Photo, Chess, Wine & Co

Memories for friends...

2011-01-15T19:28:00.000-08:00

Joshua tree memories for a couple of friends in Barcelona :)

Enjoy!

Joshua Tree Under the Milky Way from Henry Jun Wah Lee on Vimeo.

Climbing locura....

2010-02-06T21:23:00.001-08:00

This news is going to be quite a surprise for el Sergi (I hope.) Today I made the big step and signed up as a member with Vertical Hold. You won't believe it but it is a Dual Monthly Membership....no not what you think, it is not with Carmen, it is with Carlos, yes Carlos Fernandez known as Monkey Carlitos.
Anyways, this part of the story is probably not too surprising yet though the Carlos part might have come as a surprise...Now the thing that gave this post its name, the locura of the day is that I signed up for a second climbing gym as well. Two sign ups on the same day....that beats everything I think. Again, not what you might think, I am not running from one gym to the next, I didn't go mad yet. The new gym is opening only in May/June and I wanted to climb until then. Check it out, it is called Mesa Rim, and quite a cool climbing gym. Tati and Antonio signed up too. It is going to be the quatro infernale...Till June we have to get in shape because the new gym is mainly lead climbing (it has a great boulder area too....a bit too high). Anyways, thought I share this new record. Tati, Antonio and me are members of two climbing gyms :D....Locura total. Have a great week and a good night.

For Sergio to climb...

2010-01-12T19:34:00.000-08:00

OK....after this long break this is my third post in 96hours or so. After this, I guess I'll take another 6 month break ;-) This is a video....an example for Sergio......from Cataluna. I want to see the same video with you in it Sergi. I would do it but then again it is too far to Spain just for a video, jiji

Rumble in the jungle or...

La Rambla

Enjoy! Waiting for your next post with the video Sergi.

Have a good night, good morning or whatever it is where you are.

Climbers and Travelers

2010-01-11T23:20:00.000-08:00

Just wanted to post this spectacular places. There is something for everybody....Enjoy!

Top 15

Start planning your trips ;-)

Serbian Xmas

2010-01-06T18:30:00.000-08:00

After a long time I am back with another post. I was actually waiting for Santi to post before I would blog again but today I got menaced by Antonio that he would take my blog out of his list...
Here we are. Probably, the ones who read this know that it is Xmas time for me now...and for those who didn't, yes, yes, the Serbian church celebrates Christmas according to the Julian calendar.
This means Christmas Eve is on January 6 and Christmas on January 7.
Anyways, I thought I post a link that I found in good old Wikipedia about Serbian Christmas and traditions. If you are interested check it out:

Serbian Christmas

Hristos se rodi!

Temecula Wine on Memorial day

2009-05-25T20:14:00.000-07:00

Memorial Day offered itself for a nice day trip to Temecula. We arrived there around 2pm (didn't want to get drunk earlier) and stopped by at Hart Family Winery. A respectable Syrah and Cabernet franc remained in my memory. Next we stopped by at Stuart Cellars. Compared to the more family like atmosphere Hart winery, Stuart Cellars demonstrated a more business oriented atmosphere. The palate started to get overused, the alcohol level increased and the mood turned into more cheerful. If I remember right, the Sangiovese was not too bad. Finishing up the winetasting experience at Mount Palomar Winery with an interesting Port wine and a good Pizza to prevent complete drunkness we were getting exhausted of so much wine. Overall, we had a nice day with very pleasant company. So if y0u want to do a nice day trip, get out of San Diego with friends and enjoy a sunny day, Temecula is worth a trip. If you want to drink exceptional wines, eat good food, don't want to drive to far and still enjoy nice company, I recommend to go to a wine tasting at WineSellar & Brasserie (http://www.winesellar.com).

Have a nice evening!

Daily Chess Puzzle

2009-05-23T09:16:00.000-07:00

OK, I noticed that I am too lazy to keep blogging and that my rhythm is more or less like Santi's.
As well, I changed the name of the blog since I thought it was bs that I'll write in German or Serbian too (especially with my tempo). So to keep it short, here a link of a nice chess puzzle site for all of you who enjoy playing chess.

http://www.shredderchess.com/daily-chess-puzzle.html

Have a great day!

New Website

2009-04-02T18:21:00.000-07:00

I thought that in most cases I don't really know what type of science friends in my surroundings are doing since we hardly talk about science. I finished our lab website recently and thought I just might post the link here so at least everybody who is interested can check out what kind of science is done in our lab. Here it is:

http://www.scripps.edu/mb/millar

Here you can also find the quicktime movie I was talking about in my last post. Have a good evening.
More posts coming soon.

2009-03-18T22:22:00.000-07:00

Quicktime movie on website

I am getting into this blogging business or as Sergi is saying into the 'dark side'. Just wanted to share with you how to get a quicktime movie with iweb onto your website and let the movie play as soon as you open the site, get rid off the controls and let it loop. Unfortunately, iweb doesn't allow you to do this within the software so you have to go into the code and modify it a little bit.

iweb saves the movie description in a file called default.js (default might be changed to a name you gave the site) in the default folder. You will find entries for autoplay, loop and controller. Set autoplay to true, loop to true and controller to false. Be aware that there are several autoplay (2), loop (2) and controller (3) definitions in that file. You need to change all of them to the values I just mentioned to achieve the result that the movie is playing automatically, looping and that you don't see the Quicktime controls. Well, that is all I think. Probably, you don't give a 'beeep' for this but in case you do you don't need to search the web for solutions.
Have a good night.

2009-03-17T20:07:00.000-07:00

The Weekend Roommate

Finally, this is my first blog posting. I had this blog reserved already for a while but I didn't know what to post or even how to call the blog. Now I decided on the name at least. I called it multilingual blog because the postings are not going to be all in English. My parents and other people I know don't speak English so I thought it is just fair to change the language of the postings. Then, when I saw that even Santi posted his first blog I thought now I really have to get going ;-). Well, while I am writing I am trying to figure out how this blogging thing works.

Anyway, the first blog is about our new weekend roommate, Lexi. I don't really know if this is the right way to spell his name but I think it looks right. Well, Lexi is Carmen's office cat and he spends a lot of weekends in our place lately. Since we share a fair amount of time with our new roommate I thought I'd write a blog about him and share photos and videos (all just to learn how to blog obviously ;-) Anyway, I have to say that I have been opposed to having a cat at home but then again I have to say that Lexi is not just a cat, he is a character. All of you who have met Lexi already know what I am talking about. For the rest, I am posting some photos and a video so at least you get a first impression. This way I keep this first blog short and don't annoy you too much. It's done! I can't believe it....my website is asleep but at least I posted my first blog.

Lexi posing for the camera. To be beautiful for the lens he first took a shower...surprisingly without being very opposed to it.

And finally he is big into food...(I know it is a simple video and I have to learn a lot before my videos reach the quality of Antonio's or Sergio's videos....check out their blogs (see on the right)).

Next weekend he is going to be back again.
Have a nice evening.