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KOIT switched to Christmas programming today. I bumped and jammed to Bob Seger’s Little Drummer Boy, Frank Sinatra’s Santa Claus is Coming to Town, and Sarah McLachlan’s Happy Xmas for about 2 hours.

Ok, I’m done.

Bring on the Arbor Day music.

Julie Bernstein took many photos of lasertag this weekend. She’s a really good professional photographer.

Here’s the whole set of lasertag photos set.

Last week I got to attend “From The ‘Hood to the House”. This year,  the Glide Church annual holiday festival was held at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House on the 12th. It was quite an affair with Maya Angelou, a huge church ensemble singing, dancers, musicians and Cecil Williams celebrating his 45th anniversary running Glide Church.

I have to thank Cindy for inviting Charlotte and I to volunteer for the event. We got to help folks (I helped Cindy in the office much of the day), see most of the show and try a zillion tasty foods. :-)

Saturday I played lasertag with Ziggy and 30 friends in Junipero Serra Park in San Bruno. It was great fun!

I love that expression. I used it at Maker Faire… check the last 10 seconds of the video I made. But I got it wrong, sticking the “and” in there. It’s actually:

“Fly! Be Free!
[Mork tosses the egg in the air. It makes a quick and unfortunate decent to the counter top, smashing]
Well I guess we’ll have to have a quick burial at sea then.”

You can find it 38:18 minutes:seconds into the pilot episode of Mork and Mindy. This is hopefully still a link to the pilot episode of Mork and Mindy.

It’s amazing how individual moments get captured and amplified. I last saw that episode like 20+ years ago.

Last month Charlotte and I saw Robert Cameron’s photo show at the Metreon. It was pretty fantastic.

Yesterday Charlotte told me that he died. That’s the bad news. The good news is that… well, let me grab snippets from his obituary in the San Francisco Chronicle:

Three months ago, Robert Cameron was hanging out of a helicopter taking pictures of Lombard Street.
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He was 98 and in the midst of his last show – “Environmental Journey: Robert Cameron’s Aerial Photography of our Pacific Rim,” which is on display at the Metreon in downtown San Francisco.
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Over four decades, Mr. Cameron produced 15 coffee table books in the “Above” series, with 3 million copies in print.
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Mr. Cameron, who was by then married to his high school sweetheart,
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In lieu of services, the family would like people to attend “Environmental Journey,” Mr. Cameron’s show at the Metreon, scheduled to be up until the end of the month. It includes 59 giant photo murals highlighting green practices and environmental themes from across the Pacific Rim. The window display on Fourth Street is his last photo of Lombard Street, colorfully made over for an anniversary celebration of the board game Candy Land.

“He regarded that show as his legacy,” Tony Cameron said. “He wanted to be able to show at the end of his life the kind of work that he did.”

Go to the show.
Live life.

Why is iTunes so awfully slow? If I weren’t locked into iTunes to sync my iPhone, it would be in the trash right now.

And for what it does, iTunes sucks 9 different ways. I could go into it but why bother? The tasks it is required to do are really very simple. Why did they make it so hard?

Oh, forget it…  Calgon, take me away.

Come play! Feel free to write something in the space below!
No, that’s not an image below, it’s a real, realtime editor!
Call a friend and have them type in their window on their computer and it’ll show up instantly in your window!

Or you can open up the editor in a full window.

Update: Here is an image of the Etherpad as of 12-6-09. They were bought by Google for $10 million. Etherpad is to be released as open source and incorporated into Google Wave.

Want to find out what gun was used in a movie? Check the Internet Movie Firearms Database!

My handgun is apparently quite popular in the movies.

Tuesday evening the International Space Station will be flying by San Francisco. Join a contingent on Bernal Hill or just look up at the right time. I caught it once before and was cooler than you’d initially imagine.

Tuesday evening starting at 5:29pm sharp for just 3 minutes. Starting in the southwest, going high in the sky and ending in the northeast.

Join us on Bernal Hill! Call me or comment on the blog or just show up

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