Archive for 2006/05

The GuysThe “normal” picture before Bugna tried to grab some assThis weekend was our second Memorial day houseboating trip. 17 of us boarded two Monarch houseboats and a Ski Natique courtesy of Holiday Harbor to set sail on giant Lake Shasta for some cruisin’ and boozin’. 2005 was our first time houseboating [...]

I’m doing a bit of consulting for a local health services organization. The environment is the predictable “LAMP” stack: Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. I’m about a half day into writing the PHP and remembering all of the reasons why I use ColdFusion: you have to roll your own solutions (or find somebody [...]

My buddy Steve Tam from high school always raves about his pizza making episodes. I’ll concede that mine was not as roundest pizzas in the world, but we made the dough from scratch and pulled the mozzarella ourselves from curd. This is what I was secretly thinking when Jennifer said she was going [...]

A low-tech fix for bullet camera contrast and white-balance in high contrast conditions (e.g., the inside of a racecar)

I’m transitioning to a real content management system because I can’t take hand-editing things anymore. What is this, 1996?
Because I ridiculously believe that my old content is somehow valuable, I will be migrating it into wordpress here shortly as I get things together. With a ratio of 18 real minutes to 1 “Brian [...]