Well... Holy crap! It's been some time, and I up and went to Seattle over six months ago!! Yeah. Last year was a year of personal upheaval. New job. New locale. New pals. New adventures. dang... And I'm JUST NOW updating this webstite. Yep.

I've taken a lot of pictures since my arrival in the Pacific North-West, but not as many as you might think, given my history. I've been ludicrously busy with work, life, and the general pursuits of adventure. A long story. If you want the details, well... freakin' email me or something!!

There are three new video clips in the videos bucket. New adventures, south of the border, all had in the fine company of a lovely companion between Christmas of '07 and just a few days past New Year's day, '08.

The past two weeks have been, in a word, personally tumultuous. That is the only excuse I can come up with for taking so long in cranking out a web page for LISA & DARIN's WEDDING! But yes, the effort has finally come to some manner of completion. It took a full week longer than anticipated, but things really have been crazy...

The photos from the wedding weekend are divided three ways: The Raft Party, Wedding Day, and a collection of other photos from around Moab that I took while there. If you're out there reading this after having attended the wedding, and are also a part of the witness protection program, and would prefer to not be visible in the images, please let me know. I'll replace your likeness with the face of whoever's standing closest to you, and just call it an anomaly of genetic replication. No one will be the wiser. Really. Our little secret, and all that.

If you'd like your own prints of the event, I'm planning to upload the whole collection to someplace like Mpix, where you can print 'em if you like em. Email me directly for the link. If I like you (I probably do), I'll give you the link to the photos.

On a separate note, I expect to be moving to the Seattle area in a few weeks. If you'd like to drop by my place in Colorado, well, the clock's ticking!

This is a new development, as I just gave notice at work today. On the day of the wedding, a mere 15 days ago, I was just a happy-go-lucky Coloradan. Now I'm planning yet another move... Life is crazy some times. Colorado's been great, but now it's time to move on. The nomad gene has been twitching for some time, though I've had no arrangements to appease it. I thought I was, well, sort of "settled down" or something. You know, putting down roots. That kind of lunacy. Ahh, we become those things we most resist.

The kayak's going, as are the cameras, the Norfolk pine that I rescued from the ship back in '98, but not the mattress I bought in '96. Wish me luck, email and visit often!

Lisa and Darin got married!!! Congratulations to you both. With love, I wish you both the best days of your lives!

(check out "Best Days of Our Lives", by the Weekend Players, for musical accompaniment)

I have the photos, now it's time to create a web page.

I took a roadtrip to visit Lisa & Darin in California for the Christmas-New Year's holiday. A good trip! Plenty of relaxation was performed, plenty of photos taken, and plenty of fresh air was breathed. These are all good things. As a result, I've got photos to share.

Also, while wandering the Northern California coastline amongst the tall trees of Redwood Nat'l Park, I came across a nifty little creek flowing into the ocean. This nifty little creek demonstrated an interesting phenomenon known as "Surge Flow". Or, at least, that's the best term I've got for it. (It can also be observed on Medano Creek, in the Great Sand Dunes Nat'l Park) As I understand it, it is typically seen when water is flowing over sand with a sufficient flow rate to cause rapid periodic interactions with the sandy creek bed. In the California creek, the water flow would produce ripples in the sand below, which would, in turn, produce standing waves on the water. The action of the standing waves would produce deeper ripples in the sand, resulting in larger standing waves. The waves would build until they toppled completely over, starting the process over again. Kinda cool. Check out the video on the Videos page.

I was standing there, on the California coast, enjoying the scene. The waves would start as ripples, build, build, and then crash over. This was cool enough to warrant video. So I retrieved my camera from the car and shot about 15 minutes of tape. While recording the video, I just stood there enjoying the fresh air, and the sound of the surf crashing nearby. I did this all while appreciating the fact that Denver was receiving it's #2 snowstorm of December 2006. It was snowy mayhem around my home, while I was standing there in the sunshine on the coast.

Now that wasn't so bad. Really. It was quite pleasant. I'd recommend it.

If you have the means to reach the location, here are the coordinates: 41° 35.7' N, 124° 6.1' W

Bring a comfortable beach chair, some lunch, and a book. Enjoy.

