ski 2010-2011

ticket,rental                                           7,4      8,5      9,6    10,7
Tahoe Donner 236Mi $39,$30 7-12 $19,$25 0-6 $0,$25      $97      $97      $97    $116
Holiday rate unknown 12/18-1/2; 1/15-17; 2/19–27; 3/19-3/27
Soda Springs 222Mi $35,$39 0-12 $22,$28                $112     $112     $112    $112
Donner Ski Ranch:  $42,$36 7-12 $13,$25 0-6 $5,$15     $102     $102     $102    $110
(224Mi)            $25          $10 non holiday Tue, Wed, Thu 11/25-26, 12/20-1/2, 1/17, 2/21-25
Boreal (223Mi)     $49,$38 5-12 $15,$25 0-4 $0         $113(81) $128(96) $128(96) $128(96)
$56 holidays 11/25–28, 12/25-1/2, 1/15–17, 2/19–21
Dodge Ridge 167Mi  $59,$38 6-12 $16,$28                $118(98) $118(98) $150(122) $150(122)
Lucky Savemart discount tickets $49 $12 black out dates, 1/15-16 2/19-20
Bear Valley 186Mi  $62,$42 6-12 $19,$31 1-5 $5         $148(125)$148(125)$162(136) $162(136)
SportsBasement, REI discount tickets $52 $16

Tahoe Donner
Soda Springs
Donner Ski Ranch
Boreal

2009-10 Lake Tahoe
2008-09 packages

wide shoes

Running Warehouse Wide Shoes
endless 2E 4E 8 8.5
6pm EE
6pm 4E
Eastbay 2E
Eastbay 4E
The Finish Line

Road Runner Sports Wide
Road Runner Sports Extra Wide

Apple Mac OS X Softwares

QuickTime Components

*Perian is an open source QuickTime component that enables Apple Inc.’s QuickTime to play several popular video formats not supported natively by QuickTime on Mac OS X. The swiss-army knife for QuickTime

*Windows Media Components for QuickTime Microsoft WMA/WMV Compoments by Flip4Mac

Xiph QuickTime Components XiphQT for ogg container with Theora (video), FLAC (loseless), and Vorbis (audio) codecs

Apple Downloads of Unix and Open Source Softwares, OSX installer, download
Install Xcode first for Homebrew and MacPorts/Fink source install

Fink uses Debian dpkg and APT, Fink Project 12048 packages in 25 sections. has newer ffmpeg, but many very old and most with binary packages, apt-get to get binary distribution

*MacPorts 12143 ports, Uninstalling, direct binary packages - python3.4.3
*MacPorts GUI: Pallet (sudo port install Pallet), Porticus 1.8.1 2009/12/31

*? HomeBrew Build from source, The missing package manager for OS X, 1258 packages formulas

Rudix Unix ports and packages for Mac OS X delivered the Right Way - 145 dmg packages available

Bitnami Free, easy to setup wikis, blogs, forums and many other web applications that you can run locally or in the cloud

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.7 Lion

*FFmpeg
*1. MacPorts 0.7.8, Fink 0.8.9, Homebrew 0.10
2. Apple Downloads - x264Encoder 1.2.17 QuickTime component 2010/10/21 x264 git-1745 ffmpeg SVN-25512
... Datura-0.3.8 2010-02-20
3. FFmpeg on Mac OS X HOWTO - 2006, ffmpegX shareware 0.0.9y 1/26/2008

FFmpeg information on Apple.com

> ffmpeg -i input-file.mts -vcodec copy -deinterlace -acodec libaac -ab 256k output-file.mp4
> ffmpeg -i input-file.mts -vcodec copy -acodec copy output-file.m4v

MEncoder
Using MEncoder to create QuickTime-compatible file
> mencoder input.mts -oac faac -faacopts mpeg=4:object=2:raw:br=256 -channels 2 -srate 48000 -ovc copy -o output.mp4

Other softwares
LyX WYSIWYM GUI for Tex/LaTex
Celestia
Stellarium

San Francisco Parking

SFMTA Parking
Garage and Lots, location, spaces, hours, metered lots, rates

Downtown Garages

Meters: Meter Hours/Rates, Holiday Enforcement Schedule, Parking Meter Locations

Nike Women's Marathon Parking
Sutter Stockton Garage $1,$3,$4,$18
Ellis O'Farrell Parking $2,$3,$3.5,$32
Mason O'Farrell
Fifth and Mission $2,$3,$3.5,$32

