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Amanda

Little Thingies

Dave

Lace

Ayr

Nugget

Nathan

Kevin

Mom

Tori

Erik

Lauren

Ryan

Chase

Rob

Sants

Arthur

RyanButBetter

KO

Ted

Zac

Jon

kshot

RyanDnD

Cheryl

Jessica

Jerdar

Steve

Corey

Derrick

Dani

Dad

Ty

Bret

Curt

Cal

Dan

Sophie

Chrissy

Fuzzy

CattleDecapitation

Cooley

Jeff

Kafka

Lee

Connie

Scott

Shane

Mark

Gage

Heidi

Kourtney

Brian

Seaweed

Derrick

A few photos from the '25 Cape Run.




A couple of trips, a few thoughts on the Ford F-150, and a gripe about Lyft.




Costume parties and black cats. And a rainbow seahorse.




Some fun in the sun with friends and family.




My first few hours of fighting for democracy.




Screencaps and a little discussion of Remnant II, BG3, Stray, and Slay the Spire.




A few photos from the holidays: Safari West, cozy fires, and a Boneys sess.




Creating a small play area in the sideyard using rubberized playground tiles.




Friendsgiving in SF and some board games.




Fall means pumpkin patches and relatively empty beaches and zoos. It's also good for board and video games.




Hurricane Hilary, scuba, and leisure.




A few short trips and wondering why something isn't a thing.




Just normal stuff - a concert, a few house projects, some vehicle discussions, and our last Gloomhaven scenario.




A scuba dive, some tea parties, and organizing the video game sock drawer.




Some offroading, a new fridge water pump, and The Witcher on Netflix.




Spoilery roundoup of Pandemic Legacy Season 0.




Experimenting with prompts in Stable Diffusion.




Initial thoughts on Shadowverse Champions Battle and Gunfire Reborn. More Elden Ring and Across the Obelisk.




A family-friendly winery, a ballgame, and a weekend trip.




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.




A trip to the big island.




A birthday party, wood oil, board games, video games, and other stuff.




Pandemic Season 0, Zinsco breaker replacement, robots shooting basketballs, and the Blyatskrieg grinds on.




Night volleyball with a rear-curtain flash and a slow shutter.




Chasing the Playstation 5 white whale.




January 6th and the two weeks that followed.




Shots from a few San Diego spots during the recent swell.




The first night surf photography session in awhile. Halloween, elections, brushfires, and stonks.




A mega-gallery from Black's Beach during a nice swell.




Taking the 500mm out to Seascape with some buddies.




Painting the house from scaffolding, buying bonds, Barotrauma, RoR2, and Blaseball.




I break out the Nikon 500m f4g for the first time.




How to build a carbon fiber monopod for a telephoto. Part 2 of my TLOU2 review. Some other stuff in the era of covid.




Borderlands 3 Bounty of Blood, Barotrauma submarine design, Divinity, and some summer things.




First impressions of the newest TLOU and some of the weird reactions to its release.




Renovating the media room, some current events, and some video games.




Covid eases. Less PUBG, more Payday. Some lockdown pastimes.




Lockdown video gaming, socially-distanced beer exploration, and site generator improvements.




Pandemic activities: trading, gaming, and coding.




Is this covid thing for real? One thing is for certain: the memes are good. Self-isolating with PUBG and Borderlands 3.




Pandemic (the board game) and quarantinis as the price of PPE explodes. Active investing vs passive investing. A bunch of video games.




A ski trip to Whistler.




The 2020 Blind Lade Ale House Cape Run.




Experiments with convolutional autoencoders and style transfer. East coast travel and video games plus the big wall of Gloomhaven achievements.




Fire Emblem Tree Houses, the Borderlands 3 endgame, another Dying Light playthrough, and Barotrauma.




Borderlands 3, Risk of Rain 2, and volleyball under the moon.




A costume party.




Food and parties, Borderlands and Risk of Rain.




Borderlands 3 arrives, The Division 2 ends, RoR2 strategy discussion, Zelda and FE3H. I enjoy a Kook Slams IPA and draft my fantasy team.




Hot dogs, hot zones, and hot worms.




