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Left column: all posts. Right column: a random sampling of images.

2026.09.28

A blast

 Star Wars Zero Company, finishing Horizon Forbidden West, and some fun in the sun.
battlegrounds, borderlands, fps rpg, palm desert, star wars, travel, vacation

2026.08.25

Destinations

 Summer activities: pool, beach, amusement parks, ballgames, and hiding from the heat in the man cavern.
battle royale, battlegrounds, fps rpg, hades ii, padres, rocketry, turn-based tactics rpg

2026.07.12

Sci-fi

 A sci-fi speakeasy, drone show, and beagles battling the Millennium Falcon.
4th of july, clank legacy, cocktails, independence day, la jolla shores, legacy board games, san diego

2026.06.26

Stars and stripes

 I watched some World Cup soccer.
fifa, los angeles, soccer, sports, united states, usmnt, world cup

2026.06.16

World Cup

 The 2026 World Cup features some excellent matchups; Spain against Cape Verde, Group B Winner against Third Place Group E/F/G/I/J, and hydration breaks against itspartofthegame.
america, fifa, soccer, sports, united states, world cup

2026.06.09

More runs

 Hades II, Borderlands 4, and some others.
astro bot, battlegrounds, conferences, fps rpg, hades ii, roguelike deckbuilder, stickers

2026.05.10

Fixes

 Office renovation, faucet repair, and some odds and ends.
office, plumbing, shower, sony, space, video games, zoo

2026.03.30

Building

 Some initial thoughts on Slay the Spire 2 (early access).
early access, lolbaters, pubg, roboquest, roguelike deckbuilder, roguelike shooter, slay the spire 2

2026.03.28

Breaking

 Stuff is breaking all over the place for me - bath fixtures, motorcycle parts, dreams of attending the World Cup.
battle royale, faucet cartridge, fps battle royale, renovation, video games, war, zero s

2026.02.28

Beachside

 A week in Kauai.
blue hole, horseback riding, kauai, puka dog, travel, waimea, waterfall

2026.02.09

Eliminated

 Losing all of my World Cup ticket random draw bids and checking out the resale price.
america, fifa, soccer, sports, tickets, united states, world cup

2026.02.01

Blue Hole

 Some research on how to get to Kauai's Blue Hole.
adventure, blue hole, hawaii, hiking, kauai, travel

2026.01.13

Moneyball

 The quest for World Cup tickets.
america, fifa, soccer, sports, tickets, united states, world cup

2025.12.31

Recap 2025

 Looking back at 2025.
highlight reel, html, kilroy, list, meta, recap, static site generator

2025.12.26

Winter trips

 Holiday stuff at home and up the coast.
airplanes, cabin, comic books, lightscape, los angeles, museum, sledding

2025.12.12

Intergalactic

 Some thoughts after a good amount of stick time with Borderlands 4 and Astro Bot.
3d platformer, astro bot, borderlands, borderlands 4, fps rpg, review, video games

2025.11.23

Aliens

 Escaping the queen in Aliens: Fireteam Elite, a few minutes of Stardew Valley, and a few hours of Abiotic Factor.
abiotic factor, aliens: fireteam elite, farm simulation, squad shooter, stardew valley, survival, video games

2025.11.16

U6 coaching

 Drills and takeaways from a second season of U6 soccer.
coaching, drills, soccer, sports, youth sports

2025.10.31

Autumn stuff

 Halloween, Octoberfest, and a staycation with a concert.
beer, dinosaur, food, halloween, music, octoberfest, staycation

2025.09.30

Last days of summer

 Friendsgiving, Padres, the Miramar Airshow, and some pool time.
blue angels, boardgames, las vegas, nikkor, nikon, photography, zoo

2025.09.12

Borderlands 4 hours

 A few quick thoughts after a few hours with BL4.
borderlands, borderlands 4, fps rpg, playstation, playstation 5, ps5, video games

2025.09.07

The rim

 Exploring the indieweb is a bit like hopping planets in a sci-fi galaxy.
embeddings, hacker news, internet, outer web, search, static site generator, technology

2025.08.09

In the sun

 Summertime trips to the zoo and beach and everywhere else.
board games, legoland, legos, pandemic legacy, soccer, sports, youth sports

2025.08.02

120 stars

 Chasing completionist goals and sometimes just completion in Sackboy, Horizon Forbidden West, Shadow of the Erdtree, and Aliens: Fireteam Elite.
3d platformer, elden ring, left 4 dead, littlebigplanet 3, sackboy: a big adventure, squad shooter, strategy

2025.07.30

Catalina

 A few days of diving, swimming, and eating in Avalon.
beach, catalina, diving, leica, travel, tsunami, vacation

2025.06.14

Compressed embeddings

 Adding effiency to a simple embeddings implementation for webpage linking.
internet, java, machine learning, outer web, software, static site generator, web 1.1

2025.06.07

Cooperating

 Diving back into Horizon, progressing in SOTE, and finding a new game for the little one.
3d platformer, elden ring, horizon forbidden west, hot wheels unleashed 2: turobcharged, open-world soulslike, racing, sackboy: a big adventure

2025.05.27

Embeddings

 Adding embeddings to post matching.
coding, embeddings, html, internet, java, meta, search

2025.05.21

Showdown

 In the next few months we'll see how the Roberts Court handles the executive power grab.
current events, news, politics, reddit, scotus, supreme court, technology

2025.05.17

Bronze

 In search of an eight anniversary gift.
4chan, anniversary, gifts, greentext, how-to, jewelry, metal

2025.05.04

Saved rounds

 Lego Star Wars, Shadow of the Erdtree, and the end of Persona 3 Reload.
adventure, elden ring, jrpg, open-world soulslike, persona, persona 3 reload, video games

2025.04.09

Breaking point

 Ended, this trade war hasn't.
current events, investing, news, politics, reddit, technology, wallstreetbets

2025.04.07

Medicine

 April 7, 2025: just another day on Wall Street.
investing, news, politics, reddit, technology, wallstreetbets, wsb

2025.04.06

Guh

 After hours circuit breaker, wow.
investing, investments, news, politics, reddit, technology, wsb

2025.04.05

Mos Eisley Marina Cantina

 Five days before the mast on Disney Wonder.
catalina, disney, legoland, mexico, star wars, travel, vacation

2025.03.23

Persona 3 Reload

 A few dozen hours with Persona 3 Reload.
jrpg, persona, persona 3 reload, video games

2025.03.19

He's going to fix the ecomony

 My portfolio is announcing retaliatory tariffs on the market.
investing, investments, jerome powell, politics, stocks, tariffs, tesla

2025.03.15

First off, weak foe and then precious item ahead

 Mopping up the main game to get geared for Shadow of the Erdtree.
elden ring, gallery, open-world soulslike, reddit, strategy, technology, video games

2025.03.05

Rogues

 Rogue Trader, rogue trading, rogue code and renovation projects, and some Mad Max-y boardgaming.
battlegrounds, coding, futurama, java, lolbaters, outer web, renovation

2025.03.03

No u

 Elon's trolley meme, fixed x2.
elon musk, europe, geopolitics, memes, russia, ukraine, war

2025.03.01

Godspeed, European Union

 This was supposed to happen day one.
america, current events, europe, news, politics, technology, ukraine

2025.02.26

We weren't prepared for GenAI

 Trump Gaza #1.
current events, elon musk, gaza, geopolitics, news, politics, united states

2025.02.09

Cape Run 2025

 A few photos from the '25 Cape Run.
beer, blah, blind lady ale house, cape run, pizza, running, san diego

2025.02.04

Sad popcorn

 OPM, DOGE, and /r/fednews.
america, elon musk, news, politics, reddit, technology, united states

2025.02.01

Drenched

 A trip to the Great Wolf Lodge.
diy, fiberglass, great wolf lodge, kitchen sink, plumbing, pool, sink

2025.01.26

Wow, Rust is just like Java

 Lmao.
humor, programming, ragebait

2025.01.25

Roguelikes

 A few hours with Balatro and Roboquest.
balatro, deckbuilder roguelike, remnant ii, review, roboquest, roguelike shooter, video games

2025.01.18

Quick bite

 The TikTok ban from the perspective of someone who doesn't care.
censorship, internet, quibi, social media, technology, tiktok

2025.01.12

Delays

 A couple of trips, a few thoughts on the Ford F-150, and a gripe about Lyft.
austin, beach, beer, lyft, review, texas, virginia

2024.12.31

Recap 2024

 Top content from 2024.
clip show, highlight reel, html, kilroy, list, meta, static site generator

2024.12.30

Excursions

 Xmas stuff and a Cybertruck review.
beer, cars, cybertruck, gbes, reviews, san diego, travel

2024.12.30

Reindexed

 Is Google reversing course on their deindexing campaign?
google, html, internet, meta, search, static site generator, web traffic

2024.12.22

The Outer Web

 Parasite SEO and a solution.
internet, meta, outer web, seo, site, web 1.1, web traffic

2024.12.17

Netherbrain

 My Tactician-difficulty BG3 playthrough draws to a close.
baldur's gate 3, discussion, review, rpg, video games

2024.12.15

But the fire is so delightful

 Winter activities: art projects and video games.
baldur's gate 3, drawing, painting, remnant ii, squad fps, tactics, winter

2024.11.30

Yosemite

 Friendsgiving in Yosemite.
adventure, california, hiking, stray, trains, travel, yosemite

2024.11.15

Nintendo knew

 That streamer guy looks like Glass Joe.
boxing, meme, memes, netflix, tv

2024.11.11

Clutch

 My first clutch adjustment.
auto work, clutch, friendsgiving, how-to, tacoma, travel, wrenching

2024.10.31

Halloween

 Costume parties and black cats. And a rainbow seahorse.
beetlejuice, boardgames, deck, furiosa, halloween, napoleon dynamite, zoolander

2024.10.30

Real

 It is Wednesday, my dudes.
captain haddock, meme, memes, tintin

2024.10.06

House project

 Finishing the deck railing.
backyard, deck, house, railing, renovation, trex

2024.09.27

Copilots

 A little bit of everything: planes, games, projects, and tech.
blogging, gentlemen's beer exploration society, hacker news, miramar air show, railing, san diego, technology

2024.09.24

Succession

 Fear and loathing on the campaign trail '24.
america, law, politics, scotus, supreme court, technology, twitter

2024.09.12

Drills

 Some under-6 soccer drills and activities.
coaching, drills, soccer, sports, youth sports

2024.09.08

Nostalgia

 Adding some gaming nostalgia to kilroy.
borderlands 4, features, html, kilroy, meta, references, static site generator

2024.08.18

Coasts

 Catalina and then some gaming in NoVa.
borderlands tps, diving, elden ring, fps rpg, potbelly, scuba, video games

2024.08.09

Core web

 Crawled - currently not indexed.
google, hacker news, internet, outer web, search, technology, web 1.1

2024.08.05

Second lap

 Remnant II and BG3 are just as good the second time around.
baldur's gate, baldur's gate 3, remnant, remnant ii, rpg, squad fps, video games

2024.07.12

Outdoor work

 House projects and such.
3000gt, coilovers, gto, renovation, sideyard, slay the spire, wrenching

2024.07.06

Drawing

 Just a crayon drawing.
drawing, person, portrait

2024.07.04

Independence Day

 A roundup of news and information regarding the presidential immunity decision.
america, current events, law, news, politics, scotus, supreme court

2024.06.26

So anyway, I started blasting

 The SCOTUS opinions on Cargill and Rahimi.
america, current events, guns, law, scotus, supreme court, united states

2024.06.24

New unlocks

 Second playthroughs of BG3 and Remnant II, a little PUBG mayhem.
baldur's gate 3, battle royale, battlegrounds, fps battle royale, lolbaters, rpg, squad fps

2024.06.09

Wandering the dark forest

 A few more meadows in the dark forest of the internet. And a Google API leak.
indieweb, internet, kilroy, outer web, search, seo, web 1.1

2024.06.04

Sunshine

 A few outings.
beer, gentlemen's beer exploration society, sd wave, soccer, sports, tintin, vr4

2024.06.03

Final boss

 Finishing BG3 and Remnant 2.
baldur's gate, baldur's gate 3, remnant, remnant ii, rpg, squad fps, video games

2024.05.06

Wandering

 Purposeful and aimless walks into the internet.
blogging, blogosphere, hacker news, indieweb, internet, search, technology

2024.05.05

Burns

 Helldivers and friendly fire: name a more iconic duo. Also some Remnant and PUBG action.
battlegrounds, commentary, fps battle royale, helldivers 2, lolbaters, reddit, remnant ii

2024.04.26

Stop saying SEAL Team 6

 Oral arguments on presidential immunity.
current events, news, politics, scotus, supreme court

2024.04.23

Activities

 Some fun in the sun with friends and family.
board games, flag football, league of sport, legoland, slay the spire, sports, zoo

2024.03.31

Here's what I'm up to right now

 The indieweb, SCOTUS hoists itself with its own petard, a visit to the Fleet Science Center, and some video games.
blogosphere, current events, helldivers 2, san diego, scotus, squad fps, web 1.1

2024.03.15

Op-eds

 A few interesting op-eds in the aftermath of Trump v Anderson.
current events, law, news, politics, scotus, supreme court

2024.03.10

Moon of Vega

 Helldivers 2 crossplay woes and combing the subsurface web.
blogging, google, helldivers 2, kilroy, search, site, video games

2024.03.04

Resolution

 Trump v Anderson, the Civil War, and Nelson Tift.
current events, law, news, politics, scotus, supreme court

2024.02.28

Debates

 Moody v NetChoice oral arguments.
florida, news, oral arguments, politics, scotus, supreme court, technology

2024.02.25

For Super Earth

 My first few hours of fighting for democracy.
helldivers, helldivers 2, review, squad shooter, video games

2024.02.22

Rebel Moon

 Rebel Moon was not good.
movies, netflix, rant, review, sci-fi, streaming, tv

2024.02.21

Windshield wipers

 A BMW pedal car and lots of water falling from the sky.
cars, flooding, rain, san diego, toys

2024.02.19

Colorado and federalism

 Highlights from Trump v Anderson oral arguments.
current events, law, news, politics, politics news, scotus, supreme court

2024.02.15

Starchart

 My web 1.1 corpus grew large enough to do an optimization.
blogging, graphs, html, kilroy, meta, static site generator, web 1.1

2024.02.13

Exploring

 Screencaps and a little discussion of Remnant II, BG3, Stray, and Slay the Spire.
adventure, baldur's gate 3, legacy board games, remnant ii, rpg, slay the spire, squad fps

2024.02.07

Tune in

 Tomorrow's SCOTUS oral arguments should be interesting.
current events, news, politics, reddit, scotus, supreme court, technology

2024.01.10

Crashing the gates

 Seven interesting legal battles.
current events, elon musk, internet, law, news, scotus, supreme court

