Stephanie’s Vespa Witch Halloween Costume gets mad kudos from Girlbike: and the prize for Best Halloween Costume Incorporating a Scooter goes to… #
The new slim wallet
Having to photoedit the wallet bulge out of my right ass cheek recently was the last straw. Enter Slimmy: I tried putting it in my front left pocket along with my cell phone, but as I don’t have one of…
Le fog
Looking down Pine Street this morning
The Ravioli Party
On Saturday, we invited some friends over for our first ever (maybe the first ever?) ravioli party. The new pasta machine was the inspiration, and the idea was simple. We’d provide the machine, the pasta dough, and more red wine…
Speedblogging
My usual blogging style is notoriously sluggish. I’ll start with an idea, write a paragraph or two, futz with some photos if I’ve got any, surf the web and get distracted, search for a relevant link, lose my train of…
My next camera: the big dog
My new camera hasn’t yet arrived (Update: it just arrived!), and I’m already thinking about my next camera. I guess that’s what I get for choosing super saver shipping and it actually taking up to 9 days. Idle hands makes…
Hiking the Marin Headlands
The weather was unusually pleasant on Sunday, so I took the opportunity to go on a nice, long hike around the Marin Headlands. US 101 leading up to the Waldo Tunnel View of San Francisco from the Coastal Trail Trail…
My small contribution to green building in Chapel Hill
Last August, as in August of 2006, I got an email out of the blue from a freelance graphic designer in North Carolina named Tony Burden. He was searching for some photos to use in a brochure for a green…
Jay-Z flashing euros!
I love this: When I start seeing rap stars flashing euros instead of U.S. dollars, I know our economy is in trouble. Screenshot at 0:54 from Jay-Z’s Blue Magic music video
Between buildings at night
Followup to Between buildings. 15 second exposure.
Crêpe bretonne
The other weekend Stephanie and I found ourselves near the Mission and hungry—a good combination—and so thanks to 1-800-GOOG-411, we made our way to 16th and Valencia to eat at the fabled Pancho Villa Taqueria. Except we never made it,…
On aspect ratios and photography
With digital photography and point-and-click editing tools, it seems the concept of a fixed or standard aspect ratio is going extinct. If necessary, you can crop till you get to a composition you find most pleasing, resize for the web…
Oil spill containment boom in Sausalito
Michael Ruhlman on life, luck, and blogging
Last Sunday I got to see Michael Ruhlman read from his new book, The Elements of Cooking at the San Francisco Ferry Building. Michael retold the story of what led him to that particular moment in time. An early love…
Meeting the man behind Trader Joe’s Chocolate Croissants
The strangest thing happened the other night. I was volunteering at a Beaujolais Nouveau party and Alliance Française de Santa Rosa fundraiser with Jean-Claude and Sabine, when I overheard someone mention Trader Joe’s Chocolate Croissants. Trader Joe’s Chocolate Croissants I…
The new view from my desk
I felt sort of bad posting the old view from my desk, but after the FM tech team moved to a new building across the street today, I feel like I’ve received a significant upgrade.
Ivan rocks the vote
Friend (and coworker) Ivan Kanevski got props from the mainstream media last night for his work in creating the non-mainstream presidential candidate chooser, Glassbooth. Totally rad!
Thanksgiving at Lassen
After discovering our Zipcar had a dead battery and waiting for someone to come pop the lock and “boost” it, Stephanie and I drove up to Healdsburg (along with everyone else in northern California) to pick up Jean-Claude and Sabine…
Whoa, Google Maps adds totally kickass Terrain view!
The Hybrid view is now a checkbox under Satellite called “Show labels”. (via Stephanie)
Importing Haloscan comments into WordPress (v2.3 and up) from Blogger
Note: Even though I originally wrote this for WordPress v2.3, it continues to work for all versions of WordPress through v2.9.x. Background Who knew that when I migrated my Blogger blog to WordPress way back when, I’d still be supporting…
Take that, cat!
Chat Noir
Ev’s path west was spooky similar to my own:
Funny tidbit: 8 years later and I was only making $1500 more! #
Neato! Rising Pinhole ‘Lens’ Obscura Adapters (turn your $$$ SLR into a pinhole camera) #
Headline of the day: Everex $200 Linux gPC Hits Wal-Mart, Bowls Rednecks Over
My other favorite part:
The funniest thing is that Everex deliberately built a large box, even though there’s not much under the hood. This is a pure psychological play to woo the pickup truck set, who believe a Chevy S10 is a sure sign of sexual inadequacy. The system will pack a 1.5GHz low-wattage VIA C7-D processor (pitched as a “green” machine).
Whoa, swanky: Zero Image, a handmade teak pinhole camera (sample shots on Flickr) #
Look out world, Tony and Jay are working together: Introducing Jay #
For future reference: CHDK is a firmware enhancement that operates on a number of Canon Cameras. #
WTF Pakistan!? Baton-wielding police fought with lawyers outside courthouses in Islamabad and Lahore again Tuesday, arresting dozens more as they enforced Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf’s crackdown on judicial activism. #
Building a computer as easy as assembling lego-like bricks: BUG #
Just saw this great Comcast parody ad on Boing Boing:
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Whoa whoa!! Container ship hits Bay Bridge tower – fuel spills, but span undamaged #
This is the most amazing thing: Wingsuite mountain swoop #
Shit, not 140 gallons, 58,000 GALLONS!!! #
For future reference: Creating a book with OpenOffice.org Writer #
To do this weekend: Michael Ruhlman talks about his new book, The Elements of Cooking 2pm on Sunday at Book Passage in the Ferry Building #
Hot Rod your kitchen stand mixer. Enough said. #
Photoz of the day: Best. toy. ever. #
I’d like to use this for things other than birds: Wingscapes BirdCam #
11 levels of meta: Cory with original xkcd strip #
Pricey but hawt: Camera bag made out of old belts #
Another seminal blog post from Mark Pilgrim: The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts)
Update: Cory asks, “Why does the Web make Amazon go crazy?“ #
U.S. Supreme Court takes up gun-rights case:
Wow, Firefox 3 beta gets coverage in the NYT: Mozilla Rolls Out Firefox 3.0 Beta #
Ha, strangest funny thing I’ve read today:
Yowzers:
Dooce switches from MT to Drupal:
Corey just sent me this: Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby #
For my librarian friends:
Crazy thing I did not know:
I would buy a wireless digital picture frame for this: Passing by #
Photo of the day: A Touch of Colour #
Whoa, weird, cool? FOODPAIRING #
The oldest known color photograph: view of Angouleme, France #
On the erotic appeal of the Lands’ End catalog: These are men who deserve to have their faces cropped out, emasculated by the inability to even choose their own clothing. #
Domain name of the day: bytesexual.org #
Something I must try (and didn’t know existed)! St. Louis-style pizza (I think I just discovered the theme for my next party…) #
I don’t know what’s funnier, the content or the Austrian English accents: Human USB Hack #
Quite possibly the weirdest thing ever: Chocolade Haas (I think Jason Kottke summed it up best: “If you only watch one chocolate bunny melting video this year, make it this one.”) #
I never get into these kind of flash games, but this is kind of fun… Chat Noir #