Hyperlocal cuisine I’d never heard of: Spiedie (and I grew up in Poughkeepsie) #
…to harder motorcycles. The occasional motorcycle still catches my eye, like the Triumph Scrambler I happened upon last night. I’d seen that bike before and not thought much of it, because at the time I was looking for something more…
One of San Francisco’s characteristic charms is the cable car. Mostly ridden by tourists, it is still one of the locals’ chosen commute methods. What is striking about the cable car is that, well, it’s pulled by cables… still blows…
After three weeks in not-so-stealth-mode, it’s time to take the wraps off a new joint venture between me and Stephanie, which we’re calling White Noise Lounge. It all started about a month ago when we were joking with each other…
Capay Valley Fruits and Vegetables held a farm tour and strawberry picking on Saturday, open to all their Farm Fresh to You customers. FFTY is the program that delivers fresh fruits and vegetables to me every other week, and frequently…
And yet another reason why you should come work with me at Federated Media: Friday hula contests!
Last week on the ride home I noticed a marked reduction in power accelerating from a stop along Lombard. At each light, I felt the same thing, almost as if the throttle’s connection to the engine had become a rubber…
After getting chided by the internets for having my Vespa LX150 serviced at the dealership instead of learning how to maintain it myself, I thought it’d be poetic justice to let the world know I just performed my own brush…
After Claudine and Danny introduced us to Maldon sea salt at their last food shindig, we picked up a box at Williams Sonoma. At first I thought the flakes were a little big (compared to the fleur de sel de…
At either end of the Golden Gate Bridge, there are ribbed joints in the surface of the roadway. I don’t think they’re expansion joints, I think they simply connect the surface of the approach to the surface of the bridge…
I must have been at the right party last night because at least two people there knew that my funny camera existed. The occasion was Tony Stubblebine’s 30th birthday (hmm, am I allowed to blog that?) which we celebrated with…
This is a proto-meme for people running a GNOME-based OS, like Ubuntu. Go to Applications > Accessories > Disk Usage Analyzer. Click “Scan Filesystem”. Take a screenshot (Ctrl+Print Screen). Paste it to your blog. Show your friends. It’s fun. Red…
I’m not a big Star Wars buff or anything, but there’s a point in one of the movies, I’m not sure which, just after a planet had been destroyed when Obi-Wan senses a disturbance in “the force.” He says it…
Unfortunately I’ve been informed that it wasn’t actually Ice Cream Day, but it’s hella hot outside, so it might as well be.
I like how the metal looks kind of like charcoal.
I’m not sure what these are called. Also known as daisies! (thanks Eric) Bellis perennis is a common European species of Daisy, often considered the archetypal species of that name, though many other related plants share the name; to distinguish…
I tried on two occasions to record my scooter while I was zipping around the city, but the mic’s foam windscreen let too much wind noise through. That and the frequent stop-and-go city traffic made for a jarring listening experience.…
After several unusual days last week in the high 80s and low 90s, the fog came back with a vengeance. San Francisco should be where that white, billowing, cloud-like substance is. Above the fog, at Mt. Tam State Park (where…
Jason Griffey, an LS friend of mine from grad school (part of our original blogging cabal) has just written a book called Library Blogging. How friggin’ cool is that? That should probably get him into the SILS alumni hall of…
I would buy a house just so I could have an Instant Kitchen. I think kitchens are the most exciting thing about home ownership, and what I’m most drawn to when passing by for-sale postings outside realty offices. Unfortunately with…
For anyone who’s left their feedreader and visited my homepage in the last few days, you may have been surprised to see that the most recent post in the leftmost column is 15 seconds of fame from Tuesday, February 13,…
Databases are supposed to be these monolithic paragons of correctness and uniformity. So it’s a little unsettling to discover a database that returns grossly incorrect results. At least I wouldn’t expect WordPress to put version 5 of MySQL through its…
After hours of shopping at the San Francisco Westfield Mall, we had pasta and a gigantic salad from the gourmet food court. The decor is pretty retro hip, but the tile floors emphasize every little sound, from people chatting to…
I did not like tomato-based products growing up. Now that I think about it, I had an aversion to a lot of processed foods. They were often too bitter or too acidic or too salty. Most of all, they were…
