Go to the Gallery to see my work in a variety of creative disciplines. I do user interface design, graphic design, and various other types of art and photography.
I also love martial arts and exercise.
For information on that, soon you can go to www.sifupeter.net
For now, you can read my blog at www.kravmaga-sf.com
Reaching Consensus
September 5, 2007 on 7:18 am | In Life | No CommentsI love the “How to of the day” from wikihow. Here is one on reaching a consensus:
“It gives everyone enough of what they want to be content and will ultimately improve group cohesion with a shared plan, vision or goal, rather than create factions or an “us against them” mentality.” Nice huh?
Link:
Reach-a-Consensus
UFC 71 cont.
August 30, 2007 on 4:09 pm | In Family, Fighting, Life, Videos | No CommentsWe were all treated to some very interesting fights. Anybody surprised by the title fight? I wasn’t. The knockdown punch didn’t look like that solid of a shot at full speed but in the linked photo you can see the strength of Jackson as he had to really extend to get it to land at all. It reminds me of some strong baseball hitters, when they get a difficult swing they are still able to hit a ball out of the park. These fighters are so good, and make so many little adjustments, it’s often punches that aren’t technically clean that still get through with enough power to do damage. I did think beforehand that Jackson was a very well rounded striker with the ability to move in and move his head, and that was what gave him the opportunity to come up and catch Lidell with his body still forward and his hands down. Here’s a link to a photo of the punch:
Lidell vs. Jackson
UFC 71 Fight night
May 27, 2007 on 10:05 pm | In Family, Fighting, Life, Uncategorized | No CommentsAnother fight night went off last weekend and another eclectic and fun crowd showed up. My bro-in-law just happened to be coming through after working all day farther south. I had to feed him and give him a beer right? River rats unite.
Paul’s new dining area
February 25, 2007 on 9:55 pm | In Family, Life | No CommentsYum yum! Todd and I shot this today with my Canon S3 and stuck it on Youtube with a little Calexico to spice things up.
Welcome
February 25, 2007 on 3:42 pm | In Life, Uncategorized | No CommentsUser interface design, art, photographs, self defense, gardening and whatever else I get interested in.
Orion’s Birthday
February 12, 2007 on 9:49 pm | In Fighting, Life, Videos | No CommentsThe kids playing under the stairs.
Web 2.0 catch-up
January 27, 2007 on 12:08 pm | In User Interface, Web Design | No CommentsFinally learning how to post video, make links, and embed video from Youtube and other sources. Here is a video I made in 2001 of my daughter’s 4th grade class.
Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
January 25, 2007 on 10:58 pm | In Art, Design, User Interface, Web Design | No CommentsI freaking love this thing. Ever wondered how to best express an idea? A process? A complex flow of information? This chart will help you quickly settle on the best type of information visualization method to explain your idea.
To-do list for 2007
January 2, 2007 on 1:11 pm | In Art, Design, Family, Fighting, Life, User Interface, Videos, Web Design | No CommentsHere is my list. As you can see, I’ve already completed one task! I love to hit the ground running… so I lowered my standards.
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Personal Life:
- communicate better with my daughter
- write my little sister some letters
- write some other people some letters
send my little sister some music- save 10k
- clean out my file cabinet
do my taxes earlyumm i did them…- finish putting together my basement studio
- make some investments
give Maria some crap about her 107 goals listtake out the old shed in the yardtake out the old plum tree- read 6 books
pay my bills early or on timeso far so good- increase my credit score
pay off FTB debt- learn to cook a few more dishes
- start learning a new language
- learn how to tie knots
- keep all my plants alive
- buy more orchids
- get a music service/library started
- get music list in computer
- make 6 or so class playlists
- kayak
- camp a few times
- travel at least 3 times out of the state
- go to Yosemite
- go to Kauai
- go to Grand Canyon
- visit Aunt Vanya
- visit Aunt Rutha
- go to San Diego Comic con
- go to New Mexico
- do some tantric gardening
- figure out what tantric gardening is
donate more money to charities- learn more about psychology
- refresh my math
- learn more about gardening
- move the rest of the agapanthus to the side yard from the front
- at least one multiple destination road trip!
- research strategies for starting or working with non-profits for kids (talk to Bwana, Chuck and Sean, Cat Mikkelson, Ford Goodman)
- get disaster prepared at the house
modify the sun roomJeff did it for me : )- get some nicer curtains at the house
- paint my room
Training:
get another Krav Belt or two(one down, one to go?)do more groundfighting (2 or 3 times a month)so far so good- spar more often (2 or 3 times a month)
stretch more often (2 or 3 times a week)so far so good- be able to head kick people that are taller than me for the fun of it
- get back up to 30 pull-ups, but on a hang board this time
- climb a few times
- do several sessions with Luis on security and control techniques
- teach another seminar
avoid injuries (at least those that keep me from training)injured, still training- practice more Chinese Boxing (once a month)
- review Chinese boxing video materials, log some in Premiere
- get in better cardiovascular condition
Work:
finally use more Web 2.0 such as: start using my Wordpress bloglearn more Flash (preferably some data driven content presentation)- learn more about OS 10
get a calendar app- get Dr. Xiang’s product pics online
- get Dr. Xiang’s site e-commerce enabled
- render 3 boxer short designs
- spec out a prototyping run for boxer designs
- write a business plan for boxer designs
- find a business partner for boxer designs
- redo my resume
- get a representative chunk of 5 years of work done for Certive published on my portfolio
- apply to some information design firms in SF
take a more active role in marketing for KMSFso far so good- use the KMSF website more effectively (news, ads, video)
Creative:
do an art project with Maria- start some scrapbooks
- fix Tania’s painting
- do some sumi-e painting
- start i-ching UI prototyping
- make a spreadsheet for i-ching database
- do at least 4 more pieces of original art work
- log 6 hours of DV tapes from my library
- make some Flash clips for folio
- learn some Premiere (log clips, edit clips, add sounds, transitions, output to Flash and DVD)
- learn more Painter IX
get a new art/photo printer- draw and/or paint 2x a week
- make a few DVDs
post videos and embed in my site or blog- learn more about rss
learn more digital photography- get my Mac on wireless
- publish the next version of my online portfolio
- finish my Pop’s wedding video
start a file on kid’s comic book project for Michaeltalk to July, Diallo, and Kat about itnot involved in it at this time- put Dad’s cooking video on a dvd for Joe and Maria
join or start a Dr. SketchyMarch 3rd baby!- make lampshades for art deco lamp
- make lampshades for living room sconces
put up more art in the house- get some more icon pieces up at the KM school
- get some photos up at the school
- do a kid’s portrait for the Schoolhouse benefit
- finish collage from last year
- do another collage
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