I went snowboarding for the first time this weekend. I'm sore, every physical action causes me pain, and I can't wait to go back again.

blanu, G, J, and I left straight from work Friday and drove to South Lake Tahoe, where we had rented an inexpensive but completely servicable condo for the weekend. Saturday morning we drove down to Kirkwood, ( Read more... )

This year, I'm going to take my dad down to a fireworks stand, buy one of every firework on the top shelf, and set them off together. He told a story over Christmas about how much he always wanted to get a certain huge firework, but could never bring himself to spent his whole fireworks budget on it, when he could get a ton of firecrackers and ( Read more... )

Looks like Vercingetorix is to be ritually strangled...

Thusly ( Read more... )

This picture is about as poignant a rendering of the Total Perspective Vortex as I've ever seen. Enjoy (Click between the the two black specks on the left-hand side of the picture.)

Dana Sculley's father's nickname for her was Starbuck.

Carry on.

So here's what we do. We start a non-profit which buys CSA shares, and uses them to provide low-income kids at after-school programs one nutritious, probably organic meal a day. Free to the after-school programs, great for the kids -- both developmentally and in learning to enjoy the taste of healthy food -- and creates a demand for more CSAs, ( Read more... )

Actually just from El Cerrito into Berkeley. I left the house in search of wireless so I could get some coffee, maybe some brunch, and then get some work done, knowing that if I stayed at home I'd succumb to the temptation to lay around in my underwear and drink beer. I strode down the hill, and decided to try out Kensington Bistro, which is ( Read more... )

There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation may never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain. Why, 35 ( Read more... )

A lot of things in the last week. On Saturday - Monday, went camping with a lot of new people and had an absolute blast. /me waves. Got in a good mixture of hiking, sitting alone in the woods and sitting with people around the fire ( Read more... )