The Curious Engineer

Justinsomnia

2010–2026

1,272 posts

← 2008–2009

2026 1

January 2026

  1. Learning how to save, nineteen years later

2025 3

February 2025

  1. Red Cards

January 2025

  1. Learning how to save, eighteen years later
  2. Gainfully Unretired

2024 2

October 2024

  1. Historic, in 2024

January 2024

  1. Learning how to save, seventeen years later

2023 1

December 2023

  1. Accidentally Unretired

2022 6

December 2022

  1. What To Do Next?
  2. Learning how to save, sixteen years later

November 2022

  1. Time to Make the Eggnog

October 2022

  1. What Our House Actually Cost

February 2022

  1. Timber Framing Initiation

January 2022

  1. Learning how to save, fifteen years later

2021 12

September 2021

  1. How We Got to the End

August 2021

  1. Bisecting “The Bob”
  2. Beast Mode

July 2021

  1. Roadwalk Reroute
  2. The Slackpack Streak
  3. Yellowstone Backcountry Transit

June 2021

  1. Birthday Airmail Resupply
  2. The Blowdown Lowdown

April 2021

  1. I am not throwing away my shot!

February 2021

  1. Landscape Accounting

January 2021

  1. Glug Glug Glug Glug Glug Pizza
  2. Watching me work

2020 18

October 2020

  1. How to Coordinate a Supported Thru-Hike

September 2020

  1. Flipflop Slackpack
  2. Snowbound on the CDT
  3. Resupply in the San Juans
  4. Goodbye Colorado Trail
  5. Colorado Trail Magic

August 2020

  1. From the CDT to the CT
  2. Intro to Colorado
  3. Wyoming Colorado Interstitial

July 2020

  1. Getting My Overland Legs
  2. Why I’m sleeping on top of a Jeep in Wyoming

May 2020

  1. Lasagna offcuts

April 2020

  1. Spreadsheet cornbread
  2. Couscous à la française, inspiré de l’Afrique du Nord, pour Stéphanie
  3. Black bean chili (without guardrails)
  4. A GRE question for our times

March 2020

  1. Crepe myrtle buds

January 2020

  1. I’m famous! (on a composition notebook in India)

2019 7

October 2019

  1. 788.7 miles in 53 days

September 2019

  1. Learning how to save, twelve (point seven five) years later
  2. Snowbound in Tahoe

July 2019

  1. Our Fresno Summer Salad

February 2019

  1. I’m famous! (in Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan)
  2. San Francisco Sunset

January 2019

  1. Second Sabbatical

2018 8

December 2018

  1. A Belated Thanksgiving in Death Valley

July 2018

  1. Hawk at work

March 2018

  1. We marched for our lives
  2. What the end of the world looks like
  3. Along Bolinas Ridge
  4. Snowy Plover Triptych

February 2018

  1. Hamburgers are cheaper

January 2018

  1. Learning how to save, eleven years later

2017 17

December 2017

  1. Desert Thanksgiving in Joshua Tree

October 2017

  1. Adventures in Real Estate, part 4
  2. Lupita Nyong’o: Speaking Out About Harvey Weinstein

September 2017

  1. Hansen Unplugged: Anthem protests not about disrespecting the flag
  2. NOAA Found Poetry

July 2017

  1. Dining Nook Renovations
  2. Rim to Rim to Rim
  3. Portrait of Hamburger

May 2017

  1. Jimmy Kimmel Reveals Details of His Son’s Birth & Heart Disease

April 2017

  1. How I Made My Own iPhone
  2. 48 Miles in 12 Hours

March 2017

  1. Mount Diablo and Mission Peak Doubleheader

February 2017

  1. Proud to call California home
  2. Proud to support the ACLU and Planned Parenthood

January 2017

  1. Stranger Things Cast: Acceptance Speech
  2. Carrot Cake Cupcakes for Chris
  3. Learning how to save, ten years later

2016 18

December 2016

  1. How to set up a 401(k)
  2. La Jeep in Death Valley

November 2016

  1. Hot sauce as celebrity truth serum
  2. Roadkill and Dirt Every Day

October 2016

  1. Historic, in 2016
  2. Southern Utah and Northern Arizona Road Trip

August 2016

  1. 220 Miles in 11 Days

May 2016

  1. The Roth Awakening

April 2016

  1. Ohlone Wilderness Trail
  2. Eighteen Quintillion YouTube Videos

March 2016

  1. My Grandmother passed away
  2. The Perfect Omelet
  3. Peters Creek Loop
  4. Skyline-to-the-Sea

January 2016

  1. Hike to Murietta Falls
  2. El Corte de Madera Creek
  3. Index Card Financial Advice
  4. Learning how to save, nine years later

2015 24

December 2015

  1. Double Dipsea

November 2015

  1. Mission Peak
  2. Point Reyes Anniversary
  3. Summiting Diablo
  4. What is living in San Francisco like?

October 2015

  1. Looping around Big Basin
  2. Atypical Point Reyes

September 2015

  1. Morning on the Coastal Trail
  2. Hiking the GR5
  3. The 2013 and 2014 Photo Books

July 2015

  1. Preparing for the Alps on Mt Tam
  2. Return to Butano

June 2015

  1. Portuguese Cheese
  2. The Great Purge
  3. Trinity Alps’ Canyon Creek Trail

May 2015

  1. Responsive Redesign
  2. Bike to Work Day Poster Boy

April 2015

  1. Feeling Helpless about Homelessness
  2. Thanksgiving in Death Valley

March 2015

  1. This is neat: Computing the optimal road trip across the…
  2. Limited Range of Motion
  3. Olecranon Fracture

January 2015

  1. A Belated Happy New Year!
  2. Learning how to save, eight years later

2014 78

December 2014

  1. My kind of nativity: Dinosaurs Winning the Internet
  2. On a positive note: For years, the partitions between the…
  3. Wow: “We’ve got a financial system in the U.S.,” she…
  4. This is pretty cool: The President, in 3D

November 2014

  1. Emergency Kit
  2. Rockstar Life
  3. 52 regional Thanksgiving dishes by state: The United States…
  4. DocPop’s experience with “Shirtstorm” reminded me…
  5. I love the things people are passionate about: How to fold…
  6. Unintentional post-apocalypticism: Sand dune next to a…
  7. So we did this thing

October 2014

  1. I found this long article about transgender people at…
  2. Hallowed ground

September 2014

  1. Return to the High Sierra Camps
  2. The Rae Lakes Loop
  3. Ooo, I want to try this stove-top spatchcocked recipe:…
  4. Three (or Four or Five) Day Coq au Vin
  5. Hyperbolic Discounting is the new Imposter Syndrome
  6. Instant Pulitzer: How municipalities in St. Louis County,…
  7. Dad at the end of the PCT
  8. Loving this photo: Not a big deal. Just some deer running…

August 2014

  1. Our sonic earthquake experience
  2. There should be a domestic news source that always read…
  3. Recipe I want to try: Grilled Chile Flank Steak With Salsa
  4. What a drone sounds like
  5. Sometimes I do this: My worst habit: when I should be…
  6. Stephanie’s Fresh Chevre Tutorial was posted on Make!
  7. Yesterday my brother Matthew met my dad on the PCT near…

July 2014

  1. So this happened (or is happening): FTD buying parent of…
  2. Oh man, an Atwood tool geared specifically at old school…
  3. Looking at Photos the Master Never Saw captures the…
  4. 150 Miles in 8 Days

June 2014

  1. Intercepting Dad on the PCT
  2. Enough food to stay alive

May 2014

  1. Surreal Landscape of Hierve el Agua
  2. Rim Fire Aftermath
  3. Oaxacan Beetles
  4. Cool toys seems like best part about having kids: Awesome…

April 2014

  1. Designing a knife block
  2. Bacon Chop? Count me in: Napa BBQ joint Smoakville
  3. Following Dad on the PCT
  4. Yesterday my dad started hiking the PCT: Off I Go
  5. Hell yeah xkcd! Free Speech
  6. I love this: 3d-printed, stop-motion animation: Bears on…
  7. I enjoyed this short article on Elane Photography v….
  8. Shrimp and Grits, California-style
  9. Looking forward to seeing Finding Vivian Maier when it…
  10. It’s worth stopping everything to watch this: ‘Slomo’
  11. This looks fun: The Food Lab: Maximize Flavor by…

