Christmas in Fresno

We made our annual trek to foggy Fresno so that we could take part in the very serious business of overindulging with the Hunter clan. Mass quantities of Christmas cookies and candies were consumed along with numerous bottles of wine and champagne before dinner. Later, we searched for and easily found extreme Christmas lighting displays…

Christmas Cosmos!

In my opinion, the best gift is something consumable. Thanks Grant and Sandy, Ali and Neil for the perfect gifts! Oh – and the ergonomic mouse pad is way cool too! Amazingly comfortable. My wrist never felt better! 😉 Highly recommended!

Printing REALLY Large

The hallway panorama is in! It looks pretty impressive, if I must say so myself. A major improvement. The nine foot wide print was made from a 10,000 pixel wide image consisting of four time exposures – approximately 30 seconds each – shot with a Nikon D2X. I used PhotoVista to do the stitching; Pictopia…

Affymetrix 2005 Christmas Party

While the rest of the country shivers under a blanket of heavy snow, thedude and Kelly attended the season’s first holiday party in 68 degree weather. The venue for this year’s food and wine extravaganza was the beautiful Asian Art Museum. The company provided what seemed like hundreds of tantalizing food options – everything from…

I’m Apple Pie Proud!

Wow. I don’t even have a category for this one! This strange, somewhat creepy recording is part of the “Stanford Audio Recordings Children’s Development Series”. The jacket proclaims, “Now your child can improve all phases of his development by playing records!” There is no date on the red “vinylite” record or on the jacket. I’m…

Christmas Crazy

Just so that you don’t think folks in California are lacking in the Christmas spirit department, I offer the following images from Thompson Avenue in Alameda. If you’re into this sort of Christmas insanity, you’ll probably enjoy this totally whacked Christmas video – once. After that it’s just weird. (Windows only – 5 megabytes.)

1000 Foot Warehouse

This morning my neighbors and I toured a huge warehouse on the Oakland estuary. The building is something like 1000 feet long. I have never seen so much cotton in one place. The Ninth Avenue Terminal will be almost entirely demolished to make way for a massive 3100 unit housing development. I’m probably the only…