Open Ground

    very un-san francisco-like sunset...but wow :)

13 y/o daughter: Dad - I've had the worst day of my life

me: oh? whassup?

13 y/o daughter: Just hurry up and get me so I can tell you all about it.

/me gloating...but wondering how much longer it will last...

When you parked your car was right on my bumper, causing scratches.

You're an ASSHOLE

So said the note on my windshield, parked behind Whole Paycheck at 4th/Harrison.

I knew I was close, as spaces are tight parking on the street in San Francisco, but I didn't think I was touching his car. In fact, I went out and checked and didn't think I saw any contact, let alone feel anything. bummer.

But wait. Let's think about this a bit.

You're parallel parking in San Francisco downtown in uber-high density. Is it anywhere near reasonable to expect that your bumper will never get touched or scratched by another bumper ?

I mean, it's one of those nouns whose very existence is the result of a noun. I mean, in Baseball, would you expect a catcher to get pissed off if he was actually expected to catch something? Pitchers who refuse to pitch?

I may be an asshole, but I'm not really sure it's for this transgression :)

Oddly enough, the note was written on the back of a printed webpage of Isaiah 14:12. Not that this particular passage is damning, but just interesting that this judgemental view was pasted on my windshield by someone of the Christian faith. Ne Jugez point, afin que vous ne soyez point juges....

I'm not much of a fiction reader.

It's not so much that I don't like fiction, it's that I'm just not really sure what rocks my boat anymore.

I did read this book 'Pillars of the Earth' a few years ago by Ken Follet, which I loved. Historical fiction taking place in 12th century England. The land where Hi Tech revolved around the gothic arch. cool. Follet released a follow-up to that book that took place in 14th century England in the same town that came out last October called 'World Without End', which I dutifully read and loved.

And more recently, I was on vacation and was bored and picked up from the 'take-a-book-leave-a-book' pile at the rental condo called 'Labyrinth' by Kate Mosse, which I thought was pretty cool too. Funny though, more historical fiction that was kind of tied to mysticism.

So, the real question I have is not to talk about my particular reading interests, but more about how do I go about finding books that I think I might like? That made me think about Pandora and if there was anything like that for books. i.e. based on books I've read and liked, these are other books that you might like.

Anyone?

'At the first yawn, log out of all root shells'

Good advice, not often heeded :-/

I broke down about six months ago for satellite TV. Actually, the dvr that comes with it is pretty nice.

But I'm just a tiny bit frosted about something.

The 'Kung Fu' channel doesn't have the show 'Kung Fu' scheduled on it. At all. Like I've been searching for six months.

How can you call a TV channel the 'Kung Fu' channel without the show Kung Fu?

Went to Rickshaw Stop last night and for the cost of a couple of beers, saw Back Door Slam which is this trio of kids from the Isle of Man who play amazing blues rock, reminiscent of SRV or perhaps John Mayer.

It's notable that the main dude, Davey Knowles, aside from being one of the most amazing guitar players I've ever seen, has this deep baritone, bluesy voice that  belies his young age of 19 (maybe 20...he wasn't old enough to get served in the bar at least).

There's a ton of youtube footage of these guys around, but I also managed to upload a few videos that I took myself. It's just too much fun listening to this guy play and sing. Pretty nice and humble as well. Damn shame I missed him last month at the Utah...

There are other pics and video snippets as well, but I must apologize, but it seems as if vox limits uploads of videos to 50meg :(