netphemera - The official Blog of Seth Wolf

Braun 7526 Cleaning Cartridge

2005-04-24T10:12:00.000-07:00

I think I finally hit on the perfect formula for refilling the Braun 7526 cleaning cartridge. There's been some discussion about the safety of refilling the Braun cleaning cartridge but I think I finally hit on the perfect formula.

You need:
91% isopropyl alcohol
Lemon oil

The first think you need to do is clean out the old cartridge. I think this is easiest to do with the alcohol. Just dump in a few tablespoons, cover the two holes, then shake up all the grime inside, and dump out. Repeat the procedure a few times until is seems clean inside.

Fill it about 1/3 full of alcohol, add about 1/2 teaspoon of lemon oil. Shake it up in a valant attempt to evenly distribute the oil. Then fill it all the way to the top of the container.

(A few notes: I found that it works best with 91% alcohol, not the 70% alcohol. You can use lemon oil, orange oil, or lime oil. Do not use lemon juice. These citrus oils are food-grade and available in any specialty food supply store.)

This procedure has worked very well for me. I'm still using the orginal plastic cartridge my razor came with.

Slow Food Magazine

2005-04-24T10:10:00.000-07:00

I created a simple page to list my have/want list for Slow Food Magazine. If you are a collector too and have any spares or dupes that I need please let me know.

Some guys have all the cool stuff

2005-02-02T10:01:00.000-08:00

Some guys have all the cool stuff.

Free Speech Zone

2005-01-24T11:06:00.000-08:00

We went on a nice hike this weekend. (Two diferent hikes in fact, both Saturday and Sunday.) Our Sunday hike took us past the gates into Muir Woods. While walking through the parking lot of Muir Woods, we stubled across their federally mandated "Free Speech Zone". While standing there I told my daughter that she was standing in a very special place where she could say anything she wanted. I wispered in her ear that she could say "George Bush is a bad president." which she was more than happy to repeat. She then wispered in my ear if it was OK to say the word "poop" in the Free Speech Zone. I told her that I wasn't sure, as naughty words have different set of rules about them. I then suggested to her that while it may not be OK to simply say the word "poop", it was probably OK to say the phrase "George Bush is a poop president." That made her very happy.

lego starbucks barista

2005-01-03T11:33:00.000-08:00

Someone made a Lego Starbucks barista and is selling it on eBay.

My noisy apartment

2004-12-23T13:56:00.000-08:00

We have some new neighbors and sometimes it feels like this when I'm trying to go to sleep. (courtesy of the person who created Mister Rossi)

Journal of Gastronomy

2004-12-20T16:58:00.000-08:00

OK, I've got rough done up of my Journal of Gastronomy fan site. Look for updates as they happen.

Firefox installation tips

2004-12-09T15:24:00.000-08:00

I created this simple page to aid installing Mozilla Firefox.

Are we forcing our kids to be too safe

2004-12-02T10:23:00.000-08:00

I oft-discussed topic in our family is the level of risk that we are willing to allow for our child. This discussion really opens up the whole dialogue to show what a wide range of risks that have existed over the years for so many children.

eBay - the new disease

2004-12-02T10:10:00.000-08:00

If you come into our house, before we have a chance to clean, you might see a pile of boxes in the corner. We live in one of those ebay houses. This one, however is a little bit different. These photos document not an eBay seller, but an obsessive-compulsive eBay buyer. Sellers beware, you are contributing to this disease.

Real dangers milk or SUVs

2004-11-15T09:16:00.000-08:00

It just amazes me that these things are still legal while we are forbidden from eating cheese made from unpasturized milk due to health and safety concerns.

