Kevin Martin out four to six weeks

Team's top-scorer joins Bibby, Abdur-Rahim among injured - NBA - The Sacramento Kings suffered another blow when leading scorer Kevin Martin left Tuesday's game against the Utah Jazz with a pulled groin muscle that is expected to sideline him four to six weeks, the team said on Wednesday.

CISCO Data Center EBC

After helping get Jack to bed on Monday night, I headed for the south bay and stayed the night at the Radisson Plaza Hotel near the San Jose Airport.

I spent Tuesday at Cisco in an executive briefing titled Data Center Technologies and Futures. The agenda included: Next Generation Data Center Architecture Strategy; Data Center Technologies; Cisco Datacenter Networking Strategy and Solutions Overview; Strategy to Leverage Datacenter Networking to Lower TCO; Overview of Storage Solution Set; Virtualization Market Movement; Virtualization as a Strategic Weapon; and Virtualization Solution Areas and Roadmap.

Whenever I attend these types of programs, I try to walk away with a couple of key points. My take-away from this session was that we need to push harder to use VMWare on our production windows servers. While we are using it extensively in development and test, we are not using it on a large scale in production.

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Song for 1977

During my sophomore year at UC Davis, I lived in the high rise Malcom Hall dorm building. My roommate [Cortland Greer] had an eclectic taste in music that ranged from Jethro Tull to Tower of Power to Gordon Lightfoot. On March 4, 1977 at the Memorial Auditorium in Sacramento, a group including Laurie and I saw Gordon Lightfoot in concert. I dated Laurie from Fall Quarter of 1976 to Winter Quarter of 1979. For a couple of reasons, it is a night that I will never forget.

The song for 1977 is Gordon Lightfoot's Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

You can find the work in progress Soundtrack for My Life here!

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NBA Power Rankings 2007-2008 Week 5

The Sacramento King's position in Marc Stein's NBA power rankings jumped from 25th to 19th out of 30 teams.

ESPN - NBA Basketball Power Rankings - National Basketball Association: There's been some well-chronicled resistance to the new coach and Artest has missed eight games already, but give Theus this: Sacramento's last three wins were recorded against Detroit, San Antonio and Houston.

Putting up Xmas Lights

Due to the trip to the Bay area with Sharon's family at Thanksgiving and Sharon's trip to Austin this weekend, we are way behind in decorating the house for Christmas. Usually, we have the house decorated by the Sunday after Thanksgiving.

I spent the loin's share of the afternoon getting the lights up on the front of the house. I will eventually post some pictures.

California Military Museum

Jack and I walked through the California Military Musuem in Old Sacramento on Saturday.

California Military Museum, originally uploaded by heringermr.

To the Towe Auto Museum

There have been some articles recently about how the Towe Auto Museum's lease with the city of Sacramento expires in February 2008. Apparently, the city wants to develop the stretch of the river from I-5 to the Tower Bridge as part of something called the Dock's project.

Given the uncertain future and the fact that I have never been there, I decided to take Jack to Towe Auto Museum Saturday morning. I was surprised at the size of the collection. They must have close to a hundred cars representing the period from the late 1800's through the 1950's with a few cars from the 1960's and 1970's. Although old cars are not one of my passions, I was amazed at the quality and quantity of the cars on display.

Although we went early, I was surprised how empty the place was. I do not think there were more than 2 other visitors in the cavernous building.

Towe Auto Museum

Towe Auto Museum, originally uploaded by heringermr.

California Historical Landmark #366

Pioneer Telegraph Building
California State Historical Landmark #366
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This landmark is located at 1015 2nd Street in Old Sacramento, California. There are 57 other California State Historical Landmarks in Sacramento County. The GPS coordinates for this location are N 38° 34.955 W 121° 30.254.

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Erroneously called the Pony Express Terminal, this was the location of the office occupied by the State Telegraph Company, 1863-1868, and the Western Union Telegraph Company, 1868-1915.

On October 24, 1861, the first transcontinental telegraph message was transmitted to the Pioneer Telegraph Building at 1015 Second Street. The Pony Express stops operations two days later.

California Historical Landmark #597

What Cheer House California State Historical Landmark #597 See this location on Yahoo Maps in Flickr See this location on Google Maps
This landmark is located at the southeast corner of K and Front Streets in Old Sacramento, California. There are 57 other California State Historical Landmarks in Sacramento County. The GPS coordinates for this location are N 38° 34.939 W 121° 30.350.
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The celebrated hotel was constructed on this site in 1853. State offices were located here in 1855.

 

K Street during the 1862 Flood with the What Cheer House visible on the right.

