Kaiser Permanente

So I work for Kaiser Permanente, America's first Health Maintenance Organization (HMO). My project is a new software application that is part of a larger effort to transform KP to be more competitive in relation to other health care providers. Read about it here.

Pimp your ride

If you are a fan of the "Pimp your Ride" show on MTV, you'll love these rims. You can project an image onto them or a message for the car driving next to you, all controlled by an on-screen computer.

Alia

Hi!
Originally uploaded by Badnam.

How cute is Alia!

Salsa dancing @ Elham's wedding

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Originally uploaded by Badnam.

Check me out salsa dancing at Elham's wedding with Fiana. Click on the photo for more pics.

ABS and Elham's wedding

Here are pics provided by Sharaf - the first one is me and Mo at a mexican lunch break during last weekend's ABS conference in Burlingame.




The others are from Elham and Kiro's wedding at Bosch Bahai School in Santa Cruz:

Me and Badi


Me and Sharaf


Crazy boys wedding photos

Justino Bandito

Justino Bandito
Originally uploaded by BlakeRead.

Check out pics of my recent trip to Mexico with our fearless leader Blake and friends. This is a pic Blake took of me sporting my hanky with the mariachis playing in the background. I also posted a few photos here.

Mazra'ih wall

Mazra'ih wall
Originally uploaded by .Leili.

Check out this amazing photo from Leili! Click on the pic to see mo!

Josh and the rents

Josh and the rents
Originally uploaded by justportillo.

Click on the photo to check out pictures of Josh's high school graduation. Look out world, here comes the latest, and probably coolest, Portillo.

No the baby is not mine

She was born to Shabnam and Badi

Baby Alia

Baby Alia
Originally uploaded by justin a. portillo.

Baby Alia is here! Click on the photo to see more pics!

Introducing Miss Alia Azad!

Miss Alia Azad -

Born - June 8, 2006 - 11:03 am - 7# 7oz -

Parents are ecstatic!

Glass

Glass
Originally uploaded by peisser.

What a kewl photo of Israeli balls. Peisser, you're the man. Click on the photo to see more of Peisser's amazing photos.

Insights.Bosch 2006 photos

Courtesy of Sanaz

Lots more photos here.

Mozart had a mullet

I thought this was funny....

Ladan's B-Day

Some friends met up in San Francisco not too long ago to celebrate Ladan's birthday. She put some pics up here.

Conversation with Dylan

This is a conversation my mom had recently with my little brother Dylan:

"Mom you are my heart and soul, you are my strength and greatest weakenss, (pause) well actually, my whole family is my weakness, but you are my greatest weakness." I asked him how I was his greatest weakness and he said, " If anything were to happen to you I would be so weak, I love you so much! Infinity, love and light."
then a few mintues later he says, " I dont like being the youngest, I want to be 17 and getting my drivers license and going to college, (pause) well actually, I want to be older than Justin, what does he do? Well I have to wait forever, a whole week and then a month until I am older than Justin and that is too long!"

Me on South Park

Make your own here.

Courtesy of Peter.

Maame's visit

Maame was in town back in March visiting her relatives. Here is a pic from her visit. She stopped by for lunch and we had yummy wraps at a restaurant outside city hall in downtown Oakland.

Berkeley Law Conference

I went to the Berkelely Law Conference recently after a friend of mine signed me up. I was considering law as a profession once upon a time, and recently began to re-consider it. However, this conference was helpful in allowing me to cross LAW off my list. Way off. I sat through the conference proceedings cross-eyed and almost went blind from boredom. (No offense Elham! Law is great... for you. ;) The best part was hanging out with friends. Here are some photos that Samira put up. (Can you see me sleeping?)

New Year's Bike Ride

In attempt to deliver some updates on my life since my blog went dark, let me first remind you all to come to the Insights Young Adults conference (see my last post). I am helping to plan it, but maybe I shouldn't tell you that, as some of you will no doubt impute that my involvement is a legitimate excuse to avoid Bosch and the Santa Cruz area entirely. Wrong I say! The conference will be fabulous...

Anyhow, enough digression. These are photos of a bike ride that I went on with Kasra, a very good friend of mine, in the rural outskirts of rural Davis, California. This was New Year's weekend and the torrential downpour almost overran the levies in Sacramento, which we are told, are the second most flood prone after New Orleans. Photos couresty of Kasra Eliasieh.