Boardwalk Lebowski

Play this at my wake.

Dinah's Chicken in Glendale

Dinah's Family Restaurant in Glendale California.


4106 SAN FERNADO RD. # A
GLENDALE, CA. 91204

Their Facebook page is more appealing then the web site.

• The Big Lebowski

   (1998)
• 01:30:48 Sree pigs in blanket.

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  • 01:30:37 Ze lingonberry pancakes.
  • 01:30:43 Lingonberry pancakes.
  • 01:30:48 Sree pigs in blanket.
  • 01:30:54 Dieter: Huh?
  • 01:30:56 She has lingonberry pancakes.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

Starlings of Otmoor

Otmoor RSPB reserve in Otmoor England.

Local rules seen in mass.

I was turned on to this place by Richard Dawlins' book The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution. I hated the introduction because it was preachy and a personal attack on the people who choose to pretend science doesn't exist, history-deniers, while they assert (without evidence) that God does; I suggest you skip to the actual presentation of the science.

The audio book is read by the author and Lalla Ward (four minutes in the above clip); trading off for asides and sections keeps it fresh, coherent and non-drowsy.

Martin Scorsese's Film School

The 85 films you need to see to know anything about film.

What suprised me about this list? how many of these films I had NOT seen.

Extreme Characters and Soap Opera Testing

I'm reading Mike Cohn's book User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development in order to switch my mind set into the Agile Development mode for the coming year(s). I recommend this book for people doing agile development.

Extreme Characters is a concept the book introduces. Mike correctly states that it will not be useful for most project but it is worth knowing about. I agree. But it got me thinking. Wouldn't Extreme Characters fit into Soap Opera Testing perfectly.

Cohn sites Djajdiningrat, J.P., W.W. Gaver and J.W. Fres, "Interaction relabelling and Extreme Characters: Methods for exploring aesthetic interactions." Symposium on Designing Interactive Systems 2000, 2000:66-71. See poster for the article.

A 5 minute google didn't turn up much of anything detailed on Extreme Characters other than what Mr. Cohn wrote/teaches. Food for thought and grounds for further research.

(Cool. I bought the Kindle ebook and read in on my laptop at work or on the Kindle at home. It is also sitting on my iPhone should I want to make a quick reference during a stand up.)

Sutter Gold Mine tour

Saw a flyer for the cave tours in California at the coffee shop this morning. The Sacramento Magazine said that if you are going to die in Sacramento the Sutter Gold Mine tour is one of fifty things you must do before you die.

We decided that next time the Simpkins are in town we'll make this a day trip.

Looks like there are a few caves for tourist in California. I challenge Crawford to a zip line race, First one to hit the ground wins.

City Museum, St. Louis

My buddy Ted just sent me an email about his visit to the City Museum in St. Louis Missouri.

Looks like the kind of sculptures that fascinate me. Add this to my list of places to visit someday.

My Irish Whiskey

My favorite single malt whiskey is the Connemara 12-Year Peated Single Malt Irish Whiskey. The 12-Year is superior to the standard bottling IMHO.

Distilled two times (2 column distillation) where others makers do more than two distillations.

Bourbon barrels are use to age the whiskey. These barrels are used no more than three times before they are retired. The whiskey is chill filtered.

Someday I would like to tour their distillery (Kilbeggan Distillery).

Thanks to The Scotchcast for turning me on to this grand dram.

Wandering is a necessity

As I read The Buccaneer-Scholar I came to realize that the big vacation I have been thinking about most of my adult life could be describe as a buccaneer voyage.

...The beginning is a terrible time to plan. It's the moment of greatest ignorance....

In buccaneer learning, wandering is a necessity, not a luxury. —James Marcus Bach, Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar

I am collecting seed ideas for the voyage in this someday blog stream.

Chester Nimitz Oriental Gardens

Upon first hearing this song years ago on KFJC I knew that some day I would sip tea across from these gardens.

The Chester Nimitz Oriental Garden in the song is now known as the Japanese Garden of Peace, Fredricksburg Texas.

The Singing Tree

I'm starting a new tread, things to do and places to go someday.

I'd like to hear this sight in Lancashire England (not Great Britian), The Singing Tree.