How to Make a Scavenger Hunt

Posted by banane on December 29th, 2011 — in games

(Scavenger hunt being: urban food & pub crawl with historical and local notes) Team Berkeley caught near the end of San Francisco, Upper Polk Hunt 2011 1. Pick a neighborhood. It’s pedestrian, it’s got lots of businesses close by, and it’s got “character,” that is, some identifying historical or local traditions. 2. Walk the neighborhood. [...]

Christmas Traditions

Posted by banane on December 24th, 2011 — in nostalgia

The new “city visit” tradition with sister & kids & friends I’m a Christmas baby. The other day, I had a conversation with my older sister Amy, who was 5 when I was born, about my mom having me. She already had 4 kids, Christmas was 4 days away. She was sick with the flu. [...]

Xcode 4 and Assigning Tab Bar Item View Controllers

Posted by banane on December 13th, 2011 — in iphone dev

I ran into this last night- I used the sample from Xcode 4, “tab bar application.” I wanted to solve this problem I was having- I was assigning a UITableViewController to one of my Tab Bar Items, but I got a crash each time, with “retavalue” and “numberOfSections.” No matter how I set it up, [...]

Penelope Trunk’s Skewed Perceptions of the World, part 2

Posted by banane on December 11th, 2011 — in feminism, technology

As usual, Penelope Trunk is fanning the flames and creating controversy (Part 1 is here). Her latest is in TechCrunch, Stop Telling Women to Start Start-ups (ironically linked to by a female start-up CEO friend of mine). If you don’t know P. Trunk, she had a blog 10 years ago about job-hunting (based on her [...]

In Search of My Grandmother’s Silver

Posted by banane on December 3rd, 2011 — in nostalgia

In helping my parents downsize, I took their silver off their hands. It’s the same stuff I used to have to polish as a kid, and I remember doing that, lazy circles with a rag on a coffee pot we rarely used. So awkward now in my modern apartment, these old silver set and the [...]