ISO50 - The Design and Illustration of Scott Hansen

Some great design and posters.

ISO50 - The Design and Illustration of Scott Hansen

Little Fluffy Industries: Free Online Games Daily

Website of great time wasters.

Little Fluffy Industries: Free Online Games Daily

Specialty Bottle - Glass & Plastic Bottles Jars Vials Tins Other Containers

Specialty Bottle - Glass & Plastic Bottles Jars Vials Tins Other Containers

Blog on perfume bottles/packaging

More hits on perfume bottle than on wine packaging, should make a blog and do adsense.
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culiblog

Fun Dutch blog about food.
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culiblog

Website Lollies

You own custom art/lolly pop. More stuff way too cool--there must be some way to synthesize all cool stuff, right?

Website Lollies

Wired 13.08: We Are the Web

Great article about what the net actually means--the birth of a new intelligence.

Wired 13.08: We Are the Web

Movies from the weekend

Forgot to write, we saw War of the Worlds and Batman Begins this weekend (Friday night) at the drive-in. I was underwhelmed by WotW, guess I had higher expectations, buy conversely, Batman Begins was excellent, against by expectations. WofW Ruby watched, but a little too cruesome her--unfortunately she fell aslepp during Batman Begins which she would have enjoyed more.

MakeZine.com:

Another great site.
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MakeZine.com:

So & So's Button Gallery

Super cool buttons.
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So & So's Button Gallery

the renegade craft in chicago!

List of links from the Renagade Craft Fair:

the renegade craft in chicago!

Betsy Ross Sewing Patterns!

Sewing patterns for the 21st Century, show to Jen.

Betsy Ross Sewing Patterns!

Modern, modular carpet tiles and area rugs for Do-It-Yourself ease - InterfaceFLOR

Cool, modular carpet. Not that cheap, though.

Modern, modular carpet tiles and area rugs for Do-It-Yourself ease - InterfaceFLOR

Scubapunk

Got to love the combination of scuba and punk:


Scubapunk

CBS News | The Echo Boomers | December 23, 2004�15:00:32

Good article about the echo boomers.

CBS News | The Echo Boomers | December 23, 2004�15:00:32

::argentum bodily adornments ::_________________________________________________________________

Some really cool jewlery, show to Jen.
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::argentum bodily adornments ::_________________________________________________________________

The Advertiser: Glass may be answer to an age-old problem

News on the Vino-Lok front from Down Under. The Australians are willing and able to experiment--I don't know if we are more cautious here in the U.S., are just too nervous to try anything new. My main beef with the below article is that the winery switching to Vino-Lok says their TCA problem has been growing--that is the opposite of my experience and unless the Aussies get all of the U.S.'s rejected cork, a misconcpetion or a lack of good quality control. An intensive and regimented cork qc program can reduce your overall TCA to less than 1%--not to say that 1% is good--but I can't imagine how lax qc must be to let 5% slip through.

The Advertiser: Glass may be answer to an age-old problem [16jul05]

Costco.com, your source for quality caskets?

Been a busy week with out much time to post, saw this though and had to share. I just don't know who think of buying a casket at Costco.



