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Return to Return of the King
Return to Return of the King
01/25/2004 09:30 AM (I just blogged this at BlogCritics.org) We went to see Return of the
King for the second time last night because our 13-year-old wanted to
see it for his third time. My pre-VCR generation has trouble being
entertained by a movie more than once, but there are exceptions. Lord
of the Rings is one: Giant trolls, gargantuan elephants, catapults
firing heads, fierce bad guys with faces made out of cookie dough,
fire-tipped battering rams, stirring music, flying dragons, all in one
scene. What more do you want in a movie? Even though it was my second
time, I still...
San Francisco day four and a bit...
San Francisco day four and a bit...
08/16/2004 02:02 PMSo the day before yesterday didn't go quite as I'd planned. I
didn't go and see Dinah or her kittens, but I did get to give Flakes
to Heather and then go with her to
Taco Bell where we consumed about $16 worth of faux Mexican cuisine
between us. Then there was the car wash, and the drive back into the
city to go say hi to Derek, two
chihuahuas and a cat named Spoo before wandering off to kid robot (dumb toys purchased:
2) and then Giant
Robot in Haight Ashbury. Then there was a nice "Blue Meanie"
smoothie in a wifi-enabled café which was pretty bloody pleasant, all
things considered. The next planned excusion was the epic walk over to
the Tonga rooms, which would actually have been pretty bloody epic if
I hadn't walked in completely the opposite direction for the first
twenty minutes or so. So I got a cab with a driver who listened to
light country and suffered manfully the hell of Tim McGraw's My Next Thirty Years (and I quote):
My next thirty years I’m gonna settle all the scores
Cry a little less, laugh a little more
Find a world of happiness without the hate and fear
Figure out just what I’m doing here
In my next thirty years
Oh my next thirty years, I’m gonna watch my weight
Eat a few more salads and not stay up so late
Drink a little lemonade and not so many beers
Maybe I’ll remember my next thirty years
You see what I'm talking about? Anyway - so I got to the Fairmont a
bit early and so decided to loiter around a bit in the foyer and read
my new book while all the
smartly dressed people looked at me strangely and tried to remember my
face just in case they'd need to identify me in a Guantanamo tribunal
later in the year. And then the event began and I got to talk to a
couple of dozen neat cool web people that I just don't get to see
enough. I danced (badly) with Mena and Dinah and Heather and chatted a lot to David about what it was like
to be an Englishman living in the States at the moment which was
extremely interesting. I felt a bit sorry for my poor ex-flatmate
Mella who had just got off the plane in San Francisco and come
straight to the bar because she didn't know anyone, but I think she
enjoyed herself. And of course the bar's fake thunder, lightning, rain
and floating boat/island/band were as awesome as ever...
Yesterday started a little more sedately with an enormous cooked
breakfast over at the Pork
Store with Leslie, Lance (also here) and Mella. Mella and I then
wandered up into town, up Valencia and past a few second hand stores
up to the Civic Center and then up Market for a bit of an explore.
(This feels a bit like a 'what I did on my holiday' tract, so
apologies for that.) And then after a few confusing disorganisational
miscarriages, we ended up with a friend of Mella's called Emily
driving through Chinatown, then walking up to Coit Tower and then down
to Pier 39 for Oysters and general seafood. Then Mella wandered off to
meet Emily's parents, while I returned back to Leslie's (past the San
Francisco Bear Fair), met up with Ben Cerveny and Webb, drove around the
city in a convertible car before wandering up to Molly's place and
drinking a few glasses of wine and basically passing out. Nice
evening!
And what's next over the next couple of days?
- Visit Six Apart
- Meet up with Kevin Marks
for lunch
- See Ben Cerveny and Jim Speth and talk about geeky shit
- Try and do some gay stuff of some kind
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Off to San Francisco
Off to San Francisco
04/09/2005 09:28 AM
Thanks to everyone who showed up in Mar del Plata to participate in
the ICANN meeting. I thought that the discussion was healthy and
productive and although we moved forward on a number of things, we are
left with a lot of work to do based on the feedback we received on the
strategic plan, the board governance guidelines, .pro, .net, IDNs,
transparency, process and a number of other topics. Special thanks to
staff for running such a great meeting in the absence of our CEO Paul
Twomey. I think you did an excellent job.
