Christopher Hammond
07.13.04
I got the urge to redesign, as I do every few weeks. I've added a new photo gallery, with a little bit better functionality than the last one. I'll try to continually add items to it. So far I'm not so sure I like my organizational structure in the gallery, but it will do until I come up with something better.
What do you think of the new site?
-Chris...
Christopher Hammond
07.26.04
Hopefully over the next few weeks I'll be able to get out and get some good photos, or at least attempt to get some good photos, of the Perseids Meteor showers.
Maybe I'll arrange a little s2o gathering one late night out in a dark...
Christopher Hammond
08.03.04
Check out my gallery of Doom 3 screenshots!
I got a new video card today, new to me at least, a Nvidia FX 5900 Ultra 256mb. Courtesy of my little Nvidia fairy :) Thanks Dude!
It rocks! I also got a copy of Doom 3 today from Best Buy, if you are looking for it, tell them Circuit City has it in their flyer for $45, Best Buy will match the price.
So far the graphics are absolutely amazing. Gameplay to me seems to be typical Doom, which is good or bad, depending on your preference.
It's late, I'll try to do a review later this...
Christopher Hammond
08.08.04
Colwell and I went to the Cards Mets game yesterday.
I took ~200 pictures
http://www.chrishammond.com/gallery/albums/38.aspx
Check out this one (3 in...
Christopher Hammond
08.18.04
So I'm surfing around sportingnews.com today and trying to see if I can still login with my old TSN information, no luck. Either the account is gone, or I just forgot my password, not sure which.
Once I get the failed login page I see this image.
I think, wait a minute, I know that guy. That's none other than Aaron Ellis, web developer extraordinaire. He's one of a few of us who are still left at TSN. I believe he's currently the only web developer, at one point there were 6 or 7 of us, plus another 6 or 7 programmers.... Here's to ya...
Christopher Hammond
08.19.04
I've been meaning to figure out a good way to get organized on my photos. Right now I have my directory structure broken down by d:\images\year\month\day
which doesn't work too bad, but I think I need an organization system that allows searching by content/topic, instead of just date.
Scoble posted about organizr I may have to try it out...
Christopher Hammond
08.20.04
Russ and I went and saw Metallica's Some Kind of Monster last night at the Galeria here in St. Louis, Missouri. It was kind of weird that the only place in town playing SKOM was the movie theater at the Galleria. I would have expected the Tivoli, High Points, or Frontenac to be playing such a title over the Galleria theater.
SKOM is a documentary on Metallica, ranging about two years, covering the development and struggles of recording the St. Anger album.
It was a decent 2 hours, though it felt like it was 3+ hours when watching it. Watching Lars and James go at it you can't help but laugh at how silly these two grown men are, fighting like little kids. It was a cool progression though throughout the movie watching them grow. I'm still not a fan of the St. Anger album, but I did break it back out today to listen to it again for a while.
Have you seen SKOM yet? What'd you...
Christopher Hammond
08.24.04
Time to read up on this information about intergration of nGallery and...
Christopher Hammond
09.07.04
Here are some selected photos from the Gateway Cup Day 1 in Lafayette Square on Friday Night September 3rd.
Greg coming down the front stretch 1 2 3 4 5Greg with Brandon (from Chicago) behind him 1 2 3 4Greg in the pack 1 2 3 4 Greg with a decent break 1 2 3Brandon in the pack 1 2Greg in the pack 1 2 3Brandon behind the Mercy guys 1Greg alone 1 2 3 4Brandon outside the pack 1Greg in pack 1 2 Brandon and Greg 1Andy 1Greg and Andy at Finish 1 2 3Greg after winning 1
And some cool photos from the Cat 1/2/Pro race
http://www.chrishammond.com/gallery/albums/44/2613.aspxhttp://www.chrishammond.com/gallery/albums/44/2581.aspxhttp://www.chrishammond.com/gallery/albums/44/2590.aspxhttp://www.chrishammond.com/gallery/albums/44/2589.aspxhttp://www.chrishammond.com/gallery/albums/44/2615.aspxhttp://www.chrishammond.com/gallery/albums/44/2617.aspxand at the finish http://www.chrishammond.com/gallery/albums/44/2623.aspx
I'll try to go through some of the rest of the weekends photos later this...
