Farmers market

Ok. Its officially summer. Saturday at the market.

Birthday Party

Yes, I must be obsessed. I spent almost 3 hours at Cougar Mtn. Zoo and took almost 1,700 pictures, of a tiger birthday party. OMG, that DOES sound crazy.



At 1 year old, they tigers are still playful. There are still signs they are cubs.

The short list of the pictures are on my TigersClaw Picasa web album.

Almos, the white tiger, was the "birthday cub". His friend Taj is the golden (read: Rare, no black stripes, orange on gold) colored one.

Here is Almos eating his hamburger birthday cake:


The blue stuff if the "icing" made from egg whites. So if you see blue on their faces, that is the cause.

Catchup post.

Ok.. catching up..

Jeremy:
sorry to hear about the breakup.
Red couch? NO!
But then again, I had black and white furniture when i was single. My wife laughed and said "figures, typical guy".

Iron Man:
The only review I saw was "Gadget Porn"
I have to agree, in a good way..
Not great drama, but pretty good action adventure.
After I got home, i saw there was something to see after the credit roll, anyone see that? Robert Downey Jr. was pretty good. Not the first guy i would think of in action/adventure or in the character of Tony Stark (i was never an Iron Man comic book fan as a kid) but he pulled it off.

Internet speed

Well I finially broke down and got a new router. A netgear with
wireless N. Even though my laptops are both G , I figure I might as
well have the capability for the future.

I speed tested it because I helped my friend Andy set his up. His
speed test was over 12,000 Kbps. I was a little surprised when mine
came in at about 21,000..

Best surprise was that it stopped dropping my connection. Now all I
have to do is finish setting up all the wireless devices like the 3
laptops, wii, iphone and tivo.

I'll get to that after I finish editing down the 1600 pictures of Taj
and Almos and posting the decent ones.

See next blog entry.

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Another Taj & Almos

Cougar Mtn Zoo (yes, MORE tigers)

I went to Cougar Mountain Zoo in Issaquah and took a few pics (700+). Damn it takes a while to go through that many images. The picture here is of Taj. He and his brother Almos will hopefully getting a larger outdoor enclosure late this summer. Any body have any spare change? Only $900,000 needed to complete the project.

Both of these guys are Bengals, the coloring on Taj is known as "Golden" (no black stripes) and there are only 250 left on Earth. To see the full album go to: My Picasaweb album

To see Taj and Almos go to Cougar Mountain Zoo

There are more animals than tigers, but hey, I only had time to take 700+ pictures of the tigers..

Almost forgot: Next week they are having Taj's first birthday party.. May 3rd.

Yes.. at over 100 Kilo's they are only HALF grown..

Later!

Author Scott Sigler

Reading his award winning book "Infected" in Seattle at Barnes & Nobel.

Spring Snow

Spring snow storm in Puyallup.
I think i'll fill up my wine glass
and flick on the fire place.

Spring snow

At least its not sticking yet.
Its hard to phograph snow,
That's what those white streaks are.

Cute female

Jaya is my favorite model.

Tiger and Dragon

I CAN HAS DRAGON

requisite stuff on cat pic.

They have returned

But its too early
This pic was taken days ago

Geeky?

What's more geeky than Dr. Who's sonic screwdriver.

I revel in the geekyness. Muahahahaha

Did i mention it comes with psychic paper?
What's kinda cool is that the iPhone camera sees the UV
LED in the dark. Yes, that is trully uber-geeky.

iPhone Links

Live and Direct from my iPhone!

ok.. so its not that big a deal. Here are links I have found useful on my iPhone.

My future job description

IF, as promised, Scott Sigler becomes our future Dark Overlord and ruler of the planet I am hereby publicly demanding the following Official Title:

Supreme Ninja Hacker, Mage Lord
of mobile global
tele-iphoto-communications.

(thanks to Neal Stephanson).

Narrows Bridge

This is not exactly sculpture, but the lines are interesting.
Click the title "Narrows Bridge" to see the images on Picasa.

You Otter be in pictures

From Aquarium

This little guy (gal?) was so content playing all day with the toys in the enclosure.
I caught this pose as he got tuckered out.

Spring

The season shift is is near.
These cherry blossoms are from last year.
As spring approaches,
I find myself anticipating their return.

Still curious

I am still curious if anyone wants to see my photography..

If so, here is my sculpture page

Here's Another.

After taking a few pictures last night, I got inspired and took a few more.

Risqué sculpture in Puyallup

"La Ria" in downtown puyallup.

I will be heading down with my Eos to get more picture by daylight.

I wonder if anyone is interested in seeing them.

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