Thanks to everyone who showed up for dinner last night and special thanks to Mariano for organizing everything. It
was great to meet the Argentine bloggers. I'm sorry I was late. Our
bus from Mar del Plata broke down and we had have them send a new
one.
Thanks to Mookie letting me stay at his place in Buenos Aires.
I'm off to San Francisco today to do my usual rounds and to go a
Institute for the Future retreat.
Since my flight doesn't leave until this evening, I hope I can do a
bit of moblogging in Buenos Aires.
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Jon Udell, San Francisco
Jon Udell, San Francisco
11/10/2003 11:18 PMIf you've never seen the video, or haven't watched it in a long time,
do a Google on "knowledge navigator quicktime" to find a copy. ...
"San Francisco Examiner"
"San Francisco Examiner"
06/30/2004 04:45 AMSan Francisco Keeps Gay Weddings Going
(AP)
San Francisco Keeps Gay Weddings Going
(AP)
02/16/2004 09:13 PMAP - As hundreds of gay and lesbian couples lined up at City Hall for
the historic chance to wed with the city's blessing, opponents filed
legal papers Monday arguing that only judges can declare California's
prohibition on same-sex marriages to be unconstitutional.
CC Party Jan. 6 San Francisco
CC Party Jan. 6 San Francisco
12/29/2004 03:38 PM
Art bashing in San Francisco
Art bashing in San Francisco
06/01/2004 12:22 PMFlowers for San Francisco
Flowers for San Francisco
05/31/2004 02:05 PMThere are quite a few people dropping by
ongoing today on account of the
article in the Chronicle about advertising. Among
other things, it says I run lots of flower pictures, only I haven’t
for a while, so here are some...
San Francisco, baby...
San Francisco, baby...
08/13/2004 01:59 AMPing. Now in San Francisco after cool drive with fun people in
which I mostly slept and pointed at wind farms and acres of densely
packed cows. Had subsequent great fun at the SixApart Mixer thing
where I met loads of people - some for the first time, others not.
Looked slightly nervous around some people who do really good work.
Touched a couple of them without them noticing (or at least without
them calling the police). Got a free USB dongle thing and saw the 3.1
release of MT which doesn't seem overly dramatic at first but kind of
sits in the back of your head and wiggles its tush in the direction of
interesting things. Cab back to Leslie's place - talking about The
O.C. and TV shows in general when I get to pull out my trump card -
super-secret super-cool thing that made Leslie go oooooh. Don't think
I'm going to make it to LobbyCon now though. Shame!
I'm quite enjoying not taking this weblog as seriously as normal
for a few days. It feels pretty liberating, although possibly not very
productive or good in the longer term. God knows what it's going to be
like going back to London. I can already feel it on the horizon and
must confess am vaguely dreading it.
San Francisco update...
San Francisco update...
08/17/2004 03:19 PMSo what did I do yesterday... Er... Basically went for lunch with
Kevin and Jesse where we talked about Apple and set-top boxes and food
and stuff, wandered into Technorati and said hi to people
(wave to Tantek), micro-bumped
into Joi, then got the CalTrain up to
see Six Apart (purely for fun),
got a train back with Anil
and finally wandered off to The Cafe
for my required dose of gaydom, which was a bit weird as it was
hip-hop night and I felt like everyone's fat beardy grandfather. So I
got a bit drunk and danced clumsily and collapsed back at Leslie's
unconscious at about one. Funny day.
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ProNet: Out and About in San Francisco
ProNet: Out and About in San Francisco
06/17/2005 02:05 PMThough it's short notice, we'll have a number of Six Apart staff
members participating in some events in San Francisco tonight where
bloggers are gathering. We'd love to meet you there. First, with the
release of the Tags plugin for...
