On Wednesday I was able to take the afternoon off from work to offset some weekend time I put in last weekend and took the opportunity to take advantage of my new zoo membership. I’d been intending to get a zoo membership since I moved here, and I was delighted to learn that the membership […]
Archive for August, 2010
Bitlbee tweeting, heat and SF food
August 25th, 2010 by pleia2
When we picked up our television the other weekend we also took the opportunity to pick up the box we shipped my bike in from PA in and dropped it over at the local bike shop, Pacific Bicycle. Three days later the fantastic staff at Pacific Bikes had Nessy assembled and I was able to […]
Ubuntu California at Picn*x 19
August 22nd, 2010 by pleia2
On Saturday I got up bright and early to catch a 9AM ride with Grant Bowman to the annual Linux Picnic (Picn*x19) as they celebrated the 19th anniversary of the Linux kernel. We arrived on site to help with setup shortly before 10AM. Shortly after arriving Mark Terranova and Robert Wall also showed up and […]
Ubuntu US website, upcoming Linux Picnic
August 19th, 2010 by pleia2
On Monday evening we had an Ubuntu US Teams over in #ubuntu-us on freenode (logs, minutes) where we did final discussion on the relaunch of our website. We were running Drupal5 on a Linode (thanks again for the donation, Linode!) running Hardy and I’ve been eyeing an upgrade to Lucid. While considering this I spoke […]
Ubuntu at the Creative Arts Charter School
August 15th, 2010 by pleia2
One of the schools Partimus has been working with over the years is the Creative Arts Charter School in San Francisco. Today I finally had the opportunity to visit the school. I arrived around 12:30 this afternoon where I met Christian Einfeldt who gave me a quick tour of the school and introduced me to […]
We bought a 3D TV!
August 12th, 2010 by pleia2
The title of this blog post is true, but the deeper truth is that we had no intention of jumping on the 3D fad-wagon. When we settled on a range of TVs based on quality reviews on CNET the ones that we were looking at just happened to also have 3D. So we have a […]
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Storage, Rogue, Touristing
August 6th, 2010 by pleia2
We bought a couple of in-building storage units a few months back, got them primed in May and did the painting in June and some final touch-ups in July. But eventually we were ready to move everything from our rental storage unit down the street to the ones we have here! Last weekend we rented […]