Month: March 2012

Big Bend Picnic

Beside the Rio Grande on March 19th, we picnicked on canned fish, tortillas, dried fruit, and cabbage salad with raisins.

Later we soaked in a natural hot spring next to the river, which was only about 15 feet wide at that point, and only knee deep.

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View of Chisos mountains from our lodge at Big Bend National Park.

Apple iPad Event

Apple Live Blog

  • Apple TV now 1080p
  • iCloud supports movies
  • Apple TV L&F is like giant IOS
  • Apple TV has “genius” functionality
  • iTune “match” support for movies
  • iPadHD:
  • 200k iPad APPS in APPstore
  • Retina display rocks (2048 x 1536 pixels. 3.1 million pixels)
  • 1 million more pixels than 1080p
  • A5X Quad core graphics. Dual core processor.
  • 4G LTE band (Also compatible with 3G)
  • Personal hotspot
  • 5 megapixel camera
  • Image stabilization (for movies)
  • Temporal noise reduction
  • 1080p video camera
  • Siri dictation functionality
  • Pre-orders start today; deliveries March 16th in US
  • 10-hour battery on Wifi; 9 hours of 4G
  • Starts at $499 (Same prices across the board).
  • Software
  • Updated iWork APP w/jaw-dropping graphics
  • New iMovie: new interface, looks like professional tool
  • New iPhoto for iPad: “Amazing” great way to browse and edit photos. Multi touch editing, Professional Quality Effects, Brushes, photo beaming, Photo journals… $4.99
  • iPad2 will be reduced to $399 (16G); $529 for 3Gs
  • iPad Video Introduction (http://www.apple.com/ipad/)

Bucket List Trip

Think how cool a trip to Kep, Cambodia could be for the Rector bucket lists. This NYTimes article will give you a flavor. Still unspoiled, with restored French villa hotels and open beaches. French, English, and Russian are fairly common, so between the sibs and sub-sibs, we’d easily get by.

Thoughts?