Third of San Francisco Without Power
Third of San Francisco Without Power
12/21/2003 07:25 AMReuters via Wired News Dec 21 2003 6:38AM ET
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San Francisco Sushi Finder
San Francisco Sushi Finder
11/18/2003 07:53 PMNice. (There are other cities, too.)
Macworld San Francisco 2004
Macworld San Francisco 2004
01/07/2004 02:05 PMApple CEO Steve Jobs delivered a keynote presentation Tuesday, Jan 6,
at 9 AM PT, introducing the latest hardware and software products from
Apple, including the iPod mini, iLife ’04 with GarageBand and Xserve
G5. See a roundup of news and photos from the show, updated throughout
the week. [Jan 6]
MacWorld San Francisco Coverage
MacWorld San Francisco Coverage
01/05/2004 10:27 PMdotmac.info will be bringing you live, up-to-the-minute reports of the
MacWorld Keynote by Steve Jobs tomorrow. The event is scheduled to
begin at 9am PT in the Moscone Convention Center, and we'll have full
coverage of the presentation on our
special event page.
Just A Geek signing in San Francisco
Just A Geek signing in San Francisco
01/05/2005 02:15 PMGood news, everyone!
When the
press release went out about MacWorld, a lot of WWdN readers asked if there would be a reading or signing
for people who were unable to afford admission to the conference.
Well, it turns out that we have a mole at Bor
ders in Union Square. She made an introduction for me, and I am
super excited to announce that I've been invited to their store for a
reading and signing when I'm in town!
It looks like the Borders website hasn't been updated yet, but I'm
scheduled for Friday January 14th at 7pm.
Oh! I just got a Really Big Idea™, that could be a whole
bunch of Supercool: I have a short list of stories from Just A Geek
that I choose from when I perform at bookstores. Based on comments and
e-mail, I know there are a lot of WWdN readers in NorCal. How about,
instead of me choosing what to read, I let you guys pick what you'd
like to hear? If you're planning to come out on the 14th, say so in
the comments, and leave a brief description, or chapter number, or
page number, or whatever, and the majority will rule.
Power Restored to Most of 120,000 in San
Francisco
Power Restored to Most of 120,000 in San
Francisco
12/21/2003 10:41 PMReuters via Wired News Dec 21 2003 9:35PM ET
Power Being Restored in San Francisco
Power Being Restored in San Francisco
12/21/2003 01:07 PMReuters via Wired News Dec 21 2003 12:35PM ET
LinuxWorld's San Francisco shindig
LinuxWorld's San Francisco shindig
08/02/2004 12:20 PMAs the show kicks off, everyone wants a piece of the action. For
example, does Sun really want to buy Novell? Also: Patent power.
Photos from Seybold San Francisco
Photos from Seybold San Francisco
08/20/2004 04:48 PMThe folks at Inside Mac Radio have posted a photo gallery from this
week's Seybold Seminars in San Francisco...
Thoughts on MacWorld San Francisco
Thoughts on MacWorld San Francisco
01/07/2004 04:41 PMI must admit I wasn't expecting anything earth-shattering from
Steve Jobs yesterday and for the most part I wasn't disappointed.
While unveiling some pretty cool toys, both hardware and software, he
failed to deliver anything that on it's surface will immediately sway
a consumer to purchase a Mac over a PC.
I say 'on it's surface' because Garage Band may
become another one of those things that people fall in love with. The
fact that he added it to the $49 iLife package is amazing. Face it,
human beings love to create things and that includes music. Today's
musical offerings are pretty bland so creating your own might be a
good alternative. Garage Band now puts professional level music
composition in the hands of the average consumer. A demo I saw last
night showed a $99 keyboard hooked up to it and it sounded exactly
like a grand piano. Not that cheesy midi sound you'd expect. Pretty
impressive.
Other announcements included improvements to iPhoto, iMovie and
iDVD as well as new iPod Minis. The knock against the new smaller
iPods will be that for the capacity they aren't much cheaper than a
slightly larger iPod. Keep in mind you are not paying for capacity,
but rather the physical size of the unit. It's the size of a business
card. It's the same reason Sony is able sell those tiny Vaios. People
want smaller rather than bigger. It's not the $100 iPod everybody was
hoping for, but they do come in five fashionable colors. Give him
credit, Steve Jobs knows how to sell to your vanity.
