Tired and Tiny

El Gato Grande catching some rays, meow, purr purr purr.


There's nothing wrong with a little Dikdik. In 3D!


The little monkeys always seem to want to play with me.

Hee hee hee, I always want to play with them too! When I had my beard I wanted to get a beard monkey to keep it clean. These little Emperor Tamarins would have been just the ticket. Plus they seem to like me so I think it would have worked out well.

Jar of Beard

I lost a beard growing contest a few months back. The contest was to see who could go the longest without shaving. I got sick. There is nothing worse than getting snot all over the top of your mustache and soup all over the bottom of the 'stash and chin beard. I shaved out and put my shavings in a jar that I keep on my desk at work. I ripen bananas by the jar of beard as you can see.

Here is what I looked like a little while before I shaved out.

Knee Surgery and Work

I tore my ACL had surgery and have been recovering for the last 4 months and have a few months to go. Here is a cool video of them drilling holes in my bone, putting a new ACL in and a screw to hold it in place. I hope she holds.

It's amazing of fast your leg shrinks when you don't use it. Here is what happened after about a week off my leg. IN 3D!

Nice right?

On top of that the movie I have been working on has had me working 12 hour days 6 days a week (well only 10 hrs on Saturdays) for the past two months with physical therapy for my knee. What fun!

It all made me to lazy to post anything here. But the movie is winding down, my knee is way better and I'm ready to catch up on the last 3 or 4 months of posting I have meant to do.

Street Candy

So yummy and 3D!

Robot Building

So this is a no SF find but I had to share. We took a trip back east to visit family and friends where I saw this Robot trying to hide in or as a building in downtown Harrisburg,. Capital city of Pennsylvania USA! I tried to warn everyone but they didn't seem to care. People from PA are fearless and or crazy.

Look at those eyes just waiting for the fearless Harrisburgians to drop their guard.

Giant Robot hiding in a building in 3D!

ROBOT!

That sand's not dirty...

...it's full of GOLD! For a long time we wondered what was the cause of all the black sand on our beach. The first thought is always pollution. SF is a decent sized city so it would not be surprising if it was some kind of industrial waste. But having spent lots of time in the Outer Banks of North Carolina where there is naturally occurring tar which make some of the sand black I was not convinced it was pollution. Only thing is they don't call people from SF or Ocean Beach "Tar heals" so I figure it isn't tar. So what is it? Apparently knowing that SF is all about the gold rush of '49 the sand went and got some gold in it! Yep all that black sand has gold in it. Though it turns out not very much which makes it mostly not worth the effort to extract it. But that didn't stop some guy in the 80s from trying to haul some off. To bad for him it's a state park and they weren't down with his plan. Any way it's nice knowing all that black sand we drag in our apartment has a little gold in it -:]

We have some fun cars in our hood -:]

I wonder if you can get that at the Honda dealer? I sure hope so!

Such a nice conversion. It looks like it's made of wood. If so that guy or his dog has crazy skillz. But who cares if it's wood or not that ride is sweet!

Submarvan

Not sure if this has been around the neighborhood or just surfaced but is one of the coolest vehicles I've seen in a long time.

So you know I took some 3D pictures to share -:]

And here are some night shots I took the first time I noticed the conning tower.

I like this action shot of the Submarvan diving into the murky depths of the Outer Sunset streets.

Fly On The Wall

We don't get to many flies here by the beach in SF. I guess it's because it stays pretty cool year round. It has hit the mid 60s a few days this week which I guess is warm enough to trick flies into heading to the beach. But as this guy found out the beach in SF isn't much good for sunbathing and was chilling on the wall which gave me time to take a very close up 3d picture. Yeah cold 3d fly!

What is it part 1 (or is it 3?)

I always loved those "guess what this is pictures" so here is one in 3D!

Do you know what it is? If so don't say anything, if not keep reading the blog as I will put some more pictures down below to help you figure it out. Oh yeah, I think 3d glasses are a must for this fun so if you don't have a pair on hand right now stop right now and go find a pair. If you don't have any close this page or post a message here so I can get your address and send you a pair or two.

Lunar Declipse

So I haven't posted in a while but after seeing the post Todd put on Snap! of the lunar eclipse I figured I should post the time lapse I took of the lunar declipse out here on the left coast.

And here is a close up cropped, zoomed and motion tracked version so you can see it a little better.

And the moon is back!

Trash Rabbit

It's a trash rabbit in the third dimension! I wonder what is in the bunny?

The Sunset

Another beautiful sunset here in the Sunset district of San Francisco. Once again I found I needed to climb up on the roof and take a panoramic photo. When we first moved to the Sunset everyone kept telling us they didn't know why it was called the Sunset because we would never get to see the sunset due to the year round fog. Boy were they wrong. We get these all the time. Sure it's foggy pretty often around here but not even close to every day and the fog is really cool too. You can always tell there is a cool sunset from the living room or kitchen which look east across the Sunset District because all the houses start turning crazy reds and oranges and purples. And when the city is going off you know the beach has got to look 2x as cool. It usually sends us running for the back windows and occasionally puts me on the roof or us on the beach with a bottle of wine to warm our souls. It's nice living by the ocean here in SF.

