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toy shopping

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Jason (Jes’ brother) and Jia (his fiance) are visiting us from New York this weekend. Actually, Jason will be with us for a month and Jia is here for a long weekend. They flew in yesterday and we took them out to dinner and helped them pick out a birthday gift for a 4-year-old. There’s a neat little toy shop at the Spectrum that offers free gift wrapping. So, we picked out a mini train set and as we waited for the wrapping, we played with the little spring-loaded cars and took silly pictures with the animals.

Checking it out.

For a while now, I’ve been conflicted about which photo site to use. I’ve stuck with KodakGallery for a long time and still feel like it’s the best fit for me. But I’m also trying Google’s photo gallery thing as well but the features are still quite limited. Also, after much resistance, I’m trying out Flickr. I can see the appeal but something about it still doesn’t work for me.

Pros:

  • Cool blogging feature (I’m writing this blog within the blog integration section of the Flickr site right now.)
  • If you join a group, you get a good amount of feedback on your photos from random people.
  • It’s a good way to share photos with random people and your friends.

Cons:

  • Not the best user interface
  • Feels too much like My Space or Friendster
  • Not integrated with Picasa
  • You have to pay money in order to have unlimited storage
  • UPDATE 12/6: Flickr is blocked at work so I can’t see the top photo in this post on my work computer. Boo…

There you have it…my two cents. Here’s my Flickr photostream. These are the only ones I have uploaded so far. They’re the only ones I am willing to make public to the Flickr world.

full moon fun

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There’s a full moon out tonight and what better way to appreciate it than to take some night photos! I got a spooky photo of us being ghosts. The photo was taken in complete darkness and was lit only by the moonlight. I shot it at f3.5 at 30 seconds and we jumped in there for only a couple seconds. Neato!! The other photo is Shady Canyon (the street leading up to the exlusive homes up the hill from us).

the streak is broken

UCLA beats USC

After seven years of losing to USC, we not only upset (13-9) the Trojans but kept them from going to the National Championship! Awesome. I guess crossing all of my fingers and toes really worked this time. Haha. Yay Bruins!!

Dog can catch.

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After our morning walk, Koa ran around the house looking for his ball. He brought it over to me and we started playing the usual toss-the-ball-and fetch game. Well, I bounced the ball on the floor and he caught it in mid-air! I thought, “Hm, that was probably a fluke.” So I did it again and he caught it again! I had to get it on video so I could show off his new trick to the world. (Click on the photo above.) You’ll need QuickTime in order to play the video.