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2024.04.23

Activities

 Some fun in the sun with friends and family.
board games, flag football, football, 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.
helldivers 2, internet, law, san diego, squad fps, video games, 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.
blogosphere, helldivers 2, internet, links, meta, search, web traffic

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.
current events, florida, news, politics, scotus, technology, texas

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.
aliens, movies, netflix, rant, review, sci-fi, 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, blogosphere, graphs, indieweb, meta, programming, web 1.1

2024.02.13

Exploring

 Screencaps and a little discussion of Remnant II, BG3, Stray, and Slay the Spire.
adventure, board games, remnant ii, roguelike deckbuilder, squad fps, stray, video games

2024.02.07

Tune in

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

2024.01.10

Crashing the gates

 Seven interesting legal battles.
elon musk, law, politics, reddit, scotus, technology, texas

2024.01.07

A random walk

 Some examples of linking the indieweb.
blogosphere, coding, hacker news, html, indieweb, seo, software

2024.01.06

Family

 A few photos from the holidays: Safari West, cozy fires, and a Boneys sess.
bay area, board games, california, giraffe, norcal, telephoto, travel

2023.12.31

Recap 2023

 Top content from 2023
clip show, highlight reel, html, kilroy, list, meta, recap

2023.12.30

Feature complete

 My static site generator can now recommend external blog/smallweb posts with similar subject matter.
code, indieweb, internet, java, kilroy, rss, site

2023.12.20

Rim worlds

 Visiting and connecting the fringes of the web.
blogosphere, hacker news, html, kilroy, nintendo, smallweb, software

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.
internet, investments, journalism, supreme court, twitter, wallstreetbets, wsb

2023.11.26

Playspace

 Creating a small play area in the sideyard using rubberized playground tiles.
gbes, play area, renovation, sideyard, 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, internet, meta, seo, smallweb, technology

2023.11.17

Friendsgiving

 Friendsgiving in SF and some board games.
aeon's end, friendsgiving, heat pedal to the metal, legacy board games, san francisco, technology, 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, investments, list, 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.
blogging, blogosphere, graphics, internet, smallweb, software, web 1.1

2023.10.31

Costumes

 A gallery of costumes.
american outlaws, e3, e3expo, halloween, la convention center, soccer, video games

2023.10.29

Washington

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

2023.10.27

Artificial intelligence

 Banking in Silicon Valley and some AI non-stories.
adventure, ai, current events, google, gpt, media, microsoft

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, fps stealth, gbes, legacy board games, payday, video games, zoo

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, investments, reddit, stock market, technology, theta gang, wallstreetbets

2023.10.08

Granularity

 Linking internally and externally using text tokens and n-grams.
blogging, blogosphere, indieweb, kilroy, links, meta, 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.
adventure, baldur's gate 3, fallout, fallout 76, fps stealth, lolbaters, survival

2023.09.27

Enwebbed

 Parsing RSS feeds to find peers.
blogging, blogosphere, html, internet, rss, software, web 1.1

2023.09.24

Jets

 Some telephoto shots of the Blue Angels doing neat tricks.
500mm, blue angels, miramar, nikkor, nikon, photography, telephoto

2023.09.23

Small web

 Kagi sees an opportunity to index the indieweb.
blogosphere, html, indieweb, internet, search, smallweb, web traffic

2023.09.18

Good reads

 A couple of good reads from the blogosphere.
apple, blogging, china, indieweb, scams, technology, web 1.1

2023.09.18

Rare finds

 Finishing BG3 Act I, some cuteness, and Harland's Ube IPA.
baldur's gate 3, battle royale, battlegrounds, ebay, gbes, lolbaters, pj masks

2023.09.10

Travel

 A roundup of travel posts.
html, kilroy, meta, 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, ncd, news, noncredibledefense, ukraine

2023.08.21

Drenched

 Hurricane Hilary, scuba, and leisure.
diving, gbes, gentlemen's beer exploration society, legacy games, news, scuba, weather

2023.08.12

Questing

 BG3 and everything else.
battlegrounds, monster train, pubg, roguelike deckbuilder, rpg, slay the spire, turn-based tactics

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.
google search console, html, indieweb, seo, site, twitter, web 1.1

2023.07.16

Cascadia

 A summer trip to Washington State.
airport, forest, mountains, seattle, travel, vacation, 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, blogosphere, html, internet, meta, posse, web 1.1

2023.07.01

In the defense of the comments section

 The real DD is in the comments, it's true.
arguments, debate, 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.
current events, europe, news, osint, technology, twitter, world news

2023.06.21

Cleaning house

 The Reddit saga and the indieweb.
blogging, blogosphere, current events, internet, news, technology, web 1.1

2023.06.19

Bons voyages

 A few short trips and wondering why something isn't a thing.
clank, gentlemen's beer exploration society, legacy games, research, sacramento, san diego, tesla

2023.06.13

Failboats

 Drama and disasters.
amazon, google, kilroy, news, site, 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, battle royale, fallout 76, tron, turn-based tactics, turn-based tactics rpg, video games

2023.05.28

Explosions

 Quick bites (quibis) about NVDA, wheelbarrow adventures, and some games.
battlegrounds, chatgpt, deep rock galactic, investments, lolbaters, machine learning, pubg

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.
ai, cars, concert, gloomhaven, motorcycles, renovation, subaru

2023.05.08

Waifus

 Aircraft, spacecraft, and weird news developments.
credibledefense, europe, news, reddit, russia, star wars, technology

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, fire emblem, narrative deckbuilder, review, survival, turn-based tactics, xcom

2023.04.28

Next episode

 Following up on previous threads: the T-14, wood preservation, and Halo (through the lens of ship naming).
credibledefense, europe, furniture, ncd, noncredibledefense, russia, war

2023.04.16

Michael Bay area

 My PUBG replay editor workflow.
battle royale, battlegrounds, how-to, lolbaters, pubg, video, video editing

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, noncredibledefense, podcasts, politics, ukraine, war, world news

2023.04.01

E3 RIP

 The end of E3, for now?
e3, e3expo, la convention center, memes, nostalgia, retrospective, video games

2023.03.27

Recovery

 Fighting off viruses.
meme strat, pubg, reddit, renovation, tactics, wallstreetbets, wsb

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, news, reddit, technology, wallstreetbets, wsb

2023.03.16

Blyatdependence day

 Russia experiments with saving munitions.
current events, europe, meme, news, russia, ukrain, world news

2023.03.16

The gauntlet

 Investing tidbits, inflation, and recent economics headlines.
economics, investing, investments, reddit, technology, wallstreetbets, 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, html, idiocracy, meta, shark, site, weather

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, investments, politics, reddit, taxes, 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.
code, html, indieweb, internet, java, kilroy, reddit

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, chatgpt, current events, google, machine learning, microsoft, news

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.
dilbert, elon musk, investing, movies, netflix, scotus, 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?
elder scrolls, elder scrolls online, reddit, social survival, tiny tina's wonderlands, walking simulator, wonderlands

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, nikkor, nikon, san diego, surf, 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.
dying light 2, fallout 76, kilroy, meta, mmo, survival, video games

2022.12.16

Fungible

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

2022.12.12

Controversies

 A newspost about soccer, Twitter, Europe, and money.
ai, artificial intelligence, elon musk, europe, reddit, soccer, stable diffusion

2022.12.05

Elden Lord

 Finishing Elden Ring and fighting a normal-sized skeleton in Wonderlands.
elden ring, html, kilroy, open-world soulslike, tiny tina's wonderlands, video games, 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, elden ring, graphics processing, machine learning, python, software, 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.
code, how-to, machine learning, nvidia, python, software, stable diffusion

2022.11.08

Turning points

 Twitter, Elon, a video card upgrade, and some music.
amazon, fence, how-to, music, renovation, technology, twitter

2022.10.17

Convergence

 Brief thoughts on current events and a billionaire who thinks very highly of himself.
news, russia, scotus, supreme court, technology, twitter, ukraine

