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Once again, after years away, I decided to wage war against Wordpress and my blog setup with a template update. I also made a feeble attempt at connecting my main pages of lopolis.com to the design and to use Wordpress as a CMS. I’ll spare the gory details, but [...]

Finally, here’s the re-cap of the Olympic Peninsula trip I took with my parents in the first week of September. Words don’t do the sights a lot of justice, so I’ll keep this brief and point you back to all the photos I’ve been posting in the past few weeks (which I’m sure most [...]

Since starting at the big daddy of photography, I’ve certainly been surrounded by imagery. Given that photography was a hobby of mine before then, I was a little worried that the interest would wane after being around photos all day long. Thankfully not.

Some of the photo stuff I’m enjoying:

Linked before, The Big [...]

Yup, I’ve only posted here a handful of times all summer. But apparently my http://delicious.com/lopolisdel.icio.us links started auto-posting to my blog again. They had stopped for a while and then maybe around the time of the del.icio.us redesign it came back to life. Note that del.icio.us now redirects to delicious.com. Late [...]

That’s right. Undefeated champions of the 2008 Dodgeball Tournament.

Logo designed by Darren/Clonny

Low point:
Car breaking down on the I-405 exit ramp on I-90, while on the way to the Sub Pop 20th Anniversary Music Festival, and waiting 2 hours for a tow truck.
Especially frustrating:
I just had my car serviced 3 weeks ago for the big 100,000 mile recommended maintenance and didn’t hear any mention of the hoses [...]

Friday evening I was on my way to meet a friend at the bar Smith in our neighborhood and upon rounding the corner I saw a firetruck, ambulance and a large crowd of people gathered outside. As I got closer I noticed there was something not-quite-right about the garage door that usually covers the [...]

I finally caught up on all the photos I took while visiting New York City last week. Here’s the main batch with the usual assortment of street art, buildings and urban scenes. I also put together a small set of New York City standpipes in the tradition of my ongoing obsession with utility [...]

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone! I thought this Christmas card from Ed Rondthaler to my Grandmother was a creative homage to his legacy with language and letters…

By now it isn’t really news to most of you that read this, but I decided that it’s time to move on from WhitePages.com. Last Friday was my official last day. It was a great 3 year (and 2 month) run, and I learned a ton. I held three different positions, [...]

A little late on the posting here, but a couple weekends ago I flew back to Connecticut to attend my 10-year high school reunion in a whirlwind of a trip. It was the shortest trip back East I’ve done (flew out Friday, flew back Sunday), and I don’t think I want to do it [...]

There is an unwritten rule that if you are the unlucky recipient of a middle seat, as a consolation you get full use of both middle armrests.
Unfortunate exception:
A polite old grandmother is sitting next to you knitting for the entire flight.

About a month ago I got a message on Flickr from a Japanese publishing company, CONEX Asia Network, requesting to use a photo of mine in a business magazine of theirs. Even more surprising was that they wanted to use it for Dubai Business Today which, “focuses on informing Japanese businessmen the various [...]

Having gone to school in Rhode Island, I was exposed to the somewhat odd beverage of Coffee milk. Exactly as Wikipedia describes, it is a syrup-flavored milk similar in consistency to chocolate or strawberry milk. I knew it originated in Rhode Island and was common there, but didn’t realize it was so popular [...]

This week I got back from an 11 day vacation out of Seattle, back home to CT for a while and then down to New York City. Each part of the trip complimented the other perfectly, from the quiet rural setting of the old homestead to the hustle and bustle of the city. [...]