2024.01.07

A random walk

 Some examples of linking the indieweb.
blogosphere, indieweb, internet, reddit, seo, site, static site generator

2024.01.06

Family

 A few photos from the holidays: Safari West, cozy fires, and a Boneys sess.
board games, california, nikon, surf, telephoto, travel, zoo

2023.12.31

Recap 2023

 Top content from 2023.
highlight reel, html, kilroy, list, meta, recap, static site generator

2023.12.30

Feature complete

 My static site generator can now recommend external blog/smallweb posts with similar subject matter.
blogging, coding, hacker news, java, ssg, static site generator, web traffic

2023.12.20

Rim worlds

 Visiting and connecting the fringes of the web.
blogging, blogosphere, html, meta, search, software, web 1.1

2023.12.11

For the eyes

 The first hour of Remnant II and the end of Act II of BG3.
baldur's gate, baldur's gate 3, remnant, remnant ii, rpg, squad fps, video games

2023.12.02

The Waning Moon

 Texas governor Elon Musk, another AdVon client catches flak for GPT reviews, and SEC v. Jarkesy.
ai, npr, scams, supreme court, technology, wallstreetbets, wsb

2023.11.26

Playspace

 Creating a small play area in the sideyard using rubberized playground tiles.
gbes, gentlemen's beer exploration society, play area, renovation, wood, wood preservation, wood treatment

2023.11.22

Thanksgiving cheat sheet

 Print this post on an index card and keep it in your pocket in case someone at Thanksgiving dinner describes themself as a taxpayer.
law, politics, scotus, supreme court, thanksgiving, world news

2023.11.20

Subsurface

 Links pages, webrings, and search.
blogging, google, html, outer web, seo, smallweb, static site generator

2023.11.17

Friendsgiving

 Friendsgiving in SF and some board games.
aeon's end, aeon's end legacy, board games, heat pedal to the metal, legacy board games, san francisco, travel

2023.11.12

Fin films

 A roundup of films and documentaries with financial intrigue. Wall Street, finance, scams, tech - all are welcome here.
hbo, investing, investments, movies, netflix, review, tv

2023.11.07

Appropriations

 Reading the transcript of oral arguments from Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America.
current events, news, politics, scotus, supreme court

2023.11.05

Static site generator

 Static site generators, some good posts, and peers.
blogosphere, graphics, indieweb, internet, smallweb, software, web 1.1

2023.10.31

Costumes

 A gallery of costumes.
costume, e3, halloween, la convention center, los angeles, soccer, video games

2023.10.29

Washington

 Cox and Combes Washington, the costume.
america, costume, george washington, halloween, history, united states

2023.10.27

Artificial intelligence

 Banking in Silicon Valley and some AI non-stories.
current events, google, gpt, microsoft, news, stray, video games

2023.10.25

Recreation

 Fall means pumpkin patches and relatively empty beaches and zoos. It's also good for board and video games.
aeon's end legacy, clank legacy, halloween, legacy games, payday, payday 3, rpg

2023.10.22

Literally what

 A MotoGP-derived sport tourer. What?
ducati, motogp, motorcycles, multistrada, wtf

2023.10.18

Autopilot/soft landing

 Investment risks, 401k funds are stupid, and ETFs that sell covered calls.
bonds, dividends, economy, investing, reddit, technology, theta gang

2023.10.08

Granularity

 Linking internally and externally using text tokens and n-grams.
blogging, blogosphere, code, coding, java, rss, tags

2023.10.01

The underworld

 Is Stray good game for a two year old to copilot? Also Payday 3, Baldur's Gate 3, and Fallout 76.
baldur's gate 3, daddy games, fallout, fallout 76, horizon chase turbo, stray, video games

2023.09.27

Enwebbed

 Parsing RSS feeds to find peers.
blogosphere, code, html, outer web, rss, small web, web 1.1

2023.09.24

Jets

 Some telephoto shots of the Blue Angels doing neat tricks.
500mm, america, blue angels, nikon, photography, telephoto, united states

2023.09.23

Small web

 Kagi sees an opportunity to index the indieweb.
indieweb, outer web, seo, site, smallweb, static site generator, web traffic

2023.09.18

Good reads

 A couple of good reads from the blogosphere.
apple, blogosphere, hackernews, indieweb, internet, reddit, scams

2023.09.18

Rare finds

 Finishing BG3 Act I, some cuteness, and Harland's Ube IPA.
baldur's gate, fps battle royale, gbes, gentlemen's beer exploration society, lolbaters, pubg, video games

2023.09.10

Travel

 A roundup of travel posts.
html, kilroy, meta, static site generator, travel

2023.09.03

Dunks

 Pool volleyball and diving board tricks.
bbq, league of sport, pool, pool volleyball, volleyball

2023.09.01

Souls

 93 til 23 and still going.
concert, hieroglyphics, hip hop, music

2023.08.31

Dive log

 My scuba dive log.
dive, diving, scuba, travel

2023.08.30

Catalina

 A short trip to Catalina Island.
catalina, diving, island, los angeles, scuba, travel

2023.08.25

Prigozhin't

 But why two months later?
credibledefense, current events, europe, news, noncredibledefense, russia, world news

2023.08.21

Drenched

 Hurricane Hilary, scuba, and leisure.
clank legacy, current events, gbes, gentlemen's beer exploration society, legacy board games, pool, weather

2023.08.12

Questing

 BG3 and everything else.
baldur's gate 3, fps battle royale, i was a teenage exocolonist, lolbaters, mmo squad fps, video games, xcom: chimera squad

2023.08.02

Red sky in morning

 Oppenheimer and choice quotes about the recent web2 happenings.
film, hacker news, internet, movies, reddit, technology, twitter

2023.07.23

A walk in the dark forest

 All of the internet in one short stroll.
blogosphere, chatgpt, html, indieweb, internet, outer web, search

2023.07.16

Cascadia

 A summer trip to Washington State.
airport, forest, mountains, pacific northwest, seattle, travel, washington

2023.07.04

Pool resurface

 Going from an epoxy pool surface to a fiberglass one.
fiberglass, pool, renovation, resurfacing

2023.07.03

The end of the ride

 Lordstown Motors files for bankruptcy protection.
cnbc, investing, investments, lmc, lordstown, lordstown motors

2023.07.02

Feature request

 I just want to link other people's blogs.
blogging, html, indieweb, kilroy, meta, outer web, web 1.1

2023.07.01

In the defense of the comments section

 The real DD is in the comments, it's true.
discourse, google, internet, reddit, technology, wallstreetbets, wsb

2023.06.30

Junta

 A few details emerge about the Wagnerkrieg.
current events, europe, news, russia, ukraine, world news

2023.06.28

Everything is better in the app

 Tracking user interactions for fun and profit.
current events, internet, news, privacy, reddit, technology

2023.06.26

Wagnerkrieg

 I was up all night anyway.
europe, ncd, news, noncredibledefense, reddit, russia, world news

2023.06.21

Cleaning house

 The Reddit saga and the indieweb.
blogging, current events, internet, outer web, reddit, technology, web 1.1

2023.06.19

Bons voyages

 A few short trips and wondering why something isn't a thing.
board games, breweries, napa, research, sacramento, travel, unfathomable

2023.06.13

Failboats

 Drama and disasters.
google, html, internet, kilroy, meta, web traffic, world news

2023.06.09

GMAO

 Gamespost: GTA Online, FTL, Goat Simulator, and a few old favorites. I guess those are all old, but I hadn't played them before.
3d platformer, astro's playroom, fallout, i was a teenage exocolonist, pubg, survival, xcom

2023.05.28

Explosions

 Quick bites (quibis) about NVDA, wheelbarrow adventures, and some games.
battle royale, battlegrounds, deep rock galactic, gbes, gentlemen's beer exploration society, investing, lolbaters

2023.05.27

CSE/ECE career information

 Transcribing some Q+A from a career panel.
advice, careers, college, engineering, internet, jobs, software

2023.05.15

Happenings

 Just normal stuff - a concert, a few house projects, some vehicle discussions, and our last Gloomhaven scenario.
door, gloomhaven, machine learning, motorcycles, music, renovation, subaru

2023.05.08

Waifus

 Aircraft, spacecraft, and weird news developments.
credibledefense, noncredibledefense, russia, star wars, technology, ukraine, world news

2023.05.06

Tactical survival action

 First impressions of Fire Emblem Engage, I Was A Teenage Exocolonist, Fallout 76, XCOM: Chimera Squad, and Gloomhaven.
3d platformer, astro's playroom, fire emblem, i was a teenage exocolonist, narrative deckbuilder, survival, turn-based tactics rpg

2023.04.28

Next episode

 Following up on previous threads: the T-14, wood preservation, and Halo (through the lens of ship naming).
current events, gbes, gentlemen's beer exploration society, halo, ncd, reddit, war

2023.04.16

Michael Bay area

 My PUBG replay editor workflow.
battle royale, fps battle royale, how-to, pubg, replay, video editing, video games

2023.04.16

Scripted

 An insightful Reddit comment about the next Star Wars installment and we talk Lord of the Rings with Santos's GPT buddy.
chatgpt, disney, gpt, lord of the rings, reddit, star wars, technology

2023.04.10

Further reading

 I read a bunch of interesting stuff about Ukraine, Russiagate, and global security.
europe, memes, news, osint, politics, russia, world news

2023.04.01

E3 RIP

 The end of E3, for now?
e3, la convention center, los angeles, memes, memorial, retrospective, video games

2023.03.27

Recovery

 Fighting off viruses.
battle royale, fps battle royale, lolbaters, meme strat, pubg, robotics, terrace

2023.03.24

RBB

 A GPT replicant is added to our group chat.
ai, chatbot, chatgpt, greentext, machine learning, programming, software

2023.03.17

Boom

 A bank meme, Dodd-Frank, Glass-Steagall, and a lot of fingerpointing.
current events, investing, investments, news, technology, wallstreetbets, wsb

2023.03.16

The gauntlet

 Investing tidbits, inflation, and recent economics headlines.
current events, economics, investing, investments, news, technology, wsb

2023.03.15

Halo 4

 Some screencaps and commentary from Halo 4.
fps, halo, halo mcc, review, video games

2023.03.14

Sea/dogs

 A scuba dive, some tea parties, and organizing the video game sock drawer.
gopro, kilroy, meta, programming, shark, site, software

2023.03.07

ODST

 Part three of the co-opable Master Chief Collection - Halo: ODST.
fps, halo, halo mcc, video games

2023.03.05

Brain drain

 WSB sounding like your dad's friends when he took you to the bar.
internet, investing, investments, politics, reddit, technology, wallstreetbets

2023.03.05

Halo 3

 A Halo 3 playthrough.
fps, halo, halo mcc, video games

2023.03.04

C0D3

 Indie SEO, Google Search Console, static websites, and Java fails/parallelization.
blogging, coding, html, kilroy, outer web, reddit, site

2023.03.02

Highlights

 Three short clips from recent PUBG matches.
battle royale, battlegrounds, fps battle royale, lolbaters, pubg, video games

2023.02.25

Epilogue

 Dilbert goes out with a gasp.
current events, dilbert, internet, news, scott adams

2023.02.24

The humans are dead

 Begun this chatbot war has.
ai, chatbot, chatgpt, machine learning, microsoft, news, technology

2023.02.23

Battle royale

 PUBG hijinks.
battle royale, battlegrounds, fps battle royale, lolbaters, pubg, video games

2023.02.20

Samba lifecycle

 Sambas never die, they just find a new purpose.
adidas, renovation, sambas, shoes, soccer, sports

2023.02.19

Time warp

 Escaping the spire with Ironclad, Defect, and Watcher.
deckbuilder, roguelike deckbuilder, slay the spire, video games

2023.02.18

Reach

 A playthrough of Halo Reach from the Master Chief Collection
fps, halo, halo mcc, halo reach, video games

2023.02.17

3.6 Roentgen

 The East Palestine train crash and Chinese spy balloon.
china, current events, news, politics, reddit, technology

2023.02.08

The Ascent

 A playthrough of the cyberpunk squad shooter The Ascent.
cyberpunk, shooter, squad top-down shooter, steam, the ascent, video games

2023.02.07

Leisure

 Some offroading, a new fridge water pump, and The Witcher on Netflix.
home repair, jeep, offroading, refrigerator, the witcher, tv, water pump

2023.02.06

Halo

 Turns out Halo MCC co-op is unplayable.
fps, halo, halo mcc, microsoft, technology, troubleshooting, video games

2023.02.05

Cape run

 The Blind Lady Ale House Cape Run returned in 2023.
beer, blah, blind lady ale cape run, pizza, san diego

2023.01.30

Money and boredom

 The Netflix Madoff documentary and revisiting some other national figures.
current events, movies, netflix, politics, scotus, supreme court, technology

2023.01.24

Hmm

 Hindenburg goes after Adani and Burry does technicals.
hindenburg research, investing, investments, reddit, technology, wallstreetbets, wsb

2023.01.14

All the genres

 Finishing Wonderlands, starting Stellaris, still playing Gloomhaven and Gunfire. ESO next?
come see my hole, elder scrolls online, gloomhaven, lolbaters, mmo, social survival, technology

2023.01.10

d'Bears on parade

 One trophy, one miserable failure, one weird final.
fantasy football, football, nfl, sports

2023.01.09

Graphic art

 /r/baseball had a funny post about old MLB team logos.
baseball, humor, mlb, reddit, sports, technology

2023.01.07

Up the coast

 Christmas travel.
current events, news, norcal, pauly shore, travel, xmas

2023.01.06

Charging on January 6th

 Shots from Black's Beach on January 06, 2023.
500mm, blacks beach, san diego, surf, surfing, telephoto, waves

2022.12.31

Crisis averted

 Spoilery roundoup of Pandemic Legacy Season 0.
board games, frosthaven, gloomhaven, pandemic, pandemic legacy

2022.12.31

Recap 2022

 Top content from the year.
clip show, highlight reel, html, kilroy, list, meta, recap

2022.12.18

The next campaign

 Contemplating the next co-op adventure.
aliens, elder scrolls online, halo, meta, mmo, red solstice, static site generator

2022.12.16

Fungible

 ElonJet, Twitter, and the digital money printer.
elon musk, investing, investments, reddit, technology, twitter, wallstreetbets

2022.12.12

Controversies

 A newspost about soccer, Twitter, Europe, and money.
artificial intelligence, current events, investing, machine learning, politics, soccer, twitter

2022.12.05

Elden Lord

 Finishing Elden Ring and fighting a normal-sized skeleton in Wonderlands.
elden ring, fps rpg, html, kilroy, open-world soulslike, static site generator, wonderlands

