PG&E crews have been tearing up the streets in our ‘hood for a good five or six months now. Seems there was this federal grant that PG&E was sitting on, and even though they declared bankruptcy, the fed insisted that the work get done or the money get returned. It has been great for Ryder, [...]
A few months back, the History Channel focused one of their fx-driven episodes of Mega Disasters on Volcanic Winter. The concept is terrifying, but seemingly far fetched: I mean, what are the odds of a massive volcano erupting in our lifetime? And if it does, we could always find a way to pull through. Right?
But [...]
Today being Monday, it was Toyota Prius day in the parking lot of Whole Foods SoMa. Tuesday is Mini Cooper Day, Wednesday is BMW day, and the rest of the week is a mish-mash.
On the way in we spotted a black Prius with the following license plate:
There is discussion in our house as to whether [...]
My friend Sarah recently posted the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you looksmart or well-rounded. She issued a challenge to “Bold the ones you’ve read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish.” [...]
I guess I’ve never really looked too deeply into Kenny Loggins’ eyes before, but when did he become Ethan Hawke’s evil (albeit older) twin?
The sports talk radio shows, columns and blogosphere all took time today to focus on the USGA’s 18-hole playoff system for the US Open. I drove over the Bay Bridge to a meeting in Oakland and back again, listening to Gary Radnich, Jim Rome, and Dan Patrick on all of their respective shows tackle [...]
It is extremely difficult to not focus on outcome in a sport that is so incredibly outcome oriented. I went out to Lincoln today to plunk down my money and play 9 holes, more if the course was moving quickly. I figured that anyone interested in golf who had the free time would be watching [...]
Why is it that smoke detectors only start emitting their high-pitched, ear-piercing “low battery” warning beeps in the middle of the night? I cannot recall a single smoke detector that ever started BEEP!!!ing at me at a “decent” hour. Always in the middle of my sleep cycle, never mid-afternoon, or during breakfast, or even while [...]
The initial success I achieved on the golf course with Gallwey’s inner game techniques have me all fired up to get out and play more. I’m probably not going to be able to get in a round of any kind before next week, but I did manage to set aside an hour to hit the [...]
The phone which earns me a 15% discount by not being used got a call today. This is an oddity, because no-one knows that number, not even me. The phone usually just occupies space on the Shelf of Discarded Technology(c)(tm), but I recently charged it so that Ryder could play with it.
When answered, there was [...]