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it’s nearly midnight and we’re on the road on our way to the campground at cachuma lake. we got a late start and yes, it’s my fault. i had stuff to do before we left and I didn’t get done until it was pretty late. we ended up leaving the house at 9:45pm, but it’s…

one day while searching for people to follow on twitter i came across david pouge, the personal technology columnist for the New York Times and an Emmy Award-winning tech correspondent for CBS news. he’s also one of the world’s bestselling how-to authors, with titles in the for dummies series and his own line of “missing…

while grocery shopping for the photo house meeting vergil and i came across the beer room at the supermarket. how kick ass is this? a walk in refrigerator full of beer!

nong nang made me some pat thai for me tonight. she even showed me how to cook it. it always kicks ass to watch your food being prepared, although i doubt i’ll be able to make it taste as good as hers… yet. thanks so much for dinner!

max s. gerber’s take on photographic history: camera obscura – niepce – talbot – daguerrotypes – stereoscopes, man – matthew brady – muybridge wins a bet – kodak beings – stieglitz – f64 – man ray invents photoshop/practice of having hot female assistants – lee miller (see previous) – kertesz figures out that if he…

last night i went to see my friend kate reid play at steamers jazz club (and have a few caramel apple martinis while i was at it). kate is not only a great jazz singer and pianist, she’s also the head of the jazz program and chair of the music department at cypress college teaching…

ahh yes, it’s that time again… the flickr war. i almost forgot about it until john tweeted me. here it is. i got a nice spike a while back thanks to my friends ron and lynette. i’m on vacation starting from today. i don’t have to go back to work until august 10. during this…

The first time I saw this picture I wondered what it was and why my cousin Marvin posted this on his facebook. I saw the the caption “How to eat cheese.” I’m seriously hoping it was Alexa, his daughter, that did this, but I suppose it would be even funnier if Marvin was the one…

My friend, James, who hasn’t watched the Harry Potter movies before, is currently on a mission to watch ALL of the previous harry potter movies (one each day) this week before seeing Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince on Friday. When he started on Monday, he posted a status update on Facebook that led to a…

i L.O.V.E. my food, but i tend to develop a bit of a belly after a large meal. so, when i stood next to my 7½-month pregnant cousin rubbing my stomach, my friend couldn’t resist taking a picture of the both of us. hilarious! just for kicks, i also had her take a picture with…