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Bruce Springsteen :: San Jose 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Chato) — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 05:08:00 +0000

These are my pictures of the opening night of Bruce's tour supporting his "Working on a Dream" album.

I took all of these photographs using a Panosonic Lumix camera. I forget the model number, but you don't really care. Bottom line, it has great optics made by Leica.

These pictures are presented in order from beginning to end. I took over 50 pictures, and these were what I felt were presentable. It turns out that the set-list is on-line (who knew?!) if you are interested.

You can click on any image to see a larger image. All images are Copyright Daniel Hinojosa © 2009.

If you are interested in any of these images for enlargement or other uses, please contact me via a comment to this blog.

noreply@blogger.com (Chato) — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:47:00 +0000

Inauguration photos: http://ping.fm/8MfN9 - label that, "wow".

noreply@blogger.com (Chato) — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:09:00 +0000

RT: If you haven't today, why not take 10 min to watch, hear or read the I Have a Dream speech http://ping.fm/BUCp5 and play it loud

noreply@blogger.com (Chato) — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:01:00 +0000

- just my awesome view of MtnView.

noreply@blogger.com (Chato) — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:57:00 +0000

I am serving the OSS community today. I was going to give blood but rode my bike in, so - can't do that...

Mavericks on Friday?

noreply@blogger.com (Chato) — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:10:00 +0000

I've been watching the same report Jeff Clark and company watch. It looks like the Mavericks contest is going to go off this weekend. The article in the Mercury News seems to favor Friday. I have a spare day off in the bank, so all I need to do is to finish making sure my wetsuit is ready.

So, hang in, once I get back, I'll get my pictures processed (no underwater digital camera - so going olde school: film) and put up another entry that is hopefully as robust as last year's.

I feel as nervous as though I were going to be the one to actually compete... It's a long paddle and the inside surf that I have to paddle through is fairly un-predictable, so that is part of it. However, watching these athletes surf waves that could have 40 foot faces (imagine jumping down 3 to 4 stories off a building), is something I had never thought I'd see growing up surfing.

Anyway, hang in, I'm hopeful it's going to go as smooth as it did last year.

A message from Mike

noreply@blogger.com (Chato) — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 17:06:00 +0000

My friend Mike sent this email to a list of friends post-election day. It was powerful to me and I want to share it out...

Like a lot of off kilter people, I didn't just follow this election. I stalked it; staying up every night watching election coverage; driving around listening to angry talk radio; obsessing over polls on the web. My mental health was riding on the outcome.

Because for the last eight years, I've watched on as Bush and company have exhausted our military, burned through the national treasury, attacked our constitution, politicized justice, institutionalized cronyism, rigged elections, neglected our infrastructure, and drove us to the brink of financial ruin. It's far more damage than Osama Bin Laden could have ever hoped to inflict. But Bush the cowboy played right into his hands.

And as Bush destroyed everything he touched, I felt like Chief Inspector Dreyfus in a Pink Panther movie, being driven insane by Inspector Clouseau. First with the nervous facial ticks, then the inappropriate mad laughter. And if McCain and Palin had won the Whitehouse, I would have been wrestled into a straight jacket and carried off to a padded cell.

Instead, I feel like a huge Bush tumor has been removed from my brain. And I need to go through some sort of therapy to deal with all the optimism. And since I no longer have the compulsion to watch Keith Olbermann shout into the camera every night, I have some free time work on my post-Bush rehab, starting with an examination of an embarrassment-free Presidency. For example:

Can scientists now speak without getting shouted down?

Will the new guy at FEMA actually do a heckuva job?

Will reality be the new reality?

And who's embarrassed to be an American now? Racists? Neocons? Neil Cavuto? But I repeat myself.

Will these be the people who threaten to leave the country? And just where does a racist go with their white sheets and pointed hoods packed neatly in a suitcase? Mexico? Antarctica?

Who cares? It doesn't matter. It's just the asking that cures me. Sure, there's a lot of serious work to be done in this country, but for now I can take comfort in knowing that when our President steps up to a podium, it won't be like Inspector Clouseau stepping onto a museum filled with priceless artifacts.

God bless you Mike. You put into words that which I could not. Morning in America.

The results...

noreply@blogger.com (Chato) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:57:00 +0000

Barack comes back

noreply@blogger.com (Chato) — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:17:00 +0000

Lipstick on a pig

noreply@blogger.com (Chato) — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:22:00 +0000

The McCain campaign is indignant about what?

