I devoted 15 minutes to lap pool swimming yesterday. I had biked, done a circuit, and had another biking in front of me (though only 1.7 miles). It was tough swimming because it’s so *boring*. It’s really hard to go back to indoor pools when you’ve been in open water. It’s just more convenient, with [...]
Working on a cross-over dress with lining. w00t! Crafts, as a newly unemployed, fill the void somewhat. Or at least postpones the inevitable job-searching! BTW I’m free for lunches.
When I was 16, I wanted to be a seamstress. I thought my life would be perfect if i got a small Victorian in downtown San Jose [...]
I had a job I detested once, my first SF job “landed,” as I shelved my airline bag after commuting to Seattle every week for years. I took a pay cut, and didn’t care about who I interviewed with, just happy that I wasn’t commuting. My commute was a walk from North Beach to downtown, [...]
Workout playlist for my sister, Jenny, in Baltimore. Includes: cheesy, danceable hip hop, with some fast indie stuff thrown in. Enjoy! Buy inline with iTunes, or click on the sampler on Amazon. Amazon songs work in iTunes fine.
First, hip hop warmup:
“Yeah!”, by Usher, Ludacris, Lil’ John, on iTunes
“Glamorous”, by Fergie, iTunes
“The Way I Are”, Timbaland, [...]
I’m experimenting with various little user interface effects from Scriptaculous (hence the working weekend in the title). Try them out!
Demo Effects Page
I spent about a month getting my drag & drop to work using some code from a German guy, and here I could have used Scriptaculous to do it. I’m not sure it woudl [...]
I felt like writing an old-fashioned blog post. The photo above is another one from the Cooper-Molera adobe in Monterey. It’s architecturally a blend of Mexican/Californian and New England. Like Cape Cod meets Baja.
I’m doing a million things, and doing nothing. Moving in molasses. I have an article due for MarketingProfs, and two big code [...]
I toured the gardens of the Cooper-Molera family Adobe in downtown Monterey last weekend. It’s always neat to me to think of the pre-American past of California. The Coopers, despite their Anglo name, were half Californios from Mexico/of Spanish descent. Cooper was a captain who married Vallejo’s daughter in former capital of California, Monterey. Cooper [...]
Sitting at Grand Cafe on Thursday night with a visitor in town, we were in the corner booth, and she asked me what kind of social lives were in the City. Her English is usually quite good but she just got off of a long flight and was wiped on the 26th awake hour of [...]
I cleaned out my bookshelf, dusted off some old books I have kept around but haven’t read. Namely, Howards End (no apostrophe, just discovered that).
I really enjoy the website GoodReads, and hope Annaboka will someday be as useful. One of the reviews on there of Howard’s End lauds the third chapter as the best chapter [...]
Someone I don’t know that well, but moved to North Beach right around when I did, Jackson West, has been blogging about North Beach on Curbed SF. He says,
On a bad day, it’s like living in an off-brand corner of Disneyland. On a good day, reading Frank Norris in a claw-foot tub older than your [...]
Shared an image: Lunch in north beach
Wednesday at 16:33
someone added a few veritical blocks to Russian HIll, I swear
Wednesday at 16:33
Favorited Gillian Welch – Dear Someone
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