Category Archives: Travel

Cinequest 2024 – One Night in Tokyo

Posted on March 13, 2024 by Debbie Bretschneider

What do you do when you arrive in Tokyo for a week and immediately your girlfriend breaks up with you?  Continue reading →

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Presentation Pros in NYC

Posted on July 13, 2016 by ricbret

What? You’re in or near New York around July 19th? Well, let me hook you up with the secret password that will get you in the door for free. Continue reading →

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Considering the Blue Pill…

Posted on September 19, 2014 by ricbret

Sure, and there’s stuff you can do with digital that you could never do with physical media. I travel with hundreds of books in my backpack. I can choose what movie I want to watch on the plane. Mix tape from 100’s of albums when and where I want? Sure, I’m future boy!

It’s all upside, right? What could be wrong? But about this time in any SyFy movie, you know the foreboding music is about to rise and everything you’ve been enjoying is about to turn on you. Continue reading →

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Wireless… Not Really.

Posted on September 6, 2014 by ricbret

Looking at the otherwise seductive Moto 360, I’m struck by the beauty of the watch and the confusion it represents. Its charger is labeled “wireless” which is mismanaged marketing of what is more correctly known as inductive charging.  Inductive charging means … Continue reading →

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Just checking in…

Posted on August 19, 2014 by ricbret

Why wear two watches? And why don’t they tell the same time? A bit of a puzzle of course.

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Four Days to Better Presenting – Yes, You Can!

Posted on August 11, 2012 by ricbret

Oh dear. Another drab blog entry about presenting.  Well, maybe not. If you hear the title Presentation Summit, you might picture an international cabal, those folks from around the world whose job it is to keep presentations bland, sleep-inducing and … Continue reading →

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This is so easy to do…

Posted on April 19, 2012 by ricbret

There are some things that are such a pleasure to do, to pass along, to endorse… it kind of feels like cheating, like “duh” this doesn’t even have to be said. Yeah, this is one of those. I love the … Continue reading →

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Drive

Posted on November 12, 2006 by ricbret

Justin and I decided to take the new car out for a longish drive on Friday, in preparation for our longer drive to Anaheim next weekend.  We bascially went counter-clockwise around the bay, stops in Berkeley, Marin, San Francisco, and … Continue reading →

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Jazz

Posted on September 19, 2005 by ricbret

Lunch yesterday in Commander’s Palace in Las Vegas. CP is a reproduction of a famous New Orlean’s eatery (which is currently shut down thanks to recent weather.) This is a lovely restaurant, posh and delicious. A jazz trio wanders about, … Continue reading →

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Bike

Posted on July 12, 2005 by ricbret

Justin went off to Angel Island recently on an overnight camp out/bike excursion.  I got pictures from one of the scoutmasters last week and published them on the BSA 318 site I maintain for the troop.  Here’s a sample with … Continue reading →

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Vacation

Posted on July 2, 2005 by ricbret

We’re in Bend today.  Nine hour drive yesterday.  Usually we do a book on tape for the drive but this time it was all satellite radio and Podcasts.  Never been to bend?  More info here:  http://www.city-data.com/city/Bend-Oregon.html    

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Fake picture blog from NY

Posted on June 18, 2005 by ricbret

Picture that was taken in New York of a burning garbage bin.  You could see the smoke for blocks, and it was plastic stuff so you could smell it as far away or more.  Guy in front of the smoke … Continue reading →

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