Today we strolled around San Marcos quite a bit, just looking at people and things and having a good time. There are a number of very old buildings, and they looked even better in the sharp, brilliant light that you get up here in the mountains.
Archive for November, 2006
Finca Niagara
We spent the day today tramping around a coffee plantation called Finca Niagara. The name seems to come from the beautiful waterfalls that drain the cloud-covered mountains, along the escarpments of which the coffee plants somehow hang on.
The coffee is in prime picking condition right now. Some workers we ran into, taking a break after [...]
Guatemala
So here we are in Guatemala. The trip was a little grueling, but it’s great to be here. Hopefully United will manage not to lose our luggage on the way home.
Here’s Paul diving off the 5-meter plank at the local spring-fed swimming place. We spent the morning there and had some home-fried donuts from a [...]
Rotisserie politics
Here is a game that looks like either a lot of fun or an incredible bore. Somebody try it and tell me how it turns out.
Drew’s shoot
Last weekend a crew from San Francisco State University was on our block shooting a short film by a student named Drew Crocker. It had an angel, Jesus, and assorted pratfalls. I didn’t really get the premise, but we’ll see the finished work soon enough and all will be explained.
Starr King Elementary School
Here’s the web site for Starr King school that I put together using Wordpress last month. It’s going public this weekend at the school district enrollment fair. It came to a surprisingly small effort, compared with what it used to take to make a decent-looking web site. Wordpress takes care of a whole lot of [...]
Hoedown
When I got back from India, Mary and Laura picked me up at the airport and we hauled ass to the Playmates preschool harvest festival, where Laura and I were booked to do some pickin’ and grinnin’ with our friends Breck and Stanley. We played a few tunes and had a blast, even though I [...]
The Quick and the Ed
This site has an impressively long list of education policy blogs that a person could spend all day looking at. I can’t do that, but I can reprint the list right here for those who are interested:
Andrew Pass
Barnett Berry
Bill Jackson’s Education Blog
Board Buzz
The Chalkboard
Charter Blog
Chris Correa
Cranky Professor
Critical Mass
DC Education Blog
Dave Shearon
D-ED Reckoning
The [...]
Going Bedouin
I’m getting better at catching onto internet hipster buzzwords. At this rate, by 2008 I’ll notice one while it’s actually still in use. Going Bedouin appears to be a term of art for freeloading work space at cafes with free wireless, the way I do most of the week, and look, I’m only about nine [...]
Dogfood
So I’ve been thinking. CollabNet (where I work) is all about tools for distributed development. (Mostly for software, but there are customers in biotech and manufacturing too.) Its main product includes a database component called Project Tracker (PT). The essential concept behind PT is the artifact, which is a generic work item that the user [...]
Laura’s place
Laura’s web site is up and running. It has a comments area, which she invites everyone to use, and will soon have some of her awesome art. This weekend she graduated from MS Paint to Paint Shop Pro and has already been producing some impressive stuff. Stay tuned.
Mileage
Here’s a place to keep track of gas mileage online. We are temporarily (we hope) the owners of a three-car fleet, so knowing what each car can do becomes even more important than usual.
Sari model
On my first trip to Chennai, I tried on a sari at Rasi’s, the big silk emporium in the Mylapore neighborhood. I was impressed with its elegance and ease of use, not to mention the glorious fabric, something I’d never had much of an eye for until then. Kevin held onto the picture for months, [...]
Go see it.
In general, I like movies about which I can say, “I’ve never seen anything like that before.” Mary and I sneaked off and saw the Borat movie the other day and it was like that. My ribs still hurt from the laughing — I think the damage was done during the climactic fight scene in [...]
Crafty Halloween
We thought we were being pretty organized, what with getting Lilly’s lion costume way back in September and all. Of course, the day before Halloween we found out she had grown out of it already. So Carolyn led a pre-Halloween craft marathon, and Lilly came out as a beautiful fairy princess with a glittering [...]