2022.10.12

Deckbuilding and action

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

2022.10.11

Leisure

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

2022.09.25

Danger zone system

 Gallery of the Blue Angels at the Miramar Air Show.
500mm, blue angels, nikkor, nikon, photography, san diego, telephoto

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.
across the obelisk, golf, payday, 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.
current events, gloomhaven, indieweb, politics, technology, wallstreetbets, web 1.1

2022.08.24

Space plane games

 Reviews of roguelikes Griftlands and Crying Suns.
across the obelisk, narrative deckbuilder roguelike, nintendo, realtime tactics roguelike, roguelike, switch, video games

2022.08.19

Rewiring
battle royale, graphics, lolbaters, 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, cyber, indieweb, java, software, web 1.1, windows

2022.08.14

Popcorn

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

2022.08.03

Keras cheat sheet

 Examples of keras merging layers, convolutional layers, and activation functions in L, RGB, HSV, and YCbCr.
code, deep learning, graphics, keras, 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.
deep learning, graphics, keras, renovation, steam, turn-based tactics rpg, video games

2022.07.18

Indicators

 Interest rates, housing, and catalysts.
china, evergrande, investments, reddit, technology, wallstreetbets, wsb

2022.07.15

Plane games

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

2022.07.11

Black sand

 A trip to the big island.
hawaii, ikelite, manta, travel, underwater, volcano, waterfall

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.
art, dall-e, deep learning, graphics, machine learning, neural art, software

2022.06.18

Carnage

 More investment carnage, turf boot carnage, and sci-fi carnage.
investing, reddit, scifi, sports, technology, tv, wallstreetbets

2022.06.15

Finished

 The veranda gets artificial grass and is finally complete.
investing, investments, paint, renovation, stucco, veranda, wallstreetbets

2022.06.10

Underdogs

 CPI Friday, asset-backed loans, and more indieweb.
indieweb, internet, office, renovation, technology, terrace, wsb

2022.06.07

Fog door

 A birthday party, wood oil, board games, video games, and other stuff.
gloomhaven, internet, pandemic, reddit, technology, terrace, wallstreetbets

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, google, history, microsoft, software, ui

2022.05.24

This is fine

 A few rabbit holes regarding the current state of real estate and Meme Lorde himself.
conversations, gen-z, real estate, technology, twitter, wallstreetbets, wsb

2022.05.20

Packs

 Trading the stroller out for a baby backpack. Retrofitting old posts to new markup. A couple Elden Ring dragons.
blogging, hiking, internet, kilroy, meta, programming, web

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.
investing, investments, neural networks, open-world soulslike, playstation, technology, 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.
blogging, blogosphere, indieweb, open-world soulslike, smallweb, software, video games

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.
backyard, china, investing, programming, reddit, wood treatment, wsb

2022.04.29

Lands between

 Some scenery from Elden Ring.
elden ring, gallery, 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.
conversation, gentlemen's beer exploration society, goldeneye, investments, memes, renovation, ventilation

2022.04.17

Links

 Pool pump work, hacker news and the indie web/blogsphere, and Elon wants to buy Twitter.
europe, hacker news, internet, reddit, twitter, ukraine, world news

2022.04.06

Not looking back

 Pandemic Season 0, Zinsco breaker replacement, robots shooting basketballs, and the Blyatskrieg grinds on.
investing, jon stewart, kilroy, news, russia, ukraine, zoo

2022.03.30

Diversions

 Initial thoughts on Elden Ring and Horizon Forbidden West with plenty of screencaps.
horizon, horizon forbidden west, nikkor, nikon, ps5, telephoto, video games

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.
dad jokes, deep rock galactic, gme, memes, politics, technology, united nations

2022.02.20

Imminent?

 The US claims an invasion is imminent, Reddit watches drones, I buy energy stonks.
current events, film, investing, news, shar, technology, ukraine

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.
mst3k, mystery science theater, news, technology, turn-based tactics rpg, ukraine, video games

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.
ending, far cry, investment, investments, mass effect 3, story, taxes

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.
autoencoder, graphics, java, machine learning, neural networks, raiders, russia

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.
action rpg, deep learning, fractals, keras, loss functions, programming, style transfer

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.
cyber, fantasy football, lolbaters, lunch lady, stealth, tierlist, video games

2021.12.29

Evergreen
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

Covidivision

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

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.
battle royale, far cry, far cry 6, investments, mass effect, renovation, super people

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.
gloomhaven, lolbaters, mass effect 3, netflix, nioh2, turn-based tactics rpg, tv

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 rpg, covid-19, nioh 2, reading, squad fps, the wheel of time, video games

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.
costumes, fantasy football, halloween, investments, memes, reddit, wsb

2021.10.26

How to (not) get a PS5

 Chasing the Playstation 5 white whale.
fail, gaming, gme, playstation 5, video games, 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.
coding, mass effect 2, mass effect 3, nioh 2, pubg, software, veranda

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.
covid-19, moderna, news, screenshots, society, vaccination, video games

2021.08.26

News
announcements, battlegrounds, current events, league of sport, pubg, video games, volleyball

2021.08.22

Perils

 I start Mass Effect 2, Google kills Hangouts, the US pulls out of Afghanistan.
apple, humor, investing, lmc, technology, troubleshooting, wsb

2021.08.01

Film vault
c3po, film, long exposure, portrait, r2d2, scanner, surfing

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, investments, lmc, reddit, roguelike shooter, ror2, veranda

2021.07.17

Just buy SPY

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

2021.07.12

Up and down

 Screencaps and commentary from Virgin Galactic's first passenger flight... then they dilute. Some more Lordstown chat.
investments, lmc, reddit, sports, technology, 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.
dying light, intruder, lmc, lolbaters, mass effect, risk of rain 2, wsb

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.
backyard project, gentlemen's beer exploration society, lmc, mass effect legendary edition, reddit, wallstreetbets, wsb

2021.06.15

Bro, the humanity

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

2021.06.13

Equities

 Lots of woodporn as the veranda takes shape. Meme stonks stage a comeback and candles are replaced with crayons.
construction, gamestop, investments, reddit, renovation, wallstreetbets, 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.
battle royale, battlegrounds, options, pergola, pubg, wallstreetbets, wsb

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.
astroturfing, chats, construction, fire emblem virgin galactic, fire emblem: three houses, palapa, space

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.
battle royale, html, investing, markup, office, study, wsb

2021.04.13

Third house

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

2021.04.10

Humble request

 We can never have too many Xes.
coronavirus, covid-19, current events, english, millennialisms, news, vaccine

2021.04.08

Investment drama

 Archegos, Lordstown, and contextualizing everything in film terms.
investments, lmc, lordstown motors, news, reddit, technology, wallstreetbets

2021.04.06

Resistance

 My winding path to vaccination, the perfect PUBG match, hardware multiboot, and discussions from my spicy millennialism list.
culture, fps battle royale, gaming, lolbaters, memes, office, renovation

2021.04.01

Millennialisms

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

2021.03.27

Ever memein'
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.
bloodborne, co-op, investing, investments, playstation, ps4, video games

2021.03.12

Deliveries

 Danielle arrives. And some other stuff while nevously awaiting delivery.
beer, investments, pliny, reddit, survival, wallstreetbets, wsb

2021.02.09

Fails

 The WallStreetBets GME saga continues with industry reactions and a coup. And some other stuff.
battle royale, battlegrounds, camera, coding, fail, gme, reddit

2021.01.30

GME volume
gamestop, investing, pliny the younger, quoted, reddit, spoken, wallstreetbets

2021.01.26

Will Gamestop?
current events, gme, investing, investments, stocks, technology, wsb

2021.01.23

Gamestop
gamestop, investments, stocks, stonks, technology, wallstreetbets, wsb

2021.01.20

Current events
500mm, meme, photography, politics, reviews, surf photography, telephoto

2021.01.03

Swell

 Shots from a few San Diego spots during the recent swell.
500mm, black's beach, nikon, photography, surfing, telephoto, waves

