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ComicCon 2009, Thursday: Pictures
My son Nathan and I attended the Thursday opening of ComicCon 2009; we had a great time, we walked the whole exhibit hall floor. I got a couple gifts for people that are friends on Twitter. And I posted tweets regularly with photos from the event, which some folks seemed to really enjoy. Here’s a […]
July 12th, 2009 by alephnaught
A massage, chairs in a window, the Farmers Market, and some
Another posting of miscellaneous stuff we did recently. Aviva got me a massage for my birthday, so I went to the local spa/training place; it was a very nice massage, helped relax my neck. We also took a trip to the Farmer’s Market and the Grove in LA – here’s a metal sculpture there: We […]
June 24th, 2009 by alephnaught
Et tu, Brute
This is a poem I wrote a very long time ago: Thin shadows engulf the man, They would wound the land. As metal and human merge into sculpture The birds fly south to dawn. As one the glints light the shadows And Juno cries a bloody tear. The light scatters into a funeral pyre, Eulogies […]
June 19th, 2009 by alephnaught
Dinner at Villa Piacere
We had dinner at Villa Piacere, a restaurant on Ventura Blvd. in Woodland Hills. The service and food were quite good; we parked in their spare lot across the street which is daytime parking for a bank – the bank locked the gates on the lot but the restaurant sent people over to unlock them […]
June 13th, 2009 by alephnaught
Burbank, Ikea, duct tape wallets and cardboard creatures too
We decided to run errands today, especially a trip to the Ikea store in Burbank, CA. First off, I’ve switched wallets – the leather one I bought in Italy is starting to wear out, so when I ordered some stuff from ThinkGeek, I figured I’d try a duct tape wallet. it works! It snaps shut […]
May 29th, 2009 by alephnaught
Office toys (some new, some old)
I have quite a collection of toys in my office – I like to have things to look at and play with when I need to think. Creativity often surges when you take your mind off the problem and let your thoughts operate independently. Here’s a picture of the credenza behind my desk: I got […]
May 25th, 2009 by alephnaught
Memorial Day memories
Stories are powerful things, and Jamie has reminded me of my father who passed away over 20 years ago. He was a navigator helping get transport planes over the hump in Asia (Burma, er, Myanmar to China and back) during World War II. He told me stories of playing Mah Jongg for money (he got […]
May 24th, 2009 by alephnaught
A bunch of pictures taken on my Blackberry phone
Just a bunch of pictures I took with my Blackberry over the last month or so; no one category deserved a separate post, so here’s a gallery instead.
April 18th, 2009 by alephnaught
The Brewery Art Walk
Aviva and I decided to go to the artist community called the Brewery in south Los Angeles. There are at least 100 galleries and artist studios/lofts in the complex, which used to be a brewery (of course). The tee shirt I wore this day – “Beware of Perverts” (Chikan chuui), with “Dangerous Persons are in […]
April 4th, 2009 by alephnaught
What I look like when I don’t shave
We took a 10 day trip to Italy, which actually means 12 days including the travel time. I didn’t bring a razor along. I thought it would be fun to show the daily effects of not shaving; I used the built-in iSight camera and Photobooth software to take the images, then used Morpheus Photo Morpher […]
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July 23rd, 2009 by alephnaught