Hello world. This is the O'Brien family web page. Not much to look at now, other than a few pictures. And no, that isn't our house in the picture above (it's a vacation place we've stayed at for the past couple of years on Moloka'i). We should eventually have pics of that place and more in the near future. In the meantime, you can check out some kitchen remodel shots, the house where Jay grew up, and some neato torpedo quotations below.

That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals - and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me - nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.

He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.