Clouds rolling across a summer sky, viewed from a hilltop park in Littleton, CO. Time flies when you're reading Stephen King's Dark Tower series. In this case, time flies at 100x.

Yes, it's another time-altered video on the video projects page. Honestly, I'd really like to take this somewhere, but it's really just cool to watch the clouds fly at 100 times their normal rate.

Yep, new photos available 2-day! For the sake of simplicity, I've simply placed them under a link on the front page called "New Photography". I figured that really should be descriptive enough. If I ever figure out some other style or format for photo galleries outside of what photoshop CS2 comes with, you'll be the first to see them RIGHT HERE! That is, if I ever get on to that.

Work's had me quite busy lately, so I've not been doing all that much around the house, and even less on-line. Geez... Get a life, huh? Oh well. I'm learning new things and, for once in a stateside career, actually kinda diggin' what I'm up to. Whodathunkit!?

Does this mean the social-economic machine is succeeding in its efforts to domesticate me? There's actually a couch here in the living room. Got the mortgage... got the car... got a belly full of homemade chili and two tylenol PM's for the headache and impending bedtime...

Don't have the nifty espresso machine yet. (is that the Fight Club soundtrack playing somewhere?)

Yeah, I can hear the Utah desert calling again. Getting close to time for a reset...

Yes, it's another NEW YEAR!! Wildness incarnate... Happy New Year folks! New video, featuring the first day of this fine new year, in the video section. Yay!!

Weeeee! Two new videos added to the collection... I'm on a post-processed high-speed video kick lately. Two new examples inlcuded. Driving at 10x normal speed, or about mach 1. Also, today's full moon rise at 100x time. Verrr kewl.

Now I think the photo galleries need some updating...

Okeydoke! I was rummaging through my directories, and managed to dredge up some postcards that I'd somehow missed when I first set up the pole postcards series. Poor lil' thangs!! Anyow, to do them justice, I've added them to the postcards collection, which is now featured as a flash-animated slide show.

I'm using PhotoshopCS2's auto-generation functions for this, so please forgive if you feel like you've seen the format on other sites... I intend to add a great deal of imagery to this site using that process, as the act of generating an html document for --every stinkin' photo-- will just take too long, and leave me unmotivated to add more.

So... Continuing in that direction, I've also got a handful of B&W images that I came up with while at the pole. I'm pretty fond of them, so decided to share. They're in a flash-based slide show featured along with the color slide scan link at the bottom of the South Pole Gallery page. I hope you like them!

It's alive... ALIVE!! Yep, today's the first day that www.jcberry.com pointed to anything worthwhile. Yay! Happy!!

It's been a long time coming... Far too long! I've finally gotten off my duff, registered a domain name, and arranged for some decent webspace other than the skimpy 10MB/page space that earthlink was allowing. I'm very much looking forward to retiring my earthlink site, account, etc...

For celebration, and some reason to glance at the new webspace, I've added a couple of new videos and added title frames to all of the video links. It's cute. Really!

Next up, I'm planning to add a huge pile of stateside photography, and reformat the pole photos pages. That's a work in progress, of course. (After all, I've gotta have a day job to pay for all this lunacy!)

Just a few upgrades underway... I replaced all of the RealMedia files in the video directory with WindowsMedia format files. Downloading the intrusive RealPlayer was just too much to ask of any sensible web-surfer. I've found the free RealPlayer to be unreasonable to download, given the intrusive marketing garbage that must be first endured.

On a separate note, if I can get some javascript knowledge crammed into my noggin, I'd like to eliminate the use of frames in my stateside imagery gallery. They're awkward to program, and, well, awkward to surf. Hopefully more to come soon!

Yep, another short video. Seems like every time I rummage through those DVcassettes (often in search of something else, but I get distracted) I run across a piece of tape that I just gotta share with you folks. After all, what good is a DV tape that sits in a box all the time anyways.

Besides, given that I don't have a TV to plug my video camera into, it's got to be the computer. And heck, since the computer was turned on anyways, and the camera already plugged in, why not burn some more hard drive space!?

