Admittedly, this has nothing to do with Photography, but rather how technology is changing our country.This evening CNN ran a piece about how campaign attack ads created by anonymous people and deployed on the Internet may have much more impact on who is elected president of the United States than the multi-million dollar ads run by the candidates’ campaigns.In particular, they focused in on this YouTube ad… It was created from the famous Macintosh launch ad, and is a great piece of work.

I recently celebrated my… well, a very significant birthday. Having recently relocated back to the SF Bay Area, starting a new job, you might imagine the anarchy that all of that simultaneous change entails. So I really wasn’t expecting anything huge to happen on my birthday… and no “one” huge thing did happen.What did happen was nothing short of amazing. Over the course of my birthday week, many of my dear friends either took me out for dinner, drinks, or made dinner for me at home. This hasn’t happened before for several reasons… but this time it did, and wow did it feel good. You never know how important it is to have friends around you until you’re isolated from them.So, this blog post is a huge (and permanent) THANK YOU to those folks who helped me celebrate my birthday… In no particular order..

RalfLisaJosephMichelleDaniSaraAmberAlanMikeRobertJasonLisa A.Thanks again you guys… you all seriously ROCK!

My friend Lisa has been at it again. She’s a pastry chef and isn’t afraid to use her superpowers. This time she created an amazing Atari 2600 controller cake. Looking at the photo, I can almost feel the calluses from playing PacMan on mine a “few” years ago. Click the pics for a closer view.