The day isn’t over, but here are some pics so far (also includes a few shots from last night). Also, I forgot to note that on day one, Andrew and I got Sam to take off his pants in the ocean and wave them above his head. Today, I got some photos of Samoonie (you can guess what that is)… but I made them private to spare the children. Let me know if you’d like a copy though, haha… ;)

We came out of the fishing trip with a dozen fishies. Yay!

We went snorkeling/diving today and bummed around for a while. That’s all you get from me! You’ll have to live with photos. =)

Here’s a really flattering photo of Sam… I found the wide lens really accentuates his “features.”

Here’s Nancy thinking again:

I’m not going to blog much, but here are a bunch of photos! I tried to make more of an effort to take photos of myself this time around as I’ve noticed I’ve had a severe lack of those… =)

I’ll post more tomorrow! I have a lot of video as well, but I’m going to wait until I get home to get through that. The rest of the photos from day 0+1 are here. I also started a Pink Stuff set! (Thanks, Melissa, for the idea =)).

Kat took this photo while we were on the beach. It’s awesome… so I’m going to use it as the thumbnail for this post.

As I’m sure many of you know, Bazaarvoice has a quarterly all-hands where we used to pile everyone into an Alamo Drafthouse, eat, drink, and listen to groups present on how they did during the quarter and what they plan to do in the next. This all-hands was special for a few reasons. One, it’s BV’s fifth anniversary and second, it was the first we had at the Salt Lick because we’ve grown too large for the Drafthouse. I thought this all-hands was particularly enjoyable with great presentations, cover songs by our tongue-in-cheek dubbed “BandVoice,” and topped off by our second Bazaarvoice Film Festival.

Here are a few pics from the today:

I got a new hat! This is good because my old Linux Tux one is a bit worn and it shrunk when I washed it (shouldn’t have machine dried it…) making it not as comfy. One good thing about BV is they don’t get skimpy on their free stuff - t-shirts and now, this cap, are of quality. =)

Tomorrow, more partying at Volente then I fly out to the Keys! Woooooo!

This following photo was from earlier this week on “crazy hat day.” Thanks to Eric for letting me borrow it!

Bazaarvoice’s end of quarter was this past Friday and it was crazy. One part of our craziness is we go absolutely insane with the color green (increasingly more so as the last day in the quarter approaches):

Our sales team rocked it this quarter and whooped their goal on the last day. I had to leave early on Friday, but I hear they got sand and beer to have a boat/beach themed party on the top of the parking garage… haha.

Friday night, I went to Orange & White with Melissa. I figured I would feel old, but that feeling wasn’t as bad as I thought it’d be (probably since I had never been to O&W before). I’m kind of a lame date to a dance (especially with an ankle that limits certain movement), but Melissa put up with me. =p

Before the dance, we went to dinner at the Belmont which was okay (I wouldn’t have any urges to go again). Atmosphere was not bad, though. I think the Spazmatics were playing next door, so there was some sweet 80’s music going on. BV would be happy that we were still sporting green throughout the night (okay, that wasn’t exactly intentional).

I hear the dance was scaled down this year and there was only one ice sculture… here it is in all its glory (not sure how glorious it is, but if it has any, it’s all in this photo):

Saturday, I did a lot of nothing. The marketing department at BV gave me a $50 AMEX gift certificate for loaning them my 5DMII, so I headed to Fry’s in an attempt to spend it. I was thinking of getting Entourage, but they didn’t have it. I thought about Curb Your Enthusiasm and 30 Rock as well, but the prices were so much higher than Amazon, that I decided not to. I walked out with the $50 untouched. Fry’s fail. After that, there was dinner and dessert with Ryan, his parents, and some of the BV gang. I took a few pics, but they didn’t turn out so great, so I won’t be posting them. =p

Sunday, I got my hair cut, watched 500 Days of Summer and ate mangos.

