Sprinklers on in the rain FTW!
New snails from reefcleaners.org
A break in the rain as the sun is going down. Creepy colors!
WTF cat?
180,000 miles on my free car!
I think I'm still digesting dinner. Huge pork sandwich, salad, and beer!
Chemistry Saturday morning and all levels look good.
Reef Chemistry Wednesday
Ricardo's for breakfast!
My repaired Vortech powerhead came back from Ecotech. The new firmware is very nice.
Chemistry Thursday Morning
Moved the mangroves to a rock. Hopefully all the root growth takes hold.
Leo at the water bowl.
No I haven't seen this movie yet, Yes I'm watching it tonight.
Chemistry levels look good. Alk could be a tad higher but it is not bad.
Happy fish. A fresh pack of Cyclopeeze is like candy to them.
Tuesday Morning Reef Chemistry
My Dad's new chicken eating dog.
Red Carpet (floor mat) Service by United! Only the best for your hardly earned dollars.
Gobble gobble! Real live turkeys that can actually walk around. Amazing.
Happy Thanksgiving, airport is not packed, and our flight is still on time.
More Viola Practice Monday
Viola Practice Monday
Woah someone feels important today... top bunk is rarely used by the cats.
A pig paw of fur, the paw fur is very long, because its a pig.
Viola Practice Thursday Part 4
Viola Practice Thursday Part 5
Telephoto Ana shot with the telescope and camera phone.
There's the car.
Some kind of wild animal print!
Look what I won at the Z57 Health Expo
Big succulent? Cactus? What is this thing anyways?
The three amigos (mangroves) looking good.
Close up of the green beast. There is no way it can support all this new growth.
Tracking the home grown starfish. It doesn't look much bigger.
Baby clownfish making time this morning. They won't even stop to eat. The blue fish will though!
Pigcat's new window stance, yes, believe it or not she was "sitting" like this.
Bender is posing for the camera. Good thing too because this camera is slow as crap.
Photo shoot at the cove.
ZOMG pumpkin cheesecake!
Nice view of the cove!
On the way to George's in La Jolla. I'm getting some black jack tacos!
I can has showers waters?
My mom's pet scorpion. His name is Tim.
Through the window one handed driving camera phone snap of rocket man?
New clownfish eggs this morning. They took a break to eat and are back at it.
Back at Habañeros Mexican Grill for some chilaquiles.
Just took an inventory, and I count eleven up from nine, anemones!
Video of the planted mangroves, the cord and ties are temporary while the roots grow.
Someone is obviously hunting my hermits... at least I know what happened to the shrimp.
Go into the light little mangrove plant!
My new mangrove setup made with a computer power cable and zip-ties.
Five Tacos Al Pastor for $5 from Habañeros Mexican Grill.
Mangrove leaves are finally opening on a few of the pods.
09-09-09 Vertical Epic Ale, I found some! Matt didn't drink it all.
Just spotted an elusive Jordan Meyer in the wild.
More Viola Practice Saturday
Some Viola Practice Saturday
Going to the Prado in Balboa Park with Jerome.
If the viola joke websites weren't enough... Why Google why?
Meow I have to install Snow Leopard tonight. No Apple fanboy jokes meow!
Happy bubble tip anemones. Well except for one that went roaming...
Camera phone video of Ozzy at Blizzcon 2009
Going to BevMo on break to spend my $25 gift card. What should I get?
Thirty-two cents for a laundry list of ingredients, looks like a deal to me!
Ozzy live at Blizzcon! Well, live on screen, he's too far away.
They still won't give a release date for Diablo 3...
I won a Razer mouse mat at the shuffle board game. Three inches to the left and it could have been a new keyboard!
New Diablo 3 monk class looks awesome. Has melee combo moves to rip through groups of mobs.
Blizzcon 2009 all ready to go!
Some nice root growth on the mangroves while we were gone. Not much happening with the leaves though.
Back in the U S and A waiting for the train.
Stopping on the way to Shelly Beach in Manly.
Some aboriginal drawing in the sand?
Some kind of water bird.
Ana on the cliffs over Shelly Beach in Manly Australia.
A puffer fish at Shelly Beach.
A school of small fish in the surf.
Rich eating the garlic and herb marinated Kangaroo Kebabs.
Burger Rings! No thank you!
Ana at Echo Point in the Blue Mountains.
Sydney Harbour bridge at night.
The Blue Mountains from Echo Point.
Part of the trail from Echo Point in the Blue Mountains.
The Hogger coming to a theatre near you.
Rock formation along the trail from Echo Point in the Blue Mountains.
Some kind of red moss on the face of this rock.
Rich at a bus stop in the town of Katoomba part of the Blue Mountains.
Tasty toobs so toob tasty tooberiffic tastiness in a toob that's tasty!
Rich doing some free climbing in the Blue Mountains.
The Three Sisters from Echo Point in the Blue Mountains.
This is why they are called the "Blue Mountains"
Grand Ridge Scotch Ale $36 AUD from Dan Murphy's (Lowest liquor price guarantee!)
Photo from the Quarantine Station Ghost Tour.
Ana reading. It's what Anas do best.
A Ringtail Possum living in the Quarantine Staion.
Ana and Teresa searching for ghosts with a lantern at the Quarantine Station.