March 2014

  1. This is rad: Devil’s Slide, once hellish, opens as…
  2. This would be fun to make, V-Day or not: Lavender, Lemon,…
  3. My first photo exhibition
  4. Warren Buffett’s advice to individual investors in his 2013 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter

February 2014

  1. An xkcd clock: Now
  2. Perfecting the breakfast wrap
  3. Whoa, this is interesting: Kodak Portra 400 film is made…
  4. Super interesting linguistics video: Voynich Manuscript…
  5. Analog to analog to analog
  6. Really neat pictures of Mammoth tusk lifted from Seattle…
  7. Analog to analog to digital
  8. Nature’s “latte art”

January 2014

  1. Return of the Workcation
  2. I got sucked into this real estate story: Circa 1665, one…
  3. Neat story, and I learned something: Megatons to Megawatts
  4. New buzz-phrase: “wage-theft pact”, see: How Silicon…
  5. Golden Gate Bridge and Land’s End
  6. Golden Gate Bridge Triptych-Diptych
  7. Two very fine black and white photos: Tai O fishing…
  8. Merry Christmas! (a month late)
  9. Olive picking, encore
  10. Oaxacan Dog
  11. Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
  12. Sabino Canyon
  13. Something to try: Chemistry of Cast Iron Seasoning: A…
  14. It’s better to feel pain, than nothing at all The opposite…
  15. The Lost Coast
  16. I don’t know why, but I really dig stuff like this:…
  17. Learning how to save, seven years later

2013 133

December 2013

  1. Kickstarter for Marissa Thornton’s Boutique Cow Dairy…
  2. Another trip around the Sun
  3. Amazing reporting: Planet Money Makes A T-Shirt

November 2013

  1. Great article about the changing demographics of the…
  2. Wow, this is exciting: Kano: A computer anyone can make
  3. File under, “makes me want to have kids”: Welcome to…
  4. Oh, NY Times and your corrections: An earlier version of…
  5. News: Provide Commerce Acquires Sincerely to Make its…
  6. I feel even better about washing my face every night: How…
  7. I’m famous! (in a Google patent application)
  8. A new door
  9. I was a bike lane for Halloween

October 2013

  1. Saw someone riding what looked like a Hase Pino the other…
  2. A hike in the French Alps
  3. To try: a Lebanese breakfast of a plate of olive oil, a…
  4. This is quite lovely: Progressbar
  5. Skirting the Esterel
  6. This was an excellent read: How Guilty Should I Feel About…
  7. This should be on TV: Vaccines. And now my kids don’t die.
  8. HAHAHA: In an interesting work-around, Levison complied the…

September 2013

  1. Animated QR Code Logo
  2. Yum, I must make: Small Batch Roasted Tomatillo Salsa
  3. To try: Hemingway’s Hamburger
  4. The New Bay Bridge
  5. Couscous insalata caprese
  6. Whoa, an SLR-esque “lens” that “bolts” onto your…

August 2013

  1. Classic David Lebovitz: Grilled Vegetables with Za’atar…
  2. Colors of San Francisco
  3. Hi, my name is QR Code, I’ll be your server today
  4. Rim Fire in context
  5. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – 40 Day Dream She got…
  6. Now something to make you smile: Magic Beard
  7. First the disappointing news: Bradley Manning sentenced to…
  8. Lawyers write the best letters: David Miranda lawyers’…
  9. Ugly: Glenn Greenwald’s partner detained at Heathrow…
  10. Wow, the Ubuntu Edge smartphone is the largest…
  11. Neat art: Tensioned Suspension
  12. Well I’m glad that’s over: State court gives final OK to…
  13. Yummy, must try: Steak With Tomatillo-Pineapple Salsa
  14. Prints of paintings of my photos
  15. When Werner Herzog narrates your Kickstarter video, how…
  16. High Sierra camping with Matthew
  17. Politico: Edward Snowden is a patriot, Assange: Obama…
  18. Lavabit’s Ladar Levison: ‘If You Knew What I Know About…
  19. I always enjoy Gianni Galassi’s work but the first shot on…
  20. Damn: Lavabit, email service Snowden reportedly used,…
  21. Just parted with $695 in support of Ubuntu Edge…
  22. Commute loop
  23. Take me out to the ballpark
  24. Campfire quesadillas

July 2013

  1. Word of the day: semordnilap
  2. From Lava Beds to Crater Lake
  3. So so so disappointing: The military judge in the trial of…
  4. For future reference: Doortop Stash and Hidden USB Storage…
  5. You stay classy, US Government: DHS to employees: reading…
  6. Just read the testimony Yochai Benkler gave in the Bradley Manning case…
  7. Disheartening: “Snowden made the right call when he fled…
  8. Super-inspiring, worth a read: Edward Snowden’s father…
  9. Jason Griffey Kickstarter for LibraryBox 2.0…

June 2013

  1. Searching for parents without certain children in SQL
  2. Sincerely in Adweek: Hyatt Hotels Combines Facebook With…
  3. Wow, the Pardon Edward Snowden petition has 119k signatures
  4. Pink Cabriolet in the Mission
  5. Naturally desaturated
  6. Damn: Time Cover Story Wrongly Attacks Atheists for Not…
  7. So crazy it just might work: Coffitivity (via How the Hum…
  8. Malibu Classic
  9. Edward Snowden is a national treasure: “It’s important to…
  10. Two great posts on the old olive trees in Majorca…
  11. Four excellent talks by Miško Hevery on writing testable code…
  12. I just stumbled upon the best Wikipedia article ever:…
  13. What a headline: Has the US become the type of nation from…
  14. For future reference: Hear Ye, Future Deep Throats: This Is…
  15. Heavy: Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA…
  16. Red Karmann Ghia
  17. AMC Pacer X
  18. Ford Custom 500
  19. Mac and cheese
  20. My Leica year comes to an end

May 2013

  1. This is a great read: Imprisoned CIA Torture Whistleblower…
  2. My favorite part of Paul Jones’ Story Behind the WWW…
  3. Mission Bicycle Company offering an alternative to Blazing Saddles…
  4. I haven’t played a computer game in years, but Banished…
  5. The Coastal Trail
  6. I’m famous! (on Chile’s new national identity cards)
  7. Starting fresh with Raring Ringtail

April 2013

  1. The first URL: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
  2. What to do when the kids get older: From Playhouse To…
  3. I’m always looking for things to make with avocados that…
  4. How about some good news? NZ parliament erupts in song…
  5. Another good headline: Next Week’s School Shooting Victims…
  6. Headline of the century: Reddit and 4Chan Are on the Boston…
  7. Hanging on the wall
  8. Lovely photographic still-life: Berries & Blossoms in…
  9. New bike
  10. Google Street View as one big timelapse: Google Street View…
  11. What my smartphone sees
  12. Golden Gate Bridge in black and white
  13. This was the only April Fool’s prank I fell for, albeit…
  14. The 2012 Photo Book

March 2013

  1. If you’re interested in viewing some fresher lava: Finite…
  2. Harshest critique of Google I’ve read recently, captured…
  3. Into Haleakalā
  4. I love these before and after photos of Paris, before being…
  5. Pīpīwai to Waimoku
  6. Adding “workcation” to my lexicon
  7. End of an Era: Google shutting down Reader
  8. I knew nothing about the misadventures of “Prenda Law”,…
  9. Photogenic arch
  10. This trailer looks amazing: L’Ecume des Jours (apparently…
  11. It’s amusing to think that we could change this: Petition…
  12. Our condolences to Chez Panisse
  13. Snowy plovers
  14. Baby food for grown ups
  15. Neat: How rope was made the old fashioned way (reminds me…
  16. To the top of Kelso Dunes
  17. I had no idea “normal people” could just walk up the Bay…
  18. Enthralling: Pfc. Bradley E. Manning’s Statement for the…
  19. Two very cool and completely unrelated series of photos:…
  20. Fun with polymorphic shell scripts

February 2013

  1. Absolutely astonishing takedown of American hospital bills
  2. I am not a blogger
  3. Learning how to save, six years later
  4. Wild boar crossing
  5. On not wearing a bicycle helmet
  6. Cool article: America’s mason jar a DIY catalyst
  7. Mojave landscapes in black and white
  8. I’m guessing this XKCD practically wrote itself: Perl…
  9. Choreographed windless kite flying

