At the Margins, Fri Sept 14th, ATA, 7:30pm. Shorts. “Golden Kitchen” sounds particuarily intriguing to me.
Close to Home, Fri Fri Sept 14th, ATA, 8:30pm. In particular “Un Hombre Tranquilo”.
ID Docs, Tue Sept 18th, 6:30pm for free BBQ. El Rio.
Bujold is reading at Booksmith on Haight tomorrow night at 7pm.
“Who?”, [name redacted] asked.
Bujold.
Whose Vorkosigan books are the best long form speculation on the role and future of reproductive technology disguised as military space sci-fi headed by a coded-female male solider protagonist (with incarnated other) over 9 volumes, with apologies to Austen, ever written.
And even Larry Wall likes her.
June 27, 2007
⇒ SFChron: Directory of Bay Area farmers’ markets.Also a nice fluffy piece on farmers’ markets from this morning’s Chron.
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(Aside, bay area, food, san francisco, sf) Expo Cal is up and running an instance of iCalico, the social conference calendaring app (fancy way of saying tries to answer the, “um, what should I go see?” question), Rabble and I wrote.
In other Web2Expo news, my talk for Ignite Sunday night got accepted. Ack! Um, so I’ll be speaking (for at least 6 minutes) Sunday night on “casual privacy”.
Enough frisbee, need to get a little work done this weekend. Need a good coffee shop with wifi and power on a Sunday.
Hmmm, really what I need to do is to finally get around to setting up a San Francisco WifiMug.
Which reminds me that I’m kind of unhappy with the current state of the WifiMug codebase (and it’s showing its age a bit, pre-Web 2.0!), guess I should research available Rails wiki software.
Though what I really should do is whip out that Wiki-meets-structured-data-creation-PlacesWiki I’ve been meaning to write.
But first I want to do a comprehensive survey of alternative wiki markups, the space has really fractured. Stikkit is doing good things with natural mark up, while Semantic MediaWiki steamrolls its way through the expressiveness sweet spot, and Google Code wiki has some interesting stuff going on.
But, um, um, um, I should write a new web browser and search engine to research wikis! Yeah, thats the ticket!
(nb: charlie not in drag)
Absolutely fabulous event. Best of San Francisco material. Great audience, fabulous writing, and I got to observe it all while sitting in a (stationary) rickshaw. Other, the nights beneficiary is sort of a literary magazine for San Francisco, which means I passed on their most recent issue (Tron-sex and teledildonics, topics you’re already innudated with in SF) and went straight to the simian issue, which is highly recommended.
I came away with some sort of insight into the fundamental nature of SF, or so I thought, but as I’ve been utterly unable to communicate this insight, I think it might have just been contact buzz from the eloquence, alas.
Lastly, if you ever have a chance to see Kim Stanley Robinson read his poetry, go! My party was divided on whether it is better then his fiction, but its very very good. I might heckle him from the crowd at Etech to read some verse.
I’ll be at next month’s. (which I suppose is another way of saying I won’t be at SxSW after all)
Photo by kirkbrooks
January 18, 2007
⇒ Writers in Drag, this Saturday, at Writers with Drinks.see Kim Stanley Robinson read poetry! Michelle Tea read cyberpunk! Michael Blumlein read nature writing! There might be a dancing bear as well!
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(Aside, authors, books, event, sf) January 12, 2007
⇒ New San Francisco specialty roaster “Meth coffee” seems interesting at first glance.Coffee spiked with mate is intriguing. But they’re charging premium coffee prices for pre-ground coffee of unspecified origin. Plus lifestyle appropriation bullshit like, “self-styled anarchist, caffeine addict, and conspiracy theorist known only as The Roaster” is just offensive.
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(Aside, coffee, drugs, sf) January 11, 2007
⇒ The Defenestration of 2006, a San Francisco tradition.We were actually downtown in the week after Xmas, and wondering at the shredded paper everywhere. Wishing I had had a camera. via
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(Aside, new year, san francisco, sf, tradition) October 6, 2006
⇒ SF Golden Gate Park, 4:40pm: Free Billy Bragg show. 0.
(Aside music, sf) October 5, 2006
⇒ Latin American Club.First bar I’ve closed in SF. With Matt, Margot, Aaron, and Blaine. Good N’ght.
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(Aside friends, sf) September 19, 2006
⇒ Cafe La Taza.Given the availability of world class coffee in SF, its funny how many mornings I end up getting the morning fix here.
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(Aside cafe, coffee, local, sanfrancisco, sf) September 12, 2006
⇒ Who scheduled Scissor Sisters and Hack Day against each other?.Note to self: build global event conflict resolution system. Alternate solution: go to the free event.
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(Aside scissorsisters, sf, upcoming, yahoo) It is an embarrassment.
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(Aside culture, sf, web, web2.0) August 28, 2006
⇒ Flickr Map: 315 Linden St., San Francisco, CA.Blue Bottle
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(Aside bluebottle, flickr, photos, sanfrancisco, sf) August 4, 2006
⇒ WordCamp 2006.I’ll be out of town, but I’m shocked (and a little dismayed) by the shear quantity of these type of events that happen in SF. Its impossible to keep up
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(Aside sf, wordpress, wp) August 2, 2006
⇒ Google Search: “4.2.2.2″ dns.The person next to me at Mission Creek is pinging 4.2.2.2; some day I’d love to see a sociololgy paper on the spread of 4.2.2.2
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(Aside culture, dns, meme, sf) July 2, 2006
⇒ Upcoming.org: Neighborhood Meeting: On T-Mobile’s proposed installation at 2601 Mission St. at Cesar Chavez Elementary School (Thursday, July 13, 2006).I, for one, welcome our new brain tumor overlords - just as long as I can get a decent signal from my living room. (not to mention Ritual, and the rest of 22nd St.)
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(Aside, mobile 22ndst, civic, event, mission, sf) Just got the keys to my new apartment. Feels so good to have my own space again after being on the road on and off (but mostly on) since March.
Does anyone else stand in an empty house and think what a pity it is that soon it will be covered in a layer of stuff, clutter, the scuff marks of daily life? The inevitable loss of purity leaving you a little melancholy. (or is this merely my personal pyschological justification for being poor at decorating?)
Reprieve! The truck designated to move my stuff from Boston never made it to our JP house, as the driver was pulled over for speeding, and the truck impounded with an expired registration. And suddenly the reality of those poetic notions of emptiness come crashing home, and I gnash my teeth over my tardy cookware.
And lastly, my neighbors being of suspect character, there is not a single open access point within range of the apartment, not even from the fire escape. (there is always wifi from the fire escape; the city delighting as it does from the absurd image of folks hunched over glowing screens, their legs dangling next to the collapsed ladder.) Rather predetermining tomorrows first task.
update Kamei is the perfect place to get a bowl-plate-knife-pot-pan-kitchen-for-3-weeks for cheap while still buying stuff you’ll want to keep once the rest of your stuff arrives. And the variety of glazed cermanics is amazing. When I was building tabletop fountains this was the place I always wanted but didn’t exist in Santa Cruz. Pair with a lunch time visit to Burma Superstar for a lovely Richmond outing.
And they sell popsicles makers! I didn’t know anyone sold popsicles makers anymore
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I tend to write about books, coffee, the Web, open source, collaboration technologies and XML.
I spend most of my days writing code, and occasionally fomenting dissent.
Currently Residing: San Francisco
