Michael 'Mickey' Sattler

Michael 'Mickey' Sattler

4 December 2008
Me: Honey, please hold still a moment so I can get a picture of you trying on cold-weather clothes.
Rose: Huh? What?
Me: Yeaaaaah, that'll work :-)

Rose, the blur
Many, many years ago I used to lug a Toshiba "portable" two blocks from my Waller Street digs to The People's Café. I wrote a scathing article (online, in the nascent days of the web) about the poor engineering which caused me to undo 17 screws to get at the hard drive. (That must have been about 1994-5, judging from this "ECCIFO" interview, in which I'm using my first Apple laptop, the "PowerBook 170".)
Well, fifteen years later I'm forced to undo 21 screws to get at the hard drive of my MacBook Pro. What a shameful bit of engineering design fail.

Apple MacBook Pro FAIL - too many screws
MILK, the movie, has opened at the near-by Castro Theater. I hear it was quite a mob scene, full of joy and sadness.

MILK - the movie - Castro Theater
Shabbos candle-lighting with Bubbie.

Sabbath candle-lighting

3 December 2008
Ahhh, the holiday season is in full swing. While some places tossed out their Christmas decorations the day *before* Thanksgiving, more restrained places waited until the beginning of the month. Here's a café in which I work some days. The coffee is great and the Wi-Fi is wide.

café Christmas tree
A dearth of volunteers has us signing up for the spaghetti dinner fund-raiser, but when we arrive we see it's fully-staffed. We had a (real) chef on hand to make an awesome Caesar-like salad dressing.

Zofia, Rose, and Dad peruse the pickings at the school book fair fund-raiser.

At long last, at the appointed time, we have our turn at dinner. Bubbie's arrived, and Isaac takes our new cheapie point-and-shoot camera out for a spin. I just replaced the batteries on my Yema «Bipôle Duopoly» wristwatch... reasonably indestructable but dependent upon batteries; so close :-/

school spaghetti dinner
A composition entitled night-time on the play structure, taken without flash or tripod.

2 December 2008
My PowerBook is still getting lots of use. Here's Isaac using it to typewrite his homework assignments and then print them wirelessly to the printer we got free with my recent MacBook Pro purchase.

Isaac with PowerBook

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4 December 2008
	Me: Honey, please hold still a moment so I can get a picture of you trying on cold-weather clothes. Rose: Huh? What? Me: Yeaaaaah, that'll work :-) Many, many years ago I used to lug a Toshiba "portable" two blocks from my Waller Street digs to The People's Café. I wrote a scathing article (online, in the nascent days of the web) about the poor engineering which caused me to undo 17 screws to get at the hard drive. (That must have been about 1994-5, judging from this "ECCIFO" interview, in which I'm using my first Apple laptop, the "PowerBook 170".) Well, fifteen years later I'm forced to undo 21 screws to get at the hard drive of my MacBook Pro. What a shameful bit of engineering design fail. MILK, the movie, has opened at the near-by Castro Theater. I hear it was quite a mob scene, full of joy and sadness. Shabbos candle-lighting with Bubbie.
3 December 2008
	Ahhh, the holiday season is in full swing. While some places tossed out their Christmas decorations the day before Thanksgiving, more restrained places waited until the beginning of the month. Here's a café in which I work some days. The coffee is great and the Wi-Fi is wide. A dearth of volunteers has us signing up for the spaghetti dinner fund-raiser, but when we arrive we see it's fully-staffed. We had a (real) chef on hand to make an awesome Caesar-like salad dressing. Zofia, Rose, and Dad peruse the pickings at the school book fair fund-raiser. At long last, at the appointed time, we have our turn at dinner. Bubbie's arrived, and Isaac takes our new cheapie point-and-shoot camera out for a spin. I just replaced the batteries on my Yema «Bipôle Duopoly» wristwatch... reasonably indestructable but dependent upon batteries; so close :-/ A composition entitled night-time on the play structure, taken without flash or tripod.
2 December 2008
	My PowerBook is still getting lots of use. Here's Isaac using it to typewrite his homework assignments and then print them wirelessly to the printer we got free with my recent MacBook Pro purchase.

	This page is just the tip of the iceberg. We have lots of things for you. If you want to continue reading about what happened, click the navigation arrows. The site archives shows you all of the monthly pages. The search engine covers the entire site. There's also a Site Map which has an entry for each of the pages across the site. And you may always email me through the links below, or contact me in a good number of other ways.