Articles
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Downtown Holiday Adventures
December 30, 2015
We elected to go on a multi-modal (car, CalTrain, feet, BART, car) adventure to downtown San Francisco for our pre-Christmas outing this year. We took in the sights, took the escalators to every floor of Macy’s (both mens’ and womens’ stores), went to the ACT’s production of Dickens’ Christmas Carol, had a spectacularly delicious dinner at Bouche, and generally had a jolly and festive time.
Nimue got to look at kittens (KITTENS!) in the Macy’s display windows, while we fended off the kindly animal shelter volunteers seeking kitten adoptees with cries of “we already have two!”
No trip to downtown SF at Christmas time would be complete without visiting the giant tree set up in the plaza, and a kindly European girl with a bike snapped a picture of us.
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White lights what?
December 9, 2014
Read moreAs Richard Masoner / @cyclelicious pointed out today, CA assembly member Kansen Chu (who represents Alviso, Berryessa, Milpitas, Newark, North San Jose, Santa Clara, and South Fremont) introduced a really misguided bill, AB-28, which might go up for vote in early 2015. Below is my attempt at educating the assemblyman and his staff, posted via the really quite convenient “comments to author” tab in the legislative information website.
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Raspberry Pi fun and games
August 29, 2014
Read moreWhile I continue to find good uses for Arduinos and such small microcontrollers, lately I’ve been playing around quite a bit with the Raspberry Pi. I got one last year, and fairly quickly set it up to be my surrogate Dropbox, using BTSync. It has been happily chugging along in that role ever since, connected to a small 100GB hard drive and living on my workbench in the garage.
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Holiday Electrical Successes and Failures
December 28, 2013
Read moreAs I’m rattling around the house the past few days recovering from a really poorly-timed evil cold/cough, not feeling well enough to actually go out and do anything but not so bad that I’m flat-out in bed, I figured I’d catch up on some projects.
My DIY sous-vide setup. 
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Dear Sir
December 3, 2013
Read moreDear Sir,
I’m really sorry for not reacting more maturely to your nearly killing me with your car.
I’m sure that you didn’t intentionally make a right turn into your driveway so close to me that, had I not braked and swerved, I would surely have been crushed under the wheels of your automobile. Probably my suggestion of a creative but improbable use of your presumed anatomical features was uncalled for, and for that I apologize. I was incited to this level of reaction by your assertion that you “didn’t believe you came very close” and that “in the grand scheme of things, it’s not that big a deal” to be nearly run over and killed.