Honeymooners

Whoa Mexico!

Rebecca with the band.

View from the hotel room.

Waterfalls at the hotel.

It wasn't raining gatos y perros.

Rio Cuale, a fine site..... ...... ......

One of my favorite pictures from Mexico. So much going on.

Statue. Donkey. Chicago Bears poncho.

Fun mercado signage.

So windy even the statue was leaning. Ole.....

Long and winding road up the mountain.

Puerto Vallarta from the mountain

The one lane road up to Las Carmelitas.....

Sunset at dinner.

View from the top of Carmelitas!

View of the lighthouse through a fun piece of art.....

Best guacamole in town. Best t-shirt barter also.

Serendaded by the band.....para bailar la bamba.

That blip of a light in the middle of the screen is Las Carmelitas...best view in Mexico.

View looking down on the marina from the lighthouse bar in Puerto Vallarta.

Our wedding! Part One

My beautiful wife and I.

Dad and Luke

Rebecca and I with her lovely side of the family.

From left to right: Mike, Nils, Nola, Rebecca, Myself, Diana,

Sara, Iain, Spencer, and Julia in front.

Rebecca with my side of the fam.

From left to right:

Barb, Joan, Mike, Patty, Liam, Colin, Rebecca, Myself, Shamis,

Dana, Grandma, Mack, Mick, Nancy, and Molly.

Slow motion Rat Pack pic.

Pre-wedding dip. Practice for our first dance.

Walking my Mother down the aisle.

The couple enjoying themselves.

The bride walking down the aisle.

Rings on....

It's official.... walking down the aisle......so beautiful.

Cutting the cake.

A toast.

Our first dance, the salsa......

Rebecca doing her fabulous turn.

Rebecca and Luke doing the salsa!

Julia looking beautiful.

5 minutes with London

This is a time lapse video of London....being London.

Wedding post tomorrow!

Time flies (test)

2 more days!!!!!!

2 days until the biggest day of days!!!!!!!!!!!

Tres dias mas!

3 more days until our fabulous wedding!!!!!

4 more days!!!!

Only 4 days until the wedding. Exciting!

Friday!

Baseball. America's Pastime.

I'm a Cub fan, da da da, da da da, I'm a Bud man, da da da, da da da, I'm a Cub fan!

Musica Nueva por todos.

The Go! Team

These guys are ace. Do it, alright! Greatness.

Kate Nash

She is new, clean version of Lily Allen. Her song, Foundations, is addicting.

Her whole album is great. She'll hit the US radio soon enough.

Fedde le Grand

My 2nd favorite DJ, check out his hits,

Put Your Hands Up For Detroit and Let Me Think About It

Gogol Bordello

Flashy, fun, great band. And a lead singer that rocks the Mercury well.

Federico Aubele

Pure genius. Very chill music.

The Hoosiers

This is not a picture of the band but then again why should you judge a band based on one picture. The Hoosiers are really good. No song of choice, really like there overall sound.

The 1990's (the band)

These guys may not be the best looking lads in all of rock and roll but they are brilliant. Some sample should be hits include, "You Make Me Like It" - "You're Supposed To Be My Friend" and my favorite "See You At The Lights". Their motto, "We play music like a blonde gets out of a car."

Winner!!!!!

London Dublin Dolores Schnoebelen won her first photo contest!!!!!!

Londolina!!!!!!!!!!

Peter, Bjorn, and Schnoebelen

London will be in a photo contest at work this Friday......so if you work where I work, go and vote in Connections at 5pm.

If you are like me and whistle 'Young Folks' all day long.....then you'll also enjoy these sites.


Web 2.0
http://www.go2web20.net/

Retroland
http://retroland.com/

Tuner -
http://tun3r.com/

Site navigator -
http://www.fichey.com/
Make your own book -
http://www.mixbook.com/home

Sound tidbits -
http://www.soundsnap.com/

Story of Your Life -
http://www.storyofmylife.com/

Put your pictures into something fun -
http://www.jukepix.com/#

Photo Organizer -
http://www.clickfriends.com/

Locate Your Photos -
http://locr.com/

Dancing drawings -
http://roxik.com/pictaps/index.html
Online dissection -
http://www.froguts.com/flash_content/index.html

40 sites
http://www.seopher.com/articles/the_40_coolest_free_applications_around

Send a Bob Dylan Message-
http://www.dylanmessaging.com/index.html

Dave Matthews show and some other fun.

Went to Dave last night thanks to another radio contest from JACK FM. Good show, great weather, full moon.

Mountain is now green -
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2202763.html

Cool room/house -
http://www.gravestmor.com/strips/rousse_07.jpg
http://www.blindspot.com/issue16/images/rousse.jpg

Expect more from your Government website -
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/expectmore/

Good band -
http://www.thehoosiers.co.uk/splash.html

Trying to Father 100…..
http://www.emiratestodayonline.com/ArticleText.aspx?article=20_08_2007_001_009

Questions to ponder…..
http://www.penders.co.uk/custard/crackers/gag_questions.html

Goat…
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/photo/2007-08/28/content_6062455_2.htm

Miss Teen USA.....

