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Surfing in Ventura, CA

It should be DOUBLE overhead today. I'll be back @ this spot today, and I should get some footage that's ridiculously better...I didn't have my tripod or anything like that.

[UPDATE 11/08/2009]
The waves were great today! I got some great footage and will be editing it on the plane ride home from California to Florida. :(

I'LL MISS YOU CALI FAMILY!!!
[/UPDATE 11/08/2009]

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Friday is Peanut Butter Jelly Time!

OH YEAH!!

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Thoughts on the new HomeGrownClone v.5

When we started HomeGrownClone way back in 2002, our goal was to create a new type of web culture portal along the same lines of Pixelsurgeon, K10K, Design Is Kinky and the others -- but with a human cloning twist. Yeah, it's a random, but fun association and we dared to list the sites they wouldn't. We were always fans of these sites, but we were greeted with frustration when we submitted links for them to post about lesser known designer's sites (sometimes even our own). Often, our submissions were ignored...was it web snobbery, MAILER DAEMON issues, or something else? We'll never know, but HomeGrownClone was born so we could post web design and web culture news that WE felt was relevant. Fuck all the rest.

7 years later, Social Media and Web 2.0 is the new big thing...and those two terms are somewhat seemingly becoming interchangable. Web 2.0 seems to BE Social Media. Now, anyone can create a design news feed using Twitter (hell, we've got our own @ twitter.com/homegrownclone). So, out of the birth of Web 2.0 and Social Media came the idea for a new direction for HomeGrownClone. We are going to whore ourselves out to as many social media channels as we can...essentially completely changing the HGC experience for our fans (we hope, for the better). We'll still host a few fun pages, but mostly, you'll find us:

Posting The News Feed You Know And Love (@ twitter)
Blogging (here @ posterous.com)
Using Facebook (even though we do not yet know wtf to use it for when it comes to HomeGrownClone)
Sharing Our Bookmarks (@ delicious)
Listing Our Friends (@ friendfeed)
Sharing Fotofunk (@ flickr or bubbleshare.com <-- now dead or smugmug.com ... we haven't decided yet)
[edit](and as suggested by rdub) Using kontain.com for something cool...[/edit]

It will be a fun challenge to integrate all of these channels as we strive to maintain homegrownclone.com as the main point of entry. 

So, be on the lookout for HomeGrownClone v.5. We're changing with the times online because the times have changed us.

[EDIT EARLY NOVEMBER 2009]

We're being as picky as it gets when it comes to the new HGC...or perhaps it's because we tried to code it on a giant plasma TV and ended up streaming a Netflix movie (see our latest update on the main page of homegrownclone.com).

Whatever the case, we ARE still actively working on finishing up the new HGC, and it has been a lot of fun. A little progress for the random fan that happens to read this:

Our facebook page is now set up, but you won't see it yet. Bookmark http://www.facebook.com/homegrownclone/ though as we have the URL set up.

Our intro page is coded. The song of choice is by, who else, Smashing Pumpkins. However, the song won't be revealed until we launch.

All interior pages hosted @ homegrownclone.com are built in one method or another. We just need to QC them a bit more and we're working on some fun promotional videos where you will actually SEE roto & rdub's faces...or will you?

There's a lot more fun in store, and we thank you for being a fan of HGC. In the meantime, "We're all clones..."

[/EDIT EARLY NOVEMBER 2009]

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Meet Facebook Founder (and billionaire) Mark Zuckerberg

As more and more of my older family joins facebook, I wish they were also introduced to the fact that it was founded by someone at least 1/3 their age...even 8 years younger than me. Meet billionaire/entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg (via Wikipedia):

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American billionaire and entrepreneur best known for co-founding the popular social networking site Facebook. Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook with fellow classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin and Chris Hughes while attending Harvard. Zuckerberg serves as Facebook's CEO. He has been the subject of controversy for the origins of his business and his wealth.

more @ Wikipedia >

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Air Vigorsol Video -- Nipple Growth Explosion!

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AS... YOU... WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISH...

My 2009 Halloween Costume just arrived, Buttercup:

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Would you like ORAL with that?

