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Alex's Notes
- Götterdämmerung, Me and the Opera
- Black and Decker Toaster Oven
- AZ Thunderstorm!
- May There Always Be a Dialog
- Ethnic Intolerance
- Collective Guilt and the Third Reich
- Improving Toaster Waffles
- Glock Automatic Pistols
- Righteousness
- Classical Music and The Human Voice
- The Little Old Lady and the Dog – a Modern Parable
- Windshield Wiper Blades
- Michelin Tires Saved My Bacon
- Letter to a Cousin
- Cigarette and Booze Warning Labels!
- Rick Santorum
- April Nights
- Golden Age of Rail
- Notes From All Over
- OLD FRIENDS lyrics (Mary McCaslin)
- E-mail Etiquette
- Amazon Bird Calls
- New KDFC FM Format – Kudos!
- It’s The Little Things, 2011
- QUOTES Browser
- Great Whites Breaching
- New Year Resolutions
- Remember When, No. 427
- “Black Friday”
- Ants, 2010
- Fw: Three Presidents did it
- “Now I’m in the BATHROOM”
- Baby Blues
- Politically Strange Weather Year
- Tweets and Timolol
- The New York Times Crosswords
- More “Remember When?”
- All In A Day’s Work
- Spell Checker
- Captain Memo
- Notes From All Over – or Not
- Bric-A-Brac
- fatuous
- Endless Summer
- What About Junk Education?
- Getting The Salt Out
- The Dream
- “That Sentence Should Be Taken Out and Shot”
- “Resealable Bag Inside”
- Cooking for Partisans and Politicians
- 011110
- Valley of the Kings: Secrets in Stone
- “Rains Down In Africa”
- Petrified
- Lady Preacher
- Phoenix in October
- Eye Surgery
- Castrol Ad
- Memo to the Kid on the Skateboard
- Picture Worth 117 Words
- Morning Report
- Television Pandering
- Funky Winkerbean
- Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread
- Speeding Photo Enforcement
- Signs of the Times
- Curious George
- We Like The Moon
- Camembert Again …
- Retiree’s Progress
- MonsterQuest Revisited
- Pop Classical, or Dolce De Coco
- Letters: Alex and the Creator
- Layoff!
- Armageddon Week (History Channel)
- More Camembert
- Christmas Curmudgeon
- Pocket Combs
- Camembert
- Mysterious Barricades
- Liar Liar, Pants on Fire
- Remembering when …
- Complaining About the Weather
- Can’t You See I’m on the Phone?
- Sherman’s Lagoon
- Figures of Speech
- Viva Jerry Jeff
- Heat Wave
- Iron Man – mini review
- Reflection on Magenta
- Week in Review
- Foster City Poisoning Squirrels
- Ah, Phoenix!
- Musical Clowns
- Top 10 Ad No-No’s
- 2008 Drive to Phoenix
- Groundhog Day
- Mendelssohn
- Economy in Review with Typos
- CostCo Fixes a Flat
- Northern CA Storms the Real Thing
- Ants’ Progress
- Grant’s Ant Stakes
- Rain in Phoenix Nov 30 – Dec 1
- Grammar Police: The Endangered Species
- US Air “Lightning” Struck Twice
- Schrödinger’s Cat and Less Famous Felines
- Letter to Stereophile Magazine
- TV Ad “Golden Age?”
- Phoenix Vacation Notes
- Charlie Dunn 1898-1993
- In Praise of BiC
- Story of Red Line Charlie
- Welcome Home Popslider
- Cash Cab Mondegreens
- Oakland Oaks
- Hardworking Farm Boy
- Old and New
- Discovery Does Cash Cab
- Hot Enough
- Pigeons and Palms
- Weather Alert!
- Ahhh, Phoenix
- NO COMMENT DEPARTMENT
- What This Site’s All About
- Complaining About The Heat
- America’s Cup 32
- Electrocution: Copper-theft suspect in critical condition
- ‘Why Is There Air’ – the next step
- How It Works: Pool Vacs
- Driving To Phoenix
- Roast Beef on French, Dip
- The Whore Moans and many more
- 60,000 Mile BeautyRest
- Sea Change
- DISCOVERY: “How It’s Made” *****
- DISCOVERY: “Future Weapons” with Richard “Mack” Machowicz – **
- DISCOVERY: “Man vs. Wild” with Bear Grylls – *****
- DISCOVERY: “MythBusters” with the MythBusters staff *****
- DISCOVERY: “Dirty Jobs” with Mike Rowe ****
- Summitlake Does The Discovery Channel
- Seeds of the Luckypod Tree
- Celebrity Chicken with Rice Soup
- Diamox – That’s for Me!
