Category Archives: Random
One On The Books For October…
Last year I didn’t post to this blog for an entire month (May, to be exact), so there’s a giant, soul-sucking 30+ day hole in this site’s archive, and I promised myself I would never let that happen again because…well… … Continue reading
The View from Up Here
I’ve been busy lately. Busier than usual. In addition to everything else I’m wrapped up in — which essentially boils down to working and being a father to my daughter — I went back to school, which has turned out to … Continue reading
Photos: July 11, 2010
All photos taken at Joaquin Miller Park in Oakland, CA, with Motorla Droid & Canon S90.
Photos: June 27, 2010
All these photos were taken with a Motorla Droid, using the FxCamera app’s Toy Camera & Poloroid settings.
What $1.75mil Gets You in Oakland, CA
Even though I’m not balling anywhere near this level, we stopped by this open house on the Oakland / Piedmont border today, just because we drive by this place pretty much every day, and hardly any of the house is … Continue reading
See, Hear…
Over the last year or so I’ve been going back and forth with the hipster blog grotto known as Tumblr. I was trying to make something fly over there, and I finally realized that don’t really like it, and the … Continue reading
Dock Ellis & The LSD-Fueled No-Hitter
Pittsburgh Pirates’ pitcher Dock Ellis pitched a no-hitter on acid. I’ve heard this story a million times, but always as MLB lore, never from an official of the league, never from a television sports historian, and never from another professional … Continue reading
Whisky Fest ’09
I don’t get out much these days (though this month certainly seems like an exception to that rule) but that doesn’t mean I don’t maintain a couple of innocuous vices. I like to take a drink in the evenings, and … Continue reading