Go Sharks, Beat Edmonton

May 7, 2006 – 1:20 pm

It’s not a bandwagon if your scientist girlfriend has been a season ticket holder for over ten years.

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A bit late for a Quake Centennial Post, but Here’s Some History

April 18, 2006 – 11:09 pm

A hundred years ago this past morning, the San Andreas fault slipped: the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. Go back a half a billion years: there’s no California. Paleoamerica ended at Utah, the Osmonds instead of the Grateful Dead.
Over the next 500 million years, Laurentia (the core of the North American continent) drifts northwards, [...]

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Laptop Stickers

April 17, 2006 – 11:47 pm

Badgerbag’s iBook made BoingBoing. It’s the last one on the second row.

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Mother of Storms

April 7, 2006 – 11:44 am

Yipe!

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Why They Named it WoolfCamp

February 20, 2006 – 11:51 pm

Mary Tsao followed up on my post about WoolfCamp with a critical thing I missed:

Sometimes after a long day of bellying up to the juice bar and being an on-demand short order cook, I would give anything (especially my kids) for a long uninterrupted conversation about how writing is as important to me as air [...]

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Three Thoughts on Woolfcamp

February 20, 2006 – 12:30 am

Cyn and I spent Saturday at Woolfcamp, a barcamp-style event, instigated by Grace Davis and Liz Henry.
The Value of Jam/Camp Events
Badger mentioned some A-list geek telling her that the original jam/camp organizing thing was now obviously “diluted past recognition”. Now it’s worthless. To which I say 愚か! Consider:

You: Boss, can you send me to [...]

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Snow in the Santa Cruz Mountains

February 18, 2006 – 5:24 pm

On the way to Woolfcamp, we hit snow at the summit of Highway 17.

Photo by Cynthia.

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