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SmugBlog: Don MacAskill

Whew! It's been 5 years since my father and I started SmugMug together.


What a ride it's been! We're still having a blast, and SmugMug's profitable, so life's good. My wife, kids, cats, and dog are all doing great and I can't complain about sunny California.

You can read my blog, look at my photos, and of course, sign up for a free trial at SmugMug - the ultimate in photo sharing!

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Galleries

SmugShots :

SmugShots

Updated: Nov 17, 2009 7:55pm PST

NiceCollisionAlbum

Updated: Aug 22, 2009 1:30pm PST

Bio Photos : If I'm speaking at your conference, or getting interviewed by you, or something along those lines - I vastly prefer you use the photo with the facepaint. I'm all about being different, unique, and full of passion. But if your organization just can't bring themselves to have a little fun, fine, use the other one. :)

Bio Photos

If I'm speaking at your conference, or getting interviewed by you, or ...

Updated: Feb 09, 2009 3:49pm PST

World Class Driving November 4th, 2008 in Carmel :

World Class Driving November 4th, 2008 in Carmel

Updated: Nov 05, 2008 9:34am PST

Ferrari Video :

Ferrari Video

Updated: Jul 10, 2008 7:49pm PST

SmugHeroes :

SmugHeroes

Updated: Jun 18, 2008 8:08am PST

Iron Man :

Iron Man

Updated: Jun 04, 2008 4:59pm PST

Awesome :

Awesome

Updated: Apr 25, 2008 4:56pm PST

The Crunchies 2007 :

The Crunchies 2007

Updated: Jan 15, 2008 11:52am PST

Duke Nukem Forever :

Duke Nukem Forever

Updated: Jan 03, 2008 5:27pm PST

Bubble :

Bubble

Updated: Dec 19, 2007 5:51pm PST

Twins!! : Yep, after two long years of trying, we're pregnant with twins!! Thanks to the miracle of modern medicine, everything is looking great. Due date is Marth 7th, 2006, but twins are often delivered weeks earlier.

Twins!!

Yep, after two long years of trying, we're pregnant with twins!! Thank ...

Updated: Oct 15, 2007 6:06pm PST

International Talk Like a Pirate Day :

International Talk Like a Pirate Day

Updated: Sep 19, 2007 12:19pm PST

empty

Updated: Mar 20, 2007 8:31pm PST

Cobi hits the surf :

Cobi hits the surf

Updated: Jan 22, 2007 12:47pm PST

Vampires! :

Vampires!

Updated: Dec 21, 2006 8:26pm PST

Thanksgiving 2006 :

Thanksgiving 2006

Updated: Nov 19, 2006 9:29pm PST

New BMW E46 M3 parts for sale - exhaust, suspension, shocks, etc : I had a Dinan Stage 3 package plust short-shift kit dealer-installed on my new 2006 E46 BMW M3 with less than 100 miles on it. As a result, the parts that were replaced are now up for sale to the best offer. All the car parts in the photos are in the package - sorry, I'm not splitting it. Everything must go! Be sure to check the "Original" sized images for the best view of what there is.

New BMW E46 M3 parts for sale - exhaust, suspension, shocks, etc

I had a Dinan Stage 3 package plust short-shift kit dealer-installed o ...

Updated: Oct 24, 2006 4:06pm PST

Scoble @ The Ritz :

Scoble @ The Ritz

Updated: Aug 21, 2006 10:39pm PST

Sun Fire 'CoolThreads' T1000 :

Sun Fire 'CoolThreads' T1000

Updated: Aug 15, 2006 10:57am PST

For Dr. Dobb's :

For Dr. Dobb's

Updated: Aug 07, 2006 3:36pm PST

Test new release :

Test new release

Updated: Aug 02, 2006 5:25pm PST

End of the beard :

End of the beard

Updated: Aug 02, 2006 5:06pm PST

New SmugMug sizes? :

New SmugMug sizes?

Updated: Apr 17, 2006 5:56pm PST

test :

test

Updated: Apr 14, 2006 1:06pm PST

Baldy meets Truck. Truck wins. :

Baldy meets Truck. Truck wins.

