3D!
I should have colored the glasses yellow. Did anyone NOT shoot pictures of people wearing 3D glasses today? This shot was taken at a Superbowl party with a bunch of my west coast CMU friends - all Steelers fans.
25 Random Things About Me
There's a meme on Facebook where you post 25 random things about you, and then tag others to do the same. I was tagged today and this is what I posted. 25 Random Things About Me
Alan Parsons Project at the House of Blues
After the NAMM show in Anaheim this week (post and pictures coming soon) Jason and I headed up to Hollywood to catch the Alan Parsons Project at the House of Blues. Alan led the band from a riser at the back of the stage. In addition to being great musicians, each member of the band [...]
More Food
Hot Chocolate - Kevin stole my mug We spent a lot of time cooking this holiday season. Most of our family gifts included homemade breads and other goodies, plus we cooked our usual holiday meals. In honor of our new kitchen, most of my gifts were cookbooks. (The cookbooks are also great photography books!) Highlights [...]
Rolly Pollys
Sarah's grandfather would make Rolly Pollys from scratch on occasion. Though they seem to be a lot like cinnamon rolls, her grandfather would prepare them for dessert. Tonight we did the same. The dough is simple, and more like a crust than bread. Here's his recipe: ROLLY POLLYS 4 cups sifted flour 1/4 teaspoon salt [...]
Pong Pong
I wrote my first full Flash game over the weekend. It's called Pong Pong and you can play it at www.anirama.com/pongpong. It's a simple game. You have two paddles, one that moves vertically along the left wall, and one that moves horizontally along the bottom wall. Balls are served from the upper right corner. Using [...]
Sudoku Solver
I'm a Sudoku addict. There, I said it. In particular, I like to solve them in pen, and without writing down little numbers all over the place. I take pride in a clean and solved sudoku - just correct numbers in their squares. Over time, I developed a straightforward set of algorithms that I step [...]
Moved from Movable Type to WordPress
Hey, it works! I moved my blog from using Movable Type over to WordPress. I had two reasons for wanting to do this. First, I wanted a link at the bottom of the main page to older posts. This seems trivial, but Movable Type builds static pages so it's a lot of work to get [...]
Sleeping happy tonight!
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Clapton’s Guitar
My buddy Tom lent me this book over the summer. It's a wonderful read - you get to know Wayne Henderson, one of the world's premiere guitar builders, as you follow the process of him building a guitar for Clapton. Wayne only builds a handful of guitars a year, and if you happen [...]