2021.01.02

The next break

 Reflecting on investments and Warren B. Some sunset surf shots, video games, and AI image stylization.
bloodborne, graphics, investing, lolbaters, nikon, programming, technique

2020.12.25

Staying warm by the fire

 Fixing the transformer on a 1970s furnace, PUBG meme strats, and thinking about autoencoders.
c4, fps battle royale, home improvement, keras, lolbaters, machine learning, renovation

2020.12.12

On lock
battle royale, covid, covid-19, fantasy football, pubg, sports, video games

2020.12.06

Edges and corners

 Taking the 500mm out for some surf shots. Tweaking neural style transfer.
500mm, battle royale, graphics, nikkor, python, rossi, surf

2020.11.29

Mods
covered call, covid-19, lolbaters, neural networks, options, pubg, video games

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 borderlands, among us, election, fantasy, fantasy football, lolbaters, memes

2020.11.01

Darkness

 The first night surf photography session in awhile. Halloween, elections, brushfires, and stonks.
adventure, costume, covid, flash, halloween, investments, nfl

2020.10.17

Cash-secured put
etrade, investing, investments, options, stocks, theta gang, wall street

2020.10.10

Cover

 Star Wars: Squadrons and covered calls 101.
action flight simulation, etrade, fidelity, nfl, options, star wars: squadrons, x-wing

2020.10.03

Squadrons
space combat, squadrons, star wars, steam, tie fighter, video games, x-wing

2020.09.30

Above-average Wednesday

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

2020.09.26

Seascape

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

2020.09.25

Covid election
2020, coronavirus, covid-19, current events, journalism, news, politics

2020.09.13

Hot start

 Fantasy football season begins, Nioh, and The Last of Us 2.
nfl, nioh, raiders, samurai, screenshots, sports, the last of us part 2

2020.09.09

The four horsemen

 Ill portents, investment films, and surf photos.
500mm, cyber, movies, nikon, pauly shore, quotes, video games

2020.09.06

Fantasy
draft, fantasy, graphics, greedydraft, marble race, nfl, yahoo

2020.08.27

Go right
fall guys, investments, kraken, options, pandemic, risk of rain 2, roguelike shooter

2020.08.20

Tapatio noodles
bachelor chow, coronavirus, covid, covid-19, food, technology, twitter

2020.08.08

Revisiting
500mm, barotrauma, covid, covid-19, how-to, nikkor, scaffolding

2020.08.01

Shootin' buckets

 I break out the Nikon 500m f4g for the first time.
500mm, monopod, nikkor, nikon, surf photography, surfing, technique

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.
diy, monopod, photography, portrait, renovation, technique, video games

2020.07.17

Heating up

 Summer things like hot dogs and toxic clouds. More covid memes, more stonks, and a DIY monopod design.
bbq, carbon investing, media room, quote, spoken, telephoto, window treatments

2020.07.03

High/low country

 Borderlands 3 Bounty of Blood, Barotrauma submarine design, Divinity, and some summer things.
bonds, borderlands 3, coronavirus, covid, divinity 2, spoken, zonies

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, covid-19, gaming, tabletop, x-wing miniatures

2020.06.26

Second peak
comic, coronavirus, covid, covid-19, dog, memes

2020.06.24

The Last of Us Pt. II
metacritic, playstation, quote, spoken, the last of us part 2, tlou, trolls

2020.06.19

Get hype(rspace)
interview, polygon, squadrons, star wars, video games, vr, x-wing

2020.06.15

Choose your home adventure
horizon forbidden west, open-world adventure, rpg, spoken, technology, the last of us part 2, the last of x-wing

2020.05.31

Opening/closing

 Covid eases. Less PUBG, more Payday. Some lockdown pastimes.
battle royale, bosch, covid, covid-19, fps stealth, payday, streaming

2020.05.31

Perrrrrsona!
avatars, code, coding, html, java, meta, software

2020.05.18

Exploration

 Lockdown video gaming, socially-distanced beer exploration, and site generator improvements.
covid, divinity, divinity 2, gbes, image processing, programming, software

2020.05.09

Raster
coding, filter, graphics, java, programming, raster, software

2020.04.20

Plenty to do

 Pandemic activities: trading, gaming, and coding.
deep learning, divinity 2, investing, investments, meme, site, 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, ico, playstation, screenshot, shadow of the colossus

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 3, coronavirus, costco, divinity original sin 2, hammerlock, quarantine, video games

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.
bios, news, pandemic, pc, portrait, screenshots, technique

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.
battle royale, borderlands, borderlands 3, html, inverse, lolbaters, quarantini

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, fps battle royale, gimbal, seattle, ski, snowboard, snowboarding

2020.02.10

Favorite screencaps, 2020-2029
features, html, kilroy, list, lists, retropost, video games

2020.02.02

Cape Run

 The 2020 Blind Lade Ale House Cape Run.
blah, blind lady ale cape run, cape, hank, lana, pizza, san diego

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.
battle royale, concert, deep learning, karakin, lolbaters, neural network, pubg

2020.01.10

Favorite photos, 2020-2029
features, html, kilroy, list, lists, photography, retropost

2020.01.04

P-games only
battlegrounds, fps battle royale, lolbaters, pako car chase simulator, pubg, strategy, video games

2019.12.31

So long, twenty-teens
beer, facebook, html, list, meta, society, vr

2019.12.29

Up and back

 A road trip, Fire Emblem Three Houses, and BL3 Handsome Jackpot.
borderlands, borderlands 3, fire emblem, food, hyundai, sandwiches, turn-based tactics

2019.12.08

December
christmas, december, decoration, fantasy football, football, 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, borderlands 3, dying light, gbes, thanksgiving, turn-based tactics, video games

2019.11.10

Castles

 A Fire Emblem Three Houses review and some turkey.
dog, hike, palo alto, sand castle, santa cruz, turkey, turn-based tactics

2019.10.27

Apexes

 Borderlands 3, Risk of Rain 2, and volleyball under the moon.
flash, fps rpg, gearbox, photography, spike, technique, video games

2019.10.26

Halloween

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

2019.10.03

Another lap

 Food and parties, Borderlands and Risk of Rain.
borderlands, gbes, gearbox, gentlemen's beer exploration society, risk of rain, screenshot, video games

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.
cover shooter, fire emblem: three houses, football, fps rpg, gilded coast, sony, strategy

2019.08.10

Deeper dive

 A trip to Las Vegas, finishing Division 2, Risk of Rain 2 items, and DL4J/CNN stuff.
craigsec, machine learning, meme, pinball, technique, tensorflow, transpose convolution

2019.07.20

Sweltering

 Hot dogs, hot zones, and hot worms.
dog, lolbaters, risk of rain, the division, the division 2, video games, volleyball

2019.06.30

Beating the heat

 Borderlands GOTY, RoR2, and a new PUBG tactic.
borderlands 2, fight for sanctuary, gbes, lolbaters, pizza, pubg, reviews

2019.06.12

E3 2019

 E3 2019.
borderlands, borderlands 3, dying light, energy drinks, fps rpg, scooter, sports

2019.06.03

Chipper

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

2019.06.02

Parallelism
code, java, mapreduce, parallel processing, software, spliterator, stream

2019.06.01

Back to it

 A trip out east, a RHCP tribute band, Borderlands GOTY, and RoR2.
borderlands, borderlands goty, east coast, flying dog, fps rpg, poker, risk of rain

2019.05.23

Thumbnailing
code, graphics, heuristics, java, kilroy, programming, software

2019.05.18

Sets
europe, features, html, kilroy, meta, sets, site

2019.05.01

Lists

 List posts and my favs.
html, kilroy, list, lists, meta, review, video games

2019.04.29

Winterfell

 A roundup of Reddit commentary after the Battle of Winterfell.
a song of ice and fire, dragons, hbo, tv, winterfell, 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: food

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

2019.04.24

Europe: social studies
animals, coffee, culture, dog, pets, photography, travel

2019.04.23

Tuesday: GVA - AMS - LAX
amsterdamn, delta, europe, klm, los angeles, photography, travel

