Monthly Archives: January 2008

why no dogs?

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no dogs allowed, originally uploaded by griphiam.

Damn it! Why is everyone so against pets in the housing and rental markets (especially the latter). Yes, I know, I know… If you were a landlord [...]

Serenity’s Pilot in the Sky

My first ever music video production…

Threshold’s Pilot in the Sky of Dreams set to clips from Serenity. Shiny!
Creation Thoughts
First of all, this is a 10 minute song. It would be insanely difficult to cut together clips of short length (>1 sec to 4 secs) — It would take forever. So I used [...]

coit tower

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circle @ coit tower, originally uploaded by griphiam.

Trying to take advantage of a spectacular day (Saturday) we decided to leave our confines (Palo Alto) and head north (San Francisco). While it was a great [...]

sub-prime problems

A good explanation of the mess we are in now…
I’m still hoping there will be enough adjustment in California to allow us to enter the housing market in a years time

lacuna coil - our truth

Their songs are hit and miss for me. I prefer the bombastic stylings of Within Temptation or Nightwish, but Lacuna Coil has such a unique sound and I really like this song. There is a fresh metal meets goth meets middle-eastern sound here and a chorus that is quite catchy.

social networking

A few older posts and links to clean out… I was assuming Jeff was going to comment on some of these.
Recently, facebook did something I’d never thought they would do: They joined Google and a collection of other social network providers in participating in Data Portability (yes, I know, joining and actually doing something are [...]

a few things

Currently a television kick…
If you haven’t seen the first two Terminator episodes… go now!  I’m so sad the writer’s strike is on!  I want a full season damn it!  Summer Glau is awesome and steels the entire show!  She really is amazingly well cast for this role.  I think they have the flexibility to develop [...]