Red States more charatable, or just plain broke

2004-11-11T09:05:00.000-08:00

United States	$46,160
Mississippi	$33,754
Montana	$33,775
West Virginia	$34,941
Arkansas	$35,467
North Dakota	$35,654
New Mexico	$35,894
South Dakota	$35,907
Oklahoma	$37,098
Louisiana	$37,102
Idaho	$37,636
South Carolina	$38,123
Kentucky	$38,210
Alabama	$38,472
Maine	$39,018
Iowa	$39,630
Nebraska	$39,708
Tennessee	$39,773
Vermont	$40,506
Ohio	$41,032
Utah	$41,042
Hawaii	$41,329
Missouri	$41,368
Indiana	$41,562
North Carolina	$41,896
Oregon	$42,118
Kansas	$42,187
Alaska	$42,650
Texas	$43,546
Arizona	$43,726
Wyoming	$43,817
Florida	$43,875
Wisconsin	$43,973
Pennsylvania	$43,991
Georgia	$44,802
Michigan	$45,127
Rhode Island	$45,925
Nevada	$48,025
Delaware	$48,291
Minnesota	$48,736
Washington	$49,021
Illinois	$49,662
New Hampshire	$49,720
Colorado	$49,778
Virginia	$50,943
California	$51,281
New York	$52,774
Maryland	$54,043
Massachusetts	$56,764
New Jersey	$59,159
Connecticut	$64,724

According to this blogger, Red states are more generous than blue states. But if you go back to the original source data, then resort the data by average income, you come up with the chart indicated below. Not much different, except that instead of charting some ambigous "Generosity Index", what you're reporting is simply that states with lower annual AGI are more likely to vote for Bush.

No surpise there. Lower income, less money towards education, more likely to vote red.

xenophobia

2004-10-19T09:49:00.000-07:00

Where do people get these ideas? This is incredibly frightening. These people aren't idiots, they can read and write. What's scary to me is that there is some force out there -- the mainstream media, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, public schools, something -- something that's suggesting to these folks that they should be filled with this level of xenophobia and hatred.

I'm prone to bits of anger, especially if someone driving an SUV cuts me off while talking on a cell phone, but this level of anger seems really foreign to me.

Lower gas prices = Bush wins

2004-10-18T11:40:00.000-07:00

I've been telling people this for over a year. I swear. My prediction for the "October Surprise" will be a big drop in gas prices. Aparently it's a fact that Bush's popularity seems to be closely aligned with lower gas prices.

I thought I had a bad dentist

2004-09-23T13:51:00.000-07:00

Aparently there are some dentists out there that are worse then the ones I've encounted over the years.

Hurricanes and Global Warming

2004-09-15T16:05:00.000-07:00

Boy, they sure have the ducks in a row. I haven't really been following the news recently, but a thought occured to me, "is there a link between hurricanes and global warming." So I did a quick Google search and looked what poped up. It's like a freakin' who's who of anti-environmental, coporate funded, "junk science" think tanks.

We've got opinion papers from JunkScience.com, co2science.org, The New Republic, The Greening Earth Society, Rush, Cato, and lots more. So this begs the question "why are these folks so obsessed with deflecting the connection between hurricans and global warming." The answer is simple, there are people dying out there and millions of dollars in property damage happening. People are freaking out. They're houses are destroyed, their communties desimated, their life's savings wiped out.

The last thing these groups want is serious attention being directed at the possiblity of this connection.

Even more critical, there is an election at stake here boys, and the key, once again, is Florida. If those poor Floridians ever considered for a moment that the environmental policies of the Bush & Co. was to blame for the havoc these huricans caused thier lives, they would switch thier party affiliation, permanetly.

Grover Norquist is "fuckin' Crazy"

2004-09-14T10:17:00.000-07:00

If you question Colin Powell description of neo-cons as "fucking crazies" perhaps you should read this essay from Grover Norquist.

OED Back Door

2004-09-13T11:30:00.000-07:00

This can't last long, but while it's open you should perform all you OED searches for free.

Score!

2004-09-09T15:55:00.000-07:00

We went to the California Academy of Sciences garage sale. Got there really late, but still picked up a few things, including this calculator. Last one sold on ebay for $150. This is probably my best thrift score.

