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Meetup WordPress-Saratoga

macenable — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:21:15 +0000

This went well; September 1st.

WordPress Meetup – Milpitas

macenable — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 01:46:33 +0000

Hanging out afterward (almost 4 PM!) are a few members of a group that meets the third Wednesday of the month at 1:30 PM in the Milpitas Library computer room. (Kenna Mawk, R.I.P., had been scheduled to make the presentation at this meeting.)

Another group, complimentary to Milpitas, is starting in Saratoga. It will meet in the computer training room of the library on first Thursdays of the month, same time of day.

WordPress-Saratoga MeetUp Group <- 1st meeting is September 1st at 1:30 PM!

By the way, this blog, lincolnCt.com, is one of the simplest examples of what wordpress.com offers. (WordPress.org, on the other hand, gives you all the PHP/MySQL code to run on your own server.)

housing of the future?

macenable — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:12:14 +0000

Humongous storage facility being build on Curtner, east of highway 87. Looks like cellphone reception will be exceptional.

Crash at the Corner

macenable — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 01:03:33 +0000

Echoing through the neighborhood this afternoon, the sound of a serious car accident. As usual, it was at Lincoln & Malone:

Click to view slideshow.

No one was hurt seriously except the passenger sitting in the right car. She seemed to be in a state of shock and eventually left the scene on a stretcher.

The little pedestrian with the scooter was also hurt, but I don’t know how that happened.

This intersection seems to be a more dangerous than most. Why is that?

Tokyo Chris

macenable — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:30:06 +0000

Our friends have a son living in Japan. Skype allows them to maintain continuous contact with him, and report that he is doing fine:

Tokyo is 150 miles from the Fukushima nuclear-power plant damaged in the recent earthquake, but so far no one seems to think that current radiation levels in Tokyo pose much risk to human health.

Downtown Willow Glen – Summer & Winter

macenable — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 07:23:45 +0000

… Peet’s coffee shop in the abstract!

California Sunset

macenable — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:39:27 +0000

From the parking lot of Race Street Fish & Poultry Market on December 7, 2010

taking a big, big bath

macenable — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 02:48:13 +0000

The filter container burst while the pump was running, emptied almost all the water out of the pool, and flooded the garage ruining years of old New Yorker magazines!

Took some time to refill.

So peaceful …

macenable — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:20:16 +0000

Unusually quiet day on our street.

What Lurks Below

macenable — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:56:36 +0000

It was seven or eight years ago when I started noticing a depression on the lawn in our back yard. Jumping up and down on it made me think there might be buried treasure.

I took a shovel and cut into the grass around the edge of the depression when suddenly whoosh! The circle of lawn disappeared. It was a sunny day and all I could see was a dark black hole. I must have turned completely white because all I could do for a while was stand there in shock.

That’s why they call it a “yardstick”, right?

Marleigh wants to know what I’m doing down there.

This deep, brick lined hole was the overflow for an ancient septic system. All the bricks were completely clean, with just one dry nasty pipe poking into it from the side.

One time I surprised some visitors by hiding in our “stink hole” and lighting my face with a flashlight when they peeked into it.

We eventually filled it completely with concrete slurry.