Today was Starbucks' "Free Pastry Day". The idea being, free pastry of your choice with purchase of a drink, up to 10:30am ( Read more... )

I went to Starbucks on Veteran's Blvd in Redwood City [*] today on the way back to the office after grabbing something to eat for (late) lunch ( Read more... )

I decided to try out cupcakes from Kara's Cupcakes in Palo Alto's Town and Country Mall. We love Sprinkles' cupcakes, but thought we ought to at least try the competition ( Read more... )

A while back I spent some time trying to find the best option for media (DVDs, etc.) storage. I wanted to store a lot of DVDs while taking up minimal wall space (width). I looked at all sorts of options, and nothing seemed satisfactory ( Read more... )

I'm getting kind of tired of getting sick ( Read more... )

While driving back from dropping my daughter at daycare, I saw 3 youths on an overpass jumping up and down holding political signs ( Read more... )

I enter into evidence these two exhibits:

1. This morning, I dialed in to a weekly meeting at 11am. I even participated in the meeting. At 11:15am, I noticed my phone on the table in front of me. I looked at the display. It was not dialed in to anything. I had absolutely no recollection of how the meeting ended.

2. On my way to work, I stopped at ( Read more... )

[Edit] I've since found out from comments that GMX is by no means new (it's popular in Germany). It is just that they came into my view by buying up a lot of advertising on Facebook.

I decided to create an account on a new e-mail service, GMX, this morning. I certainly didn't expect it to replace gmail, but I was curious to see why they thought ( Read more... )

This evening, my wife and I watched an episode of Eli Stone (a show we both greatly enjoy) called "Flight Path" and I was mostly very happy to see something very rare for American television: An atheist character ( Read more... )

I will start this off by making clear in advance that Costco has been utterly wonderful, a joy to deal with, and as usual awesome. Sealy (of which apparently Stearns & Foster is just a brand), however, are the recipients of my utmost disgust ( Read more... )