Last weekend my wife and I went to the Santa Cruz Boardwalk and I had a moment of clarity after playing Whac-A-Mole. We had run out of tokens, and had already burned through about $20 on various games, but I wanted to play a few more. When I was a kid, running out of tokens […]
Last Tuesday I reported for jury duty at the Superior Court of California, County of Alameda’s Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse. The last time I actually had to go to report for jury duty was in May of 2006. It was for a civil case relating to this: Esteemed UC history professor hit by truck and […]
Shortly before 7am GMT on February 12, 2009, Amazon.co.uk slowly began refusing to fulfill MP3 orders. By 8am, the MP3 store was failing to fulfill 95% of all orders and continued to do so until almost 2pm. I often wondered how things like this come about and now I have first hand knowledge. I was […]
At work I am on the photogs mailing list where a number of people share their monthly best/favorite photographs they’ve taken during the month. I posted my 10 favorite, and 3 of them appear below. In addition, I checked my photo stats and apparently in mid-November someone submitted a store to Digg about mountain goats. […]