January 2013

  1. Salt ponds in black and white
  2. Just doing my part to spread the joy of Melt-in-the-Mouth…
  3. Holy cow these are beautiful: lasercut underwater…
  4. Happy New Job (and Year)

2012 172

December 2012

  1. An impromptu Christmas in Austin
  2. Love these photos from Inside San Francisco’s Vintage…
  3. I modeled for Doc’s post on Hipstamatic’s experimental…
  4. Ornamentation
  5. Code Confusion

November 2012

  1. Adjacent Archive Links for WordPress
  2. Mise-en-abyme offering
  3. Olive crush
  4. Best line ever about Petraeusgate: “This is the…
  5. This made me LOL: Despite the loud calls for Texas…
  6. Long overdue for a redesign

October 2012

  1. Yosemite in black and white
  2. Not sure why I find this so cool, but I do: Mothership…
  3. Very cool: Time-lapse video: Space shuttle Endeavour’s…
  4. Twilight panorama of San Francisco
  5. Have you heard about Baumol’s cost disease? Rafe Colburn…
  6. Decorative contrails
  7. “Walking-around phone”? What other type is there? In the…

September 2012

  1. Like sister, like brother
  2. Picnic at home
  3. Close encounters
  4. So sad if even 1/10 of this is true: “Mitt Romney’s life…
  5. Redirect Editor plugin for WordPress
  6. When life gives you eggplants, make ratatouille!
  7. A study of power lines and pigeons
  8. Are you following Incidental Comics? You should be:…
  9. The Accommodating Gratin
  10. Slice of life in Senegal: Stuck bus
  11. Touring San Francisco with my parents
  12. The science of cilantro: Inspired by a study suggesting…
  13. This is absolutely lovely: Yuri Suzuki’s London…
  14. San Francisco wildlife
  15. Worth a read: Chris Kluwe Explains Gay Marriage To The…
  16. Painting a room
  17. HTML += Github

August 2012

  1. Leaving France by plane
  2. I always wondered what those were: Dot Urbanism (kind of…
  3. Stephanie and I were interviewed for an article in French…
  4. What’s on the grill in France?
  5. The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
  6. Rue de l’Orbitelle, Entrevaux
  7. Basse Rue, Annot
  8. To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something…
  9. Rue des Pêcheurs, Antibes
  10. Song of the cigale
  11. Slice of life in Ghana: This is how they “learn computers”…
  12. Straight-up neat: Question about image file types, answered…
  13. A weekend in Ruoms
  14. Preemptive jetlag

July 2012

  1. “Horror” movie: Sight
  2. Slice of life in Ghana: Francis and Easter
  3. The Golden Age of Air Travel
  4. Rotation innovation: Kalle Mattson – Water Falls,…
  5. Fancy that: bacteria grown from Anton Zuiker’s bellybutton…
  6. A study of power lines
  7. An empty lot
  8. Time is hard: Leap Second crashes half the internet

June 2012

  1. Happy Birthday Grandmommy
  2. I have to try this: How to spiral cut a hot dog
  3. These projected Skype family portraits made me think back…
  4. The Big Picture in black and white: Oscypek is a smoked…
  5. This is cool: LEGO Turing Machine
  6. This is great: Eve Ensler and Lisa Brown to read Vagina…
  7. Inflight, black and white
  8. Here’s some Friday link-rage to get your weekend started…
  9. I had no idea: The secret meaning of the lines on a Solo…
  10. The bridge to nowhere
  11. Plymouth Valiant Signet
  12. The lonely Disk Drive
  13. Fun video (and article): Food Trucks in Paris? U.S. Cuisine…
  14. Return to camping at Point Reyes

May 2012

  1. Perhaps I should reconsider my aversion to coffee: How To Make…
  2. Toppled Parmesan
  3. I found this disturbing and very, very sad: North Carolina Pastor…
  4. Leica blues
  5. Slice of life in Ghana: Chick Seller
  6. Equine container cranes
  7. Big news: N.A.A.C.P. Endorses Same-Sex Marriage
  8. Clever concept: Guinness QR Code Pint Glass (via Daniel)
  9. Le Housewarming, enfin!
  10. I love this quote: Fruit juice is sugar with no fiber to…
  11. Plymouth Valiant
  12. I couldn’t count the number of times I made this argument at…
  13. To make next Thanksgiving: melon de dinde
  14. I found this amusing: Trucker Hat (for bananas) (via Boing…
  15. VW Bus/Pickup
  16. A hybrid commute
  17. Delayed Gratification Photography

April 2012

  1. I saw a dead body this morning: Man Commits Suicide in…
  2. From Twin Peaks
  3. What are “seagull trolls”? People who fly into your blog…
  4. Instagramesque
  5. Another data point that change is afoot: Ablogalypse
  6. Rob Beschizza on How to blog: If ever blogging was for…
  7. This looks good: PRIDE & JOY: A Southern Foodways…
  8. Love Paul Ford’s characterization of Facebook in his piece…
  9. Carving out our new home
  10. Behavior modification: Take The Stairs (wait, shouldn’t it…
  11. Hotel Wifi JavaScript Injection
  12. A little gem of wisdom hidden in Anil’s article about a…
  13. Our pad in 8 bits
  14. I’ve been feeling this way about a lot of technology…

March 2012

  1. Shopping has felt awfully like this lately: Reviews
  2. The best cabbage soup is chicken soup
  3. All the things she did for luck
  4. I have a bone to pick with you, Josh Miller: Why Branch Is…
  5. Very cool: Andre was quoted in Austin Kleon’s new book,…
  6. This is probably not what GoPro intended by the “World’s Most…
  7. Rethinking the Refrigerator
  8. OMFG: The Free Universal Construction Kit (3D Printers make…
  9. The square we live in: There are at least 18 Reasons to…
  10. Earthquake welcoming committee
  11. I’m admittedly a passive investor, with 100% of my…
  12. Great video: Vice Munchies with Danny Bowien (of Mission…
  13. Simpleform = Simpleform + 1
  14. My jaw-dropped watching this: Over-elaborated…
  15. Pretty: Onion Ring Sunny-side Up Eggs
  16. What a concept: Even though Holga D is a digital camera, in…
  17. My new desk at Simpleform
  18. Tent + Treehouse = Tentsile
  19. Container ships forever!

February 2012

  1. This is incredible: Robot Quadrotors Perform James Bond…
  2. Wow. I’ve been half-noodling on a project like this: A…
  3. Neat: satellite photo of container ship contrails
  4. Return to Land’s End
  5. I concur: The thing about conducting an internet manhunt is…
  6. My second inflight blog post
  7. I thought this was a pretty amazing article: 60 Lives, 30…
  8. My first inflight blog post
  9. My latest obsession: claro walnut slab table with live edge
  10. This house is jacked up: Moving Day. 15th and Dolores.
  11. Clever: STACK soap (woulda been handy for those shampoo…
  12. SF taking after Austin: Mission might get an Alamo…
  13. Oh Kottke: “It sounds like a pod of dolphins trying to…
  14. This article broke my heart: Seven-pound Yorkie killed…
  15. Emending an esoteric Exif error
  16. Whoa, Firefox 10’s built-in Web Developer Tools obsoletes…
  17. It seems that the WSJ is anti-American [parents]. After the…
  18. Interesting to read the thoughts of someone “coming out”…
  19. I love it when people geek-out so passionately: And after…
  20. A hike, a home

January 2012

  1. Yowza, who knew the power of a tweet on a Friday night?…
  2. Are QR Codes the Roller-Skating Horses of Advertising?…
  3. Learning how to save, five years later
  4. Did you know about the Mull of Kintyre test? Now you do.
  5. That’s Le Web to you!
  6. The 2011 Photo Book
  7. Check out my neck tat
  8. Heh: In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s Grandparents’ WiFi…
  9. Our container ship voyage across the Atlantic written up in Neue Presse
  10. Great video of Nathan Myhrvold demoing some “modernist…
  11. Wtc
  12. Ha! It truly saddens me to see this group of people using…
  13. Amit Gupta found a match! (previously)
  14. Captures how I feel about SOPA at this point: Super PIPA-SOPA Flowchart
  15. Check out Coop’s shots of the Honda CL350 “cafe racer”…
  16. Pocket cams come with GPS now? Canon S100: camera with a…
  17. In the grand tradition of Beard Slap, check out Russell…
  18. New year, new gig
  19. TSA: [Safety razors] are making a comeback thanks to the…
  20. Forget the iPhone, how about an iCamera? Polaroid (they…
  21. Does anyone out there know anything about Pinterest?
  22. “Sort Sol” in San Francisco at Sunset
  23. I’m famous! (on a TSA sign at Orlando International Airport)
  24. This boggles the mind: Google demotes its own browser from…
  25. Yes! A Recipe for Simplifying Life: Ditch All the Recipes
  26. This is the Pinewood Derby Car of my dreams (I wonder if…
  27. Mmmm: Whole-grain pasta key part of local wheat movement…
  28. Happy New Year from Austin
  29. Takin’ the 30 Stockton to Saigon (on New Year’s Eve!)
  30. Lost several hours today on Blame It On The Voices (where…
  31. Funny fotos: Blue Screen of Death costume and Epc Crstms…

