Campfire quesadillas

Build up a good pile of glowing red embers in the fire pit. If you’re lucky, you might be able to fuel the fire almost entirely with half-burned charcoal logs scavenged from nearby, unoccupied campsites. Put four handmade corn tortillas…

Take me out to the ballpark

While my brother Matthew was in town last month, he took me and Stephanie out to a SF Giants game. I can’t even remember the last time I attended a baseball game (perhaps the Durham Bulls back in NC?), but…

Commute loop

Living in the Mission, working in Union Square, and bicycling between the two means I get to work in about 12 minutes. I’m pretty sure it’s the fastest commute I’ve ever had, and it’d probably be even faster if it…

High Sierra camping with Matthew

My brother’s visit in July afforded us the rare opportunity to go backpacking together, just the two of us. He’s not done much camping, and I’ve never been backpacking in bear country, so to ease our apprehension, I booked us…

Prints of paintings of my photos

So I’m browsing the shops along Valencia Saturday afternoon when I stumble upon some prints of Eric Rewitzer’s paintings of my container ship photos. The print on the right is one of my favorites—his rendition really transforms the photo I…

Rim Fire in context

I stumbled upon this interesting map from the Modesto Bee which Jeff Jardine linked to from his column, What’s new is old again as Tuolumne blaze revisits old scars. It’s a map I’d not seen published elsewhere, so I thought…

Hi, my name is QR Code, I’ll be your server today

No, it’s not my QR code, but I thought it was an intriguing application of the technology. Did we use it? No, we walked up to the counter like normal people. So what does the QR code encode? Good question:…

Colors of San Francisco

Racial Dot Map of San Francisco (source) Got a lot of enjoyment out of this article in Wired, The Best Map Ever Made of America’s Racial Segregation.