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March 9th, 2007 San Francisco

The recent long silence here has been due to a move to a new apartment. We are the tan box on the corner, there across the street:

We were greeted by a fair sized earthquake the night of our move in. We’re on a big old rock of a hill on the border of Noe Valley and the Castro, so I’m not so much worried about quakes. The poor saps in the Marina, or SOMA, being built on land-fill are pretty much screwed in big quakes, though.

We just got net access last night, so I have an outrageous amount of feed reading to do - or maybe I’ll just “mark all as read” and start over.

Anyway, more to come on the move and other stuff to come.

(Photo via mimi @ flickr .)

iPhone

January 11th, 2007 San Francisco, osx

For something you can only look at in a glass case, it’s really, really cool.

car d’or

August 1st, 2006 San Francisco, bike

Well, I guess it is a rite of passage for any urban bike commuter to have a car (in this case, a taxi) door open into your path. I got off EXTREMELY easy.

I was slowly making my way through stopped traffic at Market and New Montgomery when the passenger side of the taxi started to open. Luckily for me, I was going very slow, and the door opened very slowly as well.

I had enough time to holler out “Woah!!” (my midwestern roots showing in the big city, i guess), and I slow motion bonked into the door, and tipped into the curb and against the BART/MUNI escalator wall.

I gave the young woman a LONG stare and said “BE CAREFUL NEXT TIME - OKAY?”

And I rode away telling myself the exact same thing.

Bring Your Own Big Wheel 2006

April 16th, 2006 San Francisco, random

Wonderful silliness today in San Francisco with the annual Bring Your Own Big Wheel race down Lombard St - the most crooked street in the world. There was just enough rain to make it somewhat dangerous. We missed the first race but had a great view of the last two. The sun came out. There was a rainbow. A good time was had by all - near as I could tell

More pics at Flickr: My Set - Flickr tag byobw

PILLOWFIGHT!

February 3rd, 2006 San Francisco

Pillow Fight in San Francisco!