Updated: Oct 27, 2005 6:03pm PST

House Shots :

House Shots

Updated: Sep 16, 2005 4:39pm PST

California Shackmeet 09-09-2005 :

California Shackmeet 09-09-2005

Updated: Sep 09, 2005 11:21pm PST

Free stuff! :

Free stuff!

Updated: Sep 07, 2005 12:32pm PST

New style preview :

New style preview

Updated: Sep 01, 2005 6:10pm PST

Amy br0ked :

Amy br0ked

Updated: May 25, 2005 8:58am PST

Make Karl's ducks pop :

Make Karl's ducks pop

Updated: May 20, 2005 1:10am PST

All the rest.... : Took tons of photos from Kauaii. These are the ones that didn't fit in the other categories. Enjoy!

All the rest....

Kauai :

Kauai

Updated: Feb 26, 2005 3:44pm PST

bah :

bah

Updated: Feb 14, 2005 11:54pm PST

QuakeCon '97 - Wendigo's Pics : Mirrored for posterity by permission of wendigo. Original link I was one of the organizers and worked my tail off with everyone else to make sure this was the best QuakeCon ever... and it was! This is also what got me my job at Ritual, and interestingly enough, also was the time I introduced Anna Kang to John Carmack. They're married now. :)

QuakeCon '97 - Wendigo's Pics

Mirrored for posterity by permission of wendigo. Original link I was ...

Updated: Feb 13, 2005 8:05pm PST

Green Hair! :

Green Hair!

Updated: Feb 12, 2005 7:31pm PST

Cara, Gambit, & Godot : Our three wonderful cats. :)

Cara, Gambit, & Godot

Our three wonderful cats. :)

Updated: Feb 12, 2005 12:43am PST

Food, glorious Food! : Possibly my favorite part of vacationing... all the great food! It's splurge time, baby!

Food, glorious Food!

Possibly my favorite part of vacationing... all the great food! It's ...

Updated: Nov 18, 2004 12:49am PST

Email : smugmug's new email-from-cellphone feature rules. Here's some photos I've emailed myself.

Email

smugmug's new email-from-cellphone feature rules. Here's some photos ...

Updated: Nov 09, 2004 11:12am PST

Northern California Renaissance Faire - Oct 2004 :

Northern California Renaissance Faire - Oct 2004

Updated: Oct 28, 2004 1:30pm PST

Van Halen 2004 San Jose FRONT ROW! : We had middle section, seat #1, row #1! Dead center! The show opened with Eddie kneeling about a foot in front of me, playing Jump! (Sorry for the poor photos, they wouldn't allow cameras, so my phone had to suffice)

Van Halen 2004 San Jose FRONT ROW!

We had middle section, seat #1, row #1! Dead center! The show opened ...

Updated: Aug 11, 2004 9:59am PST

Best Internet Communications :

Best Internet Communications

Updated: Jul 22, 2004 3:50pm PST

smugmug chat :

smugmug chat

Updated: Jul 21, 2004 4:19pm PST

Sin-related photos : I was lucky enough to work on the Ritual Entertainment title, Sin. Working with those guys and enjoying the Dallas game scene was probably the best two years of my life. I'd better start collecting more photos, eh? ....

Sin-related photos

I was lucky enough to work on the Ritual Entertainment title, Sin. Wo ...

Updated: May 28, 2004 9:22am PST

Vidikron VPF-50HD HDTV Projector : This is the legendary Vidikron VPF-50HD. Designed by Pininfarina, the italian design house that dreams up Ferrari's luscious designs, and engineered by Vidikron, the premiere video projection company of the late 90s, only the Vidikron One rivals this bad boy in the world of high-end projectors.

Vidikron VPF-50HD HDTV Projector

This is the legendary Vidikron VPF-50HD. Designed by Pininfarina, the ...

Updated: Mar 30, 2004 10:40am PST

Sunsets :

Sunsets

Updated: Mar 06, 2004 9:14pm PST

Our own private waterfall : Elizabeth and I threw caution to the wind and trekked a few miles into the rainforest in search of our own waterfall. We had a great time!

