Muni Ride Log – Stevens Trail, Colfax, CA (another link to info about it). I started using the iPhone app “iMapMyRide“. It dumps things back to a website and generates a nice map. Unfortunately, some... [read more]

HDR images can really pull out some highlights that you normally wouldn’t see. Here’s a comparison of an HDR generated by taking a single RAW photo and exporting 3 different exposures from Aperture. I then... [read more]

Louise and I have (somewhat) matching Geared KH 24 Mountain Unicycles: Mine’s rim has horizontal stripes: While Louise’s is a candy-cane:     Unfortunately, the paint job on mine got warn away after one day of... [read more]

I don’t like the idea of killing a tree every year just so we can stick it in our house and put presents under it, so I convinced louise to let us get a live... [read more]

MUNI v1 – Mountain Unicycling Video from Corbin’s Treehouse Productions. High Quality, 22 MB, H.264, AAC encoded. Get QuickTime to play it. Featuring: Chuck, Corbin, Jason, Louise, Bevan and appearances of Kevin. Post on the... [read more]

Here’s the big pile of maple and poplar that I got for the project: Building the face frame was super fast and easy to do with pocket jointery:

I wanted to start work on my built in dressers for the upstairs, but first I needed an out feed table for the tablesaw. I wanted something that doubled as a work space, and added... [read more]

Some pictures from Honduras, hosted on Flickr (one of too many photo sharing sites that I use) HDR picture of the dock in Roatan, Honduras. This picture makes you think. You want to turn your... [read more]

I only took a few pictures. Here they are: Cody doing a kick flip trick off the ramp at Mile’s house. Max, reaching the top. Amazing. Simply amazing! Max trying street moves. A suspension unicycle... [read more]

Louise and I went with Ken, Gabrielle, Mark and Michelle to Honduras to do some diving. We are staying at the Luna Beach resort and have done two days of diving so far. Today was... [read more]

I finally got a geared hub for my 24″ Mountain Unicycle (muni) and gave it a ride last weekend. What a treat! The thing is blastingly fast. I rode a 6-7 mile loop in the... [read more]

Some crafty iPhone art. Taken quite a while ago and not altered.

….built-in “knee wall” dressers for the upstairs! Here’s a couple of pictures from SketchUp. I will give anyone the models, if they are interested in seeing how I designed them. I purchased a bunch of... [read more]

I’ve known all along that Obama would win. I’m glad I was right! I’m sad that Prop 8 passed. Everyone should consider it a sad day for America when we start removing people’s rights and... [read more]

I made a quick movie for the “California Mountain Unicycle Weekend 2008” in San Diego. Here it is! High quality, requires QuickTime or some other H264 decoder: And for you people who like YouTube, horrible... [read more]

Last weekend I drove down my Prius to San Deigo for the annual “California Mountain Unicycle Weekend”. Nathan put some pictures up here: CMW 2008 Here’s me on the top of one of the rides:... [read more]

I’ve been working quite a bit on our upstairs remodel project. I removed an old closet, and installed lighting in the ceiling. This helps tremendously with the look and feel of the room; it was... [read more]

I recently went to the weddings of a few of my friends. Last weekend Tom and Nancy had a “Wedding Camp” celebration, and two weeks ago Andy and Irene got married in their barn. Both... [read more]

Right now! 40 miles

I got a new video game for the Mac – spore! I really wanted to give it a try last night, but my DVD drive stopped working on my MacBook Pro. Luckily, there are known... [read more]

I think I’ll do a few articles on why certain API was introduced in Leopard. I’ll start with one of the new methods in NSTableView: /* Returns the fully prepared cell that the view will... [read more]

No not 3.1 or Xp.

Mmmm coffee!

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I’m quite happy that my work promotes green living.

[Edit: ecto ate this post, so I’m typing it in again!] I discovered that a lot of applications will unnecessarily write to NSUserDefaults. This causes your app to hit the disk when it shouldn’t, and... [read more]

Hmmm pizza! We had a great time riding mr Toads. 3hrs and 15 min– quite fast! Chuck and kevin finished an x large pizza. Louise and I ate only half.

Chuck had a snack on the drive up.

One of the most annoying dialogs in Xcode is the undo warning dialog you get when attempting to undo after a save. I do this all the time, and I hate the warning. Luckily, there... [read more]