One reads the most bizarre things in local papers.

I was in line at Starbucks this morning in Menlo Park, and spied the above headline in a local paper called the "Daily Post". My curiosity was piqued, so I read the story, which I quote herein:

Daily Post, Thursday June 5, 2008

"Police officer going to jail for stealing golf clubs while on duty ( Read more... )

So, the other day someone posted this to a mailing list I am on. video of people jumping off mountains and gliding mere feet from cliff-sides. Yikes! Scary and impressive and truly insane.

mcl mentioned one of the strangest stories I've seen in a long time at work. 'World's largest elk' to be built in Sweden. Make sure you watch the video for the ( Read more... )

So, my laptop failed to hibernate this morning due to the fact that there was insufficient swap space. Apparently the long-running Firefox instance (probably due to flash and the like) had eaten vast quantities of RAM. So, I drove to work with my laptop running (not suspended in any way). Shortly after I arrived, Firefox crashed (silly Firefox). ( Read more... )

Thomas Keller was on our flight home from JFK to SFO last night.

Yes, THE Thomas Keller.

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I've visited "the south", and Oklahoma (wait, that probably is in the south; oh well, you get the idea; Georgia, Mississippi and Oklahoma), and yet the one time I've ever had anybody (other than people I know joking around) say anything like the following was ... well, in frickin' LA!

urox and I had just got out of my car, in a parking lot and were ( Read more... )

An ~6"x6" patch of the inside of my right elbow is a veritable geological history of tape residue.

According to scrump, it'll take a while to come off, and in the mean time I'll stick to things a lot. Heh.

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I want this:

bitter films volume one: 1995-2005 DVD
(from Don Hertzfeld)

This looks potentially rather interesting:

Sanctuary
(a sci-fi show created by real TV people [crew and cast] for distribution over the Internet)

Rather interesting art project featuring Nathan Fillion:

HERO: the future of gods, icons and heroes

This brought back fond memories of ( Read more... )

I'm still not caught up on stuff since returning from Japan. Not at all. I still have that write-up of the trip to come, but it's not all written yet. We did finally send out our last (at least for the time being) "thank you" cards. Writing the remaining ones took our entire Saturday and Sunday (except for a trip to Berkeley for a party for a few ( Read more... )

http://www.smdailyjournal.com/article_preview.php?id=72995 - Redwood City has a new free shuttle service that travels from the CalTrain station to various business areas (including a block from where I work) starting today. Unfortunately, it ends at 9am (ew), ( Read more... )