Our own private waterfall

Elizabeth and I threw caution to the wind and trekked a few miles into ...

Updated: Mar 06, 2004 9:12pm PST

Planning for the future! :

Planning for the future!

Updated: Mar 06, 2004 9:09pm PST

Aminals! : No vacation would be complete with out Eliz and I getting to know some aminals ... errr, animals. :)

Aminals!

No vacation would be complete with out Eliz and I getting to know some ...

Updated: Mar 06, 2004 9:09pm PST

Whale Watching : We saw tons of humpback whales, but it turns out that they're very difficult to shoot from a distance on a rocking boat. I did the best I could. :)

Whale Watching

We saw tons of humpback whales, but it turns out that they're very dif ...

Updated: Mar 06, 2004 7:31pm PST

Baby Betty Barfer (aka Helicopter Tour) : My poor sweetie loved the ride but transformed into Baby Betty Barfer anyway. Notice the bag she's holding at the end of the ride...

Baby Betty Barfer (aka Helicopter Tour)

My poor sweetie loved the ride but transformed into Baby Betty Barfer ...

Updated: Mar 06, 2004 2:57pm PST

Doing something dirty! :

Doing something dirty!

Updated: Mar 06, 2004 12:48pm PST

Cobidog! : My dog Cobi :)

Cobidog!

My dog Cobi :)

Updated: Feb 24, 2004 3:58pm PST

Young Couple Weekend Formals :

Young Couple Weekend Formals

Updated: Aug 05, 2003 5:37pm PST

My Friend Harley : My friend Harley passed away on Friday, May 2nd, 2003. He was one of the first employees to work at Best Internet, as I was, and we quickly hit it off. He acted the tough guy, but he really had a heart of gold. He, along with Karl, took me (I was a young 17 year-old punk at the time) under their wings and gave me some of the best times of my life. As Best grew, we were joined by other close friends like Arian and Sam. It was a magical time. For years, we were nearly inseperable. We worked hard, we played hard. All-night DOOM deathmatches, all-day sessions at Q-Zar playing Laser Tag, thousands of technical support calls, and countless movies. Ken's, Domino's Pizza (breadsticks!), Denny's, Taco Bell. Duke Nukem, Mechwarrior II, MDK. Pulp Fiction, HK movies, Desperado, anime, John Woo, Hellraiser, Chow-Yun Fat, Hard Boiled. BA Posse, BBQ nights with Babylon 5, Star Trek, and X-Files. Heavy Metal. The time some punks stole my pager and Harley was single-handedly ready to rip them up. I wish I had seen him recently. I miss my friend Harley. Feel free to add your own comments at the bottom of the page. Ron and Kim Echeverri held a wake in Harley's honor. Kim took some photos of Harley's friends and family as we remembered him.

My Friend Harley

My friend Harley passed away on Friday, May 2nd, 2003. He was one of ...

Updated: May 10, 2003 10:03pm PST

Harley's Wake : Our friend Harley passed away on Friday, May 2nd, 2003. Ron and Kim Echeverri were kind enough to host a wake in Harley's honor. Kim took some photos of Harley's friends and family as we remembered him and everything he means to us. You can see photos of Harley we've managed to gather, too. Feel free to leave comments at the bottom of the page.

Harley's Wake

Our friend Harley passed away on Friday, May 2nd, 2003. Ron and Kim E ...

Updated: May 10, 2003 9:31am PST

Penny Arcade Archive : Penny Arcade strips that, for whatever reason, I want to preserve from data loss and atrophy. One of the greatest comics ever created, it'd be a shame to lose any of their priceless work. Check them out, and be sure to visit Penny Arcade's real site.

Penny Arcade Archive

Penny Arcade strips that, for whatever reason, I want to preserve from ...

Updated: Apr 23, 2003 11:12am PST

Funny Stuff : Funny things as I find them. Warning: Some of the things in here are movies. If you're on a modem, it may take awhile to load.

Funny Stuff

Funny things as I find them. Warning: Some of the things in here a ...

