Archive for June, 2010
June 28th, 2010 by alephnaught
Image transfers
Aviva has been trying out using image transfers as an underlying part of her latest artwork; this involves copying images onto special “paper” and then using turpentine to transfer the resulting decal onto canvas. Since I know how to use Photoshop, I scan and muck up the images (mostly reducing contrast and blurring them a […]
June 27th, 2010 by alephnaught
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.
June 26th, 2010 by alephnaught
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 […]
June 25th, 2010 by alephnaught
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 […]
June 20th, 2010 by alephnaught
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. […]
June 13th, 2010 by alephnaught
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 […]
June 13th, 2010 by alephnaught
June 12th, 2010 by alephnaught
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 […]
June 6th, 2010 by alephnaught
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 […]
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+Bob Hays
- I'm a father and husband, have two schipperkes, like to read, compose music, travel. And I manage a couple software development teams at DIRECTV.
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June 30th, 2010 by alephnaught