here follows a google chat snippet from last night as i pondered starting the multi dvd pack of lost - the complete first season that chris mundell** lent me. me: so do you watch lost? Martyn: funny. ha ha. [dry hollow laugh] i try not to, but wife sucks me in. why,...

so i converted my macbook pro into a wacintel laptop today. it was a snap to install microsoft windows xp on the macbook using apple's beta bootloader called boot camp . here are some photos of the fun including a shot of my macbook executing the famous and much loved...

i got to witness the ancient art of falconry first hand yesterday. i went hunting very close to my home with this goshawk and its owner dave.** the goshawk perched on top of utility poles and waited for bunnies or ducks to be flushed by dave and i. after 2 hours or...

Tad Wagner will be showing a selection of photos at Buffalo Records in Ventura throughout the month of April. There will be a reception Saturday April 1st from 7-9 pm. Mark Regester (KCSB 91.9FM's "Night Shift at the Thrill Factory") will be spinning tunes. Be there!...

i pulled some photos from kim doubleday and barry hoffert's wedding and rehearsal bbq to make a book... while i was at it i put the pages into a slideshow... [flv:hoffert.flv 640 480]

i revisited my digital pinhole camera project, this time armed with better material for the pinhole and a nikon d200 instead of the canon 10d. i ordered some .002 in brass shim stock from McMaster-Carr, purveyors of everything. basically, you take a body cap, make a...

welcome makers! thanks to peter, i appear to have received an extreme make over 🙂 the 35mm holga mods below were posted on the make blog 😉 Rocking on the ocean Sucking up the sea Every bird flies over me We have Hips and Makers We have Hips and Makers We have a good...

we took the kids up the pass to east camino cielo to play in the snow yesterday. it actually snowed on us while we were up there, we all had a blast! (snow in santa barbara is a big deal, it even made the front page of the local paper)

due to a power distribution error, zulu, the server that hosts zinkwazi.com was able to take a much needed rest for about 12 hours. power and ethernet have now been restored and all appears to be operating as normal 🙂

i integrated my pixelpost photoblog with google maps! there is now a "map all" link in the navigation bar and a "geo map" link under images that have co-ordinates in the pixelpost database... here are examples of the map fully zoomed in and zoomed all the way out......

chris buckpitt gave me a bag containing 35 rolls of expired 35mm film and 20 rolls of expired 120 film! my holga will be very well fed for quite a while 🙂 thanks bucket! (pronounced boo-kay) * note: i will gladly send you my shipping address if you too would like to...

kim and i went on a date last night to see tad wagner play an opening set for petracovich at reds coffee house. a fun time was had by all.  here are some photos...

we took the kids to disneyland for my birthday 🙂 it turns out that mid week and mid february are a great combo for short lines and warm weather.

i just released v0.9.6 of phpslideshow. the lateset version includes javascript image preloading... view the demo and then head over to the download page to grab a copy of v0.9.6.

so ryan turned 21 this weekend which means that 1) he can taste alcohol for the first time and 2) he can buy a handgun. as part of the extensive festivities, we went shooting up on camino cielo today...