Updated: Apr 09, 2003 10:26pm PST

smugmug homepage evolution : After launching our new homepage on 3-12-2003, I thought it'd be nice to archive screenshots of our past homepages for nostalgia purposes. So here they are. Small details, like the photos on the page for sample galleries, are probably a little off... turned out to be more difficult to dust these things off than I thought. But the layout and design (or lack thereof :) is pretty accurate. Some of them occurred even before the public saw the site, so that might be of interest to see how far we've come.

smugmug homepage evolution

After launching our new homepage on 3-12-2003, I thought it'd be nice ...

Updated: Mar 14, 2003 12:25pm PST

Random stuff : Stuff that doesn't really fit into another category.

Random stuff

Stuff that doesn't really fit into another category.

Updated: Feb 07, 2003 11:07pm PST

onethumb goes studio : I'm now growing my hair out again, but it was a fun few months of being bald. Here's a few of my favorite shots from the day before I started letting it grow back.

onethumb goes studio

I'm now growing my hair out again, but it was a fun few months of bein ...

Updated: Jan 12, 2003 9:25pm PST

Quake II hidden texture : I think this may have been yanked before Q2 actually went gold, but I have some beta copies with it in it. American McGee slipped this in without telling anyone else. A bunch of us ended up in the Q2 source, too, I guess as milestone codenames or something. Pretty neat.

Quake II hidden texture

I think this may have been yanked before Q2 actually went gold, but I ...

Updated: Dec 12, 2002 5:48pm PST

Baby Gambit! : Our first cat, we adopted Gambit from a rescue organization when he was 10 weeks old. He was my first birthday present to Eliz after our marriage.

Baby Gambit!

Our first cat, we adopted Gambit from a rescue organization when he wa ...

Updated: Dec 05, 2002 4:01pm PST

Friends from Dallas : Miscellaneous pictures of the people I miss most. Some of them are now in Austin and San Francisco and other places, but we all met in Dallas and I rarely get to see them anymore.

Friends from Dallas

Miscellaneous pictures of the people I miss most. Some of them are no ...

Updated: Dec 05, 2002 3:50pm PST

Serra And Sengir : Squirrel's cute little kittens right after we got them. They're now big beautiful cats, I'll have to get him to put some shots of them up.

Serra And Sengir

Squirrel's cute little kittens right after we got them. They're now b ...

Updated: Dec 05, 2002 3:40pm PST

3rd trip to Skywalker Ranch! : This place is heaven on earth. I've been there 3 different times, and it's been incredible each time. I considered just sleeping in the bushes and staying. Not sure George Lucas would have liked m being a bum here, though. :)

3rd trip to Skywalker Ranch!

This place is heaven on earth. I've been there 3 different times, and ...

Updated: Dec 05, 2002 3:39pm PST

Trinity : Trinity, my friend Zor and Meglet's dog. What a cutie. :)

Trinity

Trinity, my friend Zor and Meglet's dog. What a cutie. :)

Updated: Dec 05, 2002 3:28pm PST

Sweet kittens : In August of 2001, my wife and I took in an abondoned Mama cat and her two new kittens to foster. As you can see, they had upper respritory infections but were terribly cute none-the-less. We adopted the two kittens out to a great home and kept the Mama cat (Cara) for our own.

Sweet kittens

In August of 2001, my wife and I took in an abondoned Mama cat and her ...

Updated: Dec 05, 2002 2:44pm PST

My BMW M3 : My old 1999 Cosmos Black M3. Not a day goes by that I don't dream about owning this bad boy again.

My BMW M3

My old 1999 Cosmos Black M3. Not a day goes by that I don't dream abo ...

Updated: Dec 05, 2002 2:06pm PST

2015's New (now old) Office : Nostalgia gallery. Some buddies of mine finally made it to the big time with their game company and moved into some new offices. From these offices, they created the blockbuster title 'Medal of Honor'. They're all off changing the world at Infinity Ward and Ritual now.

2015's New (now old) Office

Nostalgia gallery. Some buddies of mine finally made it to the big ti ...

Updated: Dec 05, 2002 1:47pm PST

Lamborghini Murcielago : Could there be anything more beautiful?

Lamborghini Murcielago

Could there be anything more beautiful?

Updated: Oct 01, 2002 8:00am PST

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