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Site tweaks

As opposed to generating a new masthead imageset every visit, I decided to generate image files every hour. This will result in less server load, but more importantly, will fix the first-visit race condition I was seeing in most browsers. Before, the CSS file was spawning a request for the …

Barnacles, La Jolla, 2004

My business partner and I traversed the cliffs and walked the beach during some slack time on a show in La Jolla. While we talked tech and shop, I shot a bunch of pictures of this amazing place. These are nothing like the barnacles I’m used to seeing in Florida, …

A Rose is a Rose

In Sonoma, they use roses and many other plants to bring in insects which are good for grape production. This particular rose was photographed outside the Benziger winery.

Smoking Section, Santa Monica Pier

My friend, Jeff Polly, demonstrating the largesse California is willing to show cigarette smokers in public areas. I’m an ex-smoker myself, courtesy of this treatment, so I can laugh at both sides. I think this solution is a bit extreme though. Can you imagine a group of twenty or so …

Louis and Me in Tahoe

Lake Tahoe, March 13th 2004. This was a really beautiful place. The snow was thawing, creating many streamlets all over the property. I tripped and almost impaled myself on a piece of rebar. Good stuff.

A New Look…

Well, I’ve finally taken the plunge and revamped the site for the first time in, er, at least a year. Notably, the picture above, which smears in four directions, is chosen randomly from my gallery, and then munged around with php and its’ gd extensions to pick a random square …