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It’s snowing in tilden park today!

flickr — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:50:05 +0000

It’s snowing in tilden park today!, originally uploaded by tiki.robot.

Tiki Resurrection

flickr — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:41:45 +0000

After a long hiatus, George made an appearance at Mike’s 35th bday bbq!

Saz made George back in 2003 to preside over the TikiCrawler. Max made the tronix for the fire, and foo did the welding for the frame.

The TikiCrawler was an awesome group project.. We need a new project this year! Also, I need a TikiCrawler to drive around the city. Even hammocks are faster than muni :)

Photo credits: mike and catweasel!

Gorgeous Sunset over the Pacific… With Paragliders!

rajbot — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:41:05 +0000

Check out this sunset timelapse that Mike shot using CHDK. Paragliders streak across the sky like lasers!

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Stunning Timplapse Sunset Over the Pacific

rajbot — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:44:30 +0000

Check out this gorgeous timelapse that Mike made:

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Haleakala Sunset Timelapse

rajbot — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:09:49 +0000

Check out this gorgeous timelapse Mike shot from the Haleakala summit in Maui using CHDK.

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Mike’s B-day!

rajbot — Thu, 31 May 2007 06:36:07 +0000

For Mike’s b-day we went to Little Baobab for dinner and then Bissap Baobab for drinks. I know, we got it backwards, but it was great! Here are some pics:

There were some awesome musicians at Little Baobab who were playing a cajón, a Peruvian drum that looks like a box. Somehow I’d never seen or heard one before!

You Need to Get This Done Right Now!

peliom — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 23:01:45 +0000

Over at 43 Folders today there is fantastic post about how to prioritize all the crap going on in your life without getting stressed out. This is the core of the GTD philosphy and if you don’t feel like reading the book, at least read this post. Dig on this quote ….

Let’s look at a few challenges that, over the past six months, have faced a notional Worker Bee, leading him to generate high-priority tasks.

You learn you got a citation from those choads in the Homeowner’s Association, and they declare that if you don’t remove that El Camino from your front yard today, they’ll start fining you $200 a day.
Your favorite client emailed you a freakin’ week ago, and you still haven’t responded. You fear that your relationship will be permanently damaged if you don’t respond this morning.
Your bank account is overdrawn and you have to make a deposit or else the late fees and penalties will go up and up and up.
Your sister leaves a voicemail saying that if you don’t pick up the crap you left in her garage, she’s throwing it out tomorrow. Your Boba Fett action figure and Dungeon Master’s Guide are in that garage, and you can’t bear the thought of losing them.

What to do? What to do?

Link to “Priorities Don’t Exist In a Vacuum”

The Graffiti Warehouse

rajbot — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:39:30 +0000

Mike explored an abandoned warehouse full of beautiful graffiti and took lots of pictures:

Daly City Sunset Timelapse

peliom — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 21:04:13 +0000

Mike has made another fantastic timelapse! Mike sez:

I took some pictures of Thursday night’s sunset from a crumbling clifftop in Daly City.

Notes:

Yes, the speed changes partway through – I switched from capturing to the laptop (slow) to capturing to the camera card (faster).

Theres a line in the water, growing from the right. The ebb tide from the Bay?

The animation runs from 7:40 to 9:05 (pm).

1700 frames, 30fps.

The clouds jump right out of the screen and I love the way the fog rolls in at the end.

Link to stunning 1280×720 version (30MB).
Link to various smaller versions.

Timelapse movies from Mike McCabe and Larry Foard

rajbot — Sun, 07 May 2006 07:30:43 +0000

Mike made this great timelapse of the sunrise in the Alabama Hills:

Larry made a bunch of pretty timelapses of San Francisco. I like the Kite Hill sunset one..