Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on October 29th, 2012 in MainBefore anyone starts, this isn’t a pro-iPad or even a pro-Apple post. It’s a pro-technology post. That’s 83-year-old “Grandma O” in Chicago, using Facetime on the iPad to talk to two of her great grandsons (Phoenix and Griffin) back in Oklahoma. This may be the closest thing to a Kodak moment I’ve ever had a hand in helping pull off. I do believe Grandma has Skype installed on her computer as well, so maybe we can continue these sorts of video chats. But yeah, moments like these remind me that we really are living in the future.
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on October 26th, 2012 in MainLast Thursday Susan, the kids, my Dad and I hopped in the minivan and drove north to Chicago on a mini-vacation. Despite the fact that the Honda Odyssey now has upwards of 215,000 miles, it still runs and drives great — and, it’s the car we own that most comfortably seats five. And, it’s the car we least care about getting door dinged in Chicago. This week I had a work meeting scheduled in Kansas City, Missouri, so instead of taking our usual route home from Chicago (through St. Louis), instead we veered east and I had Susan drop me… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on October 17th, 2012 in MainI’m sure most of my tech peeps already know all about this story, but to sum it up in a sentence: last Sunday, Felix Baumgardner rode in a balloon to the edge of space (almost 25 miles above the Earth) and then jumped out of it, breaking the speed of sound before opening his parachute and landing safely in Roswell, New Mexico. The entire thing was broadcast live on the Internet. (I heard this morning that there was a 20 second delay just in case things went terribly wrong, but still.) Yesterday, on my computer, I watched a guy skydive… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on October 11th, 2012 in MainMason’s been hinting around about wanting to watch a horror movie for some time now. To put things in perspective, Mason’s ten-years-old and in fifth grade. I was in sixth grade when I first saw Nightmare on Elm Street over at Jason Lee’s house, and Children of the Corn that same year over at Andy Green’s. To date, I think the scariest thing Mason has seen on television is either Something Wicked This Way Comes or the original Dracula. The last time he brought up watching a scary movie, we made it ten minutes into The Ring before he declared… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on October 9th, 2012 in AdventuresToday, I got to sit down and work from my desk for the first time in two-and-a-half weeks. It all started with an invitation to a work meeting in Atlanta, which took place the last week of September (9/24-9/28). As I mentioned a week or so ago, my buddy Jeff recently moved to Atlanta, so I used the opportunity to travel a few days earlier than normal to hang out at Jeff’s house. (We are allowed to do this as long as there is no additional cost to tax payers.) I used a day of vacation on Friday, September 22nd… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on October 4th, 2012 in MainI’m slumming around Washington DC this week with plans of heading home on Friday. Our team is holed up in a building near Navy Yard, which smells. Not the building; I mean, the whole area. Outside it smells like a combination of fertilizer and dead fish. I’m pretty sure I smell too. It’s so humid here that every time I step outside I am instantly dripping with sweat. I have taken to wearing two shirts this week to hide my sweaty armpits. That of course is just making me sweat more, but at least the outside layer stays dry. Mostly.… (read more)
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