Conference

A funny notebook I picked up in J-Town, posted mainly to show Gabe the odd English. The spelling is fine, and it makes sense as a sentence. It's just odd because no native English speaker would say something like this to try and sell a product. The picture is a little too fuzzy to read, it says "When I changed concept, I could see genuine articles. A reliable brand selected by those with good taste."

The Hat

Just a picture of what a pastrami sandwich and chili-cheese fries look like from The Hat. The food is soooo good.

Holiday Dinner

A picture of our wonderful departmental luncheon. I paid $15 to attend but got a $5 Trader Joe's card in return, so this was only $10. It doesn't really look like $10 worth though. Next year the person planning the luncheon will have more time to plan, so it should be 100% better.

Phoenix Books

While in San Luis Obispo, Libby and I shopped at Phoenix Books and bought these...
1. Tuva or Bust
2. The Decline of the Intellectual
3. How to Solve It
4. The Good Citizen's Handbook
5. Sophie's World

Christmas Tree

A picture of a Christmas tree at Hearst Castle. The people you see sitting in the foreground are docents, volunteers who dress like guests of William Randolph Hearst during the 30's to add some spark to the tour. There isn't a ton to do in the area, but Hearst Castle is definitely worth seeing if you're in the area. San Simeon isn't far from San Luis Obispo either, so that may be the place to spend the rest of your time.

Hearst Castle Bell Towers

A view of Hearst Castle from the outside by night. It was a very nice sight.

Hearst Castle

The outside pool at Hearst Castle. It's 10 feet deep at the near end, and 3 feet at the far end.

Yay! This is my 100th picture posted!

Little Sur Inn

The Inn we stayed at in Cambria.

Elephant Seal

Okay, so this little guy isn't quite 7,000 pounds. But he will be some day, if he isn't eaten by a shark first.

Elephant Seals are Dangerous

Remember kids, a severely territorial 7,000 pound marine mammal with huge canine teeth isn't part of a petting zoo. Keep back!

This Bird Has Flown

A 40th Anniversary Tribute to The Beatles' Rubber Soul

Book Shelf #5

Left to right...
1. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam
2. Xaipe
3. Those Who Ride the Night Winds
4. Planet News
5. Pomes All Sizes
6. Meditations on First Philosophy
7. Machiavelli, A Short Introduction
8. The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
9. Chess
10. American Politics
11. The Second Treatise on Civil Government
12. Japanese for Busy People
13. The Prince
14. Essentials of World History
15. Boy Scout Handbook
16. Boy Scout Fieldbook
17. Personal Finance for Dummies
18. Various notebooks
19. A First Course in Computational Physics
20. An Introduction to Computer Simulation Methods
21. Object-Oriented Modeling and Design
22. Designing the User Interface

Book Shelf #4

Left to right...
1. Statistical Treatment of Experimental Data
2. Mac OS X Hacks
3. University Physics, Young&Friedman
4. Signals and Systems, Schaum's Outlines
5. Relativity
6. The Cathedral & the Bazaar
7. Analysis of Numerical Methods
8. Mechanics of Materials
9. Sed & Awk
10. Installing, Configuring and Administering Windows XP Professional
11. Geek Girl
12. Learn How to Program Using Any Web Browser
13. Microsoft Office 2003
14. Photoshop CS
15. PHP and MySQL
16. Problem Solving and Program Design in C
17. DNS on Windows NT
18. MySQL & mSQL
19. Learning Perl
20. admin911 Windows 2000 Registry

Book Shelf #3

Various newspapers on the top. From left to right...
1. Principles of Quantum Mechanics
2. The Art of UNIX Programming
3. Mac OS X, Missing Manual Series
4. Hacking the XBox
5. The Pragmatic Programmer
6. Joel on Software
7. Managing Internet Information Systems
8. The Elements of Programming Style
9. Windows NT Shell Scripting
10. Coder to Developer
11. Professional Linux Programming
12. Windows NT TCP/IP Network Administration
13. God and the New Physics
14. A Brief History of Time
15. Cryptology
16. Modern Physics
17. Linux Shell Scripting with Bash
18. Beginning Linux Programming
19. Computational Physics
20. Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers

Book Shelf #2

Laying horizontal from top...
1. Slaughterhouse-Five
2. Welcome to the Monkey House
3. The Diamond Age

From left to right...
4. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
5. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
6. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
7. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
8. God Emperor of Dune
9. Signal to Noise
10. Rurouni Kenshin Vol. 1
11. Rurouni Kenshin Vol. 2
12. Rurouni Kenshin Vol. 3
13. Rurouni Kenshin Vol. 4
14. Rurouni Kenshin Vol. 5
15. Rurouni Kenshin Vol. 6
16. Rurouni Kenshin Vol. 7
17. Rurouni Kenshin Vol. 8
18. Naruto Vol. 1
19. Hikaru No Go Vol. 1
20. Cowboy Bebop Shooting Star Vol. 1
21. Heretics of Dune
22. Children of Dune
23. Chapterhouse Dune
24. Requiem for a Dream
25. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
26. Altered Carbon
27. Pattern Recognition
28. The Forest

