Snow flurries??

First snow of the season... And its only the beginning of November? What have we done?? You know, its 16 degrees C (60F) in San Jose right now... sigh....

Tea Party

Sarah and Abby had a tea party this weekend. Pretty funny. Don't even try to refuse. ;-)

Time for a tea party

GROW

From PC Magazine:

"Grow is probably the strangest, albeit most intriguing, game we've seen. Just start dragging the assorted materials (everything but the kitchen sink) into the red circle at the center and watch it grow. The object, as it becomes clear, is to add the materials in the correct order. This game can be won, but you'll need a lot of downtime at work to do so."

GROW

I played with it for a while last night... Very intriguing, to say the least. I finally did indeed win (it didn't take *that* long).

HULK'S DIARY THAT IS ON THE INTERNET

Great blog by the Hulk himself. The old ones in the Archives are a riot. HULK SMASH!

HULK'S DIARY THAT IS ON THE INTERNET

EE Times -Consumer as king: A benign tyrant?

Interesting article about the consumer electronics industry, and how fast new gadgets are becoming aquired by the mass market...

EE Times -Consumer as king: A benign tyrant?

Happy Halloween!!

Halloween fun was had by all. Sarah dressed up as a ladybug, and went to most of the houses on our street (maybe 8) collecting candy. She had the "Trick or Treat" prefected (although it sounded more like "Tickor tweet" :-) ). Abby was the Great Pumpkin. Our neighbours have (hopefully) started the great idea of not only giving out candy to the kids, but also beer to the parents taking the kids out. Next year I'll be standing beside the girls - them with a loot bag, me with an empty 12-pack. heheh

Smiling pumpkin



Frowning pumpkin?



Is there a pumpkin on that ladybug?

Big Galoot Wines

Finally got around to making a label & logo for the "Big Galoot Winery". On the advice of the guy at my local wine store, I just bought Avery labels (much cheaper than blank "wine" labels) and printed them off. The logo is a picture of Nauga I took a while ago with the background removed, then superimposed on a picture of wine grapes I found onthe web. I put the result through a filter to make it look like brush strokes, then added the text. Big Galoot Wines - coming soon to a store near you! ;-)

Big Galoot Wines