The company I work for moved offices last week down to South San Francisco. It makes my commute a little longer, coming from Oakland, but there are certain advantages. For one, there’s easy free parking. For another, I have a window in my cubicle that looks out over the bay. Check out the photos to […]
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Chorus on KQED’s Spark
For those of you wonder what happens at all those mysterious rehearsals I go to for the chorus I sing with, KQED, the local PBS channel, has a show about the arts called Spark, which recently profiled the chorus, showing us preparing for our rendition of Faure’s Requiem. It’s a nice little 10-minute piece giving […]
All cultured and stuff…
I was in London last week and used it as an opportunity to reacquaint myself with the artwork of JMW Turner, a British artist that I learned about the last time I was in England. In particular, I love his use of light and dark in his paintings. While wandering through the National Gallery, I […]
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 […]
Mountain vs. road biking
I went out for a bike ride this morning. My normal route these days is to head out up and over the Piedmont hill, down to Montclair, and then up Snake Road up to Skyline. This is close to an hour of climbing for me (although I’m getting better). After that, then I bike around […]
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 […]
Power’s out
San Francisco had a major power outage this evening. I was initially unaware of it, because I was riding BART on my way to tonight’s performance of the Messiah with the chorus. The first I heard of it was when we stopped at the Montgomery BART station and the operator said “We’re not stopping at […]
A talk by Peter Schwartz
After missing the talk by Brian Eno last month, I really wanted to see the next talk in the Long Now series. The December talk was by Peter Schwartz, a well-known futurist and business strategist. Schwartz was a co-founder of Global Business Network, a consulting company that uses scenario planning, a strategy of exploring possible […]
Buying media
As sort of a semi-pre-Christmas present to myself, I went a little bit nuts in buying media for myself this weekend. Here’s the sum total for y’all’s entertainment. I ordered some stuff from Amazon: Crossing the Chasm, by Geoffrey A. Moore (because all of our marketing people at work are talking about the chasm, so […]