2011 312

December 2011

  1. A Melt-in-the-Mouth Cookie Santa
  2. Neat demo of Raspberry Pi, an ARM GNU/Linux box for $25:…
  3. A Christmas Story is a family favorite of ours, so I found…
  4. A wonderfully written reflection on coming home after…
  5. Cooking crackers: If you think of crackers as little bits…
  6. Kiva featured on Boing Boing’s extensive Charitable Giving…
  7. Whoa, QR Code tattoo returns random URLs: The Random Tattoo
  8. wget in the news! [David] Shaver told the hearing that he…
  9. I found this very compelling: Optimize for Happiness (Tom…
  10. December Cookie Traffic
  11. A reminder of why I still blog: I think that’s why blogs…
  12. The story of an armchair and sofa
  13. OMG: The crappy old Cala Market a block from where we used…
  14. I’m famous! (on a virtual supermarket website in Chile)
  15. This will resonate with anyone who’s been to Southeast…
  16. I’m not necessarily in the market for a smartphone, but if…
  17. Shannon muses on the ethics and the elephants of Asia…
  18. I had no idea you could cut your Christmas Tree in a…
  19. Planting a flag in the sand
  20. Time-traveling munitions: City evacuates 45,000 to defuse…
  21. Time-lapse in a single frame! Sutro Tower Sunset

November 2011

  1. Adventures in Real Estate, part 3
  2. This is cool: Little Printer
  3. This ain’t your father’s turducken
  4. Just discovered that Mark Pilgrim pulled down…
  5. Neat: rollercoaster staircase in Germany
  6. Really been enjoying David Lebovitz’s blog lately. Check…
  7. Check out Jodi’s lovely photos in It’s Always Tagine…
  8. Word I had to look up: eleemosynary (it means charity)
  9. How to set up a local copy of your WordPress blog
  10. Awesome: Canadian’s lucky iron fish saves lives in…
  11. Tonight was a Sophia-Grace-and-Rosie-a-thon thanks to Andy….
  12. A nice interview with the Omnivorous Michael Pollan at home…
  13. There are 4 types of people on 5th St…
  14. This is absolutely genius: A History of the Sky for One…
  15. Flipping through a magazine while waiting for lunch today,…
  16. Handy: Color-highlighted svn diff output (wish it…
  17. Adventures in Real Estate, part 2
  18. You stay classy, Chapel Hill: Chapel Hill sends SWAT team to…
  19. xkcd: What your favorite map projection says about you
  20. Yes Yes Yes: The Social Graph is Neither (best thing I’ve…
  21. You can buy a 3D printer now?
  22. No Justinsomnia in Ghana
  23. Wow, This American Life brings down Judge Amanda Williams
  24. Black rhino airlift
  25. Ha! Good one: Silicon Prairie
  26. Luxury fruit? Oh Japan. (via Andy)
  27. Cooking classes around the Bay Area: Ten Places to Master…
  28. Adventures in Real Estate, part 1
  29. Support the Mindblogglingly Magnanimous and Majestically…
  30. Ha: NoVIMber (It’s funny because I’ve been thinking about…
  31. Fried red plantains with beans
  32. Word: The True Cost of Commuting
  33. Holy QR cupcakes, Batman!
  34. I know Halloween is over, but this is pretty awesome:…
  35. Stephanie’s new “Buddy”
  36. You stay classy, America: UNESCO votes to admit Palestine;…

October 2011

  1. Human QR Code
  2. I’m not a fan of meatloaf, but Meatloaf Cupcakes?! Now…
  3. Neat: Ford Unveils ‘New’ 1965 Mustang
  4. I love America: Defending Against Tear Gas
  5. Pomo Canyon
  6. This made me chuckle: Understand that while on vacation, I…
  7. Yikes: PROTECT IP / SOPA Act Breaks the Internet
  8. Feral CB750
  9. Jeff Atwood, of Coding Horror, On Parenthood (related:…
  10. Chris and Katie
  11. Yum: California’s Olive Oils Challenge Europe’s
  12. Wow, big news: Federated Media to provide ads for U.S….
  13. Holy quantum levitation Batman!
  14. Taddy Blecher stopped by Kiva’s offices last week and gave…
  15. I work for Kiva now!
  16. So happy to be walking to work again regularly: Short bouts…
  17. My sister likes to send me container ship disaster…
  18. Catching up with Eric Rewitzer
  19. Ha, check out: The Ohio University Marching Band’s…
  20. The importance of bone marrow
  21. This looks like a fun celebration of American Food: Serious…
  22. Calling all Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Nepalese,…
  23. Boing Boing’s tribute to Steve Jobs
  24. Affinage in America: Cheese: A Coming-of-Age Story The cave…
  25. My photo tattooed on someone’s body
  26. Neat: Painting with gravity

September 2011

  1. So glad I’m with Schwab (which actually refunds all ATM…
  2. Beautiful and useless (and wish I had thought of it first):…
  3. What an uplifting article: Fighting Cervical Cancer With…
  4. There you have it: Bastrop fire’s apparent cause: trees…
  5. Ouch, that hurts: Elaine Donnelly, a longtime opponent of…
  6. Photo of the day: Keep ’em under 88mph
  7. Unfinished business at Arches
  8. I’m famous! (in a PayPal concept video)
  9. Three guys got into an elevator with us at the Sands…
  10. File under “sounds like The Onion”: World Must ‘Get…
  11. Keith Tantlinger, Builder of Cargo Container, Dies at 92…
  12. Beef worthy of a Texas grill
  13. The 2010 Photo Book
  14. A QR Code for my wunderkammer
  15. My brother and his wife Beth (and their cat Calvin) are ok,…
  16. Thanks to Glenn, I don’t feel bad calling myself a…
  17. “3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand…
  18. Ubuntu Unity: Ugh
  19. Was in the process of setting up my new Lenovo X220 (with…
  20. Can’t say I’m a fan of “Ubuntu Unity”, and this post…
  21. Our Path
  22. Rad visualization: Intercontinental Ballistic Microfinance
  23. Hot: For Burning Man, an Airstream Done Up in Moorish…
  24. Sorted stars: The Art of Clean Up

August 2011

  1. Neat architectural video: Up – And Down From Ground Zero
  2. Ferrofluid? Compressed 02 (via Kottke)
  3. Clever: Minimal Business Card Design (except I don’t use…
  4. Stephanie blogs! Crocheting around the world (the story of…
  5. Arriving in New York by container ship
  6. Beautiful long exposure shots: from the New Transit…
  7. Warren Buffett: My friends and I have been coddled long…
  8. Hahaha: Mocking the East Coast earthquake
  9. Crossing the Atlantic
  10. Off we go again
  11. Ocre en Provence
  12. Des haricots verts
  13. Bourgogne and Auvergne
  14. Two bits of good news: Tech companies going all out to…
  15. Loriol: Because we’re worth it

July 2011

  1. OK Go + Pilobolus = All Is Not Lost
  2. Wowza! I thought the day would never come: Boing Boing gets…
  3. How demotivating is a QR Code?
  4. A taste of Parma
  5. File this under “reading the news in my analytics”: I…
  6. A glimpse of Florence
  7. An unusually interesting time-lapse: The nytimes they are…
  8. Great headline: China Plans to Release Some of Its Pork…
  9. Aqua rando en Corse
  10. Driving around Corsica
  11. Toujours Provence
  12. Odd news: the company that made my previous camera buying…
  13. Why I enjoy the internet: I didn’t know it was called the…
  14. En France, encore, enfin
  15. Ha. Ha. Ha. Google+ (also made me LOL: Unpickable)
  16. Out of Africa