The one thing that caught my eye yesterday was not mentioned at
MacWorld. iTunes Music Store added lists of Billboards Top 100 songs
for every year going back to 1946. While the lists are not complete
they are fairly comprehensive. I must admit the fuel behind my Napster
addiction a couple of years ago was how easy it was to find music I
remembered from high school and college. I was never terribly
interested in finding new albums on Napster or Kazaa because the vast
majority of new music is rather unappealing. This is the kind of small
enhancement that I think will keep Apple and iTMS ahead of Walmart and
Napster in the online music biz.
All in all, not a bad day for Apple. Since these announcements
focused primarily on software I'd expect some new hardware sometime
this summer. Possibly G5 Powerbooks or 3Ghz Power Macs. It's the 20th
anniversary of the Macintosh this year so I have no doubt that Jobs
has something good in the pipeline.
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San Francisco - LA - Enschede - Ashridge
San Francisco - LA - Enschede - Ashridge
08/27/2004 02:11 PMSo, back from Amsterdam for one day and then off to Ashridge for a day/night for a
work thing. I got a decent night's sleep for pretty much the first
time since I've been back in the country and am feeling slightly more
creative and desperate to make something since coming back from
Eurofoo. In the depths of last night we went into the grounds to try
and find the bible circle - a stone bible on a plinth in the middle of
a ring of enormous pine tress - and I managed to walk into a huge
branch and scrape up half my face. And on the train this morning, I
saw a woman wearing a T-shirt that read "I seem to have mislaid my
boyfriend" reading a book called "It's Ok, I'm Wearing Really Big
Knickers". DNS on my work wifi network appears to be buggering around
or I'd try and find you some links... Hopefully in the next couple of
days I'll start writing about proper grown-up things again. But in the
meantime, have fun!
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San Francisco sues Microsoft
San Francisco sues Microsoft
08/30/2004 07:43 PMDespite numerous out-of-court settlements with various state
governments around the country, it appears Microsoft's legal woes
aren't over yet.
San Francisco: Saturday morning...
San Francisco: Saturday morning...
08/14/2004 01:20 PMSo I kind of slacked off yesterday, if truth be told. Not a lot of
exploring, not a lot of drenching myself in San Francisco - just a
fair amount of doing things I like to do that I don't really often get
the opportunity to do. So I went to see two films (the other one was
the
Manchurian Candidate - much recommended), bought a couple of books, a case for my iPod, had a really nice Clam
Chowder and portion of Fish and Chips at San Francisco's best American restaurant and
sat in Starbucks for a bit
(thanks Anil) starting to
catch up on all the cool stuff that's been going on around the web in
the million years since we started working on representing programming
on Radio 3.
Today I think is going to be more about getting some of the flavour
of the city - or at least starting to ramp up my mucking around with
local geeks. Hopefully I'm going to go see Danah's kittens in the
next couple of hours, go see Heather at Taco Bell around lunchtime, and
then go see a movie
with Leslie this afternoon.
But all of this is really preamble to the main event which should
be happening this evening - a drink and catch-up with local geeks at
San Francisco's famous Tonga Room
and Hurricane Bar from 8.30 this evening. Come along if you can.
It'll be fun...
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Google Making 3-D Map of San Francisco?
Google Making 3-D Map of San Francisco?
06/17/2005 07:21 PMMan, if it were anywhere near April 1st I would be seriously wondering
about this story. BetaNews is reporting on a story at
SiliconValleyWatcher that Google is attempting to map...
San Francisco gay wedding boom
San Francisco gay wedding boom
02/14/2004 01:09 AMGay couples race to get married in San Francisco after the mayor lifts
a state ban on same-sex unions.
San Francisco may not regulate bl0ggers
after all
San Francisco may not regulate bl0ggers
after all
04/06/2005 11:08 PMBlog: It looks like San Francisco political bloggers may be able to
rest easy. Maybe.
The Board of Supervisors has been...