Oh. I get that...

Go GOP!

noreply@blogger.com (Chato) — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:52:00 +0000

huh, I managed to miss this at the RNC last week:

Mighty big of them to give Barack the chant at the end! ;)

Downhill Skating

noreply@blogger.com (Chato) — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:54:00 +0000

Back in about January, I put up a post about Skateboarding. In that post I mentioned that I had some pictures around here of me skating on Coronado Street in Ocean Beach (San Diego) in the late 70's.

Well, today was clean out the dresser day. In that effort, I FOUND THE PICTURES!:

That's me up front and my brother and his brother-in-law in the background towards the top of the hill. They shared a great house at the top of the hill, so this was just something to do to blow off steam at halftime watching the Chargers, or just when we felt like it.

There were always cars parked along the street, much like there is now I'm sure. Either way, it was great fun. I had a favorite move which was to come as close as I could to the back of a car and make my cut-back off the left rear bumper:

Apparently this was before we discovered gloves... Sigh. I miss those days. That was just a lot of fun. I didn't fall on this one above by the way. Also, if you could see my socks, they matched the shoes, yellow and black stripped. Very cool. ;)

McCain's Veep-stakes

noreply@blogger.com (Chato) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:15:00 +0000

Conan O'Brien unveils the new NBC movie on the topic:

Ya gotta love Bella Karolyi

noreply@blogger.com (Chato) — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:35:00 +0000

His turn with Bobby C. during the Olympics has been a real thrill.

Of course, his turn on Animal Kingdom was somewhat unexpected:

That might just take off though. A little animal sex cheer leading squad may be all it takes to help some species make a come back...

Joe Cocker at Woodstock

noreply@blogger.com (Chato) — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:58:00 +0000

I bet you thought you knew the words to "With a little help from my friends", right? Bet you don't:

Not sure who April is, but either way, it was a fine effort in her honor.

Times like this, I love baseball

noreply@blogger.com (Chato) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:45:00 +0000

The commentator said it all.

Update: It turns out that this is a 'viral ad' from some beverage company... i still think it's pretty funny.

Gina, she's so pretty

noreply@blogger.com (Chato) — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:43:00 +0000

i like how she winks at me... ;)

Kirk for President.

noreply@blogger.com (Chato) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:39:00 +0000

Siamese Squash?

noreply@blogger.com (Chato) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:48:00 +0000

Or is that a "male" squash?: I think I saw one of these under some guys' truck on the way to the store. Not sure.

Ask...

noreply@blogger.com (Chato) — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:24:00 +0000

...and you receive:

$700?! That's the price of a board already... I'm not in Australia where I think the issue is a bit more pronounced. I still say, if I'm on Gus' menu, let it be.

Stay away Gus!

noreply@blogger.com (Chato) — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:19:00 +0000

My bro pointed me to this video:

A model for surfers would be greatly appreciated!

Haz Cats?

noreply@blogger.com (Chato) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:01:00 +0000

My first entries of LOLCATS...

My hook shot

noreply@blogger.com (Chato) — Sat, 17 May 2008 04:18:00 +0000

I love to play basketball. When I am in shape and have my game on, I favor my hook shot. I model my hook shot on the master:

I'll hit some from fairly far out. Nothing like Kareem. Still, I have a mean hook shot.

The Preakness

noreply@blogger.com (Chato) — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:41:00 +0000

If you are going to the race this weekend, you may want to take in the *other* event that is happening there, the Outhouse Trot:

I think this may be what I now consider, to be the height of stupidity. Not because doing this event might land you in something quite literally "crappy", but, it's an enormous waste of perfectly good beer. Ya, that's what everyone is flinging at the runners. Full cans (and some bottles) of beer.

Earth to Mars: Phoenix landing

noreply@blogger.com (Chato) — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:20:00 +0000

I saw this clip of the explanation of the Phoenix mission to Mars. This is an attempt to land near the north pole of Mars to see if they can find water or evidence of water:

I love this stuff, having grown up in the Air Force in the 60's on a missile base.

What will be interesting is:

a.) will the craft actually make the descent (other missions have missed)?
b.) will it actually land intact?

Dropping the last bit as the video indicates, seems like a humongous risk. I believe in science. This is really hard work. I'm not taking bets, but, I'm guessing it will land successfully. If it does, the knowledge that comes from that, should be awesome.