June 2011

  1. Ugandan chapati cooking
  2. White Nile Whitewater
  3. Neato: The Pentax Q System (with “Toy” lenses!)
  4. Mountain gorillas
  5. A fair-use conflict with an unhappy ending: Andy Baio…
  6. I never would have imagined that one day I’d find myself in Rwanda
  7. The Dutch Mint is about to release a commemorative,…
  8. Crossing the equator on land
  9. Crash of rhinos
  10. I wonder if this will affect their “world’s most…
  11. Flamboyance of flamingos
  12. Oh Internet! Antoine Dodson performs at the 15th Annual…
  13. Safari at Lake Nakuru
  14. I’m a few months behind on pop culture, besides what…
  15. An elevated perspective on African wildlife: George…
  16. Neato: Mapnificent: Shows you areas you can reach with…
  17. Intro to Overlanding
  18. Chuckle: Annoying.js
  19. For more East African animal goodness, check out Nick…
  20. Must have: Lego Maersk Container Ship Set
  21. My own mom featured on her company’s blog: 3 for Me: Kathy…
  22. Terrie dispatches two goats: Of Blood and Earth
  23. File under “if I had a backyard”: Upgrading the Big Green…

May 2011

  1. Telephoto landscapes
  2. Yawning animals
  3. Cheetahs are awesome
  4. Lion sex
  5. Lion cubs at dawn
  6. Zebra moirés
  7. Happy happy hippos
  8. Elephants in the wild
  9. An elusive leopard
  10. Giraffes are cool
  11. Maasai Mara menagerie
  12. California State Park closures
  13. Anil Dash: I’d like to be writing the content that…
  14. xkcd I liked more for the tooltip: Chain of Command
  15. For future reference: A little collection of cool unix…
  16. Very cool post by Eric of 3 Fish Studios on Ginkgo Monotype…
  17. India coda
  18. Neat: Make Your QR Codes More Beautiful
  19. I’m famous! (on the front page of Dainik Bhaskar AND The Times of India)
  20. Full stop in Gandhidham
  21. Yummy: Raspberry Pi (ultra-low-cost computer, about the…
  22. Happened to catch an episode of Detroit 1-8-7, a TV show…
  23. I’m one of the biggest tourist attractions in India
  24. Sunset from Mount Abu
  25. Currently in Mumbai. Nervous to go outside, given the news…
  26. I’m famous! (on the homepage of BlackBerry India)

April 2011

  1. Indian cooking
  2. Fresh peanut masala
  3. A philosophy of long-term travel
  4. The Taj
  5. I had a large mug of chai masala at the start of our…
  6. Varanasi
  7. Heaven in the xkcd universe
  8. A kati roll in Kolkata
  9. Rethinking India from Bangkok
  10. Outsiders view companies as omniscient and omnipotent…
  11. Outsiders always seem to fixate on creation myths. Insiders…
  12. Thai cooking, take two
  13. Stephanie took a very cool weaving class back where we were…
  14. More elephanty goodness
  15. Yes yes yes yes yes yes YES! How to steal like an artist
  16. I found it both cool and scary to learn that there’s some…
  17. Go Stephanie! And now both of my biggest fears are overcome…
  18. It’s funny. I’ve spent untold hours helping people…
  19. I find this sad: Waxing Frida (Mostly because it seems to…
  20. My elephant week
  21. What would Michael Pollan say? Portlandia: Is It Local?
  22. Neat tool for looking up words based on any number of…
  23. It’s April 2nd in Bangkok, dammit! It’s not fair that…
  24. Marcia sez: I have held my book in my arms like a colicky…
  25. Oh dear: Facebook profiles are more or less de rigeur for…

March 2011

  1. Thai cooking, take one
  2. I want this car: Petite Italian Model Seeks Love in America…
  3. Posts like this remind me how much I like building small…
  4. Serendipitous path to Chiang Mai
  5. Oh dear, looks like Stephanie might have a hard time…
  6. To do next time I find myself in Evanston, Illinois:…
  7. Neat video that probes the uneasy intersection between a…
  8. I’d love to ride on one of these: Maersk’s New Container…
  9. What has two wheels and an umbrella?
  10. And to think, we saw it the day they moved in: Leona &…
  11. Lao cooking
  12. Why wasn’t this guy at our hotel in Siem Reap?—which…
  13. Great production qualities on this video by David Lebovitz:…
  14. Hạ Long Bay
  15. I love the way this sounds: Dandelion Pesto (though was…
  16. Scary! Tourists heading to Thailand warned after spate of…
  17. The making of PANAMAX
  18. Container calamity
  19. Props to FM for making #27 on The Wall Street Journal’s…
  20. Why does that QR Code go to justinsomnia.org?
  21. Super sad story: Wren Jones (be wary of homebirth,…
  22. Quoting Stephanie, “traveling all the time is [not] all…
  23. Learning how to save, four years later
  24. From Siem Reap to Hội An to Hanoi
  25. Yay! In New Food Culture, a Young Generation of Farmers…
  26. Animal I never knew existed: Pangolin
  27. They went to our In-N-Out! The Ultimate In-N-Out Secret…
  28. The trees of Ta Prohm
  29. Purty: Mutatoes (more here)
  30. Even simpler than the MOTOFONE F3: John’s Phone, but the…
  31. An afternoon with Angkor Wat
  32. Umm, Stephanie: New iPhone App for Cheese Lovers
  33. Return to Angkor
  34. Like lorem ipsum, but for photos. Of kittens. placekitten
  35. Need to get me one of these: CrocoNut Wrenches
  36. My photo smiling back at me got a nice mention in The…

February 2011

  1. Do ‘Most Tourists Take Pictures from the Same Spot’? If…
  2. My photo smiling back at me
  3. On the roof of the boat to Siem Reap
  4. Yet another “in the style of the iconic Tube map”: River…
  5. Heartbreaking photos from the second Christchurch…
  6. Cambodian cooking
  7. Thinking back on Cambodia
  8. Floating market
  9. Squatting market
  10. Getting to the Mekong Delta
  11. To read later: From Dictatorship to Democracy by Gene Sharp…
  12. Oh dear: British tourists feared dead as Vietnam tour boat…
  13. I’m curious about this: NoteSlate
  14. A sweet lovenote to the French Language: Live The Language…
  15. Vietnamese cooking
  16. Check out Terrie’s great bald eagle shot
  17. Green orange
  18. Highbrow hawker
  19. Extreme sitting? Check out Hockern (crazy new “sport” in…
  20. Cuddly Communism
  21. Funny: Pyramids, Plates, and Pagodas: Dietary Guidelines…
  22. Incredible videos from Flughafen at Miniatur Wunderland in…
  23. Where not next
  24. Ouch: Breaking the Web with hash-bangs
  25. Ok, where next?
  26. Sweet sidecar, Pinoy
  27. Dreamhost+Matt Mullenweg: Look who stopped by…
  28. It’s got linguistics, poetry, and Neal Stephenson! Trochee…
  29. Dinagyang!
  30. Nice video: An Accelerated Cockpit View of a Beautiful…
  31. Binakol na manok
  32. Congrats to my sister Katie for completing her first half…

January 2011

  1. Sandbar Island Beach
  2. Now that we’ve got a little bit more bandwidth in Vietnam,…
  3. Cool, gross: bird saliva factory
  4. Intro to San Dionisio
  5. Andy got (and brewed) our poo poo coffee from Bali (aka…
  6. Arriving in Iloilo
  7. Neat to see Eric Rewitzer’s new paintings (some based on…
  8. Wikileaks would be a great thing, if it weren’t for Julian…
  9. Hallefuckinglujah: Color-coded threat system to be replaced…
  10. This looks totally hot: Fujifilm FinePix X100
  11. Missed opportunity for a Jay-Z allusion: China and India…
  12. The new HTML5 fist
  13. What a slick site for the new HTML5 Logo (and it even…
  14. A week in Palawan
  15. Just stumbled upon this new typographic map of San…
  16. Not sure how to feel after reading The Tragedy of Nepal by…
  17. Batad Rice Terraces
  18. Long, but good read on the Euro: Can Europe Be Saved?…
  19. Ricky Gervais: Why I’m an Atheist (I prefer this approach…
  20. Neat: Telstar Logistics Tours Gourmet Food Truck Factories…
  21. Banaue Rice Terraces
  22. H-H-Hot! Penguin Classics ultra mega super 1.21 gigawatts…
  23. Exciting news for small car fans: Chrysler’s long-term…
  24. SF artist Eric Rewitzer, of 3 Fish Studios, will be using a…
  25. At least I’m not the only one who “decorates” with…
  26. I just lent $25 to a restaurateur in Iraq
  27. Stephanie’s posted some photos and a video of us scooting…
  28. How is babi formed?
  29. Fishing in Amed
  30. Heh heh: Even as Goldman takes a stake in Facebook, its…
  31. Just googled “pen fifteen” thanks to xkcd. Oh the things…
  32. Hot springs in a hot place

