Erik Novales

I just finished reading Yeager (Chuck Yeager’s autobiography), having retrieved it out of the local library’s "buck-a-bag" book section along with a few other selections. It’s a pretty decent read, and paints an interesting picture of a man who was in the thick of many of the most exciting aviation developments from the ’40s through [...]

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We recently celebrated Oliver’s second “birthday” (when he came to live with us) with a very special treat, one that he was more than happy to devour: smoked salmon. It was impossible to get a good picture of him eating, because his head was firmly planted in that bowl until all of the salmon was [...]

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Sandy recently got an iPhone 3G, and I’ve been fairly impressed with the web browsing experience (through Safari) on it. While the JavaScript support is somewhat flaky, the mobile browsing experience on it is close enough to the desktop experience to be acceptable. The responsiveness of the browser is also quite good, at least on [...]

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A few months ago I wrote about getting rid of old hard drives safely, by destroying the data contained on them. I was going through some more old stuff recently, and came across some relics — 3 1/2″ floppy disks. None of them really contain anything sensitive or that I’d want to keep, but at [...]

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I happened to be browsing through Amazon and eBay the other day, and got to thinking about the CD single format. I used to be quite the avid collector of these back in the late 90′s and earlier this decade — you could often find hidden gems among the b-sides, and I just liked the [...]

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A somewhat famous quote from Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin: Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. The contents of the grocery basket belonging to the shopper in front of us at a grocery store in Arcata, CA: One loaf of white bread (store brand) A jar of peanut butter A [...]

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