Posted by banane on May 31st, 2007 — in technology
Taken on the macro setting with a Kodak v570 Dual Lens camera. Tried to do a closeup macro with fuzzy images of the proud parents in the background, but didn’t work. I love the detail on this photo- which ironically doesn’t come through very well on my MacBook but looks great on a 15″ flatscreen. [...]
I was excited about the whales potentially sailing by, so I ran out to Aquatic Park and took some movies. I thought I saw some whales cresting out near the Coast Guard boat, but the movies don’t do it justice. In fact, I can’t see anything I saw with my naked eye. So try and [...]
We went out around noon from Sausalito and then berthed in Berkeley. Then, set sail from Berkeley around 10am and met Javier at the dock at Fish! Restaurant, around 2:30PM. Tooled around the harbor there doing wacky crazy heeling, drinking beer & chips, and general crazy stuff. Then docked around 5pm. Cleaned up the boat, [...]
I just had this gut feeling yesterday morning that I didn’t want to go swimming. I wasn’t sure what it was. One friend got sick and couldn’t go, but before I could cancel it, had a discussion with another friend who was really excited, as it was her first time. So I rallied. We met [...]
Bought the Larousse Advanced French-English English-French Dictionary yesterday. God those things are expensive. I have a very troubled past with the French language. Love/hate. But I’ve gotten to a point where I need to have a French dictionary. Love Who doesn’t love the expats in the 1920s? I mean, I adore those guys. F Scott [...]
Bologna Mikey dropped his Molinaris‘ sandwich- 5 kinds of bologna layered in white French roll goodness- on his desk. He made no attempt to unwrap it. “I don’t know how you can eat at any time before or after visiting the coroner,” he said to Sosa’s general direction. Sosa looked up from his Crackberry. “I [...]
Walking out of work on Friday my carpool buddies were talking about what they were doing for Mother’s Day: a card, flowers, a phone call, an SMS, etc. My mom wanted to play golf. She’s a good player, same with my dad, and I suck. My dad was in Golfing Army, or that’s how I [...]
Eric rode the N to Montgomery then walked to North Beach. He was going to the Opera Guild’s Bravo Club. It was at some dive bar in North Beach. He found out about it from Socializr. He was stalking his ex and found out she used this new social network aggregator, so of course he [...]
Posted by banane on May 14th, 2007 — in local color
I had to interrupt this woman on her cell phone to tell her this wasn’t a yard sale. We were just cleaning. We had a free table, with stuff like… a full cat paraphenalia-scratching post, kitty litter pan, cover & rake- fireplace irons, plastic cups, oh treasures galore. It was like “flip this garage.” The [...]
Beth stared out her window. The parrots were in full percussive glory in the eucalyptus and cypress trees of Telegraph Hill. She wanted to strangle each and every one of their petite green feathered necks. Not that she hated parrots, sure she saw the movie and loved the idea, but when they were screaming in [...]