2010 460

December 2010

  1. Just preordered Marcia’s new book: DIY Cocktails (great…
  2. Stephanie took some great food photo shots in A lunch in…
  3. Updating WordPress from Bali
  4. The souvenir I didn’t get…yet
  5. Balinese cooking
  6. Merry Christmas from Bali and Austin
  7. And how! For all of Zuckerberg’s EQ, Facebook runs on a…
  8. Santa’s LCD screen is red: Incident
  9. Rice paddies around Ubud
  10. The long way from Sanur to Ubud
  11. Great post, great photos: Comté Cheese Making
  12. Talk about ethereal: Shinchi Maruyama throws water from his…
  13. Finally righting a wrong: ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ is…
  14. Tropical Bali
  15. I’m falling behind on my blogging! Thankfully Stephanie…
  16. Do not lean over side of railings
  17. Bird’s nest in the grapevines
  18. Supernice post by Leona about our trip to/in New Zealand:…
  19. Stephanie blogs about the islands in our future: Planning…
  20. For my friends in Sonoma County: Natural Process Alliance…
  21. Shoot thinning and wire lifting
  22. It sure is an interesting world we live in: Library of…
  23. For future reference: Great Rail Journeys (by which I mean…
  24. Good read: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
  25. New form of life discovered: bacteria with arsenic DNA…
  26. Competition for tissues
  27. Neat gift idea indeed: Homemade Vanilla Extract

November 2010

  1. Meet the Mullins
  2. Flipped through the Atlas of Remote Islands in a bookstore…
  3. Me and the DeLorean
  4. Justin Watt as ‘Bullitt’
  5. Meat pies cutaway, literally
  6. A week of milking goats
  7. Andy visits a Gruyere cheese factory in Gruyères
  8. Must. Stop. Buying. Icebreaker merino wool in New…
  9. Trying hard not to be seduced by overland tours of Africa
  10. Apparently “justinsomnia.org” is the lorem ipsum of QR…
  11. To skim later: 20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the…
  12. Tramping the Abel Tasman Coast Track
  13. From Hanmer Springs to Akaroa
  14. Franz Josef Glacier: a portrait
  15. Franz Josef Glacier
  16. Oops: A Comfort, TX photographer is suing the state over…
  17. Glimpse of a glacier
  18. Chilling in Queenstown
  19. Food for thought: Data-Visualizing the Most Remote Places…
  20. Really hating the west coast sandflies right now: Sandfly…

October 2010

  1. It seems like everyone I know is makin’ bacon and…
  2. Kayaking Milford Sound (with penguins!)
  3. The highest paved road in New Zealand
  4. Tekapo and Pukaki
  5. It’s an NZ TV commercial, and derivative, but pretty good…
  6. From Palpatine to Voyager
  7. I don’t know if it’s the New Zealand air or the half a…
  8. Kaikoura Peninsula
  9. Neat map: The True Size of Africa
  10. Swimming with dolphins
  11. From North to South (Island)
  12. Kiwis crossing at night
  13. Thanks to Todd Lappin for his great review of our container…
  14. Watch out, there’s a new “Martha” on the block: DIY…
  15. Pohutu in action
  16. To check out upon our return: Kevin Kelly’s new book, What…
  17. Driving on the left
  18. That’s a mighty familiar perspective: Fogtown (view of the…
  19. Whoa, my old Sandwich Américain post just got Reddit’d:…
  20. A look inside a Māori wharenui
  21. A peek at Auckland’s bush
  22. Jodi travels the world for two years and then all her stuff…
  23. Sailboat + killer whales + baby = Estelle and the Orcas…
  24. Catching up on a month’s worth of unread blog posts…
  25. So great to see the Ariel Victoria set sail
  26. Tramping Rangitoto
  27. End of an era: Ask.com shutting down Bloglines
  28. Brief portrait of a blogging backpacker
  29. Handy: Geographic coordinate conversion
  30. Plugging back into life on land
  31. AuckLAND ho!
  32. One big engine
  33. Land anticipation
  34. Time-traveling container ship
  35. Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’

September 2010

  1. Purple Pacific
  2. Passing Tahiti
  3. No scurvy on this ship
  4. Moonlit containers
  5. Rougher seas ahead
  6. Container ship cuisine
  7. Thanks for the love MetaFilter: 28 Days Later (linked to a…
  8. Decks of the Cap Cleveland
  9. Looking towards the bridge
  10. Crossing the Equator
  11. Halfway to New Zealand
  12. Adios Balboa
  13. Transiting the Panama Canal
  14. Gatun Locks at four in the morning
  15. Puerto de Cartagena
  16. Close to Cartagena (but no cigar)
  17. How to update your blog from the middle of the ocean
  18. Between Cuba and Haiti
  19. Barbecue party on the container ship
  20. En route to Cartagena
  21. Our container ship accommodations
  22. Boarding the Cap Cleveland
  23. Water ice with Emma
  24. A quick stop in DC
  25. All day on the train!
  26. Gumbo with every meal, please
  27. To New Orleans by train
  28. I’d recognize that orange plane anywhere: Replica Bell X-1…
  29. La Vie Soleil is back! In memoriam of our SF Apartment
  30. To San Antonio and Beyond!
  31. Recharging and repacking in Austin

August 2010

  1. A hike in Big Bend
  2. Wow, a 6-volume, 2,400 page cookbook: Modernist Cuisine…
  3. I just learned more about 4chan than I thought possible:…
  4. I love these: Dowling Duncan redesign the US bank notes
  5. I will miss TJs: Inside the secret world of Trader Joe’s
  6. Rafting the Rio Grande
  7. The best part is how he gets out of the car: Old man parks…
  8. Shift+Alt triggers an HTML “Access Key” in Firefox on Windows and Linux
  9. Big rain in Big Bend
  10. Check out the Simpleform office (FM offspring)
  11. Epic: China’s Massive Traffic Jam Could Last For Weeks
  12. Saguaro National Park
  13. Sonoran Dog
  14. Slowing down in Tucson
  15. Too cool: Shinkansen “Bullet Train” Chopsticks
  16. To look into upon our return: Makr Carry Goods
  17. Dinner and a hotel in Phoenix
  18. Yes yes yes!!! Ahead Stop
  19. My first time in Los Angeles
  20. If you’ve ever wondered what 30 pounds of porcinis looks…
  21. Last transmission from Pine Street
  22. All our stuff in 5 square feet
  23. First impressions of Postful
  24. Thank god for Activist Judges (I’ve been saying that since…
  25. Super-handy and informative resource: American Society of…
  26. Nicholas Merrill is my kind of American Hero
  27. Land of the Kiwis, coming to a feedreader near you!
  28. News from my lovely sister: Container ship crashes, tips…
  29. Not working, but packing
  30. Fun trivia: just seven people worldwide know the recipe and…
  31. Neat visualizations: Anticipating the discovery of the…
  32. Federated Memories
  33. The Bay Bridge and a container ship
  34. This is just too good not to post a link to: Mila’s…
  35. Just a heads up, Federated Media is hiring like gangbusters
  36. This is progress: A federal judge today struck down…
  37. I WILL SUE YOU IN INTERNET COURT! The Video Website
  38. Pondering a belt clip/holster for my Pentax K-7. Found the…
  39. Now I see container ships everywhere
  40. Mmm, Blackberry-Apricot Jam
  41. These are great: Dalton Ghetti’s pencil sculptures

