Jane switched into her tennis shoes and hiked 10 blocks of sheer cliff, up Russian Hill via Pacific Ave, with the setting sun’s glare smack in her face. She had her iPod on but still couldn’t tune out conversations in her head from her manager, about how she couldn’t get weekends off to take classes [...]
Some friends of mine are taking adult swim classes- whenever I read that on the calendar I think: do you have to wear pasties and G-strings? No, no no. It’s all very nice and mellow, about seven folks in their 30s with an instructor, in the 5ft. part of the Y, late at night on [...]
Posted by banane on March 25th, 2007 — in about writing
I feel like that house there. These are the writing commitments I have put on my plate. french translation of iMurder storyboard and screenplay of iMurder one post a day for sf.metblogs.com location movies for iMurder workblog: may move to 1 post a week random thoughts on banane.com It’s all stuff I *want* to do. [...]
Posted by banane on March 22nd, 2007 — in about writing
Rare photo of a person- me, on site at American Express, Scottsdale, 2 years ago. They had the best landscaping (raw desert) around their building and I’d always go take photos around sunset. The infamous “slipping on a square foot of desert floor my first day and falling on a cactus” story is from here. [...]
Posted by banane on March 19th, 2007 — in nostalgia
The mule on the left is Mistletoe. She carried 100lbs of his photography equipment. He did carry 50lbs, but let’s just say she’s the unsung heroes of those great Yosemite shots. Doing some trivia sleuthing for a friend, and couldn’t really find anything trivial about A. Adams. My favorite photography trivia is actually about Edward [...]
Posted by banane on March 14th, 2007 — in technology
Lately I’ve had one or two things crap out on me: camera namely, car as usual, old laptop (replaced with MacBook yay!), TV (replaced but sitll need to hook w/ computer). New Canon camera died, in my purse with a small thermos full of coffee, that was leaking (made in china), and thus demolished my [...]
Posted by banane on March 11th, 2007 — in local color
5:50 AM: Hear the adorable voices of my niece and nephew in the other room playing cars. They had been up for an hour. 6:30: First cup of coffee 6:35-7:30: Read 2 chapters of A Little Princess. After Captain Crewe dies of “business troubles, and influenza,” explain terms: diamond mines, poverty, orphans, and “how could [...]
Posted by banane on March 9th, 2007 — in local color
I love that photo. Took the Cable Car to John Barleycorn last night around 6:45 and it was the warmest twilight ever. Took a ton of fuzzy photos of Grace Cathedral, then turned to the expensive, affluent, but non-photographed side of Nob Hill and took this one. I didn’t know until I previewed it on [...]
So I usually loaf over to the Kiwi‘s desk at work and stare at his poster of a Maori rugby team- he offers some Kiwiisms- or we “get a cuppa” meaning the same conversation but standing next to the coffee maker. Yesterday, all of that random hanging-out time was justified. He asked me offhand what [...]
Me and my co-volunteers have been working our little hearts out on this big networking event Wednesday. So check it out- the CANWOW party at the Bubble Lounge Wednesday 5:30-8pm. Email rsvp@sfwow.org if you want free admittance. If you’re a woman in tech and you’re looking for a job, or just wondering what’s out there, [...]