Archive for August, 2007

Shoot the Moon

Posted by mr.leslie.wong On August - 28 - 2007

The marine layer was drifting overhead, obscuring my view of the eclipse. Once in a while it was clear enough, I could make a photograph:

Lunar Eclipse, August 28, 2007

Camera: Nikon D70
Lens: Nikkor 300mm f4.5
Exposure: ISO 1600, 2 sec. @ f4.5

 

 

 

Lunar Eclipse Tonight

Posted by mr.leslie.wong On August - 27 - 2007

Don’t forget to go outside tonight at 1:51 AM PDT (07:51 GMT), to see the beginning of the eclipse of the moon. Totality is about an hour later. The best viewing is west of the Rockies and the Pacific Rim, so start moving in that direction now.

If you’re not awake, it’s overcast or you can’t see it for some other reason, use Stellarium, and see it on your computer. That’s how I see most stuff anyway.

Good-bye Weekly World News

Posted by mr.leslie.wong On August - 26 - 2007

Stan Sinberg over at Salon, laments about the demise of the Weekly World News. Another great journal buys the farm.

When we were at the cottage, Liz read the stories to us and nothing was funnier.

Hood Insulation

Posted by mr.leslie.wong On August - 25 - 2007

The body shop removed the insulation from the inside of the hood when we got the BMW painted. I didn’t think about how hot the hood got until I was covering the car the other night and put my hand on the hood.

Hood Insulation
Insulation

Jim Stansfield at Mesa Performance sent me up some insulation that wasn’t too hard to put on. I made a paper template from the cutouts in the hood and traced that onto the insulation.

3M Super Trim Adhesive 08090

I cut the insulation with household scissors and used 3M Super Trim Adhesive (for garnitures). The glue is a contact cement that is applied to both surfaces then joined.

I finished the edges with silver foil aluminum tape. It’s all kind of shiny.

Color Coded Tools

Posted by mr.leslie.wong On August - 25 - 2007

Color Coded Tools

I read about color coding your tools on Sheldon Brown’s web site years ago. Anybody who looks like Sheldon and recommends adjusting your bicycle frame’s hub spacing with a 2×4 must know what he’s doing.

I have his chart on the back of the bathroom door, so I can try to remember it. I wish I could find my 8mm 1/4″drive socket.

 

iPhone Unlocked

Posted by mr.leslie.wong On August - 24 - 2007

Hackers have been working on unlocking the iPhone since its release. Today Engadget is showing a video using iphonesimfree.com’s software to unlock the iPhone.

Apple iPhone

What’s this mean? You’re no longer locked into a $1,389 first year cost (phone+minimum service plan) for an iPhone in the US. You can choose the provider you want and use any SIM card from any network provider in any country.

 

Justine’s iPhone Bill

Posted by mr.leslie.wong On August - 24 - 2007

Justine Ezarik, who like Justin, has her life streaming live on the internets, like a boring Truman Show, has posted this youtube video of her itemized everything iPhone AT&T bill.

 

Skype – A (Very) Little Extra For You

Posted by mr.leslie.wong On August - 21 - 2007

You may have heard about the Skype outage last week. I guess as a gesture of good will, and because I pay Skype $US 29.95 per year for unlimited calls in the US and Canada, Skype sent me an email saying they would be “adding an additional seven days to your current subscription, free of charge.

Linksys iPhone CIT400

We don’t have a long distance service using POTS – Plain old telephone service, or more accurately the Public Switched Telephone Network - PSTN. Our only “home” long distance calling (except for our cell phone) uses Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) – Skype. We even bought Cisco’s iPhone. The Linksys (Cisco) CIT400 has the ability to use a landline connection or Skype, without being connected to a computer.

I found out about the Skype outage because I was trying to call Godaddy, my web host. This blog, which is hosted on a shared server (who reads this anyway?), was taking minutes to load a page. But I couldn’t get through to them on Skype. By the time I figured out Skype had gone south, my web site was running normally…

Oakland 6, Kansas City 1

Posted by mr.leslie.wong On August - 20 - 2007

We drove up to McAfee Coliseum in Oakland yesterday to see the A’s play Kansas City and to celebrate Rose Luey’s birthday. Lenny DiNardo allowed only five hits in eight innings.

Lenny DiNardo - Oakland Athletics
Lenny DiNardo - Oakland Athletics
Lenny DiNardo - Oakland Athletics
Lenny DiNardo - Oakland Athletics
 
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