July 2010

  1. Let’s call a spade a spade: TIME Magazine Afghanistan…
  2. Patrick and Laura got married!
  3. I play a small part in Anton’s decade of blogging (check…
  4. Really want to see Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (yeah, it…
  5. Speaking of RAS syndrome, I heard someone giving a…
  6. Excellent, excellent post, in so many ways: This One Goes…
  7. Loving Leah Giberson’s paintings tonight…
  8. Wow. BP photoshops photo of crisis command center
  9. San Francisco Ferry Building and The Embarcadero
  10. Best name for a VC. Ever. Lowercase Capital
  11. Joy and Kyle’s (actually Penny’s) first egg
  12. Why container ship?
  13. 14 year old runs her own CSA: “They want to support…
  14. The Big Adventure
  15. Cheese and Whiskey
  16. Heh: Polar-to-cartesian unwrapping of flower photographs is…
  17. Article in the Modesto Bee about “Double Rainbow” guy:…
  18. Stephanie gets some pretty awesome results from a nifty…
  19. If I had $100,000 to spend on a jeep, I’d get an ICON CJ3B
  20. Patriotic scaffolding
  21. Apparently David Kha was born with a Silver Spork in his…
  22. Photos of the golf ball sized hail that hit Bozeman, MT a…
  23. Neat collection of photo firsts
  24. It’s hard to imagine any other company taking such an open…
  25. Oh dear: Tony Satisfies Millions of Women Daily…
  26. So good: The Woot! Got Acquired By Amazon Rap

June 2010

  1. Julia’s Life in France
  2. Smart Fortwo on Pine Street
  3. Whitewater rafting the American River
  4. Kids! Double fisting it
  5. Neat project, pics: Wiltshire’s CD Sea (reminds me of work…
  6. I had a gut feeling Medvedev would visit Twitter: В…
  7. Digital SLR and remote-controlled helicopter. That sounds…
  8. A Russian warship in San Francisco
  9. Good advice: You shouldn’t complain about things you…
  10. Video of the day: Violinist plays Mario soundtrack in real…
  11. If you see one music video this year, watch Miike Snow -…
  12. Slide #4! Altered States: Michael Crawford deconstructs the…
  13. If you like classic or custom motorcycles, you’ll probably…
  14. MonoTracers spotted in Austria
  15. Crazy photos of flooding in Draguignan, France, not far…
  16. Glad this made the NY Times: The Niger Delta, where the…
  17. Hot, I think: Eizo: Pin-up Calendar 2010
  18. Ubercool visualization that shows Where Americans Are…
  19. All Creative Work Is Derivative
  20. Just got bit by an annoying WP bug: Doubleclicking comment…
  21. Cheese and Rosé Wines
  22. A birthday barbecue in Santa Rosa
  23. Fête des Mères
  24. One of the presentations I enjoyed most from WordCamp 2010:…
  25. My morning was like this XKCD strip (I’m also pretty good…
  26. The Karmann Ghia
  27. Perspectives of Poverty: Out of this came the idea for a…
  28. Question. If I use the word “string” in the sense of…
  29. Well said: The absence of any mention of copyright law in…
  30. Oh man! A web to snail mail service: Postful (with an API!)
  31. Why work on a farm when I can read Terrie’s blog: Morning…
  32. Stephanie’s Jarlsberg
  33. You stay classy, NY Times: Pulse iPad App Gets Steve…
  34. QR Codes in the news: Bar codes get around town and get…
  35. Sailing around the Bay
  36. Eyjafjallajökull Volcano time-lapse (if you haven’t seen…
  37. I’ve said this before, but were I to work for Google, I’d…
  38. I’m famous! (on a Brazilian futebol site)
  39. Park at 90 Degrees with pride!
  40. Whoa: What does it cost to raise a child in the U.S.?…
  41. Moving mural on Pine Street
  42. I thought there was something fishy about those kids:…
  43. Franglish of the day: No Par Core

May 2010

  1. Thing I did not know: Seattleites eat their hot dogs with…
  2. Now this is what I call an incentive plan
  3. Looking forward to visiting 3 Fish Studios at my earliest…
  4. Enjoyed this comment by Jeffrey Stevens on part II of…
  5. Who would have ever thought we’d be reading this headline:…
  6. Long exposure hacks: Night-time HDR stacking
  7. It’s hard to believe that of the five years Federated…
  8. Whoa: Newspaper Club We’re building a service to help…
  9. Learning how to shave
  10. Very neat video of frazil ice in Yosemite
  11. Note to self: Magnolia has scotch eggs
  12. Jackhammer stencil art
  13. First watch this: Bicycle Rush Hour Utrecht Then read this:…
  14. Oh the irony! 75th Annual Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum…
  15. You have to watch the video: Bacon & Eggs PANCAKES!!!
  16. The “Park at 90 Degrees” car
  17. Two fun articles from the NY Times: The Slow Route to…
  18. This concept just recently entered my awareness: Pigovian…
  19. “Omnivore’s Dilemma” in short-form: Rethinking the…
  20. yum yum in French is miam miam
  21. To read later: Quantum of Deployment (via Andre)
  22. Terrie on the Milk Line
  23. Goodbye Flash, Hello WebM
  24. Paged back through the whole thing: Shit My Kids Ruined
  25. Finally watched Sal Khan at Gel 2010 (sounds like Khan…
  26. Fun map: Paramount Studio map of California’s geographical…
  27. Point Richmond and the Golden State Model Railroad Museum
  28. To read later: Bill Bryson: The secret life of your home
  29. A t-shirt for these troubling times
  30. To get or not to get: A Field Guide to Typestaches
  31. Neat video: Cool Hunting: Mast Brothers Chocolate There’s…
  32. Dodge Dart
  33. I’m not usually all gaga over baby animals, but this is…
  34. For those who like to browse
  35. To check out later: Geological Investigation of the…
  36. This looks so awesome: Yosemite High Country Backpack…
  37. Two mail collection boxes
  38. The gift of homemade bacon
  39. The sidewalk is made out of screws!
  40. The MadAss is bad ass
  41. Newsprint Nissan Cube on Pine Street
  42. This may make you cry: Q&A by StoryCorps
  43. Thank you for this internet: Jim’s Pancakes
  44. How to avoid a new cellphone contract
  45. Cool! view to corrupt each time you view this page it…
  46. Worth reading: Interview with Shawn Brauch of Pen &…
  47. This is perfect: BP T-Shirt
  48. Death of a scooter
  49. Just freaking amazing: Smoking Car to an Arrest in 53…
  50. Gott’s Roadside “Tray Gourmet”
  51. A Moment in Time
  52. Me and rms

April 2010

  1. Nissan’s rounded Cube
  2. Check this out: I loaned $25 to a baker in Iraq This…
  3. San Bruno Mountain on a clear day
  4. You stay classy, Wesson Attendance Center: School Cuts Gay…
  5. BMW 2002 on Pine Street
  6. Uplifting read: In New Orleans, the Taste of a Comeback
  7. Acronym of the day: MoPhO
  8. I feel like I done some good: Mad Men Moment
  9. A mate for Pou Bel
  10. NY Times inspired by The Onion: Tinkering With Taco Night
  11. The playful side of art: Kevin Van Aelst
  12. Informative read: History of the user-agent string
  13. Incredible photos of the sun: NASA shows 1st images from…
  14. BMW at an angle
  15. If I only had a smoker: Kyle makes bacon!
  16. Art of art: “Paintings of Handmade Pottery” Project
  17. Getting my cocktail education
  18. An improbable Geo on Pine Street
  19. I’m famous! (in a random MeeGo demo)
  20. This lyric from The Good Life’s “Lovers Need Lawyers”…
  21. Great photos: Today, British civil aviation authorities…
  22. Wow, suddenly it’s everywhere: Dirt! The Movie
  23. Portrait of a bookshelf
  24. Shalom Salaam Peace
  25. Great name for a cheese shop: The Calf & Kid
  26. Enter through the “Tradesmen” door
  27. 4505 Golden Dog ‘Zilla Style
  28. Whoa, dirt “tastings”: A Taste of Place: an installation…
  29. Adult Easter
  30. Triumph TR2 on Pine Street
  31. Did you realize you can make a donation to help reduce the…
  32. Holding baby chickens
  33. I cherish purchasing my annual National Parks and Federal…
  34. On complexity and obsolescence: Is it possible that we’re…
  35. Whoa: First Camera, Then Fork Keeping a photographic food…
  36. Holding baby goats
  37. Sweet bikes: PUBLIC
  38. Wow, it took me a while to realize Paul Graham ≠ Paul…
  39. To read later: The Collapse of Complex Business Models by…
  40. Deconstructing the iPad
  41. I ♥ 500
  42. While Xeni fawns, Cory has a different take: It really…
  43. Ha: Health Reform is a BFD t-shirt
  44. Can’t wait for an Intel X25-M SSD that’s greater than…
  45. Circular polarizer
  46. Neat long-exposure, hand-held shots: Chris Friel
  47. Aww, another nice tweetimonial. Now finally/following…
  48. How to get by in vi

