Friday, September 30, 2005

My Toes-es Are Roses

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The view is great but I wish I were outside. I’m so far behind at work that I’ve had to turn down some freebies this week: a company-paid di...
Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Busy Wasting Time

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Our Dell PC has been getting creakier, probably from all the viruses, spyware, cookies, and Trojan horses that it has picked up over its tw...
Thursday, September 22, 2005

Elegant Elegy

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A columnist in today's Examiner appears to be channeling the late, great Herb Caen in an elegant elegy to San Francisco past. As I walke...

Views from the Pew

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Good Diction In Praise of Penelope Duckworth Our lady minister has left us to become the rector ("rectress"?) (musings of a wande...
Sunday, September 18, 2005

Rite of Passage

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As a teenager in Hawaii I spent a lot of time behind the wheel, but, of course, never continuously. The entire island of Oahu, about 600 squ...
Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Spit and Polish

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In a bow to the marketplace, my dentist is accepting appointments at 7 o’clock in the morning. I received two reminder calls yesterday and ...
Thursday, September 08, 2005

Thoughts of Home

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Screenshots from Men in Black In the science fiction adventure comedy Men in Black , K, the character played by Tommy Lee Jones, displays ...
Monday, September 05, 2005

Perspective

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Palace of Fine Arts built for the 1915 Pan-Pacific Exposition, flickr.com photo by vorlon . San Francisco's 1906 destruction and...
Friday, September 02, 2005

Time to be Charitable

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Embarcadero Center has some new plants. The death and destruction wreaked by Katrina is almost unimaginable (after last year’s tsunami, we...
Monday, August 29, 2005

Impending Disaster

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About ten years ago a winter storm generated winds of 70 miles per hour. Our house shook throughout the day, and a ten-foot section of the w...
Saturday, August 27, 2005

Picnic at Castle Rock

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Last Sunday we pointed the car east, then north, and drove nearly an hour to the company picnic. The temperature reached the 80’s, which is ...
Thursday, August 25, 2005

Giant Disappointment

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On Tuesday night we took in a Giants-Phillies game at SBC Park. The contest was over quickly: the Giants starter was bombed for extra-base h...
Monday, August 22, 2005

Colorful Diversion

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Noontime’s vivid colors were brightened by a youthful dancing troupe from Taipei, one of San Francisco’s sister cities. After each number t...
Thursday, August 18, 2005

Taking Gas

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Now that gas has permanently blown past $2 and is resting at $2.70 per gallon at the neighborhood Arco, I bought a locking gas cap for the c...
Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Dreamt a Burrito, Married a Salad

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On Monday mornings I have at least one meeting and sometimes as many as three. When the week begins, some managers believe that a kickoff me...