Five Acres with a View

April 17, 2008 - Click on image for higher resolution version.

April 17, 2008 - Click on image for higher resolution version.

It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity. I bet this kind of thing does not happen to heroin addicts. I bet that when serious heroin addicts go to purchase their heroin, they do not tolerate waiting in line while some dilettante in front of them orders a hazelnut smack-a-cino with cinnamon sprinkles. ~Dave Barry

Coffee Quotes and Sayings about Caffeine

Created on April 16, 2008.

Kaleidoscope is fun drawing toy that requires a fairly up to date browser.

I have had almost no personal experience of Windows Vista, and having watched my manager struggle with it on her laptop, I am quite content to keep it that way. Randall C Kennedy of InfoWorld decided to compare Vista versus XP and Windows 2000 on the same hardware and produced this chart.

Not only is Vista and Office 2007 the most bloated desktop software stack ever to emerge from Redmond, its system requirements are so out of proportion with recent hardware trends that only the latest and greatest from Intel or AMD can support its epically porcine girth.

Read the complete article.

Taken on April 11, 2008. Edited with Picnic.

April 04, 2008 - Click on image for higher resolution version.

April 04, 2008 - Click on image for higher resolution version.

We have a lot of deer here along the front range: some are so tame it is scary. The higher resolution shows you the expression of the driver, which is priceless.

April 02, 2008 - Click on image for higher resolution version.

Dale Jr. (Part 1)

Just remember: it will do the same thing to your car as it does to these rocks.