2022.12.03

New quest

 Finishing Elden Ring - almost - and starting Tiny Tina's Wonderlands.
borderlands, elden ring, fps rpg, open-world soulslike, tiny tina's wonderlands, video games, wonderlands

2022.11.19

Prompts

 Experimenting with prompts in Stable Diffusion.
coding, graphics, graphics processing, keras, machine learning, stable diffusion, tensorflow

2022.11.18

Surprise

 Just a meme about the World Cup.
meme, world cup

2022.11.14

Stable Diffusion setup

 Getting Stable Diffusion up and running on Ubuntu 22.04 with an RTX3080 Ti.
coding, dall-e, geforce, graphics, neural networks, technology, ubuntu

2022.11.08

Turning points

 Twitter, Elon, a video card upgrade, and some music.
amazon, elon musk, music, reddit, renovation, technology, twitter

2022.10.17

Convergence

 Brief thoughts on current events and a billionaire who thinks very highly of himself.
elon musk, investing, investments, reddit, technology, ukraine, wallstreetbets

2022.10.12

Deckbuilding and action

 Initial thoughts on Shadowverse Champions Battle and Gunfire Reborn. More Elden Ring and Across the Obelisk.
elden ring, griftlands, lolbaters, reddit, shadowverse, shadowverse: champion's battle, turn-based tactics rpg

2022.10.11

Leisure

 A family-friendly winery, a ballgame, and a weekend trip.
giants, oktoberfest, petco, san francisco, travel, wine, winery

2022.09.25

Danger zone system

 Gallery of the Blue Angels at the Miramar Air Show.
500mm, miramar, miramar air show, nikon, san diego, telephoto, united states

2022.09.20

How-to

 Across the Obelisk Void boss tactics, shou sugi ban, hard drive management, The Cool S, Elden Ring, and a trip to Vegas.
elden ring, las vegas, news, pickleball, politics, video games, wood

2022.09.03

Battles

 Across the Obelisk for solo and co-op, replacing a shower cartridge, and a new PC case. And the usual stuff: Gloomhaven, current events, and investing.
across the obelisk, deckbuilder roguelike, indieweb, lolbaters, news, politics, technology

2022.08.24

Space plane games

 Reviews of roguelikes Griftlands and Crying Suns.
crying suns, narrative deckbuilder roguelike, nintendo, realtime tactics roguelike, roguelike, switch, video games

2022.08.19

Rewiring

 Playing with autoencoders for graphics processing.
artificial intelligence, battlegrounds, dall-e, pubg, tensorflow, tesla, video games

2022.08.17

Exploring

 Volcano Manor and the Leyndell, plus some Reddit commentary on the invader mechanic.
elden ring, open-world soulslike, reddit, technology, video games

2022.08.15

The platform

 Another node in the indieweb and a Java library for personal projects.
blogging, code, coding, internet, outer web, programming, windows

2022.08.14

Popcorn

 Watching this week's political news from the peanut gallery.
investing, investments, news, scotus, supreme court, twitter, wsb

2022.08.03

Keras cheat sheet

 Examples of keras merging layers, convolutional layers, and activation functions in L, RGB, HSV, and YCbCr.
code, coding, deep learning, graphics, machine learning, python, software

2022.07.29

Adhesives

 Prepping wood planks for the next project, chasing an elusive Gloomhaven personal quest, concatenate layers in ML, and a little bit of recreation.
backyard, battlegrounds, dall-e, deck, keras, lolbaters, pubg

2022.07.18

Indicators

 Interest rates, housing, and catalysts.
cnbc, evergrande, investing, investments, reddit, technology, wallstreetbets

2022.07.15

Plane games

 Informal reviews of Project Highrise and Nowhere Prophet for Switch.
nintendo, nowhere prophet, project highrise, roguelike, switch, tactical deckbuilder roguelike, video games

2022.07.11

Black sand

 A trip to the big island.
hawaii, ikelite, manta, mauna kea, scuba, underwater, volcano

2022.06.25

Decided

 Reflecting on the SCOTUS decisions from this week.
dall-e, law, neural art, opinion, politics, scotus, supreme court

2022.06.23

Dall-e

 Experimenting with Dall-e text inputs, moving a sandbox example offline, and troubleshooting jax/cuda.
dall-e, deep learning, graphics, graphics processing, machine learning, neural art, software

2022.06.18

Carnage

 More investment carnage, turf boot carnage, and sci-fi carnage.
investing, investments, netflix, scifi, sports, streaming, tv

2022.06.15

Finished

 The veranda gets artificial grass and is finally complete.
paint, reddit, renovation, star wars, stucco, technology, wallstreetbets

2022.06.10

Underdogs

 CPI Friday, asset-backed loans, and more indieweb.
blogging, blogosphere, internet, memes, office, terrace, wsb

2022.06.07

Fog door

 A birthday party, wood oil, board games, video games, and other stuff.
investing, investments, technology, terrace, veranda, wood preservation, wood treatment

2022.06.05

Slay the spire

 Climbing towers and flipping cards in Slay the Spire.
roguelike deckbuilder, slay the spire, video games

2022.06.03

The decline of user data storage

 Trying to find out how many files are in a Google Drive directory precipitates a short rant about the big picture.
android, design, history, microsoft, rant, software, ui

2022.05.24

This is fine

 A few rabbit holes regarding the current state of real estate and Meme Lorde himself.
investing, investments, real estate, reddit, technology, twitter, wallstreetbets

2022.05.20

Packs

 Trading the stroller out for a baby backpack. Retrofitting old posts to new markup. A couple Elden Ring dragons.
code, elden ring, internet, kilroy, playstation, playstation 5, video games

2022.05.14

Learning

 What do NASDAQ and Elden Ring have in common? Also a trip to the amusement park and some machine learning meta topics.
blogging, html, meta, reddit, software, video games, wallstreetbets

2022.05.07

90s aesthetic

 The indieweb and blogging with a couple of webring rabbit holes. RSS with source and a small Elden Ring gallery.
elden ring, html, meta, programming, ps5, rss, static site generator

2022.05.03

Edges

 WSB discussion about margin borrowing, Zillow, and Evergrande. Links to code samples for graphics processing and some work on the veranda.
china, memes, programming, technology, wallstreetbets, wood preservation, wood treatment

2022.04.29

Lands between

 Some scenery from Elden Ring.
elden ring, open-world soulslike, playstation, playstation 5, ps5, screenshots, video games

2022.04.27

Conversations

 Installing a dryer booster fan, choosing a cat name for an intern project, and some convos about Twitter and Truth.
cats, conversation, food, gbes, memes, quotes, renovation

2022.04.17

Links

 Pool pump work, hacker news and the indie web/blogsphere, and Elon wants to buy Twitter.
blogosophere, culture, gloomhaven, html, internet, russia, twitter

2022.04.06

Not looking back

 Pandemic Season 0, Zinsco breaker replacement, robots shooting basketballs, and the Blyatskrieg grinds on.
board games, how-to, news, renovation, russia, wolf, zoo

2022.03.30

Diversions

 Initial thoughts on Elden Ring and Horizon Forbidden West with plenty of screencaps.
500mm, elden ring, nikon, open-world adventure, photography, playstation 5, telephoto

2022.03.08

Revanchist

 The Ukraine tensions go kinetic, the market reacts, and Reddit watches planes. Far Cry 6 final thoughts with some Deep Rock Galactic and Horizon Forbidden West.
current events, investments, news, ps5, ukraine, video games, wsb

2022.02.20

Imminent?

 The US claims an invasion is imminent, Reddit watches drones, I buy energy stonks.
beer, dog, film, news, politics, technology, war

2022.02.15

Global macro

 Viewing the Russia-Ukraine hostilities with a historical perspective (South Ossetia and Crimea) because this might be a time to join cash gang.
gloomhaven, news, politics, reddit, turn-based tactics rpg, ukraine, war

2022.02.04

Exeunt

 Final thoughts on the Mass Effect trilogy, I create lists of my favorite graphics, and a Far Cry 6 villain rides a lion.
action rpg, far cry 6, investment, kilroy, mass effect, static site generator, video games

2022.01.24

Demise

 Russia stages forces on its Ukrainian border and a Redditor connects the Putin-Manafort-Burisma dots. I hunt treasure in Far Cry 6 and hit the final stretch of the Mass Effect trilogy. KO and Connie play on words in a language I do not understand.
construction, far cry 6, neural style transfer, politics, raiders, technology, video games

2022.01.15

Deep graphics

 An implementation of the Burning Ship fractal and some experiments in creating autoencoders. Changing the style layers in style transfer and combining the outputs into a composite image. Mass Effect 3 Leviathan and Omega DLCs.
deep learning, digital art, keras, loss functions, mass effect 3, style transfer, turn-based tactics rpg

2022.01.09

Clincher

 The best NFL season finale ever (Chargers-Raiders), what the heck was that timeout, and the Go Charge Go copypasta.
chargers, copypasta, football, nfl, raiders, reddit, technology

2022.01.01

Charts

 Omicron spikes but this could be a good thing, static web things, the gang plays Lunch Lady, and my wheel trading report card.
current events, fantasy football, kilroy, lolbaters, lunch lady, meta, news

2021.12.29

Evergreen

 Rain, goats, and gifts.
amtrak, beer, board games, pandemic, train, travel, wine

2021.12.21

Vball championship

 Night volleyball with a rear-curtain flash and a slow shutter.
egg nog, league of sport, motion blur, night photography, rear curtain, volleyball

2021.12.19

Off repeat

 Danny Trejo opens a taco shop in Yara, the lolbaters play the Super People beta, and I play ME3 From Ashes.
action rpg, construction, far cry, investing, investments, mass effect, video games

2021.12.19

Covidivision

 Often said: "I'm not anti-vaccine, I'm anti-mandate."
coronavirus, covid, covid-19, current events, news, politics, society

2021.12.13

On repeat

 Final thoughts on the live action Cowboy Bebop, diving into Far Cry 6, and the Back 4 Blood final boss.
cowboy bebop, lolbaters, netflix, nioh2, theta gang, video games, wallstreetbets

2021.11.27

Pre-omicron

 Buckling down for the totally-predictable omicron surge by watching (anime) Cowboy Bebop, Wheel of Time, and audioreading Ringworld. Also: Back 4 Blood, Gloomhaven, Nioh 2, Mass Effect 3, and Risk of Rain 2. I should go outside. No, wait, omicron.
action flight simulation, books, covid-19, pandemic, star wars: squadrons, the wheel of time, top-down adventure

2021.11.08

The upswing

 The market crash is coming, what are good recovery investments?
investing, investments, market, stocks

2021.11.07

Togetherness

 Friendsgiving mayhem, timely Halloween costumes, gun stonks, and Tacoma parts. And some machine learning graphics links and learnings.
beer pong, costumes, deep learning, neural networks, oil, reddit, scotus

2021.10.26

How to (not) get a PS5

 Chasing the Playstation 5 white whale.
gaming, how to, investing, investments, ps5, wallstreetbets, wsb

2021.10.10

Reequipping

 A bespoke graphics editor for my static blog workflow. Lordstown finally hits the highway after inking a deal with Foxconn. PUBG and Nioh 2 are the multiplayer selections, Mass Effect 2 on the solo front.
cnbc, graphics, investing, investments, news, soulslike, static site generator

2021.09.09

Dialogue

 Covid, ivermectin, and memes. Fantasy football is back and I play Nioh 2, Mass Effect 2, and Dying Light 1 a second time.
mass effect legendary edition, news, pfizer, reddit, reviews, society, vaccination

2021.08.26

News

 I am an uncle.
announcements, battlegrounds, c4, current events, league of sport, news, volleyball

2021.08.22

Perils

 I start Mass Effect 2, Google kills Hangouts, the US pulls out of Afghanistan.
dying light, google, humor, lordstown motors, open-world adventure, software, video games

2021.08.01

Film vault

 Digging through the shoebox of film photos.
c3po, canon, canoscan, crt monitor, portraiture, scanner, tennis

2021.07.27

Everything is cool

 Veranda construction, the new Zero cafe racer, Microsoft nouns a verb, Lordstown dilutes, and I play a few video games.
arbitration, investing, lmc, mass effect, risk of rain 2, veranda, wallstreetbets

2021.07.17

Just buy SPY

 Lordstown marketing subreddit and my six month wheel trading report card
investing, lmc, lordstown, lordstown motors, nikola, technology, theta gang

2021.07.12

Up and down

 Screencaps and commentary from Virgin Galactic's first passenger flight... then they dilute. Some more Lordstown chat.
investments, reddit, sports, technology, virgin galactic, wallstreetbets, wsb

2021.07.06

To the moon

 Hype post willing SPCE to the moon.
fine art, investing, investments, memes, spce

2021.07.04

Lambos or shambos

 PLTN, SPCE, and RIDE. I watch the China Hustle (recommend!) and some video games are played.
investments, lolbaters, lordstown, mass effect, spce, technology, theta gang

2021.06.25

The show goes on

 Lordstown, Virgin Galactic, and Paperhands Portnoy. Veranda construction and a Wuhan Hong Dong Long stout. Mass Effect Legendary Edition, at last. And RIP Johnny Mac and Google Hangouts.
action rpg, beer, gentlemen's beer exploration society, google, lmc, meme stonks, terrace

2021.06.15

Bro, the humanity

 Hindenburg Research is short DKNG and Redditors discuss short selling. Hilti tools are the ultimate flex.
film, investing, movies, reddit, sports, technology, wsb

2021.06.13

Equities

 Lots of woodporn as the veranda takes shape. Meme stonks stage a comeback and candles are replaced with crayons.
investing, investments, party, renovation, technology, terrace, wsb

2021.06.02

Memeorial

 Poway things, steel cable, veranda materials research, and dishwasher repair. Seeking Alpha and my college buddies dissect the recent meme stonk movement.
amc, battlegrounds, fps battle royale, gamestop, renovation, terrace, wallstreetbets

2021.05.26

Risk mitigation

 Construction begins on the veranda, the market dips while China cracks down on crypto, meme stonks, and some video games.
fire emblem, fire emblem: three houses, lmc, remnant, space, veranda, wallstreetbets

2021.05.08

Upgrayedds

 I check out Google search console, discuss graphics in static site generation, and talk SEO when I really don't care about SEO. Plus some investing, video games, and foot talk.
battlegrounds, coding, kilroy, lolbaters, renovation, software, wallstreetbets

2021.04.13

Third house

 Fire Emblem Three Houses squad optimization.
fire emblem strategy, fire emblem: three houses, gaming, nintendo, switch, turn-based tactics, video games

2021.04.10

Humble request

 We can never have too many Xes.
coronavirus, covid, current events, english, lexicon, news, vaccine

2021.04.08

Investment drama

 Archegos, Lordstown, and contextualizing everything in film terms.
cnbc, cramer, lmc, lordstown, news, reddit, wsb

2021.04.06

Resistance

 My winding path to vaccination, the perfect PUBG match, hardware multiboot, and discussions from my spicy millennialism list.
battle royale, cars, fps battle royale, lolbaters, neuroscience, photoshop, vaccine

2021.04.01

Millennialisms

 My most- and least-favorite millennialisms. Spoiler: I don't care about avocado toast one way or the other.
culture, features, humor, list, memes, millennials, rants

2021.03.27

Ever memein'

 The Ever Given debacle seems oddly familiar.
current events, film, humor, mad max, meme, memes, news

2021.03.15

Follow up

 WSB donates its tendies to fellow apes. Some wheel trading analysis. Games: Bloodborne, Fire Emblem, Remnant.
co-op, excel, playstation, ps4, remnant: from the ashes, squad fps, technology

2021.03.12

Deliveries

 Danielle arrives. And some other stuff while nevously awaiting delivery.
investing, investments, nursery, renovation, survival, tacoma, valheim

2021.02.09

Fails

 The WallStreetBets GME saga continues with industry reactions and a coup. And some other stuff.
code, craigslist, current events, java, meme strategy, nikon, site

2021.01.30

GME volume

 We are all Gamestop holders now.
investing, investments, news, quoted, technology, wsb, yolo

2021.01.26

Will Gamestop?

