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(I posted this to Yelp on 6-8-06) Franciscan Crab Restaurant Pier 43 1/2 San Francisco, CA 94133 (415) 362-7733 Dungeness crab was very good, though very expensive. We had to ask about our appetizer twice before it arrived. My chowder arrived without a spoon (there are no spoons on the tables, it should have been […]
Last night we had a terrific impromptu dinner party. Corey called in the afternoon sati g he was in San Francisco with nothing going on. He brought his new girlfriend Melissa. Rick Taylor brought a chicken caserole, our neighbor Cindy brought greens from working at the farmers market. And Charlotte brought her signature pink fizzy […]
Sitting in the kitchen while VNCing into the bedroom on the snazzy-fast new UltraVNC 1.5.3. The smell of very successful home-made bread (NOT bread machine, the real deal) wafting over my shoulder… and [nom nom nom] the taste proves it :-) Listening to SomaFM “Space Station Soma” station on my (very pretty!) new iPhone (thanks […]
Zimbabwe has 231,000,000% inflation. The wikipedia article on the Zimbabwean dollar reads like a Keystone Cops comedy. A Reuters article reads “The country’s largest bank note, a 100 billion Zimbabwe dollar bill introduced on Monday, cannot buy a loaf of bread…” On July 24th 2008, a “Second” 100 billion ZWD note could buy 3 eggs. […]
Baking yeast packets at the supermarket: $3 for 3 0.25 oz packets. $64/lb Bulk baking yeast: $2.29 for a 1lb brick. $2.29/lb Packets cost 28 times as much. Yipe. Smart and Final sells packets right next to bulk 1 lb containers. The packets cost $3 for 0.75 oz, the bulk costs $4 for 16 ounces. […]
Saturday Went on 2 pretty good appointments, driving around the entire Bay (SF->San Jose->Oakland->SF) weee, I’m dizzy… Met our new neighbor Samantha. The welcome committee (Laurie, Cindy and myself) offered her and her friends celery as an official welcome committee gift. Had Sam over for leftover Tartine bread pudding. Aaron told of his amazing and […]
I borrowed Barry’s Kill a Watt. It’s a gizmo that tells you how many watts and kilowatt*hours your appliances are using. I found out a couple interesting tidbits. Electricity costs me $0.11 per kilowatt. In my small apartment, I never get out of the first tier of electric rates, which peak out at $0.36 per […]
(I forget exactly which week I did this… but the date is close…) Friday – went to Tech Shop. Learned (pretty much) how to use a CNC plasma cutter. Saw their 3d printer and laser etcher. Met a cool film guy who is making his own camera lenses. We’re gonna hook him up with our […]
“I’m in charge of the knives and the wine!” That was proudly proclaimed by Shani at the height of our impromptu dinner party on Saturday night. I was planning on going out to an Extra Action Marching Band performance at 12 Galaxies and Charlotte was planning on staying in for a quiet evening. But when […]
Sometimes I wonder where the time goes. So it’s good to write it down just to remind yourself that you’ve actually accomplished something. In the last week or so I (with Charlotte!)…. went to 2 of 3 bookkeeping classes (final one is next week) went to “How to be a good speaker” class (sucked) went […]