nicole and matt celebrated their upcoming wedding with an, erm..., sumo wrestling shower... 🙂 here are some photos from the celebration

anthony has updated his automatic scoresheet for the upcoming 2007 rugby world cup in france! you can download a copy of this cool excel spreadsheet here...

the tubbs were in town for a weekend of santa barbara sand and sun. here are the photos... check out these time warp photos from their last weekend visit.

we had a blast with the cousins in town for a week, lots of sunscreen, dirt and giggling 🙂 cousins visit part i, computer games and modeling cousins visit part ii, rope swing and bounce house cousins visit part iii, sunsets and airports

the denmarks (via the rogers 🙂 ) hooked us up with a fun vacation in mammoth. here are a bunch of images from the trip: mammoth trip part I, fish and dandelions mammoth trip part II, margaritas and meadow walks mammoth trip part III, lakes, ice cream, dan's boil and...

several years after my brother anthony and i completed our coast to coast usa bike ride my dad sent me a newspaper clip of a ride he did in 1958 when he was 17.my dad (william lawler, on the left) and his friend michael barton cycled from salisbury in rhodesia to the...

kim got me a cool radio controlled helicopter for father's day... here are some photos of it in action, be sure to check out the last few images 😉

only three kids showed up today for the final ballet class of the session. it was fun nonetheless...

macey wrapped up her short ballet career ("ballet is too slow, i want to do gymnastics") this weekend with a dress rehearsal on friday and performance on sunday. cute stuff!

after a large number of unsolicited emails to all his friends and friends of friends of friends, chris mundell pulled off a win! 🙂 here is a slideshow of chris picking up the guitar that he won on KTYD’s Early Show Jingle contest.

efny forwarded me this absolutely amazing video of life in africa... listen closely for some classic sith ifrican accents 🙂

here is a slideshow of images from this year's birthday campout at el capitan state beach...

if you are in the santa barbara area be sure to check out jarrett gorin's photography exhibit on state street. jarrett has 10 images on display at the de la guerra starbucks on state street. drink starbucks + look at photos = heaven 🙂 note: we will also be meeting at...

chris mundell submitted this funny video "resume" for the pizza hut vp of pizza job. please head over to the pizza hut voting booth and cast your vote, if chris wins i hope to benefit by proximity to a years worth of free pizza 🙂 [update: chris did not win 🙁 ]

one problem that i have with my new apple tv is that, erm, i don't actually have a tv that works with it... nonetheless, i managed to have quite a lot of fun with the nifty little box today. after some minor surgery, i was able to ssh in as root and poke around. apple...

i took some photos during macey's ballet class last weekend, she is really in to it. they are learning a dance routine for a performance in june 🙂

if you have visited my photo of the day blog in the past few months there is a strong chance that the image for that day would not load for you. initially i thought that the problem was on my server so i swiched out hard drives, upgraded the OS and other not-so-fun...

it looks like i'll be mailing a couple of prints to folks for the february challenge 🙂 the good news is that there is going to be a march challenge for those of you who want to get in on the action. if you want to join in, send me an email with the info listed on the...

if you are looking for a way to lay your hands on a zinkwazi.com photo of the day print AND you want to have some fun, then you may want to check out the zinkwazi.com february challenge!

i got the nike plus ipod attachment for my nano. it's a cool little gadget that keeps track of the stats while you run and then shows you graphs etc of your progress. check out my run page for a peek at my run history...