The cat can’t get enough lovin’
I don’t have much to post but I thought I would share this picture of what I did at work today. Kaati, the cat in the picture, spent about half of her day jumping on and off my desk and then trying to get on my lap. Yes. There is a cat at work. Actually, […]
Bad buildings and an even worse zoo
I hate this tower. I see it every day when I am riding my bike to work and it irritates me every time I look at it. Not only is it that hideous blue color (it looks like the color children use to denote “glass”), but the white strips of material that go up the […]
Bears, two weekends in a row.
Yes, it’s that time of year again. I went to the San Francisco Gay Pride parade today and saw bears again for the second weekend in a row. It was a nice day, but a bit windy. I think I missed a lot of the good parts of the parade that usually seem to be […]
alittlebettergasstation, or maybe not
I’m not sure if you are familiar with British Petroleum’s rebranding in the past few years, but they are trying to get away from the word “petroleum” as much as possible. Their most recent marketing tactic can be found on their new website, titled alittlebettergasstation.com. It’s tied in to a “gas station of the future” […]
Extinction: Not just for dinosaurs
As if enough things aren’t going wrong in the world, it looks like the populations of many common types of birds are disappearing in North America. In an article titled “Populations of 20 Common Birds Declining” the Associated Press is reporting that birds as familiar as the grackle and the meadowlark are seeing huge declines. […]
Bears, Beaches and Blow (Kurtis Blow, that is)
The highlight was certainly going to the San Francisco zoo on Saturday. Natasha and I went to see the new Grizzly Gulch exhibit that was just completed for a pair of female bears that were relocated to San Francisco from Montana. They were orphaned at a young age and had become too aggressive around humans, […]
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ARE Exam not so bad, new dinosaurs
I felt pretty confident after my exam. Taking the exam was a little unnerving, since they do everything short of a full body cavity search to make sure nobody is able to cheat. I had to put everything from my pockets, my watch, my calculator etc into a locker before I could enter the exam […]
Architecture Registration Exam Misery!
ARggh. I have been studying all weekend. I have my General Structures exam on Wednesday. If you don’t know about the ARE Exam, you probably don’t want to. In order to be a licensed architect, you have to pass 9 exams on different topics. Then (in California) you have to pass an oral exam. I […]
Brontosaurus Controversy
In commenting on my post “Swimming Dinosaurs”, Tony asked about the controversy concerning the name “brontosaurus.” Most of us grew up knowing a few key dinosaurs, among them the ferocious T-Rex and the enormous (but docile) Brontosaurus. As it turns out, the Brontosaurus is no more- and I don’t mean extinct, that happened 145 million […]
Portland OR, with Photos
Last Friday I flew to Portland, Oregon to spend the weekend with my parents, my brother Dave and my friends Chris and Sara (Dave, Chris and Sara all live there and my parents were on vacation). I was staying in Hillsoboro at Chris and Sara’s house. Thanks to Wikipedia, I learned that this town is […]