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Science Olympiad 2010 Woodstock Regional

The Woodstock regional tournament for the B division of the 2010 Science Olympiad competition. Includes photos of events and video of some building events. More information about Science Olympiad may be found at http://soinc.org/.

Feb 27, 2010

Photos: 88

Georgia Tech Night at the Aquarium

Georgia Tech students were invited to check out the Georgia Aquarium.

Feb 11, 2010

Photos: 56

Campaign for Liberty 2010 Regional Conference

Congressman Ron Paul, Campaign for Liberty president John Tate, and several special guests gathered in Atlanta to talk about ways that we can continue working to reclaim our Republic and restore our Constitution.

Jan 15, 2010

Photos: 9

Capricorn Birthday Party

Kris, Travers, and the other Capricorns from our platoon of nerds celebrated their birthdays at Ghini's new place.

Jan 9, 2010

Photos: 10

Atari's Birthday

For his birthday, Atari wanted to go to Monster Mini Golf.

Jan 2, 2010

Photos: 34

New Year's 2010

Big party at Lorigami and Jennie's.

Dec 31, 2009

Photos: 39

Christmas 2009

My immediate family all came down to my place for the holiday, and to pick up my sister's posessions from my basement as she reurned, at last, from her years long residence in Mauritius. The family got together for the first time back in the United States in a long time, joined by perrenial honorary family member Jessica.

Dec 25, 2009

Photos: 26

Google Christmas Party 2009

The annual Google holiday party was this year at the trendy Buckhead club Tongue and Groove. Densely populated with sparsely dressed cocktail waitresses, and thick with guests, music, and drinks, it was a fun, fashionable, and once again memorable holday event.

Dec 11, 2009

Photos: 4

Ghini's Housewarming

Housewarming party for Alberghini's new abode, and I believe the first home he has owned.

Nov 28, 2009

Photos: 1

Thanksgiving 2009

Laura and I joined Cliff and Lucky along with Ken at Cliff's mom and Phil's home for Thanksgiving dinner.

Nov 26, 2009

Photos: 5

I Fight Dragons and MC Chris

World-leading NES rock band I Fight Dragons and nerdcore hiphop artiist MC Chris are on tour with Whole Wheat Bread. No videos this time because I had the honor of helping I Fight Dragons with their merch. They are some of the nicest and most gracious and trusting folks in the business, and the show was fantastic. Chris performed a couple new tracks from Part Six Part Three, and only had to restart one song during his set.

Nov 12, 2009

Photos: 15

Halloween 2009

Halloween was tame this year. I went over to Cliff's for pumpkin carving the night previous, and Laura and I decorated the house in an effort to acquire trick-or-treaters, both staying home to meet them. Unfortunately it rained, so we got three carfulls of kids for eleven total.

Oct 30, 2009

Photos: 28

Engagement Vacation

Laura and I took a romantic vacation to the leisurely Door County, Wisconsin, where the Sister Bay township was having its annual Fall Festival event. On Sunday, I proposed to Laura and she accepted.

Oct 15, 2009

Photos: 215

Taste of Atlanta 2009

Taste of Atlanta is an annual fine foods festival in Atlanta, Georgia. It features tastings from many local restaurants, demonstrations by local chefs, wine and beer tastings, and some entertainment. See http://tasteofatlanta.net/

Oct 10, 2009

Photos: 60

Hawk

A hawk that was perched in our back yard.

Oct 3, 2009

Photos: 1

F.D. Roosevelt State Park

Laura and I went camping, geocaching, and hiking in the Roosevelt State Park. On the way home we stopped in Warm Springs for ice cream.

Oct 3, 2009

Photos: 34

KoLCon VI

The sixth annual Kingdom of Loathing convention. My third, this year I was able to bring four of my fellow clan-mates from clan My Spoon is Too Big.

