Tosh just doesn't want to seem to leave me alone today! He thinks that I actually like cats.
A gallery of failed calls
This series of screenshots is only from the past month! This happens all the time though. AT&T is horrible.
Best Photos of 2009
Another year has closed, and once again, San Francisco photographer Jim Goldstein is calling for your top photos taken this year! It's always a blast to participate in and review some of my favorite shots taken over the past year.
You can also see my best photos from 2008.
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Protestors gather at Civic Center in San Francisco on January 12, 2008 to protest the shooting death of Oscar Grant by a BART police officer on New Years Eve.
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Buzz, a friendly elephant seal pup that we encountered while backpacking along California's Lost Coast.
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While traveling through Canada this past summer, we took a gondola ride near Banff. The first part of the ride was enveloped in fog. Right after we broke through, I stuck my DSLR out the window (yikes!) and captured this shot!
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Visited Seattle for the first time this summer as well and took this shot at the foot of the Space Needle.
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Steve Jobs made his return to Apple, after being sidelined with health problems. It was my first time attending an Apple keynote / Stevenote and the first time seeing Steve Jobs in person. Shot photos for gdgt. Definitely a moment that will stick with me for a long time.
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The Blue Angels always provide fantastic opportunities for shooting photos. I took this photo as Blue Angel #7 screamed right over the top of our apartment building.
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In March, the California Supreme Court ruled on the validity of Prop 8 (and made the unfortunate decision to uphold it). I took this photo and thought it represented a nearly perfect representation of each side (literally, metaphorically, politically). Two people on the left, in love and making a point about equal rights. On the right, an older white gentleman, holding up a sign in support of Prop 8.
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Robogames 2009 at Fort Mason in San Francisco. Two competitors chat after a battle and examine the damage inflicted upon their robots.
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A second photo from Robogames 2009. A competitor cheers in victory after his robot scores a critical hit on an opponent.
It's Twenty Ten
The latest in single serving websites: It's twenty-ten, not two-thousand ten.
Beats Antique at the Independent
Last night, we checked out Beats Antique (also on Last.fm) at the Independent. They're a pretty awesome fusion of electronic music with a middle eastern bent. Pretty awesome stuff! I love this sort of ambient music as it makes perfect background music for working and such!
They also feature belly dancers during their live performances, who move in sync to their music. Here is a video recorded from the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco last year.
Star Wars intro mashups
Rube Goldberg Machine of Beer
Hah, this commercial is pretty awesome. It's like the Rube Goldberg machine of beer.
2009 - The Year in Review (Photos)
A new year, and a new decade are upon us! Here is my annual photographic review of the year. More travels, moving, a new job. So sit down and come along for the ride.
You can also see my past year in reviews for 2008 and 2007.
January 2009
January started out with a short, surprise trip down the coast to Half Moon Bay and Moss Beach. Kerry surprised me for my birthday, and we stayed at a phenomenal bed and breakfast for the weekend.
MacWorld came to town. It was my first time visiting the convention. Naturally, we geeked out on all the cool companies that were demoing products.
San Francisco residents wasted no time in finding something to protest over.
One of my favorite punk bands of all time, Tsunami Bomb, reunited for one final show in Petaluma.
February 2009
A number of friends embarked on the great Burrito Ingredients Scavenger Hunt: scouring the city's taquerias for the best individual ingredients they have, and building our own, epic burrito.
My sister was in town for a brief visit.
This year, instead of checking out the annual pillow fight, a few of us decided to check out Toronado's annual Barley Wine Festival.
We paid a visit to the Mission for the Grilled Cheese Sandwich battle.
March 2009
Donated some blood. (Gross!)
Awaited the results of the California Supreme Court's ruling on Prop 8.
Had a good view from my apartment of a rally for Tibet, as they marched towards the Chinese Consulate.
I walked across the entire Golden Gate Bridge for the first time in my life.
Pi-Day celebrations! 3.14
Took a stroll through Golden Gate Park. Beautiful as always.
April 2009
We went on a backpacking trip to Big Basin State Park
May 2009
Another month, another backpacking trip! This time, to California's Lost Coast.
Attended the Maker Faire and saw some great art and inventions.
June 2009
A curious cat.
Robogames 2009!
July 2009
Enjoying some drinks on a lazy summer day.
Kerry and I took a whale watching trip out to the Farallon Islands.
August 2009
We had our gdgt SF party to celebrate the launch of our website!
Big road trip time! We embarked for Canada.
Sawtooth Range in Northern Idaho
More of Idaho
Hamilton, Montana
Kootenay National Park, Canada
Athabasca Glacier in Jasper National Park, Canada
Banff, Canada
Vancouver, BC
Victoria, BC
Space Needle in Seattle
Mount Rainier
Mount St. Helens
Oregon Caves National Monument
We returned from our road trip to cheer our friends on in SF Food Wars.
September 2009
Got to shoot an Apple Keynote / Stevenote for gdgt!
Cal Academy
Walked around San Francisco and took some random photos.
Someone in the neighborhood must have been pretty angry with Muni.
Flew to New York City at the end of the month for gdgt's NYC launch party. Hello Virgin America!
NYC!
October 2009
Visited New York City for the gdgt NYC event. While there, I visited the newly created High Line Park.
gdgt NYC at the Manhattan Center!
The Blue Angels came to town for Fleet Week 2009
Headed up to Tomales Bay for some friendly oyster shucking.
Wished my apartment of the past 3 years, so long!
Last sunset at the apartment. It was fantastic as always.
Adjusted to living with one of my new roommates.
The end of October meant that Halloween parties were neigh!
Walking through our neighborhood at night.
November 2009
Since I had recently purchased a Canon S90, I decided that the Cal Academy would be the perfect place to break it in.
Checked out the museum at SFO
Beautiful fall days in San Francisco
Beautiful fall nights in San Francisco
San Francisco sunset
December 2009
Kerry and I saw Cirque du Soleil's OVO show when it came to town.
(And I got yelled at for taking photos...)
Attended the Laughing Squid Un-holiday Party at the Gallery With No Name. And saw their neon Jelly Fish.
Don't forget, Santacon / Santarchy made an appearance in San Francisco!
Some of my companions during the day. (Because the only currency on the internet are cat photos).
Nike soccer commercial
Just saw this brilliant advertisement again. I first noticed it last year, during the Euro Cup. It's a commercial by Nike, following the career of an unknown teenage soccer player through their eyes. In two minutes, the commercial goes from playing in a youth league, to playing for Arsenal, to playing for Holland in the Euro Cup.
It's really well done and quite creative!
Where do I go in San Francisco?
Where Do You Go is an interesting mashup that shows the areas you most frequent in a city, using a heat map layed on top of Google Maps. The data is derived from your Foursquare checkins.
The above image represents the areas of San Francisco I most frequent, based on nearly 400 checkins with Foursquare over the last year. Red / white are areas visited the most, while blue / green (and grey) are areas I visit the least or not at all.
This is a pretty fantastic use of one's geo-location data and it's something I've always been curious about. Just where exactly do I go all the time, and what areas do I frequent. This sort of thing might help plan further adventures to parts of the city that I neglect. I just might have to reinstall Foursquare on my iPhone after all!
Of course, when I do finally reinstall Foursquare, what happens?
Go figure.