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Shaktown

Matt — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:00:08 +0000

Visited a well being hand-dug with dynamite, a drilled well hitting water, and Shak’s sites in Seglemen, Ethiopia.

Second Day in Ethiopia

Matt — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:00:32 +0000

Climbed Gheralta to visit the church at the top of the mountain, checked into the Gheralta Lodge, and visited a village called Girat Mikdah Keshe that received a well from Charity: Water two years ago. Guest photographers: John Vechey and Scott Harrison.

First day in Ethiopia

Matt — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:00:35 +0000

Visiting new drilling rig, in Charity: Water yellow, visited a village without clean water yet that’s going to get it later this year, played soccer in Abenaa (lost 2-1, but good game).

En Route to Ethiopia

Matt — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:00:07 +0000

Flying to Ethiopia and dinner at Yordanos.

Sayulita

Matt — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:55:55 +0000

First full day at the Automattic Janitorial meetup in Sayulita. All taken with a NEX-7.

Birthday at Thee Parkside

Matt — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:42:30 +0000

Did low-key drinks at a fun bar called Thee Parkside for birthday, always fun to see friends new and old. Experimenting with a new camera, the Sony NEX-7, though these blurry bar photos don’t really do it justice.

SOMAArts show and Om’s place

Matt — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:00:10 +0000

Sister is in town and went to the Get Lucky: The Culture of Chance show at SOMArts, had some food truck Mexican food, and swung by Om’s place to catch up with some friends. Shot with Charleen’s Canon S100, which is a fun pocket camera that had some pretty decent shots in low-light, especially given its size.

WordCamp Bulgaria

Matt — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 07:00:44 +0000

WordCamp Sofia in Bulgaria, dinner, after-party.

Webfest and Budva

Matt — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 07:00:25 +0000

Webfest.me conference, dinner at Sveti Stefan, walking through old city in Budva, and after-party.

Arriving in Montenegro

Matt — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 07:00:59 +0000

Driving from Dubrovnik, Croatia to Budva, Montenegro.

Glacier

Matt — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:00:42 +0000

Ice, ice, and more ice. Very cool. Jumped in the arctic water (for a few seconds). Spotted a polar bear.

Fin Whales

Matt — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:00:47 +0000

Ran into some fin whales.

Birds and Walruses

Matt — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:00:53 +0000

A short hike to see plants, crazy bird wall with thousands of birds, walruses, dinner.

Polar Bear and Ice

Matt — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:00:54 +0000

Sighting of a polar bear eating an old seal, first ride on zodiacs, lots of glacial ice, and a cool bird.

Svalbard and Ship

Matt — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:00:06 +0000

Flying into Longyearbyen and arriving for the first time on the Silver Explorer vessel.

Arriving in Oslo

Matt — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 11:54:59 +0000

Exploring the Oslo, Norway area a bit after a long, long flight.

Alaska Day 7

Matt — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 08:00:23 +0000

Leaving the takeout point, Kavik camp (one of the most fascinating places I’ve ever been), arriving back in Fairbanks.

Alaska Day 5

Matt — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:00:44 +0000

Many hours of rowing, a double rainbow, arriving at takeout point, costumes, and killer squirrels.

Alaska Day 4

Matt — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:00:13 +0000

A day of “rest” that ended up being a 8 hour hike in the tussocks (which are really hard to walk through), up to Red Hill, some interesting birds, tracks, bones, skulls, and two moose.

Alaska Day 3

Matt — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:00:28 +0000

After swimming in the river the previous day, work up to snow in the morning. Playing with ice fragments and a nice hike.

Alaska Day 2

Matt — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 08:00:35 +0000

First day of really rafting down the Canning river.

Flying to Camp in Alaska

Matt — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 08:00:06 +0000

First day in Alaska, flying toward start point on the Canning River in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve.

Balloon Ride

Matt — Fri, 20 May 2011 08:00:24 +0000

Went for Napa / Vacaville hot air balloon ride with Janitorial team at Automattic, had dinner at 54 Mint, and caught the end of the symphony masquerade ball in San Francisco. Here are Nick’s pictures from the same day.

West Wing Tour

Matt — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 08:00:09 +0000

The thing about the White House West Wing tour is they don’t really let you take pictures, except at the door before you go in and after, and at both places they have terrible lighting. Usually I ignore this and snap clandestinely but that seemed like a bad idea in this case and I didn’t want to get tackled by Secret Service. (I’m surprised they let me take my big honking D3S in at all!) The tour was excellent, very humbling to be in a place where so much history has happened, and might have happened just a few hours before you got there. Anyway here are some before and after shots of the tour.

Solar Eclipse

Matt — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:00:36 +0000

Nighttime pictures of the Bay Bridge and a few attempted shots of the full ~~solar~~ lunar eclipse on the winter solstice.