Book to read: Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America #
Things slowed down considerably once we got to Nice, which was good because we were pretty tired after our adventure in getting there. This was the family reunion part of the trip, a week to spend with Stephanie’s mom Chris,…
One thing we hadn’t planned in advance was how and when we were going to get back to Paris from Nice for our flight home Sunday morning. The options we’d considered were a 5+ hour long TGV ride on Friday…
I’ve always wanted to sleep on a train. It seemed like just the most romantic and soothing thing in the world. Who hasn’t seen one of those scenic, cross-Canada train trip ads in the Sunday news magazine and thought, “If…
The Louvre is big. Really big. And it has some really big paintings. It’s not cluttered, but I kind of wish I could have taken the Segway tour of the Louvre. For my feet’s sake. There were also a lot…
I think we were at the Louvre from 10 til 5. Most of that time on our feet except for a late lunch at a cafe in the museum. When we got back to the hotel, we didn’t emerge until…
Last Saturday was our last day in France. We started the day off with a little clothes shopping. I had a simple ham and cheese baguette sandwich as a pre-lunch snack. Tasty. We also checked out BHV, a several story…
When Stephanie and I unpacked, these are the treasures we unearthed from our suitcases. From left to right that’s chocolate, easy bechamel, more chocolate, herbes de provence, dijon mayonnaise, fleur de sel, several bottles of wine and liqueur, and one…
I came back from France feeling a strong desire to do more. So when better to start than last Monday? The Thermals were playing for two nights at Bottom of the Hill, and tickets were still available the first night.…
Last Christmas I got a gift certificate from FM, part of which I used to buy a hand-press juicer. I started off making orange juice on-demand, then a while back I decided to try my hand at lemonade. The base…
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…taken on my Canon SD400 since I got it the week I was looking for an apartment in Santa Rosa and Sebastopol back in April 2005. Two years and 10,000 photos. Wow. That’s an average of more than 13 photos…
Went out to China Camp State Park with Marcia, Dawn, and Stephanie this afternoon. Beautiful day. Cool winds off the bay, warm sun. Nature. China Camp is nestled between San Pablo Bay and San Rafael. I didn’t know it existed…
What has it been already? Like 2 weeks! I’m ready for some insalata caprese now! My favorite moment was Stephanie getting her noise on top of the sprouts to see if they smelled like basil yet. Not yet.
Last November I finished paying off my car loan. So I figured, what better time to sell it? No response from craigslist. So I sat on it for a while. Until getting back from France. Feeling charged to make some…
If you leave a painting by the side of a building in San Francisco, there’s a good chance it’ll be picked up by a blogger. After seeing The Thermals, I walked from Bottom of the Hill to De Haro to…
Last night I decided it was time to cook the pork loin in the fridge, but I wasn’t feeling the typical roast other-white-meat. So I threw together a spice rub (ground mustard, cumin, cayenne, white pepper, etc), rubbed the meat…
Joy asked me over IM the other day if I could remember the name of a large blue flower she’d told me previously. I couldn’t even remember the conversation let alone the name, but we narrowed down what the flower…
Totally forgot to mention that we had a raclette party last Saturday, inspired by our raclette dinner in Paris. I ordered a small 4 tray raclette grill from KlinQ.com (via Amazon) which came all the way from Montreal for the…
These are actually the steps I go through before posting a photo to my blog. I’m always curious how other people edit their photos, so I hope you find this enjoyable and/or informative. Rotate the image, if necessary. Occasionally my…
Book to read: Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America #
Best website of the year: No one belongs here more than you #
Photo of the day: Irish Pride #
This made me giggle: Blog Advisory System (even though I was out of the country went everything went down) #
Oh damn this is librarian-licious: Cara Barer’s wet book sculptures #
On the List of places blurred out on Google Maps: IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York #
Via Boing Boing: Researchers design new type of object that rights itself when knocked over #