Same-Sex Couples Marry in San Francisco
(AP)
Same-Sex Couples Marry in San Francisco
(AP)
02/14/2004 10:21 PMAP - Gay and lesbian couples from across the country answered this
city's Valentine's Day invitation to wed in an unprecedented spree of
same-sex marriages that has challenged California law and sent
conservative groups scrambling for court intervention.
Segway Banned In San Francisco
Segway Banned In San Francisco
01/20/2003 07:39 PMA quick search [google.com] on Google News reveals a Register article
[theregister.co.uk] stating that the city council of San Francisco
voted last month to ...
Robots Are Us! benefit in San Francisco
Robots Are Us! benefit in San Francisco
04/21/2004 03:23 AMJed sez, "The
Speculative Literature
Foundation is holding an event in San Francisco this coming
Friday, April 23, as a fundraiser for the new
SLF Fountain Award for sf short stories of exceptional literary
quality. The event will feature Pat Murphy, Rudy Rucker, Terry Bisson,
Ken Wharton, Charlie Anders, and Omnicircus ("an experimental,
surreal-psychedelic musical-cabaret group"); 7:00 p.m., $10-$20
sliding scale at the door. It'll be at 550 Natoma, a few blocks from
the Civic Center BART station, near 7th and Mission."
LinkThe Wild Parrots of San Francisco
The Wild Parrots of San Francisco
02/15/2004 07:32 AMWild parrots in
San Francisco.
Wild parrots in San Francisco
My first year in San Francisco, I'm living in Russian Hill.
One day I hear squawking up above like I've never heard, and I love
birds, don't know why, but I look up.
I see a flock of big green parrots, almost feels miraculous.
Since then, I learn that SF has two flocks of such parrots, and for
years, Marc Bittner has been studying and feeding them. I feel this is
really cool.
Today, I just finished his book the Wild
Parrots of Telegraph Hill and it was really good. It also
discusses a
related documentary by Judy Irving, same subject, and I
gotta see it sometime. [craigblog]
When I lived on the Embarcadero - flocks of squaking parrots would
coming flying across the sky. It's wild. A truly San
Francisco experience.
On my upcoming trip to San Francisco...
On my upcoming trip to San Francisco...
06/17/2005 03:22 PMSo here's the plan - I'm flying to San Francisco on Saturday and
I'll be hanging around until the 26th with all my geek hipster
friends. But don't take that to mean that I'm busy all the time - I'm
keen as ever to see (and meet) as many neat people as possible. When I
go to San Francisco, I normally try and set up some kind of drunken
evening at the Tonga Room - because the rain and the thunder
and the tiki stylings and the lounge act are all so cool. But I am
also aware that the cocktails are terrible and that maybe I've
milked the experience as much as I can. So, guys, does anyone have any
better ideas?
While I'm at it, I might as well put out another call - are there
any glorious geek events, any particularly cool exhibitions or bars
that I'd regret not going to? It's not every day I get a full week in
my spiritual homeland to reconnect with the mothership. So what should
I be doing?
Of course, no trip comes without its inconveniences, and this one
is particularly poignant - while I'm on the flight to SFO I'll be
missing the big reveal in the final episode of Doctor Who. This is doubly
galling since I'm currently enduring hundreds of lunatic comments on
my Doctor Who and Bad Wolf post. Regular
visitors to the site may be getting bored of hearing about this, but
things are way out of control - the post has received seven
hundred comments as of now, and sometimes they come in at the rate
of one or two a minute. The whole thing's starting to remind me of Kottke's
famous Matrix meltdown. All of which is a roundabout way of saying
don't spoil it for me until I've got my hands on a copy.
Anyway, as of this evening, I'm either in pre-flight limbo or stuck
in some terminal interzone, and I'm hoping to take the opportunity to
catch up with all the notes and writing I've been doing recently but
haven't had a chance to post to my site. So more later...
Light, layers and San Francisco...
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Light, layers and San Francisco...
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04/10/2005 11:03 PMIraq war view on San Francisco ballot
Iraq war view on San Francisco ballot
07/01/2004 01:45 PMA view of San Francisco at dusk...
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