December 16, 2005
Crazy People
I'm experiencing serious blogging lameness and so cannot load the teaser image (or any image, for that matter)... you should still check out these crazy people cruising down Claremont Ave on skateboards.
UPDATE! Whatever was the problem has now resolved itself, as I have discovered during a bout of pre-trip insomnia.
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September 09, 2005
That's My Bro!
I'm clicking around cyberspace Googling grants for sustainable agriculture projects, suddenly, there's my brother on the screen.
I knew the photo was going to be in the European print Patagucci catalog--he got at least part of a surfboard out of the deal, with credit from the photo of him on the last US/Canada catalog's cover taking care of the rest--but I didn't expect to stumble upon him during the course of work.
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July 13, 2005
Hats Off
I'm suffering from knitting class withdrawal, but the upcoming vacation coincides exactly with the Hats Workshop I wanted to take, so I'll have to wait until they offer it again. Like I have the attention span for a whole sweater? No thanks, hats are more my style. (In the meantime, I'm hoping Salsa lessons will fill the I-must-be-constantly-taking-up-new-hobbies-only-to-soon-abandon-them void.)
I knit both the white one and the orange and blue one that Vanessa is modeling (ya ya ya, teacher's pet) in this photo of my classmates and our creations. Flattery gets you far with me: Terry already got the white one after admiring it. The other one was created specifically for Mahea. A very happy Un-Birthday to you!
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July 08, 2005
Photo Evidence of High Water in Yosemite
This is one of Dean's favorite boulders, as it sits in the Merced in the Fall. Since this is the best time to be in the Valley (awesome weather, no mosquitos), this is what I'm used to seeing. OK so maybe I've never seen a girl on the rock, but that's not the point I'm trying to make here:
And this is what it looked like in May? June? I don't know when the photo was taken exactly... needless to say, there are quite a few cubic feet per second going downstream.
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June 17, 2005
Playing in Traffic
Whee, infographics outsourcing! Even though Nick has but a few days before departing for Alaska with the Treasure America project, he found the time to install a site meter for me. Actually, I think he just did it as part of his campaign to trick me into babysitting Triple Pundit while he's gone...
Either way, I can now check such things as the percentage of visitors located in each time zone:
The traffic counts would be more interesting if there were some way I could exclude my own visits, but maybe this will compell me to stop being so compulsive (ha). Should you care to sample my latest distraction, click on the rainbow square thing at the very bottom of the page, or here.
While I'm babbling on about the Visitor Experience: I offer the Comment Fix to those of you who have complained about reader oppression. It's not intentional, and I'm told the trick is to Preview the comment before Posting it. That said (and the new site meter notwithstanding), I'm fairly certain that the chances of my forgetting to use discretion are inversely proportional to the number of comments posted; take your pick.
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June 03, 2005
What's the Point of a Blog?
The "Oh my it's been so long since I've blogged" sensation lies somewhere between guilt and a feeling of irresponsibility, which I realize is absurd, and so I've been musing on the point of The Blog.
Here are a few that come immediately to mind; most confirm my suspicion that this is a bizarre obsession:
--It's handy to have an uncontested soapbox (comments notwithstanding, though as far as I can tell very few people visit, much less comment on anything here)
--Reviewing and/or recommending cultural events and happenings seems to somehow prove that I actually attend such events and happenings, which for some reason seems important
--If I'm spending too much time at the computer for school or work, it makes me feel smug to do something personal with this infuriating tool (oh, the irony)
--Stirring up shit with the other bloggers is somewhat amusing, and giving Lewis space to post comments is a much quicker way to access his writing since the novel is not yet forthcoming
--It's fun to wonder whether blogging demonstrates humility and transparency, or whether it's just plain old egoistic hubris, especially given the choice of what to include...
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The King Of Bonding has requested that particular pseudonym (and insists that all words must be capitalized). It shall be so. At a more reasonable hour, I may even go back and change all previous references. If you too want a special name, let me know.
To close for tonight, a tip for those of you seeking under-age dating prospects (which serves the double purpose of proving that I went out tonight, and I might as well throw in the self-validating fact that not only did I go out tonight, I woke up in a tent in Big Basin this morning))))): attend Of Montreal concerts.
UPDATE: apparently there was some unintended ambiguity in my wee-hours post. To clarify, I did not in fact wake up in a tent this morning with any high school boys from the concert; it's been at least three years since I've dipped into that demographic. Fab Fact: lots of high school kids at a concert means that unlike many other indie rock events, the crowd actually dances!
The tent comment was in reference to a trip with fellow grad school students. Photos of Big Basin, Seadrift, and Bolinas TK.
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May 20, 2005
Zzzzzzzz
Falling asleep. Experiencing serious I'm-finally-done-with-my-MBA exhaustion. Instead of a real post, I present the avatars of two of my AudioScrobbler neighbors; tomorrow, Mt Tam and dairy farm photos.
(Ah, the things I do with my free time.)
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May 11, 2005
Daily Email Analysis
I spent almost all day writing about food, and forgetting to eat any. I'm hoping that explains the shakes, and the general lack of cognitive function. Scavenging has gotten desperate now that we've exhausted the supplies of Annie's mac & cheese, ramen, frozen potstickers, and granola...
Fortunately I've got Excel muscle memory. Inspired by Feltron's much more aesthetically pleasing infographics, I present this pie chart of the day's emails. This was an uncharacteristically heavy email day, and yes, I've gone completely bonkers.
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May 09, 2005
On Your Right, Observe the Wi-Fi Addicts
From my barstool perch at Maxfield's, I observed five tour busses (in as many hours) cruise up Dolores and take a right on 17th. I'm guessing they're on their way to the Castro from downtown? The tourists inside were certainly gawking at us geeks, but I doubt that's an official part of the tour...
Random factoid: according to the Delocator, there are 82 indie coffee shops within five miles of 94114, and only 74 Starbucks. We win!
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May 02, 2005
Excuse Me, Has Harold Budd Lived Here?
In the April issue, Wired Magazine reviewed Avalon Sutra, Harold Budd’s latest (and apparently final) recording. Accompanying the review was this photograph:
...and I’ve convinced myself that the ambient pianist is sitting in front of this awesome house:
...which I must have driven past and admired from a distace at least a hundred times en route from the Gordon Ranch (where I spent two winters living in squalor amongst masses of ornery climbers) to Joshua Tree National Park.
Google won't produce any evidence that Mr. Budd lived in that particular house, though this interview confirms that a colleague of his lived in Joshua Tree at some point; I’m willing to take that as proof enough, and let "glare" explain why the blue part of the house to appears washed out in the top photo. The angled doorway kind of gives it away, don’t you think? Fine then, it's settled.
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