- Life Without Newspapers
- Paperless News
- Christmas Turkey in January
- Getting Ready for Groundhog Day
- Adieu to 2006
- FLU: personal gateway to Dante’s Inferno
- James Kim
- Solitaire Tips
- Sennheiser HD650 Headphones
- The Dale Warland Singers
- Today’s Special: Positive Spins & Pyrrhic Victories
- Whazzis?
- Global Warming …
- Regal Coffeemaker
- Baby Talk
- Magnum/Dynalab MD-90 Analog FM tuner
- Boy Mechanic Changes a Flat
- Short Short
- Mini Vacation
- “My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys” Ramble
- Proctor & Gamble Buys Gillette
- Boy Mechanic Woodworking Project
- TS Weather -> Real, Live Thunderstorms
- Phoenix TS Weather
- Boy Mechanic Fixes A Clock
- All the Little Live Things, Stegner, Part 2
- Stereophile Sticker Shock
- Phoenix Weekend
- All the Little Live Things, Stegner, Part 1
- Healthy Choice frozen dinners
- Last Day of Vacation
- Thundershowers and Rain
- Kinky Boots
- Boy Mechanic
- The Silvery Monsoon
- Lady of the House
- Corona Australis
- Last Day of Vacation
- Popslider Vacation
- Squirrel Sunday in May
- A Popslider Kind of Morning
- Weather.com
- Rain, Rain du jour
- Rain, Rain Go Some Way
- Junk Mail – hidden text
- Letter to a Friend
- Crazy Old Ladies
- Return of Popslider
- New Year Resolutions – Advertising
- Plastic Spoons
- Christmas Is Just Another Day
- Week Five
- Note to My Friends
- Bob Sibley 1945-2005
- How Was That Again?
- Music For All Seasons
- Quote
- Happy Labor Day
- Can You Hear Me Now?
- 108 in the Shade
- Andy Rooney
- “Toast to Thoughtlessness”
- The “Flute Bird” – errata
- Mr. Popslider
- Happy Mothers Day
- General Aviation
- Pavane For A Dead Princess
- Dreams
- WordPress 1.5 Upgrade
- SQL Upgrade Outage
- Messianic Boomers
- The Elaborate Set-up
- “Abuse A Reaction to Looting”
- Happy New Year 2005
- Happy New Year 2005
- “Volare” 1958, the ramble
- Astronomy – Fearless Observer
- Hawaii 2004 Slide Show
- Quote of the Day
- Sears/K-Mart Merger
- Vote Early and Often
- Bin Laden Lectures
- Happy Hallowe’en
- Bug in Calendar Calcs program
- KCEA-89.1FM (SF Bay Area)
- Cat Stevens
- New York New York
- Good-bye, Flapjack
- Driving School
- Hi-Tech Calendars
- 1,230,000 pages served
- Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride
- Flim-Flammed
- Thirteen Days – TV drama
- Ronald Reagan 1911-2004
- Sticks and Stones
- Return from Phoenix
- Master and Commander
- Note to Our Readers
- How I’m Using MovableType
- Graffiti Spam hits Summitlake
- Driving to Phoenix
- SF Cop Killer
- Death Penalty
- Geheime Staatspolizei
- Moon Walk 1969
- P.G. Wodehouse
- Vanguard Economic Week in Review
- Getting Over It
- MOVABLETYPE Experiment
- Site Changes
- Wrong News, Polysyllabic Professors
- Charlie Dunn
- Vanguard Economic Week in Review
- The Big Questions
- “And Fala Hates Wah”
- Vietnam Antiwar Rally
- Woodward Shares War Secrets
- Name change to “My Notes”
- New Page – PHOTO Notes
- Name of this flower?
