There's a daycare holiday this week and next, which makes it the perfect time to skip town ( Read more... )

My vacation last weekend to San Francisco for my cousin David's wedding was pretty great. Why am I not getting to posting about that until this weekend? Well, I started getting sick on Monday, and arrived home late Wednesday to the lethal combo of killer cold, jet lag, and sudden 90-degree weather. And I've been doing a bunch of cleaning prior ( Read more... )

Back from PyCon and the Googleplex! On my way back, anyways. There's (surprisingly good) wifi on the plane.

PyCon was great, in particular the tutorials on iPython (the latest versions have an awesome Mathematica-like notebook interface, where you can make rich multimedia documents with runnable code snippets) and the scikit-learn library (a ( Read more... )

The conclusion of my San Francisco saga follows, in not particularly organized fashion ( Read more... )

Yesterday, woke up mid-morning, had a leisurely brunch at the Absinthe Brasserie & Bar (an elegant establishment), walked to Golden Gate Park, wandered the park for a bit. Was going to visit the Academy of Science, but the line to get in was really long so I ditched that plan. Went back to the hostel, took a nap, went out for dinner at Tommy's ( Read more... )

Had a pretty short day, today, and a less eventful one. Had brunch (crepes!) at Honey Honey around noon, had an interesting conversation with a local who had some better-than-usual suggestions for places to visit on my tour. The rest of my day was pretty straightforward, though. I wandered down Market Street, walked through the Mission and the ( Read more... )

Today, ate breakfast at the Taylor Street Coffee Shop. A bit of a wait for a table, since the place is good but tiny. I noticed that a large table was clearing when I was next in line, and that the cafe was seating in first come first served order instead of tweaking the queue for better packing efficiency, so I asked the couple directly behind ( Read more... )

Woke up, sorted out all the loose ends from yesterday, got a solid breakfast at David's Delicatessen. Spent most of the day wandering around town ( Read more... )

When calculating the length of your trip, remember that there is such a thing as a time zone, or you'll find yourself rather hungry by the time you arrive ( Read more... )