MJ’s friend Matti spent the week here with us. She arrived last Friday and on Saturday the three of us piled into the car and headed toward Golden Gate Park. We started with lunch at The Beach Chalet. We then heading over to The California Academy of Sciences, where I have a membership but it […]
Archive for the ‘animals’ Category
Sea lions, SF Zoo March of the Penguins and Internets
July 31st, 2011 by pleia2
Friday evening I wrapped up work and needed some fresh air so I hopped on a street car (#1893) and headed down to visit the sea lions at Pier 39. On my way I was browsing Twitter and saw an article from The Marine Mammal Center: Rescue Efforts for Two Sea Lions Entangled in Ocean […]
Projects and Aquarium of the Bay
July 18th, 2011 by pleia2
Have I mentioned lately how nice it is to have a proper task manager? I didn’t realize how much I’d value my history of completed items or how much time I’d save until now. It’s really transforming how I allocate my time and I’m able to do a much better job of figuring out how […]
Blind pinnipeds, conservation and other things
June 28th, 2011 by pleia2
I had a very productive, if mellow, week last week. Inspired by setting up my new desk, Tuesday evening I hopped on Caltrain and met MJ for a trip to Ikea to look at some office furniture. We didn’t find anything particularly inspiring but it did help us refine our search some and we ended […]
Weekend food and California Academy of Sciences
March 29th, 2011 by pleia2
There was much delicious food this past weekend, I feel like I need to eat salad for a week. Friday I was lurking in the Shimmer Project channel when the conversation drifted from shimmery things and on to the subject of beer. Being a Friday this meant that I then had to go out for […]
Visiting The Marine Mammal Center
March 20th, 2011 by pleia2
Yesterday, my cousin helped save a baby elephant seal. He was out for a run and saw it on the beach near Crissy Field in San Francisco and with the help of a couple others they contacted the authorities and within a couple hours volunteers from The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito were there to […]
CR-48, Ubuntu+Debian night, fluffy Android, Zoo, SDForum panel
March 13th, 2011 by pleia2
I was asked the other day if I’m still using the Cr-48 that I’ve now had for over a month. I sure am, it’s been interesting seeing where it’s landing in my mobile computing environment. Since it’s just a web browser + basic shell for ssh I’ve been primarily using it for writing blog entries […]
Linux kernel on my TV and Nook, earthquake, Caligula and Ubuntu-Debian meetup
January 18th, 2011 by pleia2
It’s hard to believe January is over half over already, it feels like just yesterday that MJ and I were walking home from the NYE fireworks! Work has been busy, but I’ve learned a lot in the past couple weeks about debugging problems with multihoming in Linux and how the packets move around with IPSec. […]
Christmas at the Zoo and Oakland Museum Pixar Exhibit
December 27th, 2010 by pleia2
Thanks to holidays both MJ and I had Friday off from work. We took a leisurely start to the day and headed over to the Metreon to grab some lunch to enjoy overlooking Yerba Buena Gardens. For a park that is just a block from where we live we don’t go nearly enough. We came […]
Vegas Jaunt
November 22nd, 2010 by pleia2
The Friday before last I was able to take off from work a couple hours early so I could run down to the airport and catch a 5PM flight from San Francisco to Las Vegas to meet MJ. The first hurdle was the notorious body scanners, which SFO has and I avoided. Half the lanes […]