Don't buy Home Depot's power washers

The Husky 1300 psi power washer that Home Depot sells are worthless. They don't reach 1300 psi and when they work at all they take a long time (at least 10 minutes) to reach their maximum pressure. Today, the piece of junk I bought last year just wouldn't pressurize at all. I ran it for twenty minutes before I finally gave up. You're better off getting a good nozzle for a garden hose, seriously. I'll try Sears next.

Skywalker Channels Cheney

Not exactly a tale of two Georges but I gotta talk about the Star Wars movie and a few Georges. Not to worry, I'm not gonna ladle out the spoilers. So, as mentioned in my previous post, I saw the film from Lucas this morning. It was great! Shmaltz! Light sabers! Dogfight combat! IOW, a classic. However, one of the memorable moments (at least for g'rups) is a line from the darkening Skywalker. In an obvious allusion to Bush, Anakin is deluding himself that he's bringing peace and tranquility to the galaxy, declaring "If you're not with me you're my enemy." The vast left wing conspiracy is correct, Bush is The Dark Side.

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Childhood Revisited

I vividly remember seeing the first Star Wars at the Coronet in San Francisco. I'm on my way to the Century 16 in Mountain View to see Revenge of the Sith. My little ones are totally jealous, they'll have to wait for a matinee showing that doesn't conflict school, sorry kiddos!

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The NY Taxi moblog

Check out the street scenes of New York not for the photography per se but the succession of them. They capture the intensity, the mysteries and the smells of New York.

• Have Cab, Will Blog
• And Blog Some More

Sometimes New York just smells intensely mysterious but that's probably me being a left coaster.

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Open Source Radio and podcasts over the air

The San Francisco Chronicle reported today about kyouradio.com. Billed as "Open Source Radio", they have displaced Don Imus with podcasts. The choice of podcast topics (martini mixing, cats and ramblings about mortality) doesn't sound like a winner but I'd imagine integrating Technorati's link statistics and tags as a feedback mechanism to determine what podcasts are succeeding and which ones aren't. Adaptive radio programming where people vote for what to hear at drive time with their blog links!

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Skydiving

I've never gone skydiving but I've oft imagined looking down during the descent and saying, "Holy Sh*t!" Here's someone's picture of the distance between the ground and her converse.

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Learning Machines

Weka is a collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks.

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Mentoring

Sometimes leading someone else to a solution is much more gratifying than finding the answer myself.
Reminds me of the old proverb, Give A Man A Fish:
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

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Tikkun Olam

First a person should put his house together, then his town, then the world. Rabbi Israel Salanter

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Speeders in San Onofre State Park

Some people are too hurried about surfing. This guy takes pictures of them. San-O Speeders

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