January 17th, 2011
It’s tough brewing beer during the winter on Donner Summit. But it does provide a nice opportunity to combine snow management tools and homebrewing!
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October 17th, 2010
A breakdown of the equipment I used to make my all-grain homebrew.
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October 16th, 2010
First time I’ve ever tried using spices in my beer! Or really, anything other than grains, hops, water and a bit of whirlfloc. This was a light-colored ale with autumn spices. A bit different than a normal Christmas Ale because it is so light colored (but still full bodied).
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October 3rd, 2010
Lucky #7. Shooting for a strong, full bodied blond ale, with a flowery hop in the low range of the IPA category.
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January 4th, 2005
We built a deck this summer. Emily and I are now enjoying the results of our fantastic crew’s great work.
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January 4th, 2005
We got a bit of snow this holiday.
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January 4th, 2005
Eric Enderton and I wrote a chapter for GPU Gems II describing part of Gelato’s hider including a full implementation based on a generally useful C++ GPU toolkit.
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October 18th, 2003
This summer we tried to hike to all the locally known hotspots. Loch Leven is a small lake near the summit where Cici loves to chase ducks.
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October 18th, 2003
On the way back from our hike to the John Benson Sierra Club hut, Emily and I saw a fire start near I80 and head up and over the ridge to Tahoe Donner.
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May 11th, 2003
It was a late snow year up here in Serene Lakes. Here’s some pictures that show what the house looked like on my birthday, May 11th, 2003.
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May 4th, 2003
Our friend Jennifer signed us up to go learn about and see some rock art outside of Reno. It was really hard to withstand the urge to bring our rockhammers…
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March 30th, 2003
Some pictures of the last day we went skiing this year. Our friends, Lynelle and Sharon came out for what we thought was one of the last days with snow.
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January 5th, 2003
Photographs of the party following Naomi Wexler’s ascension to adulthood! Ah, tradition.
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December 30th, 2002
What’s up with Cici? Well, she lives a dog’s life in dog heaven aka Soda Springs, so what would you expect?
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June 14th, 2002
Emily and I drove out to Salt Lake City to see the 2002 Winter Olympics. We spent a week attending nordic events and watching the best atheletes in the world heat up the snow at Soldier Hollow.
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June 14th, 2002
A picture perfect day (or two) for my friend Gilles and I to float down the powder at Sugar Bowl and Soda Springs.
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June 13th, 2002
A Python and C toolkit for simple animation, rendering and compositing. A micropolygon based renderer with motion blur, depth of field, and procedural shading and geometry via Python plugins. The scene description language is also Python, which means PARC both extends and embeds Python.
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April 15th, 2002
Bokeh is a Japanese term describing the quality of out-of-focus regions in a photograph. I describe how to simulate bokeh in a CG renderer. This page contains a bokeh depth of field demonstration and links to the PDF for the Siggraph bokeh sketch.
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January 27th, 2001
Graphs of the rendering log data from Shrek including memory usage, scene complexity and other fun facts.
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January 27th, 2001
A description of the hardware render farm used at PDI to create Shrek. Details of the machine configurations and interesting trivia tidbits are provided.
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