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How @purplehayz tweets

Introduction This post was started because I get asked regularly if I ever sleep. I do, typically from 10P Pacific time til about 4:30A eac...

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We bought a house

We finally bought a house in SoCal – its not as close to Los Angeles as we wanted (its in Woodland Hills), but its big and its ours; ...

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ComicCon 2009, Thursday: Pictures

My son Nathan and I attended the Thursday opening of ComicCon 2009; we had a great time, we walked the whole exhibit hall floor. I got a c...

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A bunch of pictures taken on my Blackberry phone

Just a bunch of pictures I took with my Blackberry over the last month or so; no one category deserved a separate post, so here’s a g...

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Visit to Palm Springs, Wayne Thiebaud retrospective

We visited the Palm Springs Art Museum to see the retrospective of Wayne Thiebaud titled “70 Years of Painting.”  Thiebaud be...

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Make your very own IC earring

My geekiest fashion accessory is my IC earring; I’ve made several because friends have asked (sometimes demanded!) them.  I’v...

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Paper model of Chartres Cathedral – IT’S DONE!

I bought a model to assemble of the famous Chartres Cathedral in the Cathedral gift shop, and this entry will track how I put it together. ...

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June 27th, 2010 by alephnaught

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Iggy loves dogs on TV

Whenever Iggy sees or hears a dog on TV, he stares intently and then starts barking and doing pat-a-cake; this video is the tail end of his reaction to a segment on CBS Sunday Morning on rescuing a dog.
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Pasadena

June 26th, 2010 by alephnaught

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Pasadena

We decided to head to Pasadena on Saturday, so we dropped Iggy at doggy daycare (he loves it there, he runs with the other pups and comes home and sleeps like a log) and drove out to Pasadena.
We started with my goal for the trip – I wanted to see the Hiroshige print show at [...]

Aviva’s studio

June 25th, 2010 by alephnaught

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Aviva’s studio

I’ll be posting pictures here of the progress getting Aviva’s studio addition built (Aviva’s mom wanted me to start this post so she could see – the power of the internet in action!).
First the slab – they had to dig twice because they didn’t go deep enough the first time for the inspector (there are [...]

More photographs

June 20th, 2010 by alephnaught

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More photographs

More pictures I’ve taken this week, mostly with my iPhone; hope you enjoy them!
DirecTV had its Programmer’s Day – the companies that provide our programming bring their swag and set up in tents for a 2 1/2 hour party; it was cool to walk around and check out all the varied content DirecTV provides.
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Iggy chasing his leg

June 13th, 2010 by alephnaught

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Iggy chasing his leg

Basil used to chase his leg when he got excited – breeders have the tails docked on schipperkes when they are very very young puppies because its a breed standard; schipperkes have curly-q spitz tails naturally. I think this practice originated with the canal boats to keep the tails from getting caught in lines; you [...]

A week in pictures

June 13th, 2010 by alephnaught

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A week in pictures

Various pictures I’ve taken this week.

June 12th, 2010 by alephnaught

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Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS and JavaScript

Title: Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript: Making App Store Apps Without Objective-C or Cocoa
Author: Jonathan Stark

Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: O’Reilly Media; 1 edition (January 19, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0596805780
ISBN-13: 978-0596805784

Given Apple’s stance on Adobe Flash, and my desire to eventually display my website in a better way on the iPhone, I picked up [...]

Metldown, Farmer’s Market and Venice Beach + @thegeo & @sinburned & @judemanchu

June 6th, 2010 by alephnaught

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Metldown, Farmer’s Market and Venice Beach + @thegeo & @sinburned & @judemanchu

Today is Nathan’s last day on this visit; he had arranged for us to meet up with @sinburned and @judemanchu at Meltdown, a famous comic book store in LA (in west Hollywood). We shopped and talked, and then headed over to the Farmer’s Market for lunch; we all ended up eating from the Singapore’s Banana [...]

Little Tokyo

June 5th, 2010 by alephnaught

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Little Tokyo

Today I took Nathan down to Little Tokyo so he could shop the anime shops and spend some time with an on-line friend of his that tests games for a living.
I took two videos with my iPhone – the first of a cool sculpture I found in the entry way of a building:
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Tattoos

June 4th, 2010 by alephnaught

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Tattoos

Nathan and I went to Nathan’s Tattoos and Piercing to get tattoos. Nathan designed his own – I started my quest to have the 7 names of god tattooed on me (I got the idea from Knight’s Taqwacores book). The tattoo is Yahweh, the “secret” name for God; there are no vowels and it technically [...]