x mas time pizza + bicicleta

My friend Eric and I built this bike up from a frame he found at the Davis Bike Church. It is an old school KHS Expedition mountain bike frame that we kind of modeled after those Bridgestone X-O bikes, and I basically turned it into a poor man's Rivendell-style bicycle.

Brocolli rabe and roasted onion pizza, with chevre and olives, straight from smittenkitchen.com!

Roasted new potato and pesto pizza with mild turkey italian sausage, modified from the old Chez Panisse Pizza, Pasta & Calzone cookbook I found for two dollars at Logos Books in Santa Cruz.

Central California

Central California in the wintertime looks like a mix between Ireland and Mordor. The past few days we spent with some visiting geomorphologists from MIT looking at various field sites around the Salinas valley, which proved rainy and fun and instructive as we could actually see what this place looks like when geomorphology actually happens.

poetry project collaboration with Harmony

Curvature and slope map of Long Valley shorelines

I thought this was a pretty cool stand-alone image that I made while trying to look at lake shorelines in Long Valley caldera. All those red bumps are a weird artifact from the digital elevation model I've been using for my topographic analyses. The shorelines are the vertical linear features on the right of the image.

mark's rooster

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the cruz

my room is a converted garage that's separated from the main house, and has a flat roof you can get onto. this is the view from it, which is pretty great! i am definitely putting beach chairs up here soon.

the moons

bringing in reality

this is from a digital elevation model of Long Valley Caldera in

eastern CA that I messed with in IDL. The next step is making it

spin around the z axis while I talk about our future collapsing

lest you all join me in the brethren of harmonic ubiquity

a weekend of three days in santa cruz springtime flower explosion

we biked out to wilder ranch, which is maybe the homiest state reserve

i've ever been to! there were homemade cookies, and goats, and CHICKENS



yep



kendra told me about wilder ranch and how biking out there is basically

the best way to spend a saturday.



an equestrian stand-off



that's right, there were BUBBLES



a mammalian stand-off



the waves were monstrous this weekend, but i got a picture of a kind

of wimpy one, just for you!

let's dance

redbeards - belt buckles

starting a cult through introductory computer plots

I am like, 3 late-night informercials away from wild personal and monetary successes.

the lifeforce

the journey

the map

the trials

the symbol of blessed cosmos and harmonic universality

s w e l l

we also now have a myspace (.com/mycellsfleet) -- hurray!

my cells, fleet - swell

the shortest winter break

romanesco from the santa cruz farmer's market


the larkspur ferry and a serious playing of the doodle game


brita responds





brita amongst her brain


high-powered execu-dog


instant buddies


vegan poutine cart in hawthorne!


more food carts in hawthorne


it snowed in salem and was crazy awesome