2008

January

• The making of a photo book
• The significance of 416.66
• Ricoh GR Digital II at ISO 400
• Why I buy online
• Wide angle lens porn
• Back on the veggie delivery wagon
• I can never remember how to create a new MySQL user
• “I guess we took that corner too fast…”
• Steak au poivre
• Marketwatching
• On sharing ideas

February

• Pinnacles in a day
• Were I to ever consider buying an SUV…
• Think globally, blog locally
• On the passing of Polaroid
• Fishing boats, long exposure
• Roosters
• The making of a mushroom lasagna
• Vintage racers
• The WordPress SQL Executioner
• Yosemite in winter
• Snowshoeing Yosemite to Dewey Point
• Tree with mossy branches
• Things I didn’t like about No Country for Old Men
• From the Belly of the Beasts, a eulogy
• Hachis Parmentier au chèvre

March

• Cookies in the cupboard
• The flowers of Dipsea
• The Age of Reunions
• I sense an if statement in your future.
• Arch-framed Bay Bridge
• One Rincon Hill
• Unseasonal eater’s guilt
• Pleasure in variation
• I own a man purse
• Fill Terrie’s shoes (they’re like size 16 or something)
• Marcia caught on tape at SXSW…
• My new fav Golden Gate Bridge shot
• The un-iPhone
• Quiche with red chard
• What does it mean to hurt a robot?
• My hummus recipe in print!
• Not your 5th grade pizza party
• Not nude sunbathing on Baker Beach
• What my weekdays look like
• Spring Break 2008: Death Valley!

April

• The Golden Canyon endurance challenge
• Reaching a new low
• Like camping on the moon
• Hiking Keane Wonder Mine
• The flora and fauna of Death Valley
• The Mosaic Canyon narrows
• Pea Soup Andersen’s
• Journey to Alamere Falls
• Handwashing dishes
• I caught a butterfly
• Saucisses-lentilles
• Get thee to CoCo’s Crawfish
• I think I am being followed
• Hardy Heron: first look
• Belden Place
• Electric shaver
• Rear Window
• Alpine Lake Dam
• Mysterious black and white Vespa photo

May

• Vespa is a gateway drug…
• Cable car cable
• Introducing White Noise Lounge
• Hanging out on the farm
• Self-portrait of the blogger hooping
• Vespa LX150 Total Cost of Ownership
• Brush touch up
• Maldon sea salt pyramids
• Golden Gate Bridge joints
• Tony three dot oh
• What does your hard drive look like?
• Destruction of Alderaan
• Hoo-ray for Ice Cream Day!
• The Bay Bridge
• Macro black and white rusty chain
• Field of white and yellow flowers
• Vespa LX150
• Above the fog
• Library Blogging
• Instant Kitchen
• Yes I know my blog is busted
• Broken blog = man obsessed
• Food Court
• On tomato sauce and pizza
• I called the police for the first time
• This image stopped me in my tracks
• À Nice sans problème

June

• Riding BART
• S’installer dans le Vieux Nice
• “Tonton ’tin”
• Randonnée dans l’Esterel
• On est allé à Fayence
• D’Èze-sur-Mer à Èze-Village
• Waves in Nice
• Un Mariage Français
• En route vers Cinque Terre
• Les grenouilles
• Cinque Terre!
• Fleur de courgette, avant et après
• Socca
• Sandwich Américain
• Tomates à la Provençale
• Joyeux Anniversaire Luna
• Car brands that you can’t buy in the US
• Hills Bros. Coffee
• Mt. Tamalpais grass
• Mt. Tam’s Panoramic Coastal Trail
• What a crappy time to have started investing in the stock market
• Federated Media code_swarm
• Barbecue grill at the airport

July

• City street
• Reunion
• Onboard the Yankee Clipper
• Glacial melt
• Hiking Rainier
• Bridge of Glass
• Ubuntu Home Server FAQ
• Why buy?
• Sizzling bacon
• MPG is specious
• Hanging onto old computers
• Firefox extensions roundup
• The Danger of Fingertip Memory
• Hair dryer
• Into the Desolation Wilderness
• Gurgling mountain stream
• Paradigm shift

August

• A blogger’s laptop
• A project and the big move
• A Thanksgiving dinner that has taken on a life of its own
• A/C gone wild
• I work in an office. In the city. OMG.
• With a new office comes a new view!
• Sound check
• Two Gallants, a sound check
• Cherry tomato picking
• A little bit about the new laptop

September

• Scooter shorts
• Getting wireless to work in Ubuntu on a Lenovo ThinkPad X200
• Setting up Ubuntu from scratch
• Setting up a nice LAMP development environment on Ubuntu
• New hallway carpet
• Bumpass Hell
• Justin versus the Volcano
• Morning campfire
• Grand Canyon for the weekend
• Along the South Kaibab
• A surprise dinner guest
• A meal I’ve been waiting months for
• Black bridge over the Colorado River
• All the way up Bright Angel
• Accidental Collection

October

• Apparently I was not the only Justin born in the late 70s early 80s
• The financial crisis finally hits home
• Blogger’s block
• So I live and work in the city now
• At Free Culture 2008, sort of liveblogging
• Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis
• Liveblogging Evan Williams at the CM Summit
• Bored online
• New old shoes
• San Francisco at dusk from Pier 14
• What to do with cayenne peppers?
• San Francisco has a Cheese School?
• Boats ad infinitum
• I am a bank
• City sunlight
• Look ma, no hands!

November

• Historic, in 2008
• So glad it’s over
• La suite de l’auberge espagnole
• What’s the difference between the UK and Great Britain?
• Do you menstrate?
• National Parks Google Mapplet
• Locavore’s Cheese and Beer
• Walking home in the dark
• Street signs in Chinatown
• Paté Partay
• Newly framed National Park prints
• A Zeppelin over San Francisco Bay
• Morse code in the wild, sorta

December

• The I-5 inversion
• Autumn leaf on a city sidewalk
• Thanksgiving at Joshua Tree
• Geekiest birthday present ever?
• Best birthday lunch ever?
• Best birthday dinner ever?
• I’ve been thinking about creating a Twitter account
• On blog comments and Twitter
• Close encounters with Twitter
• Learning how to save, two years later
• So you want to buy a new camera?
• Claüs freaks me out
• La reproduction interdite (after Magritte)
• Chocolate tasting
• Alamo: the building and the beer
• Gingerbreading
• A Christmas Eve Raclette
• Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
• On the way to the airport
• Chestnuts roasted over an open fire
• From what region of France does Camembert cheese originate?
• The $100,000 ad-supported salary