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A sci-fi speakeasy, drone show, and beagles battling the Millennium Falcon.




I watched some World Cup soccer.




Office renovation, faucet repair, and some odds and ends.




A week in Kauai.




Looking back at 2025.




Holiday stuff at home and up the coast.




Halloween, Octoberfest, and a staycation with a concert.




Friendsgiving, Padres, the Miramar Airshow, and some pool time.




Summertime trips to the zoo and beach and everywhere else.




A few days of diving, swimming, and eating in Avalon.




In search of an eight anniversary gift.




Five days before the mast on Disney Wonder.




A few photos from the '25 Cape Run.




A trip to the Great Wolf Lodge.




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




Winter activities: art projects and video games.




Friendsgiving in Yosemite.




My first clutch adjustment.




Costume parties and black cats. And a rainbow seahorse.




Finishing the deck railing.




A little bit of everything: planes, games, projects, and tech.




Some under-6 soccer drills and activities.




Catalina and then some gaming in NoVa.




House projects and such.




A few outings.




Some fun in the sun with friends and family.




A BMW pedal car and lots of water falling from the sky.




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.




Some telephoto shots of the Blue Angels doing neat tricks.




Finishing BG3 Act I, some cuteness, and Harland's Ube IPA.




Pool volleyball and diving board tricks.




A short trip to Catalina Island.




Hurricane Hilary, scuba, and leisure.




Oppenheimer and choice quotes about the recent web2 happenings.




A summer trip to Washington State.




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




Quick bites (quibis) about NVDA, wheelbarrow adventures, and some games.




Following up on previous threads: the T-14, wood preservation, and Halo (through the lens of ship naming).




Fighting off viruses.




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.




The Blind Lady Ale House Cape Run returned in 2023.




Christmas travel.




A newspost about soccer, Twitter, Europe, and money.




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




A trip to the big island.




More investment carnage, turf boot carnage, and sci-fi carnage.




The veranda gets artificial grass and is finally complete.




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




Trying to find out how many files are in a Google Drive directory precipitates a short rant about the big picture.




What do NASDAQ and Elden Ring have in common? Also a trip to the amusement park and some machine learning meta topics.




Installing a dryer booster fan, choosing a cat name for an intern project, and some convos about Twitter and Truth.




Pool pump work, hacker news and the indie web/blogsphere, and Elon wants to buy Twitter.




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




Initial thoughts on Elden Ring and Horizon Forbidden West with plenty of screencaps.




The US claims an invasion is imminent, Reddit watches drones, I buy energy stonks.




Final thoughts on the Mass Effect trilogy, I create lists of my favorite graphics, and a Far Cry 6 villain rides a lion.




Omicron spikes but this could be a good thing, static web things, the gang plays Lunch Lady, and my wheel trading report card.




Rain, goats, and gifts.




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.




Friendsgiving mayhem, timely Halloween costumes, gun stonks, and Tacoma parts. And some machine learning graphics links and learnings.




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.




Covid, ivermectin, and memes. Fantasy football is back and I play Nioh 2, Mass Effect 2, and Dying Light 1 a second time.




I start Mass Effect 2, Google kills Hangouts, the US pulls out of Afghanistan.




Poway things, steel cable, veranda materials research, and dishwasher repair. Seeking Alpha and my college buddies dissect the recent meme stonk movement.




My winding path to vaccination, the perfect PUBG match, hardware multiboot, and discussions from my spicy millennialism list.




My most- and least-favorite millennialisms. Spoiler: I don't care about avocado toast one way or the other.




Danielle arrives. And some other stuff while nevously awaiting delivery.




Fixing the transformer on a 1970s furnace, PUBG meme strats, and thinking about autoencoders.




The covid surge is a good time for video games and fantasy football.




Tweaking the TensorFlow implementation of Neural Style Transfer.




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




Ill portents, investment films, and surf photos.




The nearly-invisible personal website, theta gang, and a bunch of video games.




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




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




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




Pandemic activities: trading, gaming, and coding.




The day covid lockdown started and some of the ensuing memes. FE Three Houses, Tarkov, Divinity 2, and Borderlands 3.




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 road trip, Fire Emblem Three Houses, and BL3 Handsome Jackpot.




A Fire Emblem Three Houses review and some turkey.




A costume party.




Food and parties, Borderlands and Risk of Rain.




A trip out east, a RHCP tribute band, Borderlands GOTY, and RoR2.




A few cultural quirks from our two weeks on the continent.




A summary of foods from the Europe trip.




Visiting friends in Lausanne before the flight home.




Interlaken to the Schilthorn to liters at the Hotel Eidelweiss.




Paris to Brussels by train and foot.




Lunch at a Michelin restaurant, scootering the Louvre, and a bike tour on an ill-fated day.




A metro and walking loop to the catacombs and Champs-Elysees. Moulin Rouge.




A Sentier Fenouillet hike, quick swim, and some crepes.




Gigondas to Rayol Canadel sur Mer with stops in Avignon and Aix.




A Lyon market and the wine country.




The LAX to GVA via CDG, then a relatively short drive to Lyon.




Maps, money, and translation software.




The amazing Nikkor 50mm 1/.4G, Far Cry 5 has a dark ending, and a few other multiplayer games.




