Christy on love and optimism:
French pizza on a stone
I got a new kitchen toy this weekend: a pizza stone. This is because every time I’m in Trader Joe’s, I’m tempted by their bags of fresh pizza dough. During the week I finally caved and picked one up, along…
The setting sun was an orange orb
A cameraphone shot, taken from my car around 8pm on the 101, just after chatting with my brother in Texas, where it was already dark
In the Trader Joe’s deadzone
It turns out that our new apartment (denoted by the green arrow in the map above) is roughly equidistant from all three Trader Joe’s in the city. Each pink circle represents an area one mile from a Trader Joe’s. Of…
A look inside the apartment, finally!
This is our apartment door. On the outside. Not bad, eh? Voici notre porte d’entree depius l’exterieur (couloir). Pas mal, non? Update: the hallway looks much better now with new hallway carpet! Walking into the foyer, the bathroom with clawfoot…
Bloc Party at the Greek Theatre
Awesomest concert cameraphone picture ever? I think so. Bloc Party rocking the skene at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley I also got to see one of my other favorite bands for the first time, Two Gallants. I have no hesitation…
Lord I got to keep on moving
After a late night, we woke leisurely on Saturday in preparation for a weekend of packing and moving. Around noon we drove down to U-Haul, first stopping at a diner for breakfast, then picking up a van. We got the…
Paella in a pan
New kitchen toy! A paella pan. Procured from The Spanish Table in Mill Valley, a neat store with a location in Santa Fe which I strolled through last summer—before I had any clue what these large shallow pans were for.…
Cars that cost a lot of money
I’m not much of a car person, but given that I’ve been spending about 2 hours every weekday on the road, I’ve had a lot of time to look at nothing but cars. And I saw one this afternoon that…
It’s moving day!
Hooray for bitmap cursors pasted into the real world. How iconic!
Last transmission from apartment 10
Stephanie and I are sitting on my old desk. Haven’t sold it yet. Don’t know when. Cable modem still plugged in. Not sure when Comcast will be turning on our service in the city. Friday maybe. Jesus, 5 days off…
Our moving to San Francisco saga comes to a close
Saturday morning we had a number of time-sensitive appointments. That meant being up at 7:30, but first I made us some open-face egg sandwiches with Neiman Ranch bacon and St. George’s raw milk cheese. Then we got down to business.…
International Orange
I really love the minimalist Golden Gate Transit logo you see on the buses and bus stop signs around here. It’s the simplest possible way to evoke the region: blue sea, green hills (at least in the winter and spring),…
Grace Cathedral at night
About two blocks from the new apartment:
Curb climber
I just placed an order for a bonafide, practically all-terrain, city cart. They show up all over the city, used equally by hipsters and the homeless, for groceries and laundry. But I haven’t really found any in stores. You’d think…
Totally went to IKEA and didn’t buy a damn thing
Not a stick. Oh well, except for a small plate of swedish meatballs and a chicken caesar salad. Yum. It was the first time I’d been since first visiting IKEA in DC with my dad three years ago. Tonight we…
Seeking: French bistro table
I’m in search of a French bistro table (aka a guéridon) with a cast iron base and a simple black marble top, about 28 inches in diameter. Stephanie and I have seen several at cafes in the city, but have…
Gumbo
Going through some of my files tonight, I came across this New Orleans Times-Picayune Dining Guide from April 4, 2004 which I’ve held onto for two years. I thought the food photography for their gumbo article was gorgeous, and I’ve…
Laundry!
On Monday we celebrated living in the city for two weeks by… …visiting the laundromat. Thankfully there’s one on our block, as our cart has yet to arrive. Two dollars in quarters to wash (per load), about a dollar to…
Pine Street at night
Yes, we now live in a city. This is a fact about which I seem to be constantly amazed. Here’s a visualization that I think might help explain my state of wonderment more concretely. Each bar represents a zip code…
If you’ve noticed my blog being inaccessible or slow to load in the past week, this is why: Anatomy of a(n ongoing) Disaster.. (and this—the blog post—is also why I’m sticking with Dreamhost) #
Ha! The doctors once again have found the president fit for duty Whatev. #
Marie Kennedy, SILS-alum and friend, is exhibiting some of her scanner art works online:
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Does the dude in this Yahoo ad wig anyone else out?
He kind of makes me think I should be reading “Yahoo!” as a euphemism for the male genitalia, which makes the ad come across like recruitment for a porno.
I think your Yahoo! has star potential.