 Will GME continue to moon?
gamestop, gme, investing, investments, news, technology, wsb

2021.01.23

Gamestop

 Deep Fucking Value.
gamestop, news, stocks, stonks, technology, wallstreetbets, wsb

2021.01.20

Current events

 January 6th and the two weeks that followed.
500mm, meme, memes, movies, photo gear, photography, reviews

2021.01.03

Swell

 Shots from a few San Diego spots during the recent swell.
500mm, black's beach, la jolla, nikkor, photography, surf, telephoto

2021.01.02

The next break

 Reflecting on investments and Warren B. Some sunset surf shots, video games, and AI image stylization.
black's beach, deep learning, keras, neural networks, nikkor, programming, surf

2020.12.25

Staying warm by the fire

 Fixing the transformer on a 1970s furnace, PUBG meme strats, and thinking about autoencoders.
battle royale, deep learning, fps battle royale, furnace, investing, machine learning, renovation

2020.12.12

On lock

 The covid surge is a good time for video games and fantasy football.
coronavirus, covid-19, football, fps battle royale, lolbaters, nfl, video games

2020.12.06

Edges and corners

 Taking the 500mm out for some surf shots. Tweaking neural style transfer.
code, investing, lolbaters, pubg, python, rossi, video games

2020.11.29

Mods

 Tweaking the TensorFlow implementation of Neural Style Transfer.
battle royale, battlegrounds, coding, coronavirus, graphics, programming, software

2020.11.15

Decisionvirus

 Election day, commentary, and fallout. The Nioh journey comes to an end. A sprinkling of BL3, Among Us, Risk of Rain.
among us, borderlands 3, election, fantasy football, playstation, risk of rain, sports

2020.11.01

Darkness

 The first night surf photography session in awhile. Halloween, elections, brushfires, and stonks.
fantasy, nfl, pandemic, pirates, sid meier's pirates, surfing, video games

2020.10.17

Cash-secured put

 Getting passive income from cash.
etrade, investing, investments, options, options trading, theta gang, wall street

2020.10.10

Cover

 Star Wars: Squadrons and covered calls 101.
action flight simulation, football, nfl, options, sports, squadrons, x-wing

2020.10.03

Squadrons

 X-Wing is reborn.
action flight simulation, squadrons, star wars, star wars: squadrons, steam, video games, x-wing

2020.09.30

Above-average Wednesday

 A mega-gallery from Black's Beach during a nice swell.
carlsbad, nikkor, nikon, photography, surf, surfing, telephoto

2020.09.26

Seascape

 Taking the 500mm out to Seascape with some buddies.
500mm, del mar, gallery, nikon, surf, surf photography, telephoto

2020.09.25

Covid election

 Thoughts about a recent Atlantic article about how the 2020 election might be contested.
2020, coronavirus, covid, covid-19, election, informational, journalism

2020.09.13

Hot start

 Fantasy football season begins, Nioh, and The Last of Us 2.
fantasy football, football, greedydraft, samurai, screenshots, the last of us, the last of us part 2

2020.09.09

The four horsemen

 Ill portents, investment films, and surf photos.
age of empires, hbo, memes, netflix, nikon, risk of rain, surfing

2020.09.06

Fantasy

 My fantasy teams this year.
draft, espn, football, graphics, nfl, raiders, yahoo

2020.08.27

Go right

 The nearly-invisible personal website, theta gang, and a bunch of video games.
divinity, investing, risk of rain, stocks, the unnatural ones, video games, yolo

2020.08.20

Tapatio noodles

 Tapatio came out with a ramen cup.
bachelor chow, coronavirus, covid, food, noodles, technology, twitter

2020.08.08

Revisiting

 Painting the house from scaffolding, buying bonds, Barotrauma, RoR2, and Blaseball.
covid-19, equipment, home depot, how-to, nikkor, risk of rain 2, tools

2020.08.01

Shootin' buckets

 I break out the Nikon 500m f4g for the first time.
500mm, nikkor, nikon, photography, scripps, surfing, telephoto

2020.07.26

Sniping

 How to build a carbon fiber monopod for a telephoto. Part 2 of my TLOU2 review. Some other stuff in the era of covid.
carbon fiber, civilization, diy, investments, monopod, portraiture, tlou

2020.07.17

Heating up

 Summer things like hot dogs and toxic clouds. More covid memes, more stonks, and a DIY monopod design.
graphics, graphics processing, investing, memes, options, renovation, telephoto

2020.07.03

High/low country

 Borderlands 3 Bounty of Blood, Barotrauma submarine design, Divinity, and some summer things.
borderlands 3, coronavirus, covid-19, gearbox, investments, quotes, survival simulation

2020.07.01

Dogfight

 I set up a remote X-Wing miniatures match for Jon and Rob. It gets heartwarmingly LARPy.
board games, coronavirus, covid, gaming, star wars, tabletop, x-wing miniatures

2020.06.26

Second peak

 Just an OC covid meme.
comic, coronavirus, covid, covid-19, dog, memes

2020.06.24

The Last of Us Pt. II

 First impressions of the newest TLOU and some of the weird reactions to its release.
bots, metacritic, quote, spoken, the last of naughty dog, the last of us part 2, trolls

2020.06.19

Get hype(rspace)

 Excited for Star Wars Squadrons.
action flight simulation, polygon, sidewinder, space combat, star wars, star wars: squadrons, video games

2020.06.15

Choose your home adventure

 Renovating the media room, some current events, and some video games.
baseboards, coding, divinity 2, electronic arts, gentlemen's beer exploration society, microsoft, paint

2020.05.31

Opening/closing

 Covid eases. Less PUBG, more Payday. Some lockdown pastimes.
covid, covid-19, fps battle royale, lolbaters, nasa, spacex, tv

2020.05.31

Perrrrrsona!

 Adding avatars to my blog.
characters, code, html, meta, site, software, static site generator

2020.05.18

Exploration

 Lockdown video gaming, socially-distanced beer exploration, and site generator improvements.
borderlands, coding, gbes, gentlemen's beer exploration society, html, meme, site

2020.05.09

Raster

 Moving pixels around with Java.
code, coding, filter, java, photobash, photoshop, software

2020.04.20

Plenty to do

 Pandemic activities: trading, gaming, and coding.
borderlands, covid-19, deep learning, programming, rpg, software, video games

2020.04.19

Shadow of the Colossus

 Shadow of the Colossus remaster: sixteen colossi, one button mapping issue, and a bittersweet ending.
adventure, games, gaming, playstation, screenshot, shadow of the colossus, video games

2020.04.05

Biohazards

 The day covid lockdown started and some of the ensuing memes. FE Three Houses, Tarkov, Divinity 2, and Borderlands 3.
borderlands, divinity, escape from tarkov, games, jakobs, lolbaters, turn-based tactics

2020.03.14

Fourteen days later

 Is this covid thing for real? One thing is for certain: the memes are good. Self-isolating with PUBG and Borderlands 3.
lolbaters, portrait, portraiture, post, pubg, rig, video games

2020.03.01

Wild week

 Pandemic (the board game) and quarantinis as the price of PPE explodes. Active investing vs passive investing. A bunch of video games.
diablo, etf, fps battle royale, kilroy, ssl, stocks, turn-based tactics

2020.02.15

Crimson Flower

 The Crimson Flower branch of Fire Emblem: Three Houses and minmaxing for the endgame.
fire emblem, fire emblem: three houses, switch, turn-based tactics, video games

2020.02.11

Whistler

 A ski trip to Whistler.
battle royale, battlegrounds, canada, lolbaters, molotov cocktail, seattle, video games

2020.02.10

Favorite screencaps, 2020-2029

 A gallery of my favorite screencaps from this decade.
features, html, list, lists, meta, retropost, static site generator

2020.02.02

Cape Run

 The 2020 Blind Lade Ale House Cape Run.
beer, blah cape run, blind lady ale cape run, modern times, run, san diego, tiger tiger

2020.01.26

Neural fails

 Experiments with convolutional autoencoders and style transfer. East coast travel and video games plus the big wall of Gloomhaven achievements.
dog money, gbes, gentlemen's beer exploration society, machine learning, sake, tool, travel

2020.01.10

Favorite photos, 2020-2029

 My own favorite photos from this decade.
features, html, list, meta, photography, retropost, static site generator

2020.01.04

P-games only

 Pako Car Chase Simulator, Pony Island, Post Scriptum, and PUBG.
hacienda, pako car chase simulator, pubg, puzzle, rngesus, video games, workarounds

2019.12.31

So long, twenty-teens

 Ten things that defined this decade.
facebook, html, list, retrospective, static site generator, tay, vr

2019.12.29

Up and back

 A road trip, Fire Emblem Three Houses, and BL3 Handsome Jackpot.
at-at, fire emblem: three houses, fps rpg, gbes, potbelly, sandwiches, video games

2019.12.08

December

 Just a time-lapse of tree decorating.
christmas, december, football, playoffs, sports, time lapse, tree

2019.11.30

It's nicer indoors

 Fire Emblem Tree Houses, the Borderlands 3 endgame, another Dying Light playthrough, and Barotrauma.
borderlands 3, fire emblem: three houses, gbes, open-world adventure, photography, technique, turn-based tactics

2019.11.10

Castles

 A Fire Emblem Three Houses review and some turkey.
dog, fire emblem, fire emblem: three houses, friendsgiving, santa cruz, the unnatural ones, turn-based tactics

2019.10.27

Apexes

 Borderlands 3, Risk of Rain 2, and volleyball under the moon.
borderlands, borderlands 3, gearbox, lolbaters, photography, risk of rain 2, roguelike shooter

2019.10.26

Halloween

 A costume party.
castaway, crocodile, halloween, nightmare before christmas, willllssssonnnnnn, wilson, wolverine

2019.10.03

Another lap

 Food and parties, Borderlands and Risk of Rain.
borderlands, gbes, gearbox, payday 2 cosplay, risk of rain, video games, waffle

2019.09.14

New games

 Borderlands 3 arrives, The Division 2 ends, RoR2 strategy discussion, Zelda and FE3H. I enjoy a Kook Slams IPA and draft my fantasy team.
football, kookslam, lolbaters, nintendo, open-world adventure, screenshot, zelda

2019.08.10

Deeper dive

 A trip to Las Vegas, finishing Division 2, Risk of Rain 2 items, and DL4J/CNN stuff.
axis and allies, convolution, photography, risk of rain, roguelike shooter, spoken, the division

2019.07.20

Sweltering

 Hot dogs, hot zones, and hot worms.
cover shooter, dog, dogs, machine learning, risk of rain, roguelike shooter, volleyball

2019.06.30

Beating the heat

 Borderlands GOTY, RoR2, and a new PUBG tactic.
borderlands, fps battle royale, fps rpg, pizza, pubg, renovation, video games

2019.06.12

E3 2019

 E3 2019.
action rpg, borderlands, cyberpunk 2077, square, uswnt, video games, wolfenstein

2019.06.03

Chipper

 A review of the Power King 7hp woodchipper.
chipper, home depot, landscaping, renovation, shredder, wood chipper, yard

2019.06.02

Parallelism

 Doing distributed processing with Java's parallelStream.
coding, graphics, information, mapreduce, parallelism, programming, spliterator

2019.06.01

Back to it

 A trip out east, a RHCP tribute band, Borderlands GOTY, and RoR2.
battle royale, east coast, fps rpg, lolbaters, pubg, travel, video games

2019.05.23

Thumbnailing

 Naive thumbnail generation in Java.
code, coding, graphics, html, programming, software, static site generator

2019.05.18

Sets

 I added post sets to my static site generator.
europe, features, kilroy, meta, sets, site, static site generator

2019.05.01

Lists

 List posts and my favs.
film, html, list, lists, meta, reviews, static site generator

2019.04.29

Winterfell

 A roundup of Reddit commentary after the Battle of Winterfell.
a song of ice and fire, comic book guy, game of thrones, hbo, reddit, worst episode ever, writing

2019.04.24

Europe: novelties

 Silly stuff from the Europe trip.
cats, europe, hats, honeymoon, photography, signs, travel

2019.04.24

Europe: social studies

 A few cultural quirks from our two weeks on the continent.
animals, culture, dog, driving, photography, social studies, travel

2019.04.24

Europe: food

 A summary of foods from the Europe trip.
europe, food, honeymoon, photography, restaurants, travel, wine

2019.04.23

Tuesday: GVA - AMS - LAX

 Travel day: Geneva to Los Angeles and then back home.
amsterdamn, europe, food, klm, photography, train, wine

2019.04.22

Monday: Murren - Lausanne - Montraux - Geneva

 Visiting friends in Lausanne before the flight home.
europe, food, photography, steamboat, travel, vineyard, wine

2019.04.21

Sunday: Murren - Schilthorn

 Hiking a ski slope in Murren then taking the gondola to Piz Gloria.
alps, food, hiking, james bond, piz gloria, snow, switzerland

2019.04.20

Saturday: Interlaken - The Car Free Town of Gimmelwald - Murren

 Interlaken to the Schilthorn to liters at the Hotel Eidelweiss.
food, honeymoon, interlaken, photography, rant, travel, wine

2019.04.19

Friday: Bacharach - Interlaken

 From Germany to Switzerland with a minor transportation scare.
bacharach, chocolate, fondue, food, photography, train, travel

2019.04.18

Thursday: Bacharach - Burg Eltz

 A day trip to Burg Eltz from Bacharach.
burg eltz, europe, forest, honeymoon, koblenz, photography, train