2019.04.22

Monday: Murren - Lausanne - Montraux - Geneva
boat, geneva, lausanne, photography, steamboat, vineyard, wine

2019.04.21

Sunday: Murren - Schilthorn

 Hiking a ski slope in Murren then taking the gondola to Piz Gloria.
europe, hike, honeymoon, murren, photography, travel, wine

2019.04.20

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

 Interlaken to the Schilthorn to liters at the Hotel Eidelweiss.
food, murren, photography, rant, schilthorn, travel, wine

2019.04.19

Friday: Bacharach - Interlaken
bacharach, chocolate, flavor, food, germany, interlaken, train

2019.04.18

Thursday: Bacharach - Burg Eltz

 A day trip to Burg Eltz from Bacharach.
europe, food, koblenz, photography, train, travel, wine

2019.04.17

Wednesday: Brussels - Bacharach

 Brussels to Bacharach by train.
bacharach, brussels, europe, food, honeymoon, riesling, weimaraner

2019.04.16

Tuesday: Paris - Brussels

 Paris to Brussels by train and foot.
brussels, champions league, grand place, photography, thalys, tintin, travel

2019.04.15

Monday: Paris

 Lunch at a Michelin restaurant, scootering the Louvre, and a bike tour on an ill-fated day.
bicycling, eiffel tower, europe, fat tire bike tours, food, les invalides, saturne

2019.04.14

Sunday: Paris

 A metro and walking loop to the catacombs and Champs-Elysees. Moulin Rouge.
catacombs, europe, illness, marathon, moulin rouge, travel, wine

2019.04.13

Saturday: Rayol - Nice - Paris

 Rayol Canadel to Paris via Nice.
driving, europe, food, tgv, train, travel, wine

2019.04.12

Friday: Rayol Canadel Sur Mer

 A Sentier Fenouillet hike, quick swim, and some crepes.
europe, food, hiking, mediterranean, 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, palais de papes, photography, travel, wine

2019.04.10

Wednesday: Lyon - Gigondas
cheese, europe, food, gigondas, honeymoon, photography, ruins

2019.04.09

Tuesday: plane - CDG - GVA - Lyon
food, france, honeymoon, lyon, photography, travel, wine

2019.04.08

Monday: San Diego - LAX - plane
airbus, airfrance, europe, food, lax, los angeles, photography

2019.04.07

Europe preparation
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.
java, lolbaters, risk of rain, software, steam, verminitide 2, warframe

2019.04.04

Lists
features, film, list, lists, review, reviews, speed night

2019.04.02

About

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

2019.04.01

Top ten games
counter-strike, fps, fps battle royale, mario, metroid, perfect dark, sid meier's pirates

2019.03.16

Bouncing around

 The amazing Nikkor 50mm 1/.4G, Far Cry 5 has a dark ending, and a few other multiplayer games.
f/1.4, fortuna, fps, lolbaters, nikkor, the unnatural ones, warframe

2019.02.26

Destination

 A Maui trip during humpback season.
dive, fish, humpback, humpback whale, ikelite, sup, whalewatching

2019.02.17

Canyoning
dog, gbes, gentlemen, gentlemen's beer exploration society, poison oak, scooter, weather

2019.02.10

Hood

 Mount Hood brocation.
oregon, skiing, snow, snowboard, snowboarding, snowpocalypse, weather

2019.02.02

BLAH Cape Run

 The 2019 Blind Lady Ale House Cape Run.
beer, blah, blah cape run, neural networks, pizza, run, tiger tiger

2019.01.27

Entertainment

 Fire Emblem Fates, Divinity, Far Cry, and a bunch of other video games.
neural network, open-world fps, rpg, the unnatural ones, video games, viscera cleanup detail, weimaraner

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.
144hz, battlestation, heartgard, jeep, lolbaters, pubg, rain

2018.11.25

Looking back/forward
diy, fates, fps battle royale, pubg, rpg, screenshot, skills

2018.11.14

Dogeared

 Kafka gets ear surgery, I eat Din Tai Fung and play some games.
din tai fung, dog, dtf, dumplings, food, photography, portrait

2018.11.04

Masks

 Halloween, PUBG, and a trip to Seattle.
battlegrounds, dog, party, pepper, seattle, starbucks, travel

2018.10.21

RPG
brogue squadron, delta, divinity: original sin, dog, gloomhaven, rpg, x-wing

2018.08.30

Drafted

 Gaming: PUBG, fantasy, Alienation, God of War, X-Wing miniatures.
aturi, aventure, back boat, brogue squadron, greedydraft, neural networks, playstation

2018.08.04

Vidya

 Lots of gaming: PUBG, Risk, Destiny 2, Alienation, and God of War.
back boat, battlegrounds, destiny, fps battle royale, good beer company, how-to, risk

2018.07.23

Tactics

 Hot weather means X-Com, PUBG, Destiny, and an X-Wing miniatures corvette battle.
fps battle royale, fps rpg, lolbaters, portraiture, pubg, tabletop, technique

2018.06.25

Sun reas

 The 2018 World Superbike race at Laguna Seca.
bmw, corkscrew, graphics, machine learning, monterey, neural style transfer, wheelie

2018.06.20

Adventuring

 Heroes of the Aturi Cluster, The Division, X-Com 2, PUBG, and Tacoma suspension.
athletics, destiny, fps rpg, garage, lolbaters, meta, suspension

2018.06.12

E3

 E3 2018.
brotherhood of steel, dying light 2, graphics, lolbaters, playstation, pubg, the last of borderlands

2018.05.31

Dialogue

 Text chats implemented in html, some more neural style transfer, LED headlight installation, and Sea of Thieves.
code, deep learning, graphics, html, led, software, video games

2018.05.13

CA primary
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.
atlanta, dl4j, graphics, maven, pirate, programming, screenshot

2018.04.08

Blowing off some dust
commander, edh, games, magic, mtg, narset, video games

2018.04.01

Graphics

 Sea of Thieves, Monster Hunter, Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, and some outdoor activities.
cannon, equipment, flash, flash bracket, screenshot, squad adventure, technique

2018.03.25

Drenched

 Park City ski-brocation, a Kingwin HDD switch for multi-boot, and first thoughts on Sea of Thieves.
games, garage annex, murder room, rig, skiing, video games, windows

2018.03.07

Menacing
action rpg, cheese, fallout, meta, monster hunter world, murder room, photography

2018.02.27

Tags
coding, html, kilroy, meta, site, software, tags

2018.02.25

Onward

 The BLAH Cape Run, pouring concrete for the murder room, and Horizon Zero Dawn.
dog, film, frozen wilds, monster hunter world, organization, storage, video games

2018.02.11

Grinding

 I play some Horizon and Monster Hunter, work on the murder room, and build some EDH decks.
concrete, garage, garage annex, horizon zero dawn, open-world adventure, rivals of ixalan, video games

2018.01.28

Spoiled

 Murder room concrete work, a wedding shoot, the Horizon Zero Dawn finale, and Pandemic Legacy.
games, garage, hamilton, horizon, horizon zero dawn, open-world adventure, renovation

2018.01.07

Horizon

 Screencaps, videos, and initial thoughts on Horizon Zero Dawn.
aloy, games, horizon zero dawn, meridian, open-world adventure, screenshot, video games

2017.12.31

Sleighride
drive, ezuri, gage, games, mtg, sidescrolling shooter, video games

2017.12.27

J's top ten video games
borderlands 2, dying light, fps, html, list, open-world action rpg, skyrim

2017.12.17

Sunsets

 Weather, Monster Hunter, thoughts on my Zero S, and The Last Jedi.
beta, east coast, the last jedi, travel, video games, warframe, zero s

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 rpg, games, magic, motorcycle, mtg, software, zero s

2017.11.14

All over the map

 Installing a tankless water heater and a few board games.
amazon, board games, how to, how-to, legacy, renovation, wedding