El Niño-Southern Oscillation

El Nino

NOAA La Nina Page

IRI Net Assessment Forecasts

Climate Prediction Center, Seasonal Outlooks

ENSO Impacts > Previous Events (1951-present)

Long Term/Range Weather Forecast/Climate Forecasting 

Jua, Atmo, Google DeepMind GraphCast, Nvidia Earth-2 FourCastNet, Huawei Pangu-Weather
Should we trust AI to predict natural disasters? 
Jua raises $16M to build a foundational AI model for the natural world, starting with the weather 
AI’s First Big Test; Predicting the Path of a Major Hurricane 

Trekking Poles

** Black Diamond Trekking Poles Distance Carbon Z-Pole, 120cm 290g
** Fizan Compact, superlight 316g, adjustable length 58-132cm good review
* CAMP Xenon 120cm 47" 9.2oz 260g lightest, 3 folding sections, not suitable for skiing, weak, Trekking 135cm 53" 17.6oz 500g
* LEKI Micro Vario Carbon with aluminum insert for strength, 110-130cm, 15", 13.6oz 414g, Carbonlite AERGON 135cm 53" 12.8oz 362g, Thermolite AERGON 135cm 53" 14.8oz 420g
Grivel 125cm 49" three sections adjustable pole 16.84oz 478g

crop/resize pdf/postscript page in linux

pdftops -paper letter orig.pdf new.ps

edit new.ps file

BoundingBox: 0 0 612 792

90 rotate
-116 -675.28 translate
0.57 0.57 scale

ps2pdf new.ps new.pdf

Blender

Blendtec Total Blender 13 Amp 1560 W WideSide Pitcher 3 quart, 96 oz
WARING Pro 3 HP MX1000R 120 V, 12.0 Amps, 3 HP motor, 30,000 RPMs Hi, 26,000 RPMs Low, 64 oz capacity
Vita-Mix 5200 120v 11.5 amps 1380 Watts 2HP motor, 64 oz container

Comparing Vita Mix, Blendtec, Waring, and the Health Master Blender

Large zoom spotting scopes

Spotting scope telescope

Barska 30-90x100mm WP Gladiator Spotter USA straight with table top tripod and soft carrying case 77oz 19" $250
Barska Benchmark DFS Spotter 8-24x58 WP wide angle, field of view
Celestron Ultima 100 - 45° Straight USA 22-66x waterproof with soft carrying case 72oz 19"/22" $280, digital camera adapter
Konus KONUSPOT-100 20-60x100mm Italy 45° angle photo adapter 84.7oz 19.2" $300
Yukon Advanced Optics 6-100x100 Russia 6-25x25 25-100x100 rotating eye piece with table top tripod and carrying case 53oz 16.7" $350, camera adapter

GPU accelerated web browsers

Firefox Web Browser Grand Prix : memory usage
Tom's Hardware: Web Browser Grand Prix
FavBrowser
Browser Wars: Chrome vs. IE9 vs. Firefox

Firefox:
about:support
about:config to enable WebGL and acceleration
Mozilla Firefox 4 with Direct2D and DirectWrite, Hardware Acceleration on Windows 7, Windows Vista with Platform Update, and DirectX 10 graphic cards (check with dxdiag command)

Operation	Linux	Windows XP	Windows Vista/7	Mac OS X
Content	XRender	None	Direct2D	Quartz
Compositing	OpenGL	Direct 3D	Direct 3D	OpenGL

Blocked Graphics Drivers

IE9:
IE9 -> Tools -> Internet Options -> Advanced tab -> accelerated graphics -> use software rendering instead of GPU rendering
Microsoft Internet Explorer 9, ie9 uses Direct2D DirectWrite on Windows Vista, Windows 7, The Architecture of Full Hardware Acceleration of All Web Page Content
Force Enable GPU Hardware Acceleration Graphics Rendering on Old GPU in IE9

Google Chrome: statistics
chrome://memory shows memory usage of all running browsers
chrome://gpu graphics feature status
chrome://flags to enable hidden features and experiments, GPU compositing on all pages failed windows XP
GPU accelerated compositing in Chromium (Google Chrome), Web Graphics – Past, Present and Future, WebGL, OpenGL ES 2.0 API, to DirectX 9 (Direct3D) (through ANGLE)
Chromium switches/options, --enalbe-gpu-plugin --enable-gpu-rendering --enable-accelerated-compositing --enable-accelerated-2d-canvas