2019.04.17

Wednesday: Brussels - Bacharach

 Brussels to Bacharach by train.
bacharach, belgium, germany, photography, riesling, weimaraner, wine

2019.04.16

Tuesday: Paris - Brussels

 Paris to Brussels by train and foot.
belgium, champions league, europe, grand place, honeymoon, photography, travel

2019.04.15

Monday: Paris

 Lunch at a Michelin restaurant, scootering the Louvre, and a bike tour on an ill-fated day.
eiffel tower, fat tire bike tours, food, honeymoon, notre dame, saturne, seine

2019.04.14

Sunday: Paris

 A metro and walking loop to the catacombs and Champs-Elysees. Moulin Rouge.
catacombs, champs elysees, europe, honeymoon, marathon, photography, wine

2019.04.13

Saturday: Rayol - Nice - Paris

 Rayol Canadel to Paris via Nice.
driving, europe, food, mediterranean, st tropez, travel, wine

2019.04.12

Friday: Rayol Canadel Sur Mer

 A Sentier Fenouillet hike, quick swim, and some crepes.
europe, food, mediterranean, photography, polar bear, sentier fenouillet, wine

2019.04.11

Thursday: Gigondas - Avignon - Aix - Rayol

 Gigondas to Rayol Canadel sur Mer with stops in Avignon and Aix.
aix-en-provence, avignon, europe, food, honeymoon, travel, wine

2019.04.10

Wednesday: Lyon - Gigondas

 A Lyon market and the wine country.
food, gigondas, honeymoon, photography, ruins, travel, wine

2019.04.09

Tuesday: plane - CDG - GVA - Lyon

 The LAX to GVA via CDG, then a relatively short drive to Lyon.
europe, food, lyon, photography, terasse st clair, travel, wine

2019.04.08

Monday: San Diego - LAX - plane

 Taking the train to LAX for our flight to Paris.
europe, food, honeymoon, lax, photography, travel, wine

2019.04.07

Europe preparation

 Maps, money, and translation software.
europe, honeymoon, maps, photography, preparation, translate, travel

2019.04.06

Some improvements

 Some web site updates, a bday photo session, and an assortment of games.
action rpg, java, kilroy, risk of rain, roguelike shooter, static site generator, technique

2019.04.04

Lists

 All of my lists.
car movies, features, list, lists, review, reviews, speed night

2019.04.02

About

 The obligatory 'about this site' page.
about, html, kilroy, meta, static site generator

2019.04.01

Top ten games

 My top ten video games of all time.
action rpg, fps rpg, goldeneye, lolbaters, pubg, san andreas, wolfenstein

2019.03.16

Bouncing around

 The amazing Nikkor 50mm 1/.4G, Far Cry 5 has a dark ending, and a few other multiplayer games.
electronic arts, f/1.4, far cry 5, fortuna, fps, fps battle royale, nexus 6

2019.02.26

Destination

 A Maui trip during humpback season.
dive, gif, humpback, humpback whale, mala pier, sunset, whale

2019.02.17

Canyoning

 Putting the 'adventure' back in the Gentlemen's Beer Exploration Society.
adventure, canyon, gbes, gentlemen, hiking, poison oak, scooter

2019.02.10

Hood

 Mount Hood brocation.
government camp, mt hood, potbelly, slowboarders, snowmageddon, snowpocalypse, weather

2019.02.02

BLAH Cape Run

 The 2019 Blind Lady Ale House Cape Run.
blah, blah cape run, blind lady ale cape run, cape, machine learning, neural style transfer, tiger tiger

2019.01.27

Entertainment

 Fire Emblem Fates, Divinity, Far Cry, and a bunch of other video games.
carpet, far cry, fps, fps battle royale, pubg, rapture, surgery

2018.12.30

Santa's little helpers

 Christmas with a weim and a golden.
advent of code, christmas, dog, drive, travel, tumbleweed

2018.12.22

Enduring

 Far Cry 5 and the new PUBG snow map.
battlestation, divinity, food, lolbaters, open-world fps, rain, rpg

2018.11.25

Looking back/forward

 Some video game talk, a new jacket, and descaling the water heater.
alpinestars, bosch, dianese, divinity, home improvement, motorcycle, video games

2018.11.14

Dogeared

 Kafka gets ear surgery, I eat Din Tai Fung and play some games.
dog, dtf, fire emblem, food, photography, portrait, the unnatural ones

2018.11.04

Masks

 Halloween, PUBG, and a trip to Seattle.
battlegrounds, lolbaters, party, the shape of water, twitch, video games, x-files

2018.10.21

RPG

 Some short trips, finishing Heroes of the Aturi Cluster, beginning Gloomhaven.
amazon, board games, craigsec, divinity, gbes, rpg, spacex

2018.08.30

Drafted

 Gaming: PUBG, fantasy, Alienation, God of War, X-Wing miniatures.
back boat, football, lolbaters, neural style transfer, sports, squad top-down shooter, video games

2018.08.04

Vidya

 Lots of gaming: PUBG, Risk, Destiny 2, Alienation, and God of War.
fps battle royale, lolbaters, relics of the golden age, replay, risk, sirichai, video editing

2018.07.23

Tactics

 Hot weather means X-Com, PUBG, Destiny, and an X-Wing miniatures corvette battle.
battle royale, board games, boardgames, destiny, gaming, xcom, xcom 2

2018.06.25

Sun reas

 The 2018 World Superbike race at Laguna Seca.
aprilia, corkscrew, ducati, jonathan rea, machine learning, neural style transfer, yamaha

2018.06.20

Adventuring

 Heroes of the Aturi Cluster, The Division, X-Com 2, PUBG, and Tacoma suspension.
destiny 2, division, meta, neural networks, pubg, static site generator, tales from the borderlands

2018.06.12

E3

 E3 2018.
adventure, anthem, bethesda, brotherhood of steel, open-world adventure, persona, the division

2018.05.31

Dialogue

 Text chats implemented in html, some more neural style transfer, LED headlight installation, and Sea of Thieves.
code, coding, dl4j, image, led, machine learning, video games

2018.05.13

CA primary

 The California primary voter guide in all its weirdness.
california, congress, election, politics, primary, senate, voting

2018.05.13

Deep dive

 Neural style transfer using DL4J and other starter projects. An ATL trip and two hours before the mast.
coding, ducati, java, lolbaters, ski, snow, squad adventure

2018.04.08

Blowing off some dust

 EDH builds: Narset and Oloro.
board games, commander, edh, magic, mtg, oloro, the division

2018.04.01

Graphics

 Sea of Thieves, Monster Hunter, Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, and some outdoor activities.
cannon, games, kayak, portraiture, ship, sidescrolling shooter, video games

2018.03.25

Drenched

 Park City ski-brocation, a Kingwin HDD switch for multi-boot, and first thoughts on Sea of Thieves.
battlestation, concrete, garage annex, ski, squad adventure, travel, video games

2018.03.07

Menacing

 Pouring concrete for the murder room, Monster Hunter, and Altered Carbon.
action rpg, airbnb, fallout, kilroy, meta, monster hunter world, photography

2018.02.27

Tags

 Adding tags to my static site generator.
coding, html, meta, site, software, static site generator, tags

2018.02.25

Onward

 The BLAH Cape Run, pouring concrete for the murder room, and Horizon Zero Dawn.
aloy, concrete, frozen wilds, horizon zero dawn, la croix, monster hunter world, recipes

2018.02.11

Grinding

 I play some Horizon and Monster Hunter, work on the murder room, and build some EDH decks.
concrete, games, horizon, murder room, open-world adventure, renovation, warframe

2018.01.28

Spoiled

 Murder room concrete work, a wedding shoot, the Horizon Zero Dawn finale, and Pandemic Legacy.
board games, games, garage, hamilton, murder room, pandemic, screenshot

2018.01.07

Horizon

 Screencaps, videos, and initial thoughts on Horizon Zero Dawn.
charger, games, horizon, horizon zero dawn, screenshot, strider, video games

2017.12.31

Sleighride

 A holiday trip to NorCal, an Ezuri EDH deck, and static site generator mod for building and sharing MTG decks.
deck, gage, lovers in a dangerous spacetime, mtg, renovation, unstable, video games

2017.12.27

J's top ten video games

 My buddy dropped his all time top 10 video games on me.
borderlands, fps, grand theft auto, horizon, horizon zero dawn, skyrim, static site generator

2017.12.17

Sunsets

 Weather, Monster Hunter, thoughts on my Zero S, and The Last Jedi.
electric, games, monster hunter, motorcycle, nfl, warframe, zero

2017.12.11

OC

 Internet content, from OC to excrement.
4chan, internet, reddit, retropost, technology

2017.11.25

The craft

 Moving from a Ducati to a Zero S. Rebel Galaxy and some other video games.
action, magic, motorcycle, rebel galaxy, uncharted, zero, zero s

2017.11.14

All over the map

 Installing a tankless water heater and a few board games.
axis and allies, board games, bosch, games, plumbing, water heater, x-wing

2017.11.13

Ixalan sealed

 Ixalan sealed night at Barrel Harbor. Pirates, dinos, beer.
barrel harbor, deck, ixalan, magic, mtg, sealed, vampire

2017.10.31

Fantasy

 Halloween costumes, fantasy football, Paragon, and MtG.
board games, esports, fantasy, halloween, ixalan, muriel, paragon

2017.10.24

Weekenders

 Trips to Oakland, OC, and some Paragon.
bicycle, cycling, dog, football, norcal, travel, video games

2017.09.30

Finishing

 Horizontal fencing installation, a DC trip, and Battleborn.
dulles, east coast, fps moba, plane, slat fence, video games, x-wing

2017.08.20

Fancy, flying

 Picking up Battleborn in its dying days, disassembling the pool pump, and some travel.
big bear, deltron 3030, east coast, fps moba, potbelly, video games, wedding

2017.07.22

Completion

 A time-lapse gif of re-epoxying the pool. The Dying Light DLC, Andromeda, Killing Floor 2, and Persona 5.
dying light, gif, killing floor 2, persona, screenshot, technique, video games

2017.06.13

E3 2017

 AAA titles are all the rage at E3 2017.
e3expo, etrian odyssey, fallout, forza, horizon zero dawn, nintendo, technology

2017.06.09

Killing Floor 2

 Killing Floor 2 and Mass Effect Andromeda.
action rpg, andromeda, electronic arts, killing floor, mass effect andromeda, screenshot, video games

2017.05.30

Dying Light

 A brief overview of Dying Light co-op.
dying light, open-world adventure, playstation, playstation 4, screenshots, video games, zombies

2017.05.15

Fancy events

 Wedding.
arthur, baseball, box, guest board, lomography, padres, photos

2017.04.21

The calm

 Mass Effect Andromeda, Civilization tabletop, and a trip to Atomic City raceway.
action rpg, beach, civilization, mass effect: andromeda, photos, screenshot, work

2017.03.31

Horizons

 Work travel, getting out of town, and going to Andromeda.
action rpg, andromeda, beer, left 4 dead 2, mass effect andromeda, screenshots, witcher

2017.02.28

A real winter

 Travel and Warframe.
board games, m4, mental note guy, oregon trail, range, shooting, tv

2017.01.29

Conditioning

 The 2017 Blind Lady Ale House Cape Run, the USMNT plays Serbia, a suppressed AR in a state where they're legal, and the SD women's march.
ar, barrel harbor, battlefield, battlefield 1, board games, cape run, serbia

2016.12.31

Roaming

 Holiday travel, engagement photos. Battlefield 1, The Witcher, and Warframe.
beer, board games, nfl, renovation, sound, speaker, sweater

2016.11.20

Disguised

 Halloween, the Turkey Bowl, The Witcher, and Warframe.
action rpg, badminton, gwent, halloween, league of sport, open-world action rpg, turkey bowl

2016.10.30

Civilizing

 Volleyball photos, installing a Trex deck, and Legacy games. Video games include The Witcher, Civ VI, Broforce, Warframe, and Planetside.
alpinestars, caulk, deck, mmo squad fps, pvc, support, turn-based strategy

2016.09.04

Trips

 Oahu, fantasy football, and a giant Guiness.
dog, fantasy football, greedydraft, hawaii, league of sport, pandemic legacy, travel

2016.08.14

Watery

 Cache Creek rafting, pool vball, Warframe, and Witcher 3.
cache creek, mopa, pool, rafting, slide, video games, warframe

2016.07.20

Ikelite nightsurfing

 A nightsurfing photo session with an Ikelite housing and flash.
nightsurfing, nikon, photography, scripps, stealth mission, surfing, underwater

2016.07.17

Back to work

 Fireworks at the Cove and tiling a medicine cabinet. In the game room: Fallout, Warframe, and TLOU.
adventure, fallout, mystery science theater, open-world action rpg, renovation, the last of us, warframe

2016.06.22

Spare time

 A wedding, gate installs, and tuna crabs.
action rpg, dog, screenshot, tuna crab, usmnt, video games, wedding

2016.06.01

Satisfying

 Finishing the brewery crawl, Tropico 5, and Warframe.
32 north, city simulation, division 32, green flash, reckless, tropico 5, warframe

2016.05.07

Warframe

 Finishing The Division and starting Warframe.
action rpg, cover shooter, graffiti, playstation, the division, tom clancy, video games

2016.05.02

A'a

 Diving Kauai.
diving, fish, lihue, nikon, photography, travel, turtles

2016.04.23

FFS

 Challenge 10 giant chaos. It must be primary season.
california, congress, election, politics, primary, senate, voting

2016.04.20

Indie

 An Austin bachelor party, The Division, Firewatch, and Broforce.
board game, board games, firewatch, nations, reviews, screenshots, shar

2016.04.03

All games

 The Division, Broforce, and Helldivers
cover shooter, helldivers, platformer, reviews, squad top-down shooter, the division, video games

2016.03.16

Indoor

 Skiing with a torn MCL, file ops in Java, surfing, and Helldivers.
computer, helldivers, integer overflow, powder mountain, squatters pub, utah, video games

2016.03.02

Sedentary

 MCL tear, froading, clay pigeons, volleyball.
'froading, adventure, flash, golf, not skiing, offroading, weimaraner

2016.02.20

Moving earth

 A motorsports fan judges Monster Jam (and gets booed). Cities: Skylines, Helldivers, and Fallout 4.
bethesda, helldivers, html, meta, playstation plus, squad top-down shooter, video games

2016.01.31

Boards

 Some decorative surfboards and shelving.
book, bookshelf, living room, renovation, shelf, shelving, surfboard

2016.01.30

Cape Run

 The 2016 Blind Lady Ale House Cape Run.
blah, blind lady ale cape run, cape, livewire, pizza, tiger tiger, tornado

2016.01.17

Cuts

 Trying out video stabilization software: VirtualDub with Deshaker and Hyperlapse.
gopro, northstar, skiing, snow, stabilization, video editing, volleyball

