Yesterday, Jason Kottke posted a great story on Slow TV which included a link to the entire train voyage from Bergen, Norway to Oslo. Back in 2007, Daniel and I took this train voyage twice as part of our “Norway…
Yesterday, Jason Kottke posted a great story on Slow TV which included a link to the entire train voyage from Bergen, Norway to Oslo. Back in 2007, Daniel and I took this train voyage twice as part of our “Norway…
Just received notice that I have to move Club Josh and friends to another web server. The place I have hosted has had a few problems over the last two years and now it will be gone as of next…
One of the first “live” videos I ever saw broadcast on the internet was back in 1995(!) and it was the Jarre Concert for Tolerance on July 14, 1995 at the Eiffel Tower. I remember being able to stream the…
I’ve spent the last few hours getting Charo.info back up and running. It was the last of my web sites still rattling around on the old server. Grand plans were had to re-do the entire site, but like when this…
Andy Woodruff is a cartographer that I follow on Twitter and he posted a link to a fun way to see the distortions inherit in different map projections. I only wish that I was half the cartographer that Andy and…
In this episode of filler posts, I’d like to send a Follow Friday to one of my favorite new blogs, Sploid. Sploid is a from the Gawker folks who publish sites like Gizmodo (and I think Sploid is a subset…
Another Crazy Airplane Landing Video (via Sploid and YouTube user Soccer)
Came across this timelapse video today – it really can’t compare with visiting these Utah National Parks. One of these days I will actually finish writing my trip diaries for my trip here last year and post some more photos.…
I’m totally obsessed with watching these fan reaction videos to Doctor Who. As someone who really enjoyed the 50th, it is sort of comforting to know that there are others out there who had a similar experience. YouTube user AdikTheOne…
When I was president of my High School Astronomy Club, one of my favorite field trips that we would go on was to the Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton outside of San Jose. We would always take the back roads…