Electoral Vote Predictor 2004

2004-09-08T10:38:00.000-07:00

A very informative web site that maps all the states, indicating which are battleground states, which are going to Kerry and which are going to Bush. It's updated daily so you can always get the most current numbers.

Kerry's taking a dive

2004-09-07T16:17:00.000-07:00

A while back I was telling people this commentary: You see, everyone’s been talking about how the Democratic Party is controlled by corporate interests. What they don’t realize is that while the Democrats are controlled by the corporations, the Republican Party is a multinational corporation. Cheney, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, and all the others are corporate heads, running the Republican Party and the U.S. Government on behalf of their clients.

Everyone’s complaining that Kerry's not doing a very good job of running his campaign. But the way I see it, Kerry is just taking a dive. His bosses on the other side said “look son, it’s just night your night. You’re takin’ a dive. You go down in the fifth.”

But then it occurred to me, Kerry's job is not to lose the election, he’s trying to completely take down the entire Democratic Party and create massive disillusionment amongst its members. Look at things objectively, you’ve got an incumbent President with one of the lowest approval rating ever, a quagmire of a war that the majority of the citizens are against, over a thousand U.S. troops killed in battle, a stagnant economy, and an exploding national debt and deficit. Anyone, and I mean anyone, could have galvanize the opposition and steal the election (in an honest way this time). This thing should be a slam-dunk. I don’t think anyone could have done a better job of taking the election, which has been handed over on a silver platter, and muddling it up so badly that things are still up for grabs.

Now I’m not saying that a Kerry Presidency would be any different from a Bush Presidency. What’s at stake here is the future of the Democratic Party. This election would have been a golden opportunity to unify the Party, increase its membership, bring the left wing back into the Party, regain the support of the youth, poor, working people, minorities, and others who have abandoned the Party over the years. That’s the one thing the corporations did not what to happen this year, and that is exactly what they got with Kerry.

Guide: Walnut Creek

2004-09-07T11:57:00.000-07:00

Walnut Creek is a really wacky town. Its downtown area is like one big open-air outdoor mall. For a while, we spent a lot of time visiting the shopping malls scattered about the Bay Area on weekends. After living in New York City for five years and San Francisco for ten, the shopping mall possessed a certain mystique and novelty. A very foreign concept to the urban dweller, the suburban shopping mall offered a peek inside the world of temperature controlled, TV-advertised chain stores, piped-in music, teen fashions, and bizarre themed-stores. Soon we became proficient in the various types of malls and mall terminology but after a while all the malls seemed the same, and it got pretty tiring.

We abandoned the whole mall scene until we found Walnut Creek. A very wealthy community, Walnut Creek transformed their downtown to a huge open-air upscale shopping mall. Now, it’s not unusual for a community to have a downtown shopping area, that’s precisely the point of building healthy communities, but Walnut Creek’s downtown shopping area is so creepily like an indoor shopping mall, except it’s in the downtown area of a residential community and the roof seems to be missing. There are fountains, curvy walkways, even streets, but walking along you feel just like you are in a controlled mall-like environment. I’m sure it’s entirely by design. I’m sure the entire area is owned, managed, and leased by a mall management corporation. I bet even the streets, which you can drive and park your car on, are outsourced. You almost feel like you are driving right into a mall and parking your car right by the big fountain in the middle of it. (The Bay Street Emeryville mall is another example, offering a similar open-air mall that mimics the traditional urban downtown.)

Adjacent to the mall is the old part of the city, where the streets are straight and connect at right angles to each other, the bubble gum splotched sidewalks have larger trees and you’ll find fewer chain stores. Some noteworthy shops in the alt town are Bonanza Street Books, Leonidas Belgian Chocolates, and the great pizza joint Tomatina.

