September 2009
123 posts
It’s full on fall at 10,700 feet →
I went hiking this morning in the Sandia Mountains with Valerie’s family. More shots here. The tram was shut down due to it being Tuesday (unlucky) but we drove to the top and it…
Day 4: Van Horn, TX →
I dropped the dead weight in Albuquerque (she’s already home safely) after our hiking adventures this morning. So had plenty of room to stretch while driving solo south through New…
Ridge shadows →
More from my San Francisco to Boston set.
Watchtower →
Day 3: Albuquerque, NM →
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Tonight I…
Drippy →
Oysters at my last dinner in San Francisco (at the Cliff House).
Day 2: Grand Canyon, AZ →
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They Will Hate Us, Live on Pipeline! WMBR, 88.1,... →
Day 1: Las Vegas, NV →
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Vegas…
Day 0: San Francisco, CA →
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Things…
High deductibles suck →
B&B is suffering from a smashed side mirror situation.
I’ve heard of this problem in the neighborhoods of Brighton and Allston, and have seen rows of parked cars in the morning with…
Jell-O-ephemera: San Francisco Cityscape... →
Artist Liz Hickok makes your Friday complete with a Jell-O San Francisco, from this jiggly Palace of Fine Arts to a melting Marina. Melding the blurry, children’s book perspective of…
Negative value. →
Everything heavy or bulky in my life right now is a liability. I’ve been executing a great purge over the last few weeks which brought me down to a somewhat reasonable subset of crap I…
Me? →
Continued thanks to CNSMHB for the string of free Staba breakfasts. Forever!!
Our Robo-Port Overlords →
But while military robots come with a sharply enhanced risk of rebellion and subsequent enslavement, it’s hard to see them as pushing the production frontier outwards.
Sustainable mug (aka, smug) →
Apparently there was free breakfast grub this morning at Allston Café for early-risers (of which I am not).
Nature’s Path, North America’s leading organic cereal manufacturer, and Allston Café…
37SIGNALS VALUATION TOPS $100 BILLION →
In order to determine the valuation of companies, Bhatnagar typically applies the following formula: [(Twitter followers x Facebook fans) + (# of employees x 1000)] x (RSS subscribers + daily page…
Gettin’ smashed →
Time for crime! (he rhymes.) Kind words in the Weekly Dig addressed to “Dear asshat Allston party-goer”…
That’s right, if you’re the cum-waste who threw the heavy construction…
Status check →
Too much stuff left. And I don’t know how to get the couch downstairs.
Cyborg beetle →
In the open access journal Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, a team of electrical engineers led by Hirotaka Sato of the University of California, Berkeley, report the development of an…
PRC PhotoSLAM @ Wonder Bar →
From Beaupix -
Photographic Resource Center is hosting another round of PhotoSLAM! at the Wonder Bar this week. I just got an email confirmation that my 5 pictures are in this event….
A little preview →
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This is…
This is not my office. →
Announcing Picasa 3.5, now with name tags, better... →
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Pre-flickr geotagging. :)
Picasa 3.5 also has integrated Google Maps to make geotagging even easier. Now you can add location info to photos — one photo at a time or several…
Yetis vote for Change! →
If you haven’t voted for D-9 City Councillor yet (and HM suspects you haven’t) I’m completely comfortable recommending making your choice based entirely on insta-psychoanalysis of choice…
Election Day reports →
Menino himself was about ten feet from the entrance to the polling station, handing out coffee and donuts.
There is no way you could possibly enter the polling station without being approached and…
Ask a Physicist's Dog →
To mark the pre-anniversary, Emmy has decided to use social media to showcase her physics knowledge: She’s answering physics questions on Twitter. Post a question, tag it #dogphysics, and…
The Colours of U2 →
Green, red and blue.
Curtain to fall on a Somerville art space? →
Singer-songwriter Audrey Ryan certainly thought so. “It would be tragic if I had to give up my space,” she said, sitting amid couches, an upright piano, a drum kit, and tattered Persian rugs. “It’s a…
Bummer Burnt Brownies →
Today was my last day of full freedom in San Francisco – I’ll be working off and on this week then skipping town next Saturday to parts unknown. I didn’t make any progress and have pretty…
Everything (and everyone) sits on the floor. →
Table #2 is gone today. Four chairs left yesterday.
Thirty bands? →
That’s ambitious for a Sunday. Allston Village Street Fair, today, right now, details here. Bacchus King (above) closes it out on the main stage.
East Coast Bound! →
Russian River Damnation →
We took a vote and it was unanimous, the blog needs more beer POTDs.
Video Dating →
Please be careful on your roofs & balconies. →
Babur Khalique, dead at 23 after falling from an apartment at Walbridge and Commonwealth. No details on alcohol or other contributing factors but regardless if I can generalize – hanging…
The Facebook commandments. →
I noticed that she was friends with about a dozen of my friends and that she was my homonym. For those of us with obscure, highly foreign, or otherwise odd names, this is no joke. I also sensed that…
To the Sunset! →
Linda Mishkin’s excellent series continues, most recently interviewing Marc Kadish of Sunset Bar & Grill.
On picking his location-
A broker told me of a good deal in Allston where…
New rubber, new road →
I single-handedly am keeping the tire installers of San Bruno in business.
An Interim Heavy-Hitter →
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yes.
Over at main TP the boss has an intriguing suggestion. Instead of just giving the temporary MA Senate gig to placeholder, why not give it to someone who could really…
Ciommo, green? →
In response to Harry Mattison’s questioning of Mark Ciommo’s qualifications for the MA Sierra Club endorsement, I thought I’d put it to him directly. Here’s the response from his campaign.
- In…
Whisperings of a plot begin to emerge →
I’m putting out a request for companionship from Albuquerque, NM to Austin, TX via Big Bend National Park, starting on September 29th. Successful completion of this stage will be…
Mostly, I’m going to miss the park. →
Some more from Golden Gate Park.
Bad engagement photos →
We’ll make terrible music together until the day we die.
Spooner's Dilemma →
How we celebrate around here. →
Accepted the new job today…
I'mma Let You Finish →
Left turn →
The days are getting shorter – the sky was very purple/black on my way home tonight.
Very Important Pixels →
Gotta know ‘em all
Twitter →
http://twitpic.com/hrudr - My heart is broken because a coyote took my precious Daisy right in front of our eyes.