Mark Pilgrim (who now works at Google with everyone else in the world) on The future of the web (aka HTML5) #
If anyone knows anyone out there who’s looking for a great car that gets great gas mileage, I’m selling: Black 2004 Honda Civic EX Sedan Automatic, with hitch
Why I still read Boing Boing: These spring-loaded steampunk spectacles are the mutt’s nuts — I would wear them every day, until they blew a spring and gouged out one of my eyes. –Cory Doctorow #
LOL!!1 The only surprise here is that you’re treating my utter disregard for scalability as a bug, when it is in fact a feature. –Mark Pilgrim paraphrasing David Heinemeier Hansson #
Totally radical: Leaping Shampoo, aka the Kaye effect #
Wikipedia fact of the day: The reuse of feces as fertilizer was common in Japan. Waste products of rich people were sold at higher prices because their diet was better. #
xkcd on Snopes (Reminds me of a fear I had that a spam-blocking service could actually sign me up for spam in retribution for dissing their product. So of course I’m tickled to learn that I’ve outlasted their database of known humans.) #
Will Ferrell, actually funny, in The Landlord (via Joy) #
Perspective: Normal life came to a screeching halt today in America as news of an awful mass murder spread across the nation…Ha ha, just kidding! This massacre happened in Iraq, which we totally ignore even though it’s all our fault. #
This is crazy news: What operating system does Michael Dell use??? Ubuntu #
re: death of internet radio, I listen to Indie Pop Rocks every day at work, all day long. (as an aside: sucks that twitter doesn’t have comments, you know, like a blog) #
The ultimate Microsoft snub: your product is our feature
Google has completed its apps suite with the addition of a presentation component—[Eric Schmidt] told me earlier that they did not have a name for it because, in the end, it was a feature of a service, not a product like PowerPoint.
Buzzphrase of the day: Page-View Juicing #
Opening sentence of the day (not from The Onion): Facing worries about its tracking Web surfers’ every move, Google Inc. is now offering a feature to track Web surfers’ every move. #
Scary headline of the day: Boston bans Boing Boing #
MP3 now officially the most popular acronym in the world: Piaggio MP3 (We saw several of these in Paris…)
I feel dirty: Secrets of the Magic Eight Ball revealed #
Hot new Canon HD videocam: PowerShot TX1 (only $499) #
That cool condom+applicator I linked to a while ago? It now has a website, and the best tagline ever: Pronto condoms – the best way to get it on #
Ha: There is not a single existential crisis or self-congratulatory epiphany that has been or could be experienced by a left-leaning agnostic that we have not exhaustively documented and grouped by theme. (via Joy) #
outside.in says Potrero Hill is the bloggiest neighborhood in SF. Man, I actually love the neologism bloggiest more than my other fav, blogosphere. #
OMG: xkcd brilliance! #
Ha, Kottke: If I were to start a fictional magazine about blogging, I’d call it Post & Permalink
Update: Someone’s made a cover mockup. A hundred bucks says that an issue of this fictitious magazine gets made. #
Atheism has a symbol?
Apparently. #
Wow, how lame (can our gov’t get?): Heroine attacks Pentagon over lies about her capture
Upon rereading that headline, I found the use of the word “attacks” to be particularly charged, as if Jessica Lynch has a personal axe to grind against the Pentagon. Rebukes would have been a less biased choice. #
CUTE! #
Wait, there’s a difference between vi and vim? VI arrow key bug in Ubuntu (I thought all vi was actually vim)
Update: oh wait, post-sudo aptitude install vim-full
, vi=vim:
$ which vi /usr/bin/vi $ ls /usr/bin/vi lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2007-04-20 08:53 /usr/bin/vi -> /etc/alternatives/vi $ ls /etc/alternatives/vi lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2007-04-26 09:53 /etc/alternatives/vi -> /usr/bin/vim.full
Tim Bray: I’m pretty sure that in another half-generation or so, a company that doesn’t do blogging is going to look weird and maybe a little shady. #
That can’t be good: Tanker Truck Fire Collapses Bay Area Overpass #
And just this weekend I was thinking of naming a hypothetical girl child “Eucalyptus.” I wonder if that’s too chav? Research shows that girls with ‘feminine’ names steer clear of ‘masculine’ maths and science (via Corey) #
Stephanie reconstitutes herself via animated gif #