Gone Astray: Russell Johnson

Horse Walks into a Bar: My Digital Lifestyle

Russell Johnson — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:48:27 +0000

Looking back on past CES Shows in Las Vegas, here is a little audio fantasy I recorded back in 2007, when we were told that adopting a “digital lifestyle” was something desirable.

Holiday in Nerdland: Our stories and videos from the Consumer Electronics Show

Russell Johnson — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:36:30 +0000

Our perilous trek through the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in search of gadgets and apps of interest to the traveler.

From The Connected Traveler

The Rise of the Frankencam

Russell Johnson — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:33:23 +0000

About “computational photography” and how I am using a fairly inexpensive “hacked” camera that performs like one that costs ten times as much.

From The Connected Traveler

Hotel Rooms That Change Color on Demand, The Harry Potter Newspaper

Russell Johnson — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:41:08 +0000

Check out this story in The Telegraph: Quantum Dot TV promises TV screens that you can roll up and tuck under your arm and wallpaper or drapes that you can program to change color on demand or display your favorite episode of The Kardasians.

From The Telegraph

Sacrifice of the Extra Virgins

Russell Johnson — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:17:07 +0000

In the Mediterranean, olive oil was a wonder substance, used as a medicine, a skin oil, a soap, even as fuel. Fill’er up with Extra Virgin please! Olive oil tastes good and doesn’t clog your plumbing. Hercules planted olive trees by pounding them into the ground with his hunky arms. Father Serra (he of the pointy finger statue next to a local freeway) and his priests had to work harder at it, but managed to establish the olive at monasteries throughout California, including Mission San Francisco Solano de Sonoma.

Father Serra was no longer available to bless the crop so Saturday, in his stead, was the Reverend Michael Kelly, an Irish priest out of central casting, (possibly a voice on The Simpsons or South Park). He added that the olive was also important as a garnish for a Martini.

Tom Mueller author of the upcoming book “Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil” said he witnessed a baptism in Crete (one of the first places to cultivate olives) in which a baby was greased head to toe, to which Father Kelly commented: “so Satan couldn’t get a hold o’ the lad.”