E3 2019.




From Germany to Switzerland with a minor transportation scare.




Some web site updates, a bday photo session, and an assortment of games.




Putting the 'adventure' back in the Gentlemen's Beer Exploration Society.




Mount Hood brocation.




The 2019 Blind Lady Ale House Cape Run.




Fire Emblem Fates, Divinity, Far Cry, and a bunch of other video games.




Kafka gets ear surgery, I eat Din Tai Fung and play some games.




Halloween, PUBG, and a trip to Seattle.




Some short trips, finishing Heroes of the Aturi Cluster, beginning Gloomhaven.




Hot weather means X-Com, PUBG, Destiny, and an X-Wing miniatures corvette battle.




Heroes of the Aturi Cluster, The Division, X-Com 2, PUBG, and Tacoma suspension.




Neural style transfer using DL4J and other starter projects. An ATL trip and two hours before the mast.




Sea of Thieves, Monster Hunter, Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, and some outdoor activities.




Park City ski-brocation, a Kingwin HDD switch for multi-boot, and first thoughts on Sea of Thieves.




The BLAH Cape Run, pouring concrete for the murder room, and Horizon Zero Dawn.




Halloween costumes, fantasy football, Paragon, and MtG.




Trips to Oakland, OC, and some Paragon.




Picking up Battleborn in its dying days, disassembling the pool pump, and some travel.




Mass Effect Andromeda, Civilization tabletop, and a trip to Atomic City raceway.




Work travel, getting out of town, and going to Andromeda.




Travel and Warframe.




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.




Holiday travel, engagement photos. Battlefield 1, The Witcher, and Warframe.




Volleyball photos, installing a Trex deck, and Legacy games. Video games include The Witcher, Civ VI, Broforce, Warframe, and Planetside.




Cache Creek rafting, pool vball, Warframe, and Witcher 3.




A nightsurfing photo session with an Ikelite housing and flash.




Fireworks at the Cove and tiling a medicine cabinet. In the game room: Fallout, Warframe, and TLOU.




Finishing the brewery crawl, Tropico 5, and Warframe.




Skiing with a torn MCL, file ops in Java, surfing, and Helldivers.




The 2016 Blind Lady Ale House Cape Run.




Trying out video stabilization software: VirtualDub with Deshaker and Hyperlapse.




Wiffle ball, high tide surfing, a Raiders game, and skiing.




A first look at Fallout 4. Also the Turkey Bowl (flag football) and some Planetside 2 action.




The garage annex "murder room" gets more murdery, an Ikelight strobe, a cabon fibersurfboard, HotS and the Handsome Collection.




A Heroes of the Storm LAN party, local scuba dive, and adorable Mothers' Day photos.




The 2015 Blind Lady Ale House Cape Run.




Clean waves in Del Mar and a monster attacks SimCity.




A couple of trips and an AT-AT costume for Kafka.




I take the Ikelight underwater housing and D700 out to shoot some Del Mar surf.




A birthday barbecue and classy party.




KO turns 40, Dad turns 60 in Hawaii, Lee and Carly get married.




The Blind Lady Ale House Cape Run, a going away party, and a ride on Ty's new Triumph.




A taco party, homebrew, and quitting Facebook.




Cenote diving near Cancun and some fireworks watching.




E3 2012 and a pool volleyball party.




Left 4 Dead 2, Lost Rhino brewery, and adult kickball.




Skiing Kirkwood and taking the dogs to Fiesta Island.




The first Blind Lady Ale House Cape Run.




Twilight Imperium and dog beach.




Flag and fantasy football.




A Jackson-oriented fantasy football team.




The Speed Night crew reviews The Fast and the Furious 5, some flag football, and a creative lighting solution.




Swapping HIDs into the VR4 and lots of powder in Tahoe.




The Walking Dead, board games, and some stuff for the office.




Dogs and flag football.




Flag football in the rain and mud.




Well maybe not overload; a daytrip to see the Raiders-9ers, some fantasy, and organizing weekly flag football games.




Starcraft II gallery.




Initial thoughts on Starcraft II.I and photographing paintball from the trenches.