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Beers – One Stella and one Black and Tan, originally uploaded by Dave Schumaker.
February marks the return of Strong Beer Month in San Francisco. Hell yes!
Protip for those intending to play along: Don’t try them all in one sitting.
This is an epically awesome photo by Chris Kotsiopoulos taken over the course of 30 hours near Athens, Greece.
[via Kottke]
This is pretty fantastic! Eric Jacqmain built a “solar death ray” using 5,800 mirrors glued to a satellite dish.
The R5800 is my latest and greatest solar creation. Made from an ordinary fiberglass satellite dish, it is covered in about 5800 3/8″ (~1cm) mirror tiles. When properly aligned, it can generate a spot the size of a dime with an intensity of 5000 suns! This amount of power is more than enough to melt steel, vaporize aluminum, boil concrete, turn dirt into lava, and obliterate any organic material in an instant. It stands at 5’9″ and is 42″ across.
Seeing kids and young adults do science experiments and create things like this gives me hope for our future!
It was worth a shot., originally uploaded by Dave Schumaker.
Chase has an iPhone app that allows one to take a picture of their checks to deposit it. I decided to take a picture of some money — same thing, right? This note is legal tender for all debts public and private. Hah, it was worth a shot. 😉
Recently, I was tracking some inbound clicks to my blog through Google Analytics and found a bunch of traffic to my site from some random discussion forum. Apparently, a user there linked to my earthquakes article, which spawned a debate on my integrity and associations with black-hat hackers and government security services (haha, what?). Mind you, none of these people know me. I’ve attached an image from one particular nutcase below.
It’s amazing. The paranoia some people display is astounding!
Hilarious! Also, it’s news to me that gdgt is apparently closely affiliated with government and security services. My cover has been blown!
Stay tuned, I’m awaiting orders from my commanders.
I don’t know if I’ve been playing too much RDR lately or what, but I know that anyone who knows me is going to be surprised by this post.
I saw these boots this weekend (see image below), and I kind of want some! The only problem is, I have no idea what kind they are, since I know absolutely nothing about boots. They look very similar to these Frye Harness boots, but I actually don’t like the way those particularly look (I like a combination of the vintage style, plus the “foot” seems to stick out longer in my attached picture).
EDIT: We might have found them. Kerry says they look really similar to these vintage Frye Harness boots!
Anyway, don’t worry Mom and Dad. I’m sure this desire will pass by tomorrow morning. Besides, if I actually purchased these, would I *really* ever wear them besides Halloween and Bay to Breakers? Probably not.
“Alcoholic Eruption” – January 5th, 2011
Kerry surprised me for my birthday and took me out to the Tonga Room for dinner and drinks. It was my first time there. It was a fun little place!
One of the drinks we ordered, pictured above, was called the Lava Bowl. It was dangerous.
“Better Luck Next Time” – January 4th, 2011
It’s few and far between that I ever play this, but with $355 million up for grabs? Why not?
The results? Things went about as well as expected!
Dear friends who work in marketing and PR. Promise me you won’t write things like this.
How confusing can this be? Referencing multiple time zones in the same sentence, changing previous embargo times.
The attached news release regarding [redacted] will be distributed on Thursday, Jan. 6 at 8 a.m. EST, however, the embargo on the news lifts at 11 a.m. PST tomorrow, Jan. 5, so you can include the news in your stories regarding the [redacted] launch. I’ve also attached images.
Also, keep in mind that [redacted] news embargo also moved up to tomorrow, Jan. at 11 a.m. due to [redacted] launch.
Yes, the date was missing in that second paragraph.
“F this train! (Don’t worry, it’s all cool.)” – January 3rd, 2011
Even when I’m otherwise pissed off at SF Muni, the F line always pulls through. It’s one of my favorite ways to travel through the city — the historic cars, the old seats, and the awesome growl of the train as it travels down the tracks. It’s not the quickest, but it’s fun!