Sep 17, 2009

Photos: 226

DragonCon 2009

Photos and video from my DragonCon 2009 experience, highlighting my Kingdom of Loathing events, my friends, people in costumes I enjoyed, MST3K/Cinematic Titanic panels, [adult swim] panels, the Gonzo panel, the Mad Scientists' Ball, atheist panels, and performances by I Fight Dragons and mc chris.

Sep 3, 2009

Photos: 205

Jetta Accident

I was involved in an accident while driving Laura's VW Jetta. A tractor-trailer was driving like a maniac and maliciously caused an accident between myself and another victim driving a BMW 530i. This is the outcome.

Aug 24, 2009

Photos: 11

Visiting Fratney Street

I went to Milwaukee to visit my parents at their new home, now conveniently located on the same continent as me. I saw some old friends, and visited the Irish Fest while there, too.

Aug 8, 2009

Photos: 33

Valerie & James's Wedding

Val, a college friend of Laura's had an intimite destination wedding in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, near Yellowstone park. Laura and I attended the beautiful, unique ceremony (after some fear that we would not make it), and took the following day to enjoy a bus tour of Yellowstone National Park's bottom loop.

Aug 1, 2009

Photos: 154

Six Flags White Water

Laura and I visited the local water park for some fun in the sun. These photos are from the wave pool, taken using my waterproof camera case.

Jul 26, 2009

Photos: 16

Laura's Riding Class

Laura takes regular equestrian classes at a farm down the road that is the home of Meneely Show Horses. I visited for one of her classes.

Jul 25, 2009

Photos: 31

Nerdapalooza 2009

The third annual Nerdapalooza Southeast nerd music festival. See also my video: http://bit.ly/nerdapalooza2009 http://www.nerdapaloozafest.com/

Jul 10, 2009

Photos: 534

Google I/O 2009

Google's second annual developer conference was an exciting and educational romp through the cracks and crevices of web development. With the announcement and first public demonstration of of Google Wave, free Android phones for all (non-Googler) attendees, and a variety of other memorable events, this is one tech conference I will never forget.

May 26, 2009

Photos: 142

Cruise to Nassau

Laura and I onboard the Carnival Sensation, along with our new friends from table 369 cruising to Nassau in the Bahamas and visiting the Aquaventure water park at the Atlantis resort there. This trip celebrated our anniversary and my birthday, along with our mutual need to escape Atlanta for a bit. Two videos (karoke and tubing the rapids) were too big for Picasa and are here: http://tinyurl.com/SensationToAtlantisVids

Mar 5, 2009

Photos: 145

Science Olympiad 2009 Woodstock Regional

The Woodstock regional tournament for the B division of the 2009 Science Olympiad competition. Includes photos of events and video of the building events. Medal winners are featured at the end. There is additional video of the Robo-Cross and Trajectory competitions at http://tinyurl.com/SOWR2009Vids. More information about Science Olympiad at http://soinc.org/.

Feb 28, 2009

Photos: 265

Nerf Apocalypse

Like any geek office with any cred, we have nerf warfare at work. By and large I've kept out of it, because I don't like to enter a conflict without force to overwhelm the enemy. We've always had an oversupply of weapons and consistent ammunition shortages. I decided to address these issues. Tomorrow, it begins.

Feb 25, 2009

Photos: 4

Fourth Anniversary

For our fourth anniversarry / valentines' day we stayed and home and took it easy. Laura took it somewhat less easy, making a gourmet dinner that took hours to cook. I ran out for her flowers and lovingly napped.

Feb 14, 2009

Photos: 1

Laura's Ex-Camry

Photos of Laura's totaled Toyato Camry in the tow lot. She bought it from Hammad a few years ago. Today a Land Rover entered her lane without looking. Thanks to quick reaction and airbags she was shaken but alright.

Feb 8, 2009

Photos: 23

Bacon Obsession

Feb 4, 2009

Photos: 2

Laura's Birthday Dinner

For Laura's birthday nine of us went to the new Craft restaurant in Atlanta. Dinner was among the best I've ever had in my life.

Dec 29, 2008

Photos: 5

Google Christmas Party 2008

The Google Atlanta holiday party at Park Tavern.

