th3ph17's brainfood

95 Mostly sci-fi books

2008-12-07T16:49:00.001-08:00

95 Mostly sci-fi booksOriginally uploaded by th3ph17

dr_Panorama1

2008-11-02T20:32:00.001-08:00

dr_Panorama1Originally uploaded by th3ph17almost done with the dining room.

2008-06-15T11:27:00.000-07:00

so i was watering some of the backyard the other night ad it was so strange to look around and think, wow, that brick sitting there is Mine. This place is mine! and the banks, of course, but Mine.we are about 5 days into tearing down old wallpaper, and wondering if i just should have used a sledgehammer and then put up new drywall. The hardest room was plaster walls though...took me 4 hours to

2008-05-23T10:24:00.000-07:00

we are in escrow, and i am having nightmares about paperwork and dotted i's. Literally.

2008-02-17T11:30:00.000-08:00

This is dedicated to my fellow Erudite Tonight bookclub members....Area Eccentric Reads Entire BookGREENWOOD,IN—"Instead of spending hours on YouTube every night, Mr. Meyer, unlike most healthy males, looks to books for gratification," said one psychologist..onion_embed {background: rgb(256, 256, 256) !important;border: 4px solid rgb(65, 160, 65);border-width: 4px 0 1px 0;margin: 10px 30px !

2008-01-22T08:38:00.000-08:00

in santa cruz i had a friend at work, he was even a bigger geek than me. We would talk whenever we had time--and sometimes when we didn't--about the various versions of Dune, art, music, all sorts of crazy books no one else had heard of before.his desk area was surrounded, protected, by shelves full of a magnificent collection of Godzillas and other monsters, robots and super heros.he left work

2008-01-08T08:32:00.000-08:00

so i'm here at work, listening to Cory Doctorow's podcast reading of The Hacker Crackdown, working on organizing some newsletter files--reminds me of organizing magazine files--and preparing to convert our printed newsletter into an html version.then i'll spend a few hours in the studio shooting shirts.anyways, feeling good, confident--smart even. And then...and then...my coffee hit that perfect

2007-11-02T11:46:00.001-07:00

i'm glad it isn't just Me who does this. from XKCD.com,A webcomic of romance,sarcasm, math, and language.

2007-10-30T08:19:00.001-07:00

just like to thank everyone for the great success at our modesto ninja parade! [thanks dana!]Parade Videohere is a pic allen took of me years ago practicing for an earlier parade:

2007-09-16T13:01:00.001-07:00

Well it has been a long while since i posted anything here, so, a quick recap:-tawny graduated, with highest honors for both majors, and college honors.-we moved back to modesto, sharing a house with Allen.-working a new job [obviously, since i moved] that i really dig.-taking pictures again, posting them up at:modesto.smugmug.comthats all for now...edit: thanks erik for catching my missing link!

west cliff photo shoot

2007-04-03T22:59:00.000-07:00

OTA-philvsrobots

2007-02-23T08:50:00.000-08:00

moody gold reflector bounce

2007-02-03T01:38:00.000-08:00

surgerey beard week five

2007-01-29T12:42:00.000-08:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } surgerey beard week five, originally uploaded by th3ph17. I am:Samuel R. "Chip" DelanyFew have had such broad commercial success with aggressively experimental prose techniques.Which science fiction writer

my jedi robe is a hoodie

2007-01-28T10:57:00.000-08:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } my jedi robe is a hoodie, originally uploaded by th3ph17. you may see just another hoodiezip up sweaterneeds to be lint-shaved woolbut this is my jedi cloak.

self

2007-01-26T12:09:00.000-08:00

my new ear bits

2007-01-10T23:24:00.000-08:00

my tawny

2006-12-30T14:25:00.000-08:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } tawny-dec29 053, originally uploaded by th3ph17. so, i do have pics tawny took of me post surgery this time, gory--literally blood running from my ear in little riveluts.but i'm sick of feeling That, and so

2006-12-23T13:34:00.000-08:00

so i'm at home on valium, prednisone, amoxicillin, advil, several inhalants, ear drops, claritin and a healthy dose of stay in bed all day for the next week.i'd rather be dancing. phil the elfthe good news is that this time they went in through my ear canal, rather than cutting the back of my ear and folding it over, so i'm feeling much better than last time.happy holidays!

painting i mailed to portland

2006-12-07T15:23:00.000-08:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } painting i mailed to portland, originally uploaded by th3ph17. http://kirstenacademy.blogspot.com/2006/12/upcoming-events.html

2006-12-06T12:32:00.000-08:00

go, little children, and love this man and his music, Jonathan Coulton. Lots of free songs and $1 a piece for the others. Fantastic. from skullcrasher mountain:I made this half-pony half-monkey monster to please youBut I get the feeling that you don’t like itWhat’s with all the screaming?You like monkeys, you like poniesMaybe you don’t like monsters so muchMaybe I used too many monkeysIsn’t it

camera dorks unite

2006-11-27T20:47:00.000-08:00

2006-11-20T12:58:00.000-08:00

odd for me, but i'm feeling interested in Math.