2017.11.13

Ixalan sealed
barrel harbor, dinosaur, games, ixalan, mtg, sealed, vampire

2017.10.31

Fantasy

 Halloween costumes, fantasy football, Paragon, and MtG.
deck, esports, fantasy football, football, fps moba, ixalan, screenshot

2017.10.24

Weekenders

 Trips to Oakland, OC, and some Paragon.
dog, games, moba, raiders, sports, train, video games

2017.09.30

Finishing

 Horizontal fencing installation, a DC trip, and Battleborn.
battleborn, dulles, plane, renovation, screenshot, travel, video games

2017.08.20

Fancy, flying

 Picking up Battleborn in its dying days, disassembling the pool pump, and some travel.
battleborn, games, garbage disposal, gearbox, renovation, screenshot, video games

2017.07.22

Completion

 A time-lapse gif of re-epoxying the pool. The Dying Light DLC, Andromeda, Killing Floor 2, and Persona 5.
epoxy, persona 5, portrait, refill, renovation, resurface, star wars

2017.06.13

E3 2017

 AAA titles are all the rage at E3 2017.
conference, fallout, forza, la convention center, open-world adventure, playstation, xbox

2017.06.09

Killing Floor 2

 Killing Floor 2 and Mass Effect Andromeda.
action rpg, andromeda, bugs, mass effect, mass effect andromeda, playstation, screenshot

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, box, guest board, instax, lomography, photobooth, wedding

2017.04.21

The calm

 Mass Effect Andromeda, Civilization tabletop, and a trip to Atomic City raceway.
andromeda, beach, board games, mass effect, mass effect andromeda, video games, work

2017.03.31

Horizons

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

2017.02.28

A real winter

 Travel and Warframe.
board games, eight bit, idaho, m4, snowboard, super bowl, warframe

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.
battlefield 1, mmo squad fps, sd womens march, serbia, travel, usmnt, video games

2016.12.31

Roaming

 Holiday travel, engagement photos. Battlefield 1, The Witcher, and Warframe.
beer, chargers, dog, mmo squad fps, renovation, speaker, stereo

2016.11.20

Disguised

 Halloween, the Turkey Bowl, The Witcher, and Warframe.
costume, gwent, halloween, open-world action rpg, risk legacy, video games, witcher 3

2016.10.30

Civilizing

 Volleyball photos, installing a Trex deck, and Legacy games. Video games include The Witcher, Civ VI, Broforce, Warframe, and Planetside.
how to, moon door, planetside 2, platformer, volleyball, warframe, witcher 3

2016.09.04

Trips

 Oahu, fantasy football, and a giant Guiness.
dive, ducati, fantasy football, greedydraft, idaho, pipeline, snorkel

2016.08.14

Watery

 Cache Creek rafting, pool vball, Warframe, and Witcher 3.
cache creek, longship, prime, slide, summer, video games, witcher 3

2016.07.20

Ikelite nightsurfing

 A nightsurfing photo session with an Ikelite housing and flash.
ikelite, night surf, nikon, photography, 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.
fallout, master bathroom, quotes, renovation, rifftrax, said, video games

2016.06.22

Spare time

 A wedding, gate installs, and tuna crabs.
dumpling inn, screenshot, shanghai saloon, sports, the void, video games, wedding

2016.06.01

Satisfying

 Finishing the brewery crawl, Tropico 5, and Warframe.
32 north, ballast point, campncrawl, reckless, screenshot, tropico, warframe

2016.05.07

Warframe

 Finishing The Division and starting Warframe.
action rpg, cover shooter, free to play, graffiti, playstation, the division, tom clancy

2016.05.02

A'a

 Diving Kauai.
dive, diving, fish, hawaii, ikelite, scuba, turtles

2016.04.23

FFS
california, congress, governor, politics, primary, senate, voting

2016.04.20

Indie

 An Austin bachelor party, The Division, Firewatch, and Broforce.
board game, la barbecue, narrative adventure, screenshots, squad top-down shooter, stubbs, texas

2016.04.03

All games

 The Division, Broforce, and Helldivers
broforce, cover shooter, helldivers, platformer, squad top-down shooter, tom clancy, video games

2016.03.16

Indoor

 Skiing with a torn MCL, file ops in Java, surfing, and Helldivers.
canopy, lodge, screenshots, squad top-down shooter, squatters pub, utah, video games

2016.03.02

Sedentary

 MCL tear, froading, clay pigeons, volleyball.
'froading, adventure, clay pigeon, jeep, lodge, mcl, shotgun

2016.02.20

Moving earth

 A motorsports fan judges Monster Jam (and gets booed). Cities: Skylines, Helldivers, and Fallout 4.
cities: skylines, html, meta, monster jam, playstation plus, simcity, video games

2016.01.31

Boards

 Some decorative surfboards and shelving.
b-wing, 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
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.
del mar, sierra nevada, sports, tahoe, wiffleball, wine, wine tasting

2015.12.02

Caps

 My second chunk of progress in Fallout 4.
bethesda, borderlands, borderlands 2, fallout, renovation, shelving, video games

2015.11.16

Bombing it

 A first look at Fallout 4. Also the Turkey Bowl (flag football) and some Planetside 2 action.
bethesda, fallout, fallout 4, football, league of sport, screenshot, sports

2015.11.04

Nino
el nino, lightning

2015.11.02

Spooks
chewbacca, espn, football, infiltrator, mmo squad fps, planetside 2, vampire

2015.10.10

Dos a tres

 The US-Mexico CONCACAF Cup match.
concacaf cup, confederations cup, football, mexico, pasadena, rose bowl, soccer

2015.10.07

Flights

 An east coast trip, disc golf, and some Planetside 2 action.
carbon maine, frolf, league of sport, phone, planetside 2, surfboard, travel

2015.08.25

Amok

 Patio renovations, nerf storage, and a couple of celebrations. Also some fantasy football and Planetside action.
fantasy, pegboard, renovation, screenshots, taco party, tecolote canyon, video games

2015.08.24

VR4 work
3000gt, gto, kyb, replacement, springs, struts, suspension

2015.07.13

Camp'n'crawl

 The League of Sport camp and crawl and returning from Oregon by train.
camping, hots, lan party, league of sport, mt lassen, portland, 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, planetside 2, screenshots, video games

2015.06.02

Kona

 The big island at 14,000 feet above sea level and 60 feet below.
beer, d700, fish, hawaii, manta, 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.
battlestation, garage, murder room, office, playstation, study, top-down moba

2015.05.09

Storms

 A Heroes of the Storm LAN party, local scuba dive, and adorable Mothers' Day photos.
coronados, hots, lan party, scuba, top-down moba, underwater photography, video games

2015.04.22

Circuits

 The 2015 Long Beach Grand Prix, ASUS customer support, and a new rig.
asus, indycar, intel, long beach, los angeles, patent, rma

2015.04.01

Class

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

2015.03.22

Completion

 Final thoughts on Far Cry 4, including the map editor and experiments with C4. Kafka destroys a cognac box.
cognac, dog, far cry 4, map editor, open-world fps, remy martin, video games

2015.03.22

HTTP
html, http, kilroy, lists, logs, security, the notorious hacker 4chan

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, master, media room, renovation, shower, study

2015.01.31

Buoyant

 Garibaldi and kelp in La Jolla Cove.
crab, dive, diving, fish, kelp, ocean enterprises, scuba

2015.01.27

Clean sets

 Clean waves in Del Mar and a monster attacks SimCity.
encinitas, ikelite, screenshots, surfing, talon, technique, underwater housing

2015.01.19

Improvements

 Static site generator changes, fantasy football, and some video games.
borderlands, duckduckgo, fps rpg, html, kilroy, markup, video games

2015.01.01

New *

 An office and OS reorg, sand and snow for the doggo.
drive, linksys, routers, snow, startup, travel, windows

2014.12.01

Transition

 A couple of trips and an AT-AT costume for Kafka.
ca-cycleworks, dc, fps rpg, halloween, park city, pre-sequel, voltage regulator

