Led Replica

Very solid show tonight - good fun. Thanks Doug!

AC/DC?

AC/DC cover band Big Dawg

Thumping

Picked up a used four-piece drum kit today for family entertainment.
Kids (and parents) are geeked. Tonight is Led Zepplica- rock out.

Buri Toro

Oh my...

Mango Chicken

Mean

Tortillas

Hand made at la Casa Guadalajara... Nice

San Diego Airport

Spending some quality time here in the baggage claim...

Awesome timelapse of Felicia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiXE7pj-wA8

Ouch

Randy sent this great pic. I imagine words were exchanged after this little run in.

Upgrading the iMac

It is now two weeks since the iMac upgrade was completed - and I'm just now able to relive it. I just wanted to swap out the iMac hard drive for a mighty 1.5 TB replacement drive. These iMacs are amazing - So thin! So sleek! - how do they get all that stuff in there? As I found out, you can't fit all that stuff in there - or at least not BACK in there. It was very nearly a total disaster. How hard can it be to get a size 8 Torx long-neck screwdriver in Hawaii? Let's just say the workaround was extremely sub-optimal. I had a great set of youtube directions to follow - and everything was going like rusty clockwork until I moved past the point of no return - cracked open the case and tried to remove the flat panel monitor - when I realized the innards of my computer looked absolutely NOTHING like the well-organized model iMac on the step-by-step. But what the hell - how hard can it be? I started unplugging things and removing brackets when a wave of hopelessness came over me when I realized the drive was welded in. It was, in fact, just very cleverly attached - and I proceeded to very uncleverly strip every torx screw I could find until the drive plopped off it's mount and deposited a big dent on partially unhinged heat shield. Hmmm. And these confounded things have heat sensors on the drives now - and you are supposed to use contact cement to attach them. Really? The drive fits in a very snug little nook and the heat sensor kept getting rubbed off. Ahhhh. Superglue is a good thing (just hope I never have to upgrade this drive again). With the drive installed and the case back together (and only a few dozen screws laying on the table) we were good to go ... and then it wouldn't boot. Hmmm. Lots of cursing and a little RAM tweaking later it managed to blurt out the boot chime and we were back in business. Total time on the youtube guide: 14 min, total time for my efforts: 3 hours. But hey - 1.5 TB - totally worth it.

Time Lapse HNL Airport

First attempt at time lapse photography using the iPhone TimeLapse app. This is about 3 1/2 hours of the late afternoon at the HNL airport on Tuesday Aug 11 2009. We were supposed to have the remnants of hurricane Felicia rolling through - but as you can see - not much really happened. The app was set to take a pic every 30 seconds - replayed at 10 frames per second. Pretty cool stuff. Now thinking up other time lapse friendly filming opportunities...

Brian's 55th B-day

Wed would have been Brian's 55th birthday. It was raining hard last night - so we celebrated today. Coors Lights all around. Chris is keeping the yard looking magical. Aloha Brian.

Violet's Restaurant

Men's restroom - not solid.

Violet's Restaurant

Oriental breakfast... Solid

For kids about to ROCK

The timeless quality and precision of Chinese knock-off guitar
craftsmanship is about to be unleashed on the Lemonds children (once the wood glue dries). Rock on!!!

Owenspeak

Wittard = Lizard

Erdinger (insert angelic choir here)

Thanks Ron! This is as good as it gets.

Lava (Wava) the newest member of the Borton family

Pretty black cocker spaniel puppy - We had the honor of celebrating the "first poo" on the play room floor. Special stuff.

Barney Flats Oatmeal Stout

Thanks to Roy for the delicious hand-carried oatmeal stout and the excellent innaugural ping pong tourney.

we're back...

Surfed this am with roy - we caught some fun lefts at sleepy hollows before the wind came up. K and the kids went to Tricia's to help with the garage sale. They did pretty well - finally sold the old play table that I built for the kids (was actually a little sad to see that go) and some other stuff. We finally got the computer running again and now have enough hard drive space to store either the entire library of congress or a week's worth of pics and high def wide screen digital video from our vacation...

iBlog

This is pretty cool - With blogger you can register your iPhone and send txt messages that are posted on the blog. Dangerous.