Dec 19, 2008

Photos: 12

Final Boss Tour

MC Frontalot, MC Lars, and ytcracker toured together for MC Frontalot's third album tour for the "Final Boss" release. I promoted the show and got on the guest list. It was fantastic, as expected. See my youtube postings for videos of the show.

Dec 5, 2008

Photos: 34

Chris Bowen

I met my old friend Chris in Baltimore on a trip that Laura and I took to visit her grandmother for her 80'th birthday. I had not seen Chris for maybe 7 or 8 years, but we spent a ton of time together as kids. He's now a successful attorney on staff with the Justice Dept.

Nov 23, 2008

Photos: 1

Charlotte Chaffin

Charlotte Chaffin, daughter on Jonathan "Atari" Chaffin and Allison Chaffin, at about 20 hours old.

Nov 21, 2008

Photos: 14

Kate and Shay

I went to visit my friends Kate and Shay in their fantabulous mountain home.

Nov 15, 2008

Photos: 17

Google Lunch

Photos of food from Google's cafes.

Nov 13, 2008

Photos: 2

MC Chris

MC Chris performing at The Masquerade in Atlanta. Video of 'reeses' at http://tinyurl.com/reesesvid.

Nov 3, 2008

Photos: 10

Halloween 2008

Pumpkin carving and the party we had at work. There was also a zombie protest and you can find the photos of that at http://tinyurl.com/CDCZombie.

Nov 1, 2008

Photos: 18

Freezepop

Freezepop, after 9 years making music, finally makes it to Atlanta for the first time. We had great fun at their show at the Masquerade. It was a Tuesday night, but still less attended than I expected. They all stayed and talked with us after the show, and they were awesome.

Oct 14, 2008

Photos: 38

New Roof

I got a new roof on my house due to a hail storm a year ago. Some pictures of the materials arriving and the new roof.

Oct 7, 2008

Photos: 1

Road to Freedom

Laura and I visited The High Museum of Art to see this exhibet of photographs from the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. Photographs aren't allowed at all, so we just got this one at the entrance, and we even got yelled at for that.

Oct 3, 2008

Photos: 1

KoLCon V

The fifth annual Kingdom of Loathing convention. My second, this year with Cliff, it being his first.

Sep 26, 2008

Photos: 258

Alyssa's Wedding

My sister gets married in the wine country near Cape Town, South Africa.

Sep 13, 2008

Photos: 653

Twitch and Cynthia State Street Housewarming

Twitch and Cynthia moved across home park again to a new place close to 16th Street. It's much like the old place, but nice and organized and orderly now. Just a couple random pics from the living room.

Sep 7, 2008

Photos: 2

DragonCon 2008

Photos from DragonCon (http://www.dragoncon.org/).

Aug 29, 2008

Photos: 305

Art Night

Since 2004 friends and I have been gathering once a week for "Art Night", where we commune and pursue any varied artistic interest (or in my case, enjoy the music, conversation, and ubiquitous wireless internet). The location and participants rotate regularly, and this album includes shots from some of the gatherings I have attended.

Aug 20, 2008

Photos: 2

Nerdapalooza 2008

Nerdapalooza Southeast 2008 featured Nerd Music of every stripe, including Nerdcore Hiphop, Chiptunes, Video Game Metal, Sock Puppet Rock, Dementia Parody, and anything else you can imagine. I drove down with Maui and Missy, and we had a total blast. http://nerdapaloozafest.com/

Jul 4, 2008

Photos: 141

Deep Creek Hike

Laura, Jesse and I went on a weekend hiking and camping trip at the Deep Creek Campground at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina (http://www.nps.gov/grsm/planyourvisit/deepcreek.htm).

Jun 21, 2008

Photos: 35

GoogleServe 2008

Google's Volunteering effort on this day was global. In Atlanta, we helped to remove foreign species from an area of this park so that local species could thrive and create a better environment for other plants and wildlife. I kinda failed to get pictures of us actually working.

