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I apologize for any typos in this blog post, but I blame the weather. I'm 30,000 feet over Nevada, attempting to type as the airplane gets tossed up, down, right, and left. But I saw it coming. In fact, I just had a bathroom break because I knew I'd be stuck in my seat for a while. How did I know just when to go? I've found a fantastic tool for frequent air travellers that shows where recent pilot reports of turbulence are, turbulenceforecast.com. READ MORE>

I'm en-route to Brazil right now, and the flight from SFO to MIA was the second flight in a row where I'd given up my seat so a family could sit together and got INSTANT KARMA as a result. READ MORE>

I've really enjoyed the recent internet meme of "what others think I do/what I think I do" pictures. For instance I particularly enjoyed the one for tech support. Since I grew up as a TCK (third culture kid), I figured I would put my experiences into one myself. I fear only fellow third culture kids will understand it, but if I achieve this, then I will consider it a job well done. READ MORE>

 With the announcement that GM's Onstar is partnering with RelayRides to allow GM car owners to sign up their cars to be rented by the hour, I figure there are a lot of people saying "What the shift? READ MORE>

My friend Evan Geer, who is a very talented artist and photographer, came up to visit on what turned out to be the first balmy weekend here in San Francisco. I happened to have just gotten a new superzoom lens, so we took our cameras out to the old military forts in Marin Headlands for a shootout.  What resulted were some great pictures on my part. On Evan's part, the result was a record for amount of pictures taken in one day, which he decided to turn into a timelapse. I also got an epic sunburn, Photos and video after the jump . . .  READ MORE>

To celebrate the fact that I've lived to the ripe old age of 30, I decided to follow a childhood dream and purchase a wine that is as old as I am; something the guy at the wine store called "birth-vintaging". My quest started a with a question posed on the snooth.com forums where I asked what wine I might be able to afford from that year that might be closer to peaking than vinegar. With no experience in wine older than 8 years, I had a lot to learn.  READ MORE>

[UPDATE: It WAS a tornado. Video showing it touch down from somoene up in the Richmond after the jump . . . ] 

This morning it was sort of cold and damp. I was in the office just starting my workday when I noticed that there was a huge black cloud moving right over us, and a the trailing end over the beach, the black cloud was moving down in a funnel shape. I thought to myself "Surely there couldn't be a tornado in San Francisco". I took a picture anyways, READ MORE>

 I was helping a friend with some drupal questions by finding her some tutorials on youtube. Apparently, youtube has determined I should watch some color footage of Adolf Hitler with Eva Braun due to my interest in installing the CKEditor module. Also noteworthy is the Abba video. So there you go--both Hitler and Abba were closet Drupalists in their times!

I loved All Points Bulletin (APB) for the short time it existed. That was about three months, and then the company that owned it, Real Time Worlds, went bankrupt and their servers went down.  In those three months, I'd created an awesome character, several cars, and an often-complimented death theme that re-made Kernkraft 400, by Zombie Nation.  When I heard that APB is returning through another company, I figured it would be great, but I was bummed that I'd probably lost all of my customizations.   READ MORE>