notthatwillsmith » Holidays

Three words

will — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:11:41 +0000

Rooftop Plunge Pool

Holy cow, Playa del Carmen is unbelievably beautiful. I spent this morning lounging in the sun (after greasing myself up with SPF 40, of course). I’m about to put on my walking flip-flops and go look for a burrito on a bike.

Christmas pics + Corgi videos

will — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 16:13:39 +0000

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Hardy relaxing + a surprise

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Chloe, Trudy, and Hardy playing

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Dad playing with the golf ball puzzle

Chloe relaxing in her elf costume. (More photos)

Back in San Francisco

will — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 19:24:01 +0000

We just returned to San Francisco after a long trip back to TN. (I’ll post some pictures to Flickr later tonight or tomorrow.)

We spent a lot of time with the families, watched the dogs alternately sniff and fight each other, and then ran them all over my parent’s farm. Definitely a good time, but it was an exhausting trip, and I’m really glad to just be sitting back at the desk for 8-10 hours a day.

Labor Day Weekend 2006

will — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 06:01:49 +0000

After the ball game on Saturday, we snuck up to my parent’s farm for a few hours. While there, we tooled around on four-wheelers to see what they’ve been up to, and also spend a little time with the water balloon bazooka. I wish I’d had the presence of mind to shoot a little video, but it is one helluva cool toy. It’s really not much more than an 8-foot compressed air-powered water balloon mortar.

Operation is pretty simple. Add a quart or two of water to the bazooka shaft, drop up to eight balloons down, add up to 125psi of compressed air to the appropriate chamber, aim at something you wouldn’t mind destroying, and flip the valve. The next thing that happens is a 10-foot waterspout blasts out of the barrel, propelling the balloons on a ballistic arc toward whatever you aimed at.