Love Them Chandeliers!
Posted by Dave | August 15th, 2010 | Filed under Culture
I’ve noticed the chandelier motif is very popular – similar to the baroque style wallpaper backgrounds you see everywhere in the design world.
Here’s three recent samples I’ve seen right here in the SF Bay Area.
Citizen Space – a co-work space I’ve used in the South Park area of SOMA.
Beauty parlor in Berkeley’s 4th St. shopping district.
And last, but not least, Pesto Bar Café in Sebastapol. (I’m trying to dig up a photo of their chandelier featured sign.
Oaklavia
Posted by Dave | July 7th, 2010 | Filed under Culture, Oakland
I participated and rode my bike around the streets Oakland – what a blast! Maybe this should become a permanent Sunday event? Downtown Oakland is mostly a ghost town on the weekend anyway.
HD Video from a RC Helicopter!
Posted by Dave | June 22nd, 2010 | Filed under Tech
Aerial video with a Canon 5D , 7D helivideo.com from Eric AUSTIN on Vimeo.
I’ve always wanted an excuse like this to get the ultimate toy for myself – a RC helicopter! I imagined it would be cool if it could fly my Canon G9 overhead and take some groovy aerial video and photos. Well, this guy went for it and mount an awesome Canon 5D with it’s ability to shoot gorgeous 1080p HD video.
Like he says in the video, crashing is NOT an option!
Adam Curry Offers Stern a 100 Million Dollars
Posted by Dave | June 14th, 2010 | Filed under Culture
Bike Church Photos
Posted by Dave | April 18th, 2010 | Filed under Culture, Food, Oakland
More snaps from today’s Bike Church + some snaps of the cool garden space behind Manifesto/Subrosa.
A little gospel…
Posted by Dave | April 18th, 2010 | Filed under Culture, Food, Oakland, Street Food
Bike Church
Posted by Dave | April 18th, 2010 | Filed under Culture, Food, Oakland, Street Food
Live blogging from 40th Street!
Manifesto Bicycles is starting up its Sunday morning Bike Church again. Featuring bicycles (lots), music and raffles. There is also half off coffee next door at Subrosa Coffee (best in East Bay).
Tags: culture bikes
20 Highest Radiating Cell Phones
Posted by Dave | March 17th, 2010 | Filed under Tech
Hmm, is your ear feeling a little too warm?
source: cnet.com
| Manufacturer and model | SAR level(digital) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Motorola V195s | 1.6 |
| 2 | Motorola Zine ZN5 | 1.59 |
| 2a | Motorola Rival | 1.59 |
| 4 | Kyocera Jax S1300 | 1.55 |
| 4a | Motorola VU204 | 1.55 |
| 6 | RIM BlackBerry Curve 8330 (Sprint) | 1.54 |
| 6a | RIM BlackBerry Curve 8330 (U.S. Cellular) | 1.54 |
| 6b | RIM BlackBerry Curve 8330 (Verizon Wireless) | 1.54 |
| 9 | Motorola Crush | 1.53 |
| 9a | Nokia E71x | 1.53 |
| 11 | Pantech Matrix | 1.52 |
| 12 | LG Rumor 2 | 1.51 |
| 12a | RIM BlackBerry Bold | 1.51 |
| 14 | HTC SMT5800 | 1.49 |
| 14a | Motorola Droid | 1.49 |
| 16 | Sony Ericsson W350a | 1.48 |
| 17 | LG Chocolate Touch | 1.47 |
| 17a | Nokia 2320 GoPhone | 1.47 |
| 17b | Palm Pixi Plus (Verizon Wireless) | 1.47 |
| 17c | T-Mobile Dash 3G | 1.47 |
What St. Patricks Day Means To Me
Posted by Dave | March 15th, 2010 | Filed under Food
Before I discovered pubs and Irish whiskey, St. Patrick’s Day was best represented by Uncle O’Grimacy and Shamrock Shakes.
Tsunami Waves At Ocean Beach, SF
Posted by Dave | March 1st, 2010 | Filed under San Francisco
Well, looks like the normal surf to me…
“Tsunami” Waves at Ocean Beach, Feb. 27, 2010 from Richmond SF Blog on Vimeo.
