Archive for June, 2007

Macy’s Rain Gear

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

This poor kid's mother made him wear a Macy's shopping bag as a rain jacket. That's just plain wrong!

Pretty & Smart

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

One of my favorite Mac productivity applications is Quicksilver. It's awesome. This afternoon I was changing some settings when I clicked on the "About Quicksilver" menu item and this gorgeous screen popped up. It's the most elegant "about" screens I've ever seen. The Lao-Tze quote is pretty deep, too. ...

106,456,367,669

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

According to a rough scientific study, the total number of people to have inhabited Earth between 8,000 B.C. and the year 2002 is somewhere near 106,456,367,669. If you count the extra 702.8 million people born since 2002, the total becomes roughly 107,159,216,169. That's 107.1 billion people! ...

Good Quotes

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere. - Sun TzuNearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham LincolnHappiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. - George WashingtonOur scientific power has outrun our spiritual ...

Sample Slideshow - Polar Bears

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

I wanted to test uploading video clips to the website, so I thought I'd start with a slideshow. It's a quick run-through of about 1/3 of the polar bear photos I took this last weekend. The images will probably go by pretty quickly like a flip-book. Enjoy. (Now that I've ...

More Fun at the Oregon Zoo

Monday, June 18th, 2007

Codi and I took a break Sunday morning and went to the Oregon Zoo . We like going there because we're 99% guaranteed some good photos. Here are a few that I took. Codi will have some good pics to share soon.Cougars asleep in their den. How frikin cute ...

Evergreen

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

I was making some BBQ shrimp last night (in the rain) on our deck and I noticed that the light was hitting an evergreen in a particular way that made it sparkle. I got up close and noticed that the sparkling was due to tiny water droplets that had been ...