- Machiavellian
- It Don’t Matter
- Big Bang – too fast, Part I
- New in Friends Gallery
- Digital vs. Film
- Quitting Smoking
- Changes at My Notes
Astronomy
Audio and Music
- Classical Music and The Human Voice
- “Rains Down In Africa”
- Letter to Stereophile Magazine
- Magnum/Dynalab MD-90 Analog FM tuner
- “My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys” Ramble
- Stereophile Sticker Shock
- Music For All Seasons
- Audio Advisor
- “Volare” 1958, the ramble
- KCEA-89.1FM (SF Bay Area)
Boy Mechanic
- Foster City Poisoning Squirrels
- CostCo Fixes a Flat
- Ants’ Progress
- Grant’s Ant Stakes
- How It Works: Pool Vacs
- Boy Mechanic Changes a Flat
- Boy Mechanic Woodworking Project
- Boy Mechanic Fixes A Clock
- Boy Mechanic
Commentary
- Righteousness
- The Little Old Lady and the Dog – a Modern Parable
- Politically Strange Weather Year
- Bric-A-Brac
- Ads We Can Do Without
- Grammar Police: The Endangered Species
- Schrödinger’s Cat and Less Famous Felines
- In Praise of BiC
- Today’s Special: Positive Spins & Pyrrhic Victories
- “Toast to Thoughtlessness”
- Bush Sound Bites
- Watchtower
- Messianic Boomers
- “Abuse A Reaction to Looting”
- Thirteen Days – TV drama
- SF Cop Killer
- Death Penalty
- Geheime Staatspolizei
Consumer
- Black and Decker Toaster Oven
- Bric-A-Brac
- “Resealable Bag Inside”
- CostCo Fixes a Flat
- In Praise of BiC
- Electrocution: Copper-theft suspect in critical condition
- 60,000 Mile BeautyRest
- Life Without Newspapers
- Today’s Special: Positive Spins & Pyrrhic Victories
- Regal Coffeemaker
- Proctor & Gamble Buys Gillette
- Healthy Choice frozen dinners
- Sears/K-Mart Merger
Contemporary
- “Black Friday”
- Fw: Three Presidents did it
- Signs of the Times
- Foster City Poisoning Squirrels
- Musical Clowns
- ‘Why Is There Air’ – the next step
- Life Without Newspapers
- Baby Talk
Current Events
- Week in Review
- Economy in Review with Typos
- James Kim
- Rain, Rain du jour
- “Abuse A Reaction to Looting”
- Vanguard Economic Week in Review
- Getting Over It
- Vanguard Economic Week in Review
Education
Entertainment
- Heard on TV
- The New York Times Crosswords
- Captain Memo
- ‘Knight and Day’ Plot Gimmick Used Before
- Television Pandering
- Curious George
- MonsterQuest Revisited
- TV Ad “Golden Age?”
- Cash Cab Mondegreens
- Discovery Does Cash Cab
- DISCOVERY: “How It’s Made” *****
- DISCOVERY: “Future Weapons” with Richard “Mack” Machowicz – **
- DISCOVERY: “Man vs. Wild” with Bear Grylls – *****
- DISCOVERY: “MythBusters” with the MythBusters staff *****
- DISCOVERY: “Dirty Jobs” with Mike Rowe ****
- Summitlake Does The Discovery Channel
- Kinky Boots
- Master and Commander
Food
Health
- Eye Surgery
- Celebrity Chicken with Rice Soup
- Diamox – That’s for Me!
- FLU: personal gateway to Dante’s Inferno
History
- “Silent Cal” Coolidge
- History Snippets: Cradle-land of Battles
- History Snippets: China
- History Snippets: Measurement
- History Snippets: Manned Flight
- History Snippets: Hydrogen Bomb
- History Snippets: Mt. St. Helens
- History Snippets: Santorini
- History Snippets: Battleships
- History Snippets: Cast-iron Cannon
Humor
- Cigarette and Booze Warning Labels!
