Mom came up for Thanksgiving with Heather's family for the first time and it went well. On Friday we took the moms to see the Amish quilts exhibit at the de Young (more interesting than I was expecting), visit the California Academy of Sciences (my first time), have dinner at Max's, and finish up with Bach's Christmas Oratorio at the SF Symphony ( Read more... )

I've never really had recurring dreams. Even the nuclear holocaust ones are different every time, just sharing the general theme. But over the last few years I've started feeling that certain of my dreams are connected to others, that they're different dreams about the same place, or connected places. In particular, I have a fairly complete ( Read more... )

Lately a couple of kids in my mom's third grade class have been writing to me.Dear,Erik
I hope you are having fun in San Fransisco . I wish I was in San Fransisco.[...]

Angel,Giovanni,and Jesus,
And it got me thinking once again that San Francisco is a pretty fun city to live in. So I wrote backAngel, Giovani, and Jesus ( Read more... )

For no particular reason, I thought I'd share with you all a little known tidbit of living San Francisco history, another little thing that makes our city unique: the Patrol Special ( Read more... )

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Tomorrow's noon photo shoot of 1 Bush and subsequent photo walk around downtown has been getting a bit of attention ( Laughing Squid and Boing Boing both mentioned it), so it looks like there might be actual, live people showing up. Details are here.

In contrast, plenty of pretend non-live people will be showing up for the Zombie Mob starting ( Read more... )

Photographer Thomas Hawk was harassed yesterday for photographing One Bush Street in San Francisco. He writes,Yesterday I was shooting some photos of One Bush St. (the building where Bush and Market Streets intersect) when their security guard came out of his little glass jewelbox lobby hut to ask me to stop taking photos of the building. He said ( Read more... )

Yesterday I took my comp time for working on Sunday a week ago. I picked yesterday because the class I volunteer with went on a field trip to the Hyde Street Pier, where they worked as hands aboard the Balclutha, a 19th century trade ship. I was with the Boat Crew, who, along with the Bosun Crew, learned to row the longboat. Since kids on the ( Read more... )

Anyone interested in doing this? I've wanted to try it for some time but I always think of it, uh, on Chinese New Year. A bit late. But this year I'm getting a head start. If you've never heard of it before, the web site describes it thus:The Chinese New Year Treasure Hunt is a unique urban sleuthing adventure played on the streets of Chinatown, ( Read more... )

Friday: Humphrey and I fouled up our plans to get up early ("I thought you were going to set your alarm clock." "I thought you were going to set your alarm clock.") and surprise neodymium155 as he came in to work but we eventually got down there and drove around with him for a bit, getting the key to his new place and looking at said place. Although it is ( Read more... )