A photo blog by Richard Hogben.

• This Go game ended a little more evenly Our count had black winning by a few points
• The West Elm 200 tree stump side table
• Our new old radio with Locked Tuning technology

• New shoulder rest for the viola made by Bon Musica Its strong but still pretty light
• Ana practicing violin
• Black stones winning this game of Go

• Second set of leaves on my mangroves
• Cactus dieing Am I doing it wrong
• The Oenone worm video in HD

• I caught the Oenone worm
• Yard of beer in Old Town at OHungrys
• Post breakfast and hiding under the table

• Leo waiting for breakfast
• Yellow sponge rock
• Free rolled tacos with Mr Meyers Habaneros card

• Close up of the giant predatory snail eating worm I let back in my fish tank
• Look at my long worm
• Big worm not a bristle worm I dont see any spines

• Guess who got a StarCraft II Beta Test email
• Pigcat getting brushed
• Grandma Hogbens bead necklace

• My oldest anemone split again last night The clone walked to the other side of the rock
• Go game has stopped Which color is winning
• Cat in a basket

• Post Rock and Field in the rain
• Pigcat says geicos is for eating
• Sprinklers on in the rain FTW

• New snails from reefcleanersorg
• A break in the rain as the sun is going down Creepy colors
• My car smells like pancakes thanks Allstate

• Xenia on the overflow
• A pigcat profile
• WTF cat

• 180000 miles on my free car
• I think Im still digesting dinner Huge pork sandwich salad and beer
• Chemistry Saturday morning and all levels look good

• Reef Chemistry Wednesday
• Ricardos for breakfast
• Artsy Fish Shot

• Mangrove
• Anemone Surfing
• 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
• Saturday water chemistry tests show calcium is low

• The dad clownfish
• Pigcat waiting for Ana
• Leo at the water bowl

• No I havent seen this movie yet Yes Im 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 Dads 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
• Fang shot with tongue out Cat food OD

• Free lunch day Yes
• Z57 eleventh year party
• 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
• Viola Practice Thursday Part 2

• Viola Practice Thursday Part 3
• Viola Practice Thursday Part 1
• Telephoto Ana shot with the telescope and camera phone

• Theres the car
• Some kind of wild animal print
• Almost to the top of Iron

• We didnt choose the 05 way
• Ana on the way up the iron
• Two and one half miles to go

• Ana Ana Ana
• Ana is ready for the hike One thumbs up
• 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 doesnt look much bigger
• Baby clownfish making time this morning They wont even stop to eat The blue fish will though
• Pigcats 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 Georges in La Jolla Im getting some black jack tacos
• I can has showers waters

• My moms 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 Habaeros 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 zipties

• Five Tacos Al Pastor for 5 from Habaeros Mexican Grill
• Mangrove leaves are finally opening on a few of the pods
• 090909 Vertical Epic Ale I found some Matt didnt 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 werent 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

• Thirtytwo cents for a laundry list of ingredients looks like a deal to me
• Ozzy live at Blizzcon Well live on screen hes too far away
• They still wont 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
• A shell with a sparkle

• Red alien pods underneath the rocks near the shore
• A shell volcano
• Ana on the cliffs over Shelly Beach in Manly Australia

• A puffer fish at Shelly Beach
• A school of small fish in the surf
• Chickens

• Rich directing his new film Hogger
• Only 414 AUS Thats like 3 USD
• 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 thats 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 Murphys Lowest liquor price guarantee
• Photo from the Quarantine Station Ghost Tour

• Ana reading Its 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
• The harbour in the evening

• Backstage tour of the Sydney Opera House
• 3 Wise Monkeys Pub in Sydney
• 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

• Whats worse than spiders Bats
• At the Orient Hotel in the Rocks Australia
• Some Fat Yak at the Orient Hotel in the Rocks Australia

• Obama Avenue
• Oh hai there
• Cooked lobsters at the Sydney Fish Market

• Walking down the Sydney Harbour to the aquairum
• Fat bird
• Carpet Anemone at the Sydney Aquarium

• Ana scared of the sharks
• Chupacabra bird
• Inside the Sydney Aquarium

• Ana in the hole
• Nooooo One of Australias Golden Orb Spider one too many
• Youre 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 Im starving
• Beginning our trip to Australia on the coaster to LA

• New CPU cooler for my birthday Cooler Master V8 Its 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 JPs

• Salazars breakfast time for huevos rancheros
• Morrison lives at Anthology SD
• Happy birthday to me

• A little something I learned from Obama
• Rollin in my 50
• Om nom nom taco something or other

• Casa De Pico time ol
• 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
• The 2 dollar tacos

• Thanks 2 dollar tacos you rock
• Its a purse what
• Booty call

• Hot air balloon on the 5
• Viola Practice Saturday Afternoon
• My recording studio combo cat tower

• Starting some mangroves in the sump with some new cheato macro algae
• LineCon everything has a line
• Hi George

• Dead robotic ferrets at comiccon
• New GFO running in the fluidized reactor Take that algae
• Checkout this home grown starfish Usually theyre pretty small but this one is a good size

• Diamonds are a clownfishs best friend The little glints of silver are the eyes
• Just installed the boxee remote on Anas iPod Touch The gesture control is awesome
• The clownfish eggs are looking very silver Im guessing they pop tomorrow night after lights out

• Robot Chicken on boxee is win
• Stone Saturday Its also the Gay Pride Parade in Hillcrest today hooray for traffic
• Brazilian style whoa Frozen acai from Acai Roots httpacairootscom

• Viola Practice Thursday Morning
• My new music stand from Hammond Ashley Violins Its 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 Jeromes 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 Fourtytwo 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 its 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 its not just a blurry streak
• QA time at the Objectified movie with Gary Hustwit
• We got our seats all the way in the back thanks Jerome

• Patricias new Intel Core 2 Quad system arrived today 24 GHz 8GB DDR2 GeForce 9600 GSO 1GB
• This morning is nest cleaning time there will most likely be eggs when I get home
• Its getting hot in here so take off all your scales fins slime coats shells

• This anemone clone had bleached a bit but its coming back strong with regular feeding
• Im in yer showers chewn on yer curtains Leo the Cat
• Invisible Leo Tail What tail

• Last night I posted the first viola practice video Im 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 cant already tell this is lasagna

• 450 watt alarm clock Even with the lights on these clowns dont want to wake up
• New 14K Phoenix HQI DE 150W bulbs the colors look pretty good I think the old bulbs were toast
• Whos afraid of the big bad bristle worm This one is just a baby only six inches long

• Listening to Gran Riserva on httpdzihankamiencom 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 LaZPigcat
• Woke up to one of my return pumps off the backup was still on but the skimmer collection cup overflowed yuck
• JP has started grilling hot dogs and burgers I still see some room on there

• Wet Pigcats are wet Decided to give the cats a bath before we leave for the day
• Cat fishing on the 4th of July can you spot the Neon Dottyback
• Feeding the mama clownfish she eats like a pig

• Office with a view