2006-11-18T09:20:00.000-08:00

so the city of santa cruz has just released pdf's of crime through the police department website. I live in crime central.

2006-11-14T11:03:00.000-08:00

Intellectual Poison: It's Like, Whoa, WTF? work out tips. some of the commenters links...those work outs would kill me. i'm sure of it. I guess i just don't know how to work out, thank asthma and bad knees for that i guess. help me johnny!

off the air poster, v1.something

2006-11-14T10:53:00.000-08:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } off the air poster, v1.something, originally uploaded by th3ph17. so, i have odd dreams about video games and dinosaurs.

2006-11-09T17:04:00.000-08:00

my mum on TV up in SLC. For a few seconds towards the end. She was walking to choir practice, laptop in hand, since she is a laptop sort of lady now.article, video links. RAM for macs.

2 years and counting

2006-11-06T16:58:00.000-08:00

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2006-11-06T16:20:00.000-08:00

i've restrung my grandfathers mandolin. it looks terrible. now for the hard part:learning.though, i like the idea of 2 finger chords....and if i learn for the same tuning i could use on my banjo i could be onto something.

2006-11-06T09:40:00.000-08:00

<$alpengarten$> the now swiss blog of an old and dear friend. Old as in friends for a long time, not old as in, boy, is she old. , since i'm older and i'm not old, per se.

2006-10-31T13:37:00.000-08:00

Today's Inspirationgreat retro illustration blog, via the BB

i am a designer

2006-10-26T15:38:00.000-07:00

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PC World's Cover Reveals the Truth

2006-10-19T09:52:00.000-07:00

coldwater_1040.jpg

2006-10-18T13:41:00.000-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } coldwater_1040.jpg, originally uploaded by th3ph17. beautiful day out, feeling sick but i got to go and shoot for a while this morning.

edwardian halloween show

2006-10-16T15:30:00.000-07:00

2006-10-12T10:34:00.000-07:00

Matt's Retro-Deko has launched. Artwork, desktops, cool dekorations for laptops, etc.

this is cool...

2006-10-11T15:56:00.000-07:00

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2006-10-04T08:50:00.000-07:00

Darrell, Allen and I were at MJC back in the day--yo--together doing computer graphics classes. He is having an art show out in Delhi at a local coffee shop. If you want to get out of the big city lights of modesto for an evening of music, art and coffee give this a try...-Darrel's Cybersuicide-Announcement in the Delhi Express

2 ears, 2 earphones

2006-10-03T14:23:00.000-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } khaaaan, originally uploaded by th3ph17. So it has been about 4 months since my surgery, and for about 5 months before that i had not been able to use both earphones for listening to music.not comfortably

2006-10-03T14:11:00.000-07:00

Saturday after watching "the science of sleep" i kept thinking about the world in my head. i wonder if perhaps it isn't all real after all, just, separate. Real but separate.so past years aren't decades ago, everything is happening at once--and it is non-linear...A constant shattering of time.

you should be there

2006-10-01T11:10:00.000-07:00

brettski & merrilydactyl

2006-09-29T22:49:00.000-07:00

Willie & Reina Around the World

2006-09-28T16:42:00.000-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 38th longboarding, originally uploaded by ankor. well, Willie is off on his 'round the world surf adventure. Takes guts to take off for 5 months for some real life, as opposed to the structured life of

Fashion Show

2006-09-17T16:34:00.000-07:00

ASA906_83.jpg

2006-09-12T08:48:00.000-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } ASA906_83.jpg, originally uploaded by ethernectar. my modeling career is off to a great start.

DevaCard.jpg

2006-08-17T21:43:00.000-07:00

the middle part

2006-08-06T17:34:00.000-07:00

localizaciones 2006 027t

2006-08-04T07:56:00.000-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } localizaciones 2006 027t, originally uploaded by wweeggee. great picture found at random on flickr

Armour Sans Anguish on the Cover of Good Times.

2006-07-27T17:57:00.000-07:00

fireworks over santa cruz beach boardwalk

2006-07-05T11:24:00.000-07:00

Phil's head is still lopsided. We just don't talk about it.

2006-07-04T18:28:00.000-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Phil's head is still lopsided. We just don't talk about it., originally uploaded by tawnillia.

surgery beard week 4

2006-06-23T11:19:00.000-07:00

phils beard: week 3

2006-06-14T00:58:00.000-07:00

This is what happens every hour or so

2006-05-28T13:34:00.000-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } This is what happens every hour or so, originally uploaded by tawnillia. feeling slightly better than this now. slightly.

We Can't Stop Blushing

2006-05-09T16:55:00.000-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } We Can't Stop Blushing, originally uploaded by tawnillia. armour sans anguish is a winner...in the top 5 of 500 designers.

3 tawny portraits

2006-05-08T10:19:00.000-07:00

the hills are alive...

2006-05-05T11:35:00.000-07:00

The 360

2006-05-02T16:36:00.000-07:00

new camera

2006-04-28T08:52:00.000-07:00

2006-04-27T08:50:00.000-07:00

i love the air here.http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifSanta Cruz has A for clean air.

