Evening of January 1, 2009.  I like how the pyramid looks like an antenna spraying radiation out into the sky.

Frequently I need to execute a fairly long running task, such as unpacking a large tar file or running a long build.  I want to get feedback on the progress of the task, but I don’t necessarily want to fill my terminal window with lots of superfluous text by using the verbose output option.  Not [...]

A photo from the archives.  June 15, 2008, cleaning up art supplies at my son’s old school, Crestmont School.

I took this picture in December, 2008 at dusk.  New Economy Dry Cleaners and Laundry is located at Sacramento and Fairview, in South Berkeley.  I’ve never taken any laundry there, but I think their name is fabulous.

An excellent short article in this week’s New Yorker, in the Talk of the Town section, explains how two cognitive biases make the case for health care reform difficult to make with the American public. I recommend you read the article yourself, but I will summarize its major points here.
The combination of two human [...]

I have nothing written ready to post, so I offer another photo blog entry.
This is Central Concrete, located at 24th and Peralta Streets in West Oakland, on the morning of March 27, 2009.

Close up of the giant metal woman sculpture, found on its side behind American Steel, on 20th Street between Poplar and Mandella Parkway.  This sculpture appeared earlier in the Art Shadow post.  Picture taken August 18, 2009.
I saw the sculpture being loaded on a flatbed truck just this last Tuesday (August 25), presumably on its [...]

This month’s Wired magazine published a good, but I think oddly critical article about Craigslist, called Why Craigslist is Such a Mess.  I say “oddly critical” because I don’t think Craigslist is nearly as bad as the article makes it out to be.
In a separate piece, Gary Wolf explains the motivation for writing the cover [...]

Recycling another old photo that I’ve never shared before.  Dusk after the rain, February 24, 2008, looking at North Beach.

It turns out that the cable car cable is not the only public transportation infrastructure requiring inspection in San Francisco.  These gentlemen were spotted last Friday morning (August 21) looking at the overhead wires used by electric buses on Chestnut Street.  The truck they stood on top of was driven very slowly up the street [...]

At Gary Brawer Guitar Repair they collect all the strings they remove from guitars they repair for reycling. Seeing them curled around in the box reminded me of the spiral tracks left in cloud chambers by decaying particles.