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TopJump

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Holy crap Bat­man! As I was comb­ing through my Flickr com­ments this past week­end, I stum­bled upon Chrispi­tal­ity’s (aka. Chris Clarke). I then saw a good amount of “bed jump­ing” pho­tos on his Flickr stream. I was so intrigued why he has so much, that I found out that he devel­oped BedJump.com.

What an awe­some and fun site. Some­thing that is worth vis­it­ing if you need a quick break from work, or just need to let loose. I just can’t believe how high some of these peo­ple were get­ting. I was so enter­tained that I had to sub­mit a cou­ple of bed jump shots in my stream.

Here’s how the extra bed jump­ing pho­tos from SD turned out.

Thanks to Chris for the extra time he put in to mak­ing one out­ra­geous pre­sen­ta­tion. Good times indeed!

The 70–200 Conversation

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So, I haven’t done one of these in a while. I was con­vers­ing with Juan about what gear to pack for my Big Island trip next week. Com­ing up with at least these:

  • 20D + SD400
  • 17–35/2.8–4
  • 28–75/2.8
  • bat­ter­ies + chargers

He then sug­gested to bring the 70–200 as well. Now, for those non-shutterbug geeks, this lens is huge and heavy but it packs a wallop.

Any­ways, here’s how it ended:

juan: (-) addi­tional weight w/ the above pack
juan: ?!?!?!?!?!?
juan: what good is work­ing out if you can’t carry an extra 10 pounds?!
juan: wuss
juan: I’ll fight you
*** “juan” signed off at Wed Jul 26 00:39:08 2006.

Oh man, that cracks me up HA! This guy keeps it real =p

Zooomr Re-relaunched

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Despite an unfor­tu­nate road block (i.e. DoS attack) this past Fri­day, Zooomr’s TechCrunch a cou­ple of months ago? Well, besides the splash screen above which stayed up for a cou­ple of days, I haven’t seen all the fea­tures yet first hand.

I remem­ber briefly strolling through the site in March and dig­ging the way Google Maps have been inte­grated, a tweaked ver­sion of Light­Box in the form of… LightMap. Fast-forward to about a week or so ago, the lat­est news would have to be Flickr’s Thomas Hawk telling us his rea­son­ing behind his move to Zooomr. That was prob­a­bly the time where inter­est grew in check­ing back with Zooomr’s happenings.

If you don’t know, Thomas Hawk shoots A LOT of pho­tos of his beloved SF. He’s a very well known Flick­rite among other greats. So, I was inter­ested in see­ing what would make some­one who loved Flickr so much to be a “Chief Evan­ge­list” of another photo-sharing site.

Mean­while, here I am… inter­ested. Now, through the rab­bit hole… (to be continued)

Guess Who’s Back?

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Just got back from SoCal this morn­ing. I flew South­west since they have a good rewards pro­gram. That, and I can fly to either Bur­bank and/or LAX air­ports near home-home.

Any­ways, its been a long time since New Year’s that I’ve seen home-home. The weather was great. It was around the cool 70’s the whole week­end. Although, it was driz­zling a lit­tle bit Fri­day morn­ing but the clouds scat­tered and made room for some great sunshine.

Mean­while, it was great to see friends and fam. Fri­day night was a “Tacky Fun­due” party at Belle and Cicely’s pad.

Fruits, veg­eta­bles, choco­late, sausage, chips, cheese… you name it—it all god dipped. That, some Atomic Bomber­man four-play and some Twister made the night a non-stop action event. Too bad the city of San Gabriel makes you get a park­ing per­mit for $3.00 if you ain’t a resident.

Then came Sat­ur­day. It was Cat’s lit­tle shindig, cel­e­brat­ing her grad­u­a­tion from ICO/Chicago. Con­grats Dr. El Gato, and wel­come to the real world!

Besides the great food and com­pany at Cat’s new pad in East Chula Vista, it was an early night to turn in. Belle, Cicely, Jay, Jovan and Lou were about to wake up early to go to the Mud Run. So Ry and I just went back to the hotel with them.

Fast-forward a bit. There were a lot of par­tic­i­pants come to think of it. I expected it to be some­what smaller but was just proven wrong. I guess it just grew through­out the years since its inception.

Mean­while, the race was split into two cat­e­gories, one for indi­vid­u­als and the other for teams. The over­all win­ner fin­ished his 10k-run around 46 min­utes! This guy was fast. We saw him zoom by at the start, and fin­ish right away when Ryan and I walked towards the last obsta­cle course.

Over­all, it was an awe­some expe­ri­ence. Def­i­nitely a great event to go to, shoot and cheer on friends and run­ners a like. I’m look­ing for­ward to doing it next year with more peeps. As usual, the more the merrier.

I Love Mud

From my mind to yours, just because its San Diego doesn’t mean that the weather doesn’t cool down to the low 50s. Stay classy, San Diego.

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