March 2010

  1. Scenes from Tubbs Island
  2. Hamburger drama: “The (Taylor family) sued us, saying,…
  3. Sandal fail (or foot fail)
  4. For anyone out there (on Windows or Mac) who needs to…
  5. Shutting down White Noise Lounge
  6. Very cool video: Master bladesmith Bob Kramer (esp the…
  7. Pink VW Cabrio on Pine Street
  8. Nate had some “fun” at work: What the FEFF?
  9. Worth a read: Artists Ain’t Saints: Jim Marshall,…
  10. Ok, this is pretty sweet: BSOD Belt
  11. Irony of Orwellian proportions: The acronym for China’s…
  12. To read later: Five Boys: The Story of a Picture
  13. Watched two more excellent Soirée de Poches tonight: The…
  14. Cosmopolitan Inventor Works Here!
  15. Neat Kyrgyz posters: Programming: The International…
  16. Fun read: Relais Routiers: Oh, to Be a Trucker (in France)
  17. Joy and Kyle have chicks: Meet Lucy and Penny
  18. Mini Hamburger Buns
  19. Write the blog you want to read
  20. Aww! What a nice tweetimonial: So refreshing to read a real…
  21. Morris Minor Van on Pine Street
  22. Surprisingly profound implications in 4 words: Always Be…
  23. Nuns vs. Bishops would make a great movie title: Nuns in…
  24. This was better than I expected: chat roulette by casey…
  25. Beirut – Nantes
  26. IN-SAN-ITY: Photographer captures amazing images of lions…
  27. Constraints are cool: Super Mario Bros on an 8×8 LED matrix
  28. LA BLOGOTHEQUE’s Take-away shows (Les Concerts à…
  29. What is this thing that the internet has with Phoenix’s…
  30. A silver dime
  31. The best part is how instantly recognizable the Google Maps…
  32. So you want to make cheese at home?
  33. I was thinking a few months ago that I’d love to see…
  34. Been feeling this a bit lately: Musing on working and…
  35. Nice tailgate
  36. Good for certain types of friends too: Two best things…
  37. Fatted Calf Charcuterie (with cheese)
  38. I dunno, for me, going to the office kind of puts me in…
  39. Raised fist
  40. Bad habits from XHTML (to unlearn)
  41. Need to check out this place: Sushi Bistro
  42. MySQL slow in Ubuntu Karmic? Might be an issue with ext4’s…
  43. This looks pretty sweet: Raygun Gothic Rocketship Wooden…
  44. Update! Potential pickpocket sighting in front of Dalva on…
  45. Tahoe ski weekend
  46. Sometimes the injustice in the world is too much to bear.…
  47. Nice find on Savvy Housekeeping: sofas from Doshi Levien
  48. Nice concept: Desaturated Santa
  49. It’s like the title had always existed, waiting for a post…
  50. First Google Opt Out Feature… now this: Google Responds…
  51. Word of the day: yurtcozy
  52. Unfortunately, I’m a tea drinker. Coffee Party | Wake Up…
  53. Where can I sign? Petition to make “Hella” the prefix for…
  54. I like the idea of walking long distances… American…

February 2010

  1. Self-hosting might not mean what you think it means
  2. Too good: tautology club
  3. Looking up 555 California
  4. Wow, it was annoying that I had to do that: Can’t Click in…
  5. Yikes, bad news for fair use today: Today, the U.S. Court…
  6. Been thinkin’ about HTML5 lately: XTH – the XHTML to…
  7. The phantom cable car
  8. Got a new computer at work, which gave me reason to update…
  9. Pacific coast cows
  10. Great title: The Breast Whisperer “Once you go home from…
  11. As a fan of the NPS, I found this eye-opening: In the West,…
  12. What happened to the black trumpets?
  13. Preparing to juice some oranges
  14. Term I did not know: Button copy
  15. ROUS! Giant Hamster: pictures of Caplin Rous the pet…
  16. Great name: Goodluck Jonathan
  17. Name-drop dinner: “A New Age of Wonder”
  18. Shrimp in a beer
  19. Check out the latest in Stephanie’s Crottin Experiments
  20. I enjoyed scrolling through this: The Quest For Every Beard…
  21. Love this: Police Slog Through 40,000 Insipid Party Pics To…
  22. Deer running from bears: next 2 miles
  23. Man, this pisses me off so much: Among the sites it took…
  24. Nice rap: Fear the Boom and Bust
  25. Channel Islands on a whim
  26. I’m not much of an early-adopter when it comes to such…
  27. This is just too funny: Google is now allowing users to…
  28. My Dad completed the Austin Marathon today! 26.2 miles is a…
  29. The importance of following: Leadership Lessons from…
  30. Buon giorno, Mercedes Benz
  31. Hedgehog mushroom and ham quiche
  32. Mushroom foraging at Salt Point
  33. End of an era: Blogger shutting down FTP service
  34. I often view photography as form of collecting: Vans and…
  35. Machine translation, semantic HTML, and embedded code, oh my!
  36. Ubuntu on a Lenovo ThinkPad X100e
  37. How to choose a melon (in France)
  38. This needs to be said again and again and again: And again,…
  39. Chèvre chaud “nuggets”

January 2010

  1. Why do the French eat raw milk cheese but drink ultrapasteurized milk?
  2. Amazing double rainbow as seen from Joy’s backyard: It’s…
  3. I appreciate Mike’s perspective on such things: From a…
  4. It’s not a choice if you don’t have one
  5. Makes me want to eat in solidarity with Haiti: People with…
  6. What do the UK and Uzbekistan have in common? The Plight of…
  7. Yes yes yes! Why Can’t the I.R.S. Help Fill in the…
  8. Sheep Showdown
  9. This looks yummy: Pici con Ragu dell’Anatra: Hand-Rolled…
  10. This funny: The Late Night War by Ken Burns
  11. And I thought it was nuh-GEHN-eks: nginx (pronounced as…
  12. Le pot de yaourt
  13. Very very interesting article: In Germany, a Tradition…
  14. Now this is news: Fiat 500 to Hit Chrysler’s U.S.…
  15. This makes me giggle: mass homeopathic ‘overdose’
  16. Things I did not know about Chipotle
  17. Chili without spices
  18. Poor Moleskine: How To Turn an iPhone into a Moleskine Book
  19. So cool I wish I had thought of it: American Pixels (more…
  20. You stay classy, Texas: Boy, 4, Chooses Long Locks and Is…
  21. Just read the whole thing: Time Traveler Essentials Print
  22. Too perfect: I’m sure that if Hadopi commits two more acts…
  23. Vespa rocking horse
  24. Google v. China, round 2: Google fights back These attacks…
  25. Nice phrase: architectural misfeature
  26. File this under “recipes that include sex”
  27. For future reference: When I decided to write a column…
  28. YES! Fahrenheit 451… Book burning as done by lawyers:…
  29. Vin pour la Pétanque
  30. This is handy: Howto Delete Files Permanently and Securely…
  31. The 2009 Photo Book
  32. Neat: teaching a computer how to paint
  33. Rincon Center Eagle
  34. Oh. Oh man. This is just going to burn up the internet: The…
  35. That’s one ugly camera: Casio’s new EX-FH100 (is it…
  36. Sometimes I enjoy the backstories more than the posts…
  37. I was thinking the other day that blog posts are kind of…
  38. Dunno why, but I like art things like this: The Visual…
  39. I had never heard of Lee Miller before: Savage…
  40. Getting rid of stuff
  41. Funny. But kinda sad. But funny. Dear Sir/Madam (via Webb)
  42. Happy New Year from Bastrop, Texas
  43. My embroidered gnome overalls
  44. Learning how to save, three years later

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