Opera Next: uses Blink layout engine
opera://gpu
opera://flags

Opera:
opera://gpu
Opera 12 Alpha with Hardware Acceleration


Safari:
how can I disable hardware acceleration in Safari 5.1 ?
Enabling the debug menu on Safari for Windows
 
Internet Explorer 9 Test Drive Psychedelic Wheel

Opera Blogs desktop
Chromium Blog
Mozilla Firefox Blog
Chromium iOS
Chrome Multi-Device iOS Blink/WebKit UIWebView, no Nitro for JavaScript

Consumer Reports Car Reliability Charts

A snapshot of long-term reliability


Automaker Report Cards test scores vs. reliability

iPod iPhone iPad lithium-ion polymer battery

iPod touch 3G 3.7V 2.92Whr, ARM Cortex-A8 833 MHz (underclocked to 600 MHz), video 6hr, audio 30 hr
iPhone 4 3.7V 5.25Whr, 1 Ghz Apple A4, video 10hr, audio 40hr, talk 7hr 3G, 14hr 2G, standby 300hr, internet 6hr 3G, 10hr Wi-Fi
iPad 3.75V 24.8Whr, 1 GHz Apple A4, internet 9hr 3G, 10hr Wi-Fi, video 10hr, audio 140 hr

convert web page to online document sharing

Print...
Microsoft Office Document Image Writer - Preferences - Advanced - MDI
Page Range - 1 page at a time
File name - file.mdi
Save as type - Microsoft Document Imaging Format (*.tif)
View Document Image

Microsoft Office Document Imaging
File - Save As...
File name - file.tif
Save as type - Tagged Image File Format (*.tif)
Options... MDI compression - Optimize compression in favor of Better image quality

repeat for all pages

Microsoft Word
Insert - Picture - From File...

Google Docs - good image quality
Adobe Acrobat.com - image quality is low
Docs for Facebook - image quality is very low

Shin-Biofermin S vs. Strong Wakamoto

新ビオフェルミンS

Shin-Biofermin S information
Shin-Biofermin S [tab]
欣表飛鳴 錠 [Shin Biofermin S tab]

欣表飛鳴
3 x 3/day
Bifidobacterium bifidum 2mg per tablet
Lactobacillus acidophilus 2mg
Streptococcus faecalis (Enterococcus faecalis) 2mg

強力わかもと
Strong Wakamoto
若元錠
Aspergillus oryzae NK (microorganism producing digestive enzymes)
Lactobacilli
Dried Yeast

Nature's Plus Tri-Dophilus Probiotics Bacterials
Lactobacillus Acidophilus 143mg
Bifidobacterium Longum & Bifidobacterium Bifidum 44mg
Streptococcus Faecalis 38mg

硼砂 明礬 油條 吊白塊 麵條 豆腐

硼砂 Borax

明礬 Potassium alum

吊白塊 Rongalite

Convenience store

便利商店 Taiwan
7-11：4718家
FamilyMart：2488家
萊爾富：1311家 Hi-Life
OK：835家

コンビニエンスストア Japan
セブン-イレブン - 約1万2100店 7-Eleven
ローソン - 約8600店 Lawson
ファミリーマート - 約7300店 FamilyMart
サークルKサンクス - 約6100店 Circle K Sunkus
ミニストップ - 約1900店 Ministop
デイリーヤマザキ - 約1600店 Daily Yamazaki

Google Chrome Browser Extensions

The Best Browser Extensions that Protect Your Privacy
uBlock Origin or AdBlock Plus
Privacy Badger or Disconnect
Forecastfox Weather
Google Checkout Promo Notifier (by Google)
Google Dictionary (by Google)
Google Quick Scroll
Google Similar Pages beta (by Google)
Google Translate
Google Voice (by Google)
News Reader (by Google)
Readability Redux
Secbrowsing Plug-in Version Checker
Select To Get Maps
Ultimate Google Docs Viewer

Major Sports TV Programming

AT&T U-verse TV Web Remote Access

NBC Sports, TV Listing This week on NBC Sports
ESPN on ABC, ABC schedule, ESPN On Air
CBS Sports, CBS Sports TV Schedule
Fox Sports (USA), FOX Network Schedule, FOXSports TV Schedule
ESPN, TV Listings

NBC The World of Adventure Sports

trail gps

Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx 62s 62st

Bicycle pedal

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