Photos from our trip to Palm Desert
We drove out to Palm Desert last week to visit with Aviva’s mom and her brother and family. We took the dogs – our dog sitter couldn’t watch our dogs at the last minute. That’s not bad – we’ve brought them before, we get a room that allows pets at the Best Western and use […]
December 16th, 2012 by alephnaught
Caravaggio and Drawing Surrealism at LACMA
We decided to spend the day at LACMA visiting the Caravaggio and Drawing Surrealism shows. Both shows were very interesting, and I took some photos of some of the works (if there wasn’t a no-photo icon, you could snap a pic). Afterwards we went to Ancient Adornments, a shop that only does piercing – Aviva […]
December 3rd, 2012 by alephnaught
Hopeless Savages Greatest Hits Volume 1 TP (review)
Title:Hopeless Savages Greatest Hits Volume 1 TP Author:Jen Van Meter (Author), Various (Author) Paperback: 360 pages Publisher: Oni Press (October 19, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 1934964484 ISBN-13: 978-1934964484 This is a hilarious graphic novel of stories about a mythical punk rock family; one of the kids has a gift for business, one invents words, and […]
December 2nd, 2012 by alephnaught
Alif the Unseen (review)
Title: Alif the Unseen Author: G. Willow Wilson Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Grove Press; First Edition edition (June 19, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 0802120202 ISBN-13: 978-0802120205 I found this book while browsing at Small World Books on the boardwalk in Venice Beach. The book starts with an old man who has enslaved a jinn to […]
December 1st, 2012 by alephnaught
The dogs
We’ve been dog sitting Bentley for a friend while she and her husband travel the world for over a month; we finally got them to stay in one place long enough to get a picture.
November 23rd, 2012 by alephnaught
Thanksgiving dinner pics
We had family over for Thanksgiving dinner; here are some pics of the dishes and settings.
November 19th, 2012 by alephnaught
How Music Works (review)
Title: How Music Works Author: David Byrne Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: McSweeney’s; First Edition edition (September 12, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 1936365537 ISBN-13: 978-1936365531 I purchased the iBooks version, which included a lot of extra material such as photos and lecture material (which was cool) and a bunch of music at the end (which I […]
November 11th, 2012 by alephnaught
My first iOS 6 / iPhone 5 panorama photo (Venice Beach, Malibu)
We went to Venice Beach to check out a flea market, then went back to Malibu to have dinner at the Reel Inn, which is the best inexpensive seafood place we’ve found in the LA area. I decided to try the panorama feature of the new camera app – I think it worked well (it […]
November 3rd, 2012 by alephnaught
Volunteering at Sunrise Elementary School
On Halloween, a bunch of us from work went to Sunrise Elementary School to spend time with the kids and, it turned out, give the teachers a break. It was fun – my group ended up with the kindergartners; we read to them and then directed them in a couple coloring exercises. You have to […]
October 28th, 2012 by alephnaught
Giant Robot Biennale and Heavenese
Yesterday we went to Little Tokyo to check out the Giant Robot Biennale at Japanese American National Museum; the show was very cool, lots of highly customized figures from artists that show and sell with Giant Robot. We also ran into a Japanese musical troop called Heavenese – they play music combining Japanese and gospel […]
January 1st, 2013 by alephnaught
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