Dave Quick - 345 Photography

Ariel over at Microspotting sent me this tshirt a while back and I just now got a chance to post a picture with me in it.  Thanks Ariel.

The 1981 Mercedes 240D behind me is the family tank.  It’s a wonderful little machine that just keeps on going.  We got it last year in September and have absolutely loved it.  The rubber fuel lines were replaced with viton cables and the sludge in the fuelk tank flushed in preparation of running biodieselfull time.  We have run B99 in it since then.  It runs much quieter (greater lubricity) and with much less soot.  It is a great addition to our family.  There are plenty of places around the area to fill up with B99 and it’s the second car we’ve been running biodiesel in. 

The car’s name is Tralfaz.  We have a tradition of picking car names from the Jetsons cartoon show.  Tralfaz was the original name of Astro before he was found and adopted by the Jetsons, in case you didn’t know.

BTW - did you realize Microsoft is doing lots of good in the promotion of biodiesel?

• Article 1: started converting grease and oil from its kitchens to biodiesel
• Article 2: while building our new data center which gets most power through Hydroelectric generators: The trucks ferrying cement to and from the massive building site and equipment used inside the first building are all powered with biodiesel made from Washington-grown canola oil. 

Pretty awesome to see a big company promoting something my wife Sam (She’s the one who knows way more about it than I do! She got me into thinking of buying Tralfaz!) and I are into.  Sam is a member of the NW Biodiesel Network and thier site is an excellent resource to find out more information to educate yourself about biodiesel.

The boys were not all that interested in posing last night while I was experimenting with more off camera flash - but I’m getting fast enough that it doesn’t take that long for me to setup thankfully.

Couple photos from the Heritage Festival. TLS is Greg’s old school - he still enjoys going to the events to see old friends from there. The heritage festival is kind of like a talent show/pot luck combined where people share food and traditions of their family/culture.

Photo for Photo Friday.

Stephen McKamey is a friend of mine from my days at MyFamily.com - he’s a good dev and he’s recently released his own json library called FsonFx. It’s a nice bit of code from the looks of it.
It features:

• build time compilation of client libraries,
• has JSON-RPC 2.0 support,
• does everything it can to optimize bandwidth usage an minimize round trips to the server (think YSlow: Grade A!),
• supports Useragent Specific CSS with a goal of “no hacky CSS per browser”,
• allows for client side globalization,
• and allows manipulation of the browser back button history to your liking (often a problem wiht ajax apps not working the way users expect them to).

So if you’re looking for a library and you’re writing .Net you should check it out - I like it and hope you will too.

Light at 1 ft above face 3 feet left and total of about 4 feet away - flash at 1/16 manual power through a westcott white umbrella.

Wordle.net is a site capable of producing images that include the relative # of times a word comes up in a chunk of text (often referred to as word clouds) to help you visualize the chunk of text it just analyzed.  The bigger the word the more often it was used.  I just ran the acceptance speech for each presidential and vice-presidential candidate through it for amusement.

Obama	McCain
Biden	Palin

I find it interesting that the themes (as I see them) for the presidential acceptances were “Promise / Change / America can” for Obama and “Country / Fight / Fought” for McCain.

Just thought it was a neat visualization technology.

Des Moines, WA - this event seems to get better every year. Many exotics and tons of Italian car fanatics. The directors of that event put on a great show.

We went to visit the family in Ohio this August. This is my sister-in-law’s cat. They live on the coolest sleepy little midwest street where all the homes have character and look like it’s out of a movie. I loved it.

Greg at Lilia’s birthday party - it was at a great little swim club in Bellevue that we had never heard of or been in before. Everyone had a blast even though Greg was a little tentative at first.