This morning, I went to check something on my Mac OS X dashboard, which contains several weather widgets for various locations that I care about. One of them is my hometown, Morganton, where my parents still live. So you can imagine my horror when a javascript malfunction in the widget code produced these [...]

I had forgotten this little set of photos from my February trip stateside. One of the participants (the 2008 champion, in fact) of our little golf outing brought a little “dice” game to the party. He pulled out this little black case and proceeded to extract two tiny rubber pigs and set them [...]

Every once in a while a computer application comes along that ends up saving you hours and hours of time over the period you are using it. For the Mac, a good example of this might be Quicksilver. For a developer, it’s an IDE that does extensive refactoring for you. I do [...]

Last Sunday, my inlaws, wife, and I climbed a mountain peak that we can see from our house: El Pico de las Nieves. According to the info panel, there has been some sort of church on the mountain dedicated to the cult of the Virgin of the Snow since 1356. The peak is [...]

After an amazing meal at Laury, my wife, her parents and I took a three hour stroll around Santander to get the digestive juices flowing. It was so nice to have some sunshine finally that I got a little shutter happy and took a bunch of photos. Believe it or not, I’m not [...]

What a weekend! My in-laws came to visit and we spent Saturday in Santander, and on Sunday morning we did something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time. But let’s start with Saturday first. The store where my father-in-law and I bought our suits for our wedding is owned by [...]

I took some photos just now on a grocery errand. It was so sunny when I left the building, but when I turned the corner, I found this dark looming storm cloud ready to pounce on me. If a storm pounces, does that make it cumulonimble?

I know very little about editing photos in Photoshop, and am far from being an expert, but I enjoy playing with it and figuring out how to accomplish the alterations that I’m imagining. Earlier this week, I saw this friend’s awesome photo of a pea pod and thought it would be cool if the [...]

My mother-in-law was diagnosed with sleep apnea a couple years ago and uses one of those machines that blows air into your nose when she sleeps. Several of my parents’ friends have similar diagnoses and machines. Recently, my wife has started telling me that she notices that sometimes, as she listens to me [...]

I introduced my in-laws to my new camera on Sunday. Here are a couple photos from Sunday lunch.