aaronwalker.org

Some recent pictures:

• Como Zoo March 2009
• MN Zoo April 2009
• MN Zoo July 2009

I’ve uploaded a picture or two in the past couple weeks:

• Supergame 2005
• Lindberg Ladies 2005
• San Diego Zoo 2005
• Como- May 2006 1
• Como- May 2006 2
• Koebensky Thanksgiving 2006
• Faribault December 2006
• Christmas 2007 in NC
• Outdoor Supergame (2008)
• Ren Fest 2008

I’m continuing to work on my backlog of pictures and have uploaded the ones I took over my winter vacation in Tennessee: Christmas 2008 Pictures.

After spending a lot of time playing with the new Faces and Places features in iPhoto recently, I finally got around to publishing some pictures tonight:

• LeConte 2007
• LeConte 2007- Trail Pictures
• LeConte 2008

Thinking about a new laptop after 5 years.

• 15″ MacBook Pro 4GB 320GB 6MB L2 512MB VRAM $2250 after rebate ($2300?)
• 15″ MacBook Pro 2GB 250GB 3MB L2 256MB VRAM $1800 after rebate
• AppleCare for MacBook Pro $300
• MacBook Pro Power Adapter MA938LL/A 85W $79 (non amazon)
• Time Capsule 500 GB $290
• Time Capsule 1 TB $462

Isabel Jean Walker, Born 2008/06/05

I finally got around to uploading some pictures:

• Halloween in Ravenholm (my pictures plus a couple that I borrowed from Jarrin’s Halloween pics because he got better pictures of me than I did).
• Thanksgiving at our new house
• Christmas at our new house (plus a few other christmas pics)

Just checked the site and realized it’d been quite a while since I updated.
Anyway, we bought the house we were hoping to back in August and are slowly but surely getting things together and adjusting to homeownership. I’m continuing to be chronically lazy about getting pictures online, which was significantly exacerbated by the move. The new house has allowed me to setup a movie/game room separate from the main living room. I’ve also found that Abby’s aluminum christmas tree appears to improve the wifi distribution in our house. Taking it down will mean we’ll need to start using the wifi extender again.
This winter has been an impressively Minnesotan winter. Lots of below zero days. We’re going to need to improve the insulation situation in the house before the next one.
So, that’s several half thoughts. I expect it would have taken me even longer to update this site if I had more stringent requirements.

Abby and I are okay and at home. Neither of us took 35W today.
Around 6:05pm cdt tonight the 35W bridge between University Ave and Washington Ave collapsed. CNN, strib. I don’t currently take 35W as part of my commute, but would have started sometime in September when we move into our house.
I found out while I was working out in my apartment’s exercise room. Scrubs had ended and I was flipping through the channels because I’d already seen last night’s Daily Show. I came across Fox News’ coverage of the collapse, then eventually switched to local news. I called Abby to make sure she was aware of what was going on. She’d gotten a call from her mother to make sure we were okay. I called my parents and brother and sister-in-law to let them know I was okay. None of them had heard about the collapse until I called but they were glad they heard from me first.

I finally got around to uploading a bunch of pictures:

• Memorial Day- 2005– A couple of pictures from Brian and Robin‘s Memorial Day BBQ
• Memorial Day- 2006– A couple of pictures from Brian and Robin‘s Memorial Day BBQ
• Ashley and Ryan’s Farewell Party– A couple of pictures from Ashley and Ryan‘s farewell party
• Big Basin State Park– Pictures from my trip to the bay area back in June
• Coit Tower– Pictures from my trip to the bay area back in June
• Golden Gate Bridge– Pictures from my trip to the bay area back in June
• Marta And Todd’s Wedding– Pictures from my friend Todd’s wedding back in June
• San Francisco– Pictures from my trip to the bay area back in June
• San Francisco- Panoramas– Very wide or tall pictures from my trip to the bay area back in June

Also, flickr just added the ability to tag your pictures by location. It’s really cool but a little unwieldy at the moment. It would be even cooler if you could use something like that new Sony GPS widget that can add GPS coordinates to your digital pictures.