- Amazon Bird Calls
- Spell Checker
- Valley of the Kings: Secrets in Stone
- Cat’o’possums
- We Like The Moon
- Camembert Again …
- Liar Liar, Pants on Fire
- Musical Clowns
Milestones
- Charlie Dunn 1898-1993
- Letter to a Friend
- Plastic Spoons
- Christmas Is Just Another Day
- Week Five
- Happy New Year 2005
- Ronald Reagan 1911-2004
- Moon Walk 1969
- Quitting Smoking
Miscellany
- The New York Times Crosswords
- Can’t You See I’m on the Phone?
- Heat Wave
- Story of Red Line Charlie
- Hardworking Farm Boy
- Complaining About The Heat
- Roast Beef on French, Dip
- Charlie Dunn
- Machiavellian
- It Don’t Matter
Movies
- ‘Knight and Day’ Plot Gimmick Used Before
- Eastwood
- Iron Man – mini review
- Kinky Boots
- Master and Commander
Music
- Götterdämmerung, Me and the Opera
- Notes From All Over
- OLD FRIENDS lyrics (Mary McCaslin)
- New KDFC FM Format – Kudos!
- Mysterious Barricades
- Mendelssohn
- Letter to Stereophile Magazine
- Charlie Dunn 1898-1993
- The Whore Moans and many more
- Sennheiser HD650 Headphones
- The Dale Warland Singers
News
Phoenix
- AZ Thunderstorm!
- April Nights
- Tweets and Timolol
- “Rains Down In Africa”
- Phoenix in October
- Picture Worth 117 Words
- Morning Report
- Speeding Photo Enforcement
- Ah, Phoenix!
- 2008 Drive to Phoenix
- Rain in Phoenix Nov 30 – Dec 1
- US Air “Lightning” Struck Twice
- Phoenix Vacation Notes
- Welcome Home Popslider
- Hot Enough
- Pigeons and Palms
- Weather Alert!
- Ahhh, Phoenix
- Whazzis?
- Regal Coffeemaker
- Mini Vacation
- TS Weather -> Real, Live Thunderstorms
- Phoenix TS Weather
- Phoenix Weekend
- Last Day of Vacation
- Thundershowers and Rain
- The Silvery Monsoon
- Corona Australis
- Last Day of Vacation
- Popslider Vacation
- A Popslider Kind of Morning
- Rain, Rain Go Some Way
- Return of Popslider
- Can You Hear Me Now?
- 108 in the Shade
- The “Flute Bird” – errata
- Mr. Popslider
- Watchtower
- Return from Phoenix
- Driving to Phoenix
Photography
Politics
- Bush Sound Bites
- Messianic Boomers
- “Abuse A Reaction to Looting”
- Quote of the Day
- Wrong News, Polysyllabic Professors
- The Big Questions
- “And Fala Hates Wah”
- Vietnam Antiwar Rally
- Woodward Shares War Secrets
Profiles
Quotes
Radio
Reviews
- Black and Decker Toaster Oven
- Eastwood
- “Whale Wars”
- TV Ad “Golden Age?”
- DISCOVERY: “How It’s Made” *****
- DISCOVERY: “Future Weapons” with Richard “Mack” Machowicz – **
- DISCOVERY: “Man vs. Wild” with Bear Grylls – *****
- DISCOVERY: “MythBusters” with the MythBusters staff *****
- DISCOVERY: “Dirty Jobs” with Mike Rowe ****
- All the Little Live Things, Stegner, Part 2
- All the Little Live Things, Stegner, Part 1
Rhetoric
Science
- Golden Age of Rail
- Politically Strange Weather Year
- Bric-A-Brac
- Schrödinger’s Cat and Less Famous Felines
- Old and New
Site News
- What This Site’s All About
- WordPress 1.5 Upgrade
- SQL Upgrade Outage
- Bug in Calendar Calcs program
- Good-bye, Flapjack
- 1,230,000 pages served
- Note to Our Readers
- Graffiti Spam hits Summitlake
- MOVABLETYPE Experiment
- Site Changes
- Name change to “My Notes”
- New Page – PHOTO Notes
- New in Friends Gallery
- Changes at My Notes
Sports
test
Travel
- Michelin Tires Saved My Bacon
- Golden Age of Rail
- Speeding Photo Enforcement
- 2008 Drive to Phoenix
- Driving To Phoenix
- Hawaii 2004 Slide Show
- New York New York
- Return from Phoenix
- Driving to Phoenix