P.S. Don't for get to click on the image to see it full size. It's worth it.

What is it part 2 (or is it 2?)

Hum, what ever could this be? I bet you know now right? If you don't keep reading you will find out soon enough.

Oh my.

I am almost at a loss for words. Can it really be?! We've seen this mini van a few times now in the parking lot of our local grocery store. "Home Services", I should hope so -;]

New Years Eve sunset in the Sunset

Wow, could you ask for a more beautiful New Years Eve sunset? What a way to close the year here in the Sunset district of San Francisco -:]

You should really click on the images to see them big.

I do love the view from our roof hear at the beach in SF!

What is it part 3 (or is it 1?)

ACK! It's my face with about 3 weeks of beard growth in 3D! Thanks for playing -:]

3D Gutter Junk

I like this gutter junk. Some wires with something I can not identify.

Turns

Turns.

Happy Holidays!

Across the street

It's so cool to live across the street from the beach -:]

3D O.B. Jellys!!

This little guy was a couple of inches across and pulsating! It's probably worth the click to see this image a bit bigger.

As you can see we found a bigger Jelly, I think this one could eat your head -:[]

We move in closer...

...and this is what it looks like when it's eating your head!!!

Hydrant Trash in 3D

I didn't realize fire hydrants were the place to put your bulk trash but I guess if you want it gone faster that's probably the spot.

More Pretty & Gross Oil Blobs

It's been more than a month and there are still little oil blobs on the beach.

And I still think they are pretty.

So I keep taking these close up 3d pictures of them.

I guess there are a lot fewer of them now which is a good sign but it's still a bit depressing to think about how nasty these things are for the wild life -:\

Yucky Oil, Pretty Oil.

So someone went and crashed a cargo ship into the bay bridge and dumped a bunch of fuel into the bay that ended up all over the beaches here in SF. The fuel oil has caused all kinds of problems for the wild life, fisher persons and surfers (a.k.a. Me!). The local beach and water was closed for a few weeks and some of the other surf spots were closed for a few days. Our beach was just opened to walk on last week so we went down to check it out. A park ranger guy was cleaning up the oil and showed us what it looked like and where it was most likely to be so we could avoid it. I have to say as bad as this stuff is for the environment the small blobs we saw were kind of pretty. They were mostly about the size of a dime or smaller. Here is what one looked like up close and in 3D.

Another picture. The actual kind of fuel also had sort of an ominous and at the same time interesting name, bunker fuel.

It's pretty but don't touch, it's supposed to be really bad stuff.

Plane Down! In 3D!

It looks like someone fell asleep at the stick. At least that cockpit looks intact so I'm going to guess the pilot walked away. Maybe next time he should have a cup of 3D espresso!

I've been into 3D a long time

And here is a photo from sort of my early days.

I was scanning in a bunch of old photos last weekend when I came across some old 3D Polaroids I had taken. I think they are from around 1985 give or take a few years.

I used to use my parents' Polaroid and film and just walk around taking 3d pictures. I think I used up a lot of their film which was probably not cheap. Good thing they came out with digital cameras or I would be broke. Oh, the picture is of the patio of the house we lived in at the time. Pretty boring except that it's a 3d photo I took 20ish years ago -:]

I guess bikes can't read

The crazy bikes in SF apparently can't read or have a blatant disregard for the law.


Or maybe they were just protesting? This one seems to have come to the wrong protest -;]

Actually there was a huge free music festival in the park called Hardly Strictly Bluegrass and a huge section of the park was closed to cars and bikes. There were crazy numbers of people there. So crazy we ended up leaving because you had to sit so far away from any of the stages or deal with wall to wall people to get up close. We did get there early and catch just about the only Bluegrass act. They were pretty fun. I liked the bike impound area the best though.

Fozzie Bear Looking Deflated

This guy has been greeting us on our weekly walk to our favorite little cafe. I think he's been hanging out for about two months now. I think he looks a lot like Fozzie Bear after he pooped out all his stuffing.


And of course in 3D!

As deflated as he might be, he always seems to have a smile for us -:]

Mangy Goose?

So this one is from my birthday as well but it deserves a post of it's own. During my birthday walk in the park with Linda we stopped for a break at a little pond were we saw this fellow.

Linda sort of knows all kinds of birds from a previous life in which she was an avid bird watcher or something like that. Any way she had no idea what this was. It was hanging out with a bunch of geese but other than the size didn't really look like any of the other geese. So what is it? We are thinking maybe it's just a goose with the mange. Linda tried to look it up on line with no luck.

Anyone know what kind of bird this is or is it just a mangy goose?