We went up to San Francisco to see the Peter Pan show at Ferry Park today. The kids were very excited by the human-powered ticking crocodile. There’s a large concession tent for use before the show and at intermission; this shot is of one of its peaks.
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There are a couple of major construction projects in Redwood City. On El Camino Real, the block between Broadway and Brewster is being updated, as part of the multi-county Grand Boulevard project. This excavator was standing sentry on the Broadway end. Closer to our house, a new high-pressure water line–part of the Hetch Hetchy system [...]
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We got to this year’s Maker Faire fairly early, and saw the many cool things people have built. (It was our first Maker Faire, and we underestimated the event’s popularity.) Benjamin, who’s recently become an enthusiastic chess player, got to face off against the chess playing robot: Ben attempted a Scholar’s Mate, was stymied, and [...]
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I think we’ve had two evenings with short snow—without accumulation—and one significant hailstorm—with accumulation—in eleven years here. Intriguing.
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Dina and I were, despite all polls, anticipating election nights like the preceding two, where any hope of resolution was delayed, and tension distributed to all election watchers. This year, I was determined to enjoy the evening, and poured something light for the both of us to sip while listening to analyses. Historians will write [...]
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I seeded the 2008.05 release candidate for about 45 hours, ultimately shipping a little over 4100 megabytes. I’m going to take a break, because I want to update my DP2-based workstation and get some work done, but, once we have new bits, I’ll getting seeding again. (I found the actual result: 4237MiB sent up, so [...]
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For the Thanksgiving holiday this year, we decided to explore San Mateo County’s section of the Pacific Coast. Dina settled on Butano State Park as our base, which is mostly made of a redwoods-forested canyon, south of Pescadero and on the western slopes of the Santa Cruz Mountains. We arrived in the late afternoon, having [...]
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I just want to mention that I knew Alan before his current fifteen minutes.
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One of the features of our home library is a sizeable collection of texts on English diction, grammar, usage, and so forth. (The collection was banished to the back office, but bursts out regularly.) Most of these are focussed on general use, and shy away from the changes in meaning that might accompany use in [...]
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At work, I’ve ended up on many email aliases; since we moved to pursuing open development on opensolaris.org, my subscriptions and incoming email flow have grown tremendously, to the point where they were interfering with my ability to get work done. My present filter setup involves delivery to 56 inboxes. I’ve had a small email [...]
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