adventures and UCSC
I'm posting from the Science and Engineering Library again. I love the Science and Engineering Library. I also love that all of Arthur C. Clarke's stuff is kept here, even the fiction. My car is currently parked in a 10-minute spot but I'm not terribly fussed about it. I doubt TAPS is as vigilant during the vacation as they are during school terms.
Last night Nathan and I took BART into Daly City to meet up with Adi and see Ponyo. Aside from the 5-year-olds professing love for each other, which was mildly unsettling until Nathan told me to think about it as sibling love, I thought it was a good movie. But little wonder; I'm not sure Miyazaki has it in him to make a bad one.
When we got back to Richmond I was in the mood for an adventure, so we hopped in the car and drove to San Francisco. The plan was just to go across the Golden Gate, since we'd seen it in a TV show earlier in the day, but as we came down off the Bay Bridge I saw Coit Tower all lit up in a sea of dark treetops and we had to change course.
We climbed up about a million stairs after we parked to get to the tower and walked all around the base before settling on a secluded bench looking through some branches toward the East Bay. Talked about a range of things from eyesight to early memories to the five super powers we'd most like to have, and then the mosquitoes chased us away and we drove around the city looking for the curly part of Lombard Street (ultimately a successful mission).
We did eventually cross the Golden Gate as we'd planned. It really is quite a beautiful bridge, even if it is disappointingly red. I don't get the chance to see it up close very much. While it's certainly majestic enough for all normal purposes when seen from elsewhere along the bay, I found yesterday that it was the smaller details that really appealed -- the ornamentation that can't be seen from farther away.
It was just about three when we got back to Nathan's house, and after a blue Romulan ale to celebrate 3:33 on the 3rd day of the 9th month (9 of course being 3x3) we called it a night.
Last night Nathan and I took BART into Daly City to meet up with Adi and see Ponyo. Aside from the 5-year-olds professing love for each other, which was mildly unsettling until Nathan told me to think about it as sibling love, I thought it was a good movie. But little wonder; I'm not sure Miyazaki has it in him to make a bad one.
When we got back to Richmond I was in the mood for an adventure, so we hopped in the car and drove to San Francisco. The plan was just to go across the Golden Gate, since we'd seen it in a TV show earlier in the day, but as we came down off the Bay Bridge I saw Coit Tower all lit up in a sea of dark treetops and we had to change course.
We climbed up about a million stairs after we parked to get to the tower and walked all around the base before settling on a secluded bench looking through some branches toward the East Bay. Talked about a range of things from eyesight to early memories to the five super powers we'd most like to have, and then the mosquitoes chased us away and we drove around the city looking for the curly part of Lombard Street (ultimately a successful mission).
We did eventually cross the Golden Gate as we'd planned. It really is quite a beautiful bridge, even if it is disappointingly red. I don't get the chance to see it up close very much. While it's certainly majestic enough for all normal purposes when seen from elsewhere along the bay, I found yesterday that it was the smaller details that really appealed -- the ornamentation that can't be seen from farther away.
It was just about three when we got back to Nathan's house, and after a blue Romulan ale to celebrate 3:33 on the 3rd day of the 9th month (9 of course being 3x3) we called it a night.