local firefighter hero and friend of zinkwazi.com, eric eacker, has been working on the santa barbara tea fire for the past 3 days. eric was interviewed yesterday by cnn! santa barbara tea fire photos. here is the video: [flv:eric_cnn_111508.flv 576 324] and here is...

  Today for the first, and most likely the only, time in your life you get to actually participate in History. Your grandchildren will ask you how you voted in this election and will, regardless of the outcome, judge you accordingly.

several folks have asked how i do the dual image (diptych) stories that i post once in a while. i made an action in photoshop that makes the process really easy... you can download the diptych action here... and you can take a look at all the diptych images i have...

really digging "dragonhead" by throwing muses, one of my all time favorite bands. i especially like the transition at around 1:25 and then at the 2:01 mark the song just goes off the charts! yes, i'm a nerd 🙂 take a listen for yerself!...

i had the pleasure of shooting video and stills of pastor the reverend karl last night. (for the super secret upcoming release of wwjd.pastorthereverendkarl.com) coincidentally, chris mundell showed up too... here are outtakes from the PRK shoot including a trip to 7...

we went fishing for the first time at los carneros lake. it was fun, macey even landed a 12" bass 🙂 photos.

some folks gathered at the mercury lounge to drink beer and remember matt. photos

we had pizza with matt [just the other night...] it was fun, we ordered woodstock's pizza and watched "live aid '85" on vhs. we laughed at the 80's styles and rockers and at kevin and chris trying to figure out the vcr. we pretty much laughed at everything. everything...

my introduction to kings of leon was when kim and i went to see u2 with matt and kevin at the pond in anaheim. kings of leon opened for u2 and i hated them. i mean, c'mon i was there for u2, not some no-name band! anyway, i recently picked up their "Aha Shake...

i needed to add some text to the end of some lines scattered throughout a large file today and figured out how to do it with one little command in the vi editor 🙂 This will find all lines containing pattern and then append -new to the end of each:  ...

in my defense, her teeth were already quite loose before this afternoon's wrestling "incident" i knocked one tooth right out and the other hung on by a thread for a few dramatic minutes. ice cream seemed to gloss the whole thing over though 🙂 here are photos; viewer...

paul and linda trimmed one of their orange trees and gave us a bunch of oranges. the kids had fun making fresh oj 🙂

chris mundell and i went on a mandate last night to see jack johnson at harder stadium, ucsb. it was a fun show. photos here...

sweet little stella joy arrived this morning. born 8/8/08 at 3:03 PM 🙂 here are some photos...

we spent a couple of fun nights camping with friends at el capitan state beach. kim is due in 19 days... photos: potato gun, sand castles, smores, pancakes, hammock, scotch, boogie boarding and more...