Oh I bet you do, dirty old man. #
Make any webpage look like you’re working on a Microsoft Word document: workFRIENDLY #
Earthquake! Which I kinda missed:
I was out hiking Annadel with Mark and at one point we noticed what sounded like bikes rattling on a trail in the dense brush next to us, but we didn’t think anything of it. #
Katie asks, What does DELL do to you???? #
Looks awesome. To watch later: OK Go – Here It Goes Again #
Whoa: HURRA TORPEDO – total eclipse of the heart (with large kitchen appliances) #
Quote of the day:
“This seems to be an administration that’s in a race with its own incompetence”
—David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker magazine, describing the Bush administration on City Arts and Lectures #
This excellent post is entitled Hating America, but it’s really more about expanding perspectives beyond America #
Just FYI, I am not the whistleblower in the Mahmudiya rape/murder case, though I heartily support his courage:
(Thanks Kathleen!) #
Anyone in the San Francisco Bay Area looking for a dining table and 6 chairs?
I’m selling my NYDALA dining table from IKEA + 6 chairs from Cost Plus World Market
The best part is the leaf (stored under the surface of the table) that expands the table from 4 feet to over 6 feet in length!
Also, Stephanie is selling her futon. #
Yeah Dick, I’d hate to go back to a competent pre-Bush administration mind-set too:
Free advertising for Gawker Artists #
I wonder if the German Jews made fun of those crazy Nazis the way we make fun of our government?
Who the fuck brought this motherfucking beverage onto this motherfucking plane? #
FM co-worker Jonathan just left to get married: staceyandjonathan.org or jonathanandstacey.org #
To do before they sell out for the season: Public Orchard Tour at McEvoy Olive Ranch in Petaluma #
Awesome picture of the day: Sausage shaped like a beer bottle #
Headline of the day (err… blog post title of the day?): Wikipedia’s template language is Turing-complete #
I wish they had real permalink pages for their shows, but nevertheless here’s a link to the Commonwealth Club’s talk with Anthony Bourdain of Kitchen Confidential fame #
Anyone in or around Santa Rosa need a desk or additional surface space? I’ve got one to sell: Blond wood IKEA desk, would love to sell this weekend!
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Scary search engine referrer of the day:
Someone stopped by my blog after searching The New York Times for justin watt and dick cheney #
This is brilliant: Open source project adds “no military use” clause to the GPL (via Yesh) #
Heh heh: NO SNAKES OF ANY KIND WILL BE PERMITTED ON A PLANE. SNAKES ARE NO LONGER ALLOWED IN CHECKED BAGGAGE. This includes all pythons, boas, rattlesnakes, vipers, mambas, adders, and other known species of snakes. Exception: some limited amounts of snakes may be allowed if Samuel L. Jackson is traveling #
This just rocked my face off: ScanJet Music (make sure to play the Fur Elise video from the links at the bottom) #
Cheers to Rick Richardson and Cheche for helping to get the HP Color LaserJet 2600n printing from Ubuntu. Jeers to Konica Minolta and HP:
Neither company has ever offered any kind of support for this driver.
Who I work with: FM Team Photo, Take One #
Thanks to MacEwan’s Howto fix Firefox Flash Video Sound on Ubuntu Linux Dapper I was able to listen to this excellent cover of Outkast’s Hey Ya!
Update: aoss seems buggy. Several minutes after playing flash with audio, Firefox seizes up, and I have to force quit. #
Still alive, I swear.
Look, here I am talking to the inimitable Tony Stubblebine at Kyle’s Snakes on a Birthday party:
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Wikipedia entry and thing I didn’t know of the day: North Pacific Gyre #
Robin on being young and a parent:
Wow, whodathunkit? Gallery of carved nickels #
There’s more: The Original Hobo Nickel Society #
Federated Media featured on CNN:
Battelle compares FM’s model to a record company. He and his team are the band managers; the bloggers are the bands. The key difference is that bloggers own their content, earning 60 cents of every ad dollar
Neologism of the day: Typosquatting #
Awesome! Red-Hot and Filthy Library Smut (via Jason) #
Matt Haughey: Then I started looking at [paying off] all my bills as annual raises. #
What I did this weekend: Bowling! 
…at Leona’s going-away pizza and bowl-a-rama party. #
Groan: Ubuntu Christian Edition #
SILS friend Kathleen Pierce shows up online: Channel airs town business, trains youths #
Quote of the day: I think someone should try to blow up a plane with a piece of ID, just to watch the TSA’s mind implode. #