Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on May 29th, 2012 in MainIf day two was long, day three seemed infinitely longer. We left Twin Falls, Idaho early, heading.northwest. We had lunch on Memorial Day in Ontario, Oregon, right across the border. The Italian place we stopped at was fancier inside than it looked from the outside. Lunch for the four of us was just over $30. After lunch we had dessert at Dairy Queen and then stopped at a Dollar Tree to pick up a few things … at which point Susan realized she had lost her debit card. A quick call confirmed that it was still at the restaurant, so… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on May 28th, 2012 in MainI could probably sum up today’s post with “we drove all day,” but I’ll try to write more than that. We left Denver this morning a little after 9am. The weather was absolutely gorgeous there. Both kids suggested that sometime we should just take a vacation to Denver. From Denver we drove north — and drove, and drove. We drove north to Wyoming, west to Utah, and finally north to Idaho. It was amazing to watch the landscape change. Most of Kansas and Colorado yesterday were flat. We started out today by seeing the Rocky Mountains, and then continued to… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on May 27th, 2012 in MainWe hit the road yesterday morning, en route for Alaska. (We’re not driving to Alaska; we’re driving to Seattle and taking a cruise from there to Alaska.) We had planned to hit the road by 6am, but by the time we were fully packed and ready to go, it was 9am. Then we had breakfast. 10 minutes after we hit the road, we had a snafu involving me locking the wrong lock which would have kept our house sitter locked out and our cat unfed, so we had to head back. We really didn’t hit the road until 10am. We… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on May 25th, 2012 in MainIn 2009, I posted that I had visited 38 of our 50 states, although about a month after posting that I updated the number to 40 after returning from New York City. Saturday I’m leaving on a trip that, by the time I get back home, will have added five more states to my bed post: Utah, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska. I’ll post more about the upcoming trip in a day or two. That leaves Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Vermont, and Wisconsin on the list.
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on May 24th, 2012 in MainA few months ago, Google announced that they would begin cross referencing data across all their applications. This meant that Gmail could now see what videos you watch on YouTube, and both of them could see what you have stored in your Google Drive. The point of it is that by cross-referencing your usage, Google can serve you better ads for you to ignore. In response to the collective “the sky is falling” response they received from web pundits everywhere, Google added a “Google Account Activity Report” which users can subscribe to and have e-mailed to you on a monthly… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on May 23rd, 2012 in MainA couple of weeks ago, Mason’s school had a “Land Run Day.” It’s something we do here in Oklahoma. I guess for a fundraiser, the school had a photographer on hand taking pictures throughout the day. When I went to pick Mason up from school last week, all the pictures were posted in the hallway and you could purchase them. Mason and I spent about 10 minutes combing through the couple hundred photos, and the above shot was the only one we could find of Mason. So I took a picture of it with my cell phone — a “picture… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on May 22nd, 2012 in MainBy 10pm tonight, robohara.com and all the other websites I host (podcast.robohara.com, review-o-matic.com, and lovethyshelf.com) had been down for almost 24 hours. The last time my web server was down for 24 hours was in June of 2009, when I built the current server I’m using and converted my physical web server into a virtual one. For the fourth time in as many weeks, I came home to find my web server powered off. Personally I’ve only ever had this happen a few times: once time was due to a blown capacitor; every other time was due to overheating. I… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on May 22nd, 2012 in MainI upgraded my iPhone last week from a 3GS to a 4S. I did this mainly because I wanted a better camera phone for our upcoming vacation — the 3GS has a 3 megapixel camera; the camera on the 4S is 8 megapixels. I’ll be taking my Pentax DSLR of course, but I’m sure I’ll be snapping lots of camera phone pix as well. The 4S has several improvements over my old 3GS, but the one I was most interested in playing with was Siri. Siri (as I’m sure you know) the the new iPhone “voice assistant”. It’s how people… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on May 21st, 2012 in MainSaturday was Tuttle’s 21st annual Ice Cream Festival. Somehow we managed to miss the first twenty; this is the first one we’ve ever gone to. There was a parade at 10am. We missed it. We were going for two reasons: lunch, and dessert. For lunch, they had the same food trucks that they have at every similar festival of this nature. We split into two groups. From one trailer Dad, Morgan and I got a hot dog, cheese nachos, and an onion burger (respectively). From another trailer, Susan and Mason got an Indian Taco. The kids got a couple of… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on May 14th, 2012 in MainOver at the Retroist, I’ve started a new video series titled “Looking Back with Flack”. In sticking with the site’s retro theme, in these videos I’ll be reviewing retro “things” — toys, video games, movies, shows, or whatever else I can come up with. Here’s the first episode: I hope to post 2 or 3 “Looking Back with Flack” videos each month. I’ll probably post them on Fridays over there, and then post links to them here on my blog a day or two later. Link: Looking Back with Flack Episode 1: 19-in-1 Multi-Williams Cabinet
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