Call Centers for Sex

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Halloween Spider Cupcakes

Who doesn't like cupcakes? I had fun today with my wife & son making these cool Halloween spider cupcakes.

Ingredients: Vanilla Cupcakes | Chocolate frosting | Chocolate Sprinkles
M & Ms Minis | Mini Marshmallows | Twizzlers Twists

Tools: Toothpicks | Scissors | Imagination

1) Bake & foil vanilla cupcakes
2) Cut Twizzlers Twists to desired length for spider's legs
3) Poke 4 holes on opposite sides of the cupcake (for the Twizzlers legs) with a toothpick
4) Put 8 Twizzlers Twists from step 2 into the holes made in step 3
5) Add desired amount of frosting then chocolate sprinkles
6) Cut 1 mini marshmallow in half and place stick them side by side into the sprinkles/frosting...these are the spider eyes
7) Add an M & M Mini to each eye (which should stick to to the middle sticky part of the mini marshmallow)
8) Enjoy the finished product -- a black spider with red legs!

                 

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Rowdy and Hopper -- Friends for life...

Cats and dogs can get along. Just a quick post of a sweet
recent photo of my Mom's cat (Rowdy) & dog (Hopper)
lounging by the pool. Friends for life...

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...and now IE6...you will DIE!

I work in in the biz. No, I don't sling Irish Car Bombs across a bar while standing in an inch of beer. I'm in the biz that creates the lovely goodness that is allowing you to read these words. I'm one of those guys that likes to right click, "view source", and get excited when a website uses a <div> instead of a <table>.  If you don't know what any of that means, it's irrelevant for reading and understanding this post. If you do understand, it will give you some immediate understanding about the topic. Once you do understand, it's a sentiment you'll likely share when talking about the browser that everyone loves to hate, Internet Explorer 6 (IE6). To know IE6 is to love to hate it...and IE6 MUST DIE!

I don't ever claim to have all the answers, but I try to learn something new about my chosen profession each day. When use a computer to access the internet, the main way we interact is via the web browser. One of the first things I learned when I chose this career is to always use the latest & greatest browser. Security updates, new features and other great enhancements are packaged with a new browser, and updates keep the browser fresh, secure and fast. Fantastic advances have been made in modern browsers like Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari...and even Internet Explorer 8. Yes, that's right, IE6 is not even almost the most recent version of Internet Explorer. When comparing IE6 to any of current browser, it's like comparing a beat up Ford Pinto to a Ferrari 599XX -- there is no comparison.

Here are some reasons to join the fight and rid the internet of IE6 (from IEDeathMarch.org & BringDownIE6.com):

• (as of September 2009) Internet Explorer 6 will be SEVEN years old on August 27th, 2008 will be NINE years old this fall. It came out a few weeks before the Twin Towers fell. It came out before the Nintendo GameCube. It came out before the first iPod.
• There is a lot you can't do in IE6.
• The hacks needed to support IE6 are increasingly viewed as excess freight. Like Netscape 4 in 2000, IE6 is perceived to be holding back the web.
• Clients pressure designers to "force" sites to work in IE6, and designers, not wanting to lose business, comply, using hacks and workarounds.
• Even standards gurus are frustrated.

I still can't believe it's nearing the end of 2009 and it's necessary to write any of this, but there's still a lot of work to be done to rid the online world of IE6. Some people replace cars every 3 to 4 years -- and that costs (a lot of) money! Web browsers are free and easy-to-upgrade. Why people choose to continue using an inherently flawed piece of shi...escuse me, software is beyond my understanding.

So, if you're reading this using IE6, there are other options:
Firefox | Google Chrome | Safari | Flock | IE8 | ...and more.

Don't take my word for it:
- http://deathtoie6.com/
- http://iedeathmarch.org/
- http://bringdownie6.com/
- http://stopie6.com/
- http://desizntech.info/2009/02/die-ie6-die-go-to-hell-already/
- http://www.incerteza.org/blog/projetos/shockingly-big-ie6-warning/
- http://37signals.blogs.com/products/2008/07/basecamp-phasin.html
- http://davidwalsh.name/6-reasons-why-ie6-must-die
- [ADDED 09/26/09] IE 6 USAGE CHART
...and the list goes on.

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