Month: November 2011
-
Washington DC and Charlotesville, Time to Return
With every trip to DC, I find something new to take in. There is so much to see in the city, it is difficult to do a fair amount of any of it in any one trip. Even over five full days as we took over Thanksgiving weekend, plenty of important sights and sites have…
-
Orlando Calling
Daniel is a lucky guy it seems. Both he and I won preshow passes to see The Killers on Friday, at a local club that I’d not been to before. Though we spent about three times as long waiting as the show was, it was an excellent experience. The same day, Daniel won two tickets…
-
The Transcendent Man
I spent a part of my morning watching the documentary ‘The Transcendent Man’, about the works and ideas of Ray Kurzweil. He is known as one of the inventors of the flatbed scanner, as well as the Kurzweil Reading Machine for the blind, music synthesizers, and other technological devices. He is also an author and…