Here is the video......

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2007/08/28/collins.teen.beauty.queen.cnn

Here is a map of what she said.

My cartoon blog.

http://lukeschnoebelen.stripgenerator.com/


Oh Oh I I I (Derek this is for you)
http://www.ooooiiii.com/

Flash and No Flash

Flash and No Flash....photo comparison.

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/1096/2137a9950nf3.jpg

Every morning I almost go right.

Here are some links to keep your day going smooth.

Map of Springfield
http://adn.blam.be/springfield/

Who shares your b-day?
http://www.born-today.com/Choose_bDay.htm

Fun with numbers...my lucky number, 4 billion, didn't make the list.
http://www.stetson.edu/~efriedma/numbers.html

Did not know that yesterday….
http://ididnotknowthatyesterday.blogspot.com/

An American family with 17 children….and one kickin' website
http://duggarfamily.com/

If you have time on your hands.....

1) Tay Zonday - Chocolate Rain, soon to be in your laptop screen.

2) Crowdsourcing - word of the day.

3) Movie - I'm Not There. Soundtrack is amazing. Coming in Halloween.

4) Kanye West v. 50 Cent, September 11th album releasing fiasco. Should be interesting.

5) David Guetta is the best DJ in the world right now.

Brothers Day

Today, August 11th is Brothers Day.

We (Derek, Lauren, and I) are celebrating today. A celebration of being brothers and sisters.

We are going to play video games, play with London, swim, and top it off with Sheridan's.

Happy Brothers Day!

More about Iowa's greatness.....

Nike Plus

No big deal....

http://nikeplus.nike.com/nikeplus/v1/html/milestones/print_certif.html?id=280906371®ion=us&language=en&locale=en_us&dateFormat=MM/DD/YY

London ran 1.7 miles yesterday too. Go London.

Radio Wave Coincidence

So as I am sitting at my desk on an eerily warm Wednesday I put my headphones on. I have my Internet radio set to Radio 1, a station out of the UK. I am just typing away and working on one of my current projects when the DJ host of the show is doing one of their regular call-in bits. As I was just minding my business, the DJ Scott Mills took a call. The woman that had called in had a really familiar voice. I thought to myself, what are the chances that I know this person that is calling in? I was 100% certain I knew who this person was. I had worked closely with her in London for 6 months and there is no mistaking her Kiwi accent. It was Roberta Thomson. It had to be. Sure enough, I got on the work Instant Messenger and sent her an IM. It was her alright.

So what are the chances that
A) You hear your friend on a local station?
B) You hear your friend on an internet radio station?
C) You hear your friend on an internet radio station halfway across the globe and live?

Well.....the story doesn't stop there. We were meeting some friends out for Happy Hour after work and were headed down the plaza. Rebecca changed the radio station from some probably-horrendous oldies song and landed on JackFM. You know, the station that "plays what they want." After a few songs they do the quick, "And we're baaaaaaaaaaaaack!" and rapidly spout, "caller number five right now wins _ tickets to ________" So Rebecca and I decide we should call in and try to win the tickets. After 3 or 4 busy signals, my line gets through and Joe DJ says,"Jack FM.....(Insert long pause). So I ask, "Am I caller 5?" in an enthusiastic voice. Sure enough, we win 2 tickets to see G-Love and Special Sauce and Ozomatli next Saturday night.

Not a bad day all in all.

Updated: I'm from Iowa and I always tell people that. No beating around the bush and saying its near Chicago or saying something about Potatoes. Nope. Not me. I'm from Iowa and if you don't think that Iowans are imporant, guess who does? http://www.mapthecandidates.com/

Bubbles.

Rebecca introducing London to bubbles........

What are all these shiny circles?

Look I can catch them!!!!

Where did they all go?

Who's bad?

London with the squeaky toy.

Ice cube: 1 London: 0

But the score was about to be even.....

The profile. Such a show-off.

Here is the bad dog herself. Showing off.

Newest member of the Schnoebelen Family

London Schnoebelen, our new little girl who is 5 months old and came to the pound in a litter. She is a lab mixed with Irish Setter, we think. London is doing great so far, at 17 pounds, and will probably only be 40 – 50 pounds total, which is great news! She can run after a ball and play fetch until the cows come home. She loves her new tennis ball and squeaky toy, that may only last a few days until Daddy(me) pops the squeaky part.

She can lick her own nose!

Slobber McSlobberson gives really good kisses.

London isn't trained to say "Cheese" but ended up doing her Michael Jordan impression. Dogs got talent.

Unsolicited photo of Bernadette, our "other" pet. Subliminal marketing for Khaled Hosseini's new book, A Thousand Splendid Suns

London with her new squeak-chew toy that might have a potential to only be a chew toy in the near future. My incredible fiancee picked out toys that London absolutely loves!

London looking cute and provocative with her shaved belly. She was just spayed Friday so she is off-limits forever! As Bobby Brown would say, "Ain't no humpin' around."

London taking a nap.

I will probably post 1,000 more pictures in the coming days and will document the life that our new dog leads. Her birthday is unofficially on Valentine's Day, so mark your calendars.