Tsunami Waves At Ocean Beach, SF
Posted by Dave | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Filed under NYC
Interesting social experiment and attempted during freezing weather!
What’s Happening in Oakland!
Posted by Dave | 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 | Filed under Humor
The Swedes are so appreciative of the little things I do…
Fuzzy Fuzzy Cute Cute?
Posted by Dave | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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
David Byrne Designs Bicycle Solutions
Posted by Dave | Filed under Culture, Music, NYC, Oakland
After running into David Byrne yesterday while getting my morning coffee, I was curious to see he was getting a folding bike from Manifesto Bicycles next door. Turns out, he’s an avid cyclist and loves to cycle around his native New York City as well as the cities he visits while he is on tour. He has turned his creative attention toward advocacy of urban cycling as well as urban design.
He’s been designing some urban bike racks as well!
New Bay Bridge Connector
Posted by Dave | Filed under San Francisco
After we heard on the radio that the Bay Bridge was re-opening this morning, Dru and I decided to use the excuse of a getting a cup of coffee in SF so we could drive the Smart Car over the new Bay Bridge Connector. We brought a camera and I recorded our little journey, you can see that there is a CHP escort in our group of cars.
It was a surprise that CalTrans opened the bridge early this morning as there were some “issues” that were going to delay the re-opening, like a big crack found in one of the support spans.
New Section of Bay Bridge Moved In!
Posted by Dave | Filed under Oakland, San Francisco
Some great time-lapse photography of the labor day weekend Bay Bridge repair.
Even The Gangstas on Weeds Hate AT&T
Posted by Dave | Filed under Humor, Tech
Thought this was a funny dig at AT&T on last night’s episode of Weeds.
Blue Velvet, Black Coffee
Posted by Dave | Filed under Music
For most of the 90’s, my favorite radio show was Blue Velvet, Black Coffee on KAZU on Monday evenings. The show started with the Twin Peaks theme song and featured a DJ named Patrick, he spun mostly ethereal, gothy music. He frequently would record shop in Europe and bring back many recordings from labels like Prikosnovénie, Musica Maxima Magnetica, as well as larger labels like Hyperium and 4AD. Previously Patrick had a radio show called Left of Center.
Patrick no longer has a show on KAZU so I was wondering what ever happened to him? Does he still have show somewhere in radioland or on the Internets? Google searches don’t show up much. Once I found a image of one of his meticulously written playlists. He would write them out then have them scanned onto the stations website. Maybe someone out there knows where DJ Patrick is?
Rockband Birdie Cat
Posted by Dave | Filed under Humor
Out little Bella Kitty is now featured in her very first short, Rockband Birdie Cat! Dru plays Rockband a lot and now Bella plays along in between the songs.
High Power Rocket Launch Video
Posted by Dave | Filed under Tech
It was a great time in the Black Rock Desert. Ken McGrath accompanied me on my return trip to the launch site on Saturday. Seeing this 12 foot beast blast off made the whole trip worthwhile! It was also great to see so many other spectacular launches. I’ll post videos of them soon.
Compare this version of the video that I uploaded to YouTube. I might just post videos this way from now on as the quality is now higher with its HQ setting than exporting my flash movie files using WordTube. What do you think?
Funny Look At Oakland
Posted by Dave | Filed under Culture, Humor, Oakland, Politics, Tech
Oakland can be a great place to live – but it’s true, jaywalkers are everywhere and are real, real slow.
High Power Rocketry at Black Rock
Posted by Dave | Filed under Uncategorized
I’m going to attempt the trek out to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada this weekend so I can watch Aeropac’s high power rocket launch. Aeropac has a launch waiver up to 100,000 ft. so there should be some exciting rocket flights!
As some of you know the playa is an interesting and challenging environment. This time of year there can be lakes, floods and lots of mud. Here is a recon video shot yesterday.
