Monday, March 23, 2009

the story was:

  • me sick
  • me getting better
  • me taking pictures of local salon
  • me getting fever again
  • me going to bed
yes I am frustrated that my blogs keep disappearing, it's a disaster...

The good thing is I still shoot on average 1000-2000 pictures a month and keep getting better, but need to learn to be more creative...









ok why do my post keep disappearing...

pics are here yet again, but I don't write the story yet another time. I'm frustrated...

Sunday, March 15, 2009

what a wonderful Sunday,

getting up early after a long night with friends in the local bar and riding the bikes out to Sacramento.

Basically, Ashley, Kimberly and I decided to grab the roadbikes and ride the 14 miles to sacramento, drop them off at Ashley's house and visit a local exhibition (Buddha, German art, Californian landscapes) and having some quick mexican food afterward.

Finally we went back to davis and my crank set got loose again, which I needed to tighten up several times afterward. I should replace it rather quickly. We also lost Kimberly during the ride (it turned out she was collecting flowers...) getting some frozen youghurt while waiting for her (she passed by and ignored us...) and now making some crepes with applesauce.

The rest of the day, well I need to catch up on some work, watching a movie and preparing my self for yet another dentist visit in the morning. Maybe it's less than 500$ this time.

I'm also looking at yet another lens purchase (18-200mm VR) which would be needed on the possible roadtrip in a week. Since I do not want to carry the 17-55 F/2.8 and 70-200 F/2.8 and 10-20mm sigma around. But than do I want to spend 700$ just to avoid to carry 7lbs around? I think I rather spend this on another vacation trip.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Saturday morning, or in other words a picnic next to the farmers market with friends and snapping some pics of kims daughter playing with Cody.

And yes we did had wine at this picnic and fancy cheese, which make it more less perfect :)

Sunday, March 08, 2009

how to make fancy style pan cakes...

Ingredients:

2 cups of flower
2 eggs
2 cups of MILK, you know the white stuff

Mix it together, drop it in a medium hot pan and spread it out with a spatula, if the pan cake breaks, add a bit more milk and try again.


Flambe:

2 x shots Barccadi 151
2 x shots Cointreau
nutmeg, cinnamon to taste
1 large can of pears in medium or heavy syrup

  • discard the syrup (or drink it...)
  • slice the pears
  • soak the pears in the Cointreau/Barcadi and add spices
  • wait 20 minutes
  • put it on a stoves of medium heat
  • wait 5 minutes
  • ignite the flambe with a LONG match (paper tissue works too...)
  • get a new haircut, short hair + flambe = good, long hair + flambe = bad...
  • keep tossing the pears so the alcohol burns evenly off, if clumsy take a spoon and just steer it, but you get less chicks in this way
  • serves to the pancakes hot with vanilla ice cream

If you are not fancy, serve apple sauce...



Snowshoeing in tahoe, well it's more difficult than it looks and hiking boots are defiantly the wrong shoes.

now I'm stuck at home with only wet boots and my dry shoes are in the office. Solution? Going to the office with bike shoes and picking up the spare shoes + spending the rest of the day reading at mishka's.

But I'm glad that the D200+17-55 F/2.8 are both weather sealed, they defiantly got there fair share of snow

(clumsy me)

Friday, March 06, 2009


Well tonight I decided to drive to sac quick, on my road bike, in the hope to get back in shape.

Lessons learned:

- I'm out of shape, an average speed of 28km/h is nothing to brag aboutLink
- do not ride in the dark if you are night blind, it got dark after I was half to sac
- harbor blvd in sac is a scary place at night in spandex...
- I really want to do this more often
- I am going to buy aero bars, since the causeway was just a straight line for 10 miles
- Santana is not the best music to ride too
- take a camera with you next time, there were so gorgeous reflections in the wildlife area

Short once you hit the causeway it's really fun


And tomorrow we go snowshoeing and taking pictures in Tahoe!

Wednesday, March 04, 2009

ok introduction of my algorithm to get rid of my ant problem:


//get available ants
List ants = getAnts();

///keep running till there are no more ant's to be found
while(ants.size() > 0){

//iterate over the current available ants
for(Ant a : ants){

//we kill the current ant till it's truly dead
while(a.isDead() == false){

//actuall kill method
a.kill();
}
}

//get more ant's
ants = getAnts();
}


Ok I provided the algorithm and software solution, now somebody needs to find a hardware solution for this...