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My very first set of self-made cufflinks.

Using the Scrabble tiles I was given on my last trip to LA.

Method:

1. Get tiles

2. Get some cufflink ends (I got mine from eBay)

3. Scratch up the back (gives the glue a surface to stick too)

4. Glue the cufflink ends onto the Scrabble tiles.

5. Done

Jefah and I have decideded to make a webpage to collect together pictures of things that look like faces.

As long as the thing isn’t an object deliberately made to look like a face, we’ll post it.

Here’s hoping it goes well

Two iPhone wallpapers that I’ve made from photos I’ve taken

Free to use.

Being a somewhat sensible lad, I figured I needed a back-up hard drive. Something to save my files in the ungodly event of corruption/fire/lightning/stupid. There was a problem: the standard drive enclosures looked ugly, and anything nice was way out of my price range. The solution: make my own.

So, here we have it. One store bought chinese-style wooden box + one 500GB HD + elbow grease = THIS!

Meeting with Ali’s friends in Boston.

Squirrels.

Boston cream pie.

First time ice skating (spectacular fall not shown)

Boston 2008

Los Angeles 2008

OMG photos!

Time to write is short, and I’m lazy, so not too much is going to be set down in pixels here, just enough to fill in what the photos in the album are showing.

The wonderful night-time shots of the city were taken from Griffith Observatory, in the hills of LA. From that vantage point LA looks like a sea of lights, it stretches as far as the eye can see. I was reminded of Lord of the Rings where the ork camp behind the gate is shown. No eye of Sauron here though.

Shots of the flea market we went to and a school band that was practising for the big game due the next week.

The Getty Villa is here. Built by a rich guy as a copy of a wealthy Roman villa, it also serves as a museum of pieces from Greek and Roman antiquity.

A topiary dinosaur vomiting water.

The Griffith Observatory again, this time the inside.
The shiny ball is a pendulum used to demonstrate the rotation of the earth.

Some dark shots in the carpark! If you look closely, you can see a coyote! The animal was smaller than I thought it would be, like a medium sized dog that looks fox-ish.

Pecan pie!