4-27, world is flat- duh!

Posted by banane on April 10th, 2006 — in technology

4-27
Once in a while a date sticks out as the “overbooked” day. 4/27 is one, and this upcoming Wednesday is another. Why, oh Gods of Scheduling, does this happen? What is so special about that Thursday, and this Wednesday? Hmmm.
world is flat- duh!
Office mate’s friend has quit software engineering in Hydrabad, India (my spelling sorry [...]

Lovely Day, For Sale, Movie Update: The Bad Plus

Posted by banane on April 8th, 2006 — in chinesemovie, local color

Lovely Day
It is absolutely friggin gorgeous out today. Saw a small regatta out there in front of the Marina doing their thing. Not sure if it’s a race, or a class. Swimmers were taking advantage of the nice weather, at Aquatic Park. The tourists are just swarming around every possible corner too. Finally they can [...]

Politics: I love harry taylor

Posted by anna on April 7th, 2006 — in Uncategorized

photo from crooks & liars
from whitehouse.gov
read originally on crooks & liars
The comments here are funny.
”
Q I’ve got the mike.
THE PRESIDENT: Okay, yes, very good. (Laughter and applause.) Good move.
Q You never stop talking about freedom, and I appreciate that. But while I listen to you talk about freedom, I see you assert your right [...]

Location, location, location

Posted by banane on April 6th, 2006 — in local color

Hidden and Weird Locations in SF
Friend pointed me to this Flickr stream that ended up inspiring this group to use it as a location for Rent, an old Amtrak Station. And with that great sibling rivalry (We are better than Oakland!) I will go on a foray to find cool secret, hidden locations.
- there [...]

Sinophile post - those tourists!

Posted by banane on April 5th, 2006 — in china, local color

I’m walking out of my favorite lunch spot - Columbus Cafe - where I devoured a really yummy schwerma, and saw this phenomenon that occurs about every week here. A huge tour bus of mainland Chinese swarm around me. The tour guide was pointing them up Lombard (from kind of an odd angle, from the [...]

Rain, Fire, and Movie URL

Posted by banane on April 4th, 2006 — in chinesemovie, local color

my old apt, burned (credit to igmom)
Rain and Fire
Realizing while driving to work today through really sodden streets downtown, that it’s not El Nino, no, it’s Global Warming! The rain is getting me down. At least I’m not experiencing the high winds and buckets of rain on the Bay Bridge like I was, back in [...]

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