Your wine lesson

http://youtu.be/DfTaMzV4oFo

Click or cut

Indifferent Golf Gallery

 

It's important, when playing golf, to be aware of the gallery surrounding you, while not letting their presence affect your concentration.
Especially while at the Big Island Country Club halfway up the slopes of Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Byodo-In Temple

On the Windward Side of Oahu, in the shadow of the Pali mountains. A gorgeous place.

Tuesday, September 11, 2001

What NASA saw from space.

Every now and again...

a toilet-fixture manufacturer comes face to face with an irresistable urge to express its inner porcelain. Here is Toto's contribution to the genre:

That's the "Toilet Bike Neo." We should all be so lucky.

Memorial Stadium Again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqrmqWZKRz4&feature=colike

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Do play the video. The music is good. :)

Once in a while. . .

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=24107935&topic_id=&c_id=oak&tcid=vpp_copy_24107935&v=3

Go A's!

:)

Practice rounds for next year's Americas Cup on San Francisco Bay start on Tuesday. Here watch Korea discover that the winds are capricious.

http://youtu.be/QZIpinE7xss

Hot Summer Dinner Out

So it's hot, the a/c is acting up, DW#1 did 18 holes at Franklin Canyon, and there's no spirit for eating at home. What to do?

"6 for $6" Happy Hour at the nearby Walnut Creek Flemings.

Bad News: Lousy timing, place was packed, only one seat at the bar. Started a bar tab with two glasses of wine.

Closed the tab, started to sign, young lady said "Table is open." Off we went to try the table experience.

Good News: Great grub! $6 each for a Sirloin Burger and Tenderloin Carpaccio. These are deals, dear readers. We loved them.

Bad News: Waitperson Spencer screwed up the bill. Took 15 minutes to reissue.

Results: So So, but we will try again.

I was surprised. . .

to see this building:

(It's fun being an architect.)

Correction...

I didn't mean to overstate the point yesterday. Further digging around the Internet shows that, indeed, some of the major highways in North Korea are being enjoyed by the people. Notice the busy centers of commerce taking advantage of the superb government infrastructure.





It takes more than a government road.

April 2012. A 10-lane highway in the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea. 'Nuff said.

Cannot. Figure. This. Out. . .

Got this one at a garage sale. I loaded it okay, but I haven't figured out how to fire it.

Stay tuned.

Sorry, dear. I'm gonna be a bit late. . .

Traffic is really stopped up tonight.

Zut alors!

Sometimes (not often) I wish I had been born French.

Trees have haircuts

Okay, we're discussing Land Use patterns here. A municipality with lots of land likes to build an airport, for the prestige and the income. Good.
The land around the airport is not appropriate for housing, schools, or commercial uses. Golf courses are okay.
Thus, most municipal airports have adjoining municipal golf courses.
Makes sense, right?
However, golf courses like trees. Airports do not like trees.
Hence, as at Buchanan Field, Concord CA above, we give the trees haircuts.
It looks weird, but it makes sense.
Q.E.D.
(Don't ask. :))

The Old Fishing Hole

Glimpses of Saipan:


http://bit.ly/MBdyYP



:)

A scenic drive through the hills of San Francisco

If you, like me, enjoy driving, even driving in The City, you must spend 10 minutes of your precious time to enjoy the video referenced below. You will be happy that you did. And, you might finally have an answer to what caused all those recent "donuts" on San Francisco's streets.

Go here, cut and paste if necessary, and thank me later:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuDN2bCIyus
Click on "DC SHOES" and sit back.

Thanks also to Bloomberg West for making it available. And I note that it's also showing up on the cable news channels. Oh, well.

Always needed

One Wise Owl

(Click to enlarge)

Really neat visual!

Afternoon, 4 July

First:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ETrr-XHBjE
Then:
http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2012/07/04/a-national-anthem-that-begins-and-ends-with-a-question/2/

If you can make both work, both are worthshile.

Happy Fourth!