Another thing that stands out is the wealth and opulence of the community. You’ll find all the trademark shops that your typically find in the more upscale shopping centers; Tiffany, Nordstrom, Coach, and an Apple store. Being so far removed from The City, Walnut Creek is comfortable in its demographic, racial profile, and lifestyle. I highly recommend a visit to those more used to the Lower Haight or East Village.

Michale Moore has removed 9/11 from Oscar consideration

2004-09-07T10:04:00.000-07:00

Have you seen this? Michael Moore has intentionally removed Fahrenheit 9/11 from Oscar consideration. Apparently there's some obscure rule that if a film is shown on broadcast TV within nine months of its theatrical debut then it's ineligible for Best Documentary consideration. Moore is pushing to get his film shown on TV very close to election day but naturally his distributors are none too pleased with that scenario. So he's already pulled 9/11 from consideration by not submitting it to the Academy. I think that that's a pretty cool move. It really sounds like that in the unlikely event that the film is shown on TV the night before the election that it would swing the election to the Democrats. If you haven't seen the film yet, let me know and I can hook you up. I can also hook you up with Outfoxed if you haven't seen that.

Fun piece about the NYC RNC

2004-09-01T13:24:00.000-07:00

I really liked this piece. I know I would have very mixed feelings if I was still living in New York City. I'm so glad The New York Press is not owned by New Times so it doesn't have that really lame New Times style of political satire.

Gilligan's Island, the Iraq war, and monetary theory

2004-09-01T12:50:00.000-07:00

It's amazing how when you take someting as simple and familar as Gilligan's Island, you can understand complex monetary theory about occupied nations.

Project Censored 2004

2004-09-01T12:38:00.000-07:00

I'm not usually one to toot my own horn (I hope) but I've been folowing the work of Project Censored long before I started working at the BG. Here is this year's crop of stories. I'm proably going to go through the page and try to add some links to it. Let me know if you have any ideas for links.

This is one of the coolest, most useful maps I've seen of NYC

2004-08-27T11:59:00.000-07:00

The People's Guide to the Republican National Convention is a free downloadable map designed specifically for all the protesters coming to New York City for the RCN. It lists all sorts of useful info from cheap restaurants to wifi hotspots to accessible bathrooms. I wish I had this when I started exploring New York all so many years ago.

DVD Bootlegs

2004-08-26T11:53:00.000-07:00

I discovered ebay and Half.com recently. I’m pretty embarrassed about it actually. I’ve always known those sites were out there, I have often used them in the past to help me get more accurate prices on used items, but I never really used them before. I’ve never been a goddamn addict before.

Like I said, I’m a bit embarrassed about coming into the whole ebay/half thing so late in the game. I feel like everyone has been there done that already with those sites. But I was mentioning something I just picked up this morning to a coworker. I mentioned that I picked up a pre-release promo copy of the new Stereolab on half.com and he said “what’s that.” OK, so I’m not the last one on Earth here, but I still feel like ebay/half is like AOL. It’s what how your grandmother uses the Internet.

It takes a while to get in the groove of the whole thing and figure it all out. You have to snipe. You have to have lots of wish-lists and favorites. You have to keep checking completed items prices. You have to be patient, waiting for the exact item you are looking for to come up. Don’t jump at it the first time. Check for items that have few bids on it already. Keep bidding until you get it for the price you want.

I’ve been really filling out my collections. I’ve got some great Lego sets. (I’ve seen some great Lego sets go for some shockingly high prices.) I’ve got some more antique thread to add to my collection. There are still a few things I haven’t gotten yet. I’ve still waiting to get a copy of the Andromeda Strain hexagonal vinyl. I’m still looking for the perfect vintage desktop Nixie tube calculator. One thing that did surprise me were the large number of Criterion Collection DVDs for sale on ebay and Half. Most of ‘em were still sealed. Most were selling for prices higher than DDD. I keep checking closing prices, trying to figure out which Criterions I could pick up for relatively low prices. I’ve gotten my first selection of Criterions from DDD but I’m still trying to fill it out, getting those gems that are on my wish list but not a must-have.

