I like the track. The guitars have somewhat of an Achtung Baby feel to them. 

Here’s the link if you want to give a listen:  http://goyb.u2.com/

Congratulations on your second order Jenn! I’m sure there’ll be many more to come!!

I’m pretty excited about the MLB season getting underway too. The M’s also play their first game of the season on Monday, against Texas.

A final note, I know he debuted last year but I just find it amusing that the Reds have a pitcher named “Homer Bailey”. While I hear he has definite potential, I just think that name is a bad omen for a pitcher.

Check out this cool widget from the official site to view the trailer.

Jenn and I had a lot of fun with this and apparently it’s all the rage as a guy at my work also did everyone in my department.

Click this link for some “Simpsonizing” magic:

http://simpsonizeme.com/#

I’ve also been working on another group of Christian sites, one of which will sell various apparel. For this site I’ve been learning a lot more about the capabilities of Flash in terms of coding and animation methods to design the intro. You can see it here While this has been pretty cool, my client has some pretty specific ideas of what they want and it tends to conflict with my personal tastes. I prefer a cleaner look and feel and more subdued colors. Oh well, that’s what this site is for…which reminds me, I’m planning to overhaul the look of this blog when I get some spare time. Yet another site I’ve been working on is Jenn’s custom scrapbooking site, gautierdesigns.com I setup a pretty nice gallery to display her custom designs and pre-made products she will be selling. Now we just need to get more images posted. She also setup an eBay seller account for her company so I have a gallery specifically for auction items, so she can display as many images as she wants without having to pay eBay.

On to the real reason for this post…I’ve finally posted Ella’s professional portraits. I was very impressed with how these pictures turned out. The scans don’t quite do them justice but you can really see how red her hair is against the black background.

Until next time…

Who know perhaps one day I’ll have a tablet PC made ou of the stuff and I ‘ll be posting to this blog with a pencil and a peice of electronic paper!! Funny how in our advancements sometimes we end up coming full circle. At any rate, I think it’s some fascinating technology. You can read the entire article and see a picture here.

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Much of our free time was spent at collectibles shops such as Collector’s Gallery, The Toy Stable (literally a barn full of toys) and Nybbles and Bytes, as well as almost daily trips to Toys R Us and Target (dubbed “the T’s”). Speaking for myself, I think the idea of having my own Sci-Fi shop was particularly appealing following my entrance into the workforce through the glorius avenue of fast food, more specifically 9 months of Taco Bell I remember we were brimming with excitement at the possibility of the idea and began gathering info about starting a business. Additionally, Jason and I decided we needed to start building our inventory of collectibles. With the phenominal inflation of the original Star Wars toys, we figured we would buy some of the popular items of the day, hold onto them for a while and (hopefully) be able to sell them for a profit down the road. I don’t remember all of the items we accumulated ( perhaps Jason can contribute in a comment) but most of them were Sci-Fi related, including some Star Trek figures. We bought some items from the clearance bins at Toys R Us. Our logic was that these being the less popular items would be in short supply in the future and therefore be valuable to collectors. This was the case with the original Power of the Force line of Star Wars figures and we figured it would happen again. Perhaps it didn’t occur to us that maybe everyone already had these toys and the market was saturated. Anyway, my discovery while cleaning was actually some prototype logos (adorning this post) that I had drawn for our shop. The name we had decided on was the simple and rather generic “The Sci-Fi Shoppe”. I remember that we insisted on the more quaint “shoppe” spelling of the word. I’m not sure how long we pursued this idea but gradually I think it gave way to other, more immediate, interests and responsibilities. I was just out of high school that year and attending my second year at Tacoma Community College and became preoccupied with deciding on my area of study. While It was a short-lived dream, it’s fun to think back to that time in my life. An interesting point of irony is that, in the process of cleaning my office, I have decided to get rid of a good chunk of my Star Wars collection. I know, don’t fret, I haven’t completely lost my mind!! I still plan on keeping a number of my favorite items, including my Han Solo collection and prized die-cast sets. A section of my office will still look like a small toy store, as it has been labeled on several occasions. This will continue to be my monument to a dream never realized but not forgotten. Ok, enough of this corniness, I’m done.

The stamps will be issued on a single sheet, however, as of March 28th, voting will be open to the public to determine the most popular stamp. The winning stamp be be issued individually this summer. You can vote for your favorite here http://www.uspsjedimaster.com/

I’ve looked over the stamps and think they are very cool. Though my Star Wars collecting nowadays is very minimal, I will definatley have to get these!! I’m having trouble deciding which is the best one though. My favorites are Yoda, the Stormtroopers, the Millenium Falcon and Han and Chewie. Since Star Wars really is the “Skywalker Saga” perhaps the more appropriate choices to be the single representing stamp are Luke or Darth Vader. You can read the entire article and view each stamp here:

http://www.starwars.com/collecting/news/misc/news20070328.html