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Quotes from "Bonk"

While on vacation in Costa Rica, I picked up Bonk at SFO to read since I forgot to pack a book of my own selection. There are a few pretty funny lines in the book that made me laugh so I thought I'd transcribe a few of them:

page 241 - related to loss of time:
"Orgams appears to be a state not unlike that of the alien abductees one always hears about, coming to with messy hair and a chunk of time unaccounted for."

page 252 - a pretty solid description of men's behaviour:
"I give you a sentence, my favorite sentence in the entire oeuvre of Alfred Kinsey, from Sexual Behavior in the Human Female: 'Cheese crumbs spread in front of a copulating pair of rats may distract the female, but not the male.'"

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If you would like to check out my reviews of where we stayed and what we did in Costa Rica, check out my TripAdvisor page.

Virgin America

I really like the animation and production of the Virgin America safety announcement - just flew them for the first time this weekend and really like they way they do things:

This was definitely a good brand experience and I think they'll be popular if they can keep delivering...

mmm... Arby's!

A shot of me during the Arby's Olympics this week!

MEMORY OF A RICKSHAW RIDE

MEMORY OF A RICKSHAW RIDE

Rainwater dripping on my head
In a covered rickshaw.

Aroma from jade-orchid flowers
Emitting from grandma’s silky pouch
Overflowing the enclosed rickshaw chamber.

Jingling jade bracelets around grandma’s arm
Dancing to the turn of the rickshaw rhythm
And echoing to tinkling of the rickshaw bell.

Rainwater dripping down from my head
Onto grandma’s peach-shaped shoes;
They are pretty and tiny
Fitting on grandma’s bound feet.

- by my Dad, and inspired by memories stirred from a National Geographic article on Rickshaws in the April 2008 issue

favorite graffiti

I always loved this 80s video game graffiti that's on an alley near Van Ness and Market. I ride by it so many times and finally hopped off my bike to take a snap of it...

Dammit!

Damn they found me!!!!!

Threadless

So you may have seen me wearing this T-shirt quite a lot - it's from Threadless, which is a pretty cool site - you can order it still but it's almost sold out!

artwork of me!

I had this posted as a comment on my MySpace page by gonçalves. I don't think I've ever been drawn like this before so I got a kick out of it. Can anyone figure out who everyone else is? I think the top right is Debbie Bramwell - I'll leave the rest to you all!

Where in the world...

So I was driving back to my hotel room and came across this and it looked kinda like a foreign landscape. It's just Georgetown, CO but it looked a bit like something you might find somewhere else...

Here we go again...

Yep, another Arnold and another weekend of no sleep! Congrats to Yaxeni Oriquen for setting the record on the women's side for the most titles in the show... more to come later this weekend!

I Yeti SF!

So at Wondercon this past weekend, Gama Go had a booth and they had this dope shirt but it was all sold out in Men's sizes. Damn you Yeti!!!!!!!!

Playa del Carmen wrap...

Well, I forced myself to only carry my point-and-shoot camera when I was in Playa del Carmen except when I was actually working of course and so I didn't take too many shots, but here's a quick little recap. You can find more if you look at my posts on TripAdvisor too.

So the requisite first shot - and of course it's lovers in the water - blech!

- the Mad Cow cafe - love it!

- I was amped to go see some Lucha Libres battle it out but got sidetracked at Kool (below) hanging out with our crew who eventually shut the place down...

]]> I love wandering around the side streets, etc and this was a tortilleria I found mostly by it's loud sound of the giant conveyor belt looking thing that grinds up the corn I guess:

The little purse shop below had wonderful colors. This German couple rode up on their bikes to check it out while I was taking the shot:

My favorite restaurant was Taqueria El Fogon at 30th Ave near 14th I think - I had no idea what I was ordering but got this melted cheese with peppers - yum yum yum:

The best hangover food - once again I didn't know what the hell I was ordering:

And finally they say Mexico City is very smoggy - when I looked out my window I saw the perfect example of that - the sky was gorgeous and blue above the clouds, but smoggy and yellow below. I wish I used one of my 'real' cameras for better dynamic range:

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So just added a review of the wonderful place I'm staying in Playa del Carmen, the Luna Blue Hotel and Garden but only took pix with my point-and-shoot right now so I will have to take some shots after the wedding since I'm conserving the batteries (yes I didn't bring both chargers!)

On site at Silver Oak...

Here I am with an umbrella above the computer to protect it from the condensation on the inside of the tent at the new Silver Oak Cellars winery in Oakville, CA. We were setting up on a drab, dreary, wet day in Napa so the tent, even though there was heating, didn't hold in the heat that much where I was printing. It didn't matter though as we were able to do the shoot quite well and had a good time with it. We're definitely looking forward to the summer release when it'll be sunny and probably too hot!

Photoshop techniques

I hate it when I create an action and then lose it. After I upgraded to CS3 I lost a few actions that I thought I had saved, but one was a technique I really liked using to tone and give a more raw effect to photos.

I just messed around for a bit to try and replicate it - not quite there, but hey if you only spend five minutes you can only expect so much...