No birds yet

We check every day, but have yet to see birds at our feeder or on our house. Where are they? I had speculated that perhaps they were all gone for winter, but then I saw a whole tree of perfectly sized birds right outside our front door. So, maybe we miss them, time wise, or maybe we've got to wrong kind of food. Any suggestions? We'll keep watching.

The birdhouse is up!

Zoey and I love looking for birds together out of the front window. Luckily, Britney and Zoey made me this excellent bird house for Christmas! Now we can watch for our friend the Black Phoebe. Hopefully we have enough bugs around for him to eat, but at least he'll have a good perch, right?

Thanks Girls!

Back to blogging

well, i haven't been here in a long time. lets see if i can make it back. here's what i've done most recently at work. i animated the little mini tanks. enjoy.

More Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Info

Hand, pt 2

so, i'm wondering if i can embed this and save people the trouble of going to the website, and still get the views counted. . . we'll see. . .

Hand

so, i got a bee in my bonnet about a month ago, and made a spot for the Doritos Superbowl Ad Contest. Check it out. Share it with others. Dortios will pick their top 6 ads, then, starting in January, America will vote for their favorite. The team and i pulled off this spot in about 4 weeks, all told (one week pre productions, 3 weeks production), and i'm proud of what we've done. everybody put forth a superb effort. thanks guys!

to see it, click the link above, or here: http://www.crashthesuperbowl.com/#/video/4057 skip the intro, and it'll be there. sadly, the website for this contest is one of the most obnoxious sites of all time.

little chicken

5 months, 5 cans!

you may recognize the above right picture from this post. well, after Britney posted some excellent then and now pictures, some people wanted to know how Zoey stacked up against the cans at 5 months. well, one can a month isn't too shabby.

Hilarious

i can't not chuckle when i see this face. best pic yet.

Holga

so, for mothers day I got Britney a Holga. Like any good husband, I then promptly took it out to take pictures. Britney has taken some too, when she uploads them, i'll post a link.

*edit* britney's pics here

Dodger Dogs

went to Mormon night at Dodger Stadium. we sat in the all you can eat section near friends, ate dogs, watched ball, and had a generally excellent time. Britney posted nicely about it, but i couldn't help but mention it. mostly cause i wanted an excuse to post a picture of my baby girl :)

Madeline

went up to Utah for Madeline's blessing. who can believe that Dan is a dad? probably the same people that can believe that I am.

i've got more pictures here. britney has lots of great ones here.

The Happenings

well, lots had been happening since the last we spoke. we've had mothers day, fathers day, i turned 31 , every event made the more wonderful by my lovely wife and beautiful daughter. . .. we've been visiting, we've been visited. work has been happening, projects around the house and otherwise have been nearing completion, and Zoey gets bigger and more fun every day.

WINNER!

that's right.  after a couple of hours an one minor bit of trouble shooting, i am now typing this on the machine you see pictured above.  thanks to "mechdrew" at the MyDellMini forum, and nearly idiot proof instructions, not to mention the files i needed to make booting to my USB drives work, i now have a Hackintosh Vostro a90.  

i even uploaded my picture from the SD card in the SD card reader.  just one of the many (mini?) reasons to build your own.  (no, Britneys new Macbook doesn't have an SD card reader built in, how about THAT!?)  and it only cost about $350.  250 for the netbook from Dell Small Business, and 100 for OSX on Amazon. 

has my inner geek been satiated?  sure.  for now.  untill i upgrade the ram to 2gb for, like, 25 bucks.  BOO YAH!

Mini Monolith

It's here!

The a90 has arrived looking sleek in it's all black case. I took I to work to test out the Ubuntu OS that came pre installed, and let's be honest, it's not bad for a Linux OS. For a fleeting moment I even considered giving it a go. Yeah, untill I tried to play a quicktime on the computerweb (Linux and QT don't get along. Odd since OSX is built on a Linux kernel). Thus, my resolve is solidified, OSX here we come!

Tonight, we'll see how good I am at following directions . . .
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Yeah, that's the real deal

oh man . . . oh man . . . oh man . . .

Movie Trailers - Movies Blog

Obsessions

well, what's up internet. i've got a couple of new obsessions -

1 - making my baby smile

2 - squirrel suits
3 - hackintosh

Britney is better at 1 than me.
Squirrel suits are apparently hard to come by, for a one day rental in LA.
and my inner geek is freaking out beacause i have to wait a month for my Vostro a90 to show up. thanks Dell . . .thanks for NOTHING!

Fixit Week, pt. 1

Check it out-thanks to the generosity of my brother (Chris donated the faucet) and the help of my father (it was definitely a two man job) , Britney got a new kitchen faucet!

The hardware is really nice, the assembly was relatively simple, and it was a great excuse to get a new tool! Hooray!
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mi amigo, Rob, needs your help

dear kind friend,

my man Rob has made it to the finals in a contest of creativity. if you would be so kind as to go here: http://www.melrosemaccontest.com/vote.php and vote for his song, #7 "So Close" , you would be a kind friend indeed.

if he wins he gets a bunch of gear to enhance the production of more creative endeavors.

thanks you,
me

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRITNEY!

well, it's been a big year, and here you are at the anniversary of your birth. i hope today is cool for you, since i had to go to work instead of hanging out, and i cant throw you a big party. maybe next year?

here are some pictures of you that i love, from the last year (plus one from a little before).




HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

you are super cute, and i love you :) <3

Bake Master

Luckily for us, Britney's sister Kim came to help with the baby for a couple of weeks. "lucky why?" you ask? Well, not only is she the mother of 4 (loads of practical experience) , she is super helpful around the house, she's not bad for conversation, and she apparently loves to bake us treats, as evidenced by the above picture.

Shown here she is baking some super tasty smores cookie bars, that Brit found on Jill's blog (billiej.blogspot.com). She also made some killer stuffed cupcakes. Raspberry mouse is delicious. I probably are a dozen of them myself in, like, 2 days.

Last time she was here she baked some excellent coconut cupcakes. Mmmmm . . . Coconut. . .

Needless to say, i'm going to have a hard time shedding my excess 30 lbs. While she's around. Thanks Kim!

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