My old pal Steve is scanning his old slides and negatives, and he sent me this gem, shot somewhere in the late eighties – Steve thinks it was 1988 or 1989. He shot this with Kodak’s nearly grain-free Ektar 25 negative film in his Pentax ME Super from San Franciso’s Corona Heights Park. (Google placemark) Yep, that’s a young dude in the foreground. If Steve’s time frame is right, I would have just returned from a year in Diego Garcia.

We had good lighting for a while this afternoon, so I went out with my crazy sharp 14 – 24 mm lens and took these shots – all within two blocks of our loft.

I really love Oakland, and would happily stay here forever, but it’s sometimes easy to see why not everyone feels this way.

Nothing special about today’s crap fair – just a load of the usual stuff that nobody needs. The high point was discovering this Smart Car-only parking spot less than 100 feet from the main stage and the fabulous Sun Kings.

BTW, This entry was made from Kelly’s iPhone using the new WordPress for iPhone App!

Today is an important day in the life of thedude – System Administrator Appreciation Day.

I made a group shot at our IT picnic last week.

I often do not get to be in group shots, as I’m stuck behind the camera. I really wanted to be a part of this one, so I asked my boss to shoot a picture of me after I shot the group, and I PhotoShop’ed myself into the scene.

Behold some of the most amazing images ever seen by humankind – Martian Skies.

Here’s a new twist on 360 Degree Panoramas. These are shot from a helicopter. Fabulous!

There was a small fire early this morning in our building’s new restaurant. It looks like a bucket of kitchen rags smoldered for hours before creating just enough heat to cause a sprinkler head to blow in the kitchen area of our favorite eatery.

The fire and smoke caused far less damage than the deluge of water from the sprinkler head. The restaurant will be closed for a few days while they replace a water-damaged wall.

I was extremely sleepy at 5:30 this morning when I took these, which probably explains why I didn’t shoot more of them.

I saw Eloisa this afternoon, and she seemed to be in pretty good spirits. We look forward to seeing MoNO open again soon!

I set up a WordPress blog for a friend last night and touted it’s ability to post via e-mail. After I said this, I realized that I had never even tried this feature myself, so here’s my first attempt!

With love and a prayer for world peace from a beautiful girl named Grace.

My wonderful friend Olive needed a picture to accompany an article she wrote for a blog, so we went outside with the long lens and had some fun.