2014.10.19

Daysurfing

 I take the Ikelight underwater housing and D700 out to shoot some Del Mar surf.
5th street, focus, ikelite, surf, surf photography, surfing, technique

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, golden hour, lola, rain, san diego, weimaraner

2014.09.09

Destiny

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

2014.08.19

Greedydraft

 Using Wins Above Replacement (WAR) for fantasy football.
algorithms, draft, draft party, fantasy football, football, medieval gridiron, sports

2014.08.03

Nightsurfing, part six

 Photographing a stealth mission.
flash, night, nightsurfing, sb800, surf, technique, underwater

2014.07.27

Nightsurfing, part cinq

 An Ikelite underwater housing, a D700, and some night surfing.
6812, housing, scripps, scuba, surf, surfing, technique

2014.07.01

Brazuca

 The American Outlaws World Cup 2014 trip to Brazil.
brazil, costumes, dynamic airways, maracajau, pipa, plane 2, world cup

2014.06.10

Copa
american outlaws, fifa, tickets, visa, world cup

2014.06.04

Pump reno iv

 Finishing the pumphouse renovation, a gas burner, and some soccer.
american outlaws, de filter, fence, posts, roofing, soccer, world cup

2014.05.26

Pump reno iii

 Part III of the pump house rebuild.
concrete, de filter, posts, pump, pumphouse, roofing, solar

2014.05.18

Pump reno ii

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

2014.05.12

Pump reno i

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

2014.04.17

Competition

 The 2014 Austin (motorcycle) Grand Prix and fantasy (like wizards) flag football.
austin, cota, flag football, game of thrones, racing, track, valentino rossi

2014.03.17

Partyin partyin

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

2014.03.10

GP Motorcycles, strike 2.5
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, processing, raw, technique, workflow

2014.02.16

F*ckr
dog, flickr, kilroy, meta, scooby snack, site, weimaraner

2014.02.13

Mahalopoints
beach, hike, kauai, na pali coast, pipeline, surf, travel

2014.01.01

Popular

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

2013.09.27

Sbk

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

2013.06.11

E3 2013

 New consoles, fast cars, and a giant mech at E3 2013.
beer, brewing, e3, gran turismo, los angeles, willamette hops, wind waker

2013.05.15

The last bit of thirty

 KO turns 40, Dad turns 60 in Hawaii, Lee and Carly get married.
backyard, borderlands 2, brewing, claptrap, fps rpg, kauai, 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, north carolina, snow northstar, super bowl, thirsty dog

2012.12.28

All with one shoulder
beer, brewing, cycling, ducati, ligaments, spark plug, wires

2012.11.14

Cure

 The Run For Your Lives zombie run and some shower tiling.
costumes, epoxy, grout, master bathroom, shower, vanity, zombies

2012.10.03

Week of tile
bathroom, harbor freight, master bathroom, renovation, tile, tile saw

2012.09.26

Dabbling

 Dodgeball and a fantasy draft.
borderlands, borderlands 2, draft, electrical, league of sport, renovation, video games

2012.08.19

Cheese
beer, brewing, homebrew, iron maiden, old honey, pinata, taco party

2012.08.08

Top down
bathroom, giants, renovation, san francisco, tile, travel, vaulted ceiling

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, electrical, fan, lighting, pyramid head, quotes, tile

2012.07.04

Fourth

 Cenote diving near Cancun and some fireworks watching.
dive, fireworks, halocline, mexico, travel, underwater cancun, wedding

2012.06.18

Long days
borderlands, borderlands 2, e3, e3expo, fps rpg, la convention center, league of sport

2012.05.22

Necromania

 Left4Dead2, Lost Rhino brewery, and adult kickball.
kickball, l4d2, league of sport, left 4 dead 2, lost rhino, squad fps, zombie tooth

2012.04.01

Now with vitamin r

 Skiing Kirkwood and taking the dogs to Fiesta Island.
brewing, brocation, kirkwood, shar, sierra nevada, ski-in-ski-out, tahoe

2012.02.19

xlvi

 A Super Bowl party.
848 evo, beer, brewing, football, nfl, super bowl, tijuana steamer

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.
board games, brewing, dog beach, porter rico, shar, twilight imperium, weimaraner

2011.11.23

Postfriendsgiving

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

2011.10.30

Prefriendsgiving
backyard, dc, friendsgiving, gearbox, painting, 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, fantasy football, football, league of sport, medieval gridiron, nfl, sports

2011.08.12

Dream team
draft party, fantasy football, football, nfl, sports

2011.08.07

Eaves
backyard, deck, lighting, plants, renovation

2011.07.27

Grand prix

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

2011.07.12

Best seats in the house
gamersac, laguna seca, lovesac, media room, motogp, moviesac, 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, ferrari, foosball, forza, los angeles, nintendo

2011.05.28

Railing
backyard, deck, plank, railing, renovation, stain

2011.05.20

Deck again
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 5, flag football, halo risk, league of sport, review, speed night, tiella

2011.04.24

More lighting

 Garage lighting and a skylight.
attic, board rack, drywall, fast and furious, garage, lighting, skylight

2011.04.22

Replacement gear
agvsport, exo-400, new enough, offroading, scorpion, speedmaster, utah

2011.04.12

New lights
cable lights, drywall, garage, kitchen, lighting, renovation, tiella

2011.04.08

Spring
ca-cycleworks, laguna seca, monterey, motogp, motorcycle, motorcycle racing, racing

2011.03.23

Chilly

 Cansecwest 2011.
bubble bobble, canada, fuzzing, microsoft, rim, technology, vancouver

2011.02.20

Snow, lots and lots of snow

 Swapping HIDs into the VR4 and lots of powder in Tahoe.
high center, sierra nevada, skiing, snow, snowboarding, tahoe, technique

2011.02.09

Garage work
electrical, fantasy football, hid, mitsubishi 3000gt, painting, renovation, super bowl party

2011.01.30

Entertainment
board games, dominion, league of sport, office decor, quote, spoken, sports

2011.01.09

Cover 2

 Dogs and flag football.
beer, dog, dog beach, league of sport, lola, sports, weimaraner

2010.12.28

Eggsmas
baklava, dog, ducati, fantasy football, flag football, league of sport, weimaraner

2010.12.14

d'Dogs

 Some multiple exposure/flash fun at the park with the dog, Shar visits, and fantasy playoffs.
dog, nfl, photography, shar, sports, technique, weimaraner

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.
105mm, flag football, football, mud, photography, sports, 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, mario galaxy 2, shenandoah, west virginia

2010.10.19

Football overload
darth vader, football, league of sport, niners, raiders, sports, 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.
de filter, fantasy football, halo reach, julian, renovation, turn-based strategy, warfish

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, photography, realtime tactics, screenshots, starcraft 2, starcraft ii, video games

2010.07.28

Kaf and Shar

 The Petco Park suite and some pets at the park.
box, dodgers, dog, 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
backyard, ducati, formula 1, monaco, motogp, renovation, 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.
e3expo, kilroy, pregnant zombie, site, sony, turn-based strategy, video games

2010.04.25

Brolagio
backyard, pool, renovation, soccer, sports, terrace, water

2010.04.18

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

 Kafka turns one.
dog, fiesta island, husqvarna, lawnmower, summer, terramar, weimaraner

2010.04.02

Malware
malware, virus

2010.03.21

Piping
how to, how-to, kohler, moen, piping, renovation, shower

2010.03.10

pf01
18, enkei, mitsubishi, pf01, silver, tire rack, ups

2010.03.07

Purchases, products, plantings
achievement unlocked, backyard, front yard, mitsubishi, papyrus, pf01, wii

2010.02.24

Garage doors
bamboo, bathroom, body spray, garage, master bathroom, plumbing, renovation

2010.02.10

Favorite screencaps, 2010-2019
features, html, kilroy, list, lists, meta, video games

2010.02.08

xliv

 A backyard Super Bowl party and some Axis and Allies Anniversary Edition.
allies, axis, axis and allies anniversary, barbecue, dog, pool, weimaraner

