Bottega Napa Valley 6525 Washington St, Yountville, CA 94599 My family takes a bi-monthly or so road trip from Sacramento to Napa to go to restaurants and buy wine, which really translates into “spending a day pleasantly making fabulously wealthy people even more fabulously wealthy, sort of a wealthy-people vicious cycle of overeating.” If you […]
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Irresponsible Photoshopper: Snowden Doge
I’ve considered putting “purveyor of fine obnoxious Photoshop” on my business card. I wonder how that would go over. I have long felt a profound, sympathetic connection between Doge and Snowden. I may be delusional.
Korean Food at Myung Dong Tofu Cabin – San Mateo, California
Myung Dong Tofu Cabin 2968 S Norfolk St, San Mateo, CA 94403 (650) 525-1484 Website I love California strip malls. Well, allow me modify that: strip malls of a particular variety and tone. The sort I’m talking about aren’t populated with dollar stores and sporting goods marts. The sort of strip mall I like functions […]
Internet Hunting and Gathering – May 6th and 7th
As my friend and I observed last week at the deYoung Museum in San Francisco, hipsters never really change. Jerome Young’s painting appears to be channeling the same sort of people who regularly show up at prog rock festivals, or at least the kind of people who attended Tulane with me and went to the […]
Drone Journalism Survey and a Sacramento River Video
If you’ve spent any time at all around me in recent months, you are probably aware I’m really, really interested in UAVs — often called “drones.” I did a brief story on consumer-level UAV technology for school, realized how unfathomably cool they were, and joined the Stanford University UAV club. Now, I own a Phantom […]
Internet Hunting and Gathering – May 4th and 5th
A quiet weekend in California, whereupon I mostly fixed and flew my Phantom 1 a bit. Next step is adding an Ardupilot APM. Planning to learn how to do 3D mapping with Autodesk. My hobbies are very chic. In recent Interesting Internet News… Boko Haram ‘to sell’ Nigeria girls abducted from Chibok – BBC News […]
Painting Things With the Galaxy Note 8
The Galaxy Note 8 doesn’t spring to mind as a potent art tool, but with its Wacom enabled stylus, I’ve been incredibly impressed. Excellent control and flow. I’m using Autodesk, which is a very useful art tool. Still growing accustomed to its features. Now, need to find out just how big I can push these […]
Your Daily Internet – April 30th, 2014
People regularly inform me that they get most of their news from my Facebook feed. I’m happy to do it. However, this also means Mark Zuckerberg is indirectly profiting off my incessant information hunting-and-gathering, and that bothers me on an existential level. Especially considering that I drive by Facebook’s large and pleasingly manicured headquarters on […]
Sherpas In The Possessive Voice
It’s a contentious spring in the Himalayas. Sherpas have decided that the 2014 Mt Everest climbing season is too dangerous, after the avalanche deaths of 16 high-altitude workers on April 18th. I’m no expert on the affairs of the men and women that work on Everest, nor am I going to pretend to be. But […]
Khmer New Year in America
When I lived in Phnom Penh, Khmer New Year was that time of year when everyone took off work for a week and all the businesses shut down. The normally traffic-besotted streets of Phnom Penh became quiet and empty during the holiday, and everyone who could scramble the vacation days (and that was most people) […]