I’ve been watching and downloading Discovery Channel podcasts and while in general I don’t like ads, I gotta say the Nature of Power podcasts that Discovery & Acura have created are pretty cool. The base jumper guy in particular is pretty sweet -check it out. (Since I’m flying now it only seemed appropriate.)
My good friend Stano (who I actually laid off in the dot.com days as things fell apart) sent me this link. We’re actually in the montage around 0:22 for like 1/20th of a second. It’s funny to think of all the work done internally and what ultimately became of the company. I actually saved some of my old dot.com shirts thinking that around 2026 (25 years after the end of that first era) the Smithsonian will want relics from the era and I’ll donate them then. See if you recognize any of these folks – I imagine many are still working at web 2.0 companies but many others like myself are in totally unrelated industries.
If 10% of cell phone users unplugged their chargers while they aren’t in use, it would save enough energy to power 60,000 homes for a full year.
A few pix…
Well I’m standing in line in my polling place waiting to vote. This is the first time in the eleven years I’ve lived here that there’s actually a line. Been waiting 17 minutes so far, so we’ll see how long it takes…
The folks at: www.thingsarefine.org have some great designs up. I particularly liked this one:
So I got an iPhone today and the wordpress app so here’s my first post/test!
This is the first pix I took of my salad at Boxed Foods after I got the phone…
So excited to find out that my favorite author, Haruki Murakami will be making a rare appearace at Cal next month! Just bought tickets and am really looking forward to this!
Yeah all you need to know is if you have heard of Fernet then you’ve probably tried it. Here in San Francisco we all seem to love it. I can never seem to find it in many other cities and the last time I was in LA, the bartendress at Mr. T’s Bowl knew immediately of where I came from.
As she turned around to face me after hearing my order, the beautiful blonde with the silver pants said, “you must be from San Francisco!” in her charming Russian accent.
She was right of course.
So the first time I ever had Fernet was when I was shooting an event for Fernet who was promoting the drink at a bar in North Beach dispatching young lasses with low cut tops and tight pants to distribute it throughout the bar (this was Feb 2, 2004). After my job was done, I decided to try it out since the women were very compelling and it was free. Many, many shots later and the morning after, I wake up in a strange apartment near the Embarcadero. It was then Friday morning so I looked around worriedly and found my camera bag with everything intact, but nobody around. I looked at the pix on the camera and chimped away realizing I must have been pretty sloshed since I let some people use my camera to record evidence of the debauchery.
I didn’t see anyone or any photos in the apartment so I had no idea who lived there, but decided to just head home so left and did the walk of shame as many folks were on their way into work in the Financial District.
My friend Andrei sent me a cool link to an article from the SF Weekly on Fernet and San Francisco – check it out! (photo below of the part of that evening that I don’t recall…)
