Cats like watermelon?

Bag cat

Final product

Canning night

8 lbs of green beans, 6+ lbs of carrots, 5.5 garlic bulbs, 2 dozen habaneros,1.5 lbs of serrano peppers, and a gallon of vinegar, along with various herbs and spices. A lot of work, but my late night snacking will be very enjoyable.

A random sculpture

...at the complex where the Costco Rich prefers is located.

If you're going to scam, check your work

"We helps you connect".  Taken from a friend's facebook message after her account was hijacked.  Sorry, Dawn!

First beard

Natural???

I drink soda. I like soda. I like natural soda. I have no delusions that my Coca-Cola and Pepsi products are good for me. This despite vitamin fortified Coke. Apparently Pepsi thinks they can lull you in with recycled unbleached cardboard and call the product natural? Who on earth would be that gullible?

Queen of the couch

Tastefully done

See lawyers? This is how you advertise.

Stretch!

Balance

In repose

It's hard to see, but they're about 7 feet above the water level. They beach themselves at high tide and just hang out all day.

Sealions

Dan took me down below the pier to see these majestic creatures.

Monterey

Cat training

...if only I could get her to stop things as opposed to her learning new things.

Hiding place

When we're not around, she hides out behind the entertainment unit in the den!

Flying a kite

See that tiny black dot above his head? That's spiderman kite, begging to get back down.

Bottom of the jar

This is the last of the jar of dilly beans. It might sound like a good idea to eat the orange one, it's really not.

Doped up

The scratching pad is dosed with catnip. She gets really wacky.

Choppa

Are these comfortable?

Rad enough

A vanity plate straight from the 80's. The driver looked like he was from the 40's.

Evan!

Another brewery in Berkeley!

A bowl from Gary

The great artist

This is Drew's picture of a butt. He might have learned to draw stuff like this from me.

Reading a magazine

Disturbed sleep

Kitty likes laying in the valley between my legs and fighting with her tail. It not only makes a persistent scratching sound, it wakes me with all the motion.

Puuuuurrrrrrring engine

Listen carefully...

Formatting PHP dates

Okay, why hasn't anyone put this in examples on the web yet?

You're building a search form for users. And you want them to enter a date that they want to search. I want to search for events that occur on July 21 this year, so I'll enter 7/21/2009 into the search box.

BUT...your database has the record stored as 2009-07-21, so you need to make a conversion.

Enter the explode command. And such a wonderful command it is. But php.net's own site documenting it doesn't even make mention that you can convert dates with it. How absurd is that? For all the php hacks like myself, here's how it's done.

$date = $_POST['dateentry']; // You should probably addslashes, but we're just playing here

$exploding=explode('/',$date);

$reformatted=$exploding[2]."-".$exploding[0]."-".$exploding[1];

echo "$reformatted"; // Returns "2009-07-21"

Come on, internet! Are you really going to make me figure these things out myself?

No paws on the table

Well, she's figred that part out. Now she's lap-sitting while I work.

Happiness is...

A kitten rolled up against you, purring like mad.

Kitty napping on my shoulder

She makes it hard to hear the tv. Very loud purring.

Batman

Painted on a wall by where I park.

Resting

Nothing like a warm lap(top).

Aimee and Amy

Walking on wire

This is Aimee

Weed wad

Late night garbage

I have a weakness for limited edition type snacks. Especially since they're usually sold at a promotional price. I figured I couldn't go wrong with Jalapeno Popper flavor. I was dead wrong. They're like jalapeno popper breading flavor rather than the pepper or cheese flavor. The worst part is that my frual self won't allow them to go to waste, so here I am, snacking on these.

Our new family member

She needs a name. Any suggestions?

Breakfast club

Today's Friday morning breakfast club offering is Indian. The homemade doughnuts are not sweet and served with a mildly spicy hummus-like sauce. The dish on the right is like a tapioca/rice pudding. Very sweet. A nice change of pace from bagels.

Grandpa - can I go for a ride?