This past week, Bazaarvoice had its annual US Social Commerce Summit where I served as photographer again. It was pretty cool, with Google being our platinum sponsor, but also pretty tiring. You can view my photos in my flickr set, but here are a few:

After the summit, I took the rest of the week off to chill and recharge. I did mostly nothing, but I did cheat a little and showed up to my team’s offsite to hang with them for a bit at Crown & Anchor:

Friday night, I went to Uchi with Al, Eduardo, and Scotty, which was pretty tasty as expected then went to meet up with Melissa at Sarina’s birthday party… where I spent about 30+ minutes trying to find parking in west campus… oh west campus…

I started to mess with Aperture 3 and decided to make the switch from Lightroom over to it. I was experimenting with the pics above and also reedited some shots from when I went to Salt Lick with some BVers (that batch happened to be on my laptop when I was looking for photos to play with). I think the Salt Lick ones turned out pretty well.

I’m still getting used to having control of curves in the individual RGB channels, but I’m liking it lots so far. =) Good job, Apple.

Some other random tid bits:

• finally got around to watching Slumdog Millionaire


• started using Time Machine for backups on my iMac


• looked at reviews for Canon’s 1D Mark IV, but promptly stopped deciding it was too dangerous (don’t think I could give up full frame, anyways)


• watched a few classes about iPhone app development on Stanford’s iTunes U


• went to the Glee sing-along at the Drafthouse

I’ve probably left stuff out, but whatever… you’ll live. =)

Hah! Okay, I really don’t have anything juicy to hide, but I’m not particularly in the blogging mood, so you will have to live with not knowing what I did this weekend. =p I just feel like I have to hit my weekend blog post quota…

This coming week is the Social Commerce Summit which I am shooting again. Hopefully my ankle is up to the task (I think it should be as long as I don’t do anything crazy). I haven’t done a good amount of shooting in a while, so it’ll be nice to spend a decent chunk of time with my camera again.

Now that I have rewarded you with a boring blog post with misleading title, I will now say goodbye. Hah!

I recorded this yesterday during our WoW night. Warning: contains profanity. Enjoy. =)

I think it’s a childhood fantasy of most young boys to have a pet dragon. I remember really enjoying Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher and an assortment of other dragon pet books. Dude, and Neverending Story? Yeah, that dog/dragon guy was pretty cool (I don’t think I should watch that movie again and just bask in my childhood memories of it).

Anyways, Sunday, I went to Vox with the usuals then went to Estancia for Sam’s 27th birthday (happy birthday!). After that stuffing of the face, I lasted about an hour or something playing WoW at home before I succumbed to the food coma and slept for almost 3 hours. I woke up to various tweets regarding How to Train Your Dragon 3D, and seeing that it has a 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, I opted to try to catch the last showing of it at Alamo South Lamar. I also managed to steal Melissa away from her studying (I might be a bad influence) to come along. I enjoyed it pretty well. I noticed that a few reviews on RT called it “Avatar for kids” which is an easy comparison to draw, although I enjoyed it more than the Cameron behemoth of a movie. IMO, James could learn a thing or two from this “kids movie” about story telling and bringing out emotion. I just felt like it had more character and soul, I suppose. =) Plus, I would take the stealth-fighter “Night Fury” dragon over whatever crazy bird thing that was in Avatar any day.

Going in reverse chronological order, on Saturday, I spent a bit of time at Zilker with Melissa and some of her peeps, then went back up north for some ultimate action only to have Sam bust my ankle. Needless to say, I didn’t run the 10k I had signed up for on Sunday (I might’ve skipped anyways, but that’s not the point ;-)). Wrapped up that day by spending a bit of time at Chancy’s for Sam’s pre-6th, pre-birthday bash then started watching some Modern Family, which is solidly amusing.

I think that’s all I can remember for now… tata!

So here I was minding my own business casually throwing a frisbee around for ultimate warm up, when Sam goes ballistic and charges me yelling “I’M GOING TO SMASH YOU BECAUSE YOU’RE BETTER THAN ME!” Luckily, he is slow and I managed to avoid him, but unfortunate for me, a rock or something on the ground was too slow and did not avoid me at all. I stepped on it in a rather poor fashion causing me to roll on my right foot. So now I have a sprained ankle. =( Thanks a lot, Sam… and you too, rock.

There shall be retribution.