Today’s miscellaneous Recommendations: Chilies restaurant: margarita chicken tex mex bowl, combined with their white queso appetizer and salsa on top is just DELISH! Yum. Locally, here in “beautiful downtown” Apple Valley, a “smash burgers” opened up a yr or so ago. I’ve eaten there a couple of times (but not recently), but they’re pretty good. […]
Archives for July 2015
Police brutality – Sandra Bland.
Sandra Bland. My two cents. I’ve not paid ANY attention to this story – until I saw this morning that the police have released the ‘traffic stop/arrest’ video. Having just watched the entire ten minute video, I am disturbed by what I saw and heard. While she may have been disrespectful with her cigarette (which […]
Growing up in the wrong musical era
I sometimes think I was born in the wrong era. I think I should’ve been born ten – fifteen years earlier, what, with my strong appreciation for big band music, as well as not being able to fully appreciate (when I was growing up) the talents of Frank, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett as well […]
U/ST Final grade for Object Oriented Software Analysis (“UML” class)
i’m just one lucky SOB [son of bob?]. Been logging into U/St. Thomas almost on a daily basis. Grade was posted today for the summer class: “A-“, giving an overall GPA of 3.52. Last course starts after Labor day.
Various thoughts about cameras, photography
I have four “cameras” (my trusty Canon DSLR, the “newer” Sony Mirrorless, a Sony P&S (that fits in my pants pocket) and, of course, like everyone else, my cell phone). All of them have the now (pretty much) standard LCD screen that you can’t see a frigging thing on when you are outdoors in bright […]