It's been too long since the site has seen some new video... So, with that, a few short clips have been added.

One, originally a 40 minute clip of aircraft taking off and landing, was sped up with some custom matlab code to 100x normal time. The results are pretty nifty.

The second is a very short clip taken in 2002 during south pole station closing. It was the first time (during my tour there) that the windchill had broken the -100F threshold. Chilly, by most standards. I intend to re-do that clip with a bit more reasonable lead-in/out, if I can ever find that DV tape in my post-household-move wreckage. The third clip's title, "Igloo Rambling" is, well, self explanatory.

Oh yeah, one other thing... I bought a condo... Pretty freaky stuff, considering my nomadic history.

Yeah... The "system" is coming together. I at least doubled the number of images in the Stateside Gallery.

Kinda kewl. I suppose I could really have been out chasing storms today. But I got distracted. Hmmm...  I see it's time for a new header image on this page. I'm (unfortunately?) not at pole any more...

Oh yeah... Major site upgrade! I've finally gotten around to adding some stateside photography.

The South Pole Gallery has been moved to it's own dedicated link, and a new photography link has been added for non-ice photos. (You might have thought that I'd left my camera on the ice!)

Of course, the wanderlust continues. ...Stateside.

And now... Video.

If you've got the bandwidth (or too much time on your hands), I've got some silly video clips to share.

Posted the newest changes on-line! Whoohoo!

Oh yes, and I almost forgot to mention. I added the remaining (August-November) South Pole postcards! Yay!

Ok... I'm finally caught up on the whole, big revision thing. That is, caught up to where I was with the site before I started revising.

So... I acutally did do some work on the site, last month. Of course, it never actually made it on-line. Yeah, it just sat here on my hard drive. I know, I know, that doesn't help much... Nonetheless, I must press on with it. --on another day. I'm at a Barnes & Noble Cafe right now, and if I have to listen to the valley girl at the table next to mine for any longer I'm afraid I may have to, like, leave or something. I'm totally sure! I mean it. Like, TOTALLY.

April 18, 2003...

For cryin' OUT LOUD!!! I'm finally back at this...

Ok, here's the short & to-the-point: After a 3000 mile road trip in mid-February, I returned to Madison to find a 24-hour decision on my hands. Go back to JPL and make money, or wander aimlessly through the coffeehouses of Madison for the next few months wondering where my pole-savings was all going.

Some might say that I sold out...

Anyhow, I said, "yeah, I'm coming back" and packed my car. A week later I was in California wondering what the hell I'd gotten myself back into. GAWD!!!! I should have stayed in NZ.

Nonetheless, that was over a month ago, and I'm finally getting myself settled back into some semblance of a stable "in one place" lifestyle. Roadtrips are officially limited to weekends, but at least I'm bringing home some dough to replenish all I've blown over the past few months!

I feel it's only necessary to bring up the point that, at one point, a coworker at JPL said, "...once they go feral, there's no going back..." Ah, if she only knew how true it is! The question is this: How long can the feral instinct be confined in the wrappings of a conservative nasa engineer? Hmmm.... Perhaps the hair length is already a warning sign. (around 8" now)

February 5, 2003...

Hey, I've lot's of new pictures on now. So far, I've got 21 postcards posted, as well as 16 frames from scanned 35mm slides. Plenty of the slides turned out pretty nifty.

Also, for you 2002 Winter-Overs out there, I've got a copy of the 35mm station photo in here too. It's in the Gallery with its own link. Check it out!

February 2, 2003...

Ok, I'm finally back at this. After finally getting the initial parts of this project on-line, it's time to actually add some photos. So, with that, here comes the new postcard gallery! Enjoy.

After spending a year at 90 degrees South, I've finally gotten around to starting work on this web page. I hope you'll enjoy perusing it at least as much as I'm enjoying putting it together. (I am enjoying this.) Thanks in advance for your patience with this endeavor.

It's December now, and time to examine some future work prospects. Once my work plans are settled, it should be a bit easier to relax. As for now, it's time for planning...

Also, I've a ton of photos to share. Soooo... Here' goes!