Shortly after Stephanie left for pilates at 6:30 tonight, I heard a sound outside like someone had dropped a box of books on the sidewalk. My stomach sank—had a car tipped one of our scooters? I looked out the bedroom…
What an incredible piece of photojournalism by Shiho Fukada: Shiho Fukada’s photo of Jiang Guohua for the New York Times This photo appeared on the front page of Wednesday’s New York Times (May 28, 2008) alongside the article Parents’ Grief…
Wow, we made it to Nice without issue. Compared to last time, this trip was a breeze. Left for SFO around 4pm on Friday and arrived in Nice just after 6pm on Saturday. Stephanie’s mom, sister, and almost one-year-old niece…
Hyperlocal cuisine I’d never heard of: Spiedie (and I grew up in Poughkeepsie) #
Neat: Newspaper blackout poems #
Different: Do Hit Chair, complete with sledgehammer #
Heh: As Seen On YouTube #
It’s amazing to me that 4GB of SD memory costs only $15 #
Just updated my GR DIGITAL II firmware (my camera has new features!) #
This is so brilliant it blows my mind: Kent Rogowski’s Altered Puzzles (currently on exhibition at the Jen Bekman gallery in NYC—coincidentally I just read about Jen on Tony’s Small Business Hacks post) #
Sentence of the day: Gagging librarians is horrendous. #
It occurs to me that I’ve been twittering all along: with neatlinks. That last one was totally @griffey, who I just discovered had twittered about White Noise Lounge! #
Photo of the day: Friday Is Office Dog Day #
xkcd instant classic: Making Hash Browns #
Scandalous: Foie Gras & Poutine (in a good way) #
Love me some Banksy: Tagger (kind of boggles the mind how much stuff is up on Flickr) #
Just posted the latest White Noise Lounge “episode”: Golden Gate Bridge joints #
Leona is coming back into the fold:
I was Tastespotted! Justinsomnia Gets Creative With Mushroom Lasagna #
Twittercentric world-view: the legacy blogosphere #
Whoa, cool: Heavy Metal in Baghdad #
This American Life on the Global Pool of Money (must listen)
Then: Another Frightening Show About the Economy
Then: Bad Bank
Then: Inside Job #
So awkward I thought it was The Onion: Day With No News (but it’s “real”) #
Open source success story: The 25 Year Old BSD Bug #
Not what this sounds like: Bacon Painting Auctioned for Record $86 Million #
Rolling, rolling, rolling: CBS Corp. is buying CNet Networks Inc. for $1.8 billion in cash. The price of $11.50 per share represents a massive premium of 45 percent over CNet’s closing stock price on Wednesday. #
Go California!!! State Supreme Court says same-sex couples have right to marry #
Woo! Court approves evil gay agenda “Satan’s plan to make uptight straight people ‘really uncomfortable’ working out ‘fabulously,’ say Bay Area gays” #
HAHA: Sumo Car Wash #
Just posted the latest White Noise Lounge episode: my Vespa LX150 idling. New feature: all the photos now display an enlarged version when clicked, hopefully with a nice javascript fade-in effect. #
What gives? immersive appears in Google’s web index 6 million times, but it doesn’t exist in the dictionary? #
File this under bad omens: Photographing a Wedding and then an Earthquake #
Peak Oil? American Airlines to charge for first checked bag #
You stay classy, Alaska: Alaska to sue to block polar bear listing “as a threatened species, arguing the designation will slow development in the state.” #
Pseudonym of the day: A. Incognito Johnson #
OMG, so awesome, I want!!! The Smart Car Monster Truck! #
No way! Vespa Spinners #
What my dad works on: Roadrunner—computing in the fast lane #
To do: WordPress turns 5 in San Francisco on Tuesday, May 27th at 111 Minna, starting at 9pm #
Stephanie, I mean MC Soleil, just posted the latest White Noise Lounge episode: Food Court. And for the iPod-inclined, White Noise Lounge is now available in iTunes. #
[No] food for thought: Fasting may prevent jetlag #
Fun list:
Crowdsourcing magazine publishing, for reals: Everywhere, the Travel Magazine (more here and here) #
Whoa, weird, this video is going to blow your mind: Displacements (people are so creative) #
Hehehe: Real dogs teased with toy dog #
California counties can begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples on June 17 (in other news, the sky is not falling) #
Such an amazing lyric: “your parents fly on separate planes to make sure you don’t end up an orphan” from the song Separate Planes by Volunteer Pioneer (more here) #
Blog name of the day: The Bay Bridged (San Francisco Bay Area Indie Music) #
The future is going to be AWESOME! What does the inside of a TSA x-ray conveyor look like? Ask a Flip. #
MediaDefender DoSes Revision3 (you stay classy, Hollywood):
Yo, come work with me: FM is hiring! (the tech team is also looking for a crack project manager) #