2016.01.08

From Diego to The Bay

 Wiffle ball, high tide surfing, a Raiders game, and skiing.
board games, calistoga, la jolla, northstar, oakland, raiders, snowboarding

2015.12.02

Caps

 My second chunk of progress in Fallout 4.
borderlands 2, closet, fallout, fallout 4, handsome collection, open-world action rpg, screenshot

2015.11.16

Bombing it

 A first look at Fallout 4. Also the Turkey Bowl (flag football) and some Planetside 2 action.
fallout, fallout 4, football, mmo squad fps, planetside 2, sports, video games

2015.11.04

Nino

 A couple of unimpressive lightning pics.
el nino, lightning

2015.11.02

Spooks

 Four Halloween costumes and some Planetside.
costume, fantasy, halloween, infiltrator, jabba, planetside 2, weimaraner

2015.10.10

Dos a tres

 The US-Mexico CONCACAF Cup match.
confederations cup, pasadena, photos, rose bowl, soccer, sports, usmnt

2015.10.07

Flights

 An east coast trip, disc golf, and some Planetside 2 action.
fins, frolf, mmo squad fps, planetside 2, screenshots, surfboard, video games

2015.08.25

Amok

 Patio renovations, nerf storage, and a couple of celebrations. Also some fantasy football and Planetside action.
mmo squad fps, patio, pegboard, planetside 2, renovation, screenshots, sports

2015.08.24

VR4 work

 Replacing an oxygen sensor, struts, and springs on a 3000GT VR4.
kyb, replacement, sensor, springs, struts, suspension, wrenching

2015.07.13

Camp'n'crawl

 The League of Sport camp and crawl and returning from Oregon by train.
adventure, burney, camp n crawl, golf, lan party, mt lassen, train

2015.07.12

Forever war

 My first few hours of Planetside 2 and some more Borderlands 2.
borderlands, borderlands 2, fps rpg, handsome collection, mmo squad fps, screenshots, video games

2015.06.02

Kona

 The big island at 14,000 feet above sea level and 60 feet below.
beer, books, d700, fish, hawaii, reef, travel

2015.05.24

Battlestations

 The garage annex "murder room" gets more murdery, an Ikelight strobe, a cabon fibersurfboard, HotS and the Handsome Collection.
borderlands 2, fps rpg, garage, nova, study, surfboard, top-down moba

2015.05.09

Storms

 A Heroes of the Storm LAN party, local scuba dive, and adorable Mothers' Day photos.
dive, heroes of the storm, hots, ikelite, lan party, portrait, video games

2015.04.22

Circuits

 The 2015 Long Beach Grand Prix, ASUS customer support, and a new rig.
gigabyte, indycar, long beach, patent, race, tech support, trucks

2015.04.01

Class

 A dog photoshoot and some other stuff.
classy party, cristal kings, pepperoni, pong perignon, quote, quotes, spoken

2015.03.22

Completion

 Final thoughts on Far Cry 4, including the map editor and experiments with C4. Kafka destroys a cognac box.
c4, chomp, cognac, dog, map editor, open-world fps, screenshot

2015.03.22

HTTP

 Looking at site traffic for the first time and writing a naive classifier.
html, kilroy, lists, meta, security, static site generator, statistics

2015.02.09

Far Cry 4

 Initial thoughts and screencaps from Far Cry 4.
co-op, elephant, far cry 4, open-world fps, playstation, screenshots, video games

2015.02.08

Cape run

 The 2015 Blind Lady Ale House Cape Run.
black team, blah, cape, cape run, pizza, run, san diego

2015.02.04

Hangers

 Some shower and light fixtures.
bathroom, light, lighting, master, media room, renovation, shower

2015.01.31

Buoyant

 Garibaldi and kelp in La Jolla Cove.
crab, dive, diving, ikelite, kelp, la jolla cove, scuba

2015.01.27

Clean sets

 Clean waves in Del Mar and a monster attacks SimCity.
photography, screenshots, simcity, surf, surfing, talon, technique

2015.01.19

Improvements

 Static site generator changes, fantasy football, and some video games.
coding, crop, duckduckgo, html, markup, meta, static site generator

2015.01.01

New *

 An office and OS reorg, sand and snow for the doggo.
cable, dog, drive, snow, study, weimaraner, windows

2014.12.01

Transition

 A couple of trips and an AT-AT costume for Kafka.
agritourism, at-at, beach, costume, dc, fps rpg, washington

2014.10.19

Daysurfing

 I take the Ikelight underwater housing and D700 out to shoot some Del Mar surf.
del mar, focus, ikelite, surf, surfing, technique, underwater housing

2014.10.05

Footgolf

 Footgolf at Welk, a bachelor party in Big Bear, and a mountain goat dog.
argyle, big bear, boat, dog, footgolf, league of sport, weimaraner

2014.09.16

Dog session

 A golden hour walk with the doggies.
dog, dogs, golden hour, lola, rain, san diego, weimaraner

2014.09.09

Destiny

 My Destiny-edition PS4 arrives.
bungie, destiny, fps rpg, halo, playstation, playstation 4, video games

2014.08.19

Greedydraft

 Using Wins Above Replacement (WAR) for fantasy football.
algorithms, draft party, draft strategy, fantasy football, football, statistics, value above replacement

2014.08.03

Nightsurfing, part six

 Photographing a stealth mission.
6812, diving, flash, night, photography, scripps, underwater

2014.07.27

Nightsurfing, part cinq

 An Ikelite underwater housing, a D700, and some night surfing.
6812, diving, nightsurfing, photography, sb800, scripps, technique

2014.07.01

Brazuca

 The American Outlaws World Cup 2014 trip to Brazil.
american outlaws, italy, natal, parque de costeira, soccer, sports, world cup

2014.06.10

Copa

 Trials and tribulations getting tickets for the 2014 World Cup of Soccer.
american outlaws, fifa, tickets, visa, world cup

2014.06.04

Pump reno iv

 Finishing the pumphouse renovation, a gas burner, and some soccer.
barbecue, fence, pumphouse, renovation, skagen, soccer, sports

2014.05.26

Pump reno iii

 Part III of the pump house rebuild.
concrete, de filter, fence, pump, pumphouse, renovation, roofing

2014.05.18

Pump reno ii

 Part II of the pump house rebuild.
concrete, de filter, fence, pump, pumphouse, renovation, valve

2014.05.12

Pump reno i

 Part I of the pump house rebuild.
concrete, posts, pump, pumphouse, renovation, roofing, solar

2014.04.17

Competition

 The 2014 Austin (motorcycle) Grand Prix and fantasy (like wizards) flag football.
ducati, epoxy, larp, lightning bolt, motorcycles, texas, track

2014.03.17

Partyin partyin

 A birthday barbecue and classy party.
barbecue, classy party, portraits

2014.03.10

GP Motorcycles, strike 2.5

 Just the valves, please.
customer service, ducati, gp motorcycles, san diego

2014.03.08

Blayke 51

 A bday photo session and discussion of my postprocessing... er... process.
adobe, histogram, photography, photoshop, processing, technique, workflow

2014.02.16

F*ckr

 Moving from Flickr to self-hosted images.
flickr, hosting, html, meta, scooby snack, static site generator, weimaraner

2014.02.13

Mahalopoints

 Overnighting the Kalalau Trail and a stopover on a different north shore.
beach, goat by the sea, goatsea, kauai, na pali coast, north shore, trail

2014.01.01

Popular

 A gallery of my most popular photos, updated regularly.
features, html, kilroy, lists, meta, retropost, static site generator

2013.09.27

Sbk

 World Superbike at Laguna Seca.
california, laguna seca, motorcycle race, motorcycles, race, sbk, world superbike

2013.06.11

E3 2013

 New consoles, fast cars, and a giant mech at E3 2013.
brewing, e3, e3expo, forza, los angeles, video games, willamette hops

2013.05.15

The last bit of thirty

 KO turns 40, Dad turns 60 in Hawaii, Lee and Carly get married.
borderlands 2, dc, fps rpg, pearlescent, scuba, tunnels, video games

2013.03.17

Flight

 The Blind Lady Ale House Cape Run, a going away party, and a ride on Ty's new Triumph.
blah, blind lady ale cape run, bonneville, pizza, snow northstar, super bowl, thirsty dog

2012.12.28

All with one shoulder

 Bicycles are friggin dangerous.
beer, cycling, ducati, ligaments, renovation, spark plug, wires

2012.11.14

Cure

 The Run For Your Lives zombie run and some shower tiling.
exercise, master bathroom, run for your lives, shower, tile, vanity, zombies

2012.10.03

Week of tile

 Tiling the master shower.
bathroom, harbor freight, master bathroom, renovation, tile, tile saw

2012.09.26

Dabbling

 Dodgeball and a fantasy draft.
borderlands, dodgeball, electrical, party bus, sports, tile, video games

2012.08.19

Cheese

 A taco party, homebrew, and quitting Facebook.
beer, brewing, homebrew, iron maiden, old honey, pinata, taco party

2012.08.08

Top down

 Vaulting the master bathroom and watching the Giants from a box.
baseball, bathroom, giants, renovation, shower, tile, travel

2012.07.23

Shower reboot

 Vaulting the shower ceiling and adding a shelf and backer board. The Stingray-J IPA recipe and a Pyramidhead sighting at SDCC.
beer, fan, panasonic, plumbing, pyramid head, sdcc, tile

2012.07.04

Fourth

 Cenote diving near Cancun and some fireworks watching.
cenote, diving, fireworks, playa del carmen, scuba, travel, yardwork

2012.06.18

Long days

 E3 2012 and a pool volleyball party.
e3expo, fps rpg, halo, league of sport, video games, walking dead, warthog

2012.05.22

Necromania

 Left 4 Dead 2, Lost Rhino brewery, and adult kickball.
dc, kickball, l4d2, left 4 dead 2, squad fps, video games, zombie tooth

2012.04.01

Now with vitamin r

 Skiing Kirkwood and taking the dogs to Fiesta Island.
brewing, dogs, ski, snow, snowboard, snowboarding, weimaraner

2012.02.19

xlvi

 A Super Bowl party.
848 evo, brewing, party, peligro, pool, sports, super bowl

2012.01.28

BLAH Run

 The first Blind Lady Ale House Cape Run.
beer, blah, blind lady ale cape run, brewing, pizza, porter rico

2012.01.08

Tapping back in

 Twilight Imperium and dog beach.
axis and allies, board games, brewing, dog, dogs, porter rico, weimaraner

2011.11.23

Postfriendsgiving

 TES V: Skyrim has arrived. And two goofy dogs.
dog, dogs, friendsgiving, open-world action rpg, screenshots, skyrim, weimaraner

2011.10.30

Prefriendsgiving

 Prepping the yard for visitors and trips to DC and Vegas.
dc, fps rpg, friendsgiving, gearbox, las vegas, renovation, video games

2011.09.27

Glowing water

 Swimming in bioluminescence off the Scripps Pier.
bioluminescence, red tide, scripps

2011.09.06

Football

 Flag and fantasy football.
draft party, flag football, football, league of sport, medieval gridiron, nfl, sports

2011.08.12

Dream team

 A Jackson-oriented fantasy football team.
draft party, fantasy football, football, nfl, sports

2011.08.07

Eaves

 Building planter boxes into the deck.
backyard, deck, lighting, plants, renovation

2011.07.27

Grand prix

 The 2011 Red Bull Grand Prix at Laguna Seca.
corkscrew, ducati island, laguna seca, monterey, motorcycle racing, valentino rossi, yamaha

2011.07.12

Best seats in the house

 My MovieSac was lonely so I got it a pair of GamerSacs.
gamersac, laguna seca, lovesac, motogp, motorcyles, motorsports, renovation

2011.06.22

The Leaguies

 A League of Sport pool party, a new (used) truck, and a patent.
flag football, football, league of sport, patent, pool party, sports, truck

2011.06.14

June 2011 is busy

 E3 2011, deck work, and a shindig.
backyard, deck, e3expo, forza, los angeles, modern warfare, resurfacing

2011.05.28

Railing

 Replacing the damaged deck railing with steel cable.
backyard, deck, plank, railing, renovation, stain

2011.05.20

Deck again

 A more extensive deck plank repair job, on a budget.
coffee mug, deck, railing, renovation, resurfacing, scorpion, steel cable

2011.05.05

One last job...

 The Speed Night crew reviews The Fast and the Furious 5, some flag football, and a creative lighting solution.
fast and furious, halo risk, league of sport, review, skylight, speed night, tiella

2011.04.24

More lighting

 Garage lighting and a skylight.
attic, dog run, fast and furious, garage, lighting, renovation, skylight

2011.04.22

Replacement gear

 Some new moto gear after a vigorous offroading trip in Utah.
exo-400, joe rocket, new enough, offroading, scorpion, tiella, utah

2011.04.12

New lights

 Cable lights beneath a skylight for good lighting at all hours.
cable lights, drywall, garage, kitchen, lighting, renovation, tiella

2011.04.08

Spring

 Excited to see MotoGP at Laguna Seca.
laguna seca, monterey, motogp, motorcycle, motorcyles, motorsports, racing

2011.03.23

Chilly

 Cansecwest 2011.
canada, cansecwest, microsoft, rim, security, technology, vancouver

2011.02.20

Snow, lots and lots of snow

 Swapping HIDs into the VR4 and lots of powder in Tahoe.
blizzard, brocation, high center, sierra nevada, ski, skiing, snowboarding

2011.02.09

Garage work

 Installing HIDs on the VR4.
fantasy football, garage, goodbye blue medieval gridiron, hid, mitsubishi 3000gt, renovation, super bowl party

2011.01.30

Entertainment

 The Walking Dead, board games, and some stuff for the office.
board games, league of sport, puerto rico, quote, quotes, spoken, sports

2011.01.09

Cover 2

 Dogs and flag football.
beer, dog, dog beach, flag football, football, lola, weimaraner

2010.12.28

Eggsmas

 A trip to NorCal with the doggo.
baklava, balaclava, dog, ducati, fantasy football, flag football, weimaraner

2010.12.14

d'Dogs

 Some multiple exposure/flash fun at the park with the dog, Shar visits, and fantasy playoffs.
dog, fantasy football, football, medieval gridiron, nfl, night photography, technique

2010.11.28

Kitchen lighting

 Turning recessed flourescent lighting into something better.
cable lights, drywall, kitchen, lighting, renovation, skylight

2010.11.21

Rainy days

 Flag football in the rain and mud.
flag football, football, halo reach, league of sport, mud, rain, technique

2010.10.26

Playing the field

 Football - fantasy and flag - and a trip to colorful Shenandoah National Park.
dc, fantasy football, flag football, league of sport, shenandoah, video games, west virginia

