On July 10, 2021, I visited the Computer Museum at System Source in Baltimore MD as part of the Vintage Computer Federation (VCF) Repair Workshop. I also visited the museum in 2020. Warning: Image heavy page ahead!
Category Archives: Travels
London Desktop Backgrounds, Series 2
The Houses of Parliament from the River Thames. A classic telephone booth in London. A post box embedded in a brick passage way on the Windsor Castle grounds.
London Desktop Backgrounds, Series 1
This is the first in a series of desktop backgrounds I'll post from our trip to London. I've sized them to 1920×1200, perfect for wide screen monitors. Hope you enjoy them! This is from underneath the London Eye moments before we got on for our “flight.” It's such an elegant piece of machinery, effortlessly and […]
The Plant Oxford Tour: Building the MINI Cooper
We planned ahead to make a day trip of traveling to Oxford and visiting BMW Group's Plant Oxford, home of the final assembly of the MINI Cooper and it's variations.At the start of the tour, you're asked to put on a “lab coat” and safety glasses before you can go inside. We later found out […]
On the topic of unfriendly Londonesque WiFi
As you are aware, there were no updates on the site for the trip. D'oh. Things didn't go quite as planned on the WiFi side of things. The hotel claimed to have WiFi enabled in all the rooms. What they forgot to mention was how much they charged for said WiFi. I was naive enough […]
Today is the day!
Today is the first day of the start of our trip to London. Actually, we won't be there until tomorrow morning but we're still excited. Stay tunned, I hope to make an entry a day about the trip studded with a few pictures along the way. Cheers!
The proof is in the pudding– MINI Cooper S MPG report
On a recent trip to the beach (May 2007) I tried my hand at some hypermiling on the way back. Below are the gauge readouts of the trip computer. I maintained an average speed of 55 mph on Rt 113/Rt 1 and then 65 mpg on Rt 1 on the toll sections. Although every single […]
PhillyMINI Cabin Fever Rally III
I participated in the PhillyMINI Cabin Fever Rally this past Saturday, March 24, 2007. We started just North of Otto's and took a very nice scenic route through some wonderful back roads of PA and DE. Along the way, we stopped at QVC for a tour of their studios (thanks to Dana for the free […]
Of a recursive nature
Two shots, taken together of both subjects and both cameras. The world will now collapse in on itself. Monterey Bay Aquarium
More from the Monterey Bay Aquarium
Here are some more photos taken at the Monterey Bay Aquarium on our recent visit to California. The lovable sea otters; playful like dogs and they eat on their backs.The kelp forest tank, which gently sways back and forth to simulate the wave action.The octopus; visitors are asked not to flash the octopus so this […]