I found myself surprisingly content when the clouds came back on Wednesday this week. I’m not a big fan of the typical California winter weather: cloudy, rainy, chilly. But there’s something reassuringly normal and expected about it. The nice weather lately had been amazing and I did my best to enjoy it, but always with […]
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Goodbye, Stacey’s
I happened to read today that Stacey’s Bookstore in San Francisco is closing. Any bookstore closure is kind of sad, but this one has a particular sadness for me because that’s where I bought The Mindbody Prescription, which I used to get rid of my RSI totally. I bought the book in November 2005, on […]
Ignoring Rick Warren now.
But the great thing he brought us is the reminder that he doesn’t have to do everything. We the people have reserves of extraordinary that we can and should spend freely. —Sars
Sunset Salad
Clotilde’s Grated Carrots and Beets is a terrific way to try beets (raw or otherwise) if you are a little skeptical about them. But I don’t think it has a very good name; I always look for it under “Beet and Carrot Salad” before I remember that the name in English is a translation from […]
The perils of quiet settings
I just discovered that the reason that my camera phone has been taking much crappier photos recently than previously is that at some point it was set to take photos at 640×480, instead of at its top resolution of 2048×1536. The setting is actually pretty visible if you know where to look, so I can’t […]
Privacy, etc. II
I got some offline feedback on my last entry, with the effect that I rethought a few things. Here are some of the new thoughts: Anonymity. The way I defined this previously was “being out in public without being notable”. This isn’t a very good definition, because, as Gavin pointed out, anonymity actually has a […]
Privacy, Accessibility, and Notability
As a result of some long-ago and more recent conversations with smart friends of mine, I came up with some interesting thoughts about privacy. I don’t fully understand the legal umbrella of privacy, but it seems to me that there are a few distinct concepts that it would be useful to introduce into quasi-legal/common-sense discussions […]
Epiphany?
I was looking up the name of the holiday that’s today because a contractor of ours said that she would be off until Jan. 6, which is the end of her holidays. Apparently it’s called Epiphany, and: Prior to the reform of 1955, when Pope Pius XII abolished all but three octaves, the Roman Catholic […]
Straus Family Creamery: not just cheese
I mentioned Straus Family Creamery back in my Mt. Tam post as providing the milk that goes into Cowgirl Creamery cheese. Besides that, of course, they also make milk and other dairy products, like yogurt. Ryan very kindly brought some SFC whole-milk Eurostyle yogurt to dinner the other day as an unexpectedly awesome component of […]
Hipsters (argh!)
Hipsters: reverse meta-fashion? Discuss.