Skip to content

{ Category Archives } Fun

Marietta’s Marching Through Time 2009 Pictures

I did not even know someone was taking pictures with our camera, but found them when I downloaded the photos of our love seat. Belated gallery of MTT 2009 photos at: http://gallery.me.com/scottdavidnolan#100181

Tagged ,
2009 04 26 snolan History
Local
Personal Comments (0)

Marching Through Time

Just spreading the word that this weekend (April 18th and 19th) there will be a living history timeline event at Marietta Mansion (5626 Bell Station Road, Glenn Dale, MD) that is open to the public for a nominal fee ($8/adult, $5/ages 5 & older, FREE/4 & under) from 11am to 5pm both days. A timeline […]

Tagged , ,
2009 04 16 snolan History
Local Comments (0)

This is the tango I want to do

Tim and Pam introduced me to it, and it looks amazing: For those who cannot see the embedding: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbZnkyjqaBo Enrique De Fazio & Guillermo De Fazio are amazing, and fun!

Tagged ,
2009 04 07 snolan Dance Comments (1)

Lots of technology news today

As expected, Apple had their iPhone SDK event today where they announced version 3.0 for iPhone and iPod touches is coming this Summer (developers can get the beta SDK today). It will cost $9.95 for iPod touch owners, and it’s free for iPhone owners (probably subsidized by the subscription revenue from your phone plan). It […]

Tagged , , , ,
2009 03 17 snolan Computers
News
Personal Comments (0)

Wow, this is quite stunning

World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.

2009 03 09 snolan Computers Comments (0)

Fifth Element still rocks, so does Boxee

Last night we watched The Fifth Element again rather than waste time on the Oscars, and I do not regret that decision. The Fifth Element is stunning and spectacular, and I finally got to hear the Dolby Digital surround soundtrack as some recent EBay acquisitions all work together (our copy of the movie is on […]

Tagged , , ,
2009 02 23 snolan Computers
Personal Comments (0)

Quest to reduce monthly bills produces interesting results

I am on a bit of a personal quest to reduce monthly bills where possible. I realized that between two mobile phones, Vonage, broadband internet via Comcast, and television via Comcast and DISH network we were spending a lot on communications. At first I went to reduce redundancy; but my partner and I each like […]

Tagged , , ,
2009 02 17 snolan Computers
Personal Comments (1)

Squeee! Jewel Staite sighting on Wonderfalls

One of the holiday gifts I got was the DVD boxed set of Wonderfalls TV shows. It’s entertaining dialogue by Tim Minear and others. I am into the third disk when Jewel Staite makes her appearance as “Heidi” at the very end of the first episode on the disk. In other news, I saw Alan […]

Tagged , , ,
2009 02 04 snolan Personal
Science Fiction Comments (0)

Ironic or Sardonic? Prophetic?

Oh who cares, it’s pretty darned funny.

Tagged ,
2009 02 02 snolan Comments (0)

Excellent discovery

So La Belle is half-way through it’s annual Winter Gathering at my house and we made an excellent discovery. La Grange Meritage, 2005, is fantastic. We are a large group this year (18 adults and several children) and the two bottles we had on hand were not enough. Yum! It is a bloody good thing […]

2009 01 17 snolan Local
Wine Comments (0)