September 18, 2011

Home Grown Sweet Potatoes


This year has been a fantastic year for our garden. Tomatoes, peppers (especially the cayenne peppers!), cucumbers... but nothing comes close to the bounty of sweet potatoes we just harvested. We've been enjoying sweet potatoes for a while now, baking them and just eating them like baked potatoes, and these will be put to good use! We've got so many, that we're considering trying to turn them into sweet potato french fries. I'll let you know how that goes.

July 28, 2011

It's Sweet Tea... with Legos.


Okay, so I'm really the one to blame here. I mean, you leave your Ice Tea sitting on the table... what's a wandering one year old supposed to do with her Legos, after all. Am I right?

June 27, 2011

What Time Is It?


Abigail drew this on the way home from swimming lessons. It's Finn! What time is it? It's aaaaaaaaaadventure time!

June 2, 2011

From the top of the hill, Naval Air Station Whidbey Island. Oak Harbor Washington


(Click The Photo To View A Much Larger Version)
Standing at "the top of the hill", overlooking my old stomping grounds. I shot three images and stitched them together using Adobe Photoshop's Panorama Tool. From my May, 2011 trip to the island.

May 3, 2011

Happy Teacher's Day Miss Pam.


Teacher's Day Card, 2011. Miss Pam is the one with the glasses.

April 30, 2011

Building Sandcastles


I'm sure someone once said, "A day at the beach is a day well spent". If they didn't, then I'm saying it now.

The most riveting 10 minutes you’ll witness…

This is the most amazing presentation I’ve seen in recent memory. It’s Ralph Langner, a German control systems security consultant. He was working to analyze and track down the origin and purpose of the “Stuxnet Virus”. This was a highly engineered piece of software dedicated to a very specific type of computer/machine. Trust me, even if you’re not an engineer, you’ll love this. It has all the International Intrigue of a Robert Ludlum novel… but it’s non-fiction.

Stick around for the end when he unleashes the what may be the final result of opening this particular Pandora’s Box.

March 9, 2011

My heart belongs in Socastee.


Early birthday present. Thanks to Keith, I now have a spare.

February 11, 2011

Avatar, the last Airbender.

"It's the Avatar, daddy. He's bending water and creating a water hurricane." She's five. She's five years old and she draws with more style than I could ever hope to muster.

Swiper, no swiping!

I recently ran across a post over on Boing Boing about legendary illustrator/designer Coop’s swipe file on Flickr. I loved it, but even better, I loved the idea… so I swiped it. It gave me an opportunity to try a couple of things I’ve been meaning to try. I’ve had a Flickr account for a long time, but have never really used it for anything beyond photo storage. I’ve always wanted to do something more and “play” with it more, but I haven’t really seen an opportunity that grabbed me. Once I saw what Coop was doing and I took a look at the photos that I’m typically taking with my iPhone, I realized I had sort of been doing the same thing without really knowing what I was doing. I just hadn’t really “formalized” the process.

So I’ve got a blog/website. I’ve got a Flickr account. I’ve got an iPhone with the cool little Flickr app installed. Why not put together a little process that allowed me to spontaneously snap inspirational bits of life, upload ‘em to my Flickr account, and have them automatically populate a page on my site?

Seems easy enough, right? Of course it is… about three minutes, a WordPress plugin, a line of shortcode, and viola! Instant Swipe File.

New menu item, new page… click, enjoy. No rules. If it inspires, for whatever reason, it goes in the swipe file.