I finally got my first two. They arrived via the slow boat of Media Mail. The first came in and I was immediately saw a few things wrong with it. The package printing looked a little off, the disk printing seemed to have a different texture, and there were some strange package printing indicating something about Canada. After extensive research I feel that this is probably not a bootleg. It must be some sort of subsidiary licensing to a Canadian distributor. I’m still not sure. I can’t really find confirmation that there is a Canadian version of Traffic CC. All I know is that it’s not an official US release. Does it play perfectly, does it have all the bonus features, is the picture perfect, does it have a lower resale value? Yes, yes, yes, yes.

The second Criterion that I picked up off the Internet is Life of Brian. Again I knew something was amiss right away. It had the telltale DVD-9 sticker right there on the front. It also had the subtle odd silk-screening on the disk. After inspecting the disk, the next thing I did was to check out the seller’s rating on ebay. Wow, all I can say is I feel lucky to have even received the damn thing. This guy has the worst seller feedback I’ve ever seen. If I had read the feedback first, I would have never have purchased it in the first place. Suffice it to say, 96% positive feedback is a not a positive attribute. If you see a 96% positive feedback rating, stay away! Reading what others have said about their DVDs that they received from this seller I feel very confident that I am the proud owner of a genuine bootleg DVD.

How do I feel? Bad? Will I leave negative feedback? Of course? Will I send it back? No. I doubt I would get my money back. I would be out a couple of shipping fees. I would be out the disk and then start the whole search, snipe, search, snipe process all over again.

Besides, It’s fuckin’ Life of Brian! Fuckin’ Criterion Collection! Fuckin’ $40 DVD I picked up for $16!

At this point I’ll probably stop buy Criterion DVDs from anywhere except fully reputable dealers. I’m not worried about risks. I doubt I would have any playback problems with these Criterion bootlegs. I just don’t think it’s right. I really appreciate the work that Criterion puts out. They are a tremendous company and done way more then simply raising the bar for DVD quality. I’m still going to buy DVDs on the Internet. Lots of folks are selling things from their personal collection. There are lots of titles that probably not worth bootlegging. You can tell the difference. There’s no reason to restrict you used DVD purchases to walk-in stores. If you are careful, you can get a good deal and not get burned.

There is, however, one more thing that I might be picking up. There seem to be lots of box sets of Miyazaki/Ghibli films out there. These are some very cool items. Four-disk sets, seven-disk sets, with Totoro, Spirited Away, Kiki and all the others. These are great collections to own. Lots of his films are hard to find here in the States. Getting them all in one shot would be sweet. Buying a regular copy of Spirited will set you back about twenty bucks, (if you shop around). These sets go for as low as $35 and they stuffed with at least seven Miyazaki films. English, Japanese, dubbed, subtitled, pick a set, there seem to be a whole bunch to chose from on ebay. So why are my not jumping at one of these? Well for one thing they’re bootlegs. Yes, all of them. (It’s on the Internet, so it must be true.) Apparently these Miyazaki box sets are very popular items on the streets of Hong Kong, Singapore, and Shanghai. The packaging is very nice. I’m sure the quality is top notch. Good transfers and sound, high quality pressings.

The problem is of course I like Miyazaki. I think Totoro is the best kids movie ever made, period. I don’t like the idea of ripping him off. Ripping off the artist? From the same man with over 100 Gigs of MP3 (backup) music files? So, who really profits from the sale of DVDs? The filmmaker? The retailer? The distributor? I’m sure it follows the same general principle of music distro. I’m sure the studio/distributor gets the lion’s share of the cash and then they give out a few crumbs to the filmmaker. Yup, there’s no reason to think that whoever gets the US distribution rights to the Studio Ghibli films will make plenty of dough but funnel just a trickle back to Miyazani & Co.

