Happy birthday cheer today for my dear capricious_k -- may the coming year be even more fabulous than the last!

And congrats on keeping up the tradition of spending your birthday away on vacation. I'm writing this as we've just finished our exploration of the old Columbia Gorge highway including several waterfalls, good hiking, great company (waves to miss_emelia. And of course the Browcoat Ball in Portland has been a great time, as well as visiting with Portland friends and relatives.

Cheers to Portland and cheers to your birthday, capricious_k!!

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Today I'm giddy with one of my proudest moments working for Google lo these 5 years. I've been working with the iGoogle team (mostly in an advisory capacity) to prepare Google's participation in Comic-Con and comicbookdom in general.

First off, we've partnered with lots of comics producers who've created 50 gorgeous comic book iGoogle themes. You can find them at http://www.google.com/comicsthemes

Secondly, today's homepage doodle features DC Comics heroes drawn by the legendary Jim Lee. Probably my most favorite homepage doodle ever. It's found at the Classic Google homepage at http://www.google.com

I was the guy on the iGoogle team that new the most about superhero comics, so this was a ton of fun Never before have I contributed to something that does such a great job of combining one of my favorite hobbies with my favorite job. I hope you enjoy them.

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I'm sitting here in downtown Redwood City enjoying the Celtic rock of Tempest. Sadly I've been so busy the last couple days that I haven't had a chance to give. Shout out to see if any of my Irish dancing peeps could join the fun - but if you can make it down here in the next couple of hours please do!

No Friday Night Waltz for me tonight - too much laundry and packing to do tonight before heading out on vacation (more on that when I get a chance to post those plans).

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Happy birthday kevbot. Hope you're enjoying your vacation, and here's to another year of travels and friendship!

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Here I am celebrating Cinco de Mayo... At St. Stephen's Green.

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Just showed us the first 10 minutes of Watchmen here at WonderCon. Every frame was perfect, every beat bang-on. Can't wait for the full movie!

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Taking a moment during GTR's Community Vibes event to step away from the great but very loud live music. It's been a great weekend making new friends from Sarcastic Gamer Pink and getting my fill of good hip hop. My THM buddy C4 Soulja talked me into entering the Gears of War 2 tournament, which is a game I've never played. We did fine in round 1, but got swept in round 2. Maybe next year they'll do a Call of Duty tournament and we can kick some ass.

Ah well. Off to more music, drinking, and hanging out.

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Deserts can be pretty nice in the winter, when the temperatures are comfortable. Missing the dance events, but having a very nice time with a good crowd of folks.

Happy new year everyone!

(Photo actually taken a couple of days ago.)

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Happy birthday laurelt! We're still keeping a bottle of vodka chilled for you.

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capricious_k and I are spending our usual anniversary celebration by ditching our friends and family and going on vacation. We've had many awesome trips over the years... This year we chose Seattle as our destination. We're bumming around today and having our traditional Thanksgiving dinner in a swanky restaurant.

Technically our anniversary isn't for a few more days, but we've come to enjoy celebrating it with a trip since travel is so central ton our relationship. :-)

Happy anniversary K! Six wonderful years down, many more to go!

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