Rich's Tongfamily (Richtong.net add-on)

Great stuff that you can find on WSJ: Itemizing your home for insurance and disasters. The sites they recommend are knowyourstuff.org, stuffsafe.com Tracking your mileage points. gomiles.com, mileport.com

Well the resources are really improving. I’ve been using Qingwen on the iPhone, Chinesepod for audio and Chinesedict online, but a quick search shows there are lots more now. Like http://popupchinese.com/chinese/news And lots of reviews like http://learn-chinese.mychinastart.com/

This is a box that takes cable input and then distributes over your internal network to various network devices. So that for instance you can watch anything on say Comcast from your iPad 2 or from your Windows PC. Sadly these appear to be the only devices supported right now. So if I wanted to…

Wel gizmo’s are wonderful, I have a Chef’s Choice 120 and it is a great knife sharpener which Cooks Illustrated recommended, but here are some other choices: Chef’s choice 110. Is decent a step below the 120, but cheaper. City Kitchen’s carries the 115 which looks pretty close to the 120. As an aside, for…

If you are really into it, don’t just use the JPGs that your camera produces, but take the literally raw output of the sensors and process it yourself. You get a lot more depth as JPGs support 8-bit color while most modern cameras actually take 12-14 bits color, so that translates into 1 stop more…

My bubble is burst. My favorite reality shows are fake. Oh well, I guess I’ll go back to watching Youtube… Storage Wars Kitchen Nightmares. Controversy here, he did win a libel suit in 2006 saying he didn’t fake things. I actually saw the Dillon’s episode and if it was so unbelievably bad as a restaurant that…

Haven’t been there in years but terrific place. Some notes or the early fall. For me anyway falls into three categories 1. Lighthouses. Nubble Lighthouse. Just inside Maine. On a mini island. Great views and if ur lucky y will meet Bill Hamilton painter. Two Lights. Great state park. And there is their lobster shack…

Ok now with cool clubs, you actually have to learn how to play (just reading Harry Penick might not do the trick). So like most sports (skiing for one), I’m thinking that one really good instructor is key…so here are some lists… Ron Hansen was 2007 Western PGA Professional of the year and is at…

What a pain. Have Mac Office 2011, it is very restrictive on activation, so have lost a few hard drives and now when I try to activate it says too many times, but there is no way in the interface to reset activations and when you try to call on the phone, it just fails…