See the problem get even more complex. Most of these films you can’t even buy on DVD here in the US yet. There are all kinds of crazy laws the MPAA and the WTO have set up keeping you from importing amine (and other foreign media) into the country. It’s not a censorship thing. It’s a copyright thing. What’s the difference? Very little.

However there is a rumor out there (on the Internet again) that a US distributor will be picking up all the Miyazaki/Ghibli films and giving them they premium treatment they deserve. We’re all very excited about that. Apparently Disney has done a very good job with Spirited Away.

Oh, so it’s Disney that owns the US rights to these films. So if I go on ebay, and I buy one of these Hong Kong box sets I’m ripping off Disney. Well, maybe I don’t feel so bad about it after all.

My Favorite “Easter Eggs”

2004-08-26T11:51:00.000-07:00

I guess my list of favorite DVD easter eggs is pretty short. There are really only two. Sure, lots of the DVDs I own and have rented have had these so-called easter eggs, but for the most part they are pretty lame. Most of ‘em really shouldn’t be even called easter eggs as they are really just part of the main menu structure.

To me, an easter egg should be very well hidden. It should be hard enough to find that one wouldn’t normally come across it in the normal course of exploring the DVD content. To me, a true easter egg should be very difficult to find and needs to be completely undocumented, ie., should not be listed on the DVD box as a bonus feature.

Like I said, my list of favorite DVD easter eggs only includes two. The first one on the list is from Zoolander. That easter egg, like most true easter eggs, we would never have found if it were not for the Internet. That really should be another criterion to define a true easter egg. You must have found it on the Internet. It needs to be obscure enough so that no one would ever find it except for the truly obsessive compulsive DVD fan. That, or someone who can use Google.

The easter egg on Zoolander is very cool. If you don’t know the film, Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson plays these dumb-ass male models. It’s a very funny, under appreciated film. The easter egg shows Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson practicing, trying desperately, to learn how to walk and move like a professional model. They do pretty good, considering. But they are very honest about their limitations and it is a true gem.

The other great easter egg may not necessarily be classified as a true easter egg. It may be viewed as a primary feature of the DVD package. The easter egg may be found on disk two of Memento Limited Edition. It is very difficult to find. To be honest everything on that DVD is hard to find. It comes with no instructions, no really documentation of any sort. And all the menus are essentially a series of bizarre multiple-choice psychological tests.

However I uncovered how to find this easter egg, I pretty much purchased this DVD just for this Easter Egg, on the Internet. And if you’ve ever seen Memento, once (or twice or three times) you’d probably wish, wow I’d love to see this film with everything in the correct order. Well, surprise, surprise, you can if you get the Memento Limited Edition. Look for the plain blue box that looks like a medial records file folder. If you look hard enough you will find the word Memento on the box but it won’t say anything anywhere about “see the film reedited with all the scenes in chronological order.”

Now is the time to consider instituting a wealth tax

2004-08-26T11:49:00.000-07:00

National, state, and local governments are seeing tremendous budgetary shortfalls that trickle down to local communities and resulting in massive cutbacks in all areas of public spending. These cutbacks affect police, fire, schools, parks, sanitation, healthcare, housing, arts, transit, water, and many other areas. We are essentially seeing our community and its infrastructure being slowly dismantled.

Look around you. Take a drive around our fine city. What do you see? In addition to crumbling schools, unsafe playgrounds, homelessness, and dirty streets, you also see thousands of luxury cars, fancy houses, and upscale restaurants. This city does not have a shortage of money. What is has is a faulty way of collecting and allocating its resources.

I think it’s time to look at a wealth tax for the city. This is not such an unusual idea. While the U.S. does not currently have a tax on wealth, many other countries do, including Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.

A wealth tax is a highly progressive tax that applies to large holders of wealth, applied to things like stocks, bonds, trusts, business equity, and non-residence real estate (principle residence, life insurance, and bank deposits could be exempt).

