Stage 1 Tour of California

Stage winner Mancebo

Stage 1 of the Tour of California finished Sunday in Santa Rosa with three circuit laps, giving more opportunities to take photos. Even though it was raining, I decided to drive to Santa Rosa for the experience of a pro bike race and to try some action photography.

The experience was […]

The time is 1234567890

Here’s a geeky thing on this Friday, the 13th. This computer’s internal clock (based on Unix epoch time) just hit 1234567890. It does the same thing on my desktop running OS-X.

RP:~ phil$ perl -e 'print scalar localtime(1234567890),"\n";' Fri Feb 13 15:31:30 2009

Unix time is defined as the number of seconds that have elapsed […]

Leftover toys from 1945

My toys

The year is 1945 (or so I guess). The war is in its final stages in Europe. Dad is at an airfield in Belgium keeping B-26s flying. He hasn’t seen me except for a couple of days right after I was born. Mom and I live with her parents—Grandma and Grandpa. All […]