On Monday night I headed down to Yoshi’s San Francisco to have dinner with my local cousin Brendan and visiting cousin Audrey. They are both cousins from my father’s side, and while I have seen Brendan since moving here, it had been 5 years since I’d seen Audrey. It was a lovely sushi dinner with […]
Archive for September, 2010
Some recent tech meetups
September 27th, 2010 by pleia2
On September 15th, the Women Who Tech telesummit occurred. Work has been pretty busy for me lately, so I had to take care of obligations there and couldn’t participate in the summit, maybe next year. However, I was able to go to attend the San Francisco after party, which was delightfully held just a couple […]
OLPC San Francisco Community Summit 2010
September 22nd, 2010 by pleia2
Back in April I went to a Bay Area Linux Users Group (BALUG) meeting where Sameer Verma was doing a presentation titled One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Project: Plan, Updates, Direction, Participation (slides here). It was an inspiring presentation, Sameer’s excitement for the project was infectious and I asked a bunch of questions and attended […]
Philadelphia – foodadelphia!
September 16th, 2010 by pleia2
When I was making plans to move to San Francisco one of the things I was most excited about was the plethora of amazing food that awaited me on the golden coast. I didn’t even bother to think how much I’d miss the food from Philadelphia! Pretty quickly I found a place for a good […]
California Academy of Science, Cartoon Art Museum
September 3rd, 2010 by pleia2
Several months ago the Extreme Mammals exhibit opened at the California Academy of Science, on Saturday MJ and I finally took the opportunity to head down to see it. It was a beautiful day and we took MUNI over to Golden Gate Park. The Extreme Mammals exhibit itself was a real treat, the huge, the […]