A Maui trip during humpback season.




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




The 2019 Blind Lady Ale House Cape Run.




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




Christmas with a weim and a golden.




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.




The 2018 World Superbike race at Laguna Seca.




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




Text chats implemented in html, some more neural style transfer, LED headlight installation, and Sea of Thieves.




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.




Pouring concrete for the murder room, Monster Hunter, and Altered Carbon.




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




Murder room concrete work, a wedding shoot, the Horizon Zero Dawn finale, and Pandemic Legacy.




A holiday trip to NorCal, an Ezuri EDH deck, and static site generator mod for building and sharing MTG decks.




Weather, Monster Hunter, thoughts on my Zero S, and The Last Jedi.




Installing a tankless water heater and a few board games.




Halloween costumes, fantasy football, Paragon, and MtG.




Trips to Oakland, OC, and some Paragon.




Horizontal fencing installation, a DC trip, and Battleborn.




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




Wedding.




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.




Halloween, the Turkey Bowl, The Witcher, and Warframe.




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




Oahu, fantasy football, and a giant Guiness.




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




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




The 2015 Long Beach Grand Prix, ASUS customer support, and a new rig.




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




The World Cup, some house work, and a chiminea.




Kafka turns one.




Staining the deck and adding some greenery to the backyard.




Swapping out old garage doors and figuring out how to pipe body sprays the right way (closed loop).




Some thoughts of Mass Effect 2. An Axis and Allies game and Kafka eats some snacks.




Camping with friends at San Clemente State Beach.




Kafka drives a Bobcat and gets a bunch of new rawhides.




Wayne and I throw a baby shower and a dragon attacks me in Dragon Age.




Trips to Virginia, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles.




Halloween costumes, Forza 3, and new Bridgestones for the Duc.




Nikkor 20mm f/2.8, some renovations, and some Dom.




Rigging the xbox wheel for the Lovesac.




Pinhole shots using the P-Sharan cardboard camera and film photos from dirtbiking Plaster City.




Here's the rundown. Last weekend LT and J of And Four joined James and myself for a couple of dives at the cove.




Kafka meets a kitty.




July 4th bbq and fireworks.




So the still-unnamed canine is resting peacefully. All it took was a mile run this morning, a visit from some Del Martians and Canadians (all photos by Connie), a mile+ walk this afternoon, and lots of trips up and down the stairs. Needless to say, it may be awhile before I find myself at the bottom of a bag of pork rinds watching Home Shopping Network as the sun comes up. Those were good Tuesday/Thursdays.









Jon, Connie, and myself played a couple Settlers matches. We let White Lambda WIN both since it was his bday. He bailed from SoCal (WIN[?]) early because the prospect of being trounced at Axis and Allies cast a grim shadow over his remaining days.




This past Friday I was honored with my first piece of original art. My old boss came over with his family for some steaks and wings, his wife brought along an awesome Japanese-style painting. (And I did in fact straighten the frame after taking the photo.)




I had quite a few visitors this weekend. The main project - other than good times - was resupporting the deck.




For whatever reason I decided to do the fences this weekend. Well, I decided to start the fences. I'm maybe half done.




Okay let's get started. Chris? Present. Okay, item one: paint the deck. Behr redwood semi-transparent. Two gallons coated it twice (barely) with each coat taking a couple hours.




Four glorious hours in the darkroom. I toned these because monochrome just doesn't look good on a monitor, it's all bluish and you can't see detail.




Assignment three, portraits that tell a story. I went both directions, straight up portraits and capturing a well-defined sequence of events.




Jon came down for the weekend. Naturally, this meant hot pot, Settlers, and diving. The hot pot was good, but needed chilies. Settlers was fun, Connie/c/Jessica beat Jon, Erik, and Jes/me. The dive was significantly different from Maui, but it was good to get underwater.




Tonight I snagged a 60" mirror for my 59" wide bathroom. No big deal, I've always said that drywall is for suckers.




Erik's got a blog now. My forecast is interleaved Penn and Teller Bullshit-style rants and updates on the reich rocket (pictured). If only Connie, Curt, and me could convince him to join the photo class there'd be some great imagery to go with it. Relatedly, sign up for intermediate black and white at UnEx if you like to party.




So the ol' 1.6 Athlon setup finally choked. Hard to say what it was, I've failed to diagnose the problem hardware having independently swapped everything out. I'll revisit when I'm setting the box up as a terminal in the garage.




Floors are in for the dining room, living room, and entryway. Now to find me a bearskin rug and moose head.




So I'm pretty happy with the resolution to my previous indecision.




My photo class final project.




So a little while ago the Morelos Era came to an end. It was an lengthy, sickly death with people coming and going in the closing weeks - not befit of the three years of history within the walls. Everyone's parted ways for greater commitments, girls mostly, so I guess it's time to grow up. No more California burritos and daily house memes.




I headed for Palomar bright and early Saturday morning after making a quick stop at Calumet to pick up a 80-400mm vr lens. I decided on Turn 6 as it met most of my criteria:




This is the first of what will be many design quandaries.




Rosy's moving to Nebraska, so a trip to Vegas was in order.




Bret took his leave of San Diego today. So yesterday we held a small get together.




Photos from two weeks in China.