date night tonight. we attended the opening for paul myers "unsettled" photography exhibit in ventura and then headed back to santa barbara for a double date with heather and trevor, aka heath and kevin 🙂

we spent a great weekend in vista with sophia and jordana. - photos from legoland - photos from hanging out - photo of sean seconds after the "wallet incident" and seconds before he had to climb over the barrier into the water... 🙂

mike robinson and "walnut plug" rocked dargan's last night! it was a fun show. they shredded despite having formed the band just a couple of weeks earlier... photos here...

gerg's parents, grandparents and a bunch of brookies gathered yesterday at brooks' ventura campus where gerg used to work to dedicate a bench in his memory.   [gallery...

14 kids and a handful of dads in the desert adds up to one grand adventure! 3 sunscreen applications per day, a hat, lots of water and s'mores kept all the kids happily frenetic 🙂 photos: joshua tree part 1 - lizard catching, rock climbing and an archaeological dig....

brooks is hosting a silent auction to help bryan watt (a brooks alum working with dri) to raise $20K to build a school for kids in laos. silent auction poster pdf. Read more about Bryan and his work. i donated two diana prints to the cause...

i created a game called "flinch" for the company picnic... the game relied on the high tensile strength of 1/8" polycarbonate (which looks like plexiglass but is much stronger.) we started out with tennis balls but soon moved on to golf balls, a baseball, blocks of...

macey turned six this week. she got a new bike without training wheels!

the hordes descended on el capitan state beach for the annual birthday campout. Here are some photos: Part I - friday night at the rogers' and saturday at the beach Part II - camp fire and chilling at el cap

last weekend i headed down to vista - shaun and i built a teak memorial bench for gerg that will be installed at our ventura campus. [gallery link="file"...

we recently purchased a car and inadvertently discovered a very powerful negotiating tool: small kids. small kids have the attention span of 37 seconds which results in a lot of bouncing off the walls, running around the sales floor and asking for balloons. there is...

dave gilbert, greg's dad, has set up "the gerg foundation" to give scholarships to westmont (where greg attended college) computer science students. you can find out more by visiting the gergfoundation.org website. the foundation website is also where all future info...

although i dug a 75 foot long trench in the backyard with "help" from the kids, we stil managed to have some fun. i whipped up a few little boats that the kids floated down the rarely running "creek" behind our house... and here are a few photos taken as tad clark got...

during the Democratic Presidential Primary Debate a few days ago, barack obama made a statement that resonates with me re: the war... i downloaded the video from cnn.com and cut out the 20 second "video byte" which you can watch below... "I don't want to just end the...

to close the loop on the collards' tree adventure: everything is fine 🙂 the Glendale City Attorney dropped all charges against mike and ann.

some photos of the madness 🙂

i paused in sunnyvale on my drive from santa barbara to sonoma. dan lives in sunnyvale so it was the perfect place for a break! i took photos. here is a slideshow of images taken at the san jose kendo dojo. and a few extra random images hanging with dan.

my department (information technology) held an "open house" at work this week. it would have been rather blah had ban not brought his wii 🙂 needless to say, we had fun. photos of the event it@brooks retrospective

some big swells rolled into santa barbara this week... here are photos from rincon on december 4th and sandspit on december 5th.