One of my great joys is when people contribute to my community websites — for example, a San Diego Bloggers badge.

Well, blogger –Doug Gates just contributed two new ones, with these words:

Here are two badges that capture essential elements of San Diego that haven’t been used on any of the existing badges on your site. First, that damn ubiquitous red tile that seems to be in every faux spanish subdivision they’re carving out of our land. Second, we’ve gotta have some surfers.

And here are the files he sent:

Thanks Doug!