Category Archives: Family

Happy Birthday Aylan

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Aylan turned 16 on the 16th!
I gave him a WordPress site at aylan.info

I’m not sure if he will do anything with it… I suppose we will just have to wait and see.

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Download Ayrica’s Desktop Wallpapers

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My daughter Ayrica made all these wallpapers using GIMP. You can go to the Picasa Web album to download the full 1366×768 images here.

 

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Happy Birthday Isabel, from day one to the present

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My Daughter Isabel turned 13 on the 13th!!!
Happy Birthday Isabel!!!
I just found my old photo archive that goes all the way back to when Isabel was born. So here’s a slide-show of Isabel growing up.

Play Happy Birthday Recorded by Eli

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A Second Draft of Aylan’s “Nameless Faces” Recording

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Dave added a bass track and cleaned up some of the background noise and gave us a new copy of Aylan’s song.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB)

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Aylan made his first recording of his original song “Nameless Faces” in Dave Seawater’s home studio

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Here is my son Aylan making his first ever recording of his original songs, Nameless Faces. I took Aylan over to Dave Seawater’s house today and Dave helped us make a recording.

Aylan Recording

Aylan Recording "Nameless Faces" in Dave Seawater's home studio

Dave added a drum track in Garage Band and put some distortion on the guitar. You can listen to the first draft of the finished product here.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB)

Happy Birthday Stephany

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Here is my tribute to Stephany on her birthday, played on my favorite Google logo that they put up for Les Paul’s 96th birthday: Play Happy Birthday Recorded by Eli

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A new BINGO like game to help you learn how to tell time in Hawaiian called Ka Uaki

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I wrote a small PHP page that produces “BINGO like” sheets of random times to help Stephany with a Hawaiian Language learning project for school. You can check it out here.

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