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Web development projects
This week I finished building two new web sites for a couple of good friends. The first was for Trish Geyling, indefatigable mom to little Rudy. My goal was to get an easy to use e-commerce site set up quickly using existing photography assets. If you need to pick...
2011 AYSO – U8
Phoebe also had a great soccer season including scoring the winning goal in a tough 1-0 victory over the Pink Panthers. 🙂
2011 AYSO season – U10
Trevor and I coached Maddie and Macey's U10 AYSO team this year. The Killer Bees were a great team, we had a ton of fun and even won more than half of our games 🙂
Horses at Circle Bar B for Phoebe
Phoebe turned 8 and is appropriately infatuated with horses! This weekend we took a surprise trip up to the Circle Bar B Ranch for a very enjoyable jaunt thru the chaparral. Click here for more photos...
4th grade Tall Ships trip…
I spent the night on the Spirit of Dana Point this week with Macey's 4th grade class. Not much sleep but a ton of fun 🙂
Current favorite song: Sail by AWOLNATION
I am hooked on the song "Sail" by AWOLNATION that was featured in an insane video floating around the interwebs. Listen: [audio:http://www.zinkwazi.com/music/10_Sail.mp3|artists=AWOLNATION|titles=Sail] And if you haven't seen the amazing Jeb Corliss video, go watch it...
HAPPy Arduino data collection code
I posted my HAPPy Capsule Arduino sketch to github. This is the code that flew in our first successful mission and provided the data in the following pretty graph: And here's the code: // High Altitude Payload Project Arduino sensor array. // http://happycapsule.com...
Video from near space
Last weekend some friends and I launched a weather balloon from Point Magu Rock. Attached to the top of the payload was a video camera and this is what it saw... For more photos and video, visit http://www.happycapsule.com/
Mad Men party
Sarah turned a whopping 30 so we celebrated Mad Men style with alcohol, cigarettes and deviled eggs 🙂
Current favorites – The Helio Sequence and Deer Tick
Two great songs on repeat lately! (plus one bonus track...) The Helio Sequence "Shed Your Love" is awesome, some sweet lyrics: [audio:http://www.zinkwazi.com/music/05 Shed Your Love.mp3|artists=The Helio Sequence|titles=Shed Your Love] And while we're on THS, check...
Bill Dalziel
Today I had an inspirational encounter with local Santa Barbara artist Bill Daziel at his home studio. Bill gave me three pieces of his art and spent time talking to me about art and life - what a fun experience. You can see some of Bill's art at dalzielart.com and...
Staycation on Paradise Rd…
We spent a fun weekend in a cabin up on Paradise Rd. in the Los Padres Forest just 25 minutes from home. It rained a lot which kept us close to the fire and coffee and each other 🙂 Thanks to Kim and Barry for the hookup!
Gabe Cano is famous – the Hipstamatic Cano Cafenol film!
Friend of Zinkwazi and co-owner of the indefatigable Color Services, Gabe Cano, can finally rest on his laurels! The cool folks over at Hipstamatic created a new film and named it after him! The Cano Cafenol film also takes part of it's name from the famous coffee...
Intervalometer and temperature logging on Canon G9 with CHDK!
I installed the Canon Hack Development Kit - CHDK - on my Canon Powershot G9 camera. CHDK is an amazing Open Source project that provides an alternate firmware for Canon Powershot cameras. With CHDK installed, you can write scripts to control virtually every aspect of...
Foodie Review PDX
Eater extraordinaire and friend, Daniel "DJ" Painter has launched a fun web site reviewing the food and drink wonders to be found in Portland and other places he happens upon. We recently caught up over an excellent beer at the Telegraph Brewing Company - good times...
2010 photo wrap up 🙂
2010 was a super year, click here for a bigger version of a photo collage of some of the many friends, family and moments that made the year wonderful!
Awesome rainy day project with the kids!
The kids, grandpa Bill and I made some boats and got completely drenched floating them down the creek behind our house. The most amazing thing was that we drove down to try and find them and about an hour after launch we spied one of them sailing past the airport...
Martins
Some photos from a quick photo shoot with the Martins at Devereaux Point.
AYSO Mud Bowl Finale
Phoebe's team, the Blue Sharks, ended their undefeated season on a high note in a fun muddy game that saw more good plays and awesome goals 🙂
First AYSO season…
The kids had a great time in their first year of AYSO soccer. It was fun watching them improve as the season progressed and to see the teams gel 🙂 Here are some photos of Macey's team, Purpleishes, in action and Phoebe's Blue Sharks getting it done!
A tip of the hat to Matt Steele by Calvin Marshall
A cool and subtle homage to Matt Steele in the recently released Calvin Marshall movie by Gary Lundgren - a few scenes included a framed copy of Matt's portrait in the background.