2010.10.19

Football overload

 Well maybe not overload; a daytrip to see the Raiders-9ers, some fantasy, and organizing weekly flag football games.
candlestick, darth vader, football, league of sport, niners, raiders, tailgating

2010.10.13

Cabo

 A quick Cabo trip.
cabo, dive, mexico, scuba, underwater, underwater photography, zip line

2010.10.04

Lapse

 Civilization V, Dave Matthews, and Warp Riders.
backyard, board games, costume, renovation, the sword, video game, video games

2010.08.29

A proper backyard by winter

 Some backyard renovations.
backyard, draft, fantasy football, lighting, plumbing, renovation

2010.08.22

d'Draft

 A live fantasy draft.
draft, draft party, fantasy football

2010.08.08

Casual weekend

 Backyard greenery and Starcraft II.I.
backyard, blizzard, renovation, screenshots, starcraft, sunsail, video games

2010.08.03

Some more screenery

 Starcraft II gallery.
realtime tactics, screenshots, starcraft 2, starcraft ii, video games

2010.08.01

Starcraft

 Initial thoughts on Starcraft II.I and photographing paintball from the trenches.
blizzard, paintball, photography, realtime tactics, screenshots, starcraft 2, technique

2010.07.28

Kaf and Shar

 The Petco Park suite and some pets at the park.
box, dodgers, dog, dogs, padres, shar, weimaraner

2010.07.26

mi3

 A chili cookoff and sun sail installation.
backyard, chili, chili cookoff, cooking, pool, renovation, steel rope

2010.07.21

Sargent

 The Sargent aftermarket seat on a Ducati 900SS.
ducati, sargent, seat

2010.07.19

Motorsport weekend 2010

 Looking forward to some motorsports this weekend. So is Kafka.
backyard, ducati, formula 1, monaco, motogp, seat, sun sail

2010.07.18

Cleanup

 The World Cup, some house work, and a chiminea.
chiminea, epoxy, garage, renovation, study, world cup

2010.06.21

Independence

 The mech suits and pregnant zombies of E3 2010.
civilization v, e3expo, html, los angeles, meta, motion control, site

2010.04.25

Brolagio

 Some backyard features.
backyard, indoor, pool, renovation, soccer, terrace, water

2010.04.18

Productive... enjoyable... why how would you describe it?

 Kafka turns one.
desmosedici rr, fiesta island, harley, husqvarna, summer, terramar, weimaraner

2010.04.02

Malware
malware, virus

2010.03.21

Piping

 Sweating pipe for the master bathroom.
backyard, body spray, grass, how-to, kohler, piping, plumbing

2010.03.10

pf01

 Enkei PF01s for the VR4.
car, enkei, gto, mitsubishi, tire rack, ups, wheels

2010.03.07

Purchases, products, plantings

 Staining the deck and adding some greenery to the backyard.
achievement unlocked, backyard, gto, papyrus, pf01, pool, vr4

2010.02.24

Garage doors

 Swapping out old garage doors and figuring out how to pipe body sprays the right way (closed loop).
bamboo, bathroom, body spray, garage, master bathroom, renovation, shower

2010.02.10

Favorite screencaps, 2010-2019

 My favorite screenshots from this decade.
features, kilroy, list, lists, meta, retropost, static site generator

2010.02.08

xliv

 A backyard Super Bowl party and some Axis and Allies Anniversary Edition.
axis, axis and allies anniversary, backyard, dog, strategy, super bowl, weimaraner

2010.01.31

Transitions

 Rearranging some living spaces and starting a new Mass Effect 2 run.
action rpg, bed, mass effect 2, owl, renovation, study, video games

2010.01.27

Precedents

 Some thoughts of Mass Effect 2. An Axis and Allies game and Kafka eats some snacks.
action rpg, backyard, football, mass effect, mass effect 2, paint, video games

2010.01.18

San Clemente State Beach

 Camping with friends at San Clemente State Beach.
aston martin, camp, san clemente, surf, weimaraner

2010.01.10

Favorite photos, 2010-2019

 My favorite photo memories from this decade.
html, kilroy, list, meta, photography, retropost, static site generator

2010.01.10

A hot, steamy bowl of awesome

 My chili cookoff recipe.
backyard, chili, cooking, landscaping, media room, recipe, renovation

2010.01.01

Christmas weekend

 Kafka drives a Bobcat and gets a bunch of new rawhides.
bobcat, christmas tree, dog, fire, scrabble, weimaraner

2009.12.20

Master bath

 Work begins on the master bathroom.
bathroom, drain, master bathroom, plumbing, skylight, tub, vaulted ceiling

2009.12.10

December

 Wayne and I throw a baby shower and a dragon attacks me in Dragon Age.
action rpg, baby shower, christmas, dragon, dragon age origins, dragon age: origins, living room

2009.12.03

Backyard lights

 Xmas lights up in the backyard.
backyard, christmas lights, deck, led, pool, renovation, xmas

2009.11.26

Miles

 Trips to Virginia, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles.
action rpg, army of two, cover shooter, dragon age: origins, las vegas, quotes, wiffle ball

2009.11.08

Auto lighting

 Some new lighting in the living room and common area.
electrical, how to, lighting, living room, motion sensor

2009.11.04

New stuff, brah

 Halloween costumes, Forza 3, and new Bridgestones for the Duc.
battleax, bridgestone, cyclegear, forza, forza 3, forza motorsport 3, video games

2009.10.25

One year

 Gutting the master bathroom.
backyard, bathroom, deck, insulation, pool, renovation, shower

2009.10.22

Pre-Halloween

 Jack-o-lanterns and drywall removal.
bathroom, dragon, halloween, pumpkin, renovation

2009.10.21

Broader fov

 Nikkor 20mm f/2.8, some renovations, and some Dom.
20mm, backyard, foreshorten, grass, landscaping, nikkor, nikon

2009.10.14

Two weeks

 Rigging the xbox wheel for the Lovesac.
forza, forza 3, gulf livery, love sac, microsoft, technology, wheel

2009.10.09

Some reviews

 Halo ODST, Sins of a Solar Empire, and the last Futurama Movie.
backyard, futurama, gaming, halo, landscaping, realtime 4x, sins of a solar empire

2009.09.29

Looking for more green
backyard, dog, grass, irrigation, landscape, renovation, weimaraner

2009.09.20

Backyard greenery

 Painting the terrace walls and pinhole shots at the fantasy draft.
backyard, draft, grass, lawn, paint, pinhole, renovation

2009.09.16

Nevergreen terrace
hammer drill, irrigation, juniper, paint, renovation, surf, surfing

2009.09.07

Heavy in the games

 A live fantasy draft and some Axis and Allies.
axis, draft, fantasy football, game night, live draft, medieval gridiron, sports

2009.08.27

The return of film

 Pinhole shots using the P-Sharan cardboard camera and film photos from dirtbiking Plaster City.
beach, film, motorcycle, offroading, pinhole, plaster city, technique

2009.08.24

Second bout
allies, axis, axis and allies anniversary, game night, strategy

2009.08.23

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit...
bernardo winery, fish, nikon, photography, scuba, underwatersealion, weimaraner

2009.08.10

My first F
back yard, d70, kilroy, nikon, plumbing, polarizer, renovation

2009.08.02

Full frame
backyard, irrigation, la jolla, nikon, quote, quotes, spoken

2009.07.24

Kafka at three months
dog, lens filter, panning, park, puppy, weimaraner

2009.07.15

1941
axis and allies, axis and allies anniversary, board, board games, games, macro, war room

2009.07.12

Toasted

 Kafka meets a kitty.
camembert, cheese, dog, kim, puppy, venissimo, weimaraner

2009.07.05

Independence cookout

 July 4th bbq and fireworks.
dog, fireworks, july 4, long exposure, poker, pool, weimaraner

2009.06.30

We will fight them in the living rooms...
axis, axis and allies anniversary, churchill, game night, puppy, roosevelt, weimaraner

2009.06.22

Pupdate
burger lounge, dog, puppy, stick, weimaraner

2009.06.15

The saga of the dog, episode one
dog, puppy, weimaraner

2009.06.13

New resident
dog, puppy, tasty weeds, weimaraner

2009.06.09

Listage
bayes rule, dog, dog names, fuzzy logic, probability

2009.06.02

Important events

 A trip to NoVa.
9mm, appetizers, range, talib kweli, vent, virginia, wedding

2009.05.12

No photos
asparagus fern, backyard, expansion, great river, landscape, renovation, time lapse

2009.05.04

All kinds of win
backyard, citysac, living room, pool, renovation, settlers of catan, site traffic

2009.04.20

Unexpected surprises
coax, costco, d70, japanese art, nikon, realtime tactics, red alert

2009.04.16

New light source
c crane, cities and knights, electrical, quote, quotes, renovation, spoken

2009.04.12

A few events

 Dirt biking Plaster City, Settlers of Catan, bathroom renovation.
cities and knights, jump, living room, plaster city, renovation, settlers of catan, vanity

2009.04.05

Speed night at the theater
car movies, cars, fast and furious, film, paul walker, speed night, vin diesel

2009.04.01

A few more shots of the carnage
cars, d70, media room, polished concrete, renovation, review, surf board

2009.04.01

Multiple fronts
fast and furious, film, hallway, renovation, speed night, spoken, water heater

2009.03.28

The return of the leaderboard
film, initial d, movin too fast, redline, review, speed night, thunderbolt

2009.03.28

Refinishing the garage floor
acid stain, ducati, epoxy, floor, how-to, mitsubishi, surf board

2009.03.23

Proportions
accounting, distribution, diy, expenses, renovation

2009.03.22

Piso mojado
acid, grind, how to, media room, polished concrete, renovation, stain

2009.03.18

Yard, tile, library
bathroom, hallway, lenin, nikon, pool, renovation, tile

2009.03.15

Reinforcements
backyard, deck, epoxy, nikon, ostrich, renovation, sawzall

2009.03.08

More milestones
backyard, deck, pool, rabot, renovation, s2000, watchmen

2009.03.04

Keeping myself occupied
backyard, dryer, film, ilford, lost, quote, renovation

2009.03.01

I red myself
deck, electrical, garage, lighting, paint, painting, renovation

2009.02.25

Zones
contact sheet, film, grinding, photography, the office, track car, zone system

2009.02.22

Backyard work
bird, darkroom, i gots it in my flickrs, landscape, photography, pool, tram

2009.02.17

A story told by portraits
beer, front yard, girl, oil change, oil filter, photography, socket

2009.02.16

Portraits that tell a story (?)
beer, contact sheet, darkroom, girl, gto, how to, oil change

2009.02.12

Preparing for the future
900, black and white, casbah, contact sheet, snark, supersport, survival

2009.02.08

Brakes and such
brembo, crg, ferodo, motogp, motorsports, sbk, world superbike

2009.02.05

Solar
film, overpass, printing, solarize, turbo

2009.02.02

xliii
current events, dive, fireplace, game night, pennsylvania, pocky, settlers of catan

2009.01.26

The unnerving bits
bethesda, bookshelf, electrical, grand theft auto, lighting, nikonos v, video games

2009.01.21

DC never looked so good
cabinets, chandelier, dumplings, gears of war, living room, open-world action rpg, video games

2009.01.16

You can imagine where it goes from here
cable, electrical, how to, how-to, internet, quote, renovation

2009.01.16

Squeezing in
bathroom, electrical, fireplace, kim, lighting, living room, mirror

2009.01.13

Maui wowie

 Some motorcycling, diving, and golfing on Maui
image, kaanapali, m1000, monster, scuba, treason, united

2009.01.03

Christmas and New Year's
bmw, football, halo, poker, quote, settlers of catan, sports

2008.12.23

Wintry activities
fire, fireplace, honda, living room, poker, xr

2008.12.18

Touches of civility
bedroom, conversation, door hanging, hallway, living room, quote, window treatments

2008.12.17

I can haz blinds
floor, flooring, hardwood floor, ninja turtles, renovation, singapore sling, stairs

2008.12.10

Compromising admissions
bathroom, electrical, lighting, mirror, quote, quotes, renovation

2008.12.06

A few errands later
bathroom, blinds, curtains, long exposure, media room, mirror, renovation

2008.12.05

Time lapse blogography
computer repair, frys, hallway, living room, quotes, recipe, sata

2008.11.24

Odds and ends
concrete, driver's domain, forza, garage, gp, renovation, surfboard

2008.11.21

With carpet
bed, bedroom, carpet, guest room, renovation

2008.11.21

Gears of War 2
ai, bender, cover shooter, gears of war 2, machine learning, media room, xbox

2008.11.09

Furnishments
couch, electrical, fantasy football, floor, hardwood floor, honda, xr

2008.11.01

Now for a little something different
granite counter, map, mst3k, mystery science theater, shower, sink, watchmen

2008.10.29

Upstairs bathroom
bathroom, plumbing, renovation, shower, tile, tiling, tub

2008.10.26

Getting there
bear, fireplace, flooring, hallway, media room, shower, stairs

2008.10.21

Cahoots
acoustics, bathroom, conversation, pocket door, quote, renovation, tiling

2008.10.19

Making space
bathroom, garage, quiver, renovation, shower, surf board, surf rack

2008.10.10

The end is nigh
bowling, fireplace, floor, flooring, hardwood, hardwood floor, renovation

2008.10.06

A fine weekend
backyard, fire, fireplace, high dive, poker, pool, spoken

2008.10.05

Floors

 Renovations.
deck, floor, hallway, high dive, nail gun, pbr, pool

2008.10.05

Entryway floor
backyard, fireplace, floor, flooring, hallway, hardwood, renovation

2008.10.02

Burning the midnight oil
bathroom, beam, ceiling, chandelier, grout, living room, shower

2008.09.29

More work
formula 1, garage, renovation, shower, singapore, tile window

2008.09.24

Construction site with amenities
bathroom, deck, media room, shower, tile, wheelbarrow, xbox

2008.09.17

Piecing it together
ceiling, door, fireplace, lighting, renovation, texturing, wall texture

2008.09.11

Last of the painting, start of the flooring
floor, hallway, hardwood floor, living room, painting, renovation, scaffolding

2008.09.07

First barbecue

 Enjoying the bbq and pool.
backyard, barbecue, photomerge, pool, steak, stupid matrix jump, underwater

2008.09.07

Living room
ceiling, fireplace, lighting, living room, renovation, scaffolding, skylight

2008.09.04

Portfolio fin

 My photo class final project.
1098, ducati, film, macro, motorcyles, palomar, portfolio

2008.09.04

Renovation limbo
appliances, bedroom, deck, fireplace, kitchen, paint, pool

2008.09.02

Domestication
drain, how to, maintenance, move, nfl, pool, renovation

2008.08.05

The weekend in summary
angeles crest, calumet, ducati, honda, motorcyles, mt palomar, rides