2006-04-26T09:05:00.000-07:00

i am counting down the minutes to the arrival of my 20D.

poster

2006-04-23T19:31:00.000-07:00

2006-03-29T15:29:00.000-08:00

very cool online word processor...mentioned on TWIT. www.ajaxwrite.com/

capitola beach fake tilt shift

2006-03-01T12:08:00.000-08:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } capitola beach, originally uploaded by th3ph17. so this latest photo meme sweeping the boingboing readers...it is so addictive. And fun. can't. stop.

gamera!

2006-02-27T13:16:00.000-08:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } gamera!, originally uploaded by th3ph17. tawny bought a flash for me on ebay. isn't that the sweetest thing you have ever heard of?

skeptics unite

2006-02-14T13:47:00.000-08:00

600+ photos today = sunburn for phil

2006-02-12T00:07:00.000-08:00

tawny322c

2006-02-06T20:35:00.000-08:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } tawny322c, originally uploaded by th3ph17. taking beautiful pictures of tawny is actually pretty easy. i can't take much credit.

Us.

2006-01-25T18:07:00.000-08:00

tangerine_03_800.jpg

2005-11-28T09:20:00.000-08:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } tangerine_03_800.jpg, originally uploaded by ethernectar. so, there was some party time last weekend.

the knoll

2005-11-06T23:03:00.000-08:00

tawny and justin

2005-10-29T20:39:00.000-07:00

life is full frame

2005-10-27T17:00:00.000-07:00

surf city cyclists

2005-09-18T15:00:00.000-07:00

tawny on west cliff

2005-09-12T20:16:00.000-07:00

amazing set of photos

2005-09-01T11:36:00.000-07:00

greetings from santa cruz

2005-08-31T12:08:00.000-07:00

fluttered by flower color

2005-08-30T02:27:00.000-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } fluttered by flower color, originally uploaded by th3ph17. any given day, i can walk out of my office and take a picture like this. I am fond of my office park.

2005-08-25T07:56:00.000-07:00

matt is in the house, yo.

Off The Air Poster by Julie

2005-08-25T07:34:00.000-07:00

the renegade tinkerbell dress

2005-08-08T21:52:00.000-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } the renegade tinkerbell dress, originally uploaded by th3ph17. i love early evening light in santa cruz.

car crash

2005-08-03T19:18:00.000-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } sc accident 082, originally uploaded by th3ph17. crazy power lines down on the car crash today across the river from home.

tawnylicious

2005-07-30T10:34:00.000-07:00

the dog horses

2005-07-29T14:26:00.000-07:00

Evaporator contemplates vivid hues with quiete an airy atomosphere

2005-07-25T13:48:00.000-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Evaporator contemplates vivid hues with quiete an airy atomosphere, originally uploaded by ahmedzahid. ahmed writes the best titles on flickr.

wharf2wharf037a

2005-07-24T12:57:00.000-07:00

active recreators

2005-07-22T14:16:00.000-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } active recreators, originally uploaded by ahmedzahid. add maldives to my list of places to visit someday.

glacier gods

2005-07-21T07:40:00.000-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } glacier gods, originally uploaded by RJBaird. my brother has a bunch of artwork up on flickr.

Lila Downs is Radiant

2005-07-14T08:44:00.000-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Lila Downs is Radiant, originally uploaded by th3ph17. i had been a fan of Lila after hearing her in the movie Frida. Had missed seeing her in modesto just prior to that...Amazing performer. Definately in

South Pole Ice Shrine

2005-07-13T08:13:00.000-07:00

visit santa cruz

2005-07-12T14:30:00.000-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } visit santa cruz, originally uploaded by th3ph17. so while i don't consider myself to be a professinal photographer by any means...I do get paid to take pictures. Here is my first magazine cover. Thanks to

sunset with frothy confection

2005-07-07T21:14:00.000-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } sunset with frothy confection, originally uploaded by th3ph17. cruised up onto campus for fashion. for the sake of fashion. for the shooting of, fashion.

2005-07-04T23:21:00.000-07:00

holy crap. never in my life have i seen a town do the 4th of july like Santa Cruz. 2-3 hours of constant big illegal fireworks shooting up from every neighborhood and beach. CRAZY i tell you.

tawny eyes

2005-06-26T18:47:00.000-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } tawny eyes, originally uploaded by th3ph17. so, obviously, my idea of a fun weekend is taking pictures and uploading them to flickr. i'll admit it.

tawnywharf

2005-06-26T13:24:00.000-07:00

boardwalk pano

2005-06-24T21:48:00.000-07:00

tawnillia

2005-06-21T23:33:00.000-07:00

2005-06-21T22:00:00.000-07:00

while taking pictures downtown for work i met John Crosley, who takes great photos. Street Photography.

the red dragon, side

2005-06-20T22:40:00.000-07:00

From the patio

2005-06-06T15:35:00.000-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } From the patio, originally uploaded by The Antartican. my brothers birdseyeview of the laguna slide.