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japan, day…errr, today

i woke up this morning to find that it was raining! the route that i was walking to work takes about 15 minutes from the hotel to the office. 15 minutes of rain was not what i had in mind for fun.
oh, convenience stores here reign king. i haven’t seen a single [...]

japan, day 29837

i don’t know what day it is, but i’m still in the office and i’m pissed.

in japan, day 1

i’ve been in japan now for…i don’t even know, maybe 4 days now? life here has been pretty hectic. there is so much craziness going on here, i don’t even know where to begin.
well, let’s start at the beginning.
the flight into japan was pretty uneventful. i got the first row of the [...]

coolest thing since meat

paul just showed this to me. man, this is going to be the end of it for me…

emerald bay camping - mt. tallac

i went camping with a ton of people this weekend at emerald bay in tahoe. we went on a hike to climb mt. tallac. it was a GRUELING 5 mile hike that has an elevation change of 3000 feet to the summit. a 10 mile hike is usually no sweat for me, [...]

going to japan

i’m going to japan this weekend for a little over a week. i’m doing some handset porting and code implementation with some japanese handsets. did you know that there appears to be only three cell phone providers in japan? i guess it’s a pretty small nation so you can’t have the dozens [...]

hotter than hawt

those batteries that i was talking about a few posts ago? yeah, one set lasted me through the ENTIRE shoot. that’s hawt.

so slow…

i’ve been really slow and lazy about adding a comment feature to my gallery. i guess i have just been a little reluctant to add the code because i wasn’t sure how many community features i really wanted to add to the gallery. a part of me wants to rewrite sites like flickr [...]

sharpcast shoot

adam referred me to do a shoot for sharpcast’s launch party hosted with gigaOM. i asked christi to be my assistant and we set up one stationary shooting booth for portraits and then i roved around the crowd taking pictures of the event. it was pretty fun and i think i got some [...]

diving at breakwater

i went scuba diving in montery over the weekend. i have only been diving in warm, tropical waters so the thought of diving in cold water scared me. people kept telling me that it is freezing there and visibility is awful.
it wasn’t nearly as cold as i thought it was going to be, [...]