Ana after surfing at Manly beach.
This is what happens when you take on a reef shark with nothing but bare fists.
Ana and I kayaking in the cove.
Matt and I in front of the Sydney Opera House.
POV kayaking with Ana.
Teresa got one white water wave during the large swell at the beach.
Showing off with Teresa at Manly Beach.
They really eat kangaroo here!
On the Harbour Ferry from Manly.
What's worse than spiders? Bats!
At the Orient Hotel in the Rocks Australia.
Cooked lobsters at the Sydney Fish Market.
Walking down the Sydney Harbour to the aquairum.
Fat bird.
Inside the Sydney Aquarium.
Ana in the hole.
Nooooo! One of Australia's Golden Orb Spider, one too many.
You're doing it wrong.
This Huntsman spider was dying on the road.
Jerome gave me the book "The Design of Everyday Things." Think I can finish it in 14 hours?
How to travel on Delta: Step 1 Get drunk, Step 2 ... , Step 3 Arrive at your destination!
It took three Delta employees to hand over the boarding passes (ticket names did not match passport)
Almost to LAX, we need to eat something I'm starving.
Beginning our trip to Australia on the coaster to LA!
New CPU cooler for my birthday! Cooler Master V8. It's a little small though.
Mazel Tov!
Huaztecan Serenade.
Guess who is going to Australia!
Mangroves have started rooting, good sign, hopefully we get some leaves too.
Grilling on Sunday at JP's
Salazar's breakfast, time for huevos rancheros.
Morrison lives at #Anthology SD!
Om nom nom, taco something or other.
Casa De Pico time, olé!
BevMo run for the weekend, Stone, Lightning, and Rogue from Oregon
Camino Santa Fe eats cars, you have been warned!
Moved some mangroves to the display. It looks like a couple might be budding roots.
The 2 dollar tacos song list.
My recording studio combo cat tower.
Starting some mangroves in the sump with some new cheato macro algae.
Line-Con, everything has a line!
Hi George!
Dead robotic ferrets at #comic-con
New GFO running in the fluidized reactor. Take that algae!
Checkout this home grown starfish! Usually they're pretty small but this one is a good size.
Diamonds are a clownfish's best friend. The little glints of silver are the eyes!
Just installed the @boxee remote on Ana's iPod Touch. The gesture control is awesome!
The clownfish eggs are looking very silver. I'm guessing they pop tomorrow night after lights out.
Robot Chicken on @boxee is #win
Stone Saturday. It's also the Gay Pride Parade in Hillcrest today; hooray for traffic.
Brazilian style whoa! Frozen acai from Acai Roots http://acairoots.com
Viola Practice Thursday Morning
My new music stand from Hammond Ashley Violins. It's the standard symphony music stand.
A skimmer uses foam fractioning to remove dissolved solids from the aquarium water. Or simply put: tiny bubbles catch the poop.
At the SANDCHI eye tracking meeting copying Jerome's notes.
Lunch.
Ok this fly is coming along for the ride to work. Wonder how far down the freeway it can hang on...
Nice day out on the highway to the danger zone. Now if only I had a motorcycle and a sidekick named Goose.
Time for a water change. Fourty-two gallons of sea water from Scripps Pier ready to go.
San Diego Symphony in @BalboaPark starting soon!
Here is the evidence. The orange patch is where the eggs are. Anyone have a cracker?
The Clownfish spawning with my zoom lens.
Clownfish spawning in the morning.
Yin and yang, it's how baby Clownfish are made! I have some video of this spawn that will be on Flickr and Vimeo.
Last @StoneBrewingCo OAKED before the rest of #UFC100 #CRY
Saturday Viola Practice
Finally got a half decent picture of this Neon Dottyback. Well at least it's not just a blurry streak.
Q&A time at the Objectified movie with Gary Hustwit.
We got our seats all the way in the back, thanks Jerome!
Patricia's new Intel Core 2 Quad system arrived today! 2.4 GHz, 8GB DDR2, GeForce 9600 GSO 1GB
This morning is nest cleaning time, there will most likely be eggs when I get home.
It's getting hot in here so take off all your... scales? fins? slime coats? shells?
This anemone clone had bleached a bit, but it's coming back strong with regular feeding.
I'm in yer showers chew'n on yer curtains. - Leo the Cat
Invisible Leo. Tail? What tail?
Last night I posted the first viola practice video, I'm hoping to keep a visual record of my progress.
A couple songs from the end of my Viola practice.
I told you the fish eat better than I do. If you can't already tell... this is lasagna.
450 watt alarm clock. Even with the lights on these clowns don't want to wake up.
New 14K Phoenix HQI DE 150W bulbs, the colors look pretty good. I think the old bulbs were toast.
Who's afraid of the big bad bristle worm? This one is just a baby, only six inches long!
Listening to Gran Riserva on http://dzihankamien.com while Pigcat is licking the pole.
Look ma no eggs. Clownfish eggs hatched today, may they rest in pieces.
Breakfast of champions, thawed squid! These anemones eat better than I do.
Pigcat has a different way of sitting at the window. La-Z-Pigcat.
Woke up to one of my return pumps off, the backup was still on but the skimmer collection cup overflowed yuck!