The basic exclusion would begin at $100,000 -- only families with a net worth above $100,000 would be subject to the tax. The marginal tax structure would look as follows:

* $100,000 to $199,999: 0.03 percent
* $200,000 to $349,999: 0.07 percent
* $350,000 to $499,999: 0.11 percent
* $500,000 to $749,999: 0.15 percent
* $750,000 to $999,999: 0.20 percent
* $1,000,000 and above: 0.25 percent

I am not proposing a national wealth tax, although a national system was proposed by Edward N. Wolff in the Boston Review. What I am proposing is a strictly local system, paid for by San Francisco residents and directly benefiting the city of San Francisco.

The benefits would be tremendous. With this additional source of revenue, San Francisco would become even more of a world-class city. It could have the best parks, the best Symphony, the best opera, the best museums, the best schools, and the cleanest streets. By utilizing its personal wealth infrastructure we could enhance the city in unimaginable ways, greatly expanding its vital tourist trade.

Critics might scoff and say that a system like that is unworkable, that people could easily hide their wealth in tax shelters. Sure, that’s a possibility, but I feel that the wealthy residents of this city are also its biggest boosters. They love the city they live in. They love its culture, parks, and architecture. And they would be glad to pay their fair share in order to protect what they love. And everyone thinks this city is something worth protecting.

We're back from Gold Beach

2004-08-26T10:28:00.000-07:00

Well, we’re back in from our vacation and have returned to cold, foggy San Francisco. We had a wonderful time and are very appreciative to all who joined us and helped make this trip even better. If you didn’t make it this time and have never been to the Southern Oregon Coast I highly recommend you make the trip. It’s really beautiful, relatively close to the Bay Area, and for the most part surprisingly unspoiled.

Here are a few photos I took. I hope you enjoy them. f you want a better quality version of any photo please let me know and I’ll send you one.

Miriam and Sage in the Redwoods

2004-08-26T09:51:00.000-07:00

This is a nice shot of Miriam and Sage standing under two huge redwood trees. I believe this hiking trail is in the Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park.

Port Orford

2004-08-26T09:47:00.000-07:00

Here is a photo of as extremely picturesque shot of one of the beaches at Port Orford. One of these days I want to move to the town of Port Orford. Not for this beach (there's a much better beach on the other side of these rocks) but because it's one of the best small towns I've ever visited.

Myer's Creek Beach

2004-08-26T09:46:00.000-07:00

Here is another one of Myer's Creek. You can see the boulders much closer.

Night photo

2004-08-26T09:45:00.000-07:00

Here is another night photo/self portrait. This one is highlighted by a flash to grab a shot of me bending down, then it's a 13 second exposure of my waving a burning log around. This is one of my favorites.

Night photo

2004-08-26T09:42:00.000-07:00

Here is one of many experiments in night photography. It is also one of many experiments in self-portraiture. Shown here is Mark, myself, and Phil (I believe). I think it's a 10 second exposure. I ran into the shot after I opened the shutter (you can see the blur). Mark apparently likes to move around a bit while he talks.

Myer's Creek Beach

2004-08-26T09:39:00.000-07:00

I believe those lovely rocks off in the distance is our favorite beach, Myer's Creek. This photo was taken from up top Cape Sebastian. It's a lovely hike around Cape Sebastian, which is unfortunately usually shrouded in fog. This was a particular clear day and I got this great shot.

Chow time

2004-08-26T09:35:00.000-07:00

This is the picnic table outside our cabin.
Sabine, Phil, Miriam, Sage, Christine, Rose, Anna, and Mark

Here are a bunch of folks hanging out at our favorite swimming hole

2004-08-26T09:31:00.001-07:00

There's Miriam, Sage, Jules, Grant, and Heather

Here is Sage, holding a snake that we caught together

2004-08-26T09:31:00.000-07:00