Jun 17, 2008

Photos: 6

Thomas's 30th Birthday

Only a couple of pictures because both Thomas and his wife are avid amateur photographers, and doubtlessly have a ton of photos better than mine. The theme for the party was pirates vs. ninjas. I was sporting my best pirate ever (not pictured).

May 23, 2008

Photos: 2

Tornado Season

May 20, 2008

Photos: 1

Renaissance Festival 2008

Laura and I went to the Georgia Renaissance Festival with a couple friends on Saturday and had a great time, as always.

May 17, 2008

Photos: 19

Berlin Trip

I took a business trip to Berlin to help with a software rollout and some training related to it. I had a couple days off to act as a tourist, including "Ascension Day", a public holiday with street festivals.

Apr 30, 2008

Photos: 419

Duke Alumni Weekend

Laura and I went up to Duke for their annual alumni weekend, and the Chi Delta chapter of Psi Upsilon's corresponding founders' weekend events.

Apr 3, 2008

Photos: 2

LongTom Marathon 2008

The LongTom Marathon was used by the Peace Corps volunteers to raise over US$20,000 to fund the KLM Foundation (http://www.klm-foundation.org/), which sends talented, disadvantaged South African kids to the best schools.

Mar 29, 2008

Photos: 423

South Africa

I went to South Africa for two weeks to visit my family. My parents have been living there for a year and a half for their 2 year Peace Corps commitment, and my sister flew in from the nearby island nation of Mauritus, where she has been livng for over a year. My trip was a combination of finding and commiserating with Peace Corps volunteers in some of the poorest, most downtrodden villages in South Africa, I'd traveling with my family to tourist type attractions. The photos from the Longtom Marathon, which I attended with the local Peace Corps volunteers, are in a an album of their own.

Mar 20, 2008

Photos: 1000

Window Office

My boss, Ken got engaged and took off a couple days to celebrate over a nice long weekend. We took the opportunity to give him the only window office in the building - by moving all of his shit to the receptionists' desk in the lobby (we do not have a receptionist). It came out well. All of his gear is online and functional in its new home.

Feb 22, 2008

Photos: 6

Third Anniversary

For our 3rd anniversary and Exchange Candy for Sex Day Laura and I went to Medieval Times (http://www.medievaltimes.com) and saw a show. I enjoyed it despite being sick. Only recognized one http://garenfest.com/ performer there, but we even bought the disgustingly cute couples' photo with the princess (not featured herein). Recommended.

Feb 16, 2008

Photos: 34

Heather's Going Away Party

Heather is leaving the Atlanta area for Bend, Oregon to work at a wilderness therapy program for troubled teens. We threw her a going away party at Hunter & Glen's place.

Feb 9, 2008

Photos: 8

TGIF

Every Friday Google has a series of local meetings and informal party-like events with your coworkers. These are our exploits.

Feb 8, 2008

Photos: 2

Snow in Stockbridge

Pictures from around my home in the few times it has snowed here during the Winter.

Jan 19, 2008

Photos: 19

Crimbo 2007

Friends came over to celebrate Crimbo (AKA Festivus, AKA Midwinter Consummerism Celebration), eat some food and exchange gifts.

Dec 25, 2007

Photos: 30

Coke & Donuts

Psi Upsilon at Georgia Tech (http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/psiu/) has a tradition of a loud, outdoor scream followed by massive quantities of Coke & Krispy Kreme donuts on the Sunday night before finals week. I used my alumnus superpowers to provide the food and drinks this time around. The first one of these I've been to in a long time.

Dec 10, 2007

Photos: 17

Providence Canyon Hike

Jesse and Laura went hiking in Providence Canyon State Park (www.gastateparks.org/info/providence/)

Dec 2, 2007

Photos: 23

Sweetwater Creek Hike

Jesse, Laura and I went on a hike at Sweetwater Creek State Park (http://www.gastateparks.org/info/sweetwater/). We found all the information we needed to unlock the geocaching treasure box kept at the ranger station, however by the time we were done the station was alredy closed.

