The latest White Noise Lounge is up: Riding BART #
MC Soleil and I are taking White Noise Lounge on the road—to France! So posting might be a bit irregular, depending on the good sounds we find along the way. To get in the spirit of travel, I took a…
Sunday was jetlag recovery day. Left the apartment late in the morning for a leisurely stroll through the Vieux Nice. Made our way again to the coast where there was a big Italian cultural exposition going on. Sort of a…
Uncle Justin with Luna, Stephanie’s niece
The last time we visited Nice I pretty much summed up the week-long trip in a single post, Une semaine à Nice, because that’s kind of how it felt—time just flew by. We kept comforting ourselves by saying it was…
On Wednesday we went to Stephanie’s one-time childhood hometown of Fayence to visit with her grandmother who wouldn’t be able to attend the wedding and her aunt who was staying there in order to attend the wedding. We were also…
The rain we saw in Fayence hung around the coast on Thursday, but that didn’t dissuade us from getting out for another hike. We drove east to Èze-sur-Mer (aka Èze-Bord-de-Mer), one of many small villages hugging the Azur coast, which…
This is a very familiar sound to me. The beach along the Promenade des Anglais in Nice was a soothing and invigorating place during my college years. The entire beach is made up of small polished stones, which are not…
Last weekend was dedicated to wedding and baptism festivities (for Stephanie’s sister and niece, respectively). We cleared our schedule on Friday to help out however we could (and to recover from our Èze hike), but found that everything was under…
To get from Nice to Cinque Terre last Monday, we hugged the coast and headed east on the A8, which became the A10 in Italy, and then we took the A12 in Genova all the way to La Spezia. But…
The title of this post is in French because these are French frogs croaking—and because grenouille is such a fun word to say: gren-OO-ee. Unfortunately it’s a really hard sound to photograph without stumbling upon an actual frog in the…
At some point last year we got an REI Adventures brochure in the mail and flipped through it, dreaming about all the crazy places in the world there are to explore. One in particular caught Stephanie’s eye, Cinque Terre, which…
I can’t say that I’ve ever seen the flower of a zucchini before. In France they’re sold with the flower in order to make beignets de fleurs de courgette, or fried zucchini flowers. It’s something of a specialty in Provence.…
I can’t believe I didn’t post anything about this on my first trip to France. Socca is sort of a chickpea crepe popular in and around Nice—particularly in the Vieux Nice.
Stephanie told me that during college in Nice, when funds were low, she would occasionally treat herself to an “American Sandwich” because it was cheap and very filling. The funny thing is, the Sandwich Américain doesn’t really exist in the…
On the way back from Italy we stopped off in Monaco, like you do, went to the castle, saw the exotic garden, stumbled upon the changing of the guard, and walked through the church. Panorama of Monaco’s harbor and waterfront…
Luna, blow out the candle Maybe with some help from the Soleil family And the Palumbo family Happy Birthday
Alfa Romeo Citroën Dacia Daihatsu Fiat Holden Lancia Microcar Opel Peugeot Renault Seat There are others of course, but these are the ones I saw (again and again) in the course of two weeks in France. I don’t know why…
Sometime in August I’m told this will become Federated Media’s new San Francisco Headquarters. Not the whole building, just the 6th floor—the set-back part you can see peeking out from beneath the giant Hills Bros. Coffee sign. The Hills Bros.…
During the summer months, the North Bay turns golden which accentuates the contrast between the dry grass, the sky and the dispersed trees. Mount Tamalpais is a recurring example of this beauty, in addition to the spectacular elevated ocean views.…
On Sunday Stephanie and I escaped the fog of the city and headed for the golden hills of Mt. Tamalpais State Park. We were joined by Leona (recent Bay Area retransplant) and her lovely friends Rachel and David for a…
I know, I know you’re not supposed to check on your long term investments, but where’s the fun in that? I started investing money in the stock market (outside of my Roth IRA) last October, primarily in an index fund…
A neat visualization of the work that the Federated Media Tech team (including me) has done over the last 14 months: I put this together this afternoon using code_swarm. Andy uploaded it to Vimeo so the world can see: FM…
Only in Texas. Though technically speaking, this is a bbq pit (or a smoker).
The latest White Noise Lounge is up: Riding BART #
My advice to the gay community living in Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Michigan, Nebraska, New Hampshire, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Utah. Move to California. #
Something to keep in mind:
Bruce Schneier:
Nice: Lego patch #
It’s amazing the power of word of mouth sometimes. I read this post by Michael Ruhlman, and now I totally want to spend ~$200 on a Cuisinart Brick Oven Toaster (or is it a brick toaster oven?) #
MC Soleil just posted the very soothing Waves in Nice to White Noise Lounge #
This is classic: World of World of Warcraft #
Incredible photo: Several houses in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, wash up against a railroad bridge on the Cedar River #
Andre on his third anniversary at Federated Media (my 2nd is coming up on the 19th) #
Key differences between the Canon Digital Rebel XSi, XTi, and the upcoming XS (aka 1000D) positioned in between the two #
I just posted the latest White Noise Lounge episode, the last that we recorded in France: Les grenouilles (the frogs) #
Something I discovered on my trip: Europe has a way different (and a much cooler) Honda Civic than North America (more here) #
Totally awesome! Wear Science’s line of “Teach the Controversy” tees invite Creationists to consider other “scientific controversies” that might be taught in school. (Man, I’m tempted to augment my wardrobe with all of these) #
A big day: Same-Sex Marriages Begin in California #
Firefox is updated automatically via my operating system (yay Ubuntu!), but I decided to download it manually just for grins and giggles: Download Day 2008 #
Man, man. Abu Ghraib Christmas (does this count as protest?) #
What a great read:
This is what the low road is like: Exams show torture of U.S.-held detainees-report #
Neat visualizations of open source software commits: code_swarm #
To read later: When It Sizzles #
This is the world we live in: at the same time that one hundred and fifty thousand Americans are fighting a very unfortunate war in Iraq, another group of Americans and their robot apparently found ice on planet Mars (and announced it via Twitter) #
NSFW: These AIDS prevention ads just won a bronze medal at Cannes (via Webb and Boing Boing) #
I’ve stumbled upon this in the past, but wanted to link to it now cause it’s such a great name: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist #
I just released the latest version of the Random Image Plugin for WordPress, now with proper support for WordPress 2.5 galleries and widget-enabled themes #
Stephanie just posted the sound of Mt. Tamalpais grass to White Noise Lounge #
OMG, I am going to listen to Oh My God by Ida Maria ALL AFTERNOON #
Ok, now this is hot: HighTech’s Ammonite concrete washbasin #
White Noise Lounge gets mad props from David Battino:
Thanks man!
Update: We are no longer updating White Noise Lounge. All the old posts have been imported into Justinsomnia. #
Expect to start seeing this at a mall near you: Lady Spins on an Escalator #
Thing I did not know:
This makes me SICK:
The best thing ever: The Website Is Down (this should win some kind of short film award) #
You stay classy, Ralph:
Bush’s gov’t gets the big FU!