California Historical Landmark #598

Site of Stage and Railroad (First)
California State Historical Landmark #598
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This landmark is located at the northwest corner of K and Front Streets in Old Sacramento, California. There are 57 other California State Historical Landmarks in Sacramento County. The GPS coordinates for this location are N 38° 34.953 W 121° 30.367.

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This is the site of the terminal of stages of the 1850s and of the Sacramento Valley Railroad in 1855.

Live Free or Die Hard

With Sharon in Austin for the weekend to do a walk through on a property, I watched Live Free or Die Hard, the fourth of the Die Hard movies, on DVD. The movie has some spectacular stunts, but the scene towards the end where Bruce Willis' character ends up on the wing of a fighter jet is just too unbelievable.

November 2007 Cub Scout Pack Meeting

Jack and I went to the November 2007 meeting of his cub scout pack. The program included a skit by the bear den, a brief awards ceremony, a presentation of how rain and fog are formed including a chance to make their own clouds using water and dry ice, a Christmas card workshop for their upcoming trip to the retirement home and a game of ghost in the graveyard.

 

 

Song for 1966

I grew up watching Clint Eastwood as the man with no name in the spaghetti western "Dollars Trilogy": A Fistful of Dollars (1964); For a Few Dollars More (1965); and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). I can not even guess how many times I watched those movies as a kid. I have always especially loved the theme song to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. It has been a ringtone on my last couple cell phones.

The song for 1966 is Ennio Morricone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

You can find the work in progress Soundtrack for My Life here!

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California Historical Landmark #176

Benicia Arsenal
California State Historical Landmark #176
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This landmark is located at the intersection of Adams and Jefferson Streets, Benicia, California in Solano County. There are 14 other California State Historical Landmarks in Solano County. The GPS coordinates for this location are N 38° 02.858 W 122° 08.361.

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Captain Charles P. Stone, with 21 enlisted men, established Benicia Arsenal as an ordnance depot in August 1851. The first building, a small wooden powder magazine, was erected in September 1851. Between 1853 and 1863, Congress authorized $550,000 to be spent on the establishment, and some 15 stone and frame buildings were constructed. The arsenal was first called 'California Ordnance Depot,' then 'Benicia Arsenal Depot,' and finally, in the spring of 1852, 'Benicia Arsenal.' It played an important role in crises such as the Indian wars. Some of its original buildings are in use today. Descendants of the men who established Benicia Arsenal are still living in Benicia and other parts of California.

Aggie Get Together

Chabrier has been working to get a group of UC Davis Alumni together on a regular basis. We met in Healdsburg in June and at the first UC Davis Football game in September.

Monday night, we got together at Bistro 33 in Davis. This restaurant is located in Davis' Historic City Hall. The group included Chabrier, Hunter, Snipes, Al Greene and I.

Other than Hunter's stories of the Rugby World Cup Tour to France with Tomasin, Geselbracht and Swedberg, probably the most interesting discussion of the evening revolved around Chabrier's new job. He is Chief Marketing Officer for Puresense. Puresense's major product is a turn-key solution for irrigation management, including monitors and on-line software.

The evening's wide ranging discussion also included the California olive industry and the causes of cancer. Al Greene is very passionate about his involvement in the California olive industry, while Snipes had some interesting observations about the factors that do and don't contribute to higher rates of cancer.

NBA Power Rankings 2007-2008 Week 4

The Sacramento King's position in Marc Stein's NBA power rankings fell from 23rd to 25th out of the 30 teams.

ESPN - NBA Basketball Power Rankings - National Basketball Association: How far have the mighty fallen? When the season began, Sacramento was actually third overall in winning percentage this century at .622 (including the 2000-01 season), behind only San Antonio (.720) and Dallas (.709).

Hairspray

Sharon mentioned that she wanted to see the movie Hairspray. Before we started dinner, I ordered the movie from Amazon Unboxed. It took about 1 hour and 40 minutes for the movie to download to the Tivo Series 2 in the bonus room.

We watched the movie after dinner. Sharon gave the movie a 5 on a scale of 1 to 10. While it has some entertaining moments, it is not a film that I would go out of my way to see.

Back from San Francisco

After a second night at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco, Jack and I got up and ran from the Ferry Building to AT&T Park and back along the Embarcadero. We covered a little over 2 miles.

When we got back to the hotel, we joined Sharon and her mom at Eclipse Cafe in the lobby for breakfast. From there, we packed up the rooms, retrieved the car and headed back to Sacramento.

Sharon's brother Tim had an adventure getting his car. Somehow the hotel had misplaced his car. It ended up taking almost an hour and a half to find the car. The hotel finally resorted to walking through the parking garage with Kathy's extra set of keys and clicking the remote to get the car to chirp in order to find the car.