2008.08.04

Portfolio part III

 Motorcycles on Palomar mountain. On film.
angeles crest, motorcycles, palomar, panning, photography, technique, twisties

2008.07.31

Portfolio part II
bike night, d70, long exposure, miramesa, motorcycle, nikon, street photography

2008.07.31

Double crossed
competition, lap times, mazdaspeed 6, mitsubishi, rsx, s13, vr4

2008.07.30

Portfolio part I

 Motorcycling photos for class.
ducati, motorcycle, motorcycles, night photography, panning, supersport

2008.07.27

A lack of focus
autocross, autox, comiccon, gto, mazdaspeed 6, scca, vr4

2008.07.27

House quandary I
bedroom, ceiling, kitchen, living room, renovation, skylight, solar tube

2008.07.22

Motorsports day
brno, laguna seca, motogp, rossi, spoken, vr46, world superbike

2008.07.22

The Mint 400
club, giraffe, las vegas, lax, lazy river, mgm, valentineone

2008.07.22

The tank is half full
cell phone, environmentalism, hydrogen power, irvine, jalopnik, oil crisis, scooter

2008.06.24

Rifftrax II

 The Aeon Flux Rifftrax.
comiccon, movie, mst3k, mystery science theater, rifftrax

2008.06.11

Neural networks
explained, hybrid algorithm, market, neural network, scrabble, software, trading

2008.06.11

Picking ponies
ann, hybrid, hybrid algorithm, neural network, software, stock market, vaporware

2008.05.29

Meat loaf versus steak
advice, equipment, lenses, opinion, photography, slr, technique

2008.05.26

A couple charts
motorcycles, mpg, prices, san diego, surf, trends, waves

2008.05.25

Indy film
commentary, film, indiana jones

2008.05.25

Jack Murphy parking lot
240sx, gto, mitsubishi, rsx, sdad, solo, sti

2008.05.22

Available light
light, photography, portrait, portraiture, technique, workout

2008.05.22

Prime or zoom
advice, canon, discussion, lenses, photography, prime, zoom

2008.05.16

New shoes
autocross, falken, garage, rsx, tire, wheel

2008.05.12

Extreme closeup
105mm, equipment, invicta, macro, nikon, pizza port, vr

2008.05.11

Rollies
car, craigslist, gto, tire rack, tires, tsw, wheels

2008.05.04

Major cwnage

 Autocross day.
240sx, car, cone autox, impreza, jetta, lancer, scnax

2008.04.28

Sloppy joes
beach, mission beach, ocean, photography, summer, surfing, wave

2008.04.28

Cheers and tears
death race, gumball rally, movie, movin too fast, review, ronin, tokyo drift

2008.04.09

Spoken III
conversation, march madness, quotes, spoken

2008.04.06

Crossed up
3000gt, autox, rsx, scca, scnax, vr4, wrx

2008.03.27

Garage daze
alpine, auto, carboncar, how to, installation, strut brace, vr4

2008.03.23

Bret: The man, the hero, the legend
barbecue, beer, beer pong, bocce, meat, ribs

2008.03.18

Odds and ends
photography, quotes, rock band, spoken, technique, video games, xbox 360

2008.03.16

Brawl
fighter, image, nintendo, samus, screenshot, super smash bros. brawl, wii

2008.03.03

A winning combination
car movies, film, jackie chan, movie, racing, review, speed night

2008.02.24

Drift day

 Drift Day at El Toro. Many tires were lost in the making of this post.
drift day, drifting, el toro, mazda, motorsports, nissan, rx7

2008.02.20

West coast
autocross, autox, cars, lotus, nissan, racing, subaru

2008.02.12

The leaderboard

 Our first six Speed Night films, ranked.
car movies, days of thunder, film, leaderboard, redline, speed night, speed nite

2008.02.11

You must have eight cylinders to ride
car movies, days of thunder, film, mad max, movie, review, speed night

2008.02.11

Spoken II
quotes, spoken

2008.01.28

Bring on the band aids
music, rock band, video games, xbox

2008.01.24

The leader board
action, car movies, driven, movie, movies, review, speed night

2008.01.23

'Boozin with beer for the bowl'
party, players sports bar, super bowl

2008.01.21

The goggles do nothing
biker boyz, film, initial d, review, reviews, the fast and the furious, torque

2008.01.13

Retirement
drift, drift day, quote, spoken, tires

2008.01.01

Riding dirty
colin mcrae, dirt, racing, rally, video game, xbox

2007.12.31

Snowcaps

 Ski trip.
sierra nevada, ski, skiing, snow, snowboard, snowboarding, tahoe

2007.12.19

Spoken
3000gt, apocalypse, ducati, hid, led, mitsubishi, peter jackson

2007.12.10

Distractions

 The VR4 and some things that are happening.
3000gt, action rpg, gto, mass effect, mitsubishi, video games, vr4

2007.12.05

There and back again
alaska airlines, gto, mitsubishi, nike, rifftrax, travel, turbo

2007.10.29

We are not who we appear to be
costume, futurama, mst3k, mystery science theater, party, steve zissou, zoidberg

2007.10.28

First part
carbon fiber, costume, ducati, halloween, how-to, supersport, windshield

2007.10.25

Diversions
2007, carbon fiber, epoxy, fire, how-to, san diego

2007.10.21

The rise and fall of Sauritch
atc2k, board, break, surf, surfing, this is a disaster

2007.10.15

2007.10.15

Artificial life concepts
animation, ann, neural network, programming, simulation, software, swarm

2007.10.07

Saturday headache
300mm, beach, photography, surf, surfing, technique, wind

2007.09.24

Firepower and horsepower
birthday, how-to, karting, miramar, shooting, shotguns, skeet

2007.09.16

Feathers in the cap/black eyes
action rpg, knights of the old republic, kotor, metroid, pedrosa, raiders, sports

2007.09.11

September already
big bear, fantasy football, trip, vacation, wiffle

2007.07.04

Transformers
film, hollywood, michael bay, movies, transformers

2007.06.11

Another exhausting weekend
camp, exercise, mud run, pendleton, run

2007.06.10

An exhausting weekend
birthday, dussini, magic mountain, roscoe's, six flags, sports, weekend

2007.06.01

Forza
forza 2, forza motorsport, forza motorsport 2, racing, racing simulation, video games

2007.05.29

Bret and Courtney's party
engagement party, hemet, party, quotes, spoken

2007.05.22

Someone's sick idea of fun

 My county fair photo entry: motorcycle hooliganry.
closed course, knee drag, motorcycles, nighttime, photography, sparkers, technique

2007.05.21

Nightsurfing, part quatre
flash, night surf, nightsurfing, photography, surfing, technique, underwater

2007.05.17

El jollo loco

 Two unimportant items.
garibaldi, la jolla cove, snorkeling, sun god, ucsd

2007.05.13

Drivetrain IV
celica, half shaft, motegi, nopi, tire, toyota, wheel

2007.05.10

Drivetrain III
cv, motegi, nopi, raybestos, repair, rim, rotor

2007.05.07

I get more phone numbers rollin this than I ever did on the bus
celica, dv5, kumho, motegi, red, tire, toyota

2007.05.06

Corral Canyon
atv, california motorsport, corral canyon, crf, dirt bike, san diego, xr

2007.05.06

Nightsurfing, Part Trois
night surf, nightsurfing, photography, stealth mission, surfing, technique, underwater

2007.05.02

Drivetrain II
brake, cv, mechanic, raybestos, rotor, steering knuckle, suspension

2007.04.26

Drivetrain I
mechanic, parts, raybestos, rotor, steering knuckle, suspension, toyota celica

2007.04.25

240,000 miles later
auto, brakes, celica, half shaft, raybestos, rotor, toyota

2007.04.20

Consoles and cars
360, cars, forza, microsoft, nintendo, sony, xbox

2007.04.18

Court and Bretney
engagement, kate, lost, pants, photos, softball, tree

2007.04.15

Cafe cruising
acai, encinitas, food, motorcyles, ride, swamis, weekend

2007.04.15

Not much, really
1098, california burrito, ducati, gp motorcycles, moto forza, san diego, tennis

2007.04.12

Thursday
heidi, operator overloading, programming, quote, spoken, surf trip, work

2007.04.07

Fletcher's
beach, photography, san diego, surf, surfing, technique

2007.04.06

Uh, would that be the hot pants, sir?
coffee, ducati, fire, jeans, latte, pants, squid

2007.04.05

Free at last
bane, move, paint, tape

2007.04.04

Nightsurfing Part Trois
beach, la jolla shores, photography, scripps, surf, surfing, technique

2007.04.03

Kauai
hawaii, kealia, surf, surfing, tamba, vacation, waimea

2007.03.19

It's all just too real
analysis, current events, driving, forza, news, video games

2007.03.18

2007.03.18

Greenery
corned beef, pancakes, recipes, san diego, shamrock, st. patrick's day, this is a disaster

2007.03.13

New glass
300mm, beach, camera, canon, lenses, surfing, wave

2007.03.13

A weekend
motorsports, music, soccer, surf, surfing, the sword, weekend

2007.03.13

Nightsurfing part deux

 My second attempt at photographing a stealth mission. Some lessons are learned.
film, flash, nightsurfing, surfing, technique, underwater, waves

2007.03.04

Paper weight
scanning, scrapbook, spreadsheets

2007.02.13

The Ministry of Peace
analysis, articles, current events, news, saic, vanity fair

2007.02.09

Barren slopes
google, northstar, snow, snow angel, snowboard, squaw valley, tahoe

2007.02.04

XLI
nfl, party, prop bet, san diego, sports, sportsbook, super bowl

2007.02.02

The new ish

 Touch football retold with mspaint.
cal, mud run, pendleton, stanford, the big game, the play, training

2007.01.12

Find your guitar hero inspiration

 Live music. Come.
beer, event, lions paw, music, pacific beach, reggae, tropicoso

2007.01.05

Call of Duty 3

 Some thoughts on CoD3 for Wii.
call of duty, nintendo, shooter, video games, wii

2006.12.30

The long way down

 I should do some adventure riding.
kawasaki, motorcycles, south america, travel

2006.12.30

From under the tree

 Xmas swag.
christmas, gadgets, mp3 player, sandisk, skagen, watch

2006.12.22

Deprecated

 And just like that, the need for post categories disappeared.
beta, blogger, flickr, html, kilroy, meta, tags

2006.12.18

On categorization

 An attempt to categorize posts.
beta, google, html, information architecture, meta, tags, topics

2006.11.20

[Insert forced Wii pun here]

 A few hours with the hottest new console.
launch, microsoft, nintendo, penny arcade, sports, video games, wii sports

2006.11.08

People who wear socks to bed are evil

 It's more than just waking up with sweaty feet.
bed, evil

2006.01.16

Amago

 Taking the motord to the Amago kart track.
amago, motard, motorcycles, motorsport, race, retro post, track

2005.12.21

Sets

 Good-sized sets, lifeguards, and dolphins in Del Mar.
closeout, del mar, dolphin, photography, rescue, retro post, surf

2005.12.18

Portraits

 A film/slide/digital portrait session.
boudoir, cross process, digital, film, photography, portrait, retro post

2005.10.18

China

 Photos from two weeks in China.
caves, chengdu, china, hong kong, panda, retro post, travel

2005.09.11

Sunrise

 Some enthusiastic motorcycling.
cbr, dank hoolie, drz, photography, retro post, sparks, wheelie

2005.09.05

Shasta day three

 Summiting Mt. Shasta from a Lake Helen campsite, then the descent.
backpack, clouds, ice axe, mountaineering, mt shasta, snow, view

2005.09.04

Shasta day two

 From the Mt. Shasta trailhead to the campsite at Lake Helen.
backpacking, beans, clouds, forest, heartiness, mountain, mt shasta

2005.09.03

Shasta day one

 Acclimating for the Mt. Shasta climb.
backpack, backpacking, ice axe, mountain, mountaineering, mt shasta, shasta

2005.07.15

Fort Point

 Fort Point in black and white.
fort point, golden gate bridge, norcal, retro post, san francisco

2005.07.05

Rat training

 Getting some motorcycling practice in.
learning, motorcycle, msf, rat bike, retro post, riding, squid

2005.06.06

E3

 A gallery from E3 2005.
adventure, e3expo, nintendo ds, retro post, star wars, xbox, zelda

2005.05.27

Last hurrah

 Rosarito.
baja, graduation, retro post, rosarito, surf, travel, villa

2004.12.31

Tahoe

 A ski trip.
retro post, ski, skiing, snow, snowboard, snowboarding, tahoe

2004.07.04

Movie night

 Just a picture.
glow stick, july 4, living room, long exposure, movie, retro post

2004.06.01

XP hike

 Hiking Pine Hills and then cross-processing.
cross process, hiking, julian, photography, retro post, san diego, this is a disaster

2004.05.22

PB Block Party

 The Pacific Beach Block Party in black and white.
pacific beach, party, pb block party, retro post, san diego, steet photography

2004.05.22

E3

 E3 2004.
blizzard, gran turismo, half-life, nintendo, retro post, sims, square enix

2004.04.03

Celica suspension

 Replacing the struts and springs on the Celica.
auto work, brake, celica, eibach, kyb, spring, strut

2003.10.25

Cedar fire

 A gallery of images from the 2003 San Diego Cedar Fire.
current events, disaster, fire, fire truck, police, poway, surfing

2003.08.14

Alaska

 Juneau, Fairbanks, Denali, Anchorage, and Kenai.
alaska, anchorage, hike, hiking, lake, macro, view

2003.05.10

PB Block Party

 The 2003 Pacific Beach Block Party, just a few photos.
band, house party, pacific beach, party, retro post, san diego, street photography

2002.12.31

Tahoe

 A few shots from a Tahoe ski trip.
lake, lift, retro post, sierra nevada, skiing, snow, tahoe

2002.08.01

Shasta

 An unsuccessful attempt to summit Mount Shasta.
backpacking, hike, ice axe, mountain, retro post, travel, view

2002.05.24

E3

 E3 2002.
e3 expo, la convention center, los angeles, microsoft, sega, technology, video games

2001.12.01

Skiing

 Reuniting with the hometown friends for some skiing and snowboarding.
retro post, sierra nevada, skiing, slowboarding, snow, snowboarding, tahoe

2001.05.17

E3

 Gamecube, Sonic, and a Saleen S7 at the 2001 E3 Expo.
gamecube, los angeles, nintendo, retro post, saleen s7, sonic, video games

2000.07.01

Graeagle

 Backpacking in the sierras.
backcountry, backpacking, brocation, camping, graeagle, hiking, lake

2000.01.10

Favorite photos, 2001-2009

 A compendium of my favorite photos from this decade.
features, html, kilroy, lists, photography, retropost, static site generator
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