The Charette Project

Because of his interest in Pokemon, I took Alex to Gamescape North in San Rafael to participate in the Pokemon League. Since he got a set of cards for is birthday in May he has been engrossed in them. Initial Prejudice As a child, I built a collection of animal cards - my parents got me a subscription where I got a new pack of cards every month. I loved reading the cards and learning interesting facts about each one. In addition, I played Dungeons and Dragons and loved games. Seeing this Pokemon phenomenon develop as an adult, it looked to me like a waste of time – it was either a craze like...

Today, on father’s day, I miss my father – he passed away more than 12 years ago after a battle with cancer. When he was much younger, and my brother Daniel and I were very young, he had an 8mm movie camera and, like parents today, he chronicled his friends, family in festive occasions. I was just able to use Costco’s video conversion service to convert the film to DVDs and I’m very happy with the finished result. As part of the conversion process, Costco (YesVideo) created a few short “best of” clips. Here are three of them to see how my father saw the world...

Here is something that I’ve been working on: BALL Watch USA and Microsoft are teaming up to give you a reason to try the new Expression Studio 4 to build one of the Ball watches in Silverlight 4 like this. You can win one of the watches! Ball Watch Company has a line of beautiful railroad-inspired watches aimed at the adventurers that many of us aspire to be – their motto is “ Since 1891, accuracy under adverse conditions .” I originally created the Trainmaster Cannonball Watch in Silverlight 1 in about 8 hours, converted it to Silverlight 2 when it was released, then I...

I just posted a Alex’s bike for sale on Craigslist and created a cool PhotoSynth of it:

April 16, 1992 Barcelona, Spain

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My father, Gary Scherotter, passed away eleven years ago in 1997. He succumbed to cancer after reaching the personal goal of attending my wedding (my anniversary was yesterday). I miss him dearly but I know that he would have loved to meet my sons Alexander and Samuel. I wouldn't be able to tear them away from him - I just know that. And I know that my sons would have loved him. Alexander at six years old asks questions about him and I tell him about him. Sometimes when I think of him, especially when I think that my sons will never really know him, I tear up. The project: I want to make a video...