We headed to Sonoma this weekend and made Train Town our first stop. For those who are not familiar Train Town it is a station modeled after the 16st Station in Oakland from the 1930s, and is, “The Most Well Developed Scale Railroad In The Americas”. You embark from the station at $4.25 a head [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Mariners Kick A*s
The Seattle Mariners came to town on Wednesday and we went to see them. Tina lived in Seattle during her formidable years and feels a real fire for her Seattle Mariners. Ichiro is one of my favorite baseball players, he just gets what is to be a baseball player and it is so embarrassing to watch these [...]
Giants Opening Day 2008
The only person still optimistic was cotton candy salesman Jesus Ortiz, who was giving away cotton candy to little kids, perhaps to ease the pain. “The team is great,” he said. “Cotton candy is great. It’s going to be a great year. I’m always hopeful in April.” more pics can be found here
Program your Comcast remote to 30 second skip
Choose an unused or unneeded button on the “silver” remote to be the 30-second skip command. I used my “A-lock” button, and in retrospect (with two kids) that’s probably not the best choice, but I wanted it near the other DVR controls. Other choices are the PIP buttons at the bottom, (maybe there’s a hack [...]