Official conference site I think I’m going to sign up to go to this conference on Accelerating Change at Stanford in early November. It’s only $350 if I sign up before September 30, and $300 if I take advantage of the discount listed here. Looks like it could be pretty interesting – some potentially interesting […]
Category: events
Extreme Democracy at Future Salon
I went to the Future Salon on Extreme Democracy last week. Some really interesting stuff was discussed. The Future Salon weblog has a full description with links, so I’ll just add my couple thoughts. I really really like what Zack Rosen is doing over at CivicSpace. By making it easier for grass roots groups to […]
Political training with Democracy for America
Democracy for America is the political action committee started by supporters of Howard Dean to represent “the Democratic wing of the Democratic party”. I happened to hear of a training course they were doing on political campaigns in conjunction with 21st Century Democrats. Given my recent interest in politics, I was curious, so I signed […]
Circus Contraption
Last Friday, I went to see Circus Contraption based on the strong recommendation of a friend of mine. I like circuses. Unfortunately, I ended up being disappointed by Circus Contraption. Part of it was that the last circus I’d seen had been the 7 fingers circus, which was phenomenal. Part of it was that the […]
Greg Maddux wins his 300th game
Greg Maddux of the Chicago Cubs won his 300th game yesterday. And I was there (page on another site because I have more disk space for pictures on that one).
The French Laundry
Last week, my friend Wilfred said “Hey, are you interested in going to the French Laundry on Sunday?” I said, “Um, the best restaurant in the country (and, some say, the world) French Laundry? The one where you have to call two months in advance to dine, and even then you have to be lucky […]
Word Wars
Official movie site I’ve been a big fan of Andrew Chaikin for a long time. He’s an amazing vocal percussionist who I first saw performing with the House Jacks, but now does a variety of independent stuff. I’m on his email announcement list, so I get a heads up of all the neat and cool […]
Jaron Lanier
I’ve been a big fan of Jaron Lanier since I first heard him talk several years ago at Stanford. So when I read that he was going to be speaking at the Bay Area Future Salon, I made sure to be there. Really interesting stuff. I’ll try to preserve the flavor of the talk by […]
Talk by Paul Saffo
A couple weeks ago, I went to a talk by Paul Saffo down at Xerox PARC. I knew very little about Paul Saffo, other than that he was a well-known futurist, but I had heard good references to him in enough places that I wanted to see what he had to say. So I went. […]
7 Fingers circus
Every year, the Circus Center of San Francisco puts on a circus show around the holidays. I always read about it, and then never end up going. Usually, it’s a production of the New Pickle Circus, their in-house performing troupe, but this year, they invited a group called les 7 voigts de la main, or […]
