Bruce Springsteen :: San Jose 2009

These are my pictures of the opening night of Bruce's tour supporting his "Working on a Dream" album.

I took all of these photographs using a Panosonic Lumix camera. I forget the model number, but you don't really care. Bottom line, it has great optics made by Leica.

These pictures are presented in order from beginning to end. I took over 50 pictures, and these were what I felt were presentable. It turns out that the set-list is on-line (who knew?!) if you are interested.

You can click on any image to see a larger image. All images are Copyright Daniel Hinojosa © 2009.



























If you are interested in any of these images for enlargement or other uses, please contact me via a comment to this blog.

Inauguration photos: http://ping.fm/8MfN9 - label that, "wow".

RT: If you haven't today, why not take 10 min to watch, hear or read the I Have a Dream speech http://ping.fm/BUCp5 and play it loud

- just my awesome view of MtnView.

I am serving the OSS community today. I was going to give blood but rode my bike in, so - can't do that...

Mavericks on Friday?

I've been watching the same report Jeff Clark and company watch. It looks like the Mavericks contest is going to go off this weekend. The article in the Mercury News seems to favor Friday. I have a spare day off in the bank, so all I need to do is to finish making sure my wetsuit is ready.

So, hang in, once I get back, I'll get my pictures processed (no underwater digital camera - so going olde school: film) and put up another entry that is hopefully as robust as last year's.

I feel as nervous as though I were going to be the one to actually compete... It's a long paddle and the inside surf that I have to paddle through is fairly un-predictable, so that is part of it. However, watching these athletes surf waves that could have 40 foot faces (imagine jumping down 3 to 4 stories off a building), is something I had never thought I'd see growing up surfing.

Anyway, hang in, I'm hopeful it's going to go as smooth as it did last year.

A message from Mike

My friend Mike sent this email to a list of friends post-election day. It was powerful to me and I want to share it out...

Like a lot of off kilter people, I didn't just follow this election. I stalked it; staying up every night watching election coverage; driving around listening to angry talk radio; obsessing over polls on the web. My mental health was riding on the outcome.

Because for the last eight years, I've watched on as Bush and company have exhausted our military, burned through the national treasury, attacked our constitution, politicized justice, institutionalized cronyism, rigged elections, neglected our infrastructure, and drove us to the brink of financial ruin. It's far more damage than Osama Bin Laden could have ever hoped to inflict. But Bush the cowboy played right into his hands.

And as Bush destroyed everything he touched, I felt like Chief Inspector Dreyfus in a Pink Panther movie, being driven insane by Inspector Clouseau. First with the nervous facial ticks, then the inappropriate mad laughter. And if McCain and Palin had won the Whitehouse, I would have been wrestled into a straight jacket and carried off to a padded cell.

Instead, I feel like a huge Bush tumor has been removed from my brain. And I need to go through some sort of therapy to deal with all the optimism. And since I no longer have the compulsion to watch Keith Olbermann shout into the camera every night, I have some free time work on my post-Bush rehab, starting with an examination of an embarrassment-free Presidency. For example:

Can scientists now speak without getting shouted down?

Will the new guy at FEMA actually do a heckuva job?

Will reality be the new reality?

And who's embarrassed to be an American now? Racists? Neocons? Neil Cavuto? But I repeat myself.

Will these be the people who threaten to leave the country? And just where does a racist go with their white sheets and pointed hoods packed neatly in a suitcase? Mexico? Antarctica?

Who cares? It doesn't matter. It's just the asking that cures me. Sure, there's a lot of serious work to be done in this country, but for now I can take comfort in knowing that when our President steps up to a podium, it won't be like Inspector Clouseau stepping onto a museum filled with priceless artifacts.

God bless you Mike. You put into words that which I could not. Morning in America.

The results...

Barack comes back

Lipstick on a pig

The McCain campaign is indignant about what?



Oh. I get that...

Go GOP!

huh, I managed to miss this at the RNC last week:



Mighty big of them to give Barack the chant at the end! ;)

Downhill Skating

Back in about January, I put up a post about Skateboarding. In that post I mentioned that I had some pictures around here of me skating on Coronado Street in Ocean Beach (San Diego) in the late 70's.

Well, today was clean out the dresser day. In that effort, I FOUND THE PICTURES!:

That's me up front and my brother and his brother-in-law in the background towards the top of the hill. They shared a great house at the top of the hill, so this was just something to do to blow off steam at halftime watching the Chargers, or just when we felt like it.

There were always cars parked along the street, much like there is now I'm sure. Either way, it was great fun. I had a favorite move which was to come as close as I could to the back of a car and make my cut-back off the left rear bumper:

Apparently this was before we discovered gloves... Sigh. I miss those days. That was just a lot of fun. I didn't fall on this one above by the way. Also, if you could see my socks, they matched the shoes, yellow and black stripped. Very cool. ;)

McCain's Veep-stakes

Conan O'Brien unveils the new NBC movie on the topic:

Ya gotta love Bella Karolyi

His turn with Bobby C. during the Olympics has been a real thrill.

Of course, his turn on Animal Kingdom was somewhat unexpected:



That might just take off though. A little animal sex cheer leading squad may be all it takes to help some species make a come back...

Joe Cocker at Woodstock

I bet you thought you knew the words to "With a little help from my friends", right? Bet you don't:



Not sure who April is, but either way, it was a fine effort in her honor.

Times like this, I love baseball

The commentator said it all.

Update: It turns out that this is a 'viral ad' from some beverage company... i still think it's pretty funny.

Gina, she's so pretty

i like how she winks at me... ;)

Kirk for President.

Siamese Squash?

Or is that a "male" squash?: I think I saw one of these under some guys' truck on the way to the store. Not sure.

Ask...

...and you receive:



$700?! That's the price of a board already... I'm not in Australia where I think the issue is a bit more pronounced. I still say, if I'm on Gus' menu, let it be.