The Digital Tavern - for the sake of clarityAllan Karl's Blog -There are no strangers here.<br>Only friends you haven't met.John Hiatt - Humphrey's By The Bay, Shelter Island - May 22, 2006- May 24, 2006 It was an idyllic southern California night complete with a burning orange and red sunset, gentle breeze swaying postcard palm trees and John Hiatt with North Mississippi Allstars (NMAS) tearing up the stage at Humphrey's By The Bay in San Diego. Toward the end of his 90-minute set Hiatt said "the weathermen said it was going to rain...I guess they were wrong like they always are," before ripping into his rocking set closing number The Tiki Bar Is Open where the synergy of Hiatt's 30+ years...http://radio.weblogs.com/0108247/2006/05/23.html#a693 Happy Birthday. Happy Anniversary. The Power of Four.- May 21, 2006 I almost forgot and let the week go by without thinking about it. It's an important milestone for me. Actually this week marks two anniversaries of sorts. First it was 4 months ago this week that I broke my leg in Bolivia and had to be Medivad'd back to the states for surgery. More on how my recovery is coming along is here. The second anniversary is that of The Digital Tavern - the blog I started on May 16, 2002. Ah, the good old days when the word blog still had a couple years before it...http://radio.weblogs.com/0108247/2006/05/21.html#a692 SmartPhone Anxiety- May 19, 2006 Seems Doc is intrigued by the latest Palm Treo SmartPhone announcement. That is until he discovered the new Treo 700 would only be offered on the Verizon and Sprint Networks. Back in the day Verizon and Sprint were the only carriers pushing the CDMA standard -- something I believe San Diego-based Qualcomm developed while the rest of the world was paving the cellular highway with GSM technology. I blew off Verizon more than 5 years ago. Why The worst customer service and the lack of...http://radio.weblogs.com/0108247/2006/05/18.html#a689 Gilmour On Film "For One Night Only"- May 18, 2006 Remember midnight movies I'm not talking about "Rocky Horror Picture Show," but rather those classic late nights of my well-spent youth watching rock and roll icons on the big screen. It was a ritual for me and my high-school buddies to stay up and see live concert films of arguably the best rock and roll bands of the era including Led Zeppelin, Yes, ELP, Pink Floyd and others. So when a buddy pointed me to a site promoting a "Big Screen Concert" for "One Night Only" of David Gilmour "The...http://radio.weblogs.com/0108247/2006/05/17.html#a688 Up Against The Wall.- May 16, 2006 Very proud of my friend Brian who never ceases to amaze me with his ideas, creativity, writing and business sense. I never knew he would let those pesky plastic wall anchors that come with just about every home or office accessory that need to be mounted on a wall get the best of him. But the way I figure it, he's been frustrated for years. But rather than get a prescription from his local shrink to tame his anxiety, fear and depression from such things, he took his health and mindset into his.http://radio.weblogs.com/0108247/2006/05/16.html#a687 The Joy of . . .- May 10, 2006 . . . photography. My dad gave me my first Canon 35mm camera for my 12th birthday. In my seventh grade ubiquitous adolescent-tasked paper, that my mom still has in archives, "What do I want to be when I grow up I fancied myself a photographer. Since those free and innocent days of my youth I've owned a trunk-load of Canon camera. I've been loyal to the brand because the brand has kept its promise in delivering quality products at fair prices. Riding my motorcycle through the desert in northern.http://radio.weblogs.com/0108247/2006/05/10.html#a686 A Marvelous Night- May 9, 2006 So we're going to dance on the moon again. According to the Xinua news network the U.S. space agency NASA in partnership with India's Nasa-equivalent, the Indian Space Research Operation (ISRO), an Indian spacecraft will launch from India sometime in 2008 with a payload of scientific instruments but no astronauts. According to the BBC the launch is part of a two year mission to map and learn more about the moon. "The two-year mission of Chandrayaan-I to map the lunar surface and investigate its.http://radio.weblogs.com/0108247/2006/05/09.html#a685 The cost of living and a good glass of wine.- May 7, 2006 At the end of the day do higher priced goods or services negatively impact your decision to buy That is, would a higher price on something you desire dissuade you from purchasing it If current gas prices are an indication of "consumers'" insatiable appetites to imbibe regardless of cost then I'd have to say no. Accordingly, any strategy that employs a price increase tactic in an effort to reduce consumption will ultimately fail. But for the last 75 years the state of Washington figured that a...http://radio.weblogs.com/0108247/2006/05/06.html#a684 |