Christopher Hammond
09.08.04
Photos from Day 2 of the Gateway Cup at Greentree in Kirkwood Missouri. The album has photos from the Masters and Cat 4 races.The following photos go pretty much in chronological order. Not necessarily photos from each lap though.
First Lap James Nelson in the lower right. 1Brandon in the lower right 1Greg in the back 1Greg in the pack 1 2Greg moved into the lead on lap 3 or so 1 2 3 4 Brandon chasing a big shark 1Nelson is a big shark 1Greg, Brandon in background of the first one 1 2Greg in the pack, Nelson in the first one 1 2Greg and Nelson together in the pack 1You can see Andy's legs on the sea-foam bike 1These two guys just wanted some love from the announcer 1Greg and Brandon in the pack 1Greg and Andy in the pack 1 2Greg stayin on the break 1 2Andy and Nelson in the pack 1 2 3Andy in second 1 2Brandon leading the second pack 1Greg and Nelson in the pack 1Andy strokin it in first 1 2 3Greg leading the next pack 1 2 3Greg and Andy in the back of this photo 1 2 3Brandon and Andy in the pack 1Greg around the turn 1 2Andy 1Nelson 1Greg and Brandon together in the back 1 2 3Greg 1Brandon and Andy up front, Greg in the back 1 2 3 4Brandon and Andy in the line 1Greg 1 2Brandon 1Greg and Brandon 1 2 3Greg getting ready to toss his glasses 1Greg and Brandon, Andy too 1 2 Nelson's bike 1Greg in the pack 1Greg and Brandon in the pack 1 2 3Greg with a few laps left 1 2 3 4Sprint for the finish 1 2 3 4Greg after the race...
Christopher Hammond
09.09.04
Day 3, on the Hill, Greg wins again.
Greg back in the group 1 2 3Greg in 2nd, Brandon in 5th, Andy in 9th 1 2 3 Brandon in 1st, Greg back a bit 1 2 3Greg and Andy strategizing 1Brandon Greg and Andy 1 2 3Brandon and Andy upfront 1 2 3 4Greg pullin up, Brandon layin back 1 2Greg and Brandon 1 2Greg and Brandon in the pack 1 2Greg in pack 1 2 3Brandon in pack 1 2Andy in the pack 1Nelson after wreck 1 2 3 Greg 1 2 3 4 5 6 7Brandon trying to get back up to speed 1Andy on the far right 1 2 3Greg's legs 1Greg after winning 1 2 3Monkey Faced Greg...
Christopher Hammond
09.12.04
For the fifth year in a row I am in Topeka Kansas this week. It's the SCCA Solo II Nationals. The Nationals are broken up into two groups. My group runs on Tuesday and Wednesday. There are only 2 350Zs here this year, 4 drivers. Andy Hohl is driving mine. Hopefully one of us will do decent!
We (SoloPerformance.com) showed up Friday and setup the store. We've been selling like mad, doing a lot of custom Vinyl for folks, far more than I expected! Hopefully more posts later this week. Thursday I drive back to St. Louis and fly to Phoenix for Faye's...
Christopher Hammond
09.20.04
I'm back from 9 days out of town. First I went to the SCCA Solo II Nationals in Topeka Kansas you can check out some of the photos from the ProSolo Finale http://www.solo2.org/gallery/albums/9.aspx and from Nationals http://www.solo2.org/gallery/albums/8.aspx
Thursday morning, after 4 hours of sleep, I drove back to St. Louis and caught a flight Thursday evening to Phoenix for Faye's wedding. Check out some of the photos from the wedding! http://www.chrishammond.com/gallery/albums/49.aspx
Overall it was a good 9 days. Nationals didn't go as well as I had hoped, but it was better than last year. I did however get dehydrated one day and fairly sick, but after a few gatorades I was back to normal. Hopefully more details on the past 9 days later, I have work to catch up...
