK! MY SHOW IS BACK! Due to being in Maui for the premiere, I missed it completely. And then when we got back, TiVo… died on us! So we’re getting a replacement. TiVo. Yep. In the meantime, David set me up with Snapstream’s BeyondTV, which he was using as a casual backup just to play around with. What with one thing and another, I was finally able to watch the premiere of TAR tonight, a week late. Unlike previous seasons, when I’ve listed all the teams with like/dislike, going on…

  • Clan: McTiVo - Moblog

    Taxi home

    March 5, 2006 - By 

    Via: Flickr Title: Taxi home By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 5 Mar ’06, 11.43am PST It doesn’t look like much of anything, but this is the taxi that brought us home this morning. Neither of us slept on the flight(s) back but we’re going to try to stay awake until a decent bedtime. This will be harderr for me than for David, because he’s got an appointment this afternoon that will keep him going for a while afterward. We’ve both had a fair amount of coffee and we’ll see how long we manage to hold out. Meanwhile, we have a VERY…

  • Moblog - Traveling Along, We're Adventurers

    Scrimshaw

    March 4, 2006 - By 

    Via: Flickr Title: Scrimshaw By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 5 Mar ’06, 5.28am PST This was part of an exhibit at San Francisco International that was along the moving walkways in the terminal. Years ago, when I had to go via SFO from Eugene to Salt Lake on trips home from college, I remember seeing exhibits in pretty much the same kind of cases. Some things don’t change. Last night David and I went looking for a sit-down restaurant – our parlance for table service – and I remembered a place called the “Crab Pot.” Well, that wasn’t there, but Yankee…

  • Moblog - Traveling Along, We're Adventurers

    SFO International Airport: Yankee Pier Restaurant

    March 4, 2006 - By 

    Via: Flickr Title: Sfo By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 5 Mar ’06, 4.47am PST If you look closely, you may see that the decoration on the table is a nautical chart of San Francisco Bay. Which makes sense for a seafood restaurant at SFO International. The food is really good, surprisingly good for airport fare, and not that expensive. They seemed to have a good wine list. The waiter, like so many of our waiters in Maui, was not originally from this country. His service was impeccable. And from the outside, it looks like a pretty ordinary little airport bistro.

  • Moblog - Traveling Along, We're Adventurers

    Aloha maui

    March 4, 2006 - By 

    Via: Flickr Title: Aloha maui By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 4 Mar ’06, 7.44pm PST View from our hotel room at the Maui Prince, where we spent the last two days of our vacation. Interesting property. It’s currently enmeshed in some kind of ownership brou-ha-ha between heirs of the Seibu family, and the Seibu corporation. It was designed to cater to Japanese visitors to Hawaii, but the clientele is now pretty much like that of any large beach/golf resort on Maui. The grounds were pretty, the beach is nice, and we ran short of time and didn’t have a chance to…

  • Moblog - Traveling Along, We're Adventurers

    Molokini

    March 3, 2006 - By 

    Via: Flickr Title: Molokini By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 3 Mar ’06, 7.05pm PST Took an early morning snorkel trip out here with Pacific Whale Foundation – not a bad day out, except it was a little “blowy” for me. Howeverr, I saw an eel, while David did not.