San Francisco @ Disneyworld

Morning glory

Moon in a morning glow. Leaving for Orlando this AM. :)

Sunday Sunset

Enjoying a beautiful sunset with Marty and Marcia

Bonita Beach

View from our rental house - awesome

Ft Myers Airport

This is the nicest airport I've ever seen

Florida barrier islands

Clouds are cool

Boys on flight

Jack's birthday board

Jack is geeked - in addition to a very cool Lego police wonderland and
other goodies - he scored a custom shortboard "kid fish". This board
used to hang over the window in the boys' room. When we switched the
kids' rooms around the board started collecting dust. We chopped the
nose and uncle Randy shaped it up, glassed the new nose, and repaired
all the dings. A nice all-over gloss coat later it looks AWESOME!
Thanks Randy! Happy Birthday Jack!

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...