Nov 25, 2007

Photos: 22

Cats

Random photos of my cats.

Nov 19, 2007

Photos: 99

Halloween 2007

Halloween at our place, all nicely decorated thanks to Laura. She put out bags with candles in them with cats and witches and such, and lit up the pumpkin I carved (pictured here with Cliff, carving his own which he took home with him), put up spider webs and ghosts and everything. We even got a few trick-or-treaters this year, so there was a point, yay!

Oct 31, 2007

Photos: 13

Ron Paul Rockfest

The group Think Libertarian put on a local Atlanta fundraiser called the Ron Paul Rockfest (http://www.thinklibertarian.com/ronpaulrockfestfinalpressrelease.html). It was held at Smith's Olde Bar, and was well attended in the hundreds, raising $3,245.25 for the campaign.

Oct 25, 2007

Photos: 13

Alchemy 2007

Alchemy (http://www.alchemyfestival.com/) is the Georgia burn organized in the spirit of Burning Man and conforms to the 10 Principles made famous by that big daddy of events.

Sep 22, 2007

Photos: 2

KoLCon IV

The fourth annual official Kingdom of Loathing convention.

Sep 14, 2007

Photos: 108

PacMan's Wedding

My friend and Psi Upsilon brother Justin Reock (AKA PacMan) got married on DragonCon weekend. He invited me just a few days before it was scheduled to take place, so I took a few hours off from geeking out at con to attend and wish him well.

Sep 2, 2007

Photos: 30

DragonCon 2007

Dragon Con (http://www.dragoncon.org/) is an annual sci-fi, fantasy, and gaming convention in Atlanta.

Aug 31, 2007

Photos: 16

Meteor-Free Camping

Jesse, Emily, Laura and I went camping at Hart State Park (http://www.gastateparks.org/info/hart) with the hope of catching the Perseid meteor shower. Clouds prevented this from happening, but camping was alright anyway.

Aug 12, 2007

Photos: 11

Family Reunion

A family reunion on my father's side that brought together about 25 of us or so in Boulder, Colorado.

Aug 3, 2007

Photos: 210

New Summer Flowers

Laura did some more gardening and yard work, planting these flowers and shrubs. Unfortunately, this was right before a major drought.

Jul 31, 2007

Photos: 10

God Bless John Wayne

Jesse, Laura, and I went on our first real geocaching hike after I gave Laura her handheld GPS unit. The cache (http://tinyurl.com/2umpmo) was near the Smith Creek Trail in Unicoi State Park, in an ammo box with a bumper sticker reading "GOD BLESS JOHN WAYNE".

Jul 28, 2007

Photos: 10

Good Plumber

This business card belongs to the plumber who replaced my outside water line (the connection between the water main on my street, and my home) after it got crushed by the guy who hauled away a dead tree on my property.

Jul 24, 2007

Photos: 1

Ron Paul Greenville Rally

The Ron Paul campaign came to Greenville, South Carolina for a luncheon and a rally. I was there for both, driving up in a big caravan of vehicles from Atlanta.

Jul 21, 2007

Photos: 5

The Prius

My Prius, which I bought new in April of 2005, after my Dodge Intrepid was totaled by a hit-and-run driver.

Jul 9, 2007

Photos: 4

Tampa Vacation

Jesse, Emily, Summers, David, Laura and I went down to a nice beach house outside of Tampa for a vacation.

Jul 5, 2007

Photos: 25

Atlanta Python Users Meetup

This month's meeting of the local Python programming language meetup group (http://python.meetup.com/46) was sponsored by Google, and two of the three speakers were from Google, one my friend Cary Hull, a longtime member of the group. Google bought pizza to the Turner Studios location for everyone and took resumes and contact info.

Jun 14, 2007

Photos: 4

Lunch with Vint Cerf

I met Vint Cerf (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf) for a second time, hand lunch with him, and talked about the future of Google and the internet.

Jun 12, 2007

Photos: 1

Jack's Headstone

I went to Detroit to be with my family for the unveiling of my grandfather's headstone.

