Cinemark buys Century

December 2, 2006 – 7:57 pm

Cynthia and I noticed this last night when we went to see Happy Feet (fun movie, but see Liz’s comments.) We walked in to the theater at the end of a car ad. Bummer.

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Are you glad we don’t take Ayn Rand seriously around here?

November 28, 2006 – 9:03 pm

Cynthia forwarded a post by Markos Moulitsas Zúniga (Kos) on Bill O’Reilly’s latest snit about San Francisco Values:

Since O’Reilly boycotts everything he hates, I look forward to his boycott of all Bay Area-origin products. Same with every conservative who bashes San Francisco and the Bay Area. So no iPods or anything Apple. No HP computers. [...]

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Okay, now it’s getting out of hand

November 26, 2006 – 8:15 pm

From twitter: At Ritual Coffee, the hand-crafted sign by the register now reads, Please, no blogging in line.

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Let’s Go Fre-mont (clap, clap, clapclapclap)

November 6, 2006 – 10:28 pm

Tuesday’s other big news: the Oakland A’s expected to announce they’re buying 143 acres in Fremont, California (about 20 miles south of Oakland Coliseum).

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Stolen Plates

October 15, 2006 – 11:21 pm

Someone stole the personalized plate from Dori Smith’s car. She’d like it back, please.

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End of an Era

September 14, 2006 – 11:28 pm

Today is Chuq Von Rospach’s last day at Apple. He’s been with the company for nearly 18 years, so has seen everything from the Mac Plus to the Mac Pro. With all of his insider knowledge and expertise, we’ll have to rent another building just for all the people it’ll take to replace him. Thanks [...]

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Skywriting over Silicon Valley

August 29, 2006 – 3:52 pm

Skywriting

Originally uploaded by whump.

Whoever pulled this off, just made my day.

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Google WiFi Goes Live in Mountain View

August 15, 2006 – 11:08 pm

I’d love to have had posted this from Google’s city-wide WiFi network, but I can’t get a signal from my yard. And I felt silly enough walking up and down my block looking for the network ID to show up on my PowerBook.

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Sandbox and Strangelove: hAtom in Wordpress

August 7, 2006 – 12:18 am

I hung out in the back of the hall at Wordcamp, adding hAtom support to the default Wordpress theme.

Photo credit: Scott Beale (Laughing Squid)

I showed my work to Bill Lazar, who told me that Scott Allan Wallick’s new theme, Sandbox, available for Wordpress.com blogs, has hAtom baked in.
Well, that makes my work, Strangelove, v0.1, superfluous.
You [...]

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@ Wordcamp

August 5, 2006 – 9:12 am

I’m at Wordcamp, up in the City today. Look for the greying guy in the black aloha shirt.

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Blogher 06: People

July 30, 2006 – 9:44 pm

A couple of long days (running from 8am to 11pm) at the San Jose Hyatt (which looks a bit like the late, lamented Hyatt Rickey’s) for Blogher.
Met many people, and a non-exhaustive list would include:

Elizabeth Perry
She’s a technologist in Pittsburgh, a heavy duty city for technology (CMU, and the steel mills that paid for CMU,) [...]

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Blogher

July 26, 2006 – 11:45 pm

Cyn and I are going to Blogher in San José this Friday and Saturday. Friday is the technical track, and I’m looking forward to Susan Kitchen’s talk on podcasting. Saturday’s the social/practice track. Don’t worry Grace, you’ll run circles around Huffington at the keynote.
My plan for the conference is to listen and learn. And if [...]

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Nashville Peaches

June 4, 2006 – 9:18 pm

Cyn and I went up to the City today to see a “battle of the surf bands show” at the Hotel Utah. We brought back a stack of CDs from the selection the bands were selling. One of them, Pollo Del Mar’s Year of the Rooster, had a cover of Frank Zappa’s jazz-rock anthem Peaches [...]

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Warbirds

June 3, 2006 – 4:12 pm

There were three WWII bombers visiting Moffett Field this weekend.
You’re looking at the port side engine of a B-25J Mitchell.
The B-25’s not as famous as the B-17 and B-24, however, they were used in Jimmy Doolittle’s famous raid on Tokyo, and blasted the hell out of Imperial Japanese shipping.
I also met Jimmy Doolittle’s grandaugher, Jonna [...]

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Kellan @ Flickr

May 8, 2006 – 10:25 pm

Yahoo!’s hiring smart people. Congratulations, Kellan.
Hey, they also hired my friend and old EPRI co-worker Kevin Collins for their customer support cadre.
Like I said, they’re snapping up smart folks.

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