tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118375932024-03-06T21:26:10.313-08:00Commonplace BlogRejecting all organs of information ... but my senses, I rid myself of the Pyrrhonisms with which an indulgence in speculations hyperphysical and antiphysical so uselessly occupy and disquiet the mind.Commonplacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07254093720366341856noreply@blogger.comBlogger190125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11837593.post-88121312868207218042008-10-17T20:31:00.000-07:002008-10-17T20:37:26.976-07:00Two Great Tastes...Sara and I took a trip down to smelLA for Desmond's first birthday. Well, that and so I could go see My Bloody Valentine again and go to Disneyland. An action-packed weekend. We were at Whole Paycheck in Sherman Oaks when we saw the rare chocolate bar with bacon by Vosges. I had read about similar delicacies, but this was my first time to indulge for myself. Delicious! The salty bacon really Commonplacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07254093720366341856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11837593.post-20427084371565199052008-09-14T10:24:00.001-07:002008-09-14T10:26:06.994-07:00'Nuff SaidCommonplacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07254093720366341856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11837593.post-77860203840151122312008-08-15T19:53:00.001-07:002008-08-15T19:57:32.357-07:00Girls Gone Wild on the Bay BridgeWe were driving over the Bay Bridge from Oakland into SF a couple of months ago when what do we see but the Girls Gone Wild bus! It took all my strength not to run it off the road, plunging into the Bay and thus sacrificing myself for the good of all humankind.Commonplacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07254093720366341856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11837593.post-85829944227967141642008-08-15T19:46:00.000-07:002008-08-15T19:51:58.618-07:00Mariachi at an Apple FestLast weekend after Desmond's first camping trip, we stopped in Sebastapol for a Gravenstein apple festival. Besides yummy apple treats there was an awesome mariachi band and an even more amazing country and western band. The woman wore this old timey yellow dress with her red hair piled on top of her head and the back up band all dressed in black. We bought a pie from a church group and I didn't Commonplacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07254093720366341856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11837593.post-19036480587408174552008-07-26T08:13:00.001-07:002008-07-26T08:15:52.110-07:00Undersea Shocking!Don't underestimate the octopus. It's got 3 hearts of a champion... Commonplacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07254093720366341856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11837593.post-84100931607280204342008-06-16T09:11:00.000-07:002008-06-16T09:16:20.275-07:00I Want, I Want, I Want!!If you loved me you would buy this for me.Commonplacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07254093720366341856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11837593.post-51364037383616136602008-05-30T16:03:00.001-07:002008-05-30T21:05:28.859-07:00Some Argentinian GraffitiMy dahlink friend Michelle went to Argentina and was kind enough to capture some graffiti to share...Love the bear that was just shot.Nico lives in Argentina...right next to some creepy, dead doll heads and Mr. T.Happy bear says "Hello! I have a freakishly small body!"My favorite. Maybe because I am so crabby.More to come. Michelle took some really nice bathroom shots. Anyone who is obsessed withCommonplacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07254093720366341856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11837593.post-53489193423060105522008-05-26T21:52:00.001-07:002008-05-26T21:59:50.244-07:00I Wouldn't Recommend Sitting Still in Oakland For Too LongI'm not a big fan of taggers--prefer images to ego tripping--but I had to take a picture of this one. Something about the stripes on that couch and the angle that it was propped that caught my fancy.Commonplacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07254093720366341856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11837593.post-22996007675926196652008-05-26T21:46:00.001-07:002008-05-26T21:59:08.752-07:00Another CupcakeThis cupcake appeared next to Lake Merritt. Love to see it reappear.Delicious!p.s. Someone asked if I knew of any others. I have no clue beyond these two.Commonplacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07254093720366341856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11837593.post-32683520483135792432008-05-17T10:41:00.000-07:002008-05-17T10:52:19.899-07:00Soup as DessertI went to Nobu 57 last week while in NYC for work. Of course it was amazing--especially the miso cod, which is a no-brainer. Though I was pretty much full, I looked at the dessert menu to see if there were anything unique that I couldn't get anywhere else. And there it was--White Peach and Jasmine Soup. It sounded like it would be the best thing ever or utter gross. It was the former. The title Commonplacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07254093720366341856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11837593.post-10671096501568301222008-05-17T10:37:00.000-07:002008-05-17T10:40:40.937-07:00How Do You Say "Dork" in Binary?Commonplacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07254093720366341856noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11837593.post-14351933259775137322008-04-29T21:27:00.000-07:002008-04-29T21:31:05.465-07:00Where are the Toasters?Ikea makes a Battle Star Galactica joke? No frackin' doubt.Commonplacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07254093720366341856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11837593.post-12008572027761583232008-04-27T12:26:00.001-07:002008-04-27T22:16:55.007-07:00Whole PaycheckSara went to Whole Foods to pick up a little treat for us to eat while vegging out to TV one night. I gave her full power of purchase, which is always dangerous. She came back very proud of herself, saying,"Ever since I had seen these brownies I wanted to try them. I mean, what do $13 brownies taste like?" (This is not a direct quote, merely something I