2010.01.31

Transitions
action rpg, costco, mass effect, mattress, owl, rpg, sealy

2010.01.27

Precedents
axis and allies anniversary, football, paint, renovation, super bowl, video games, weimaraner

2010.01.18

San Clemente State Beach
aston martin, camp, san clemente, surf, weimaraner

2010.01.10

Favorite photos, 2010-2019
features, kilroy, list, lists, meta, photography, retropost

2010.01.10

A hot, steamy bowl of awesome
backyard, chili, football, landscaping, lighting, recipe, sports

2010.01.01

Christmas weekend
bobcat, christmas tree, dog, fire, scrabble, weimaraner

2009.12.20

Master bath
bathroom, drain, plumbing, renovation, skylight, tub, vaulted ceiling

2009.12.10

December
action rpg, cupcake, dragon, dragon age: origins, living room, screenshot, video games

2009.12.03

Backyard lights
backyard, christmas lights, deck, ge, led, pool, renovation

2009.11.26

Miles

 Trips to Virginia, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles.
dog, dragon age: origins, quotes, thanksgiving, turkey, video games, wiffle ball

2009.11.08

Auto lighting
electrical, how to, lighting, living room, motion sensor

2009.11.04

New stuff, brah
cyclegear, forza, forza 3, forza motorsport 3, qualifier, racing simulation, treadwear

2009.10.25

One year
backyard, bathroom, deck, insulation, pool, renovation, shower

2009.10.22

Pre-Halloween
bathroom, dragon, halloween, pumpkin, renovation

2009.10.21

Broader fov
backyard, fantasy football, foreshorten, grass, landscaping, photography, renovation

2009.10.14

Two weeks
forza, forza motorsport 3, gulf livery, love sac, racing simulation, technology, video games

2009.10.09

Some reviews
backyard, barbecue, futurama, gaming, 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
backyard, halo, hammer drill, juniper, paint, painting, renovation

2009.09.07

Heavy in the games

 A live fantasy draft and some Axis and Allies.
allies, fantasy football, game night, live draft, medieval gridiron, nfl, strategy

2009.08.27

The return of film

 Pinhole shots using the P-Sharan cardboard camera and film photos from dirtbiking Plaster City.
beach, camera, desert, film, p-sharan, pinhole, 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...
d700, dog, lobster, photography, scuba, underwatersealion, weimaraner

2009.08.10

My first F
d70, front yard, html, nikon, photography, plumbing, renovation

2009.08.02

Full frame
backyard, korean grass, la jolla, nikon, quote, quotes, renovation

2009.07.24

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

2009.07.15

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

2009.07.12

Toasted

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

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, stalin, 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, drywall, range, talib kweli, virginia, wedding

2009.05.12

No photos
asparagus fern, expansion, great river, landscape, renovation, settlers of catan, time lapse

2009.05.04

All kinds of win
backyard, bean bag, citysac, henna, love sac, pool, renovation

2009.04.20

Unexpected surprises
clippie, d70, media room, patent, red alert, renovation, screenshot

2009.04.16

New light source
c crane, game night, light, pool, quote, rabot, spoken

2009.04.12

A few events

 Dirt biking Plaster City, Settlers of Catan, bathroom renovation.
dirt bike, game night, jump, living room, plaster city, renovation, vanity

2009.04.05

Speed night at the theater
car movies, cars, fast and furious, film, review, snark, vin diesel

2009.04.01

A few more shots of the carnage
couch, d70, film, garage, nikon, review, truth in 24

2009.04.01

Multiple fronts
bathroom, fast and furious, garage, hallway, quotes, review, settlers of catan

2009.03.28

Refinishing the garage floor
3000gt, acid stain, concrete, garage, gto, step by step, vr4

2009.03.28

The return of the leaderboard
death race, driven, fast and furious, gumball rally, redline, ronin, thunderbolt

2009.03.23

Proportions
accounting, distribution, diy, expenses, renovation

2009.03.22

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

2009.03.18

Yard, tile, library
bathroom, d70, landscape, lenin, night photography, nikon, tile

2009.03.15

Reinforcements
bolt, d70, egg, epoxy, living room, sawzall, tools

2009.03.08

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

2009.03.04

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

2009.03.01

I red myself
deck, fence, paint, painting, redwood, renovation, stain

2009.02.25

Zones
bmw, film, grinding, prius, the office, welding, zone system

2009.02.22

Backyard work
darkroom, deck, paint, photography, printing, renovation, wild animal park

2009.02.17

A story told by portraits
3000gt, front yard, gto, how to, mitsubishi, oil change, photography

2009.02.16

Portraits that tell a story (?)
3000gt, front yard, girl, how to, mitsubishi, oil filter, photography

2009.02.12

Preparing for the future
casbah, fallout 3, film, open-world action rpg, quote, snark, wired

2009.02.08

Brakes and such
brembo, crg, lever, motogp, motorsports, nascar, supersport

2009.02.05

Solar
film, overpass, printing, solarize, turbo

2009.02.02

xliii
fireplace, game night, living room, news, pennsylvania, pocky, settlers of catan

2009.01.26

The unnerving bits
bethesda, bookshelf, dining room, fallout, nikonos v, quotes, spoken

2009.01.21

DC never looked so good
bethesda, chandelier, dumplings, lighting, mass effect, open-world action rpg, wine

2009.01.16

Squeezing in
bathroom, couch, electrical, lighting, living room, mirror, renovation

2009.01.16

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

2009.01.13

Maui wowie

 Some motorcycling, diving, and golfing on Maui
ducati, golf, hawaii, sea turtle, snorkel, united, volcano

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, door, door hanging, hallway, quote, renovation, window treatments

2008.12.17

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

2008.12.10

Compromising admissions
d70, lighting, media room, quote, quotes, spoken, vanity

2008.12.06

A few errands later
costco, curtains, lighting, long exposure, media room, renovation, rug

2008.12.05

Time lapse blogography
fantasy football, game night, hardwood floor, living room, quotes, sata, thanksgiving

2008.11.24

Odds and ends
concrete, ducati, fantasy football, forza, gto, supersport, vr4

2008.11.21

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

2008.11.21

Gears of War 2
ai, ars technica, bender, cover shooter, gears of war 2, media room, xbox

2008.11.09

Furnishments
couch, electrical, fantasy football, floor, living room, media room, xr400

2008.11.01

Now for a little something different
granite counter, mst3k, quantum of solace, sink, vanity, watchmen, yelp

2008.10.29

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

2008.10.26

Getting there
bear, fireplace, hallway, hot mop, how to, renovation, travertine

2008.10.21

Cahoots
acoustics, conversation, door, flooring, pocket door, renovation, snake

2008.10.19

Making space
bathroom, fan, garage, living room, mirror, panasonic, quiver

2008.10.10

The end is nigh
bowling, floor, flooring, hardwood, hardwood floor, living room, renovation

2008.10.06

A fine weekend
deck, fire, high dive, living room, poker, quote, renault

2008.10.05

Floors

 Renovations.
deck, fireplace, flooring, hallway, hardwood, juniper, poker

2008.10.05

Entryway floor
backyard, deck, entryway, floor, hardwood, hardwood floor, renovation

2008.10.02

Burning the midnight oil
bathroom, chandelier, grout, living room, renovation, tile, tiling

2008.09.29

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

2008.09.24

Construction site with amenities
lcd, media room, renovation, shower, tile, wheelbarrow, xbox

2008.09.17

Piecing it together
ceiling, door, renovation, solar tube, texture gun, texturing, wall texture

2008.09.11

Last of the painting, start of the flooring
dining room, floor, hardwood floor, living room, paint, painting, scaffolding

2008.09.07

First barbecue

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

2008.09.07

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

2008.09.04

Renovation limbo
backyard, cabinets, ceiling, deck, kitchen, renovation, yeti

2008.09.04

Portfolio fin

 My photo class final project.
crash, ducati, garage, macro, motorcyles, rappelling, tailpipe