Upgrading Windows 7 RC to Retail version
Posted by Dave | March 1st, 2010 | Filed under Tech
Now that the installation of Windows 7 RC installed on my Media server is giving me the countdown to death, it’s time to upgrade with a retail copy of Windows 7 Professional. Microsoft doesn’t support upgrading the free Release Candidate version to the retail version, but there is a easy workaround posted at Icrontic. The advantage of doing it this way instead of a ‘clean install’, is that you can keep your installed apps and settings. Another how-to is posted by Colleen of TWiT fame on her site, theV01d.com.
After pondering this for a moment, I decided to just do a clean install. It actually goes quicker than running this hack and I only had a couple programs installed [Boxee and VLC], so re-installing apps was a breeze. I just installed over the old XP partition on my Media box and was up and running. I then deleted the RC partition to free up some space.
Big Social Media Sites Now Using NoSQL
Posted by Dave | March 1st, 2010 | Filed under Tech
Interesting, Twitter and other big players in social media are switching from MySQL (now part of Oracle) to Cassandra (NoSQL), an Apache Software Foundation open source project. Read the article.
Visit to the TWiT Cottage
Posted by Dave | February 13th, 2010 | Filed under Tech
On a lark, I decided to drive up to Petaluma and visit Leo LaPorte’s TWiT Cottage where he and crew produce TWiT.tv shows. During my visit I watched the recording of Macbreak Weekly, which features Leo, Alex Lindsay and Andy Ihnatko.
Mark Malkoff Gets Carried in New York City
Posted by Dave | February 12th, 2010 | Filed under NYC
Interesting social experiment and attempted during freezing weather!
What’s Happening in Oakland!
Posted by Dave | February 8th, 2010 | Filed under Culture, Oakland
Check out Cool Hunting’s nice video of some of our favorite people and places in Oakland.
The Swedes Are So Appreciative!
Posted by Dave | February 2nd, 2010 | Filed under Humor
The Swedes are so appreciative of the little things I do…
Fuzzy Fuzzy Cute Cute?
Posted by Dave | November 30th, 2009 | Filed under Humor, Music
OK, I’m in Parry Gripp jingle phase. Like, today I’m looking at razor blades at the drug store and couldn’t help but have Parry’s More Blades Better Shave play in my head.
Crunchy Taco Blows Up!
Posted by Dave | November 30th, 2009 | Filed under Food, Humor
Jingle Meister Parry Gripp is at it again with his latest video.
Beware of iMovie 8.0.5 Update
Posted by Dave | November 11th, 2009 | Filed under Tech
I love iMovie for making quick little videos from video clips I shoot with my digital cameras. After I attempted to edit some video I shot in Disneyland, I couldn’t get the video clips which are stored in iPhoto’s Library stored on my external hard drive to appear in iMovie without making iMovie crash. I tried all kinds of fixes like deleting preference files in my Library directory etc. Seems there are serious issues with the 8.0.5 update which came out a couple weeks ago. The fix came when I just deleted iMovie and reinstalled version 8.0 from the iLife install disk. Next, I upgraded with the iMovie 8.0.3 update (Apple seems to have removed the 8.0.4 update). My videos then appeared again in iPhoto Videos under the Event Library!
SubRosa Café – The Place to See and Be Seen!
Posted by Dave | September 15th, 2009 | Filed under Culture, Music, Oakland
My new favorite café is SubRosa located near our neighborhood on Oakland’s 40th Ave between Telegraph and Broadway. This little vibrant spot also sports the excellent Manifesto Bicycles and indie-collectible record shop, 123 Records.
While getting my daily cup today, my bleary eyes noticed this interesting looking guy with spiky gray hair poking out of the bike shop with a folding bike. He looked like he was seeing if it was safe to go outside as he looked up and down the street. As I was thinking this guy looked familiar a woman walking down the sidewalk exclaimed, “are you who I think you are!”, it was then I realized it was David Byrne!
He told me he was waiting for a cab, and I explained that they are pretty pokey here in Oakland. He ended up hanging out where I was sitting the sidewalk benches. He went in a got some coffee and the ladies inside were super happy. Mr. Byrne was gracious and let me take a couple of snapshots with the shop owner’s iPhone.
Tags: 40th st., david byrne, Oakland, sub rosa
