Just for the record, Stephanie is not a hermaphrodite… I have a boy pipi! #
At the Ferry Building Farmers Market
The mini spoonula It’s a small 7″ spatula in a spoon shape, perfect for scrambled eggs and lots of other things. You can find it as part of a set from Williams Sonoma. I got it in my Christmas stocking…
I don’t know why it took me nearly a year to make myself a salad for lunch. Clearly the salad bar at Rincon Market just wasn’t as sexy as exploring all the new lunch options available in San Francisco after…
…I mean, if I was Hugh Hefner. The Kamado ceramic barbecue grill
Have you ever wanted to write a plugin that sits between a request for a WordPress page (or post) and the fulfillment of that request? In order to do so, use the pre_get_posts action hook which passes a WP Query…
Audio from Bit Shifter‘s cover of Weezer’s song, The World Has Turned And Left Me Here, used with permission. Thanks Josh! This video was developed using my old Canon SD400, a tripod, CHDK running this time lapse script, FFmpeg, Audacity,…
Essentially there are two ways to make a time-lapse video, regardless of the tool. I chose FFmpeg because it was easy to use, and available on Ubuntu. From Video With the first, you take an existing video, recorded at 25…
Why would I want to do this? As much as I use and enjoy services like YouTube, Vimeo, and Flickr, I’ve never been a big fan of entrusting my content to large, centralized, corporate services. Yes they’re here today, yes…
On Wednesday night our veggie box arrived with 6-8 small yellow squash and zucchinis. That motivated Stephanie to want to make a pizza, so she set to work on a homemade dough while I went to the store and bought…
Some fun pics from Kyle’s 30th birthday. Yeah, that’s Shaft on the TV. And Pong on the Atari. It was a 70s-themed party. Complete with Swedish meatballs, rumaki, and a jello-mold in the shape of a fish. Viva 1979!
I still cannot believe Stephanie made a cheese that looks so utterly professional
Most people know Lombard Street as the “the crookedest street in the world”, but it’s also a major thoroughfare for US-101 traffic going to and from the Golden Gate Bridge. Given that I started my California life in the North…
I splurged. Finally. New camera arrived on Friday, just in time for our camping trip to Pinnacles this weekend.
I skipped out of work a little early on Friday and drove down to Pinnacles National Monument with Stephanie and Marcia for a two night camping excursion. Let me just say, what a difference leaving on Friday makes to a…
The primary reason that I held off on purchasing a DSLR for so long was the weight. So I was curious. With the battery and the DA 35mm lens, how much does this hunk of camera weigh? Two pounds and…
Tipped over truck on Taylor between Pine and California this morning. My favorite detail: the ticket under the windshield wiper. Previously: “I guess we took that corner too fast…”
I just finished reading two similarly titled books, A Year in Provence, and A Pig in Provence. The former is a bestselling classic of travel literature, chronicling the events that comprise the life of a British couple’s first year after…
Just for the record, Stephanie is not a hermaphrodite… I have a boy pipi! #
This sounds like fun: California Pentax K-7 Tour, in San Francisco Sunday, August 9th
Attendees will be able to try out the K-7 along with an assortment of PENTAX glass. Meet and greet with other photographers and enter to win a K-7. One camera body will be given away at each event.
Useful resource: FFmpeg x264 encoding guide
Also, Mark Pilgrim’s A gentle introduction to video encoding, part 1: container formats and part 2: lossy video codecs #
Impressed nearly everyone at work with the one thing I remember from Computer Science: Short-circuit evaluation #
And I thought our cheese cave was impressive: Architectural Plans for Creamery #
Ha. Neologism of the day: Flickr Gets A SearchLift #
The Big Picture on Greenland:
Maybe it’s just that I’m using WinXP in Parallels on a Mac, but you have got to be kidding me:
I’m just trying to install Flash! On IE7! And I need to download 2 tools to edit the registry! Gah. #
To all my NC peeps: A friend of my brothers growing up is now Chef De Cuisine at Revolution in Durham, check it out for me #
I appear to have a thing for paintings of avocados: Cut Avocado #
I’m not a big fan of the genre of “band photos” but this one of a band I don’t even know is really really good: Leather Feather #
Possible restaurant in the Mission worth checking out: The Corner #
The concept of Google working on a new search engine is so foreign to me, given that what they do have is so far ahead of anything else out there, I don’t even know how to parse this:
Whoa, this is pretty sick: Laser + Sound test-0 (via Visda) #
Just updated my Copy as HTML Link extension for Firefox with a cool new feature: now you can right-click on any link and use Copy as HTML Link to copy the link text and destination together as an HTML link. It’s super handy for copying blog post titles along with their permalinks. #
This is amazing: The Longest Way (time-lapse travelogue) #
Bringing back Keats: Bright Star #
This is worth reading: The Theora Cookbook (Theora is a royalty-free, open standard, lossy video compression technology) #
Dinner at El Bulli: The Comic Book in 30 courses! #
On my list of things to pre-buy for future children: Food Face Kid’s Dinner Plate #
I love it when memes come together: Crasher Squirrel is the new Dramatic Chipmunk #
To watch later: Student Reporter Damon Weaver Interviews President Barack Obama #
I tend to prefer my laptop sticker-free, but these are pretty cool: free “Powered by Ubuntu” and “Ubuntu key” stickers
Also, there’s the Mixed Ubuntu Sticker Sheet #
URL of the day: insanewiches.com #
Great article: An Unexpected Ally’s Road to Championing Same-Sex Marriage, and yet I don’t agree with Olson’s central premise:
…marriage [is] an essential component of happiness…
Love it: urban homesteading #
I love the backgrounds: The Little Zoo #
I think the back cover pretty much sums it up: Rework: Unveiling the cover #
A possible alternative to Shutterfly? Mpix (where do you get your photos printed?) #
Next project: Timbuk2 Camera Bag Hack Kit How-To #
I. Love. It. Tech Support Cheat Sheet #
Ha! Look who just got here! Capucha and Capucine! (the world is small) #
This is neat: a wood-fired pizza oven in Brooklyn #
To read later: Demystifying the Piaggio MP3 #
FM Engineering lunch, annotated. #
Was thinking a pedometer-triggered time-lapse would be a pretty cool project, and just stumbled upon this Every Step art project #
Neat blog: Food in Jars (all about canning) #