Caskets at Costco

Back from the races

The family and friends had a mixed time at the first MotoGP event in the U.S. since 1994. Going into it we knew that it would be crowded, it was the only event at Laguna Seca that was sold out before the day of, over 55,000 tickets, but we didn't really expected, or appreciate what the reality would be. We got to San Jose well enough, there by about 3:30, and hit the pool then met Tansie and Brad at the Obon festival (the largest one in the U.S.)--different than I thought it would be--we got there too late to see some of the drumming, but we did catch about 800 people performing fan dances (don't know what else to call them). The Slavens got hungry and split, but we visited with Tansie for a bit (if you read this Tansie, thanks for inviting us and sorry we couldn't see each other more), afterwards we ate some sushi (although Jen order the assorted Nigiri, thinking she was being adventursome ordering rolls with real fish (she normally only eats the fake crab kind), but instead we get the sashimi (raw fish on top of rice), we both split it, and some of them were good, but not all. Ruby played (and ate a bit of) the octupus--she liked the suckers on the tentacles.
After getting back we crashed, knowing that we were planning on getting up at 5:00 to head out to Monterey for the race. And that is what we did, up at 5, out by 6, breakfast and then onto Monterey. We make good time, get to the hotel where the tickets are to be picked up, then someone tells us there is a shuttle from the hotel to the race, so we get and line and wait about an hour, not a shuttle in site. We finally decide to drive there ourselves and the first two miles took about five minutes, the last 4 miles took about 2 hours. There was so much traffic it felt like we would never make it to the track by the time the race started at 2:00. But we did, barely. And everyone was pretty good until we had to trek another 1/2 hour through the park to find a place to sit--Jen and I ended up stopping early--August was fed up and needed some boob, so we hung out close to the track and waited until the race started--got to see the bikes up close. Then we climb up to the mountain, or so it seemed, that Emily and Wayne had set up on--from there we watched the rest of the race, all 47 minutes of it--the MotoGP bikes go really, really fast. We watched the next race, got some bad, way overpriced food and then took off to leave--getting out was worse than getting in. We ended up sitting by our cars for over an hour, not even bothering to get in line to leave--it wasn't going any where, we finally got out, sitting through more traffic on each major highway we hit. Dinner was at McDonald's--yea. We didn't get back to the hotel until 10:00--Wayne drove all the way back to Middletown.
Oh, before I forget, note to myself, always ask for bottom floor of building 4 at the San Jose Hyatt.
This morning we relaxed by the pool then headed out.
If we plan it better, we'll do it again next year. This go around we didn't have enough food or drink and that didn't help waiting out the traffic. But the actual race was exciting--damn bikes are so fast and they take those turns so tight.
Ah well, back to work tomorrow, but we will be looking at the 190 acres that is for sale outside of Middletown--be interesting to see.

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Crawl baby crawl

For the record, I'd say this is the day that August is a complete and utter crawling animal. We made it to the hotel in San Jose (the Hyatt near the airport) and he is just loving scotting all over the room. And every time he hits a flat verticle surface he is trying to pull himself up and stand--usually with some degree of success.

Heading out to MotoGP

The family is heading out to MotoGP today, first stop is San Jose where hopefully we can see Tansie. Then tomorrow we drive to Monterey for the soldout race (55,000 people). Should be exciting, the motorcycles get over 200mph. Check out the race and track at: laguna-seca.com.

Mom, if you get a chance to read this, good luck with your new comptuer.

I'll post pictures from the race (and San Jose) later.

a straw bale house plan, 1479 sq. ft.

Emily, here is the U shaped house I saw. It is #47 1470 sq called Paul/Alice.

a straw bale
house plan, 1479 sq. ft.

The Hawk Lives!!!

Got a call last Friday, the hawk lived and was released back into the wild! Hopefully this will restore my karmic balance.

Sunday Morning

I'm sitting here typing away, I got woke up by Wayne this morning, Jen is at work, August is eating Joe's O's next to me, Oskar is eating the O's off the floor and Ruby is cleaning her room so that she can watch Sinbad. The house is a mess, my next job after typing this entry is cleaning (after making coffee, feed August some real food and getting breakfast for Ruby).

Have a fun night with Wayne and Emily, we visited their friends Jim and Kelly who were camping at Boggs State Park (about 15 min.'s from our house) so that Jim could mountain bike. Its a nice park, hardly anyone there even though it was 4th of July weekend and there was some big race there.

Been busy the last few days, we bottled Pennino and Estate Cab Franc (I should post some images of them) and I had a significant presentation on Friday--which turned out well--now I have a follow up one in 4 weeks about centralizing purchasing--I'll need to do a lot of work.

We'll August is fussing, time to go.

Probably just hang out at the house today--maybe hit Anderson Springs later if it gets too hot. Tomorrow is firework in Calistoga (and maybe I can buy a MP3 player).

What else is going on? Dad is in Sarles for a big reunion--I'm glad he got up there, I hope he takes lots of pictures.

Speaking of pictures, I've got a lot to upload, maybe I can get to them tonight.

OK, now August is really fussing.

Ciao,
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