I’m really liking the Sharpe Residence. I first spotted it in the LA Times feature Homes of The Times listed as A 21st century ranch house in Ventura County. I find myself drawn to the way this house combines the open, free-spirited nature of a rural setting with elements of modern architecture and design.
Nestled along a hillside approximately 60 miles from LA, the home seems like a great weekend retreat. The 10,000 square foot home sits on 40 acres of lemon groves. The home’s two wings form a right angle, and together with the hills at the rear of the property they create an enclosed private space. In fact, the entire house seems quite isolated due to the abundance of trees on the property, as seen on the satellite image below.
John Gruber: “Facts continue to hold a liberal bias.”
If you do nothing else today, watch this video presentation by Lawrence Lessig. It features an exhaustive (yet fairly brief) “comparison of Governor Palin’s experience as compared with every other Vice President in U.S. history.”
Julie bought me a pack of Orbit Positively Pomegranate Gum a while back, probably around May or June of this year. At first, it was just like any other new flavor of gum. I tried it and liked it, but it was nothing special. But by the time I got to the end of the pack, I wanted more.
Fast forward to September 1, which is approximately when I remembered and began to miss that pack of Positively Pomegranate. I have been searching every store I have visited since that day for my favorite flavor of Orbit. And each time I search, I leave empty-handed. Finally, last Friday, Julie reminded me that Positively Pomegranate was a Limited Edition. And today I finally googled it — unfortunately.
I haven’t found any firm dates yet, but the consensus is that Positively Pomegranate is no more. Of the few people who enjoyed it, none can find it in their local stores. I searched an online candy store, and they don’t have it either. I’m thinking that I will never taste a piece of this wonderful gum again, but if you happen to locate some, please drop a line.
That’s the word from the National Weather Service tonight. I don’t believe I have ever seen a warning so dire. Click the link above if you want to read the entire Hurricane Warning. Here’s the good part:
LIFE THREATENING INUNDATION LIKELY!
ALL NEIGHBORHOODS ... AND POSSIBLY ENTIRE COASTAL COMMUNITIES ... WILL BE INUNDATED DURING THE PERIOD OF PEAK STORM TIDE. PERSONS NOT HEEDING EVACUATION ORDERS IN SINGLE FAMILY ONE OR TWO STORY HOMES WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH. MANY RESIDENCES OF AVERAGE CONSTRUCTION DIRECTLY ON THE COAST WILL BE DESTROYED. WIDESPREAD AND DEVASTATING PERSONAL PROPERTY DAMAGE IS LIKELY ELSEWHERE. VEHICLES LEFT BEHIND WILL LIKELY BE SWEPT AWAY. NUMEROUS ROADS WILL BE SWAMPED ... SOME MAY BE WASHED AWAY BY THE WATER. ENTIRE FLOOD PRONE COASTAL COMMUNITIES WILL BE CUTOFF. WATER LEVELS MAY EXCEED 9 FEET FOR MORE THAN A MILE INLAND. COASTAL RESIDENTS IN MULTI-STORY FACILITIES RISK BEING CUTOFF. CONDITIONS WILL BE WORSENED BY BATTERING WAVES. SUCH WAVES WILL EXACERBATE PROPERTY DAMAGE ... WITH MASSIVE DESTRUCTION OF HOMES ... INCLUDING THOSE OF BLOCK CONSTRUCTION. DAMAGE FROM BEACH EROSION COULD TAKE YEARS TO REPAIR.
I get tired of digging through the chaff at The Truth About Cars sometimes. It takes a small bit of effort to determine the author of an article from my comfortable Google Reader interface. It’s not that big of a deal, but sometimes there’s so much crap that I end up missing a good Loverman post. I finally got fed up this afternoon and took a few seconds to apply Yahoo Pipes to the problem. The result is an RSS feed of only Jonny’s posts. It’s not a total replacement for my subscription to the full TTAC feed, but I certainly won’t be missing any more of the all-important Loverman posts.
Google Chrome won’t run properly on my work PC. Whenever it loads, I get the sad folder saying, “Aw, Snap!” No matter whether I’m trying to access a local html file, a local image, or a remote site, I always get the same result.
Update: It turns out that there’s a conflict between Chrome and Symantec Endpoint Protection. Adding --no-sandbox to the command line bypasses the bug. It’s not a great solution, but it’s got chrome working on my work PC for now.
Update 2: Here’s Symantec’s current official response.
I was digging through Julie’s Picasa Web albums tonight and found this great shot of Isabel.
CNN’s Flash support isn’t quite future proof. Actually, in light of the current Flash 10 Beta, it’s not present proof. I’m running the new Flash player because Flash 9 won’t play videos in Firefox 3 for me. Flash 10 Beta restores my ability to pull down as much video off of the intertubes as I desire, except for the video on CNN.com. The error message says “8 or higher”, so you would think that 10 would work, right? Please, CNN, let me watch your videos.
