I asked Louise to marry me on our unicycle ride last friday, 7/4/08. we are engaged!

The night before I rode up and spray painted over a bunch of graffiti and the painted the words on it. For those who want to know, “Dead Camper” is the name of one of the trails we ride off of santa cruz.

corbin

Well, Louise and I had a great week riding our unicycles at a maddening pace throughout Nova Scotia.

Final results are here: http://www.ridethelobster.com/race/final.php

My team, Texacali, placed third overall! (out of 35 teams). I’m quite amazed as we didn’t set out to really be competitive. I was figuring it would be cool to be in the top 10, but to make it to third was just amazing. A big thanks goes out to my teammates, AJ and Kevin, and a huge thanks to our support person, Sondra, who we couldn’t have done it without.

I also ended up getting second in the Time Trials — that’s 2nd out of 105 people racing against the clock. I’m quite amazed that I placed so high. Chuck beat me by quite a bit, which I wasn’t surprised by, since he is a powerful rider.

Pictures are slowly rolling in from various places. I’m putting mine up here: http://picasaweb.google.com/corbin.dunn/RideTheLobster

Roland has been putting his here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rolandisimo/sets/72157605602863789/

With some of the ones with me in it:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rolandisimo/2601873910/in/set-72157605602863789/

Pictures from Carl:

http://picasaweb.google.com/crhoyer/RTLDay3Criterium

With my favorite being this one, copied below (thanks Carl!!) http://picasaweb.google.com/crhoyer/RTLDay3Criterium/photo#5213902607772471618

I still have some more pictures to upload, but I was more focused on riding than using the camera.

We finished the first 200km! It was pretty tough. Amazingly enough, my team, TexaCali, is in third place! We probably exerted too much energy today, but it was pretty fun. For a while at the start, I was even leading! It was a cool experience to be out in front of 35 other teams.

The current top five teams: The German Speeders (insanely fast riders all on geared 36′ers), Team NZ (New Zealanders), who did an amazing pace mostly on ungeared unicycles, team TexaCali (one geared 36, one geared 29′er, one ungeared 36′er). Next was team Personal Roller Coaster — which was an amazingly fast team. After that was another bay area team, team Totally Doable.

Super cool! Pictures up eventually…

Next week my team (TexaCali) will be participating in the “Ride the Lobster” unicycle race in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Check out the website: http://www.ridethelobster.com/

And visit the results page to see how we do: http://www.ridethelobster.com/race/results.php

An amazing new Treehouse by Peter Nelson.

[From The Canopy Cathedral « The Treehouse Guy]

WWDC 2008! Howdy to my fellow Cocoa Developers. Take a look at the conference schedule: http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/schedules/ and be sure to come to my talk! Tuesday at 10:30 AM, iPhone for Mac Developers.

If you have *any* Cocoa questions, come to the Cocoa labs! I’ll be working the labs this week, so find me (or any of the other great apple engineers) and ask questions!

Edit: if you go to: http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/students/ you can see a picture of me from last year — I have the Leopard print hair:

http://picasaweb.google.com/corbin.dunn/UCSCArboretum08/

From the UCSC Arboretum, taken yesterday.

An HDR shot of a bee; the image was generated from a single RAW exposure, mainly to increase some details that you couldn’t see with the original photograph.

An HDR generated from three exposures, and my wide angle lens:

A regular image, touched up in Aperture slightly, taken with the 70-200mm f/2.8 lens:

An HDR from three exposures using the 70-200mm lens. The non-HDR looked pretty good, but the right side was slightly over exposed from the sun, and the background was pure black. The HDR combination fills out those areas, and prevents it from being over exposed:

We went camping last weekend in Colfax (yes, it rained!) We also did a little unicycling there, and hung out with Louise’s aunt and uncle (separately, and they are really not related, but are like aunts and uncles).

Anyways, a good picture of us, with my new 70-200mm lens:

The depth of field on the lens is amazing!

Back on April 13th I turned 30! I did a little camera filming on my trials course.

Click below to download the movie. QuickTime format, H.264 encoded, 2:41 seconds. 15.6 MB.

I got a nice new lens a few weeks ago. It takes GREAT pictures. Here’s some examples from a few days ago:

Note: picasa tends to under saturate the preview images. Click the + to see the full size on the linked image:

Ah, a generic RBG profile makes it so much better

Bottlenose brush in the front of our house.

Cactus flower at the Santa Cruz house (dad’s house).