2008.09.02

Domestication
backyard, maintenance, morelos, move, party, pool, renovation

2008.08.05

The weekend in summary
80-400, angeles crest, calumet, crash, rides, suzuki, twisties

2008.08.04

Portfolio part III

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

2008.07.31

Double crossed
3000gt, competition, cones, lap times, mitsubishi, s13, subaru

2008.07.31

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

2008.07.30

Portfolio part I

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

2008.07.27

A lack of focus
autox, focus, live, mazdaspeed 6, quote, rifftrax, vr4

2008.07.27

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

2008.07.22

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

2008.07.22

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

2008.07.22

Motorsports day
corkscrew, fia, fim, glock, laguna seca, motogp, motorsports

2008.06.24

Rifftrax II
comiccon, movie, mst3k, mystery science theater, rifftrax

2008.06.11

Neural networks
explained, how to, market, programming, scrabble, software, trading

2008.06.11

Picking ponies
ann, hybrid, hybrid algorithm, prediction market, 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, autox, impreza, scca, sdad, solo, vr4

2008.05.22

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

2008.05.22

Prime or zoom
advice, discussion, how to, lenses, photography, prime, technique

2008.05.16

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

2008.05.12

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

2008.05.11

Rollies
car, gto, mitsubishi, tires, tsw, vr4, wheels

2008.05.04

Major cwnage

 Autocross day.
car, cone autox, impreza, jetta, lancer, race, scca

2008.04.28

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

2008.04.28

Cheers and tears
2 fast 2 furious, death race, film, gumball rally, movin too fast, speed night, tokyo drift

2008.04.09

Spoken III
conversation, march madness, quotes, spoken

2008.04.06

Crossed up
240sx, 3000gt, autox, s13, scca, scnax, vr4

2008.03.27

Garage daze
3000gt, carboncar, gto, 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
music, quotes, rock band, spoken, technique, video games, xbox 360

2008.03.16

Brawl
fighter, image, nintendo, screenshot, super smash bros. brawl, video games, 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, nissan, rx7, silvia

2008.02.20

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

2008.02.12

The leaderboard
car movies, fast and the furious, film, initial d, movies, speed night, speed nite

2008.02.11

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

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, review, reviews, speed night, the fast and the furious

2008.01.23

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

2008.01.21

The goggles do nothing
car movies, driven, film, initial d, mad max, reviews, speed night

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
apocalypse, ducati, gto, hid, spoken, turbo, vr4

2007.12.10

Distractions

 The VR4 and some things that are happening.
car, mass effect, mitsubishi, nfl, sports, video games, vr4

2007.12.05

There and back again
3000gt, alaska airlines, bowflex, gto, mitsubishi, rifftrax, 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
ducati, how-o, supersport, windshield

2007.10.25

Diversions
2007, 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, genetic programming, neural network, 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, adventure, football, kotor, metroid, 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, stealth mission, surfing, technique, underwater

2007.05.17

El jollo loco
giribaldi, la jolla cove, snorkeling, sun god, ucsd

2007.05.13

Drivetrain IV
brake, kumho, modern, motegi, rotor, steering knuckle, toyota celica

2007.05.10

Drivetrain III
auto, celica, mechanic, motegi, parts, rotor, suspension

2007.05.07

2007.05.06

Corral Canyon
atv, california motorsport, corral canyon, honda, offroad, san diego, xr

2007.05.06

Nightsurfing, Part Trois
flash, nightsurfing, photography, stealth mission, surfing, technique, underwater

2007.05.02

Drivetrain II
brake, brakes, cv joint, how-to, mechanic, toyota, toyota celica

2007.04.26

Drivetrain I
brakes, celica, cv, half shaft, how-to, parts, rotor

2007.04.25

240,000 miles later
brake, brakes, cv, mechanic, parts, repair, toyota celica

2007.04.20

Consoles and cars
360, cars, forza, microsoft, nintendo, sony, video games

2007.04.18

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

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, programming, quote, sandwich, 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, latte, pants, squid, this is a disaster

2007.04.05

Free at last
bane, move, paint, tape

2007.04.04

Nightsurfing Part Trois
beach, la jolla shores, nightsurf, nightsurfing, photography, scripps, surfing

2007.04.03

Kauai
hawaii, kauai, kealia, surf, tamba, travel, vacation

2007.03.19

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

2007.03.18

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

2007.03.18

2007.03.13

New glass
300mm, blown out, canon, lenses, surfing, technique, wave

2007.03.13

A weekend
motogp, music, surf, technique, the sword, weekend, wii

2007.03.13

Nightsurfing part deux
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, ski, skiing, snow, snow angel, squaw valley, tahoe

2007.02.04

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

2007.02.02

The new ish
dook, exercise, monkeys, mud run, sports, the big game, the play

2007.01.12

Find your guitar hero inspiration
beer, event, lions paw, music, pacific beach, reggae, tropicoso

2007.01.05

Call of Duty 3
call of duty, nintendo, shooter, video games, wii

2006.12.30

From under the tree
christmas, gadgets, mp3 player, sandisk, skagen, watch

2006.12.30

The long way down
kawasaki, motorcycles, south america, travel

2006.12.22

Deprecated
blogger, flickr, google, html, kilroy, meta, tags

2006.12.18

On categorization
blogger, google, html, information architecture, kilroy, meta, tags

2006.11.20

[Insert forced Wii pun here]
launch, microsoft, nintendo, technology, wii sports, wiimote, xbox

2006.11.08

2006.01.16

Amago

 Taking the motord to the Amago kart track.
amago, motard, motorcycle, motorcycles, race, reservation, track

2005.12.21

Sets

 Good-sized sets, lifeguards, and dolphins in Del Mar.
closeout, dolphin, photography, retro post, surf, wave, waves

2005.12.18

Portraits

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

2005.10.18

China
caves, china, hong kong, panda, retro post, travel, waterfall

2005.09.11

Sunrise

 Some enthusiastic motorcycling.
dank hoolie, hayabusa, motorcycles, photography, retro post, twisties, wheelie

2005.09.05

Shasta day three
backpack, champagne, climbing, clouds, glissading, ice axe, shasta

2005.09.04

Shasta day two
backpack, climbing, forest, mountaineering, mt shasta, shasta, sunset

2005.09.03

Shasta day one
backpack, backpacking, climbing, ice axe, kiteboard, mountain, mt 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, la convention center, los angeles, marc ecko, nintendo, star wars, video games

2005.05.27

Last hurrah

 Rosarito.
baja, mexico, rosarito, surf, surfing, travel, villa

2004.12.31

Tahoe

 A ski trip.
lake, ski, skiing, snow, snowboard, snowboarding, tahoe

2004.07.04

Movie night
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, hike, hiking, julian, retro post, san diego, this is a disaster

2004.05.22

E3

 E3 2004.
blizzard, e3expo, la convention center, metal gear solid, skyline, square, video games

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

2004.04.03

Celica suspension

 Replacing the struts and springs on the Celica.
celica, gr2, how-to, mechanics, pro-kit, retro post, spring

2003.10.25

Cedar fire
current events, del mar, fire truck, news, retro post, surfing, wildfire

2003.08.14

Alaska
alaska, denali, hiking, juneau, lake, macro, retro post

2003.05.10

PB Block Party
band, block party, house party, pacific beach, party, retro post, street photography

2002.12.31

Tahoe

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

2002.08.01

Shasta

 An unsuccessful attempt to summit Mount Shasta.
backpack, hike, ice axe, mountain, mountaineering, shasta, travel

2002.05.24

E3

 E3 2002.
e3, e3 expo, e3expo, microsoft, squaresoft, technology, video games

2001.12.01

Skiing
retro post, ski, skiing, slowboarding, snow, snowboarding, tahoe

2001.05.17

E3
e3expo, gamecube, la convention center, los angeles, saleen s7, sony, video games

2000.07.01

Graeagle

 Backpacking in the sierras.
camping, graeagle, hiking, lake, retro post, sierra nevada, travel

2000.01.10

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features, html, kilroy, list, lists, photography, retropost
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