Siliconchef by Brian Richardson

Ladies and gentlemen, I’m less than twelve hours from being in San Francisco on vacation. Yes, an actual trip somewhere that isn’t on business. Fascinating …

Work, video projects and life in general have kept me from blogging. I hope I can restart some non-Twitter communications via trip reports.

I am not alone on this vacation journey … Suzan is of course coming along (a vacation without my spouse seems odd), but we’re teaming up with Amy, Jeff, Asai and Adam to invade SFO for a week of tourism. Plus I have friends in the area to annoy.

Of course, I could just enjoy myself and forget to blog … nothing wrong with that.

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The blog at woot.com has a great list today … “What Annoys Us About The End Of Analog TV?”

* Having to make new digital-compliant tinfoil hats
* Aliens behind “The Outer Limits” can no longer control the vertical or horizontal
* We’re stuck with all this unsold analog TV equipment – we knew nobody would want it, but it was just so cheap
* No more pretending we have MTV when UHF channels get audio bleed from radio stations
* Mad scientists who hijack television signals in order to describe their plans to a world held hostage can no longer get away with skipping makeup
* Now inevitable that Jack White will announce his plan to start making videos in analog
* One more reason for our relatives to think we’re weirdos for not having cable
* That old guy from Videodrome who existed only as recordings no longer meets current standards
* Not being able to watch TV most of the time because the digital signals are such crap

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I went to AnachroCon’s Time Traveler’s Ball as a paying guest, hoping for a chance to work on my photography skills. What I left with is a better appreciation and understanding of the steampunk phenomenon.

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We, as a nation, seem to be losing our collective minds over swine flu … and it’s driving me batty. A politician never lets a good crisis go to waste, and pigfluenza (H1N1) is no exception.

Pigfluenza is the new terrorism. I expect us to be waterboarding swine in tasty sauces. I like honey glazed artificial panics, thank you very much.

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So this is yet another example how I mess with my wife’s mind …

We’re lying in bed with the lights off and the windows open, since it’s a beautiful spring night. A lightning bug, which got into the house last night and has been taunting the cats, is flying around the bedroom.

“Oh no,” I say, “I hope it doesn’t try to mate with the alarm clock.”

I can hear the “whut” look on her face in the darkness.

“This is why lightning bugs can’t buy LED flashlights in Alabama … they’re considered sex toys.”

She spends the next five minutes giggling, further delaying our sleep. The cats still haven’t caught that darn bug.

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There’s a lot of tea going around today … people with their mini “tea party” protests. It’s good that people are getting tired of the way government continues to grow, slowly weaving its way into parts of their lives that it probably shouldn’t be in. I just hope today’s public demonstrations actually get people thinking about how to really fix government.

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PROTIP: If you’re going to try and take someone’s money via a postal solicitation, try to make sure the proposal doesn’t look like a joke. Exhibit A: Cambridge Who’s Who.

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