Christopher Hammond
09.28.04
If you haven't seen Shaun of the Dead yet go see it! It is an excellent movie. Funny as heck, and even a little jump out and scare you here and there. The movie is about two british guys who fight off a town full of Zombies, while the world faces an epidemic onslaught of Zombies. This is definitely a see it in theaters type of movie, or on DVD with 5.1...
Christopher Hammond
09.29.04
Will St. Helen's Blow? Let's hope not for people's safety sake, but you can watch a cano cam...
Christopher Hammond
09.30.04
They've finally for the profiles up on dotnetnuke for the core developers! And guess who is in the mix? :)
Check it out
http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Default.aspx?tabid=698
For some reason though they haven't put my photo up, perhaps I'm too fugly to make it on the site!...
Christopher Hammond
10.01.04
MSH isn't about to erupt, it's being overrun by flies!
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Christopher Hammond
10.03.04
Scientists are predicting that MSH will blow sometime very soon. The forrest service's servers have been overloaded with all the activity this is generating on the internet.
The following VolcanoCam page with images updated every 5 minutes keeps going up and down. If you get a file not found try it again...
Christopher Hammond
10.04.04
Letting of a little steam? That's what the scientists are thinking. Check out some of the screen captures from the MSH Volcano Cam that I've collected and posted online.
http://www.chrishammond.com/gallery/albums/52.aspx
Some of my other MSH postsMount Saint Helens readies the area for a show...Mount Saint Helens is being over run!Will Mount St. Helen's blow? ...
Christopher Hammond
10.04.04
You can view a couple hundred images...
Christopher Hammond
10.06.04
Was yesterday not the best day in Baseball?
The Red Sox beat the Angel in Cali.
The Yankees lost to the Twins in NY!!!
Oh, and I went to the Cardinals game in which they beat the Dodgers! Here are 250 photos I took, I got 3 of the 5 homerun swings I think, possibly 4 of 5, need to check....
Christopher Hammond
10.21.04
A few days ago I lied, it wasn't the best day in baseball. Up to this point YESTERDAY was the best day in Baseball!
We spent yesterday afternoon at the Cardinals game 6 VS. The Astros. I took a couple hundred photos that I am currently uploading, I'll link to them in a bit when they are all uploaded.
After the game I went to the Sports Page out in Columbia Illinois for Krista's volleyball game, and to watch the Red Sox win game 7 of the ALCS! Johnny Damon sure woke up yesterday, 6 RBIs for the hairy man, a 2 run shot, and a 4 run dinger!!!! Go Red Sox!
Hopefully the Cardinals will win Game 7 of the NLCS tonight and then the Sox/Cards series will...
Christopher Hammond
10.21.04
I've got the photos from the NLCS game 6 at Busch Stadium (10/20/2004) posted.
There are 463 of them. I didn't go through and remove the blurry ones yet, just made them smaller and then uploaded them. Check them...
Christopher Hammond
10.21.04
Cardinals Red Sox in the World...
Christopher Hammond
10.25.04
Get your World Series tickets! Oh wait, I ALREADY HAVE THEM! :)
Auntie Carol and I are heading to Game 4 on Wednesday night! She's flying in Wednesday afternoon and out Thursday morning. I've also got a standing room only ticket to Game 5 if it is necessary on Thursday night.
I predicted this would be an expensive week, and it has proven to be so!
As for me complaining or gloating for the next year. It's not likely, I'll be on a Red Sox Fan high for a while, but I'm not one to make continual jabs, I only made one comment about the Yankees to Brian... And that was after the Sox came back from 0-3 to win the Series! I am still a Cardinals fan, I still have two hats, a Jersey, and who knows what other Paraphanalia, it is all just retired until after the World Series, this is the Red Sox year!
Let's do this one right Red Sox, we'd love to see it done in Four, but if it's done in 5 I'll be there...