Monarchs Will Rule the World

January 12, 2009 Journal

It’s a good thing butterflies don’t eat people. My younger sister, Sarah, visited us here in Santa Barbara for the last week and before she headed off (I take her to the train station in a few hours) we wanted to show her the Monarch butterflies that congregate in Ellwood every winter. It was unbelievable.  [...]

Tagged as: family photography

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Amazon MP3 Rocks My Casbah

January 6, 2009 Nerd Talk

For those of you out there that like music and who actually pay for it legitimately online, I just can’t recommend Amazonmp3.com enough.  Amazon’s offering is VASTLY superior to Apple’s iTunes it’s ridiculous.  Personally, I like owning something tangible for the most part.  Digital music has always seemed to be “less than” to me.  In [...]

Tagged as: music, rambling

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Military Industrial Complex and Vacation

January 3, 2009 Journal

Just got back from vacationing in Arizona a few days ago and it’s good to be home.  Melissa and I visited her parents in Prescott, AZ for over a week.  I love Prescott.  It’s so… Western.  When you travel around Prescott, especially when driving to where my in-laws live, it really feels like you’re in [...]

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My Friend Rob is Awesome

December 20, 2008 Journal

If you’re reading this, Rob, thanks for the pictures and you rock. For everyone else, some details: My wife, Melissa, and I have been married for over a year and we have almost no pictures of the two of us together.  None. Zip. Zilch.  Oh, we have TONS of one or the other person but [...]

Tagged as: photography, Santa Barbara

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Funny Bunny Tutorial

December 3, 2008 Design

Since I don’t get to create nearly as many illustrations on the computer as I’d like, every once in awhile I like to find a nice tutorial online to follow along with to get the creative juices flowing. For this particular one I turned to Vector Tuts which has a growing library of tutorials and [...]

Tagged as: illustration

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