Book Shelf #1

Top shelf in the office, the books are (numbering from left)...
1. Art of Deception
2. The Mind of God
3. Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
4. The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics
5. Feynman Lectures on Computation
6. Dune: House Atreides
7. Dune: House Harkonnen
8. Contact
9. The Book of Mormon
10. Battle Royale Vol. 1
11. A Beautiful Mind
12. Guns, Germs and Steel
13. The Jungle
14. 2001: A Space Odyssey
15. London

Christmas Lights

Haven't updated in over a week because I haven't had any pictures to post. But now it's approaching Christmas and Libby and I just got back from a small vacation, so I have more pictures to show!

Outside of our apartment, the palm trees are decorated for the holidays.

Emerald Bay

A view of Emerald Bay in Lake Tahoe.

Breast-Krispies

Christy and Kim (sister and friend) made these breast-krispies for Josh's birthday (Christy's bf). Those are some rather dark aureolas.

Feather River

From the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, Feather River by Chuck Forsman. I mainly like it for the frame.

Chocolate

The sign as you leave the Chocolate Bar in Reno, NV.

Java Sushi

So the day after Thanksgiving we went to Java Sushi. All you can eat sushi, and it was pretty good too.

Thanksgiving

A plate from Thanksgiving dinner. Christy's friend Steph make the pumpkin, it was pretty good, and really added to the atmosphere.

Angus in the Scion

On Thanksgiving day we took Angus for a ride in the Scion on our way for a walk. He was a well behaved dog, and the back of the Scion is great for hauling dogs with the seats down.

Mountains around Truckee

Just down the road from my sister's place while we were taking Angus on a walk.

SoCo

Well, this bottle was full before our party. And we only had six people there. I think I had most of it. Ugh.... and it was 100 proof too!

Luke Skywalker

I'm sorry, Luke Skywalker was not a buff guy in the movies, and he wasn't supposed to be. He's a whiny farm kid who just wants to go to Hachi Station with his friends.

Korean BBQ

Libby and I went out for Korean BBQ with Ching and Emmy last weekend. I'm posting this pic so when my mom eventually comes out to visit, she can see what she'll be eating =)

Coyote

Another picture from Cabela's, a coyote going after a pheasant.

Bush

Found on the corner of National and Motor.

Science Foods?

What's so scientific about it?

Toddlers

I think this is some kind of food... maybe. It could be japanese happy poison.

Milky

This kid kind of creeps me out.

Pocky

We went to the asian market down the street from us and I took a picture of their nice selection of Pocky. More to come in the future.

Oatmeal Raisin

Libby didn't specifically make the cookies for the party, but we had them anyway. And there were yummy! Thanks Libby!!

Cupcakes!

Elaine was nice enough to make cupcakes for our party. Thanks Elaine!

Pa and I

Another picture taken at Cabela's, I can't remember what was special about this buck though.

Rawr!!

I just had to post this picture because it's so funny. This is Libby being wild at Cabela's, looking more ferocious than the brown bear behind her.

Living Room

Since I haven't really posted any pictures of our apartment, this is a picture of our living room. On the right by the window you'll notice our brand new tv stand, now we can watch our tiny tv in style =)

Idoru

Idol Land had a lot of good manga, makes me wish I could read kanji. But it's no Dollywood.

Heavy Noodling

A restaurant in Montery Park. I used to do some heavy noodling back in high school, but I've moved on to hard liquor.

Bear Hole

My sister and her friends were witness to a bear tearing a hole in her garage door trying to get at some leftover dog food. Here is Josh looking through the hole.

Typical

Like it says, the #1 World Record Typical Mule Deer.

Proghorn

I liked this middle Proghorn Antelope, it has a very non-typical set of horns.

West Virginian Safari

This is a group of mounted animals in Cabela's African safari section. You can't really tell, but the zebra has its tongue sticking out in the classic dead animal pose. I like that touch.

Grandma Lester

A picture of my Grandma Lester when we were visiting on vacation. She gave us a jar of absolutely delicious jam, it's just so yummy.

Matt

Last pet picture, I promise. This is my parents' cat Matt, looking rather wild with his mouth open like that.

Sandy

Not the best picture of Sandy, but you get the idea. Yet another of my parents' cats.

Amish Parking

A notice on the side of a parking area in Spartansburg. There is a lot of Amish living in that area.