Jun 12, 2007

Photos: 2

The Painful Reminder Farewell Show

Pynk (lead vocalist and songwriter) for Painful Reminder is moving far away real soon now, so the band is breaking up. This was their final show, and probably one of their largest audiences ever. It was held at Runaround Sue's, and Poodleface opened for them.

May 31, 2007

Photos: 24

KoLanta

Photos from the first unofficial Atlanta Kingdom of Loathing convention (http://tinyurl.com/2da66o).

May 18, 2007

Photos: 61

Jessica's Graduation

Jessica Frame (Laura's "little brother" at Psi Upsilon) graduates with honors from Georgia Tech's undergraduate CS program. She is now employed by Google. Ross Meltz, my friend, and some other Psi Upsilon brothers also graduated at the same time.

May 5, 2007

Photos: 28

Juju's Surprise Party

Several of us threw Juju a surprise pool party for her birthday. We gathered at Olly and Leighanne's in Buford. They have a lovely place and the pool is nice for the first time this season. Juju seemed pretty surprised, and we had a great time grilling out. I made two chocolate strawberry shortcakes (with help from Laura).

Apr 28, 2007

Photos: 19

Nophest

The recurring Nophest music festival. See www.nophest.com for details.

Apr 22, 2007

Photos: 4

Leslie Visitation

Leslie, a coworker who used to work out of Atlanta, returned to do some networking crap, so we went out for dinner (http://www.therealchowbaby.com/) with another Netops guy and talked about old times.

Apr 18, 2007

Photos: 1

Hammad's Wedding Invite

Mar 14, 2007

Photos: 1

Imperial Fez

My friend, Eric Bender and I share a birthday. For this year, I chose the entertainment event (Spamalot, which was touring through Atlanta on this day), while he and his girlfriend chose the dinner location, Imperial Fez (http://www.imperialfez.com/).

Mar 3, 2007

Photos: 39

Anniversary Vacation

Laura and I went to the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee for 4 days for our anniversary vacation. We stayed in a cozy little cabin near Gatlinburg called Crimson Moon. We mostly relaxed in the jacuzzi and enjoyed the time off, but we also toured Gatlinburg and went mini-golfing.

Feb 24, 2007

Photos: 50

Riding and Hiking

Laura has always wanted to go horseback riding. We went on a a Saturday, and took a guided ride through Fort Mountain State Park (http://gastateparks.org/info/fortmt/) in North Georgia, near the Tennessee and Alabama borders. On a clear day you can see all three states from the mountains. Unfortunately for us it was foggy, but the weather was otherwise agreeable, and we enjoyed it enough to take a scenic hike through the park afterwards. All of the captions in this album were written by Laura.

Jan 6, 2007

Photos: 30

A Random Visitation

David (AKA Random) came for a visit. Here are some fairly typical photos of him adorned with laptop and kittens.

Jan 3, 2007

Photos: 3

Guinness Storehouse

Pascal, Seventeen, and I took Sunday to visit the international home of Guinness at the Guinness Storehouse (http://guinness-storehouse.com/).

Dec 17, 2006

Photos: 142

Jameson Distillery

The Old Jameson Distillery (http://www.oldjamesondistillery.com) was actually in the same complex of rooms at my hotel, with the old chimney right at the entrance. They've made the original factory into a museum of sorts. They now make whiskey just a few kilometers away.

Dec 17, 2006

Photos: 28

Google Christmas Party

So many people in Dublin now! Sales, engineering, operations, the whole shebang. Huge party at The Burlington with varied entertainment. I had a blast, and had a great time hanging out with my counterparts across the sea. These guys definitely know how to have a good time.

Dec 15, 2006

Photos: 30

View from my Room

I stayed at the Park Inn (http://tinyurl.com/3xy69a) in Smithfield, which is right in the middle of the Dublin urbanscape. There was a skating rink outside that is setup for December and January. The staff were friendly, but I cannot recommend the hotel.

Dec 14, 2006

Photos: 24

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