made up, but it does capture the gist.) SheCommonplacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07254093720366341856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11837593.post-84533856338217800322008-04-16T21:44:00.001-07:002008-04-16T21:50:25.678-07:00Tiki to the Nth DegreeJunior and I went to Trader Vic's in Emeryville over the weekend. This is the classic tiki bar/restaurant, so we had to have the big rum drink. Deeeeliteful.Look at what a great parent I am!Commonplacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07254093720366341856noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11837593.post-5800303024006248292008-04-12T23:28:00.000-07:002008-04-12T23:31:17.545-07:00Thanks Eas' Bunny...Bock! Bock!Commonplacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07254093720366341856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11837593.post-25279802188464410142008-04-12T23:21:00.000-07:002008-04-12T23:31:39.143-07:00Creepy DolliesI took a CPR class a while back (I'm certified by the Redd Cross to save your sad ass!) and we used these dummies to practice breathing and pumping the chest. They look pretty freaky.Commonplacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07254093720366341856noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11837593.post-19122024785742341482008-03-23T12:45:00.000-07:002008-03-23T13:08:13.230-07:00"Watch Her Takes Pleasures from the Serpent..."The title is a quote from Blade Runner. These robots are closer to the original Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep with its obsession with real and android animals. Anyhoo...I haven't posted a good robot video for a while now, so I give you two.My favorite part is when the "snake" crawls up the guy's trouser leg.This is a different film of the "Robot Donkey" in a previous post. Again with the Commonplacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07254093720366341856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11837593.post-91289466911353601572008-03-17T22:23:00.000-07:002008-03-17T22:27:20.433-07:00Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut...So, there is a guy at my work who is the local crack dealer...well, actually he just always has candy in a drawer for anyone. This has led me to have numerous snack-cidents. My new favorite is my old favorite--Almond Joy. I hadn't eaten one since probably 1978. They are still as yummy as ever.Commonplacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07254093720366341856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11837593.post-40536040938528647582008-03-16T09:07:00.001-07:002008-03-16T09:16:17.102-07:00BARTing up a HairballI was riding BART the other day and saw this little creature sneaking up on a sleeping rider. It made me think of a susuwatari (traveling soot)from Spirited Away. So instead of thinking that this was a really gross example of human detritus, I thought of it as riding home after a long day of hauling coal for Kamaji. BART on, little susuwatari!Commonplacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07254093720366341856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11837593.post-20965422393659079822008-01-31T17:09:00.001-08:002008-01-31T17:17:01.570-08:00Gummy Bacon!This picture sucks, but it is boxes of Gummy Bacon, which is exactly what it is. Strawberry flavored, shockingly similar visually to bacon. This box has farmer pig on it, one of the first times that a pig representing "bacon" doesn't make me feel slightly weird. I used to drive by the Farmer John slaughterhouse outside LA when I was younger, and besides the stench that made me roll up my windows,Commonplacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07254093720366341856noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11837593.post-70423346472240581482008-01-29T09:55:00.000-08:002008-01-29T09:59:43.789-08:003-D Graffiti in Virtual SpaceThe Tagged in Motion project. Looks veddy kool.Via Core77 Design BlogCommonplacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07254093720366341856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11837593.post-20986245411710661362007-11-09T13:44:00.000-08:002007-11-09T13:47:24.274-08:00Hard Day's Night of the Living DeadSaw this on Boing Boing. Lurve it!Sorry I haven't been around much. I do have an excuse! Braaaaainz.Commonplacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07254093720366341856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11837593.post-80545066342391377812007-09-12T13:49:00.000-07:002007-09-12T13:57:46.441-07:00Kinetic Sculpture RobotsTheo Jansen is a Dutch artist who creates kinetic sculptures that run on wind and solar energy and are quite amazing. They seem to employ a lot of the techniques used in walking robots, but in a somewhat different way. His vision is to put a whole herd of them on a beach and have them run around, living off of the natural resource that drives them, in definitely. And here's his kinetic "rhino":Commonplacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07254093720366341856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11837593.post-76406085560845285102007-09-07T15:32:00.001-07:002007-09-07T15:39:02.830-07:00Sara Likes CupcakesWe saw these beautiful, simple grafitti cupcakes as we were coming back from the awesome Grand Lake Farmers Market near our house a few weeks ago. I love silly shit like this. It makes me wish I could live in a real-life Mario Brothers game.P.S. Doesn't preggo Sara look cute? You should see her stomach now--the alien is soon emerging!Commonplacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07254093720366341856noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11837593.post-55176940048026221782007-09-04T08:29:00.000-07:002007-09-04T08:47:08.338-07:00Garrobo in GelatinSara and I went to LA over the long weekend to show her belly off to my family and friends there. It would have been much nicer had it not been a fricken inferno every day we were there. Over 105 degrees every day! Madness. Meanwhile, back in good ol' Oakland it barely broke 80.Anyway, we had a barbecue with carne asada--my favorite kind of BBQ--and went to a new carniceria. There, I saw these Commonplacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07254093720366341856noreply@blogger.com0