Last year, OfficeMax had a fun site that allowed you to upload a picture of a person and paste the face of that person on a dancing elf. It was a lot of fun and I created a great clip of Judy. Unfortunately, I couldn’t figure out a way to save the Flash file. The [...]

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Today, we issued the following statement:
“We are extremely pleased that the PTO has now found all claims of the Time Warp Patent to be valid after conducting a reexamination of the patent requested by EchoStar. This decision by the PTO is final and not appealable by EchoStar. Today’s decision by the PTO brings us [...]

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Pics and vid from Bonnie’s birthday, including the mesmerizing Foot Pleaser Ultra!

Posted by Roger at 11:42 pm.

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Pics of my new toy!

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For Iraj’s birthday, we went to a Persian restaurant where we enjoyed good food and belly dancing! Here’s some pics and vids.

Posted by Roger at 11:20 pm.

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Judy’s parents recently accompanied us on a 14-day trip through China. We started in Beijing and Tianjin where we visited the Great Wall (our second time), checked out several sites of the 2008 Olympics (including the sand volleyball area), and got a pedicure (my first one ever - hey, it was cheap so why not?) [...]

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Paul thought it would be fun to do something special to commemorate Jeff turning the big Six-Oh. So we blew up a bunch of TiVo balloons and filled up Jeff’s cube with them. Well, actually, we cheated a bit. After blowing up a few balloons, we quickly realized that we wouldn’t have the stamina to [...]

Posted by Roger at 11:35 pm.

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Today was Chris’ birthday and we decided it would be fun to crown him King of the Beach for a day. Judy and I got to the beach early to hide the renowned King of the Beach crown. Chris is a stickler for keeping the court boundary lines taut and straight so we decided to [...]

Posted by Roger at 8:46 pm.

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This is definitely the summer of volleyball for Judy and I. We met some really cool people who play regularly on Sundays at Santa Cruz so we’ve been heading to the beach every Sunday.
The Santa Cruz volleyball scene is great - it’s got a really mellow and friendly vibe that we really enjoy. For the [...]

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Judy and I rode our first Century today. Well, actually it wasn’t a real Century (100 mi), but a Metric Century. Still at 100K (~60 mi), it’s a decent ride. The Marin Century is a popular annual ride with a good variety of grades and terrain. We went through redwood forests, cruised along flat grasslands, [...]

Posted by Roger at 11:32 pm.

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Well, I guess the launch of the new TiVo HD isn’t a complete surprise since its impending release was first discovered a little over a week ago. Although the sleuth who uncovered the leak didn’t initially blog about it, others soon found out and word quickly spread. It didn’t take long before the leaked pics [...]

Posted by Roger at 12:14 am.

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Partly due to my climbing injury, but more due to the fact that it’s just a lot of fun, Judy and I have started playing more volleyball. We play occasionally at the Stanford sand courts and last weekend played in a reverse co-ed grass tournament. We were definitely still a bit rusty and didn’t do [...]

Posted by Roger at 10:22 pm.

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Well, now that I’m experiencing a bunch of downtime to heal my injured finger (I strained my A2 pulley on my right ring finger during our recent trip to Tahoe and then made it worse at Joe’s), one of the things I decided to do was add captions to all of Bob’s pics from our [...]

Posted by Roger at 10:54 pm.

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This Memorial Day weekend, Judy and I flew to Utah and met up with Ryan for a fun four days of bouldering at Joe’s Valley. We were bracing ourselves for big crowds and hot temperatures, but neither was the case - the weather was pleasant and we ran into very few other climbers. We got [...]

Posted by Roger at 9:27 pm.

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We just purchased the newly published Lake Tahoe Bouldering, Lake Tahoe’s first bouldering guide. Although not widely known for its bouldering (at least not yet), there are a huge number of problems in the Tahoe area. With Tahoe only a few hours drive from where we live, we intend to make good use of this [...]

Posted by Roger at 9:42 pm.

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