David’s Ramblings

Wow! Now that is my kind of villa!
Located just a few minutes from down town Ajijic on a quiet and private road; the most charming and truly Mexican Home. This 2 bedroom, 2 bath house with an artist studio plus a full casita is one of a kind that has maintained the original Mexican flavor. […]

El Grito de Dolores Long live independence! Long live America! Death to bad Government!
Watching the celebrations en Zocalo on Galvision, looks like a lot of fun. Happy Independence Day Mexico!

I’ve always loved photography and over the years amassed quite a collection of film cameras before I switched over to digital… I still exercise them from time to time…
The stable, left to right…

Minolta SRT-102, Rokkor 70-210mm Zoom
Kodak Retina Ia, 50mm f3.5
Minolta XK, 50mm f1.7
Minolta XK, 58mm f1.2 (same focal length as the eye sees, very […]

me gusta! canción de Carlos Vives … Carito

Old Mel, a throwback to the 60’s…

My friend Bob built a really nice pergola and a pond in his back yard. He asked me to manufacture the mounting brackets for the roof. A bit of cutting bending and drilling and they’re done. .. I’m inspired now. I’m going to build a pergola for my back deck and a Mexican fountain in […]

I meant to post these way back when it happened… but forgot. A huge oak tree crashed down on top of my parent’s house. It did a huge amount of damage. Things are fixed now though.

It’s nice to have good friends that you can count on… here’s to summer get togethers…

For law school I have to read a lot! One trick I use to keep up is to scatter my required reading around the house on in some comfortable locations. I have a number of pre-prepared studying spots…
The reading chair in the living room. Good light for night reading, comfortable chair and my conga to […]

Karyn stopped by the farm on her drive back to Winnipeg from Parrsboro and took a snap. We spent a lot of summers playing all over the place here. You kids get off the gravel pile! It’s changed a lot since then…
The farm house now…

The farm house in 1973 on my last visit…

Val and Grandma […]

The garden is growing really well, since I got back it’s presented me with a lot of new flowers. The bougainvilleas are blooming, the Pride is as well and some random seeds I found are giving me little purple flowers. Only the little soldiers at the gate are not growing, they are always green but […]

Another company is selling an implementation of our QWERsive Input Method patent. This one is called Swype and they have a very impressive demo.

United States Patent 7,250,938

Mmmm it makes a nice Cuba Libre! A little Coke a splash of lime and some Havana Club rum.

It’s not a big secret that my interest in science was ignited by my love of making stinks and bangs as a youngster. I could usually be found concocting and detonating all sorts of little experiments. Things that would unfortunately in today’s paranoiac zero tolerance* world be immediately classed as terroristic… shame.
Anyway the ultimate […]

Val and Karyn continued on driving across Canada. Here are a few snaps from Quebec City…

One thing that I love is dance… nothing like moving on the dance floor to the beat of good music!
My favorites are East Coast Swing (Lindy Hop), Salsa and West Coast Swing.
East Coast Swing; my dance teacher from Raleigh, Debbie Ramsey

More East Coast Swing, spin, sling and twirl!

Cuban Salsa Rueda

Spent the last day of vacation wandering around Halifax. I leave for Texas tomorrow and Val and Karyn drive back to Parrsboro to pack up the summer house and then drive to Montreal and Ottawa. Val takes off for NC and Karyn does the long drive across Ontario to Winnipeg.
Here are some snaps from […]