This past Saturday was beautiful and the rest of this week hasn’t disappointed either. After services in the morning we ended up at The Elite Cafe on Fillmore for a great brunch. From there we headed to Golden Gate Park to visit the Conservatory of Flowers which we’d recently gotten a membership to. I have […]
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Buckminster Fuller at SFMOMA and server reinstalls
June 7th, 2012 by pleia2
My boss is a Buckminster Fuller enthusiast and over the years some of that has rubbed off in reading some of his essays and a renewed interest in geodesic dome structures. So when The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) I knew I […]
Retirement of the Armada
May 24th, 2012 by pleia2
I am a firm believer in “crap technology” as Thomas Hayden defines it in his post Ixnay on the iPod: In Praise of Crap Technology. It’s not some ideological thing, and in fact I never had a name for it until hearing a segment with him on Marketplace, “Crap technology, not crappy, where he says: […]
Gaming, learning, health and other life updates
May 20th, 2012 by pleia2
It’s been 2 months since I’ve done a general, non-topical update post, so here we go… Several weeks ago I picked up the Limited Edition Kinect Star Wars Bundle. As cool as the Kinect is, I wasn’t really planning on buying an Xbox because we just bought a Playstation 3 a few months back and […]
Pangolins, parrots, Partimus, Philadelphia
March 20th, 2012 by pleia2
These past few weeks could only really be characterized as normal, no big events or anything lately. I have been struggling with an ear ache this month and working with a doctor to treat it. The issue is fluid buildup in my sinuses and the treatment is allergy medication until it stops. As of now […]
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Oakland zoo, street cars, Chumby and TV
February 26th, 2012 by pleia2
Last weekend we took advantage of the long weekend and MJ and I finally made it over to the Oakland Zoo. I’ve wanted to go for quite some time because they have some exceptional animals that the San Francisco Zoo no longer has… elephants! But what actually prompted the visit at this time was the […]
Started wedding planning, news from my little sister and other recent life stuff
February 19th, 2012 by pleia2
I had the flu earlier this month that I’m now living in the tail end of, my cough hasn’t completely gone away but I did make it back to the gym finally this week and am back to a reasonable sleep schedule. Aside from missing much of a day of work, I sadly also ended […]
Engagement, travel in 2011 and looking on to 2012
December 31st, 2011 by pleia2
The biggest news of 2011 for me was MJ surprising me on July 1st with an absolutely amazing marriage proposal in Sonoma. I still grin ridiculously when I think about what a perfect night and weekend it was. Details and more photos are on our site here: http://www.mjandlyz.com/engagement.shtml But it wasn’t the only exciting thing […]
Aunt Elaine Visiting
December 27th, 2011 by pleia2
My Aunt Elaine came to visit this past weekend, it was the first time since moving away from home that I had a relative visiting over the winter holidays and she was happy to pass on Christmas to celebrate Hanukkah with us. She arrived Thursday evening and I headed down on BART to pick her […]
First Half of December
December 17th, 2011 by pleia2
We’ve been quite preoccupied with Simcoe’s medical problems this past week. Prior to that my month was quite busy with work, a bit of a fractured schedule that resulted in a couple afternoons off during the week and loss of a couple weekend days. This weekend I’m enjoying my first full weekend since Thanksgiving and […]
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